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Post by hi224 on Feb 24, 2019 15:56:49 GMT
Whats your favorite mann joint here.
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Post by mattgarth on Feb 24, 2019 15:59:16 GMT
Westerns with Stewart -- especially WINCHESTER
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 24, 2019 16:44:18 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Feb 24, 2019 16:48:37 GMT
Very under appreciated. I really loved his costume epics EL CID and The Fall of The Roman Empire. His westerns are solid as well.
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Post by wmcclain on Feb 24, 2019 16:52:34 GMT
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Post by mattgarth on Feb 24, 2019 16:53:03 GMT
He also made some neat Noirs in the late 1940s -- T-MEN is a particular favorite.
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Post by hi224 on Feb 24, 2019 16:53:44 GMT
He also made some neat Noirs in the late 1940s -- T-MEN is a particular favorite. Love T men great stuff and acting. |
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Post by biker1 on Feb 24, 2019 20:33:33 GMT
Anthony Mann from my top 500..
the man from laramie (1955)
the naked spur (1953)
the far country (1954)
the fall of the roman empire (1964)
el cid (1961)
wanted - desperate, the tall target, border incident, men in war.
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Post by OldAussie on Feb 24, 2019 20:55:13 GMT
8/10 or higher -
The Fall of the Roman Empire
El Cid
The Tin Star
The Man from Laramie
The Naked Spur
Winchester '73
Devil's Doorway
not seen any of his noirs......
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Post by mikef6 on Feb 24, 2019 20:57:33 GMT
He also made some neat Noirs in the late 1940s -- T-MEN is a particular favorite. In addition to the excellent T-Men (1947), I have seen 3 other noirs directed by Anthony Mann, all of which I can highly recommend: Strange Impersonation (1946). Nora Goodrich (Brenda Marshall) is not a doctor (not in 1946), but the movie lets her be an accomplished chemist. She uses herself to test a new anesthetic that she has just created but is betrayed at the point of taking the drug and film noir terror ensues. Side Street (1949). Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell – who were a couple on the run in “They Live By Night” – team up again as struggling young marrieds. Granger, thinking he is snatching a couple of hundred from a lawyer, ends up with $30,000 in mob money and in deep nasty stuff. Reign Of Terror (1949), aka The Black Book. A really strange noir that purists reject (but I don’t) because it is a historical subject. Mann applies his noir style to a costumer set during the French Revolution. With the plays of dark and light, the crazy camera angles, and the sense of danger and paranoia that pervades the atmosphere, this story could just as easily have played out in Nazi occupied France as in Revolutionary France.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Feb 24, 2019 21:32:33 GMT
One of my 5 Director Titans
The Great Flamarion (1945) 8/10
T-Men (1947) 8/10
Raw Deal (1948) 9/10
He Walked by Night (1948) (his uncredited work is all over this beauty) 8/10
Border Incident (1949) 8/10
Winchester '73 (1950) 9/10
The Furies (1950) 9/10
Devil's Doorway (1950) 9/10
The Tall Target (1951) 8/10
The Naked Spur (1953) 9/10
The Far Country (1954) 8/10
The Man from Laramie (1955) 9/10
Man of the West (1958) 8/10
El Cid (1961) 8/10
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) 9/10
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Post by teleadm on Feb 25, 2019 18:23:44 GMT
The Furies (1950)
Winchester '73 (1950)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
The Far Country (1954)
The Last Frontier (1955)
The Man from Laramie (1955)
The Tin Star (1957)
Man of the West (1958)
El Cid (1961)
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Are the ones I've enjoyed, but I haven't seen all.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Feb 25, 2019 20:24:58 GMT
“I believe in the nobility of the human spirit. It is that for which I look in a subject I am to direct."... , Mann boasted that he had seen ‘nearly all of Shakespeare’s plays,’ including approximately fifteen stage versions of Hamlet, he began his own career in theatre. In the early 30s he joined the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) . Daring and ambitious FTP enterprise embraced left-wing social themes, producing plays challenging fascism, racism, and capitalism. Throughout his Hollywood career Mann collaborated with artists/writers, many of whom had been blacklisted, & others now working under different names. Most of Mann’s films faced innumerable objections and many changes demanded by “Joseph I. Breen’s Production Code Administration [PCA]. For example totally unacceptable were Desperate and Railroaded, Breen and his fellow censors insisted on the excision of social criticism, including unfavourable depictions