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Post by bravomailer on Mar 22, 2021 5:06:31 GMT
Cleopatra
The Ten Commandments
Ben Hur
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 22, 2021 5:04:47 GMT
Cleopatra
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 22, 2021 4:18:39 GMT
Godfather 2
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 22, 2021 4:12:07 GMT
The Gangs Of New York
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 21, 2021 19:38:44 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 20, 2021 21:30:06 GMT
It wasn't clear to me who if anyone was afraid of Virginia Woolf.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 20, 2021 21:27:16 GMT
I guess a donkey shot in the head later in the movie. I don't know what that added to it other than saying goodbye to Hayes code. When the film had its television premier on the ABC network, the shooting of the donkeys was cut out. (Wrongly, in my opinion.) That incident was depicted in John Agee's A Bell For Adano, though Patton's name wasn't used. Bill Mauldin was once called into Patton's office for depicting high-ranking generals as insensitive. Patton insisted he had great rapport with the GIs and knew their hardships. The conversation took place in the rococo splendor of a duke's palace which the general was using as an HQ. Speaking of dukes, John Wayne turned down the role of Patton because he wouldn't do the slapping incident and the director et al refused to cut it.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 20, 2021 20:44:00 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 20, 2021 16:42:50 GMT
For a project I once interviewed about 35 WW2 veterans. All but two expressed dislike if not contempt for George S Patton. The slapping incidents figured highly in their assessments. Note the plural.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 20, 2021 4:20:00 GMT
Phil Harris's The Thing is worked into The Last Picture Show
Brian Hyland's Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini is used as a torture instrument in One, Two, Three.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 20, 2021 4:12:45 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 20, 2021 4:11:05 GMT
Definitely worth seeing but I find it rather hokey and hagiographical.
Patton's son was assistant post commander at Fort Knox when Young Bravo was stationed there for a few months before shipping off to glory. Patton the Younger rode around in a jeep with a .45 on his hip. His old man's renowned pearl-handled pistols, which Omar Bradley said made him look like a pimp in a New Orleans bordello, were in a museum on Knox. There was also a Tiger tank, one of the few remanning in the world. Other vehicles had Afrika Korps markings.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 19, 2021 20:52:43 GMT
Always used as a San Francisco establishing shot in countless movies from Interview With the Vampire to countless others, the Port of San Francisco is frequently on our screens. I searched for one such shot from On The Beach. No luck.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 19, 2021 20:40:12 GMT
Magnum Force
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 19, 2021 20:16:00 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 19, 2021 5:31:43 GMT
Julius Caesar/ Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1953)
And James Mason stands out over Gielgud and Brando.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 18, 2021 23:18:15 GMT
The Parallax View Thanks for all the great Pics & Posts bravomailer that great view now seems to have disappeared from view ?... The Parallax Corporation's reach is frightening! I'll post this photo then make a dash for the door down the catwalk.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 18, 2021 23:14:53 GMT
salary dish from imdb1 All of the lead actors agreed to participate on a '"favored-nation" basis (they would all receive the same weekly fee), which, in this case, was $250,000 per week (the 1977 equivalent of $1,008,250, or £642,000). Except Robert Redford who received $2m. Audrey's asking price too high (unspecified) and prosspect of location filming too traumatic. More form IMDb: "[Audrey] Hepburn, who was half English and half Dutch, had been sent from England, to The Netherlands, which was neutral, when war broke out, but her mother's home town of Arnhem was overrun by the Germans, and she was trapped there for the duration. During Operation Market Garden, the fifteen-year-old Hepburn ran errands and messages for the Allies fighting in the town, and so, as Kate Ter Horst, would have met herself in the movie."
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 18, 2021 18:20:35 GMT
I liked it. Wonderful cast, cinematography, and storytelling that conveys the complexity and overcomplexity of the operation. But it has minor flaws with the jaunty pep-rally music and Elliot Gould's hamminess.
7/10
I spoke at length with a 101st Airborne vet of Market Garden (and Bastogne) and when I asked him what he thought of the op, he rather crisply said, "We took our bridge." Didn't ask what he thought of ABTF but he did say he thought highly of Battleground (1949).
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 18, 2021 3:19:39 GMT
Great Expectations
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