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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 8, 2019 5:22:37 GMT
Am I the only one who has seen THE PINK JUNGLE? Never heard of it 'til now .. did you like it ? "A South American fashion photo shoot turns into a diamond mine seeking adventure for an American photographer and his model. " The IMDb User Reviews make it look "iffy" ..
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 8, 2019 5:29:34 GMT
Never heard of it 'til now .. did you like it ? "A South American fashion photo shoot turns into a diamond mine seeking adventure for an American photographer and his model. " The IMDb User Reviews make it look "iffy" .. It has George fucking Kennedy how could I not? He has a good rapport with Garner and it had a cute surprise ending. To me such movies are like archeological relics that deserve respect if not adulation.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 8, 2019 5:36:59 GMT
Prime etc. I did notice the presence of George F. Kennedy and thought … hmmmm …. that makes it look promising ! We need an in-depth George Kennedy Thread one of these days... maybe he has a birthday comin' up ! Mr Kennedy and Mr Garner with a friend in THE PINK JUNGLE 
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 8, 2019 6:21:12 GMT
I watched MARLOWE a while ago.
"You're light on your feet, Winslow. Are you just a little gay, huh?"
What intrigued me about THEY ONLY KILL THEIR MASTERS is that it was reported to be the last movie shot on the MGM backlot.
The locations did look familiar. Are there any of the really old backlot streets left?
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 8, 2019 13:06:46 GMT
Prime etc. I did notice the presence of George F. Kennedy and thought … hmmmm …. that makes it look promising ! We need an in-depth George Kennedy Thread one of these days... maybe he has a birthday comin' up ! Mr Kennedy and Mr Garner with a friend in THE PINK JUNGLE I challenge you to start a thread titled George F#@&ing Kennedy, I would die laughing !   
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 8, 2019 15:42:11 GMT
Lebowskidoo 🦞 nope .. pass … BUT an un-bombed George Kennedy thread would be pretty cool! 
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Post by marshamae on Apr 8, 2019 16:40:27 GMT
I really enjoyed Sunset and Twilight. Sunset not perfectly cast and Bruce Willis’s lazy approach to work really annoyed Garner. But it was very entertaining . I Twilight had a much better cast and all the twists and turns were beautifully played.
Other better known favorites .
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Post by OldAussie on Apr 8, 2019 20:18:55 GMT
Love the guy. He made it look easy - what better compliment to anyone in any profession.
Favourites? Too many, but......
Cash McCall and The Wheeler Dealers - back in the day the corporate raiders were the good guys, the regulators were "unAmerican".
The Great Escape - Garner and Donald Pleasence were the heart and soul of that movie.
The Americanization of Emily
36 Hours
Mister Buddwing
Grand Prix
Hour of the Gun
Marlowe and Twilight were the 2 I watched after hearing of his passing.
....and so many more.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 10, 2019 15:55:11 GMT
He was too cool for school, fool!   |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 10, 2019 23:08:40 GMT
He was too cool for school, fool! brought Chandler's PI comfortably into the swingin'/counterculture '60s without rendering him an anachronism. In what could be called a dry run for Jim Rockford, Garner winningly embodied the downtrodden yet dogged detective while adding his trademark dash of ironic self effacement to the wearily wisecracking gumshoe.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 21, 2019 20:36:29 GMT
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 11, 2021 15:35:27 GMT
Only recently getting into James Garner's earlier work, which so often happens with me. I know him for things he did in the 70's and forward, but was more than delighted with his work with Doris Day in The Thrill of It All (1963). He could move effortlessly between the genres, and all the women would swoon, and the men were all wanting to be like him.  |
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Post by timshelboy on Apr 11, 2021 19:27:36 GMT
He was all over TV when I was a lad THE GREAT ESCAPE aired every bank holiday and ROCKFORD FILES was huge.. I was too young for MAVERICK and not sure it was as big here as in USA)
Recommend MISTER BUDDWING from 1966
a sort of existential spin on the old amnesia plot... Garner encountering a trio of women who may or may not hold the key to his identity... Katharine Ross, Suzanne Pleshette and a blonde Jean simmons , and Angela Lansbury pops up too..
THEY ONLY KILL THEIR MASTERS wasn't bad either from a few years later also with Ross and June Allyson as you never imagined her !!!! 
Would give MARLOWE another spin.
