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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 21, 2021 22:54:56 GMT
Nalkarj I was not sure if it was you or Doghouse6 or both. It WAS funny. That talky girl was a hoot ! Turns out I have it on books on tape as well. T'weren't me; I ain't seen it. But I'll consider yours and Nalkarj's mentions recommendations.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 21, 2021 23:03:11 GMT
Doghouse6 It's a little slow getting started but it's worth the wait. Btw, the credits are not lying ... the old duffers really are Redford and Nolte ! You can tell by their voices
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 21, 2021 23:23:14 GMT
SPECIAL MISSION LADY CHAPLIN 1966
Definitely one of the best non Bond spy movies of the 60s. Maybe even influential on others. The opening is great, but when she gets pushed out of a plane, and her coat turns into a parachute-and she pulls out a machine gun to start shooting the bad guys on the ground, it's just great. But unlike the modern film, the hero agent (Ken Clark) is not left to look like a useless jerk. It's much more balanced. Great song too:
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 22, 2021 4:37:51 GMT
CHAMPAGNE FOR CAESAR 1950
Very funny Vincent Price performance. Celeste Holm is good too. Barbara Britton--dont know her but quite the looker. I knew it was Mel Blanc!
"Let's get loaded"
"Don't worry, we will."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 22, 2021 4:57:22 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 22, 2021 6:16:07 GMT
THE CORRUPT ONES 1967
If there's a list of best title songs for spy movies that aren't James Bond, here's one of the contenders.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 22, 2021 7:30:23 GMT
Better sound version:
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Post by teleadm on Jan 22, 2021 8:30:15 GMT
SPECIAL MISSION LADY CHAPLIN 1966 Definitely one of the best non Bond spy movies of the 60s. Maybe even influential on others. The opening is great, but when she gets pushed out of a plane, and her coat turns into a parachute-and she pulls out a machine gun to start shooting the bad guys on the ground, it's just great. But unlike the modern film, the hero agent (Ken Clark) is not left to look like a useless jerk. It's much more balanced. Great song too: Watched it myself a few months ago and I agree with what you wrote. An other thing that struck me was that they actually filmed on locations in New York, London, Paris and the likes, no second-unit shots and no back-projection.
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Post by teleadm on Jan 23, 2021 1:37:26 GMT
Tower of London 1939 directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Barbara O'Neil, Ian Hunter, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, Ernest Cossart, Leo G. Carroll, Miles Mander and many others. Categorized as a horror movie, but in my opinion it's not. It's a gruesome movie for sure about the court intrigues that the Duke of Gloucester (Rathbone) with his loyal servant Mord (Karloff), to kill off either in battles or in dungeons, to finally become Richard III. This story doesn't follow the famous Shakespeare story, but sure feels like it takes some inspirations from it. If one doesn't expect a horror movie, it's not a bad historical movie at all, that might play around with a few facts, but so what. Rathbone is ideal as the master of intrigues, swiftly shifting between charming and dangerous, and not beyond killing teen princes if they stand in the way. The dirty work he leaves to his club-footed executioner Mord (Karloff), who does everything for the Duke to become King, who besides beheading is also a master of spreading false rumors, as if they were the truth. Vincent Price at the start plays a useful idiot of the Duke, but becomes aware what he might be one of those who has to be disposed too, as the Duke rises to power. Interesting to see a young Vincent before he "became" the Vincent Price we know and love. If one can accept a movie that takes history with a pinch of salt, it's not a bad movie to spend 90 minutes with. Horror movie it isn't, morbid version of history maybe.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 23, 2021 5:09:44 GMT
1973. A John Wayne western I had never heard of. Not too shabby, despite the presence of little girl voiced Ann Margret. It does have Ben Johnson who is always a PLUS and he has a bit more to say than is usual. Bit of trivia: Try imagining Rod Taylor / Jack Elam switch. Shot on location in Mexico, the scenery is outstanding. Worth a watch but don't expect anything new. The names Lane and Mrs Lowe are reused from Hondo.
