What classics did you see last week ? (1 Mar - 7 Mar 2020)

Here comes the Tele movies from last week, with a few thoughts attached.



A fairly OK euro action movie, starring a few well known names, James Coburn, Susannah York, Robert Culp and Charles Aznavour (!). A rich industrialist's wife and kids are kidnapped in Greece, the action is about getting them out, before kidnappers get their demands. Enter James Joburn, cool as usual, learning that his ex-wife and kids are kidnapped for ransom, by some terrorist group. The terrorists hide high in the Greek mountains, actually the same monestary used a few years later in the Bond film For Your Eyes Only. Coburn character by accident sees a hanggliding circus in Athens, and get's the idea of using hangliders to save the kidnapped.
Fairly decent for a one time look, and if you like the stars, and wan't to know how Athens and surroundings looked like in mid 1970s. 


Since I'm stll in convalescence, try something different, could be refreshing!
aka The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, an Italian mystery movie and even maybe a Giallo. Watched English speaking dubbed version. An old painting has put a spell on an old respectable family, the painting fortold that every 100 years the Red Queen returns and kills family members. Do someone uses the legend to kill, or has indeed the Red Queen returned to the massive estate, about to be inhereted soon.
It's an OK movie of it's kind, with a very enervating elevator sounding score by Bruno Nicolai. Maybe you like this even better if you like these kind of movies.

When Woodward turned 90 I wanted to see something I've never seen before, and this happened to be the one.
Woodward's character treat's severe mental patients, and in this case a person who thinks he is Sherlock Holmes, not just nutty, but actually is able to solve a few problems, and Woodward's character happend to be named Dr Watson.
Based on a play, it starts very lighthearted and is very funny, with great lines, but as the story moves forward and new characters appears it becomes more and more bizarre
Don't know what to make of it in the end, maybe it was done in the wrong way, or I'm too dumb to understand...


This poster makes it look like an action movie, something it isn't, though there is a few action scenes.
Somehow buried among Charlton Heston's more famous movies.
Lot's of artificial snow, since nobody breathes with smoke.
Heston is a Maestro who's whole symphony Orchestra suddenly becomes prisoners of war, and to please the highest ranking Nazi and to save time they will give him a big concert. 
As the orchestra neers it's crecendo at the end it never get's very exciting, though there is some good acting, but sadly not from Heston himself who is very stoic this time.


I could watch lovely Cyd Charisse in almost anything, even after watching this one, aka Assassination in Rome, well assassination and assassination, a dead body is found at Fontana di Trevi, and who is he, and how does it link back to Charisse's character's suddenly disappeared husband. That's something American reporter (Hugh O'Brian) tries to find out, via several red herrings and mysterious characters.
Neighter the best nor the worst of it's kind, lighthearted thriller movie Euro style.


As other posters have mentioned this movie I wanted to see it for myself.
I've read the book that it is based on, and I see that many parts have been omitted, like the whole story of the Sheriff that hunt the heister, there is also a different ending, and many other things I noticed that I cannot tell or I would destoy the pleasure for those who haven't seen the movie yet.
It's one of those things that sometimes happens, I bought the pocket book for under 50 US cents, and it must have been extremely well written since I remember many details, some not used in he movie version. If they had used all, it would have been a 3 hour movie.
This movie was a highlight of the week, the tension, the acting, the direction, the plot, the issues, and together it's not just a hiest movie, it's so much more. So glad to have finally seen it.


Two redheads for the price of one!
Not sure if I grasped everything, but it sure was something different.
There is more than catches the eye, not difficult with Rhonda Fleming and Arlene Dahl distracting as sisters, Rhonda is the goodhearted, while Arlene is a nymphomaniac and shoplifter who get's a thrill getting into trouble. While mob handyman John Payne tries to squeeze himself in between, using the good sister for his employer the mob, and using the other sister for pure pleasure. A lot goes wrong and everybody tries to save themselves.
There is a lot of tension here, and I'm not sure I got all the angles, but I don't mind, and I somehow liked to be puzzeled, this time.


Why not an old fashioned gaslight London murder mystery, and I enjoyed it, for what it is.
A noble playboy leaves murdered women behind him story, and is he or isn't he the murderer.
Peggy Cummings (far from Gun Fury) tries to figure out the mystery.
Great cast including Vincent Price as a not-as-dumb-as-he-appears police detective, and grand dame Ethel Barrymore as Victor Mature's mother (how did her husband look like to produce Victor Mature?).
Amusing and enteraining old fashioned who-done-it, that I enjoyed watching.
(Those enormous estates on the countryside, what on earth did they live on?)
A moss rose is part of the clue, by the way. 


Since there is a new version of the famous Jack London novel at the cinemas right now, I thought I would look up an older version. Like most versions it doesn't care much about London's novel, and only uses it for action entertainment. I shouldn't sound snobbish, since I've only read the Illustrated Classics version LOL!.
Clark Gable carries this movie together with a dog named Buck.
I wished this could have been an old fashioned matinee, but there is an actually totally unneccesary subplot with a woman (Loretta Young who looks gorgeous), and Jack Oakie's oldfashioned sidekick that get's enervating after awhile.
There are also some very good parts, like the selfcreated drowning scenes of the gold mine thieves who can't reach the surface of a river because of their greed, and Buck with his cubs.
Still Clark Gable is Clark Gable, as my mother used to make very clear to her sons.



Until next week, when we have seen more movies!

Now it's the time to enjoy what others have written about what they have seen...