The two with Julie Andrews were high points.
HEALTH was very low key but altman fans should definitely check it out
TWILIGHT was a good quality late period turn in a decent film and he had a few good lines in MY FELLOW AMERICANS
You can keep MURPHY'S ROMANCE - I don't like her... I really don't like her...
Sank No Deeper? SUNSET was hideous although he gave co-star Willis a pasting in the screen charm stakes. Ditto Mel and MAVERICK.THE FAN was below his standard.
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Post by kijii on Apr 11, 2021 21:25:34 GMT
THERE ARE MANY GOOD ONES LEFT---I RECOMMEND
The Thrill of It All (1963)-------HIS DORIS DAY MOVIE
Sayonara (1957)---SUPPORTING ROLE BUT A CLASSIC MOVIE
The Children's Hour (1961)---------SHOULD SEE THIS REMAKE OF THESE THREE
Mister Buddwing (1966)---STRANGE BUT SOMEWHAT INTERESTING
Grand Prix (1966)--HIS John Frankenheimer MOVIE
The Americanization of Emily (1964)------GREAT SATIRE ABOUT WAR AND GLORY..
Skin Game (1971) ANOTHER SATIRE
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 12, 2021 17:00:19 GMT
timshelboyMy Fellow Americans (1996) was pretty funny, at least I thought so. [Matt Douglas' made-up words to "Hail to the Chief"]
Matt Douglas (James Garner): Hail to the chief, if you don't, I'll have to kill you. I am the chief, so you better watch your step, you bastards.
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Post by timshelboy on Apr 12, 2021 17:23:23 GMT
timshelboy My Fellow Americans (1996) was pretty funny, at least I thought so. [Matt Douglas' made-up words to "Hail to the Chief"]
Matt Douglas (James Garner): Hail to the chief, if you don't, I'll have to kill you. I am the chief, so you better watch your step, you bastards. I think my favourite gag was Garner admitting that the most fulfilling thing he did as president was NOT meeting Nelson Mandela but getting to hear Ella sing..... 
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Post by marshamae on Apr 13, 2021 1:03:10 GMT
I loved him with Julie Andrews in Victor victoria. And Americanization of Emily. I wish they had made more films. He was a perfect romantic mate for her, bringing out her humor, her at ease side. I wish they had made Torn curta8n . It would have been a much better film. Garner would not have been less believable as a top physicist that PAUL Newman
If anyone ever wants to know what we mean by chemistry , show them Torn Curtain. I may not be able to say what it is but I sure know when it is not there
I love Garner in Twilight. A wonderful change of pace and he is full of clever con man energy .
I love Sunset the film in which he plays Wyatt Earp, hired as an advisor for a Tom Mix film. The story arcs of the other characters are pretty unpleasant but his play with Bruce Willis is fun. They apparently did not get on very well, and Garner felt Willis was a spoiled , undisciplined clod who did not know his lines. There is a great scene where Earp is watching the filming of OK Corral with lots of clever shots, dodging bullets and so on. The director asks Earp if that’s how it was. They flash back to a cut of Garner as Earp in Hour of the Gun, simply walking toward the Clantons and firing, no gymnastics , no cover, just facing bullets. He looked at the director and said, “ yeah, that’s pretty much the way it was”. It was such an economical way to show how little Earp was into this frou frou, that he had the kind of memories men at war have, things they cannot begin to explain to outsiders. I wish the rest of the film was as good as Garner’s performance.
Another often overlooked Garner film is 36 Hours. He has been captured by Germans and placed in a special camp made to look like a hospital . He is drugged and they try to convince him he is awakening from a coma during which the war has been won. It’s all an effort to trick him into revealing what he knows about DDAY. ROD Stewart as the German Doctor is great, Eva Marie Saint as a German forced to take part is great, and Garner is great , genial confused, slowly realizing something is off. It is definitely worth a look.
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Post by marshamae on Apr 13, 2021 1:56:14 GMT
Will look for it Thanks!
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Post by pippinmaniac on Apr 13, 2021 2:10:07 GMT
I always enjoyed his work. It was almost like watching my own dad on screen. He is truly missed.
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Post by teleadm on Apr 17, 2021 15:54:08 GMT
Always been a favorite actor!
Just adding something he did seldom, sing and dance LOL.
it was normal in yesteryears television specials:
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