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Post by wmcclain on Jul 17, 2021 15:13:37 GMT
Your comments/ratings/recommendations/film posters are welcome and much appreciated! The title says "classics" but we are always interested to know what classic film lovers have been watching, whatever the material.  |
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Post by wmcclain on Jul 17, 2021 15:34:58 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Jul 17, 2021 16:00:20 GMT
First Viewings:
The Alligator People (1959) 2/10
The Big Combo (1955) 6/10
D-Tox (2002) 5/10
House (1986) 6/10
Repeat Viewings:
To Have and To Have Not (1944) 8/10
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 17, 2021 16:19:06 GMT
I wonder how many can identify your screenshot up at the top. North By Northwest: In the U.N. building's public lounge, Philip Ober has just gotten a thrown knife in the back, and everyone thinks Cary Grant, with whom he was just speaking and who now conveniently holds that very knife while a news photographer snaps his photo, is the one whodunit. |
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Post by lostinlimbo on Jul 17, 2021 16:42:26 GMT
            A mixture of films, documentaries and film trailer compilations for the week. High Crime (1973) - 8/10 Martial Law (1990) - 5/10 [re-watch] Martial Law II: Undercover (1991) - 6/10 Black Gunn (1972) - 6/10 Texas Cotton (2018) - 5/10 Chase (1985) - 5/10 Goodbye Lover (1998) - 6/10 Hunt for the Skinwalker (2018) - 4/10 Bada$$ Mothaf**kas (2013) - 6/10 Fists of Fury (2016) - 6/10 Hergé: In the Shadow of Tintin (2016) - 6/10 Happy Birthday Mr Bean (2021) - 7/10 Blood & Flesh: The reel life & ghastly death of Al Adamson (2019) - 8/10 Favourite Feature of the week; A tie for the week. The go-for-broke euro-crime joint with a ruthless streak ‘High Crime’ & the intriguing, and later on tragic documentary of b-movie director Al Adamson ‘Blood & Flesh’.
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Post by timshelboy on Jul 17, 2021 18:43:47 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Jul 17, 2021 20:20:10 GMT
I just do posters this time Two were about submarines and two took place in Netherlands. I did write about all movies, but an idiotic neighbour disturbed me and I lost concentration. I offcourse I answer if anything interests   Around -7 points  Rubinrot 2013 between 6 and 7, for the right audience maybe even higher  Solid 7+ ![]()  Up Periscope 1959, around 7  Solid 8, can't remember the girl PRC tried to promote.  It tries but a medium 7  between 6 and 7, sadly there were a few long and boring stretches between highlights Since I like the spur of the moment comments, I lost all comments I should have posted.   From the days when men loved girls with a ton of hair, and could pay the bills. that all from me this time! |
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Post by OldAussie on Jul 17, 2021 22:42:30 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jul 17, 2021 23:46:19 GMT
Shelter (2014). The Mask (1994). Cooking with Love (2018). Room (2015).
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Post by petrolino on Jul 18, 2021 6:01:25 GMT
A mixture of films, documentaries and film trailer compilations for the week. High Crime (1973) - 8/10 Martial Law (1990) - 5/10 [re-watch] Martial Law II: Undercover (1991) - 6/10 Black Gunn (1972) - 6/10 Texas Cotton (2018) - 5/10 Chase (1985) - 5/10 Goodbye Lover (1998) - 6/10 Hunt for the Skinwalker (2018) - 4/10 Bada$$ Mothaf**kas (2013) - 6/10 Fists of Fury (2016) - 6/10 Hergé: In the Shadow of Tintin (2016) - 6/10 Happy Birthday Mr Bean (2021) - 7/10 Blood & Flesh: The reel life & ghastly death of Al Adamson (2019) - 8/10 Favourite Feature of the week; A tie for the week. The go-for-broke euro-crime joint with a ruthless streak ‘High Crime’ & the intriguing, and later on tragic documentary of b-movie director Al Adamson ‘Blood & Flesh’.
