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Post by teleadm on Aug 24, 2018 17:44:00 GMT
In Old Chicago 1938, directed by Henry King, staring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady, Andy Devine, Brian Donlevy, Phyllis Brooks, Tom Brown, Sidney Blackmer, Berton Churchill, Rondo Hatton and others, and thousands of extras. Old school disaster movie drama about the infamous O'Leary family and their involvment in the disasterous Chicago Fire in 1871, plus their backstory as Irish immigrants, from poverty to nearly riches, widow O'Leary had three sons, one bad, one good and one boring, the latter is more or less left out of the story and only pops up a little here and there. In reality one just has to go through this highly fictional story to get to the last exciting and impressivly filmed 20 minutes of the fire. The movie thanks Chicago's Historical Society for their co-operation in making this movie, they might have listened to them, but never seems to have cared much about it and made up their own backstories. The real Mrs O'Leary had a son and a daughter, and it wasn't her cow that started the fire, that belongs to folklore. It's still an entertaing movie and the fire scenes are great and very well co-ordinated with extras and stuntmen running in panic among real explosions and fires. The sets pre the fire is also impressive. Tyrone Power is great as the bad son, and Don Ameche too as the good son, Alice Brady is miles away from her hilarious featherbrained role in My Man Godfrey. For Alice Faye this was her breakthrough role, originally meant for Jean Harlow, according to some sources. Said to have been the most expensive move ever made at the time, and is an obvious answer to MGM's San Francisco 1936. The movie won two Oscars, Alice Brady for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and Robert D. Webb for Best Assistant Director (?!?).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2018 21:46:37 GMT
I just finished the Russian movie Battle for Sevastopol (2015) i thought it was a really good movie i give it 9\10
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Post by kijii on Aug 24, 2018 23:04:49 GMT
The Unforgiven (1960) / John Huston Rented from Amazon Prime
This western drama (produced by Burt Burt Lancaster's company: Hecht-Hill-Lancaster) is really overlooked. It has all the elements of a great western and many of a great drama. It was set in the Texas Panhandle but filmed in Mexico.
The story revolves around the secret of Rachel Zachary's (Audrey Hepburn's) birth. She is a foundling, who had been taken into the Zachary family and totally accepted as a foundling before the Zachary father had died. Mattilda Zachary (Lillian Gish) survives as the mother of three boys, Ben (Burt Lancaster), Cash (Audie Murphy), and the youngest, Andy (Doug McClure).
Mattilda Zachary witnesses as Ben builds of a cattle empire of 6,000 cattle with the neighboring Rawlins family, led by Zeb Rawlins (Charles Bickford) who had been long crippled by an Indian knife, his wife, and four Rawlins children. The country is rough and it was not easy to live among the local Kiowa tribe.
Enter a lonely crazy man, Abe Kelsey (Joseph Wiseman), who proclaims that his baby son has been killed by the Kiowas and that the Zachary father had stolen a baby Indian from the Kiowas....
The movie combines a good western with a good drama about past relationships.
Lost Bird (Carlos Rivas as a Kiowa Indian) : We come in peace. Ben Zachary (Burt Lancaster): My land. My sky. You are welcome. Lost Bird : Young horses. Good for fighting. Good for hunting. You take. Ben Zachary : I am ashamed. I have nothing to offer you. Lost Bird : In house. You have woman. One our women. Ben Zachary : Who told you this. Lost Bird : Old man. One your tribe. Carry long knife. He say you have one our women. Ben Zachary : He is crazy. Lost Bird : Sun speak through him. Talk to dead people. He say woman your house my sister. Ben Zachary : He lies. Woman my house white. Dahkoi. Father white, mother white. Burned to death by you; by Kiowa. Lost Bird : How many horses for woman? Ben Zachary : There are not enough horses in the world. Not as many as you can catch. Not as many as you can steal.
