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Post by teleadm on Mar 21, 2020 19:55:09 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Mar 21, 2020 20:00:10 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 21, 2020 21:02:25 GMT
Disraeli / Alfred E. Green (1929). Warner Bros. as The Vitaphone Corporation. Early sound bio-pic of Benjamin Disraeli who served as England’s Prime Minister on two different occasions – from February to December 1868 and from 1874-1880. He often faced opposition because of rampant antisemitism in the country. The movie takes place in 1878 and follows Disraeli’s political maneuverings to buy the Suez Canal for England. That year, the Khedive of Egypt put his shares in the canal up for sale. Russia was the other bidder for the Suez. Parliament, however, declined to support the purchase so Disraeli decided to put the deal through during a recess barely ahead of the Russians. Surprisingly, women play an important part in the story. When someone says, “I never talk politics with women,” Disraeli replies, “I always do.” Indeed, he keeps nothing from his beloved wife Mary (George’s real-life wife, Florence Arliss) even discussing his most secret plans in front of her and their young family friend, Clarissa (19-year-old Joan Bennett). There are a few instances of silent movie over-the-top gestures, but the acting is mostly grounded in realistic performances. George Arliss, virtually unknown today, specialized in movie biographies, also essaying Cardinal Richelieu, the 19th century banking mogul Nathan Rothchild, Voltaire, the Duke of Wellington, and Alexander Hamilton. For his performance as Benjamin Disraeli, he won the Best Actor Oscar in only the 2nd Annual Academy Awards.  The historical Disraeli favored a curl on his forehead but Arliss is given an absurd comb over.  The impossibly lovely Joan Bennett who also shows some welcome fire and independence  The Sea Wolf / Michael Curtiz (1941). Warner Bros. Cinematography by Sol Polito. Sensitive, upper-class writer Humphrey van Weyden (Alexander Knox) and cynical prostitute Ruth Webster (Ida Lupino) are thrown overboard into San Francisco Bay during a ferry boat accident. They are picked up by a rogue schooner, Ghost, captained by the cruel Wolf Larsen (Edward G. Robinson, in one of his greatest roles), who refuses to return them to shore. Also on board Ghost is new crewman George Leach (John Garfield) who, like Ruth, is on-the-run from the law. Because van Weyden is an intellectual, he sees a different side of the sadistic Larsen who is self-educated in philosophy and living by Satan’s declaration from Milton’s Paradise Lost, “It is better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.” Clearly a metaphor of Nazi Germany, the closed society of Ghost represents the evil control of a single power over people’s lives. When The Sea Wolf was re-released in the post-war years, about a dozen minutes of van Weyden’s and Larsen’s discussions of philosophy and the dialog between Leach and Ruth about their social conditions were excised. The main reason for the cuts was that in the meantime, the government hunt for Communists in Hollywood was underway. Robinson, Knox, and Garfield were being harassed by HUAC and screenwriter writer Robert Rossen and another cast member, Howard Da Silva, had been blacklisted. This footage was restored and a complete print of the film was released for home video in 2017. A Must for film-noir fans, for classic film fans, and for anyone interested in Hollywood history or just great movies in general. Also with Barry Fitzgerald and Gene Lockhart.    