Awesome line-up, looks like a sold-out action crime festival spiced with kung-fu and spliced with high karate. Cynthia Rothrock is the greatest.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Jul 18, 2021 7:38:43 GMT
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Post by claudius on Jul 18, 2021 9:11:27 GMT
This week’s MASTERPIECE 50 is the Thames TV Serial DANGER UXB (1979) about bomb defusers in WW2. Acorn TV
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The Mysterious Cities of Gold (1982) “Secrets of the Temple” English Dubbed. Fabulous DVD
Naruto Shippuden (2014) “The Day Naruto Was Born” English Dubbed. Viz Media DVD
ABC Weekend Special (1974) “Cyrano” Hanna-Barbera’s Animated special on Edmond Rostand’s play, with the voices of Jose Ferrer (reprising his Oscar role) and Joan Van Ark. The first Cyrano I ever watched (on Nickelodeon’s SPECIAL DELIVERY in 1987) and probably my first cartoon with a sad ending (the promo had a kid narrate the whole story- “and the cute guy dies, but not Cyrano…well…” being rather ambiguous about the ending). Warner Archive DVD.
Famous Classic Tales (1973) “The Three Musketeers.” Having done a Musketeer cartoon series for THE BANANA SPLITS, Hanna-Barbara had its Australian studio make an adaptation of the Dumas’ story with this animated TV special that only covers the Diamond plot. This also aired on Nickelodeon‘s SPECIAL DELIVERY c. Winter 1989 and was my first intro to the story. Warner Archive DVD.
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The Slayers Next (1996) “A Big Crash! Battle at Artemy Tower” 25th Anniversary. Poor Zelgaldis. First he was forced to be an anchor. Then he had to sing a song. Now he has to dress up as a Bunny. Hilarity ensues. Japanese with English Subtitles Sculptor Software DVD
Jem and The Holograms (1986) “Starbright Part 2: Colliding Stars” 35th Anniversary Rhino DVD
Time Bandits (1981) 40th Anniversary this month. Terry Gilliam’s Time Travel adventure, with John Cleese, Sean Connery, David Warner, Katherine Helmand, Ralph Richardson, Michael Palin, Shelley Duvall, and Ian Holm (reprising his Napoleon from NAPOLEON IN LOVE adding a French Accent). First saw this in the early 1980s on the Movie channels. Got a refresher in 1993 when I was in Pythonmania. Paramount VHS
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1991) “Time of the Apes” 30th anniversary YouTube of Comedy Central Premiere Broadcast July 13 1991.
Legally Blonde (2001) 20th Anniversary Amazon Prime
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The Mysterious Cities of Gold (1982) “Messengers of the Realm” English Dubbed. Fabulous DVD
The Trapp Family Story (1991) “Wish for an Angel” 30th Anniversary Japanese with English Subtitles Bootleg DVD
One Hour in Wonderland (1950) Disney’s first TV special promoting ALiCE iN WONDERLAND with Kathryn Beaumont, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy with Hans Conreid as the Magic Mirror. Disney BluRay
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The Mysterious Cities of Gold (1982) “Secret of the Medallions” English Dubbed. Fabulous DVD
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The Mysterious Cities of Gold (1982) “Mystery of the Parents” English Dubbed. Fabulous DVD
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986) “The Priory School” 35th Anniversary. Filmed later, this episode became the second to be broadcast of the season. First saw this in late August 1992, my first to finally see Brett in the deerstalker for the whole episode (instead of flashback like in the previous EMPTY HOUSE). MPI Video DVD
The Devils (1971) 50th Anniversary Ken Russell’s controversial film on the Loudon possessions: a hotbed of sexual repression, religious hysteria, and political corruption. First read about it in 2007 from VIDEO WATCHDOG’s article on its history and cuts. Saw a fan edit DVD which incorporates the deleted “Rape of Christ” sequence (the hysterical sexually liberated nuns grab a giant anatomically correct cross and use it as a sex toy) a few months later. This is the certified X release on BFI Video PAL DVD
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Hell on Earth: The Desecration and Resurrection of The Devils (2002) Documentary of the Russel film, hosted by Mark Kermode, with interviews by cast and crew (most of the surviving actors with exception of Gemma Jones). Slightly edited version. BFI Video PAL DVD
The Mysterious Cities of Gold (1982) “Estaban’s Medellion” English Dubbed. Fabulous DVD
Rurouni Kenshin (1996) “The Dissolution of a Nightmare!” 25th Anniversary Raijuta is defeated but the disillusioned Yutaro leaves Japan with the promise that he will join Karou’s dojo. The series’s epilogue will state he will return but with the exception of a filler Arc the character is pretty much absent. Japanese with English Subtitles. AnimeWorks/Media Blasters DVD.