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Post by kijii on Jan 23, 2021 5:27:55 GMT
Madame X (1937) / Sam WoodThere have been several screen version of this Alexandre Bisson play. This is a good one with Gladys George in the title role.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 23, 2021 6:41:38 GMT
UNDERWORLD 2003
I hate this movie. I really really hate this movie. I saw it years ago and could remember little about it. I watched an extended version. It just makes me hate the movie all the more. It's got to be one of the stupidest ideas for a plot--a war between vampires and werewolves carried on in modern times, with guns, computers, all sorts of things. I can extend my disbelief more than anybody, but this is a really bad idea for a vampire - werewolf movie. It could work as a historical type story--I can see the potential, but not when they are basically acting like rejects from the Matrix movies. The male characters, as is common with modern films, are either treacherous, or useless (excluding the black vampire weapons expert, of course). The theme of the film appears to be that harmony between races will come through a genetic blending of both. Call me skeptical that this theory has Natural validity.
There are some good performers in here-Kate Beckinsale, I feel sorry for her--wasted on such an awful film--and she did Van Helsing the next year--another vampire monster dud.
As for Scott Speedman... Omigod--a fence post has more charisma.
Terrible dialogue, dull, vapid characters. I hate this movie. I want to stress it for the unconvinced, I hate this movie.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Jan 23, 2021 17:11:14 GMT
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Jan 23, 2021 22:34:58 GMT
Zorba the Greek -Opa! A bittersweet film, Anthony Quinn made a good Zorba even though he was not Greek.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 23, 2021 23:19:06 GMT
Zorba the Greek -Opa! A bittersweet film, Anthony Quinn made a good Zorba even though he was not Greek. Quinn was such a Chameleon ,.. he could (and did) play an incredible number of nationalities and was pretty believable in all of them. There was a thread about his virtuosity upon a time ages ago.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 24, 2021 2:51:09 GMT
Time After Time (1979, dir. Nicholas Meyer). The plot: In 1893, H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) has built a time machine, and he invites his friends over to see it. Little known to him, however, one of those friends (David Warner) is Jack the Ripper, who escapes before the police can catch him in Wells’ machine. Wells jumps in the machine after him and finds himself in 1979 San Francisco, where he has to catch Jack. And—of course in this kind of story—along the way Wells falls in love with a modern bank teller (Mary Steenburgen) who helps him out. Oof, this is a tough one to judge. Writer-director Nicholas Meyer is a fine author who wrote one of the best, cleverest, and most famous Sherlock Holmes pastiches, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974), and the screenplay for its less great but still intriguing 1976 film adaptation. He also wrote and directed some of the best-regarded Star Trek movies, including The Wrath of Khan (1982). And Meyer’s script is quite good—not perfect, but quite good—with some witty dialogue and surprising plot points. He directs his actors well, too, although Warner comes off as too sedate to be the Ripper. (The studio’s choice, Mick Jagger [!], would have been better than Warner, for whose casting Meyer fought.) But his filmmaking is sadly amateurish—all the more so when backed up by a gorgeous Miklós Rósza score. Meyer patterns setting and several romance scenes after Vertigo, but they only go to show he’s not remotely in Hitchcock’s ballpark. That the film is still entertaining is a tribute to its players, its composer, and Meyer as screenwriter. If only Meyer’s directing were up to his writing!
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 24, 2021 6:42:40 GMT
DIRTY MARY, CRAZY LARRY 1974 - Enjoyable heist car chase movie. A certain famous performer is not listed in the cast credits even though he has a role as a supermarket manager who gets blackmailed. I wonder why he wasn't listed. What a surprise ending. Also, Vic Morrow spending all that time in a helicopter made me think of Twilight Zone.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 24, 2021 9:57:16 GMT
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Jan 24, 2021 10:06:56 GMT
I liked Cats, I preferred the plays(saw 3 different productions) but even though it got bad reviews, I enjoyed the movie too.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Jan 24, 2021 11:01:29 GMT
DIRTY MARY, CRAZY LARRY 1974 - Enjoyable heist car chase movie. A certain famous performer is not listed in the cast credits even though he has a role as a supermarket manager who gets blackmailed. I wonder why he wasn't listed. What a surprise ending. Also, Vic Morrow spending all that time in a helicopter made me think of Twilight Zone. Love this movie. First saw it on the big screen back in the day, and remember being surprised that Roddy McDowell was in it.
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