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Post by kijii on Jan 25, 2019 7:20:26 GMT
...Still continuing to concentrate on Douglas Sirk & Nicholas Ray movies.. They Live by Night (1948) / Nicholas Ray Seen from Criterion DVD with commentary by Eddie Muller & the late Farley Granger
Ray's first feature film was made at RKO. Neither Muller nor Granger had anything good to say about Howard Hughes, the owner of RKO, but Granger really enjoyed working with Nicholas Ray. After the movie was made, it was tabled because no one was interested in marketing and distributing it. However, when it was screened in England, the audience there was quite enthusiastic about it. The movie was then shown in America two years after its completion.
One doesn't know if this is movie is more likely to be classified as a crime movie, a film-noir, or a tragic romance. One could also think of it as a "road picture," with a young couple--Bowie (Farley Granger) and Keechie (Cathy O'Donnell)--constantly on the run during the process of falling in love for the first time. (The fact that they are both virgins when they meet also gives the movie a Romeo and Juliet quality.) Eddie Muller also mentions its "Bonnie and Clyde" elements throughout the commentary too. But, the similarities between these two movies are mainly that they are two lovers on the run from the law.
Both Bowie and Keechie come from poor, criminally-based backgrounds, and this helps explain their lack of experience with romantic love at the time they meet. However, Bowie IS a already a convicted criminal who has just escaped from a prison farm with two other convicts: Chickamaw (Howard Da Silva) and T-Dub (Jay C. Flippen). After escaping, the three convicts hide out with friends (actually relatives of Chickamaw) at a garage, while Bowie's injured leg is taken care of. Bowie and Keechie first meet each other in an awkward way: Bowie : You having trouble? Keechie : Could be. Bowie : Who are you? You live around here? Keechie : Could be. Bowie : You haven't had a couple of visitors lately, have you? Keechie : That wouldn't be a sore foot making you limp, would it? Bowie : Could be.
The three escapees then plan and execute a bank robbery together. After the bank robbery, the movie concentrates on the two lovers, trying to the experience their first love affair while constantly forced to flee from their criminal past and hoping to find happiness somewhere, maybe Mexico. From this point on in the movie, Bowie's fellow escapees fall into the background of the story, only to emerge once, forcing Bowie to choose between them and Keechie...
As often occurs with complicated noir plots, there are MANY things happening concurrently or sequentially with elements of greed or double crossing. There also seem to be many non sequitur scenes that don't really add much to the central story and/or have no reason to exist: I often find that a story element begins and there is no followup. I think this movie could have been tighter with more editing. But, the main thing I take away from the movie is the love story of two poor people experiencing a normal world and having their love story, even for a brief moment in their lives.
[last lines]
Keechie : [reading Bowie's letter to herself, as she walks back to her cabin] "Hello girl. I'm gonna miss you, but I got to do it this way. I'll send for both of you when I can. No matter how long it takes, I got to see that kid. He's lucky. He'll have you to keep him squared around. I love you, Bowie."
[turns to look at Bowie's lifeless body on the ground, whispers]
Keechie : I love you.
Full synopsis from TCM with SPOILERS: When the car they have commandeered blows a tire, escaped convicts Henry "T-Dub" Mansfield, Elmo "One Eye" Chickamaw Mobley and Bowie Bowers start on foot for Chickamaw's brother's place. Having hurt his ankle during the escape, Bowie is forced to stop and hide until Keechie, Chickamaw's niece, picks him up after dark. The plainly attired Keechie, who helps her alcoholic father in his gas station, disapproves of her uncle's criminal ways, but is immediately attracted to Bowie. While Mobley is procuring a car for the fugitives, which they plan to use in a bank robbery, Keechie and Bowie talk about their lives. Bowie reveals details about his troubled youth and how he was found guilty of murder when he was only sixteen. Sure that he did not receive a fair trial, Bowie tells Keechie that he intends to use his share of the robbery money to hire a lawyer in Oklahoma. Chickamaw and T-Dub, meanwhile, arrange with T-Dub's sister-in-law Mattie to use their share to get T-Dub's brother Richard out of jail. Having volunteered to be the "getaway" driver, Bowie scouts Zelton, the Texas town where the robbery is to take place, and buys a woman's watch from the local jeweler. After T-Dub and Chickamaw successfully hold up the bank, Chickamaw and Bowie go on a spending spree, buying nice clothes and a second car. Half-drunk and charged up, Chickamaw, who like his brother is