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Post by hi224 on Oct 23, 2017 4:44:47 GMT
anyone a big fan here?.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Oct 23, 2017 5:14:33 GMT
yes
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Post by OldAussie on Oct 23, 2017 6:27:48 GMT
He's great. I own these -
Odd Man Out East Side, West Side The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel 5 Fingers Julius Caesar The Man Between A Star Is Born 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea North by Northwest Journey to the Center of the Earth Lolita The Fall of the Roman Empire Lord Jim Genghis Khan The Blue Max The Deadly Affair The Last of Sheila The MacKintosh Man Cross of Iron Jesus of Nazareth Heaven Can Wait The Boys from Brazil Murder by Decree Evil Under the Sun The Verdict
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Post by hi224 on Oct 23, 2017 6:35:36 GMT
He's great. I own these - Odd Man Out East Side, West Side The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel 5 Fingers Julius Caesar The Man Between A Star Is Born 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea North by Northwest Journey to the Center of the Earth Lolita The Fall of the Roman Empire Lord Jim Genghis Khan The Blue Max The Deadly Affair The Last of Sheila The MacKintosh Man Cross of Iron Jesus of Nazareth Heaven Can Wait The Boys from Brazil Murder by Decree Evil Under the Sun The Verdict I just watched three of Mason's movies the other day.
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Post by OldAussie on Oct 23, 2017 6:38:21 GMT
Which ones?
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Post by hi224 on Oct 23, 2017 6:52:54 GMT
Fingers, Bigger Than Life and Last of Sheila. Need to give a rewatch to Mackintosh and Cross of Iron.
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Post by outrider127 on Oct 23, 2017 11:20:30 GMT
Yes, we are big fans of James Mason-- Journey To The Center Of The Earth(1959) Lolita(1962) 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea(1953) Tiara Tahiti(1962) Island In The Sun(1957)
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Post by Stammerhead on Oct 23, 2017 14:14:23 GMT
He had one of the finest voices ever.
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Post by pippinmaniac on Oct 23, 2017 14:36:42 GMT
He had one of the finest voices ever. Yes!
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Post by Nalkarj on Oct 23, 2017 15:59:19 GMT
He had one of the finest voices ever. I have no idea what you're talking about. Mason's voice, like several other actors', is manna from heaven for voice impressionists.
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Post by petrolino on Oct 23, 2017 16:05:09 GMT
He's terrific.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 23, 2017 16:41:58 GMT
Hell yes, one of my very favorite actors.
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Post by Stammerhead on Oct 23, 2017 18:57:24 GMT
He had one of the finest voices ever. I have no idea what you're talking about. Mason's voice, like several other actors', is manna from heaven for voice impressionists. It was an affected accent but I love how it was silky smooth around the edges with a solid North England core.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 23, 2017 20:42:48 GMT
He's very sinister in the 1979 version of Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot and Halloween is a great time to check it out if you've never seen it.
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Post by kijii on Oct 23, 2017 21:18:55 GMT
Big fan here!
I just saw 5 Fingers for the first time this week. As usual, he was great!
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Post by Nalkarj on Oct 23, 2017 22:02:41 GMT
He's very sinister in the 1979 version of Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot and Halloween is a great time to check it out if you've never seen it. One of the things I love about Mason is that, despite his aristocratic air, he never phones in his performance just because it's in a genre film or something like that. Whether it's the adventure 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the mystery The Last of Sheila, or the horror Frankenstein: The True Story (I've unfortunately never seen 'Salem's Lot--or all that much based on King's books, in fact--a mistake I'm planning to rectify soon), he gives it his all, as if it means as much to him as Hamlet. I love that quality about an actor (and a director); Mason had an aristocratic bearing, yes, but never a snooty one (except, of course, when the characterization called for it), and that makes all the difference.
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Post by telegonus on Oct 24, 2017 9:10:17 GMT
James Mason was one of the great one offs. I can't think of an earlier version of his type, such as it can be called; nor did he have a "successor". He's not a legend at the Bogart level, arguably deserves to be.
Mason was a superstar in his native England prior to his coming to the U.S., and as such he specialized in playing wicked country squires and the like in many a "bodice ripper" before deciding that he'd had enough of that and came to our shores in search of better projects.
After a few missteps he starting finding them. I can't choose just one favorite James Mason performance. The man had enormous screen presence, was handsome and yet aloof, rather like a character actor; and yet he was a major star on both sides of the Atlantic.
I like Mason as Rommel in the 1951 The Desert Fox. He was a fine Capt. Nemo in the Disney 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. He seemed at times almost too good playing a schoolteacher going back due to a medication he needed that could induce a psychotic state in the 1956 Nicholas Ray directed Bigger Than Life.
Mason could so often be a joy just to watch and listen to. He was an actor who, when well cast, didn't merely give a performance: he could own a role. I think of his Humbert Humbert in Lolita. He was excellent and somewhat against type in the tense spy thriller A Deadly Affair. A few years later he was droll and humorous in the deliciously campy The Last Of Sheila.
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Post by rudeboy on Oct 24, 2017 9:16:56 GMT
One of those rare actors - Claude Rains is another - whose presence automatically adds a touch of class even to his lesser films. I'm not sure he was capable of a bad performance.
Personal favourites: The Reckless Moment, 5 Fingers, A Star is Born, Bigger Than Life, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Lolita.
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Post by london777 on Oct 24, 2017 14:36:37 GMT
Stammerhead wrote: It was an affected accent but I love how it was silky smooth around the edges with a solid North England core.James Mason attended Marlborough, a school for the upper classes, so I guess he developed his accent there by osmosis. That would make it a naturally "acquired" accent rather than "affected" (which sounds fake). Telegonus wrote:James Mason was one of the great one offs. I can't think of an earlier version of his type.You are right. The only actor I can think of who was vaguely similar was Erik Portman, another Yorkshireman who specialised in "authoritative" roles with a "posh" voice overlaying his Yorkshire accent. He too could convey charm and menace simultaneously. But whereas I can imagine Mason playing many of Portman's roles successfully, the reverse is not the case. Portman always conveyed uprightness, but Mason had a more slippery, elusive quality. Not surprising that he was mad on cats.
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Post by teleadm on Oct 24, 2017 17:17:42 GMT
Journey to the Center of the Earth 1959, an old favorite for me too. Liked nearly everything I've seen him in.
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