Moss Rose / Gregory Ratoff (1947). Twentieth Century Fox. Cinematography by Joseph MacDonald. Thanks to teleadm for recommending this entertaining bagatelle. Set in late 19th century England, chorus girl Rose (Peggy Cummins, Gun Crazy) lives in a boarding house with fellow chorus girl Daisy who has a new upper crust boyfriend. One morning Rose sees the boyfriend come up of Daisy’s room. She goes in to find Daisy murdered with a Bible open on her bedside table and a moss rose laying on it. The man she saw is Michael Drego (Victor Mature, whose lack of British accent is explained by his being raised in Canada). He is the rich heir to a vast country estate. Enter Inspector Clinner (Vincent Price), a sort of proto-Columbo, unfailingly polite, deferential and apologetic to Drego but insisting on his questions and pursuit of the murderer. Rose blackmails Drego but not for money. She wants a week at his country house living like a Lady. There she meets Michael’s mother (Ethel Barrymore) and fiancé (Patricia Medina). More deaths, danger, and Inspector Clinner follow her. All of the actors treat the material in absolute seriousness, Vincent Price is a treat, and the conclusion satisfactory.  Hustlers / Lorene Scafaria (2019). Who would have thought that one of the industries hardest hit by the 2008 economic crash would be strip clubs – at least the higher end kind who catered to wealthy stock brokers and hedge fund CEOs. After the crash, some cash strapped strippers, blaming these same Wall Street brokers, none of whom went to jail or faced any consequences, for their hard luck, decided on a scheme to rope in rich suckers from another bar or nightclub, drug their drinks, then drag them to the Scores club to max out both their personal and corporate credit cards. Of course, this all comes crashing down and ended up as an investigative article in New York Magazine and, ultimately, this movie. Mostly, the events are seen through the eyes of Delores (stage name, Destiny) (Constance Wu) who is new at Scores in Manhattan. A very popular and seasoned (i.e. aging) performer, Ramona (Jennifer Lopez), takes Destiny under her wing, teaches her the ropes and pole dancing. They are the masterminds and ringleaders of the later scam. The film itself is something of a sleazy downer. Instead of being inspirational or empowering or even funny, it is just depressing all along. And for you guys starting to salivate over the idea of Wu and Lopez as strippers – fuhgeddaboudit. Although there are a few fleeting instances of background dressing room toplessness, none of the principle actresses take off any clothes. Strippers who don’t strip. Not that their doing so would change the tone of the picture. It still wouldn’t be a recommended movie.  When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping  Triple Threat / Jesse V. Johnson (2019). My guilty pleasure. It’s Asian martial arts movies. Don’t tell anyone. This one brings together three of the biggest world wide martial arts stars: Tony Jaa (Ong-Bak) from Thailand practicing the art of Muay Thai, Iko Uwais (The Raid:Redemption) from Indonesia using the art of Silat, and Tiger Chen (the Keanu Reeves directed Man Of Tai Chi) from China showing us Shaolin martial arts. The three come together when a gang of western mercenaries try to kill Xian (Celina Jade) the daughter of a billionaire who wants to use her family’s money to rid an Indonesian city of widespread criminality. Her three protectors also have a bone to pick with the mercenaries who once tried to kill them and left them for dead. The gun battles and the martial arts fight choreography are almost non-stop. It is quite breathless. My only reservation comes right at the end. Tony Jaa and the leader of the mercenaries (Scott Adkins) shoot it out with automatic weapons. But even though the evil westerners had earlier gunned down dozens of people, Jaa and Adkins run all over an abandoned building firing hundreds of rounds but are not able to hit one another. A stupid cliché from Hollywood films (e.g. Taken) that should have been avoided.  
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 21, 2020 21:05:43 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Mar 21, 2020 21:53:43 GMT
wmcclain, what'd you think of Outlander (not to be confused with the TV series that has the same name)? HirundoRustica told me about that movie quite some time ago, so I checked it out. I actually quite enjoyed it. Also, what'd you think of What We Did on Our Holiday (which I just watched recently for the first time)?
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Mar 21, 2020 21:54:16 GMT
The Boat That Rocked (2009). Olaf’s Frozen Adventure - Short Film (2017). Begin Again (2013).