Saw Parts Of:
Beverly Hills 90210 (1991) “Beach Blanket Brandon” 30th Anniversary VHS Recording of a SoapNet Broadcast in 2009.
The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972) “Tabitha and Adam meet the Clown Family” The Bewitched children Tabitha and Adam visit their cousins the Clowns, yet another Hanna-Barbera music group with a beat (their circus performers). YouTube.
Also saw bits from Bewitched 1st and 2nd season (1964-1965) Amazon Prime.
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 19, 2021 1:44:30 GMT
Wow. With the number of films most of you have posted so far saw, I feel like a real piker with just two. I'll try to do better next week.  The Search For Bridey Murphy / Noel Langley (1956). Paramount Pictures. Cinematography by John F. Warren. In 1952 in Pueblo, Colorado, a businessman named Morey Bernstein developed a great interest in hypnosis. He became quite good at it and began hypnotizing his friends and neighbors. He hit paydirt after putting a family friend, housewife Virginia Tighe, under and began to have her remember herself as a teenager, second grader, infant, and…he asked her to remember before her birth. Tighe began telling him she had lived as an Irish girl named Bridey Murphy who had been born in Cork in 1798. She related details about her life in early 19th century Ireland. Bernstein wrote a book about Bridey (same title as the movie) which became a Best Seller in 1956 (the movie rights had already been sold before the book was issued) and turned into a national sensation. Tighe was called “Ruth Simmons” in book and movie. After the main titles, we are shown a screen that assures us: “Ruth Simmons’ answers to Morey Bernstein’s questions in the hypnotic scenes are authentic excerpts from the tape recordings of the actual sessions.” Then Louis Hayward appears as Bernstein on a movie sound stage to address the camera and further assure us of the authenticity of what we are going to see. This semi-documentary approach continues, a good choice since it reduces the exploitation factor in this low-budget b&w quickie. They also brought in some capable and classy supporting players. Nancy Gates is Morey’s wife, Kenneth Tobey plays Ruth’s husband, and Richard Anderson is the local physician. But what really makes the film for me is Teresa Wright, almost at the end of her movie career, as Ruth Simmons. She has to become Bridey at all her ages and experience all her emotions while lying on a living room sofa with her eyes closed. She is imminently successful at this. There is a lot of blather and superficial dialog to slog through about reincarnation, the after-life, and Edgar Cayce, but the hypnotic scenes do hold the attention and the film surprises with a finale that is a real nail biter as Bernstein tries to regress Ruth to an even earlier life and then is unable to wake her up and return her consciousness to the present. Hayward gets a little overheated in this final scene but Wright nails it. The movie closes with Bernstein again talking directly to the audience with a disclaimer about not making a case for anything – except the power of hypnosis. It ends with a sort of “kids, don’t try this at home” warning. A real 1950s American curio.    Prince Of Foxes / Henry King (1949). Twentieth Century Fox. Cinematography by Leon Shamroy. “I’ve lived 70 years, and I know that, in spite of the poets, youth is not the happiest season.” That great line (and so true, so true) is spoken by the great British character actor Felix Alymer. This film is based on a novel by forgotten best-seller writer Samuel Shellabarger (also wrote “Captain From Castile”). Tyrone Power plays a young up-and-comer in the court of Cesara Borgia (Orson Welles). He is ambitious, smart, and ruthless. But he is harboring a secret about his early life that comes back to haunt him when sent to betray the aged Alymer and his young wife, played by Wanda Hendrix. Welles and Alymer are outstanding. If only the rest of the acting had been stronger, Power’s redemption and his returning to being a decent human being had the potential to be great. Tyrone Power tries hard but just can’t get there. Wanda Hendrix is cute as a bug but plain inadequate in her thesping. Everett Sloan, good in other movies, more often than not indicates his tricky nature by laughing maniacally most of the time. The underrated Henry King directs smoothly and keeps the story zipping along through a lot of dialog scenes. Liked it very much. Could have been much better.   ![]()   |
