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Post by teleadm on Dec 17, 2019 18:28:36 GMT
The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942, one of the annual movies I use to watch before Christmas. Eccentric radio profile who has an accident takes over an entire household. With all kinds of crazy things happeneing all the time in a rapid tempo. Bette Davis plays the only "normal" person, who keeps it all together with wit, bite and charm with humour and get's to be very touching too. Everything but the kitchen-sink is thrown into the plot, including penguins and an axe murderess. All shortly before and during Christmas,
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 17, 2019 18:31:00 GMT
teleadm an annual view here too ...one of Bette's best !
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Post by teleadm on Dec 17, 2019 18:56:48 GMT
BIG Danny Kaye fan but this one was a major disappointment. The story is too silly and the songs go on way too long. Vera Ellen has a very impressive musical number with tap dancing en pointe <--- don't get to see that every day of the week ! The picture was given an Oscar for its Special Effects.. which it did deserve .. there is a ghost involved ! Remember having been very disappointed with movie too, though it's been many years since seeing it, and haven't longed to see it again.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 18, 2019 2:22:45 GMT
Pretty good.... This must be where I got the idea to watch it this afternoon .. very timely story. First viewing. Especially liked the early scenes with the quieter Crawford and the very young John Derek …
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 18, 2019 2:26:55 GMT
CHARLIE CHAN AT THE WAX MUSEUM An escaped convicted murderer hides out at a New York wax museum where he hopes to get plastic surgery, which will help him revenge himself on Charlie Chan. Standard Charlie … pleasant enough way to spend an hour .
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Post by louise on Dec 18, 2019 10:51:20 GMT
The Loves of Joanna Gooden (1947). Quite interesting drama with Googie Withers as a single sheep farmer at the turn of the last century, and Jean Kent as her troublesome social climbing younger sister. Some beautiful scenes of Romney Marsh.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 18, 2019 18:46:45 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 19, 2019 0:42:08 GMT
Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses. Jake: Hit it.
Escape from reality for a couple of hours ,,,, good music, eccentric dance moves and car crashes. LOTS of car crashes ! Fast paced ! Several cameo appearances by well musicians. Pretty mindless fun worth a watch ! "In Joke" Trivia here
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Post by millar70 on Dec 19, 2019 0:59:02 GMT
Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses. Jake: Hit it.
Escape from reality for a couple of hours ,,,, good music, eccentric dance moves and car crashes. LOTS of car crashes ! Fast paced ! Several cameo appearances by well musicians. Pretty mindless fun worth a watch ! "In Joke" Trivia here A truly great, purely American movie. It may just be a dumb musical-comedy, but any time I hear about how racially divided we are all told that we are, I think of this movie and I smile. It's a film showing blacks and whites totally integrated with each other without ever making any kind of statement about it.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 19, 2019 1:01:10 GMT
The Great Lie (1941)MUCH better than anticipated ! Bette at her pre-Bette Davis Super Star best. Convoluted love story. LOTS of cigarette smoking ! The relationship between Brent and Davis is a change from her usual man problems. "Bette Davis and Mary Astor thought the original script was not very good. They ended up doing massive rewrites on the script themselves." It would be interesting to see the original script ... this one is not bad .. it's a 1940s romance after all. "Mary Astor won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for this film." <<--- erm !
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Post by Doghouse6 on Dec 19, 2019 1:40:54 GMT
The Great Lie (1941)MUCH better than anticipated ! Bette at her pre-Bette Davis Super Star best. Convoluted love story. LOTS of cigarette smoking ! The relationship between Brent and Davis is a change from her usual man problems. "Bette Davis and Mary Astor thought the original script was not very good. They ended up doing massive rewrites on the script themselves." It would be interesting to see the original script ... this one is not bad .. it's a 1940s romance after all. "Mary Astor won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for this film." <<--- erm ! One hears so many stories about Davis being a demanding and domineering performer, but The Great Lie is a film I always single out as an example of her willingness to take a back seat to another player - in this case, Astor - for the sake of dramatic focus and the good of the show. As some obscure playwright once wrote, "The play's the thing." Her scenes with Astor, particularly those in the extended pregnancy sequence within their secluded cabin, are electric, not only for Astor's live-wire scenery-chewing, but for the grounding Davis gives them with her quietly patient forbearance. Anything different would have blunted the drama by throwing it out of balance, but Davis, to her credit, understood exactly to whom the spotlight belonged and when. Together, they were a powerhouse team. I hope they had as much fun playing it as it is to watch.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 19, 2019 14:23:02 GMT
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
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Post by teleadm on Dec 19, 2019 18:58:33 GMT
The Thin Man 1934, Christmas with Nick and Nora Charles, and Asta offcourse. Lot's of Dry Martini's and other alcoholic drinks are swallowed at any time of the day and night, and along the way they solve a murder case too. Not sure if I got all the clue's right myself, but it actually doesn't matter when one is in the company of Myrna Loy and William Powell, who looks like they improvise more than a few of their scenes, there is such a great chemestry between those too, and Asta offcourse. This as also one of the movies I like to see around Christmas, and it takes place at and around Christmas.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 20, 2019 3:31:45 GMT
The Man Who Could Work MiraclesRather odd little movie that starts out well but gets a tad tangled with philosophizing in what claims to be a comedy. This was another of my Bag sale VHS taped movies I had never heard of. Good special effects ! This poster is bizarre in that it has almost nothing to do with the actual film: Written by HG Wells ! I noticed this and there it was in the trivia: "Colonel Winstanley, who was meant to be the "old Colonel", describes George Fotheringay as being young, but Sir Ralph Richardson, who played him, was thirty-three years-old, and Roland Young, who played Mr. Fotheringay was 49 !"
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Post by teleadm on Dec 20, 2019 19:23:42 GMT
Trading Places 1983, a more modern tale that takes place during December and over Christmas and New Years Eve. A kind of a Prince and the Pauper modernized tale, originally designed as a Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor vehicle called "Black and White". Even if it looses some of it's focus during a train ride, this is one of those I like to watch around Christmas Seasons. John Landis wanted to do a Frank Capra-like movie, and he came very close. A marvelous sextette of actors: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, and of the old guard Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche (originally ment to have been played by Ray Milland, but since he wasn't well they couldn't get an insurance) and Denholm Elliott. Elmer Bernstein score is worth mentioning too. mixing Mozart and his own compositions
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 21, 2019 6:17:15 GMT
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 22, 2019 2:04:17 GMT
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
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Post by louise on Dec 22, 2019 10:04:42 GMT
Mr Denning Drives North (1951). Odd melodrama about an aircraft manufacturer (John Mills) who accidentally kills his daughter’s sleazy boyfriend (Herbert Lom), then panics and tries to dispose of the body, which leads to a very weird situation. A very strange story.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 23, 2019 0:29:22 GMT
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 23, 2019 4:47:16 GMT
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