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Post by teleadm on Mar 21, 2020 22:51:16 GMT
Here come the Tele week of wonders:  This was a tough movie to watch, yet very rewarding, with a story that could easily have slipped into a tearjerker in other hands. Overlooked when it came and still overlooked today. A woman survives a car crash but is gone for a short time, get's healing powers that is neither provided by him upstairs or him downstairs, it's just unexplainable. Powerhouse performances by Ellen Burstyn and Eva La Gallienne (had to look her up, she was a legend and giant in the theatre world). In fact the whole cast is extraordinary.   The main reason I was interested in watching this movie was because of a poster (not this one) that hang at my small town cinema as a coming attraction for many years, year after year, and I don't think it ever actually was showed. It's a very ordinary Italian crime movie, with a few car chases in small Italian cars. Lee J. Cobb as the drug lord, makes it more interesting. Popular enough to make two follow-up movies. That I don't yearn to watch. aka Mark the Narc One of the three movies that Frank Cannon, sorry, William Conrad directed in the mid 1960s, and according to one site the last black and white Film Noir ever made while black and white movies were still a normal factor. Jeffrey Hunter saves a girl from a suicide attempt, but did she wanna be saved, her rich husband see her as a trophy wife, using their daughter as blackmail so she keeps running back to him. Jeff falls in love with her, but to get her out of the clutches of her rich husband he has to study how to pretend insanity as they plot to murder him. Well it's certainly interesting, and have all the trappings of a classic noir. While not a bullseye, it's certainly worth searching out. Dana Andrews, the great actor of many dark movies of the noir genre, here plays the opposite, the loathsome rich industrialist with a trophy wife.  A pleasant surprise, a lighthearted murder mystery from Henry Hathaway. A blind playwright taking a glass in a pub by accident overhears a conversation that could be a plot to murder someone or even worse. He reports it to the police, but they don't believe it, they seldom do in movies, until it's nearly too late. Van Johnson plays one of his better roles as the blind playwright, aided by lovely Very Miles, and his servant/butler Cecil Parker, who is an absolut delight here, very dry and very British but very resourseful when needed too.  This French poster makes Tobor the Great look like a giant epic of a movie. The movie itself is nothing but, though I have to admit that Tobor is a pretty good invention and looks rather cool for a 1950s movie. Tobor read backwards is robot. Lame low budget acting and plot (Russians owns gas stations in America! Beware!!)  This is a genuine pearl! and I thank other posters for recommending this little gem! Within 65 minutes it has more thrills than many epics. Nina Foch tries to figure out why she is kidnapped, and keeps reminding herself that she is Julia Ross, and not Mrs Hughes. The police offcourse don't believe anything until it's nearly too late, as it is in movies.  James Mason at his most suave and charming, even with a moustache, but he is out of the movie for too long. Instead we follow an American socialite and her actions when she is interrogated by the Nazis and how she escapes them, Carla Lehmann is not bad in that role, and neither is Walter Rilla (himself a Nazi refugee) as a refined Nazi interrogator. The ending, well it felt like they suddenly runned out of money or time, and felt very hurriedly thrown together.  Who is the axe murderers that kills women, and why do they wanna kill lovely Loraine Day? A scene, maybe forced upon MGM, let us know who it is very early in the movie, since it's a very recognizable and distinct voice. Still it's an enjoyable movie in the lighthearted who-done-it genre if one is in the right mood, wich I was when I watched it.  At last, one of those movies I've only seen pictures of in Horror movies books since I was a teen, and even in the between years read J.B. Priestley's novel, read it in a row, couldn't put it down. Incredible crisp restoration, and just as in the book, the inhabitants of the old dark house are a very sophisticated but crazy bunch. Enjoyed every second of this very dark and funny and twisted movie, that only lasted around 70 minutes. Well that was my week and my little thoughts, and now I'm going to enjoy reading what interesting things others have watched lately.... |
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Post by MrFurious on Mar 21, 2020 23:16:29 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Mar 21, 2020 23:25:51 GMT
wmcclain, what'd you think of Outlander (not to be confused with the TV series that has the same name)? HirundoRustica told me about that movie quite some time ago, so I checked it out. I actually quite enjoyed it. Also, what'd you think of What We Did on Our Holiday (which I just watched recently for the first time)? I want to second the CEO thoughts about Outlander, I found it in a DVD cheap bin, and didn't thought too much about it and was very surprised how much I enjoyed it too, for what it is.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 21, 2020 23:36:45 GMT
Solomon Kane (2009) 4/10
Wichita (1955) 6/10
Ryan's Daughter (1970) 6/10
Insomnia (2002) 8/10
Dark Waters (2019) 8/10
All that Heaven Allows (1955) 7/10
21 Bridges (2019) 5/10
Moonstruck (1988) 6/10
