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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2023 0:26:47 GMT
Eddie Murthy’s new Christmas movie, Candy Cane Lane. I thought it was decent.
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Post by louise on Dec 13, 2023 15:02:21 GMT
Enter Madame (1953). Absurd but quite funny romantic comedy in which Cary Grant marries opera singer Elissa Landi, with whom he is madly in love. But he gets fed up with her hectic lifestyle and decides to get a divorce. But she wants him back. Several great character actors as the singer’s entourage provide much enjoyment.
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 13, 2023 17:44:23 GMT
Shots From the Violin Case 1965 - Heard of Jerry Cotton--this the first movie I have watched on the character. Germany's James Bond and yet he is an FBI agent in the US. That's kind of weird. It was ok--the plot involved the blowing up of a New York school which made me think of Die Hard 3, and I wonder if there was any intentional homage to Cotton considering that he was a big character in Germany and the Die Hard film involved Germans in New York. Interesting spfx in this--where they projected city images behind the actors--I haven't seen it used this way before since the camera is moved in the shot.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 14, 2023 6:52:43 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 16, 2023 2:09:36 GMT
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Post by louise on Dec 16, 2023 19:36:06 GMT
The Mating Season (1951). Ellen (Thelma Ritter) is a humble woman who keeps a hamburger stand but has paid for her son Val (John Lund) to have a college education and he is now doing well in business and has married Maggie (Gene Tierney) who is quite posh. When Ellen goes to visit the newlyweds she is mistaken by Maggie for the new cook, and to spare her embarrassment Ellen goes along with it. Val is of course very put out to find his mother working for his wife as a cook,and things get complicated, especially when Maggie’s snobbish mother (Miriam Hopkins) comes to stay, very funny comedy, Thelma Ritter is marvellous.
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 16, 2023 23:59:53 GMT
PLAY DIRTY 1968
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 17, 2023 19:00:28 GMT
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Post by forca85 on Dec 18, 2023 18:25:35 GMT
I've been binging alot of classics lately... Just been in the mood. Tubi has alot of Film Noir and War films.
"Remember the night"... Project set during Christmas that has some similarities to "Christmas in Connecticut".
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 20, 2023 6:42:59 GMT
Serenade für zwei Spione 1965 - Truly dreadful as spy comedies go. The agent is 006 (and 1/2) and he walks into a hotel which starts playing the Goldfinger theme. He exits and sees it is the Bond Hotel. It is so bad--the only thing going for it is the location shooting which looks great in HD but that's it. There's absolutely nothing else going for it.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 20, 2023 14:28:27 GMT
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Dec 22, 2023 16:21:33 GMT
Stella Dallas (1937)
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Post by forca85 on Dec 24, 2023 1:00:23 GMT
I've been binging Westerns on Tubi...
Man of the West The Chase One eyed Jack Blood on the arrow Big Country Day of the Outlaw Indian fighter Tulsa Gun the man down
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 26, 2023 6:41:47 GMT
MAGNUM FORCE 1973- Opened 50 years ago. The end credits spells his name Calahan.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 26, 2023 6:46:05 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 27, 2023 6:06:09 GMT
THE ALPHABET MURDERS - 1965 -- Tony Randall as Poirot with Robert Morley as his sidekick. Directed by Frank Tashlin of Daffy Duck fame and there are some quite funny visual gags in this which would have fit into a cartoon. We were amused.
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 29, 2023 6:55:56 GMT
ROGUE'S GALLERY 1968 - Time capsule of late 60s Los Angeles in a quasi noir detective story starring Roger Smith in his last movie (before devoting his time to Ann-Margret's career). Members of a club meant to fight suicidal thoughts are murdered. An impoverish private eye is hired to keep track of a suicidal girl. Edgar Bergen is the administrator of the club (is he the puppet master???) or is it Farley Granger (stranger on a train of thought we cannot fathom). For some reason the locations stand out more than your average 1968 movie--something about it makes you feel like you are transported back in time. Never aired in US theaters so I read and ended up shown on tv in 1973.
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Post by louise on Dec 30, 2023 9:31:46 GMT
I Love Trouble (1948). Franchot Tone as a private eye who is hired to investigate the past of someone’s wife and several murders keep happening and it is all very complicated but quite amusing, with Franchot Tone quite witty. There are several glamorous young women who all look rather like each other and I had trouble remembering who was who, but with a story as involved as this one it doesn’t really matter.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 4, 2024 7:53:47 GMT
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED 1976 - One of those war flicks that never seems to get tired--it captivates in a similar way to The Day of the Jackal where you are positioned to root for the character to complete his mission. Although Michael Caine has the most important part, Donald Sutherland truly owns the film for his Irish rebel who can tame dogs with a whistle. You can tell he's having a ball with it. And Robert Duvall has a good part as well--although the American soldiers are so shoe-horned into it. I haven't read the source novel, but as the writer also did a few James Bond and Superman--you just know he is going to bring in some kind of buffoon American with a Southern accent for comedy relief--and failing that, just have Larry Hagman show up as a military guy. I think the film would have been fine without the American interludes. The Lalo Schifrin score is so good--I would never have guessed it was him because it sounds so different from the musical style I am familiar with. I would have bet money the composer was a UK one. Maybe it comes down to the arranger--often it is the arranger of the musical score who determines how it is organized and sounds on the film. I.e. John Williams and Star Wars as example. If you hear how the music was recorded from the score itself--it is so different from the final film.
There was a 1967 Italian film DESERT COMMANDOES with a plot almost identical to this. Even the surprise twist at the end, although this is more ironic.
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Post by louise on Jan 4, 2024 17:40:29 GMT
Dangerous Crossing (1953). Jeanne Craine has just got married and boards a ship with her husband only to find he has disappeared and nobody on the ship has seen him. The crew don’t seem to believe he was ever on the ship. The ship’s doctor (Michael Rennie) is very kind and wants to help her, but suspects she may be suffering from delusions. She gets more desperate as she gets alarming phone calls from her husband telling her he is in danger, but won’t tell her why. Quite a good drama with an exciting climax.
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