an alcoholic, causes Bowie to crash his car on a busy street. When a suspicious policeman arrives on the scene, Chickamaw shoots him, then speeds away with the unconscious Bowie in the second car. Chickamaw leaves Bowie with Keechie and goes to join T-Dub in another town. After Bowie awakens, Keechie nurses him, and he presents her with the watch he bought in Zelton. Touched, Keechie admits her feelings to Bowie and offers to run away with him. Reading in the newspaper that his gun and fingerprints were found in his abandoned car, Bowie, whom the press has dubbed "The Kid," realizes that, even though he now has money, he cannot go to Oklahoma as hoped. Instead, he and Keechie board a bus together, finally stopping in a small town where, on an impulse, they decide to marry. Hawkins, the shady justice of the peace, not only performs the ceremony, but sells them a "hot" car as well. In their new convertible, Bowie and Keechie head for a remote mountain resort, where Keechie had once stayed as a child. The newlyweds set up house in a rundown cabin and dream about the day when they can live openly together. As Christmas approaches, however, Bowie is paid a surprise visit by Chickamaw, who has gambled away his loot and now wants Bowie to help T-Dub and him rob another bank. Fearing the worse, Keechie gives Bowie the watch she had bought him for Christmas and begs him not to participate in the robbery. When Bowie meets with T-Dub, who was unable to get his brother out of jail, however, he is bullied into joining the robbery. During the robbery, T-Dub is killed and Chickamaw, wounded. Once again, the press describes Bowie as the gang's leader, causing the alcohol-deprived Chickamaw to explode with envious fury. Finally fed up with Chickamaw's viciousness, Bowie dumps him by the roadside and drives back to the cabin. There he learns that not only was Chickamaw killed while breaking into a liquor store, but also that Keechie is pregnant. The nerve-wracked couple then abandon their cabin and head east. After days of driving at night, Keechie and Bowie feel safe enough to spend a pleasant day together in public. When Bowie is recognized by a gangster in a nightclub, however, the couple makes plans to flee to Mexico. On the way, Keechie becomes ill, and she and Bowie stop at a motel owned by Mattie. While Bowie drives back to see Hawkins, whom he believes can help him cross the border, Mattie makes a deal with the police to give up Bowie in exchange for her husband's release. After Hawkins refuses to help Bowie, saying that he "can't sell hope where there ain't any," Bowie returns to Mattie's place and tells her that, to protect Keechie and their unborn child, he is leaving by himself. Mattie encourages Bowie to say a final goodbye to Keechie, and he writes her a farewell note before heading for their cabin. As he is about to enter the cabin, however, the police descend on him, provoking him to draw his gun and be shot. Bending over Bowie's slain body, Keechie finds his goodbye note and sadly reads out loud the words he could never say to her while alive, "I love you."
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Post by teleadm on Jan 25, 2019 17:33:57 GMT
The Bride Came C.O.D. 1941, directed by William Keighley, staring James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Jack Carson, George Tobias, Harry Davenport, William Frawley, Edward Brophy and others. Romantic comedy. "A financially-strapped charter pilot (Cagney) hires himself to an oil tycoon (Pallette) to kidnap his madcap daughter (Davis) and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader (Carson)". They make an emergency landing in the desert, near an old mining ghost town with one citizen (Davenport). Enjoyable comic romp pairing two of Warner Bros biggest stars at the time, was good box-office business at the time. Though it is fun to see Cagney and Davis together, I wished it would be a bit sharper in it's writing so it would have been more memorable, because both stars gives great comedic performances. Cagney had played comedy before, but for Davis it was something new (at least for her fans back then). Carson is also fun as the Band Leader who can't help citing romantic songs when declaring his love, Pallette is also fun as a pompous Texas oil millionare who keeps reminding people around him that he has 30M USD in the bank that he owns, Davenport his fun as the lone citizen of the ghost town. There is a joke that while in the desert Davis character always falls into a cactus that sadly becomes tiresome after a while. Still, it's around 90 enjoyable minutes. Ann Sheridan was originally scheduled to play the female lead, but had became a "persona non grata" at Warners' when the production got the green light. Although the movie was publicized as the first screen pairing of Warner Bros.' two biggest stars, James Cagney and Bette Davis had actually co-starred in Jimmy the Gent 1934 seven years earlier, and had wanted to find another opportunity to work together.