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Mar 22, 2020 1:26:46 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Mar 22, 2020 2:55:19 GMT
wmcclain, what'd you think of Outlander (not to be confused with the TV series that has the same name)? HirundoRustica told me about that movie quite some time ago, so I checked it out. I actually quite enjoyed it. Also, what'd you think of What We Did on Our Holiday (which I just watched recently for the first time)? : My wife likes this one, which counts for a lot around here. I like it too, but it was better in the concept than in the execution. Lone spaceman crashes to lost-colony Earth in the Viking age with his enemy, an intelligent dragon-monster, the last of its race. Sign me up, but it actually feels a bit low energy for all that. I always enjoy Sophie Myles, but I note the same objection to Mirando Otto as Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings: a shield maiden needs more upper body development to be swinging those swords. What We Did on Our Holiday: fun dysfunctional family comedy. Great kids, rascal grandad.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2020 3:58:13 GMT
Performance-1970- James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg A crazy wild ride El Sur-1983-Spanish film from Víctor Erice (Spirit of the Beehive) Haunting and hypnotic story of a little girls quest to find out the mystery of her father's life The Gangster-1947-Barry Sullivan, Joan Lorring Another classic King Brothers noir, written by Dalton Trumbo Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne-1945-Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette A story of cool calculated revenge and why not to make a woman mad. Directed by Robert Bresson The Green Ray-1986-Marie Rivière, María Luisa García A lonely romantic woman searches for love on vaction. Most of the script is improvised. Part of Rohmer's Comedy and Proverb film series The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey-1988-directed by Vincent Ward (What Dreams May Come) A village trying to stop the Plauge in the 14th century goes on a journey to the 20th century to stop it
It seemed like a fitting movie for the times. One of those "best movies you've never heard of"  Cousin Cousine-1975-Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux Two cousins meet at a wedding and begin to form a friendship and possibly more It should Happen to You-1954-Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon Judy Holliday, do I need to say more. My Cousin Rachel-1952-Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton Did she or didn't she still remains the question Teddy Pendergrass- If You Don't Know Me-2018 Oustanding documentary about his life Summer With Monika-1953-Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg Young rebellioius love Fighting Elegy-1966-directed by Seijun Suzuki Extremely interesting film about a teenager trying to curb his hormones
Suzinki had some things to say about his government and says it in very unique way
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Mar 22, 2020 4:01:02 GMT
Comments/ratings/recommendations/film posters are welcome and much appreciated.
The FAR Country (1954) = 8/10.
The Mummy's GHOST (1944) = 6/10.
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Post by claudius on Mar 22, 2020 10:30:46 GMT
mikef6, from what I gathered, a contemporary visitor in London saw a park monument of Disraeli and thought it a nice George Arliss statue.
GANKUTUSOU – THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (2005) “Counterattack” 15TH ANNIVERSARY & CoMC 175TH ANNIVERSARY. Geneon DVD.
DAVID COPPERFIELD (1974) “Episode Three” COPPERFIELD 170TH ANNIVERSARY Koch Video DVD.
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (1980) “The 100th Show” 40TH ANNIVERSARY. Episode 100 leads to a return of John Belushi (in a brief role), Mike Donahue, Paul Simon (accidentally saying the F-word Live), and James Taylor (No Dan Akroyd though). Universal DVD.
I LOVE THE 70’S (2003) “1977” & “1978” VHS Recording.
ROBIN OF SHERWOOD (1985) “The Children of Israel” 35TH ANNIVERSARY. Absent from the premiere episode, Nicholas Grace’s Sheriff of Nottingham makes his return. Acorn Media DVD.
THE WAR LORD (1965) Charlton Heston’s titled character deals with Druids, Frisian Vikings, a jealous in-the-shadow brother, and his romantic obsession with a peasant. I remember seeing the ending years ago, recognizing Henry Wilcoxon as the Frisian Chief. Kino Lorber BluRay.
ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS (1960) “Jet-Fuel Formula 35 & 36”. Our heroes reunite with the Moon Men Gidney and Clyde, and are torn between using the ingredients of their formula for the Government or help their stranded friends return home (and Bullwinkle is uncharacteristically angry about Rocky considering the latter). Sony Wonder DVD.
MOBILE FIGHTER G GUNDAM (1995) “Devil Colony Activated: Attack of the Shuffle Alliance!” 25TH ANNIVERSARY. Japanese with English Subtitles. Bandai DVD.
YURI ON ICE! (2016) English Dubbed. Funimation DVD/Blu-Ray.
DADDY LONG LEGS (1990) “Julia’s Strange Uncle” 30TH ANNIVERSARY. The first full appearance of Jervis Pendelton, who has a greater connection to Judy than she knows. Japanese with English Subtitles. Bootleg DVD.
I LOVE THE 80’S (2003) “1985”, “1986”, “1987”, 1988, 1989” VHS recording.
THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY (2013) “Part 1: Get Action 1858-1901” “Part 2: In the Arena: 1901-1909”, “Part 3: The Fire of Life: 1909-1919”, “Part 5: The Rising Road 1933-1938”, "Part 6: The Common Cause 1939-1944." PBS Video DVD.
