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Post by politicidal on Jan 18, 2023 0:44:30 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 18, 2023 7:11:50 GMT
I have to do research for an art job project. I need to watch Troll 2 sometime soon and I am not sure I want job bad enough to view it. But since I have that coming up, I decided to check out WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT? to see if it provided any value for refining an Ursula Andress portrait I did since it was the one mid 60s film of hers I had not seen. What we suffer for five minutes of Ursula Andress. This was a painful viewing experience. I am not a fan of Woody Allen or Peter O'Toole, and oh god, they are both in the movie. It is just an awful awful unfunny comedy. When the most amusing moment is a cameo by that master comedian Richard Burton, you know you are in trouble. The cat food commercials with the song playing over it is probably its most enduring legacy.
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Post by louise on Jan 18, 2023 8:40:58 GMT
People Will Talk (1951). Strange but interesting comedy-drama with Cary Grant as an unconventional doctor who falls in love with pregnant medical student Jeannie Craine, and is hounded by spiteful colleague HUme Cronyn, who wants to discredit Grant. There is some mystery about Cary Grant’s strange companion, Finlay Currie. Very unusual story. The scene where the vindictive Cronyn interviews Margaret Hamilton, who knew Grant years before, is particularly good.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 19, 2023 3:09:07 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 19, 2023 6:38:13 GMT
THE VIKING QUEEN 1967 - With Don Murray, and a number of Hammer regulars like Andrew Keir, Adrienne Corri, Niall MacGinnis, Donald Houston, Patrick Troughton, and introducing CARITA! It's a not bad Hammer historical melodrama film in most ways (I tend to forget much of it after I see it though).
It gives considerable dramatic parts to Keir, MacGinnis, and Troughton and has a lot of chariot action--especially with women doing a good deal of fighting. You can tell immediately this isn't Hollywood because the message is that two different cultures cannot co-exist on the same turf--they need to be separate to thrive. It also depicts merchants and international traders in an unflattering light. They even have their own Davos meeting in the green hills.
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Post by louise on Jan 19, 2023 6:51:51 GMT
TheAnimal Kingdom (1931). Leslie Howard is a publisher who has been living with his mistress and best friend, commercial artist Ann Harding, who has apparently refused his proposals of marriage in the past. Now suddenly she changes her mind, but unfortunately it’s too late as he has decided to marry Myrna Loy. Howard imagines that he and Harding can continue to be friends, but she doesn’t want to. Marriage with Loy turns out to be not to his taste, as she is ambitious and wants him to actually publish books that will make money (a shocking idea to him). Meanwhile he is still yearning for Harding. This film failed to move, all the characters irritated me and I frankly didn’t care whether Howard ended up with Harding or Loy.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 19, 2023 16:42:22 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Jan 19, 2023 18:59:19 GMT
Kidnapped 1971 directed by Delbert Mann Based on a famous novel and part of it's sequel by Robert Louis Stevenson and made on beautiful locations in Scotland. It starts when Bonnie Prince Charlie's uprising just has been put down (slaughtered), trying to restore the Stuart's at the throne. Young David Balfour seeks up his uncle after his father has passed away, but the uncle sells him to a not so honest ship captain to sell him in the Carolinas. On the way there the ship sinks a smaller boat, and that boat's sole survivor turn out to be a legendary rebel Alan Breck. After the big ship hits a rock and sinks Balfour and Breck must make their way to Edinburgh. That trip is filled with adventures and obstacles. It looks expensive and has a good cast led by Michael Caine (Breck) and in minor roles Jack Hawkins, Trevor Howard, Donald Pleasence and Gordon Jackson. What puts it down a few notches is that the two young lead actors are rather weak and that thing that is so important for a movie such as this, it lacks that certain sweep and awe a story like this badly needs.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 19, 2023 20:14:43 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 20, 2023 17:05:30 GMT
JIGSAW 1967 -- Bradford Dillman wakes up in a strange apartment with no memory and a body in the bathtub. He goes to the AAA Detective agency to hire Harry Guardino to find out who he is (and repeat a few lines almost word for word between Gregory Peck and Walter Matthau from the 1965 film Mirage). Dillman learns he works for a thinktank that analyzes stress points for people working in military crisis situations. His co-worker Pat Hingle appears to have some connection to the mysterious murder apartment. Guardino is slipped LSD by Michael J Pollard and goes on a trip (in slow motion). He figures out that Dillman had been given LSD on the night of the murder. They concoct a plan to push Hingle to the breaking point by Guardino sneaking into his apartment and leaving a dead rat in his drawer and creating a leaky faucet (he also enlists James Doohan to help him pull pranks on Hingle--first time I saw this I didn't recognize Doohan without his accent).
Funny scene is when Guardino goes to a pay phone on the street and calls the police, pretending to be Hingle's character, and then starts screaming as if he was attacked. The people standing outside the phone booth look at him and he explains, "my doctor tells me I am getting much better."
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Post by louise on Jan 20, 2023 17:06:13 GMT
A High Wind in Jamaica (1965). A good film of Richard Hughes’s disturbing novel about some children sent from Jamaica to England in the mid 19th century. The ship the children are travelling on is boarded by pirates and in the confusion the children somehow end up on board the pirates ship, which has disastrous consequences for children and pirates. Anthony Quinn is outstanding as the pirate captain.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 20, 2023 17:25:08 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Jan 20, 2023 18:42:55 GMT
Relentless 1948 directed by George Sherman When one thinks of old action and western movies, I guess Roland Young seldom pops up. Here he plays a man on the run from a crime he didn't commit and in pursuit of the man who framed him, that could also free him. A slice above the usual B-westerns, and in Technicolor (not the cheaper colors, like Trucolor).
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Post by politicidal on Jan 20, 2023 18:57:42 GMT
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Post by stryker on Jan 21, 2023 8:44:17 GMT
RECOMENDATION FOR MERCY (1975). Recommended, this low budget Canadian film is based on a shocking crime and a terrible misjustice which took place in 1959 and is well worth hunting down.
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Post by CountVolpe on Jan 21, 2023 17:41:23 GMT
In A Lonely Place (1950)
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 21, 2023 21:49:14 GMT
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Post by louise on Jan 21, 2023 23:25:27 GMT
Never Say Goodbye (1956). Rock Hudson as a doctor who lives with his young daughter, the mother apparently having died. But then he goes abroad and runs into his wife and it turns out she isn’t dead but was behind the Iron Curtain for some years. Then we get a flashback about how it all happened. Slightly absurd but not uninteresting melodrama, though Rock Hudson’s behaviour is very annoying and if I was the wife I think I would have gone off with George Sanders.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 22, 2023 2:47:55 GMT
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