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Post by kijii on Jan 25, 2019 21:05:00 GMT
The Bride Came C.O.D. 1941, directed by William Keighley, staring James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Jack Carson, George Tobias, Harry Davenport, William Frawley, Edward Brophy and others. Romantic comedy. "A financially-strapped charter pilot (Cagney) hires himself to an oil tycoon (Pallette) to kidnap his madcap daughter (Davis) and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader (Carson)". They make an emergency landing in the desert, near an old mining ghost town with one citizen (Davenport). Enjoyable comic romp pairing two of Warner Bros biggest stars at the time, was good box-office business at the time. Though it is fun to see Cagney and Davis together, I wished it would be a bit sharper in it's writing so it would have been more memorable, because both stars gives great comedic performances. Cagney had played comedy before, but for Davis it was something new (at least for her fans back then). Carson is also fun as the Band Leader who can't help citing romantic songs when declaring his love, Pallette is also fun as a pompous Texas oil millionare who keeps reminding people around him that he has 30M USD in the bank that he owns, Davenport his fun as the lone citizen of the ghost town. There is a joke that while in the desert Davis character always falls into a cactus that sadly becomes tiresome after a while. Still, it's around 90 enjoyable minutes. Ann Sheridan was originally scheduled to play the female lead, but had became a "persona non grata" at Warners' when the production got the green light. Although the movie was publicized as the first screen pairing of Warner Bros.' two biggest stars, James Cagney and Bette Davis had actually co-starred in Jimmy the Gent 1934 seven years earlier, and had wanted to find another opportunity to work together. teleadm--- I agree this is a very good comedy. I remember seeing it a year or two ago and enjoying the situation element of it as well as the two playing off of each other in a comedy....particularly after the emergency landing in the desert. As I recall, this emergency landing was sort of a plot device for the Cagney and Davis characters to get to know each other better--up close and personally. While I have never seen Jimmy the Gent (1934), it is interesting that these two Warner Brothers performers didn't make more movies together.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 26, 2019 8:15:13 GMT
His Kind of Woman is a rather unique and fascinating picture - both on-screen as well as off, when one considers the almost bizarre production process it went through at the hands of RKO executive producer Howard Hughes. At Hughes' insistence, the film went through a number of changes, re-writes, re-shoots, and recasting of the main bad guy Nick Ferraro, finally settling on Raymond Burr - which necessitated many previous scenes being completely redone. Whatever the case, the film, which starts out as a noirish crime drama full of mystery and intrigue, later strays into comedy and farce largely thanks to the character "Mark Cardigan," an aging ham actor convincingly played by Vincent Price with what appears to be gleeful relish. The film then morphs back into a deadly serious noir with a bit of an over-the-top ending featuring violence, madness, flogging, a hypodermic needle, more ham from Vincent Price, and... oh, you'll just have to see it to believe it. Haha I watched this due to you mentioning it but I wasn't prepared for the twists. I assumed Price would just come in and go (sort of like The Las Vegas Story). He had a great part. Really over the top. Interesting that I associate Mitchum with being intimidating and yet when Charles McGraw shows up, the latter just takes over in toughness. And yet, when he meets up with price, McGraw becomes frazzled and his hair looks like a bad Beatles hairstyle. Raymond Burr was surprisingly effective. I had seen him in other bad guy roles but he really goes full psycho. It's really Price's movie--amusing to see him in a scene with Jim Backus.
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Post by OldAussie on Jan 26, 2019 10:34:09 GMT
2nd viewing - though often called Mann's best western, I prefer most of the others - the 5 with J. Stewart and the vastly under-rated The Tin Star. Still, it's pretty good, the highlight being the great use of the widescreen Cinemascope in the climactic shootout in the ghost town. 7/10
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Post by kijii on Jan 26, 2019 14:57:56 GMT
I watched a couple of early 50s quasi-noir crime films, both featuring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell:
Macao (1952). Directed by Josef von Sternberg and Nicholas Ray, with Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Thomas Gomez, Gloria Grahame, Brad Dexter. DVR'd from recent TCM telecast.