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 19, 2021 2:14:02 GMT
MOONSHINE COUNTY EXPRESS 1977 -- I really liked it the first time I saw it--amused as a Smokey and the Bandit clone-especially John Saxon's not quite Burt Reynolds kind of character. But the movie belongs to Susan Howard. I had to seek out other movies she did--and mostly she was known for tv supporting roles--but she deserved a leading actress career. She has a commanding presence. It was a welcome surprise that Albert Salmi's sheriff turns into a different character by the end of it--perhaps they were forced to make changes due to budget restrictions but it's a nice change from the usual corrupt backwater cop shtick. I watched THE SWINGER (1966) because of a song and they didn't play it! The version in the movie is not the same as the song here. Poor Ann-Margret--so eager but what a bad movie she was put into. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXHv7vaFGzUOn the other hand, ARIZONA COLT 1966 is one of the best spaghetti westerns I have seen and what a damn good song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSrt8Vokwr0THE LAWYER - 1970 An out of town lawyer has to defend a doctor accused of murdering his wife. I have seen Barry Newman in a few things but this is probably the best role I have seen him in--it seems a good fit, more so that his driving movies. Harold Gould is memorable as the prosecutor. I was interested in it because of Diane Muldaur and even more so in seeking the tv pilot since Susan Howard takes over her part. It feels like a tv-movie except for the nudity which definitely gets your attention because we only see his wife from the neck down in close up and in the nude. She has her fans apparently--and she was a cult actress in the 70s. Since we hardly see her face in this--I may seek out one of her other movies so I can get a better look at her (above the neck). OUTRAGE--a 1973 tv-movie. A gang of obnoxious neighborhood teenagers run rampant until Robert Culp (in a captivating performance) decides to put a stop to it, using the law and courts to seek justice as far as it will go. It's not very sensational in plot but riveting all the same, especially with Culp's extreme efforts to keep a promise to his wife (Marlyn Mason) that he will not kick some asses which you can tell early on he is very willing to do. He gets a little welcome moral support from Phillip ("the infamous Colonel Green") Pine. Supposedly based on a true story. THE STRANGE AND DEADLY OCCURRENCE 1974 - Robert Stack is the family man in this one with wife Vera Miles and some very creepy happenings in the house. Surprise twist from the standard formula. I also watched a Tales From the Crypt directed by Richard Donner "Dig That Cat-He's Real Gone" which I had heard good things about. NIGHT GAMES - 1974 Pilot movie for the Petrocelli tv series is a shoddy remake of the 1970 feature film. I was told it gives little for Susan Howard and Albert Salmi to do --(Howard replaces Diane Muldaur in the feature film and Salmi replaces another guy I forgot) and that's sure true. She usually conveys a more intellectual kind of presence but she's playing a doting wife who doesn't show much personality--even after a miscarriage! Newman is good--he dominates it--but the real star is JoAnna Cameron--of the tv series ISIS. I forgot what made her such a mesmerizing presence. She gives Lynda Carter serious competition. In this one she is a blonde flight attendant who blackmails rich men after a fling. BOOTLEGGERS-- 1974 This is such a good example of why regional filmmaking is a valuable thing--a personal project of Charles B Pierce who I read had to drive across country to get his film processed. It's a slow-moving story but engrossing and gives affectionate roles for Slim Pickens in particular--as well as Paul Koslo and Jacyln Smith who I have not seen in anything for a long time and it did remind me why she was my favorite angel. Now if she and JoAnna Cameron were onscreen together, the tv could explode. |