Full movie TCM synopsis with SPOILERS: In the Texas Panhandle sometime after the Civil War, young Rachel Zachary is enjoying a free-spirited gallop on the open range, when she is disturbed by the sight of a strange man. The old man lifts his saber aloft, tells her she is "no Zachary" and shouts that he is "the sword of God." Later, the man appears outside the Zachary cabin, prompting Rachel's mother Matilda, who recognizes the man, to aim her gun at him and chase him off. Soon after, Rachel's brother Ben, who has been on a long trip to Wichita, joins his two younger brothers, Cash and Andy, as they round up horses for the next drive to Kansas. Ben's partner, Zeb Rawlins, brings his family to the Zachary ranch for a visit, during which young Georgia Rawlins announces her interest in Ben, and shy Charlie Rawlins admits he hopes to marry Rachel. Over dinner, the families also discuss their various victories over the "Kiowa devils," Indians from the nearby hills who killed Will Zachary some years earlier. Ben and Cash later search for the mysterious old man, whom Ben knows to be "a Kelsey," but he disappears into a wind storm. One day three Kiowa Indians appear on the Zachary ranch. A young man named Lost Bird offers several horses in exchange for Rachel, who, Abe Kelsey has informed him, is his long-lost sister. Ben angrily replies that Rachel was adopted by the Zacharys after her white parents were massacred in their wagon by Kiowas. The Indians ride away, but after they begin frequenting the area, the local cowboys and their families start to gossip among themselves. When Charlie finally proposes to Rachel, she kisses him in the hope of arousing jealousy in Ben, whom she loves. On his way home, however, Charlie is killed by Kiowas as Kelsey looks on. Rachel attempts to comfort Charlie's mother, but the grief-stricken woman screams that it was Rachel, "a red-hide n****r," who caused his death. Anxious to settle the ugly rumors about Rachel, Ben and his men capture Kelsey and lead him before Charlie's bereaved parents with a noose around his neck. When Zeb demands the truth, Kelsey reveals that years before, he and Will Zachary had killed many Kiowas in revenge for an Indian-led massacre. Zachary took a crying Kiowa baby back to Matilda, who reared the child as her own, then later, when the Indians had kidnapped Kelsey's son Aaron, Zachary refused to swap little Rachel for Aaron. Kelsey had hounded the Zachary family for years after his boy was killed. At this public disclosure of Rachel's secret identity, Matilda beats Kelsey's horse, causing the old man to be hanged. The settlers all shun the Zachary family, and when Matilda later admits that Will had taken the Kiowa infant to replace the baby girl Matilda had just lost, Cash insults Rachel, calls the Zacharys "Injun lovers" and rides away in a drunken stupor. Lost Bird and two warriors approach the Zachary cabin under a sign of peace while dozens of Kiowas wait on the far side of the river. To prevent a battle, Rachel insists on joining them. Finally exhibiting his love for Rachel, Ben orders her to stay in the cabin and has young Andy kill one of the warriors. The shooting leads to a full-scale battle, and the four Zacharys kill many Indians. Rachel, who had wondered if she could kill her "own kind," is assured by Ben that they are similar in blood only. At the Rawlins ranch, Cash hears gunshots and prepares to respond, but Georgia begs him to stay and marry her. The Kiowas send cattle to stampede the Zachary cabin, whereupon Ben sets the house on fire and retreats to the root cellar with Andy, Rachel and his mortally wounded mother. As the fire subsides and the Indians prepare to enter the cellar, Cash arrives, and he and Ben shoot the remaining Kiowas. Lost Bird, however, quietly enters the cellar and looks questioningly at Rachel. In response, she shoots him dead. The Zacharys climb out of the cellar and survey their burned home, their dead mother and a landscape littered with Kiowa bodies. Then, however, their attention is drawn skyward as a flock of birds takes flight.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 24, 2018 23:21:22 GMT
I don't usually like movies like this one and I don't like MIB … I LOVE IT !
Especially Edgar ! usually so intense and soooooooo serious. Suspend that disbelief and just come along for the ride and the BONUS tour of NYC. GREAT FUN MOVIE
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Post by kijii on Aug 25, 2018 13:41:53 GMT
Emma (1932) / Clarence Brown
Marie Dressler received an Oscar nomination for this entertaining movie about a family maid who helped raise five children after their mother had died in childbirth. Only one child, 'Ronnie' (Richard Cromwell), really appreciates her. The father of the children, Frederick Smith (Jean Hersholt), decides to marry Emma after 30 years, which sets up a legal battle between Emma and the children after he dies and leaves her the family fortune.
