What movie did YOU just FINISH watching?

I agree that The List Of Adrian Messenger is a good movie and mystery, yet the “movie star disguise” trick has dominated most of the commentary – and it is going to dominate mine. lol. Many who have seen the film doubt that these big stars were actually underneath all that make-up, or if they were, their voices were dubbed. Burt Lancaster certainly isn’t present except in the “unmasking.” The only one that is certain is Robert Mitchum. That’s really him and really his voice. The story I have heard and I think has been confirmed by his biographers (I’m sure I will hear about it if I am wrong – laugh again) is that Mitch was good with dialects and would entertain at parties but “List” was the only film where we can hear him using one (he wasn’t even Irish in “Ryan’s Daughter”).

Duma 2005, directed by Carroll Ballard, based on a book by Carol Cawthra Hopcraft and Xan Hopkraft, staring Alex Michaeletos, Campbell Scott, Hope Davis, Eamonn Walker and others.
Family friendly adventure about how an orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa and how the cheetah is returned back to nature, just in time before the wild instincts begins to appear.
Since I brought this movie up on another thread, I thought I should rewatch it, and this is a movie I like, beautifully shot on locations in South Africa and Botswana. Beautiful music soundtrack by George Acogny and John Debney. One of the things I liked about this movie is that it is freed of sentimentality, sad things happens on the way but it doesn't dwell in it or rubs it in. No animals or humans is seen being killed, only hinted.

Six different cheetah kub's that had been orphaned were used playing Duma (Swahili for cheetah).

I can't understand why they put up 12M USD to make this, and then one nearly hasn't heard about it. There ought to have been some market for it. Looking at other family firendly movies, this is much better that many others that get's big ads campaigns and marketing. It's as if they didn't know what to do with it once they had shot it.

Änglar, finns dom? aka Do You Believe in Angels? aka Angels... Are There Any? aka Love Mates 1961, directed by Lars-Magnus Lindgren, based on a novel by John Einar Åberg, starring Jarl Kulle, Christina Schollin, Edvin Adolphson, Isa Quensel, Sigge Fürst, Gunnar Sjöberg, George Fant and others.
Swedish romantic comedy about Jan Froman (Kulle), a young man with ambitions for the future. He gets a job as a lowly janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value, competing with the bank itself. He falls in love with Margareta (Schollin), whose father is a navy admiral (Adolphson) of the old kind who has a passion for antique handguns. Complications of love and money follows.
Nice and harmless little movie that has faded a bit, that tries to be like the Americans did them (Day-Hudson), but with a Swedish touch. Exactly how the money scheme worked I couldn't figure out, but it doesn't matter. 
Though many scenes takes place in the Stockholm archipelago there is no frontal naked bodies, it's only tastfully hinted in some scenes.
The movie was a huge hit in Sweden, and was also showed abroad.

A funny little thing, in an early scene Kulle's character reads a "How to Succeed"-book, a few years later he played the lead in the Swedish theatre version of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying".

The Third Man 1949, directed by Carol Reed, screenplay and story by Graham Greene, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli (billed as Valli), Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hörbiger, Wilfrid Hyde-White, The City of Vienna, Anton Karas' music and more.
British post-war Britt-noir mystery thriller about pulp fiction writer Holly Martins (Cotten) who arrives to post-war Vienna that's divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has led to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime (Welles), who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident. From talking to Lime's friends and associates Martins soon notices that some of the stories are inconsistent, and determines to discover what really happened to Harry Lime. The third man of the title is the third man who carried Harry Lime off the road after the accident, but that third man has vanished into thin air and nobody seems to remember that there was a third man...
This is one of those movies that works so very well with me, and it's hard to explain why. Great use of camera angles, close-ups, shadows. Just like all great directors, Reed put's in a few reliefs here and there and a few red herrings too. Joseph Cotten does one of his best roles as the tired and disillusioned writer that should have taken the next plane out of Vienna, as he was offered early in the movie, as he wades out into too deep water than he can handle.
A movie I regard very high, and warmly recomends to others.

Robert Krasker's fantastic Black-and-White Cinematography earned him an Oscar.
Anton Karas' zither music became a standard on easy listening lists and albums, as "The Harry Lime Theme".

To get access to camera angles from apartments down to the streets, Guy Hamilton who worked as assistant director in this movie, said in the extras, that those who lived in those apartments was very reluctant to let film crews into their homes, but they came up with a trick, all they had to do was to mention that Paul Hörbiger was in the movie, and they got free access to any apartment. Hörbiger, who plays the janitor were Hary Lime lived, was a superstar in German speaking movies.

City Heat 1984 directed by Richard Benjamin, based on a story by Blake Edwards (using the synonym Sam O. Brown), starring Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Rip Torn, Irene Cara, Richard Roundtree, Tony Lo Bianco, Robert Davi and others.
I would call this a humourous homage to old gangster and noir movies. Even if it fails in too many parts.
Story: Kansas City in the 1930s: private investigator Mike Murphy's partner (Roundtree) is brutally murdered when he tries to blackmail a mobster (Lo Bianco) with his secret accounting records. When a rival gang boss (Torn) goes after the missing records, ex-policeman Murphy (Reynolds) is forced to team up again with his ex-partner Lieutenant Speer (Eastwood), even though they can't stand each other, to fight both gangs before KC erupts in a mob war.
Since it was Clint Eastwood's birthday I thought I should see something with him, this was the one I found the quickest, and after seeing it, it's not very representative of Clint Eastwoods career. Anyway, I can't help but wonder what Blake Edwards original vision of this movies was, he had just come out of the success Victor/Victoria 1981, so it sounds like a natural, but "artistic differences" made him part from this project (I leave it at that because there are too many versions why he left). Pairing two of the biggest box-office stars at the time should have been surefire and yet it isn't.
Some has compalined that it uses sets that is too obvious, I don't mind that since it's an homage to old gangster and noir movies (though noir came much later). My guess why it doesn't succeed is that they all try too hard so that it becomes too strained and forced instead of funny, plus that the violence is too violent. Alexander, Kahn and Cara has rather thankless roles, in Alexanders case I can understand, since all private eyes had tireless, toughmouthed yet vulnarable secretaries in old movies.
It was made at a hefty 25M USD budget (big at the time), and made a profit (around 38,5M USD), but far too low considering the talents involved.

It has a nice jazzy soundtrack (that I have on old vinyl), by Irene Cara and Lennie Niehaus, with the end title song sung by jazz legend vocalist Joe Williams.

Another interesting note, Joan Shawlee who played Sweet Sue the orchestral leader of the female (!?!) orchestra in Some Like it Hot 1959, plays a brothel madam in this movie, in one of her last roles.