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Post by RiP, IMDb on Nov 13, 2019 14:21:47 GMT
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Post by louise on Nov 13, 2019 21:01:38 GMT
Ball of Fire (1941). Barbara Stanwyck as a girl who end.s up living with seven professors writing an encyclopedia. Gary Cooper as the professor who falls in love with her. It is amusing at first, but starts to flag about halfway through when it gets serious.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 13, 2019 22:40:42 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Nov 14, 2019 14:21:24 GMT
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 14, 2019 22:30:00 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 15, 2019 7:29:36 GMT
BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA (Ok I didn't just watch this but I did watch it a few days ago-I had seen it before).
NIGHT MUST FALL 1964 - Albert Finney is a murderer who hangs out with a family in the English countryside. I approached this one with trepidation and was proven right as it is so dreary and experimental--just too chaotic despite Finney's commanding presence.
LAST MAN TO KILL - 1966 Roger Browne spy movie--one of many he did--ok while watching but I already forgot most of it.
Now the last movie I watched:
MAROONED 1969 which I had not seen before. Pretty riveting and good emotional tugs now and then too. So this was the mission James Franciscus was on before he ended up Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Nov 15, 2019 21:55:48 GMT
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Nov 15, 2019 22:17:07 GMT
I came across THIS site today which has a fairly good selection of Westerns and other genres of film...
Look Movie < Have ANY of YOU been to OR used THIS site? Lol, they have Joker, BUT it's six and half minutes SHORTER than the theatrical cut. I WONDER what they CUT from it?!
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 15, 2019 22:35:36 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 16, 2019 6:37:47 GMT
WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS 1956 Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff, Ida Lupino, and John Drew Barrymore. Interesting in that it talks about juvenile delinquency and comic books and has an incel killer (Barrymore). Ahead of its time in that regard. Intense newsroom drama with competing editors wanting to get the scoop first.
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Post by louise on Nov 16, 2019 8:50:55 GMT
Too Many Husbands (1940). Jean Arthur is happily married to her second husband (Melvyn Douglas), but then finds out her first husband, (Fred MacMurray), who was thought downed at sea, is still alive. When MacMurray comes home, he is not pleased to find Jean Arthur has remarried, and now she can’t make up her mind which of them she wants to be married to, so they start to compete furiously to win her. Very funny film.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Nov 16, 2019 11:19:28 GMT
Aladdin (1992).
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Post by louise on Nov 16, 2019 12:18:46 GMT
He Stayed for Breakfast (1940). Melvyn Douglas as a communist who bungles an attempt to assassinate wealthy banker Eugene Pallette, and ends up taking refuge in the apartment of Pallette's estranged wife (Loretta Young). Una O'Connor as Young's devoted maid. Entertaining romantic comedy with great cast all on good form.
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Post by louise on Nov 16, 2019 15:34:38 GMT
Please Turn Over (1960). A teenage girl writes a lurid novel loosely based on her own relatives and family friends, but with wild exaggerations, causing them much embarrassment in their local community. For instance her stuffy accountant father (Ted Ray) is portrayed in the book as being in love with his secretary, and embezzling money to spend on her, and her aunt Gladys (June Jago) is turned into a secret alcoholic with a hopeless passion for philandering GP Leslie Philips(who is actually a very shy man who doesn't philander with anyone), and so on. Quite funny.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Nov 16, 2019 21:01:42 GMT
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017).
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Post by louise on Nov 17, 2019 12:26:04 GMT
The Mad Miss Manton (1938). Barbara Stanwyck as a madcap rich girl who finds a dead body and calls the police, but by the time they arrive the body has disappeared. The police think it is one of her practical jokes, for which she is famous, but newspaper reporter Henry Fonda begins to believe her. And then another body turns up. Very amusing comedy crime film.
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Post by louise on Nov 17, 2019 14:27:20 GMT
True Confession (1937). Fred MacMurray as a struggling lawyer and Carol Lombard as his wife who is much given to fantasy. When she is arrested for a murder she did not commit, she sees a chance for her husband to become famous by successfully defending her and decides to plead self defence. It is all very silly but quite amusing.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 17, 2019 22:14:48 GMT
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Post by louise on Nov 18, 2019 10:36:43 GMT
Easy Living (1937 ). Banker J. B. Ball (Edward Arnold) has an argument with his wife and throws her new mink coat out of the window. It lands on Mary Smith (Jean Arthur) who is riding on the top of a bus. This leads to all sorts of complications which eventually involve Ball's son (Ray Milland). Very funny film.
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 19, 2019 14:31:30 GMT
Not a classic, but a very good movie: Klaus, released just a few days ago on Netflix. Surprisingly great—old-fashioned wit and charm, gorgeous hand-drawn (!) animation that looks like woodcuts, well-written and inventive jokes. Made by animators who worked for Disney before Disney essentially gutted its traditional animation department, so it has an old Disney feel, with lots of fun cartoony expressions. It’s sweet and charming without being saccharine, and despite some clichés several of the twists and turns, especially re: Santa himself, are unexpected. It ends in a perfect spot.
All in all, an unexpected early Christmas treat.
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