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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Mar 14, 2021 19:24:52 GMT
Growing up, I loved seeing Haley Mills' films and I still enjoy watching my favorites: Tiger Bay, The Chalk Garden, Parent Trap, Whistle Down the Wind, The Moon-Spinners and of course (since I'm a cat lover) That Darn Cat. Her voice fascinated me as a child.
Any other Haley Mills fans on this board?
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Post by Isapop on Mar 14, 2021 21:05:23 GMT
What about "In Search Of The Castaways"?
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Post by kijii on Mar 14, 2021 21:06:02 GMT
Very cute in The Family Way (1966) / John Boulting, where John Mills plays her father-in-law to the newlyweds before they could get a place of their own.
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 14, 2021 22:00:02 GMT
I’ve been trying to find WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND on DVD for decades but it’s never been available except in Region 2. Why is that?
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Post by msdemos on Mar 14, 2021 22:10:03 GMT
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Post by marshamae on Mar 14, 2021 22:45:57 GMT
I’ve been trying to find WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND on DVD for decades but it’s never been available except in Region 2. Why is that? Invest in an all regions DVD player. They are less than $ 100 . They end this problem.
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 15, 2021 0:08:56 GMT
Thank you, marshamae . I didn’t realize that such a device was available.  |
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 15, 2021 0:14:25 GMT
I watched DEADLY STRANGERS
"After she misses her train, a young woman is forced to hitch a ride back to town. After managing to get away from a lecherous trucker, she is given a ride by a good-looking but somewhat mysterious young man, who she comes to suspect may be a dangerous escapee from a mental asylum."
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Post by wmcclain on Mar 15, 2021 0:17:06 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Mar 15, 2021 0:23:51 GMT
Endless Night (1972), written, produced and directed by Sidney Gilliat. The intense young man has a taste for art but works as a chauffeur for hire. We wonder if he isn't a Tom Ripley character, plotting to assume other identities by whatever means necessary. Maybe we've misjudged him: he falls in love and is irritated to find that the young woman is a secret heiress. Her family is difficult and most troublesome is her best friend Greta, who arrives to run their lives with teutonic authority. Their country house may be cursed and is eventually haunted. Did we misjudge our main character or not? From one of Agatha Christie's later novels, when she was turning moodier, this did not do well in Europe and was not even released in the US. She did not like the treatment and particularly objected to the brief flashes of nudity by Britt Ekland. It is not a strong film but I review it for the talent involved: Notes: - The young lovers and Bernard Herrmann and Harry Waxman all reunite from Twisted Nerve (1968).
- Mills and Bennett were also a couple in The Family Way (1966), a non-thriller.
- The title is from William Blake with the text also used as a song lyric: "Some are born to sweet delight / Some are born to endless night".
- Shirley Jones dubbed Mills' singing voice.
Available on DVD with a soft image. Made in the era of lens filters that produced star patterns on bright points, so it would not be very sharp anyway. No subtitles, but I found a downloadable track online. 
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Post by timshelboy on Mar 15, 2021 9:55:58 GMT
WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND was and remains a huge favourite, and TIGER BAY and THE CHALK GARDEN were both good ones.. You can keep the Disney though... and her "adult" roles less than satisfying.....but I'll confess a soft spot for the tagline for IN SEARCH OF CASTAWAYS... "A THOUSAND THRILLS..... AND HAYLEY MILLS!"  |
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Mar 15, 2021 13:03:33 GMT
I’ve been trying to find WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND on DVD for decades but it’s never been available except in Region 2. Why is that? I bought an all regions dvd from Moviebuffsforever.com, I think I paid $13.95 , I also bought Haunted Honeymoon at the same time and the shipping for both was about 4.99 (don't remember exactly). I don't understand why some DVD's are so hard to find, I've been looking for years for The Passionate Friends.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Mar 15, 2021 14:05:16 GMT
But . . . what about Pollyanna!?!?!  I always cracked up when she was in American films with her British accent. Still, really liked her when I was a kid. |
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Post by politicidal on Mar 15, 2021 14:20:13 GMT
Only saw “In Search of The Castaways” which was bad, and then “The Moon-Spinners” which was just okay.
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Post by marshamae on Mar 15, 2021 15:26:01 GMT
What is the story about her adult career? I think I read that when she married Ray Boulting she became a sort of refusenik , unwilling to take direction etc. This gave her a bad rep.
I thought she was one child actress who made a fine adult actor, then she disappeared.