I've seen both of them several times, and find each of them quite enjoyable. Macao has great chemistry between Mitchum and Russell, and a great script with lots of wisecracks and playful sarcasm being bandied about. Excellent B&W cinematography, and a good plot, although the ending scenario allowed for large amounts of implausibility. I think the only downside to this one was that the intended "heavy" of the picture, Vincent Halloran (played by Brad Dexter), was too insipid to be taken seriously as a bad guy. I kept thinking he should've been replaced by somebody like Raymond Burr. Which brings me to the next picture.... ZolotoyRetriever-- I watched Macao (1952)--and still have it on my DVR disk. I am seeing it as possibly a part of the Nicholas Ray quest. I want to watch it again before reviewing it here. My, what a strange cast of characters--William Bendix, Jane Russel, Robert Mitchum, and Gloria Grahame all Americans on Macao for one reason or another. Then add a little Thomas Gomez for spice as the local police officer. I can't decide if Gloria Grahame is a "good guy" or a "bad guy"..I feel like this movie left that open by the end. One of the things I found interesting was the 3-mile limit to get to international waters. Interestingly, Macao is still a Portuguese colony and Hong Kong was a British colony (at that time) only 35 miles away from each other and both hanging off the coast of Red China (at the time).
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Post by louise on Jan 26, 2019 21:00:46 GMT
Smokey and the Bandit. Great fun.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Jan 27, 2019 3:55:37 GMT
[/span] . [/quote]ZolotoyRetriever-- I watched Macao (1952)--and still have it on my DVR disk. I am seeing it as possibly a part of the Nicholas Ray quest. I want to watch it again before reviewing it here. My, what a strange cast of characters--William Bendix, Jane Russel, Robert Mitchum, and Gloria Grahame all Americans on Macao for one reason or another. Then add a little Thomas Gomez for spice as the local police officer. I can't decide if Gloria Grahame is a "good guy" or a "bad guy"..I feel like this movie left that open by the end. One of the things I found interesting was the 3-mile limit to get to international waters. Interestingly, Macao is still a Portuguese colony and Hong Kong was a British colony (at that time) only 35 miles away from each other and both hanging off the coast of Red China (at the time). [/quote] Good point about the geography of the region (Macao and Hong Kong). If you're not familiar with the location of Macao and its proximity to Hong Kong, or its relation to mainland China, it might help to glance at a map of China before watching this film.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 27, 2019 4:03:56 GMT
Thanks to Svengoolie …. this was tonight's viewing The Werewolf (1956)" Two scientists come across an auto accident and find an unconscious man in the wreck. They take him back to their lab and inject him with a serum they have been working with. Unfortunately, the serum has the effect of turning the man into a murderous werewolf."Not all that bad and an interesting twist on the werewolf mythos .. no silver bullets, gypsies etc.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 27, 2019 4:06:46 GMT
teleadm Bride came C.O.D, is one of my favorites … Cagney I like in everything and Davis before she became soset in her Bette mannerisms ,,, this is one of the good ones ! Love the cactus scene.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 27, 2019 8:06:31 GMT
THE DEADLY DREAM 1971 Tv movie- Lloyd Bridges is a scientist who plans to use DNA tampering to make everyone equally intelligent. But he keeps having a dream where he is chased by people in a shadowy organization. Every time he wakes up, some aspect of the dream comes true. There is discussion about his research overturning the natural order and that some were meant to be stronger or smarter than others--yet he sees it as a beneficial. The organization chasing him is similar to Brotherhood of the Bell but ultimately the question is whether what we think is real is the dream, and the dream is the true reality. The ending is one of those typical negative ones (in fact, maybe the question is how many tv movies of the era ended with a positive ending?). The idea was intriguing but the ending was so-so. Carl Betz kind of looks like a cross between Richard Basehart and Darren Mcgavin while Lief Erickson reminds me of Charlton Heston if his head was squeezed a little. Just one of those things I notice.
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Post by louise on Jan 27, 2019 14:24:01 GMT
Bunch of Amateurs (2008). Very amusing film with Burt Reynolds as a Hollywood actor whose career has faded, tricked by his agent into going to England to act King Lear in what he thinks is going to be the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford on Avon, but turns out to be Stratford St John in Suffolk, with an amateur company.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 27, 2019 18:25:45 GMT
The Wife (2018), the movie that Glenn Close WILL WIN her long-awaited Oscar for, I've decided it must be so.
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Post by kijii on Jan 27, 2019 21:02:36 GMT
...Still continuing to concentrate on Douglas Sirk & Nicholas Ray movies..Wind Across the Everglades (1958) / Nicholas Ray Seen from DVD
This is not one of Ray's finest efforts, nor is it one of Budd Schulberg's either. The story and screenplay were written by Schulberg, and he seemed to be impressed with the idea of combining an environmental story set in the small town of Miami, Florida, at the turn of the century.The story has a lot of interesting ideas--and some beautiful shots of Florida waterbirds and other Everglades fauna. (These photo shots did help to make up for the lack of focus on story but not quite enough.)
