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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jan 5, 2020 21:53:57 GMT
Adventures of Rusty (1945) and A Dog's BEST Friend (1959).
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 6, 2020 2:13:45 GMT
Footsteps in the Dark (1941). Comedy thriller with Errol Flynn as a financial adviser who has written a detective novel in his spare time, and finds himself getting involved in a real life murder case. Quite amusing. Must check this out.
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 6, 2020 3:37:03 GMT
Footsteps in the Dark (1941). Comedy thriller with Errol Flynn as a financial adviser who has written a detective novel in his spare time, and finds himself getting involved in a real life murder case. Quite amusing. I've seen this one. A change of pace for Flynn. He seems to be having a good time in it.
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Post by millar70 on Jan 7, 2020 5:04:32 GMT
Red Dust (1932)
Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor Directed by Victor Fleming
Classic love triangle movie featuring two very different but both sexy as hell lead actresses in Harlow and Astor. Gable's character was pretty rough, not sure how Astor's character could fall for him so quickly.
A good, not great film that feels dated yet at the same time ahead of it's time. For a 1932 film, there is quite a bit of skin involved, especially from Jean Harlow (believe me, that's no complaint). Both actresses are pretty sultry for an older film. Not a bad watch at all.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 8, 2020 8:32:09 GMT
THE ROAD TO FORT ALAMO 1964 - Ken Clark who could have been a great Doc Savage-is a rancher seeking to get some money back from the Union army. He gets involved in a creepy deserted town and then a robbery before Ozark Indians leave him for dead. Rescued by a Union cavalry patrol he poses as an officer to lead them through Indian territory. As it is directed by John Old aka Mario Bava it as an atmospheric quality and some interesting visuals.
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Post by teleadm on Jan 8, 2020 18:14:26 GMT
Cause for Alarm! 1951, directed by Tay Garnett. A neat little thriller running only 75 minutes, where Loretta Young get a chance to play a wide range of emotions, from charming to frightened. Is she married to an unstable person (Barry Sullivan) or is it she who is unstable? Storywise it remined me of the stories that used to be told in TV-Series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, stories that usually had a twist at the end. This too had a twist at the end, but not the one I expected.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 10, 2020 9:28:24 GMT
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jan 10, 2020 14:26:07 GMT
Lassie COME Home (1943).
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Post by louise on Jan 10, 2020 14:52:26 GMT
Strangers on a Train (1951). Rather macabre story about two men who agree to swap murders, one of them thinks it's only a joke but then discovers to his horror that the other man wasn't joking. It's very weird with an absurd ending - I mean how difficult can it be to stop a carousel for heaven's sake?
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Post by louise on Jan 11, 2020 17:04:22 GMT
Never Say Goodbye (1946). Phil and Ellen Gayley (Errol Flynn and Eleanor Parker) are a divorced couple with joint custody of their daughter Flip (Patty Brady), who wants them to get back together. Phil tries to win his way back into his ex wife's good graces with increasingly crazy antics which causes all kinds of complications. Quite an amusing comedy which manages to avoid becoming too sentimental.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 12, 2020 2:20:37 GMT
PROBE 1972 - Bizarro tv pilot with Hugh O'Brian as an agent with a device implanted behind his ear which lets him communicate with Burgess Meredith and a control room full of technicians (a very diverse group of technicians). The highlight is Angel Tompkins (a type of blonde you just don't see anymore) who gets increasingly annoyed with special guest star Elke Sommer. The constant back and forth between O'Brian and the control room and the computer screens does NOT work. It's jarring and irritating. Yet, it did spawn a series and I want to check out an episode since Doug McClure and Anthony Franciosa join the team.
WINTER KILL 1974 - Andy Griffith is a sheriff of a California town who has to find a serial killer before tourist season begins. John Larch, Sheree North, Nick Nolte appears as one of the victims. Interestingly the movie also led to a tv series, with Nolte being the deputy (portrayed by a "John Calvin" in the pilot-an ex-Vietnam military cop--who rather surprisingly is not presented as crazy or obnoxious--fairly normal if a little bland). Very much a contrast with Andy Taylor, this character is somewhat morose and doesn't joke around. Now, a few years later, Griffith portrayed another cop in a mountain town, "Girl in the Empty Grave," which was itself based on THEY ONLY KILL THEIR MASTERS, which had James Garner in the role. And I understand there were some other tv pilots Griffith did for detective shows so I guess he was trying a few things (Salvage 1 etc) before finding Maaaaatloooock!). This had a memorable Jerry Goldsmith score.
