What classics did you see last week, July 4 to July 10?
Jul 10, 2021 19:08:00 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Jul 10, 2021 19:08:00 GMT
Here is what I have seen, besides fussball live.
Kindergarten Cop 1990 directed by Ivan Reitman.
Despite it's title and this poster and lot of pre-school kids around, it's not a family friendly movie, since there are deadly shootouts, corpses, drug dealers and so on before it moves over to small town Oregon.
It's far from perfect, but it somehow works, with big Arnold as a LAPD Detective working undercover, and a great female cast surrounds him, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Linda Hunt and Carroll Baker (great to see her) as the mother from hell, and the mother of the man who Arnold chases.
If the threat is real and acted seriously, the comedy parts works better, and it nearly works here.
Very enjoyable, and hadn't seen it from start to finish in many years.
Eye in the Labyrinth aka L'occhio nel labirinto 1972 directed by Mario Cariano.
In my search for great movies outside anglo languages greatly inspired by threads on imbd2 (please continue).
This one though was a bump, and rather bloodless for being a giallo with enervating cinematography.
Interesting cast though that included Alida Valli, a young Sybill Danning, and former Bond movie bad guy Adolfo Celi.
Rosemary Dexter who plays the lead, who is beautiful here, sadly had to retire a few years later because of some unnamed illness.
The Devil's Disciple 1959 directed by Guy Hamilton (Alexander Mackendrick was fired, a few scenes remains) and based on a play by George Bernard Shaw.
In 1777 the English still had hopes to win back America, by hanging people publicly to scare off any rebellions, offcourse they didn't count on Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, blowing up gunpowder and using their fists.
I've never seen any other versions of this play by Shaw, so I have no references if this was a bad or good version.
The movie is relatively short (clocking in under 85 minutes) but highly entertaining once one (at least I) got the hang of what it was about.
Sir Laurence Oliver is a joy too, who apparently was disappointed by his performance.
The Green Man 1956 directed by Robert Day and based on different versions of a play written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder.
"The Green Man" of the title is a seaside hotel.
Lovely Alastair Sim plays a kind of guy who hated school and pompous persons, good for nothing except creating time bombs, at first with gunpowder against teacher he didn't like, to south Amercan dictators, jobs that payed well.
But this time he is gonna stop a pompous bank manager, and his biggest threat is a vacuum cleaner salesman (George Cole) who sees dead bodies come and go, with a BBC host's wife.
Olde British humor galore, and I liked it.
Big fan of Alastair Sim, but never seen this one before.
The Violent Men 1955 directed by Rudolph Maté and based on a novel by Swedish ex-count David Hamilton (that I didn't know until yesterday).
Passions, revenge and anger flies high in this western with a powerhouse cast of tensions, Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G Robinson, with Brian Keith as Stanwyck's toy boy as long as he does what she likes.
There must be something else that makes Robinson's character wanting to grab all land in the valley and chase out all small farmers, not just cattle breeding. Ford is willing to sell at the right price, but dislikes one of Robinson's Henchmen (Richard Jaeckel) who rather kills before asking.
Starting a war with a stampede scene that was very impressive (later finding out that is was edited from an earlier Glenn Ford movie The Desperadoes 1943)
Remember Bette Davis withholding Herbert Marshal's medicines in The Little Foxes when she sees that chance, here Stanwyck throws Robinson's crutches into a fire, and hope he burns up, so she can have Brian Keith without secrets.
A bit too heavy on the drama, but Ford, Stanwyck and Robinson's charisma's made it a joy anyway, never seen it before.
Wings in the Dark 1935 directed by James Flood (a director I know very little about and would be thankful if someone could fill me in)
reprising what I already wrote in another post plus adding a vital line, aviation melodrama romance starring Myrna Loy and Cary Grant who are both aviators. He goes blind via a freak accident, and she can't find any jobs because she is a woman, except as a barnstormer payed for by newspapers that needs sensations. Myrna's role is partly inspired by Amelia Earhart. Avoids being a tearjerker. With these two stars it's rather entertaining, feels like they they ad-libbed a lot of scenes, and it's even a bit exciting at the end.
By the way, Myrna was the bigger star of the two at the time and her name appears first in the title sequence.
Not just for old airplane enthusiasts.
The last movie made me think of those glue together kits of old aeroplanes, when I was young. I had loads of those, but I never built any of those I had on display, it was my dear passed away father who glued them together, while swearing as hell.