HOLLYWOOD (1980) “The Trick of the Light” 40TH ANNIVERSARY. The eleventh episode covers cinematography. Act One centers on the skill, working method, and courage of the cameraman as well as the advance of lighting, from white sheets to reflectors to Klieg Lights (and the hazards of eye damage from that incandescent display). Act Two explores glass photography and miniatures (LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME) from interviews by William Wyler, Henry Hathaway, and A. Arnold Gillespie. The finale of the episode is a making of BEN-HUR: A TALE OF THE CHRIST (1925), premiering Carl Davis’ film score which he will later use for Kevin Brownlow's restored print of the film in the late 1980s. Much of the footage in this episode to show the creation of the Chariot Race will be used in the documentary BEN-HUR: THE MAKING OF AN EPIC, although here Henry Hathaway is identified as the stagehand who can be seen in the background of the set trying to warn away charioteers from the major crash-up accident caught on film. HBO Video VHS.
THE ROSE OF VERSAILLIES (1980) "Cunning and Tough!" 40TH ANNIVERSARY The Affair of the Necklace comes to its shattering conclusion. Japanese with English Subtitles. The Right Stuf DVD.
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN (2013) “The Acknowledged One” English Dubbed. Viz Media DVD.
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN (2017) "Hidden Leaf Story: The Perfect Day For A Wedding- Part 1: Naruto’s Wedding”, “Part 2: Wedding Gift”, “Part 3: Resorts and Food Pills”, “Part 4: The Kazakage’s Wedding Gift” The final storyline of the second series is based on the novel KONAHA HIDEN. Set after THE LAST: NARUTO THE MOVIE (2014), Naruto and Hinata approach their wedding day, as the whole gang search for the perfect Wedding Gift. English Dubbed. Viz Media DVD.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1990) 30TH ANNIVERSARY. This Two-Part Miniseries is based on Arthur Kaput’s play on the Gaston Leroux novel. Charles Dance is Erik the Phantom (whose face- covered in many masks to show his emotion- is never exposed) and Teri Polo is Christine with Burt Lancaster (as the former Opera Manager who is also the Phantom’s father), Ian Richardson, and Jean Pierre Cassell. My Classic Horror Film fanship at the time made me excited to see this production as soon as I saw the Promo on NBC in Winter 1990 (from a Bob Hope special that, ironically, featured Michael Crawford performing “Music of the Night” in Phantom costume). Two things I took from this production was the black mask Erik wore to symbolize rage (I would make black masks from construction paper) and the huge puffy dress shirt. I would see the production again on Arts & Entertainment in the late 1990s and then get the DVD in 2002. Image DVD.
HORTON HEARS A WHO (1970) 50TH ANNIVERSARY. Ted Geisel and Chuck Jones reunite for another TV special based on the former’s book, narrated and performed by Hans Conreid. I first saw this special on TNT in 1990 as the backend of the network’s premiere of THE BUTTER BATTLE BOOK. MGM/UA VHS.
BUSTER KEATON: A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW (1987) Kevin Brownlow and David Gill's (with Carl Davis music) three-part documentary on the rise, fall, and return of the famous comedian. This is a VHS recording from an American Move Classics broadcast (around the Keaton Centennial that October 1995) which appears to be from the original PBS Broadcast (Episode 1 ends with an announcement that the production will return in a moment- cue the membership drive).
I LOVE THE 80’S STRIKES BACK (2003) “1980 & 1981” The third installment of the “I Love…Decade” series. VHS Recording from October 2003.
HAUNTED SPOOKS (1920) 100TH ANNIVERSARY. Harold Lloyd’s first comedy after his hand-maiming accident; parts of the film were made before the ill-fated publicity shoot, so the film short is a composite of scenes between Lloyd & his full right hand and the scenes displaying his disguised glove with the fake digits. I remember when Nickelodeon’s TURKEY TELEVISION skit show would use clips of the frightened Harold Lloyd’s hair standing up on seeing a walking pair of pants (the disguise of a frightened African American).
I also saw parts of:
THE SLIPPER AND THE ROSE: THE STORY OF CINDERELLA (1976) Image DVD.
CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981) MGM/UA DVD.
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (1977) Hen's Tooth DVD.
