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Post by jervistetch on Aug 19, 2022 3:00:31 GMT
Speaking of GUNGA DIN (we were speaking of GUNGA DIN at one point, weren’t we?), there were two later filmed versions of the story. SOLDIERS THREE (1951) and SERGEANTS 3 (1962)
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Post by manfromplanetx on Aug 19, 2022 3:01:36 GMT
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Post by Penn Guinn on Aug 19, 2022 3:12:13 GMT
THE MALTESE FALCON also had a 1936 filmed version named SATAN MET A LADY with Bette Davis as the femme fatale. Thanks ... I knew there was a third version and could not locate the title ... can stop wondering about it now ....whew !
Two trivias ... Bette Davis frequently referred to this as the worst movie she ever made. The second of three film adaptations of Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon," this film has notable connections to both other versions. First, this film's screenwriter, Brown Holmes, was also credited as a screenwriter on The Maltese Falcon (1931), directed by Roy Del Ruth. Second, this film's cinematographer, Arthur Edeson, was also the director of photography for John Huston's The Maltese Falcon (1941). Third, Warren William, who plays the Sam Spade character (Ted Shane) in this film, also played Perry Mason in a series of films beginning in 1934, but was replaced in 1936 by Ricardo Cortez - who had played Sam Spade in the 1931 "Maltese Falcon". Finally, Bette Davis filled in for Raymond Burr when he had to have surgery in Perry Mason: The Case of Constant Doyle (1963).
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 19, 2022 3:43:29 GMT
Remade in 1931 Goldie Directed by Benjamin Stoloff, starring Warren Hymer, Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow. Interesting that the poster artists chose to make Harlow a redhead. But they also made Hymer and Tracy green, so, who knows what their intentions were?
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Post by spiderwort on Aug 19, 2022 5:14:21 GMT
William Wyler's 1936 version of Lillian Hellman's play, "The Children's Hour," revised by Hellman to remove any lesbian component. And Wyler's 1961 version, back to the original play, adapted by Hellman.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 19, 2022 5:32:20 GMT
Remade in 1931 Goldie Directed by Benjamin Stoloff, starring Warren Hymer, Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow. Looking at the poster I was struck by the fact that Warren Hymer is billed over Tracy. I began wondering if there were any other non-cameos where Tracy wasn't top billed. When I finally recovered from my brain fart I remembered his films with Gable (a series which ended b/c Tracy demanded top billing). IIRC Tracy did a film w/Joan Crawford; presumably she was billed first.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 19, 2022 5:36:41 GMT
Remade in 1931 Goldie Directed by Benjamin Stoloff, starring Warren Hymer, Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow. Interesting that the poster artists chose to make Harlow a redhead. But they also made Hymer and Tracy green, so, who knows what their intentions were?
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 19, 2022 8:22:53 GMT
Ben Cooper and Louise Fletcher (yes, Louise Fletcher). Josephine Hutchinson plays an embittered old woman who was left at the altar and travels in a wagon decorated to look like her house on that day. These sorts of episodes don't usually give credit to the classic they're adapting; however here Dickens is cited as the source material.
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 19, 2022 9:52:05 GMT
Remade in 1931 Goldie Directed by Benjamin Stoloff, starring Warren Hymer, Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow. Looking at the poster I was struck by the fact that Warren Hymer is billed over Tracy. I began wondering if there were any other non-cameos where Tracy wasn't top billed. When I finally recovered from my brain fart I remembered his films with Gable (a series which ended b/c Tracy demanded top billing). IIRC Tracy did a film w/Joan Crawford; presumably she was billed first. Tracy got top billing from 1940 on (after BOOM TOWN), but was sometimes second, third and even 4th billed (LIBELED LADY) throughout the 30s
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 19, 2022 13:28:47 GMT
Interesting that the poster artists chose to make Harlow a redhead. But they also made Hymer and Tracy green, so, who knows what their intentions were? I couldn't help thinking of Red Headed Woman when making my remarks. Harlow's next film after Goldie was Platinum Blonde, but it was Red Headed Woman the very next year that really put the platinum blonde on the map at MGM. Wonderfully amoral pre-code stuff.
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Post by london777 on Aug 19, 2022 14:02:15 GMT
Point Blank (1967) dir: John Boorman Payback (1999) Payback: Straight Up (2006) Both of these were directed by Brian Helgeland but he was fired before he could complete and edit the theatrical version. So later he made a director's cut, with extensive changes. Both versions have their good and bad points but overall I prefer the recut.
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Post by marshamae on Aug 19, 2022 15:18:28 GMT
William Wyler's 1936 version of Lillian Hellman's play, "The Children's Hour," revised by Hellman to remove any lesbian component. And Wyler's 1961 version, back to the original play, adapted by Hellman. This original and remake pair is a little unusual . The original author, LILLIAN Hellman reworked her own hit play to remove homosexuality as the big lie told by the girls. It was considerably less shocking for the lie to be a relationship between the doctor and one of the teachers, though he was engaged to her friend. There is a wonderful scene early in the film where Miriam Hopkins , talking to the doctor, watches him walk away toward his fiancee, and she has a subtle look of longing and disappointment. It underscores Hellman’s point that the lie has a small kernel of truth. It’s a lovely piece of acting by Hopkins, who generally is required to be more bombastic. Hellman was content to do this work because she felt the point of her play was the power of a lie. It was not the same as changing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to remove the homosexual subtext between Brick and Skipper.
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 19, 2022 15:44:17 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Aug 19, 2022 16:57:11 GMT
John Willard's stage play The Cat and the Canary. 1927, 1930 (including a Spanish version), 1939 and 1978. I think one from the 1940's is missing here, but that might have been un-official. Came to mind, The Creeper 1948 but it only used a few ideas. Presumed lost, some scenes can be seen in a Universal short named Boo! from 1932 but that seems to be the only things saved, the fate of the Spanish version is unknown to me.
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Post by london777 on Aug 19, 2022 17:14:41 GMT
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Post by marshamae on Aug 19, 2022 17:16:58 GMT
It is a bit chaotic.
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 19, 2022 18:40:52 GMT
Well I hope you like this still more 7The film overall may not be up to Hitchcock but Robert Walker never looked that good in a bikini & harpoon gun combo
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Post by Penn Guinn on Aug 19, 2022 18:58:38 GMT
Sometimes someone does a remake and one just sighs and wonders ... WHY ?
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Post by Penn Guinn on Aug 19, 2022 19:00:24 GMT
another example of " ... why ? "
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Post by london777 on Aug 19, 2022 20:01:37 GMT
another example of " ... why ? " Because there are not many totally sedentary starring roles available. Have a heart!
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