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Post by london777 on Feb 2, 2020 5:01:24 GMT
I passed quickly over taylorfirst1's minimalist post, which was a pity because, had I looked into this title, later when we discussed at some length Dual Alibi (1947), I could have pointed out that Herbert Lom had form as a circus artist only four years previously. The Dark Tower (1943) dir: John Harlow is also mainly concerned with a trapeze act, but here Lom is not a trapezist himself. He is a hypnotist who joins a failing circus owned by brothers Ben Lyon (American) and David Farrar (English). By hypnotizing Anne Crawford to perform daring acts without a safety net Lom sets the circus on the path to prosperity. But it is a Faustian pact as Lom's involvement brings death and disaster. At one point one character calls him "the Devil" and he is flattered. It is a feeble movie and the thin plot is padded out with numerous fifth-rate circus acts. Lom commands the screen, yet only enjoyed fourth billing. Top billing is Ben Lyon who is bland beyond belief.
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Post by london777 on Feb 26, 2020 0:55:09 GMT
The circus is one of the many themes of Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)(1979) dir: Volker Schlöndorff. Especially scenes with midgets, as the film's protagonist is a boy who wills himself to stop growing at the age of 3 years, in protest at the horrors of the adult world.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Feb 26, 2020 15:03:20 GMT
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Mar 1, 2020 11:28:56 GMT
Captive Wild Woman (1943)
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Mar 5, 2020 0:53:50 GMT
Chaney Junior was the star attraction at the sideshow - Dynamo Dan: The Electric Man - then he became Man Made Monster! (1941)
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Post by teleadm on Mar 6, 2020 18:05:08 GMT
I couldn't find any pictures to post, The Big Operator 1959, one of those movies Mickey Rooney did between Andy Hardy and playing, very badly, an angry stereotyped Japanese in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Anyway shows a fairground during it's first few minutes and during the titles. Haven't been able to identify where.
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Post by london777 on Mar 6, 2020 22:12:47 GMT
I couldn't find any pictures to post, The Big Operator 1959 ... shows a fairground during it's first few minutes and during the titles.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 6, 2020 22:20:51 GMT
I couldn't find any pictures to post, The Big Operator 1959 ... shows a fairground during it's first few minutes and during the titles. I might have refered to the wrong movie, sorry!
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 6, 2020 22:57:13 GMT
I couldn't find any pictures to post, The Big Operator 1959 ... shows a fairground during it's first few minutes and during the titles. What could have possessed the artist that he drew the gun into Rooney's hand in that peculiar position? Unless it's depicting a scene in which he angrily tenderizes a flank steak with a revolver grip.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 7, 2020 2:10:52 GMT
What could have possessed the artist that he drew the gun into Rooney's hand in that peculiar position? Unless it's depicting a scene in which he angrily tenderizes a flank steak with a revolver grip. He's possibly about to give someone a pistol whupping upside the haid ? Tho' the flank steak theory is a distinct possibility as well.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 7, 2020 17:07:02 GMT
What could have possessed the artist that he drew the gun into Rooney's hand in that peculiar position? Unless it's depicting a scene in which he angrily tenderizes a flank steak with a revolver grip. Holding a gun by the pipe was a gang related code, meaning negotiations, dividing cities between them. I've seen that poster many times, sold at a local jazz convention with a Mel Tormé autograph. Never even thought about the pistol hold in the wrong way, before enlightened just now. My first line was a joke by the way!
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Post by london777 on Mar 7, 2020 17:53:25 GMT
What could have possessed the artist that he drew the gun into Rooney's hand in that peculiar position? Holding a gun by the pipe was a gang related code, meaning negotiations, dividing cities between them. Swedish guns may have pipes. In the Anglo-Saxon world we have "barrels". Interesting information, but I personally would not enter into negotiations with a gangster while he had that expression on his face but would wait until he was in a more equable mood.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 7, 2020 18:24:32 GMT
Holding a gun by the pipe was a gang related code, meaning negotiations, dividing cities between them. Swedish guns may have pipes. In the Anglo-Saxon world we have "barrels". Interesting information, but I personally would not enter into negotiations with a gangster while he had that expression on his face but would wait until he was in a more equable mood. We use Barrels for wine and beer nowdays, and some occational cognac tasting somethings.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 7, 2020 18:40:14 GMT
What could have possessed the artist that he drew the gun into Rooney's hand in that peculiar position? Unless it's depicting a scene in which he angrily tenderizes a flank steak with a revolver grip. He's possibly about to give someone a pistol whupping upside the haid ? Tho' the flank steak theory is a distinct possibility as well. I seem to have opened myself up to my own "whupping upside the haid." I must confess to ignorance about pistol-whipping. I've heard of it, and of it happening in real life, but never witnessed it, I'm happy to say, and have never seen anyone wield a handgun in that fashion in any movie. Maybe I don't watch the right ones. All I know from the ones I have seen is that bopping someone on the back of the head while holding the gun by the grip will unfailingly render them unconscious. Would I be naive to assume that reflects reality? I also know this: I've never been able to intimidate anyone with a meat tenderizer.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 7, 2020 20:45:34 GMT
I've never been able to intimidate anyone with a meat tenderizer. In-tents research indicates that both gore-met cooks and hood'lums recommend these models for optimum intimidation and haid whuppin' I have this model in the what's it drawer .. now I finally know what it is !
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 7, 2020 20:59:14 GMT
BATouttaheck - I see now where I've gone wrong. All these years, I've been using this wimpy thing: Still works great on flank steak, though.
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Post by london777 on Mar 27, 2020 21:56:18 GMT
Certain people may be so bored with this thread that they are driven to comparing meat tenderizers, but, like some insane Aguirre, I will press on relentlessly, even if I have to go it alone. I really thought we had scraped the bottom of the barrel, but now I have found two movies which are entirely about circuses, so we cannot leave them out. Brazilian director Carlos Diégues released his first full-length feature in 1963 at the age of 23 and is still going as producer, writer and director. In Bye Bye Brasil (1980) a small troupe of performers struggle against the competition provided by television until they end up destitute, in this lament for the disappearance of the old ways. It brought Diégues to international attention at Cannes. O Grande Circo Místico is his most recent release and won a number of awards internationally. It stars Vincent Cassel and tells the story of five generations of the Knieps, Austrian circus owners, through to their modern decline.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Mar 28, 2020 18:36:39 GMT
The Sniper (1952)
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Post by london777 on Apr 4, 2020 23:48:36 GMT
Little Fugitive (1953) written and directed by Ray Ashley, Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin, was an 80min low-budget movie which won the Silver Lion at Cannes and was much admired by the French New Wave directors for its improvisational immediacy. It tells the story of two brothers, Lennie (12) and Joey (7). Lennie tricks Joey into thinking he has killed his elder brother, so Joey runs away to Coney Island, where most of the film is set, while his brother searches for him. Apologies to BAT, I see he already listed this movie much earlier in this thread.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 5, 2020 0:22:42 GMT
Certain people may be so bored with this thread that they are driven to comparing meat tenderizers, but, like some insane Aguirre, I will press on relentlessly, even if I have to go it alone. Belated apology for my part in the terrible tenderizer tangent. I guess I went a little... Further apologies if this turkey cinematic circus citation has already been made. I'm still groggy from the pistol whipping I got here last month.
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