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Post by lostinlimbo on Jul 21, 2021 0:10:35 GMT
A mixture of films, documentaries and film trailer compilations for the week. High Crime (1973) - 8/10 Martial Law (1990) - 5/10 [re-watch] Martial Law II: Undercover (1991) - 6/10 Black Gunn (1972) - 6/10 Texas Cotton (2018) - 5/10 Chase (1985) - 5/10 Goodbye Lover (1998) - 6/10 Hunt for the Skinwalker (2018) - 4/10 Bada$$ Mothaf**kas (2013) - 6/10 Fists of Fury (2016) - 6/10 Hergé: In the Shadow of Tintin (2016) - 6/10 Happy Birthday Mr Bean (2021) - 7/10 Blood & Flesh: The reel life & ghastly death of Al Adamson (2019) - 8/10 Favourite Feature of the week; A tie for the week. The go-for-broke euro-crime joint with a ruthless streak ‘High Crime’ & the intriguing, and later on tragic documentary of b-movie director Al Adamson ‘Blood & Flesh’.
Awesome line-up, looks like a sold-out action crime festival spiced with kung-fu and spliced with high karate. Cynthia Rothrock is the greatest.
It’s always a delight to see Rothrock on screen. I need to watch more of her leading films, as I’ve seen mainly stuff where she’s playing support. Though I do love her Hong Kong features (Yes, Madam! Above the Law)  And the reason why liked Martial Law II over Martial Law, because her part (while still secondary) didn’t feel like a tag along role, but actually her own character who was important to how the plot unfolded. She easily had more charisma (and a stellar fashion sense) compared to her two male lead co-stars. I just wish she had switched roles with McQueen in the first film, so we could have seen her take on David Carradine. 
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Post by jeffersoncody on Jul 21, 2021 4:44:56 GMT
BOOTLEGGERS-- 1974 This is such a good example of why regional filmmaking is a valuable thing--a personal project of Charles B Pierce who I read had to drive across country to get his film processed. It's a slow-moving story but engrossing and gives affectionate roles for Slim Pickens in particular--as well as Paul Koslo and Jacyln Smith who I have not seen in anything for a long time and it did remind me why she was my favorite angel. . I thought Dennis Fimple was rather good too. PS. Was the print you saw in the correct 2.35 : 1 aspect ratio or was it a pan and scan? Having only seen Bootleggers on VHS (many times - back in the day my friend Victor and I used to drink Southern Comfort and watch the likes of Bootleggers and Bad Georgia Road at the video store in the late afternoon before the evening rush). I hope Bootleggers will come out on Blu ray one of these days.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 21, 2021 6:21:05 GMT
Oh it was widescreen but it may have been cropped from VHS.
It wasn't a sharp picture.
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1935 LA BANDERA - strong Foreign Legion tale with Gabin a killer on the run who joins to get fed!. Exciting climax as the Tuareg hordes close in..... Annabella gets top billing as his squeeze although she doesn't appear til half way through.
1997 - THE CHAMBERMAID ON THE TITANIC...a foundry worker, suspicious his wife has cuckolded him with his boss, invents a story of a lost love... and the audience for his tale of woe grows nightly. I could see the end coming but it was still a very satisfying view.
....and the humour shone through. Country Joe & The Fish provide the score and bonus for jazz fans... the protagonists visit a jazz club where Ben Webster is playing saxophone 
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I think my first Vaughn Monroe movie. The real star turns come from Victor Jory as the heavy and Henry Morgan. Morgan, who usually has to make much of little (dialogue as in OX BOW or screen time as in STATE FAIR) gets a juicy role as a coward thought killed who joins forces with Jory's gang.
Corny but fun Old Dark House B
