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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jun 24, 2021 14:20:24 GMT
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Post by louise on Jun 25, 2021 13:47:39 GMT
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965). Peculiar melodrama about an American girl who has just come to live in London, and whose young daughter Bunny disappears from her nursery school. Nobody at the school remembers having seen Bunny, and people begin to question whether the child actually exists. Laurence Olivier is the rather lackadaisical detective who investigated Bunny’s disappearance, and Noel Coward is her creepy landlord. A very weird story with a highly improbable climax. If Laurence Olivier had been an even halfway competent detective, the thing could have been wrapped un an hour earlier (and I wish it had been).
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 25, 2021 16:13:24 GMT
MAROC 7 - 1967 Usually I have a good memory for movies--but in this case I had watched it and forgot about it until nearly halfway through. It has familiar faces and the locations are memorable but somehow there just isn't enough that happens to make it stand out. Gene Barry is a spy posing as a jewel thief who gets involved in a theft ring posing as a fashion photographer business. Just nothing flashy enough to make it interesting. Alexandra Stewart has the same character resolution as her character in ONLY WHEN I LARF from the following year. I spotted Barbara Bach in an uncredited role (despite having a name and some dialogue). The score was pretty good as Bond-sounding type.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 25, 2021 18:02:57 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Jun 25, 2021 22:16:57 GMT
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Jun 26, 2021 1:03:38 GMT
The Man Who Went Up A Hill and Came Down a Mountain.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jun 26, 2021 4:22:07 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Jun 26, 2021 21:51:26 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Jun 27, 2021 13:45:08 GMT
Probably my 3rd or 4th time watching it. But it's so oddly entertaining and both Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell are dynamite together. Plus it has arguably Vincent Price's most over the top performance of his career.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 27, 2021 22:55:44 GMT
I saw Clueless (1995, dir. Amy Heckerling) for the first time. I know it’s considered a cult classic, but I didn't think it would be my kind of movie. So naturally I loved it. Writer-director Heckerling’s dialogue is amazing. “What’s with you, kid? You think the death of Sammy Davis left an opening in the Rat Pack?” Just think, mainstream movies had dialogue this good ~30 years ago. Whatever happened?
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jun 28, 2021 5:27:23 GMT
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Post by louise on Jun 29, 2021 6:49:22 GMT
Brannigan (1975). John Wayne is Brannigan, a detective from Chicago who comes to London to extradite an American mobster, who is then kidnapped before he can be extradited. Brannigan has to work with the chief of Scotland Yard (Richard Attenborough) and be escorted everywhere by attractive policewoman Jenny (Judy Geeson), while having to thwart an assassin who keeps trying to kill him and failing. Tony Robinson, later to be famous as Baldrick in Blackadder, has a small part as a delivery man who gets chucked in the Thames by Brannigan. It is all highly enjoyable, with lovely scenes of 70s London.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 29, 2021 22:48:45 GMT
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Jun 29, 2021 22:58:14 GMT
Andy Hardy Comes Home on TCM. Never saw this Andy Hardy movie before.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jun 30, 2021 8:54:14 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Jul 1, 2021 14:33:57 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 1, 2021 17:53:51 GMT
UPPERSEVEN-THE MAN TO KILL 1966. As James Bond movie clones go, this was among the better ones. The fight scenes are more lively than the usual and it has a John Barry-echoing soundtrack. The plot is involves currency fraud designed to create economic instability as an unnamed Asian country making territorial moves on Africa--there's even a subplot about baddies using a virus to scare and distract people-- the vaccine proves to be deadly to take.
Features Karin Dor, Viva Bach, and Rosalba Neri. Upperseven (Paul Hubschmid) is an an expert sculptor who can make life-like masks of people and his enemies seek to see his real face. Alberto De Martino has some fun with Bond-inspired elements--so there is a Moneypenny character and the bedroom antics are not just played in a standard way--in one case Upperseven is in disguise as his enemy when he encounters the bad guy's mistress.
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Post by teleadm on Jul 1, 2021 19:12:45 GMT
Robin Hood of El Dorado 1936 with Warner Baxter as Joaquin Murrieta, a real historical person, though I wouldn't call it a biopic, what real facts that might be here could be called purely incidental. As it's directed by William A Wellman, it is a well made and rather good action western, taking place in California at the early days of the gold rush. It takes a rather sympathetic view of why Murrieta became what in more modern words could be called a Guerrilla leader fighting the Americanos. Murrieta's wife is raped, though it never mentioned as such, the indications are certainly there and there is a mass slaughter of people, so it doesn't feel like it would fit into the matinee markets of it's day, in some aspects it's too mature. If one can overcome a few obstacles, as seen by more modern eyes, like all major latin characters are portrayed by non-latin actors. In the opening scenes the Mexicans are living a carefree life singing, dancing, kissing, drinking before the gold rush, those scenes seems more fitting or belonging to an operetta by some Viennese composer. Look at the the clothes in the pic, it's hardly warfare clothes, but could work in a Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy movie. Yet it was actually a well crafted and rather good action western that at least took me by surprise.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jul 1, 2021 21:44:57 GMT
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016).
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Post by politicidal on Jul 1, 2021 22:20:55 GMT
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