of police, government officials and clergy. In 1947, the screenplay for Raw Deal was deemed by Breen, expressed in a letter as, “completely and utterly unacceptable under the provisions of the Production Code, and a motion picture developed from this screenplay could not be approved by us. The unacceptability of this story stems from its overall low moral tone. It is a sordid story of crime, immorality, brutality, gruesomeness, illicit sex and sex perversion, without the slightest suggestion of any compensating moral values whatsoever.” somehow it was made anyway. Is it any wonder there are 31 Anthony Mann films on the shelves here, the most films of any one director in my collection. Well written styled with creative artistic flair and an exceptional camera eye, every film is wonderful multi faceted classic film entertainment. One of the directors favourite films, a real oddity is Gods Little Acre (1958) it is also one of my favourite films. One film of Mann's that I think deserves greater recognition and a higher rating is Thunder Bay (1953) a terrific Mann story as always with great character depth, social & environmental elements...  |
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Feb 25, 2019 21:06:55 GMT
“I believe in the nobility of the human spirit. It is that for which I look in a subject I am to direct."... , Mann boasted that he had seen ‘nearly all of Shakespeare’s plays,’ including approximately fifteen stage versions of Hamlet, he began his own career in theatre. In the early 30s he joined the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) . Daring and ambitious FTP enterprise embraced left-wing social themes, producing plays challenging fascism, racism, and capitalism. Throughout his Hollywood career Mann collaborated with artists/writers, many of whom had been blacklisted, & others now working under different names. Most of Mann’s films faced innumerable objections and many changes demanded by “Joseph I. Breen’s Production Code Administration [PCA]. For example totally unacceptable were Desperate and Railroaded, Breen and his fellow censors insisted on the excision of social criticism, including unfavourable depictions of police, government officials and clergy. In 1947, the screenplay for Raw Deal was deemed by Breen, expressed in a letter as, “completely and utterly unacceptable under the provisions of the Production Code, and a motion picture developed from this screenplay could not be approved by us. The unacceptability of this story stems from its overall low moral tone. It is a sordid story of crime, immorality, brutality, gruesomeness, illicit sex and sex perversion, without the slightest suggestion of any compensating moral values whatsoever.” somehow it was made anyway. Is it any wonder there are 31 Anthony Mann films on the shelves here, the most films of any one director in my collection. Well written styled with creative artistic flair and an exceptional camera eye, every film is wonderful multi faceted classic film entertainment. One of the directors favourite films, a real oddity is Gods Little Acre (1958) it is also one of my favourite films. One film of Mann's that I think deserves greater recognition and a higher rating is Thunder Bay (1953) a terrific Mann story as always with great character depth, social & environmental elements... I simply can't praise him enough, even in the films I don't wish to own - or even watch again - there's a craft that's utterly impressive, he brings out great characters by inspiring his actors to fully inhabit. Raw Deal, again, I can't praise it enough, for me one of the truly great film noir pictures (Alton and Sawtell once again in full effect as well). For it has the brutal fatalistic beats that were so prominent in pure noir when it was just a small style of film making (the ending oh my!). I love T-Men of course, but although that seems to be the one that has gained most prominence over the years, Raw Deal trumps it for me. Not seen it since March 2011 so I have it here right in front of me ready to load the minute I log off  Thunder Bay. A bit too talky for some, the subject matter kind of demands that really, but unsurprisingly the characterisations are rich and engaging and the finale rocks.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 25, 2019 21:28:12 GMT
EL Cid
Fall of the Roman Empire
Didn't he direct the opening scene of Spartacus in the rock quarry.
"The sun's over there."
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Post by wmcclain on Feb 25, 2019 21:30:18 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Feb 26, 2019 3:11:38 GMT
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Feb 26, 2019 11:25:22 GMT
I've only seen about 5 or 6 of his Westerns, of those my favorite would be:  |
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Post by wmcclain on Feb 26, 2019 15:33:04 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Feb 26, 2019 22:04:05 GMT
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