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Post by Isapop on Jul 22, 2021 13:54:10 GMT
That flaw is the casting of Hugh Marlowe as a playwright. Hugh Marlowe always come across as an unimaginative stuffed shirt, which makes him well cast in his roles in The Day The Earth Stood Still and Howard Hawks' Monkey Business. But Hugh Marlowe as an artist, such as a playwright? Never. He should play the disapproving father of a playwright.
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Post by mattgarth on Jul 22, 2021 15:13:28 GMT
And in COME TO THE STABLE Marlowe's a successful musical theater composer who fails to recognize the Gregorian chant he ripped off for his next show.
General Gregory Peck tears him a new one in the best dressing-down scene you will ever witness in TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH.
Still, he made for a pretty good head villain in the Tyrone Power oater RAWHIDE.
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Post by Isapop on Jul 22, 2021 15:31:39 GMT
General Gregory Peck tears him a new one in the best dressing down scene you will ever witness in TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH. Now there's a classic I STILL have never seen.
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Post by mattgarth on Jul 22, 2021 15:41:15 GMT
General Gregory Peck tears him a new one in the best dressing-down scene you will ever witness in TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH. Now there's a classic I STILL have never seen.
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Post by mattgarth on Jul 22, 2021 15:57:49 GMT
In COME TO THE STABLE he's a successful musical theater composer who fails to recognize the Gregorian chant he ripped off for his next show.
And here is that other Hugh Marlowe humiliation scene (the song itself was Oscar-nominated that year, however):
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgE784udUNU
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Post by Isapop on Jul 22, 2021 16:01:12 GMT
Now there's a classic I STILL have never seen.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIn_Ba3T2Ok I'll take your recommendation without watching the scene. I want see it in context, as I will when I eventually get to seeing the whole movie.
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Post by Isapop on Jul 22, 2021 16:09:29 GMT
In COME TO THE STABLE he's a successful musical theater composer who fails to recognize the Gregorian chant he ripped off for his next show.
And here is that other Hugh Marlowe humiliation scene (the song itself was Oscar-nominated that year, however):
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgE784udUNU
Ha! Talk about (unintentionally comic) perfect timing. Like it was the hand of God.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 22, 2021 20:25:47 GMT
Now there's a classic I STILL have never seen.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIn_Ba3T2Ok I run a good sized cleaning company and I've had to chew out many employees. When I do, I think of this scene a lot and always wanted to do this. But a cleaning company is not the USAAF, I can't make someone stand at attention.
Gregory Peck always had the "good guy" image. Most people, when they think of him, bring to mind To Kill a Mockingbird, Cape Fear, The Big Country. But I always like his "harder" characters. Twelve O'Clock High, Duel in the Sun, Moby Dick. I'm the same with John Wayne, his darker characters shone on screen better. Of course, The Duke could never have pulled off Atticus Finch
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Post by mattgarth on Jul 22, 2021 20:39:01 GMT
Then you must really love Peck in THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL, GoodMan !  |
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Post by mattgarth on Jul 22, 2021 20:59:56 GMT
OK, time to give Hugh his due (theatrically speaking) in STABLE --
... as he comes to the realization about Normandy and the real inspiration for his Broadway song:
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QqjEIRCNps
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Post by phantomparticle on Jul 23, 2021 11:04:48 GMT
Robert Wise and Nicolas Meyer come down on Marlowe on the second audio track of The Day the Earth Stood Still.
You can't see the thought process in the actor, just a straight face and a straight line reading. David Manners wasn't around anymore, and they needed someone to fill the position.
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Post by snsurone on Jul 23, 2021 12:26:30 GMT
IMHO, the biggest flaw in this otherwise superb film is the miscasting of the wooden Anne Baxter in the title role.
I believe Fox should have taken a gamble and cast Marilyn Monroe as Eve.
I bet, under the great direction of Joe M., she could have delivered an Oscar-winning performance.
But instead, she was cast in a bit role, and disappeared early in the movie.
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