It seemed to me as though the movie was only a series of episodes taking place in Miami in the early 1900s. But, the two main ideas for the movie seem to be (1) a history of Miami (c. 1900) combined with (2) the idea is that a band of illegal poachers, led by Cottonmouth (Burl Ives), camped deep inside the Everglades. The poachers were making "a killing" from the fashion of the day: long bird feathers worn in women's hats. This was greed at the cost of bird protection in the Everglades.
Thanks to the Audubon Society (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Audubon_Society), this was illegal, but there seemed to be no way of stopping it since there was not enough law enforcement to control the poachers. And, as the demand for bird feathers grew, the price of the illegal booty just became higher, fueling the greed of the poaching guerrillas.
The movie seems to go back and forth between the establishment of Miami and the fight between one loan bird protector, Walt Murdock (Christopher Plummer, in his second feature film) and the bird poachers. The plot transitions between these two sorties was awkward as was the fight between Plummer and Ives. The movie was enhanced a bit by several great characters, including Peter Faulk (in small role of his first feature film), Emmett Kelly, and "Gypsy Rose Lee," (who ran an establishment of "fancy" women all decked out in bird feathers). But, the flow of the story never quite worked.
Full synopsis from TCM with SPOILERS: Early in the twentieth century, when rare birds are being hunted and killed illegally to supply the millinery industry with feathers, naturalist Walt Murdoch comes to the small frontier town of Miami, Florida seeking a teaching job at the high school. While stepping off the train the plumage of a woman's fashionably excessive hat slaps him in the face and, offended, he mischievously yanks out the feather and berates the woman. Her husband, wealthy George Leggett, a member of the school board who is secretly involved in plume traffic, blocks Walt's application to teach nature studies and has the sheriff arrest him. However, Audubon Society member Howard Ross Morgan offers Walt a job as bird game warden for the Everglades area and arranges with the judge to have Walt's sentence commuted to the warden position. Having been warned by Howard that the last two wardens were killed by Cottonmouth, who is the leader of a plume-hunting band of renegades known as the Swamp Angels, Walt makes his first canoe trip into the "'Glades."
He encounters Cottonmouth and his hooligans, who sneak up on him and then shoot at the birds in their nesting area. After he returns from the overnight trip, he eloquently describes the beauty of what he saw to immigrant storekeeper Aaron Nathanson and his daughter Naomi, with whom he has taken board. While Walt is inspired to protect the land and its wildlife, the kind Aaron, who grew up in a European ghetto, envisions that swamp land can be drained and filled to make more land for human habitation. Aaron invites Walt to be his partner, but Walt responds that "progress and I don't get along real well." He feels drawn to the `Glades, which he describes as a life force in its "purist, earliest form."
At the small village of shacks in the swamps where Cottonmouth's men reside, a rowdy named Beef and companion join up with the band, after engaging in hand to hand battle with Cottonmouth's men over sleeping cabins. Perfesser, a thoughtful member of the group whose vocabulary ranges from the vernacular to the academic, reports to Cottonmouth that their new foe Walt, whom they have nicknamed "Birdboy," "is no pantywaist." He can "hold his liquor," is "good with his dukes," "smokes big black cigars," and "is crazy enough to make trouble." Cottonmouth predicts that Walt will die of "natural causes" and makes plans to set his demise into motion.
Acting on Cottonmouth's, Beef introduces himself to Walt at a saloon and connects him with Billy One-Arm, an outcast Seminole who can act as his guide in the swampland. Although Billy, a member of Cottonmouth's gang, has been ordered to lure Walt deep into the dangerous `Glades and abandon him, the Indian realizes Walt's goodness. Instead, he intervenes when Walt attempts to touch the deadly manchineel tree sap that destroys the mucous membranes of humans, causing a painful death. Guessing that Billy has disobeyed his orders, Cottonmouth sends men to fetch him. Leaving Walt, they force Billy to their headquarters, where Cottonmouth "sentences" Billy to die by the manchineel tree. Walt follows the sound of Billy's wailing, but finds him dead. When Walt tries to untie Billy from the tree, he succumbs to the poison.
Returned to town unconscious by Billy's wife, Walt is nursed back to health by Naomi. Later, during Independence Day celebrations, Naomi and Walt admit to each other that they are in love. On that day, Aaron, with Leggett, is seeking approval from a state land commission hearing to begin expanding the town. Walt becomes suspicious when he sees Beef being carried into town on a thick mattress. Although Beef claims to be ill, Walt discovers that the mattress is filled with illegal plumage being smuggled into town to Leggett. Walt interrupts the hearing to make his charge, but the judges refuse to listen to him. They refuse to question Leggett's activities, but offer to issue a warrant on Cottonmouth, if Walt is willing to bring the man in. Feeling defeated, Walt prepares to quit, but Howard talks him into standing up to the authorities and the lawbreakers. Knowing the dangers he faces, he makes a brief farewell to Naomi, then travels into the swampland where he is captured and taken to Cottonmouth's camptown.