THE WIND AND THE LION (1975) Mainly the scenes of Brian Keith’s Theodore Roosevelt. MGM/UA DVD.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Mar 22, 2020 13:51:49 GMT
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Mar 22, 2020 13:59:30 GMT
Moss Rose / Gregory Ratoff (1947). Twentieth Century Fox. Cinematography by Joseph MacDonald. Thanks to teleadm for recommending this entertaining bagatelle. Set in late 19th century England, chorus girl Rose (Peggy Cummins, Gun Crazy) lives in a boarding house with fellow chorus girl Daisy who has a new upper crust boyfriend. One morning Rose sees the boyfriend come up of Daisy’s room. She goes in to find Daisy murdered with a Bible open on her bedside table and a moss rose laying on it. The man she saw is Michael Drego (Victor Mature, whose lack of British accent is explained by his being raised in Canada). He is the rich heir to a vast country estate. Enter Inspector Clinner (Vincent Price), a sort of proto-Columbo, unfailingly polite, deferential and apologetic to Drego but insisting on his questions and pursuit of the murderer. Rose blackmails Drego but not for money. She wants a week at his country house living like a Lady. There she meets Michael’s mother (Ethel Barrymore) and fiancé (Patricia Medina). More deaths, danger, and Inspector Clinner follow her. All of the actors treat the material in absolute seriousness, Vincent Price is a treat, and the conclusion satisfactory. Defo need to see The Sea Wolf, thanks for the review mike. In case you missed my Moss Rose review (I was a week behind due to looking after my isolated dad!) > www.imdb.com/review/rw2890939/?ref_=tt_urv 7/10
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Post by wmcclain on Mar 22, 2020 14:14:48 GMT
How gorgeous is Amanda Seyfried!  Rather. So say we all. Meant to post these:  
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Mar 22, 2020 14:38:38 GMT
One of the three movies that Frank Cannon, sorry, William Conrad directed in the mid 1960s, and according to one site the last black and white Film Noir ever made while black and white movies were still a normal factor. Jeffrey Hunter saves a girl from a suicide attempt, but did she wanna be saved, her rich husband see her as a trophy wife, using their daughter as blackmail so she keeps running back to him. Jeff falls in love with her, but to get her out of the clutches of her rich husband he has to study how to pretend insanity as they plot to murder him. Well it's certainly interesting, and have all the trappings of a classic noir. While not a bullseye, it's certainly worth searching out. Dana Andrews, the great actor of many dark movies of the noir genre, here plays the opposite, the loathsome rich industrialist with a trophy wife. A pleasant surprise, a lighthearted murder mystery from Henry Hathaway. A blind playwright taking a glass in a pub by accident overhears a conversation that could be a plot to murder someone or even worse. He reports it to the police, but they don't believe it, they seldom do in movies, until it's nearly too late. Van Johnson plays one of his better roles as the blind playwright, aided by lovely Very Miles, and his servant/butler Cecil Parker, who is an absolut delight here, very dry and very British but very resourseful when needed too. This is a genuine pearl! and I thank other posters for recommending this little gem! Within 65 minutes it has more thrills than many epics. Nina Foch tries to figure out why she is kidnapped, and keeps reminding herself that she is Julia Ross, and not Mrs Hughes. The police offcourse don't believe anything until it's nearly too late, as it is in movies. At last, one of those movies I've only seen pictures of in Horror movies books since I was a teen, and even in the between years read J.B. Priestley's novel, read it in a row, couldn't put it down. Incredible crisp restoration, and just as in the book, the inhabitants of the old dark house are a very sophisticated but crazy bunch. Enjoyed every second of this very dark and funny and twisted movie, that only lasted around 70 minutes. Well that was my week and my little thoughts, and now I'm going to enjoy reading what interesting things others have watched lately.... - Can't say I have ever read it being placed in the noir universe, but there's enough in that plotting to have me interested. Thanks! 23 Paces to Baker Street - Yes I agree with you, a pleasant surprise - www.imdb.com/review/rw1987004/?ref_=tt_urv 7/10 Julia Ross - Not surprised to see your reaction, it rarely disappoints first time viewers. I'll link my review and mike's post in case anyone else can be enticed to check it out > www.imdb.com/review/rw2890569/?ref_=tt_urv - IMDB2.freeforums.net/post/3759637The Old Dark House - www.imdb.com/review/rw2140237/?ref_=tt_urv 8/10 Potato?
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