Emma (Marie Dressler): Stop calling me beautiful!
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 26, 2018 4:11:57 GMT
The Comedy of Terrors (1963). Directed by Jacques Tourneur. With Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Joyce Jameson. DVR'd from recent TCM telecast.
A very enjoyable, amusing "horror" picture featuring Vincent Price, as a boozing undertaker, at perhaps his hammiest best. Other players (Lorre, Karloff, Rathbone and Jameson) help round out the acting, making this a real ensemble effort. Oh, and there's a cute cat that pops up here and there at just the right moment.
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Post by kijii on Aug 26, 2018 15:29:25 GMT
The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958) / John Huston Rented from Amazon Prime
This movie is based on Japanese / American history that dates back to 1856. Filmed entirely in Japan, it tells the story of Townsend Harris (John Wayne), first U.S. Consul General to Japan, and the Geisha who loved him, Okichi (Eiko Ando). Harris's interpreter, Henry Heusken is played by Sam Jaffe, and the Governor fo Tamura is played by Sô Yamamura.
There is a lot of Japanese drama, history, and pageantry here. There is also a good presentation of 19th Century Japan as it existed before the American Civil War (during Franklin Pierce's presidency).
I could highly recommend this movie even though John Wayne is a principal character in the story. In a way, I think this movie has been very overlooked...
Full TCM Synopsis with SPOILERS: In 1856, an American ship carrying Townsend Harris, the U.S. Consul General to Japan, and his interpreter, Henry Heusken, nears the Japanese seaport of Shimoda. When Baron Tamura, the governor of the province, denies the ship permission to land, Harris asserts that he has come in accordance with the treaty signed between his country and Japan. Believing that all the disasters visited upon Japan since the signing of the treaty have been warning signs from the Gods, Tamura refuses to recognize the pact, but Harris defies him and comes ashore anyway. Although Tamura rejects Harris' status as American Consul, he allows him to remain as a private citizen and grants him the use of a dilapidated old house. When Harris hoists the American flag above his quarters, Tamura orders it lowered and instructs the villagers to ostracize the Americans. In protest, Harris presents Tamura a letter addressed to the Shogun, asking him to confirm his position as American Consul. The Imperial Court in Edo is in a state of indecision over the treaty, and Tamura is instructed to keep Harris happy until a resolution can be reached. Following orders, Tamura invites Harris to dinner. During the course of the evening, Tamura notices Harris' interest in a comely geisha named Okichi, and so sends her to the American to keep him occupied. At first frightened and puzzled by Harris' strange American customs, Okichi is soon won over by his gentleness and compassion. Harris is appalled when he learns that Okichi was sold into a geisha house as a young girl by her poverty-stricken family. Harris' friendship earns Okichi the enmity of the village women, who deem her a concubine and shun her. One day, another ship sails into the harbor, and when Harris rows out to greet it, the captain warns him to stay away because the crew is rife with cholera. When several of the infected sailors dive overboard and swim ashore, Harris warns the villagers to stay away from them, but to no avail. Soon, cholera sweeps through the village and Okichi is stricken. As the villagers perform rituals to cast out the disease, Harris, aware that only frost or fire can kill cholera, sets several houses aflame. Furious, Tamura places Harris under house arrest and orders him to leave on the next ship. Okichi, now recovered, is disconsolate at the thought of Harris' impending departure. Embittered by months of failure, Harris packs his belongings, but when the epidemic abruptly ends, the people come to thank him for saving their lives, and Tamura tells Harris that, as a debt of gratitude, he has arranged for him to visit the Shogun. To honor Harris, the villagers form a procession to escort him to Edo. Upon reaching the gates of the city, Harris is ushered into the Great Hall of the Shogun, which has been closed to foreigners for centuries. Brandishing the treaty, Harris makes a plea to pull down the barriers existing between Japan and the United States. At a banquet the following day, members of the Council who will vote on the treaty question Harris about the warlike propensity of the West and the practice of slavery. When a Council member observes that it is better for the countries to remain apart, Harris argues for progress. At an archery exhibition the next day, Lord Shido, one of the supporters of the treaty, is assassinated, and