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Post by spiderwort on Mar 15, 2021 16:09:01 GMT
I've always been a Hayley Mills fan, from her childhood roles, into adulthood. Miss seeing her; always thought she was a far better actress than she was given credit for. My favorites from her younger years: Tiger Bay (her impressive debut), Whistle Down the Wind (adapted from the novel written by her mother), The Chalk Garden, Pollyanna and The Parent Trap. Later, I loved her in The Family Way, a much underappreciated film, in my opinion. My absolute favorite of her mature roles was in the miniseries, The Flame Trees of Thika (1981). After that, for whatever reason her career seemed to fade into a lot of not very memorable things (never saw her series, Wild at Heart, though it looks like a good one). I wish she had continued to work in projects that were worthy of her wonderful talent.
The Flame Trees of Thika (1981)
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 15, 2021 16:28:13 GMT
When “Pollyanna” came out in 1960, there was no way I was going to see it. What!? A sentimental, simplistic, squeaky-clean, goody-goody Disney film for little kids? For a tough adolescent guy like me? Uh-uh. But when 2010 rolled around and I decided to watch some 50th anniversary films, “Pollyanna” was available at my pubic library. It turns out that I didn’t know what I had missed. This is just the warmest, wisest, most wonderful movie I have seen about finding the good in life. As acted by Haley Mills, Pollyanna is not the arrogant know-it-all that I was expecting. Neither was she sickly sweet. Instead, she is a girl who has experienced some tragedy and disruption of her own but who remains upbeat and who makes simple, direct observations about what she sees - with life changing results. It is now my favorite of her movies.
I was also pleased with the unexpected "open" ending. Much more adult than I ever thought.
When I went to put this title on my alphabetical list of Best Movies of 1960, “Pollyanna” slotted between “Plein Soleil” (Purple Noon) above and “Psycho” just below. She is nestled in between Tom Ripley and Norman Bates. Pollyanna will have her work cut out for her.
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Post by sostie on Mar 15, 2021 16:48:34 GMT
My mum was her babysitter a few times. Said she was a bit of a brat |
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Mar 15, 2021 16:53:47 GMT
When “Pollyanna” came out in 1960, there was no way I was going to see it. What!? A sentimental, simplistic, squeaky-clean, goody-goody Disney film for little kids? For a tough adolescent guy like me? Uh-uh. But when 2010 rolled around and I decided to watch some 50th anniversary films, “Pollyanna” was available at my pubic library. It turns out that I didn’t know what I had missed. This is just the warmest, wisest, most wonderful movie I have seen about finding the good in life. As acted by Haley Mills, Pollyanna is not the arrogant know-it-all that I was expecting. Neither was she sickly sweet. Instead, she is a girl who has experienced some tragedy and disruption of her own but who remains upbeat and who makes simple, direct observations about what she sees - with life changing results. It is now my favorite of her movies. I was also pleased with the unexpected "open" ending. Much more adult than I ever thought. When I went to put this title on my alphabetical list of Best Movies of 1960, “Pollyanna” slotted between “Plein Soleil” (Purple Noon) above and “Psycho” just below. She is nestled in between Tom Ripley and Norman Bates. Pollyanna will have her work cut out for her. Not only did we love and see the movie, but my mom bought us the Disney record of the story. Back then, they had excerpts from the movie that told the story in condensed form. I could recite that by heart!!
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Post by jeffersoncody on Mar 15, 2021 17:27:51 GMT
Growing up, I loved seeing Haley Mills' films and I still enjoy watching my favorites: Tiger Bay, The Chalk Garden, Parent Trap, Whistle Down the Wind, The Moon-Spinners and of course (since I'm a cat lover) That Darn Cat. Her voice fascinated me as a child. Any other Haley Mills fans on this board? You can count me as a big Haley Mills fan too wickedkittiesmom. I have enjoyed all the films you mentioned - particularly * WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND; which I saw on the big screen when I was but a boy, have never forgotten and would love to see again. I'm a sucker for POLLYANNA too, which I also saw on the big screen as a kid (it was a re-release, I'm not that old, and it was first released in the year I was born) and have on Blu Ray. * I grew up in South Africa, where the Nats did not allow TV until 1976. So people really went to the movies, and there were cinemas galore (from grand picture palaces to bug houses, drive-ins and tea room cinemas; which screened double and triple features, and they played almost as many re-releases and oldies as they did new releases). I mean, I got to see the likes of WATERLOO BRIDGE (1940) - I thought Vivien Leigh was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen and this was the first - but not the last, movie that made me cry, on the big screen in the late sixties, early seventies. At the Metro - which was at the back of the same building as the Astra, in the late sixties they would screen double features of Johnny Weissmuller's TARZAN flicks every morning during the school holidays and charge about 20 cents entrance fee. And there was always an old western showing somewhere. The Afrikaans folk called the cinemas "bioscopes". The drive-ins were insanely popular, and the "controversial" song Ag Pleez Daddy (won't you take us to the drive-in) never stopped playing on the radio. The bottom version includes the missing last verse.
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