Maaaaatloooock!
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 12, 2020 23:00:03 GMT
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS 1974 - I am not an Agatha Christie fan and I was expecting a MOVING train for the majority of the film, so them being stuck in the middle of a snowbank was a bit of a letdown. Albert Finney is very amusing, but I feel it it was just too stuffy and restricted in plot for it to showcase most of the stars. Anthony Perkins appears to have invented the Jeff Goldlbum performance before Jeff Goldblum did.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jan 13, 2020 11:57:20 GMT
Kangaroo.
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Post by louise on Jan 13, 2020 15:34:27 GMT
Jet Storm (1959). Melodrama with Richard Attenburgh as a man crazed by grief by the death of his daughter in a hit and run accident. He boards the same plane as the man who killed his daughter with the detonator for a bomb that he has concealed on the plane, intending to blow up himself, his daughter's killer, and everyone on the plane. During the course of the flight the crew and assorted passengers try to talk him out of it, and cope with the stressful situation in their various ways. My favourite passengers are Harry Secombe and Dame Sybil Thorndike, who pass the time by cheating each other at cards.
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Post by louise on Jan 13, 2020 17:02:29 GMT
Cash on Demand (1962). Drama with Peter Cushing as a bank manager who is forced to help rob his own bank because the robbers are apparently holding his wife and son hostage. It is quite a tense drama but the ending is a bit disappointing.
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Post by louise on Jan 14, 2020 16:30:53 GMT
Molly And Me (1945). Whimsical comedy with Gracie Fields as a struggling musical hall artiste who, tired of not getting any engagements, applies for a job as a housekeeper to gruff widower Monty Woolley. She has no experience of domestic service, but gets a theatrical friend who has married into the peerage to give her a reference. Roddy McDowell is Woolley's teenage son whom Gracie befriends. Moderately entertaining.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 14, 2020 16:42:39 GMT
Spellbound (1945)
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Post by louise on Jan 14, 2020 17:28:23 GMT
So Long At The Fair (1950). Vicky Barton (Jean Simmons) and her brother Johnny (David Tonmlinson) have arrived in Paris to see the 1889 exhibition. After going out for dinner they go to bed at their hotel. Vicky wakes up the next morning to find that her brother and the room he slept in have vanished and the hotel staff deny that he was ever there or that the room ever existed. Vicky goes to the police, and they question the hotel staff but find nothing amiss. Vicky is getting desperate when she at last finds someone who remembers seeing her brother the night they arrived, an artist (Dirk Bogarde) who helps her to solve the mystery. Strange but quite interesting.
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Post by louise on Jan 14, 2020 19:18:30 GMT
The Franchise Affair (1951). Robert Blair (Michael Denison)is a lawyer in a small town who is asked to represent a widow, Mrs Sharpe (Marjorie Fielding) and her daughter Marion (Dulcie Grey, Michael Denison's real life wife) who have been accused of kidnapping a young girl and trying to force her to become their servant. Things get ugly when the people in the town become hostile towards the Sharpes due to the publicity given to the case in the papers. Fairly interesting drama.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 14, 2020 19:38:49 GMT
So Long At The Fair (1950). I heard Alfred Hitchcock was fond of the film--some cite it as proof Terence Fisher could have done more "respectable" films but I don't see how he would have been better off making things like this instead of the horror films he was known for. I felt it was kind of contrived towards the end.
I re-watched HORROR EXPRESS 1972 which never disappoints especially when there is snow on the ground. Such an interesting backstory--they had a train prop used in a Pancho Villa film starring Telly Savalas so they made this movie to re-use the train! Savalas sang the end song for that one-wish he had done one for Horror Express with the lyrics:
"Peasants! peasants!"
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