Tamura, warning that only violence will come of the treaty, begs Harris to leave immediately. Swayed by Lord Shido's death, the Council passes the treaty. Tamura's clan, opposed to the agreement, orders Tamura to kill Harris, and Tamura enlists Okichi in the plot, reminding her of her unswerving obedience to him. When Harris promises to return to Okichi and alludes to marriage, she is disconsolate because of her promise to Tamura. That night, Okichi, following instructions, ties a red scarf to Harris' bedroom door, signaling Tamura that Harris is sleeping inside. Stealthily entering the house, Tamura enters the room and unsheathes his sword, but when he throws back the bed covers, he finds Okichi and flees. Encountering Harris in the hallway, Tamura slashes the scarf in half, tells Harris to take back his life and then runs out the door. After Okichi informs Harris that Tamura must kill himself for failing his mission, Harris finds Tamura dead in the courtyard, a victim of his own sword. Okichi, aware that she must be punished for breaking her vow to Tamura, forsakes Harris, leaving behind a mirror, the symbol of her soul. As Harris is reverently carried through the streets to sign the treaty, Okichi watches from the crowd, tears in her adoring eyes. Interesting stuff...
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 26, 2018 16:50:01 GMT
Two favorites from my college years that I hadn’t seen in quite a while. Really enjoyed bringing them both back. Rio Conchos / Gordon Douglas (1964). Richard Boone, Jim Brown A Big Hand For The Little Lady / Fiedler Cook (1966). Henry Fonda can’t believe the cards he has been dealt.
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Post by louise on Aug 27, 2018 18:50:50 GMT
Romancing the Stone (1984). ALways fun.
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Post by kijii on Aug 28, 2018 0:29:58 GMT
Sinful Davey (1969) / John Huston Rented from Amazon Prime
This thoroughly ribald comedy reminds me of Tom Jones (1963) or The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965). It is fun and funny throughout. While Davey Haggart (John Hurt) tries to be just as sinful as his father, Annie (Pamela Franklin), is constantly trying to reform him. Davey is a pick pocket who will pick anyone's pocket with his companion in crime, MacNab (Ronald Fraser), though a series of adventures. Loved it!!! I'll be hanged if I don't....
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Post by louise on Aug 28, 2018 12:19:41 GMT
ONe Man and His Cow(2017). Quite a sweet and amusing film about an Algerian farmer walking his cow Jacqueline across France to compete in the Paris agricultural show.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 28, 2018 17:26:26 GMT
L'ours aka The Bear 1988, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on a novel by James Oliver Curwood, starring Tchéky Karyo, Bart the Bear, Youk the Bear, Jack Wallace, André Lacombe, and a few more animals. Adventure drama taking place in late nineteenth-century British Columbia, an orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters. Though taking place in British Columbia it was actually made in the Italian Dolomite mountains. A reasonably family friendly movie with trained bears acting as wild animals, something I first noticed in the end titles, because I was wondering how they could possible have filmed it with wild animals, something they turned out not to be. You really can feel with the little cub. Very sparse with the dialogue, this is a movie where the camera tells the story. I liked it. Over 200 movies has been made based on author Curwoods novels and stories, most of them during the silent era. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Editing.
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Post by HirundoRustica on Aug 28, 2018 17:41:45 GMT
L'ours aka The Bear 1988, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on a novel by James Oliver Curwood, starring Tchéky Karyo, Bart the Bear, Youk the Bear, Jack Wallace, André Lacombe, and a few more animals. Adventure drama taking place in late nineteenth-century British Columbia, an orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters. Though taking place in British Columbia it was actually made in the Italian Dolomite mountains. A reasonably family friendly movie with trained bears acting as wild animals, something I first noticed in the end titles, because I was wondering how they could possible have filmed it with wild animals, something they turned out not to be. You really can feel with the little cub. Very sparse with the dialogue, this is a movie where the camera tells the story. I liked it. Over 200 movies has been made based on author Curwoods novels and stories, most of them during the silent era. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Editing.
