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Post by politicidal on Dec 17, 2022 15:40:34 GMT
Daisy Kenyon(1947), Joan Crawford leaves married lover Dana Andrews to marry Henry Fonda. Andrews tries to win her back. Well acted by all 3 stars, though I found none of their characters particularly likable. 6/10. Yeah, sort of sums up my feelings as well.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 17, 2022 21:41:07 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Dec 17, 2022 23:47:36 GMT
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Post by gspdude on Dec 18, 2022 14:51:16 GMT
Invisible Agent(1942) WW II propaganda film where Jon Hall, as the grandson of the original Invisible Man, uses his grandfather's formula to battle bumbling Germans and sinister Japanese. Peter Lorre is particularly sinister as a Japanese agent. 5/10.
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Post by stryker on Dec 18, 2022 20:35:52 GMT
BEHIND THE HIGH WALL (1956). 7 out of 10. Recommended.
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Post by politicidal on Dec 19, 2022 1:28:58 GMT
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Post by stryker on Dec 20, 2022 8:39:43 GMT
A WOMAN'S VENGEANCE (1948).
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Post by theravenking on Dec 20, 2022 12:28:54 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Dec 20, 2022 18:13:12 GMT
The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942 directed by William Keighley An annual favorite around this time of the year, at least for me.
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Post by politicidal on Dec 20, 2022 18:41:33 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 21, 2022 3:50:51 GMT
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Post by stryker on Dec 21, 2022 6:58:25 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 21, 2022 7:03:18 GMT
I wanted another snow movie since I am snowed in at present and searched a IMDB list and found
THE HEROES OF TELEMARK - a 1965 Kirk Douglas Richard Harris film about Norwegians wanting to blow up a German heavy water factory. There is a lot of snow in this movie. Just tons of it so it delivered. The story was alright--some good suspense and exceptional miniature destruction footage. They plant a bomb on a ferry and are well aware they are going to kill children as well as soldiers--and they are fine with--but then Douglas sees the wife and baby of one of their resistance fighters who died so he decides to sneak back on the ferry--even though he had planted the bomb on it 20 minutes earlier. He tells her to round up all the children and tell them they are going to play a game with life jackets on the other side of the boat. And one kid says "I don't want to play the game!" and he says "you are going to play it if it's the last thing you do."
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Post by louise on Dec 21, 2022 17:02:01 GMT
Von Ryan’s Express (1965). A group of British prisoners of war in Italy escape by hijacking a train, led by Frank Sinatra. Quite a good film, though the ending is a bit of a shock.
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Post by stryker on Dec 21, 2022 23:47:36 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Dec 21, 2022 23:56:03 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 22, 2022 6:16:51 GMT
THE DOUBLE MAN 1967 - Another ideal snow movie--lots of snow, and some cool torch-lit skiing in the Austria Tyrol. The spfx in this are really well done. Can't say anything without spoiling it. Another good snow movie is WHERE EAGLES DARE---like The HEROES OF TELEMARK and THE DOUBLE MAN, they have snow and Anton Diffring.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 22, 2022 7:46:30 GMT
Britannia Mews aka The Forbidden Street 1949 directed by Jean Negulesco Victorian London, a rich girl (Maureen O'Hara) marries an artist (Dana Andrews) from the wrong side, or the slums, against her family's wishes. He turns out to be a drunken rascal, fortunately for her he dies from an accidental fall. She is then blackmailed by an old resident lady (Dame Sybil Thorndike) of the slums. She then helps another drunk man (Dana Andrews, again), but unlike her husband this man sobers up and helps her set up a successful puppet show, that also helps to clean up a slum street and make it more picturesque. This is pure soap, but with interesting details. A complete slum street was built up in Shepperton Studios in Britain. Dana Andrews got a chance to play a double-role, one as an unreliable rascal and another as a really charming reliable man, he's best in the second role.
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Post by gspdude on Dec 22, 2022 12:34:41 GMT
China 9, Liberty 37(1978). Not the best Spaghetti Western, but it does have Warren Oates and Jenny Agutter. 6/10.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 22, 2022 14:12:52 GMT
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