Anyway thanks for watching and now I check up your movies!
Kindergarten Cop 1990 directed by Ivan Reitman.
Despite it's title and this poster and lot of pre-school kids around, it's not a family friendly movie, since there are deadly shootouts, corpses, drug dealers and so on before it moves over to small town Oregon.
It's far from perfect, but it somehow works, with big Arnold as a LAPD Detective working undercover, and a great female cast surrounds him, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Linda Hunt and Carroll Baker (great to see her) as the mother from hell, and the mother of the man who Arnold chases.
If the threat is real and acted seriously, the comedy parts works better, and it nearly works here.
Very enjoyable, and hadn't seen it from start to finish in many years.
Eye in the Labyrinth aka L'occhio nel labirinto 1972 directed by Mario Cariano.
In my search for great movies outside anglo languages greatly inspired by threads on imbd2 (please continue).
This one though was a bump, and rather bloodless for being a giallo with enervating cinematography.
Interesting cast though that included Alida Valli, a young Sybill Danning, and former Bond movie bad guy Adolfo Celi.
Rosemary Dexter who plays the lead, who is beautiful here, sadly had to retire a few years later because of some unnamed illness.
The Devil's Disciple 1959 directed by Guy Hamilton (Alexander Mackendrick was fired, a few scenes remains) and based on a play by George Bernard Shaw.
In 1777 the English still had hopes to win back America, by hanging people publicly to scare off any rebellions, offcourse they didn't count on Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, blowing up gunpowder and using their fists.
I've never seen any other versions of this play by Shaw, so I have no references if this was a bad or good version.
The movie is relatively short (clocking in under 85 minutes) but highly entertaining once one (at least I) got the hang of what it was about.
Sir Laurence Oliver is a joy too, who apparently was disappointed by his performance.
The Green Man 1956 directed by Robert Day and based on different versions of a play written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder.
"The Green Man" of the title is a seaside hotel.
Lovely Alastair Sim plays a kind of guy who hated school and pompous persons, good for nothing except creating time bombs, at first with gunpowder against teacher he didn't like, to south Amercan dictators, jobs that payed well.
But this time he is gonna stop a pompous bank manager, and his biggest threat is a vacuum cleaner salesman (George Cole) who sees dead bodies come and go, with a BBC host's wife.
Olde British humor galore, and I liked it.
Big fan of Alastair Sim, but never seen this one before.
The Violent Men 1955 directed by Rudolph Maté and based on a novel by Swedish ex-count David Hamilton (that I didn't know until yesterday).
Passions, revenge and anger flies high in this western with a powerhouse cast of tensions, Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G Robinson, with Brian Keith as Stanwyck's toy boy as long as he does what she likes.
There must be something else that makes Robinson's character wanting to grab all land in the valley and chase out all small farmers, not just cattle breeding. Ford is willing to sell at the right price, but dislikes one of Robinson's Henchmen (Richard Jaeckel) who rather kills before asking.
Starting a war with a stampede scene that was very impressive (later finding out that is was edited from an earlier Glenn Ford movie The Desperadoes 1943)
Remember Bette Davis withholding Herbert Marshal's medicines in The Little Foxes when she sees that chance, here Stanwyck throws Robinson's crutches into a fire, and hope he burns up, so she can have Brian Keith without secrets.
A bit too heavy on the drama, but Ford, Stanwyck and Robinson's charisma's made it a joy anyway, never seen it before.
Wings in the Dark 1935 directed by James Flood (a director I know very little about and would be thankful if someone could fill me in)
reprising what I already wrote in another post plus adding a vital line, aviation melodrama romance starring Myrna Loy and Cary Grant who are both aviators. He goes blind via a freak accident, and she can't find any jobs because she is a woman, except as a barnstormer payed for by newspapers that needs sensations. Myrna's role is partly inspired by Amelia Earhart. Avoids being a tearjerker. With these two stars it's rather entertaining, feels like they they ad-libbed a lot of scenes, and it's even a bit exciting at the end.
By the way, Myrna was the bigger star of the two at the time and her name appears first in the title sequence.
Not just for old airplane enthusiasts.
The last movie made me think of those glue together kits of old aeroplanes, when I was young. I had loads of those, but I never built any of those I had on display, it was my dear passed away father who glued them together, while swearing as hell.
Anyway thanks for watching and now I check up your movies!