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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 6, 2024 13:44:13 GMT
Little Women (1933)
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 6, 2024 21:49:59 GMT
Josie and the Pussycats (2001).
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 7, 2024 17:33:59 GMT
PERCY'S PROGRESS 1974 - A plane explodes over the ocean and releases a chemical that causes the world's male population to become impotent. The only man who never drank the water is also the recipient of the first transplanted you-know-what and so he is whisked away by the government in order to replenish the human race. I would never ever in a million years watch a movie like this except the cast got me curious--Elke Sommer, Denholm Elliot, Bernard Lee, Judy Geeson, Vincent Price, and it is so bad it makes A Carry On movie look refined.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 9, 2024 1:37:15 GMT
The Holdovers (2023)
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 9, 2024 5:18:42 GMT
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 11, 2024 14:29:15 GMT
Finally got around to seeing Seven Samurai (1954). 🇯🇵
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 12, 2024 19:21:05 GMT
Rewatching The Magnificent Seven (1960) which was based on Seven Samurai (1954).
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 19, 2024 6:09:46 GMT
DOWNHILL RACER 1969 -- Everything you wanted to know about professional skiing but were afraid to ask because you figured the answers would be boring. Other than the skiing footage (some of which is really impressive), it is pretty much a dull toboggan ride with Robert Redford as a meditative newcomer and Gene Hackman as his coach. Someone said it is similar to the Blue Max and there are basic comparisons in the plot actually. I wanted to watch a movie with snow--and this had it. I missed Sylvester Stallone as an extra in a restaurant scene and Natalie Wood was in disguise as an extra since her husband produced it.
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Post by louise on Jan 22, 2024 19:26:22 GMT
Dangerously Yours (1937). Crazy comedy/crime/romance set mostly aboard an ocean liner. Cesar Romero may be a jewel thief after a valuable diamond being taken to New York. Other people may also be jewel thieves. Someone may be a detective. There are a lot of twists and turns and it is all highly entertaining.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 23, 2024 6:58:25 GMT
ZULU 1964
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Post by louise on Jan 23, 2024 12:13:09 GMT
Tall Dark and Handsome (1941) Amusing comedy crime/romance. Cesar Romero as a gangster who falls for schoolteacher Virginia Gilmore, and on impulse hires her to look after his children. Trouble is he hasn’t got any children, so he hires a boy off the streets to pose as his son (he tells Gilmore the other one is away for the holidays). Milton Berle very funny as Gilmore’s sidekick.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 25, 2024 0:07:08 GMT
GRAND PRIX 1966 -- Forgot that James Garner is completely humorless in this. I am so used to him being jokey. He sure knew how to drive the cars though since he is the only one shown actually in the cars as they drive around.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 25, 2024 20:47:27 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 28, 2024 0:05:54 GMT
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Post by louise on Jan 28, 2024 11:46:10 GMT
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949). Crazy comedy western with Betty Grable as a trigger happy saloon singer and Cesar Romero as her boyfriend. Completely bonkers but quite entertaining.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 2, 2024 6:41:40 GMT
ONE AFTER ANOTHER 1968-- Richard Harrison is a glasses-wearing gunfighter (he keeps a dozen spares inside his vest) who comes to town to make some money after a bank robbery. Lots of corrupt characters and double crosses and triple crosses. Very familiar territory although one interesting stand out is the saloon owner (Pamela Tudor) who doesn't hesitate to cut the face of a would-be paramour with a knife and subjects the hero to a shotgun wedding proposal. One particularly corny scene however is where a Mexican bandit who has lost his voice and mind due to a gunshot wound is given shock therapy by Harrison which cures him completely. A gringo pointing a gun at him was all he needed. Also, Harrison applies gunpowder to a wound and ignites it--I have seen this trick used a few times before Rambo did it--but not sure how far back I have seen it. There's at least one other film from 1968 where I have encountered it.
I like the song for it:
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Feb 8, 2024 13:40:10 GMT
Today I'm viewing Marlowe (1969) followed by Marlowe (2022), both first time watches.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 8, 2024 17:43:05 GMT
ESCAPE TO ATHENA 1979 - Goofy erratic mix of the Great Escape and the Guns of Navarone and the Dirty Dozen with a little bit of Kelly's Heroes thrown in for good measure. I think there's even influence of Cabaret too. If you want to see Roger Moore's attempt at a German accent, Telly Savalas speaking Greek, Sonny Bono pretending to sing opera, Stephanie Powers swimming under a U-boat, or just picturesque Greek island scenery, it may be of some interest.
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Post by louise on Feb 8, 2024 17:45:04 GMT
Madame Pimpernel (1945). An American woman (Constance Bennet) and her English companion (Gracie Fields) are in Paris in 1940 when the Germans invade, and get involved in helping British airmen escape. Quite entertaining wartime drama.
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Post by louise on Feb 9, 2024 14:59:03 GMT
And Then There Were None (1945). Good film version of Agatha Christie’s play adapted from her novel about ten people lured to an island where they are murdered one by one. Entertaining performances by Barry Fitzgerald, Roland Young, C.Aubrey Smith etc.
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