I remember watching this a few times as a kid. I quite liked it, and I loved those bears.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 28, 2018 21:25:43 GMT
Just Off Broadway / Herbert I. Leeds (1942). The sixth of seven films from Twentieth Century Fox of the adventures of private eye Michael Shayne and the fourth that I have seen. Lloyd Nolan was Shayne in all seven.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 29, 2018 17:57:21 GMT
The First Great Train Robbery 1978, directed by Michael Crichton, based on a novel by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay, staring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb, Malcolm Terris, Robert Lang, Michael Elphick and others. Period caper movie based on an actual theft in 1855, taking place in Victorian England about a master criminal and his companions who makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train. Gold shipments for the Crimean war. Very entertaining period caper movie keeping it in the right light vein for most of it's running time. That the criminals are totally immoral only helps the story to move along and hold the viewer interested. One can divide the movie into two parts, the first part is about getting hold of four separate keys and copy them to later be used for the safe on the train, the other part is the actual robbery on the moving train. There are a few loopholes or jumps in the story but nothing that will hurt having a good time. Though taking place in England, most of the movie was made on Ireland.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 29, 2018 18:56:11 GMT
Woman in the Dunes (1964). Directed by Toshiro Teshigahara, with Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Hiroko Itô. DVR'd off of TCM. First-time viewing.
I've heard about this film for what seems like forever, but have only now gotten around to watching it. All I can say is, Wow: amazing film that does quite a lot with a limited cast and minimal set. It tells the story of a Tokyo entomologist who, while out collecting bugs in a remote area of Japan, finds himself trapped in a hut at the bottom of a sandpit, by a woman who lives (and works) there. Local townspeople are complicit in this imprisonment.
Very offbeat story, with a fairly simple but nevertheless engrossing and thought-provoking plot. Considering that it does so much with so little, it quite handily puts most big-budget action-adventure films to shame.
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Post by kijii on Aug 29, 2018 23:32:45 GMT
Night Flight (1933) / Clarence Brown Rented from Amazon Prime
Though not quite the best movie, it has some interesting aspects, such as an early all-star MGM cast, including the Barrymore brothers (with John giving Lionel a nervous rash), Helen Hayes, Clark Gable (playing Helen's husband), Robert Montgomery, William Gargan, and Myrna Loy (playing William's wife).
The story, is based on real events of early night flying in South America. The author of the book upon which it is based, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, is probably best known for The Little Prince, which is sort of a classic (and the only book I have read in both English and French).
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 30, 2018 1:37:56 GMT
Night Flight (1933) / Clarence Brown Rented from Amazon Prime ... The story, is based on real events of early night flying in South America...
I have to admit I've never seen that. Looks very interesting... I wonder how it compares to Only Angels Have Wings (1939), which seems to cover the same territory, so to speak. I've seen that one several times. Not bad, not bad at all.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0031762/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 30, 2018 2:04:07 GMT
I liked how they transition from a foreign language to English by having the actor speak in the other language then narrate in English before they just switch.
Richard Boone has some memorable lines.
"Stand up nephew, stand up. Now, there comes a day in the life of every smart ass little boy when he must get his comeuppance. I don't have any of that high priced training and all those fancy Oriental styles that you made such good grades in but I am going to take you. And I may kill you in the process."
"She can still be saved if only you'll agree. But if you don't agree, we'll turn her into the most perverted human being our minds can conceive. And when we're finished with her we'll start on your other daughter and your wife."
"Buck up nephew, buck up! We still got the Grand Mute, the receiving set, and me!"
"So we head home with our tails between our legs." "Nephew, there are worse things to have between your legs."
I watched THE KILLERS ARE CHALLENGED a 1966 spy movie starring Richard Harrison. Not particularly memorable but ok. Interesting twist in that the wife of a scientist in protective custody turns out to be the criminal mastermind seeking his death. She tortures one of her female servants for information and when she realizes the servant was telling the truth she appears to be sympathetic as she says "I'm sorry about what you went through."
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 30, 2018 2:36:32 GMT
Advise & Consent / Otto Preminger (1962). Charles Laughton and Walter Pidgeon Betty White as the Senator from Kansas
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