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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2017 3:24:47 GMT
www.imdb.com/title/tt0047985/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1I just watched it again. I saw it once decades ago. Very good. Frederic March, Humphrey Bogart and Gig Young were a little too old for their roles but I'm willing to overlook that and they were all good. A good ensemble cast. What surprised me was how funny Robert Middleton was as the nasty villain Sam Kobish. Although he was scary he kept bumping his head, stumbling etc. He really cracked me up when he saw the little boy's toy airplane and chased him around the sofa to try to steal the toy. That was hilarious! Beautiful cinematography. Some of the best black and white photography I have seen in any film. 
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Post by Seto on May 9, 2017 10:16:59 GMT
I agree, very good film. I read somewhere that the Frederich March role was originally meant for Spencer Tracy. Not sure how much truth to that though.
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Post by wmcclain on May 9, 2017 12:47:40 GMT
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Post by movielover on May 9, 2017 14:51:42 GMT
Few movies from the 1950s put me on the edge of my seat like The Desperate Hours did.
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Post by snsurone on May 9, 2017 15:01:15 GMT
The synopsis of this movie seems very much like the one of the film SUDDENLY, starring Frank Sinatra and Sterling Hayden.
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Post by mikef6 on May 9, 2017 18:28:29 GMT
I agree, very good film. I read somewhere that the Frederich March role was originally meant for Spencer Tracy. Not sure how much truth to that though. I had read stories for years over how the Bogart-Tracy vehicle fell apart in a dispute over billing. In later years, however, one of Bogart’s agents, Phil Gersh, said that Bogie had personally told his friend, Spencer Tracy, that he (Bogart) would gladly relinquish top billing. “I don’t care about that,” he told Spence. However, for reasons Gersh did not know, Tracy pulled away from the production and Fredric March got the part. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 9, 2017 19:04:18 GMT
I agree, very good film. I read somewhere that the Frederich March role was originally meant for Spencer Tracy. Not sure how much truth to that though. I had read stories for years over how the Bogart-Tracy vehicle fell apart in a dispute over billing. In later years, however, one of Bogart’s agents, Phil Gersh, said that Bogie had personally told his friend, Spencer Tracy, that he (Bogart) would gladly relinquish top billing. “I don’t care about that,” he told Spence. However, for reasons Gersh did not know, Tracy pulled away from the production and Fredric March got the part. In the mid-'50s, Tracy began to establish something of a pattern of dropping out of films on one pretext or another ( The High and the Mighty and Tribute To A Bad Man were also among them; he tried with Bad Day At Black Rock, but Dore Schary wouldn't let him off the hook). |
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Post by snsurone on May 9, 2017 20:10:53 GMT
I had read stories for years over how the Bogart-Tracy vehicle fell apart in a dispute over billing. In later years, however, one of Bogart’s agents, Phil Gersh, said that Bogie had personally told his friend, Spencer Tracy, that he (Bogart) would gladly relinquish top billing. “I don’t care about that,” he told Spence. However, for reasons Gersh did not know, Tracy pulled away from the production and Fredric March got the part. In the mid-'50s, Tracy began to establish something of a pattern of dropping out of films on one pretext or another ( The High and the Mighty and Tribute To A Bad Man were also among them; he tried with Bad Day At Black Rock, but Dore Schary wouldn't let him off the hook). I suspect that Tracy's alcoholism might have had something to do with it. |
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Post by shlomotheweasel on May 10, 2017 4:14:30 GMT
Watched it a couple of months ago on TCM (missed the first few minutes), good movie.
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Post by tucotherat on May 10, 2017 4:21:23 GMT
I had read stories for years over how the Bogart-Tracy vehicle fell apart in a dispute over billing. In later years, however, one of Bogart’s agents, Phil Gersh, said that Bogie had personally told his friend, Spencer Tracy, that he (Bogart) would gladly relinquish top billing. “I don’t care about that,” he told Spence. However, for reasons Gersh did not know, Tracy pulled away from the production and Fredric March got the part. In the mid-'50s, Tracy began to establish something of a pattern of dropping out of films on one pretext or another ( The High and the Mighty and Tribute To A Bad Man were also among them; he tried with Bad Day At Black Rock, but Dore Schary wouldn't let him off the hook). He was a LIB Prima Donna, like nasty bitch Katherine Hepburn. |
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Post by mikef6 on May 10, 2017 4:34:51 GMT
In the mid-'50s, Tracy began to establish something of a pattern of dropping out of films on one pretext or another ( The High and the Mighty and Tribute To A Bad Man were also among them; he tried with Bad Day At Black Rock, but Dore Schary wouldn't let him off the hook). He was a LIB Prima Donna, like nasty bitch Katherine Hepburn. Actually, Spencer Tracy was very conservative but highly principled - a combination impossible to find these days. As usual, conservative trolls just make s---t up. It's all they got. |
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Post by tucotherat on May 10, 2017 5:03:20 GMT
He was a LIB Prima Donna, like nasty bitch Katherine Hepburn. Actually, Spencer Tracy was very conservative but highly principled - a combination impossible to find these days. As usual, conservative trolls just make s---t up. It's all they got. Right.
And Barry Obama is an American Patriot.
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Post by mikef6 on May 10, 2017 5:05:39 GMT
Actually, Spencer Tracy was very conservative but highly principled - a combination impossible to find these days. As usual, conservative trolls just make s---t up. It's all they got. Right.
And Barry Obama is an American Patriot.
Yes, he was. Now go back into your conservative bubble where you only get positive feedback from your paranoid delusions. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 10, 2017 13:13:52 GMT
In the mid-'50s, Tracy began to establish something of a pattern of dropping out of films on one pretext or another ( The High and the Mighty and Tribute To A Bad Man were also among them; he tried with Bad Day At Black Rock, but Dore Schary wouldn't let him off the hook). I suspect that Tracy's alcoholism might have had something to do with it. Sad to say, it's difficult to avoid considering that possibility, isn't it? |
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