A brewing storm prompts Cottonmouth to delay killing him. Instead, Cottonmouth offers him a rough hospitality of some of the "sweet tastin' joys of this world," liquor and gators' tail to eat. A party atmosphere develops and Walt, emboldened by liquor and the knowledge of his impending death, complains to the men that rookeries are being destroyed for fast money. Cottonmouth, who was born and reared in the swamps, argues that they eat the birds, the birds eat the fish and someday, when he dies, the animals will eat him. He says that their law in the swamp is "eat or be `et." When Walt insists that Cottonmouth's balance of nature philosophy is no longer in force, the latter jokingly considers keeping Walt around for the talk. Then, Walt surprises them by singing one of their songs, prompting Cottonmouth to joke that Walt is "joining" them.
As the evening continues, Walt and Cottonmouth realize that they both "protest" civilization. The next morning, when Walt awakens with a hangover, Cottonmouth asks if he is a gambler. Walt's answer, that "who else would take his job?" amuses Cottonmouth, who makes him an offer: If Walt can get him back to town alive, without a guide and without Cottonmouth helping except to "pole" the boat, he will accept the legal punishment given to him. Of course, Cottonmouth promises he will kill Walt if he gets the chance. Walt accepts, but that night, finds he dare not fall asleep and, the next morning, Cottonmouth tries to confuse Walt about the direction to take. Exhausted, Walt, mistakes a root for a snake and shoots at it. Thinking Walt was aiming at him, Cottonmouth hits him with a pole, injuring Walt's shoulder. Upon realizing his mistake, Cottonmouth admits that he is "bone sorry" and helps him to a safe place. Believing that Cottonmouth has "won," Walt mourns that people cannot see and enjoy the beauty of the area and points out the sunlight on the wings of the birds. Cottonmouth admits that he cannot understand the trouble Walt has taken for the birds, but, allowing that Walt, like himself, "feels gut deep about living," plans to take him into Miami for medical care. However, Cottonmouth is then bitten by a cottonmouth snake and remarks that he will be the first of them to die from "natural causes."
Although Walt tries to administer first aid, Cottonmouth says that the poison is already in his blood, gives him directions to town and bellows at his new-found friend to leave him there. Walt sets off in the boat reluctantly, as the dying Cottonmouth, looking at the birds in the sky, remarks to himself that "maybe I never had a good look at them before." Cottonmouth yells to the swamps to take him, and Walt hears those dying words as he sadly travels homeward.
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Post by kijii on Jan 27, 2019 21:15:05 GMT
The Wife (2018), the movie that Glenn Close WILL WIN her long-awaited Oscar for, I've decided it must be so. Lebowskidoo-- I actually bought (rather than rented) the movie for streaming and look forward to seeing it. I hope you are right about your prediction since I was not as enthralled with The Favourite (2018) as others seem to be. Geeze, Nominated for 10 Oscars.... The darkness of the screen shots just seemed to be a turn off for me. I had a hard time telling who was doing what to whom.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 27, 2019 22:31:50 GMT
The Wife (2018), the movie that Glenn Close WILL WIN her long-awaited Oscar for, I've decided it must be so. Lebowskidoo-- I actually bought (rather than rented) the movie for streaming and look forward to seeing it. I hope you are right about your prediction since I was not as enthralled with The Favourite (2018) as others seem to be. Geeze, Nominated for 10 Oscars.... The darkness of the screen shots just seemed to be a turn off for me. I had a hard time telling who was doing what to whom. That's too bad about The Favourite, I was looking forward to that one.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Jan 28, 2019 0:30:29 GMT
Appaloosa.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 28, 2019 2:11:31 GMT
SUCH a fun movie … did you like it ?
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Jan 28, 2019 2:21:30 GMT
That's about the 12th time I've seen it. I think it's great.
Harris, Viggo and the 8 gauge.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 28, 2019 2:24:57 GMT
That's about the 12th time I've seen it. I think it's great. Harris, Viggo and the 8 gauge. I read the book and also have the book on audio tape .. good in any format … fun characters and a terrific story !
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