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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 19, 2018 2:52:47 GMT
spiderwort Agree about Witness ! One of my Neo-Classic Forever films .... beautifully done believable story. I am drawn to these "fish out of water" tales and this one in particular hooked my attention and reeled me in.
ZolotoyRetriever See it ... asap ! 
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Post by kijii on Mar 19, 2018 23:34:42 GMT
The Only Game in Town (1970) was the last feature film directed by George Stevens, completing George Stevens viewing, from Alice Adams (1935) to the end. This is not your typical Stevens, but I think it was better than the user reviewers on the IMDb gave it. This is basically a "two-man" show with Elizabeth Taylor and Warren Beatty playing off each other as two holder's on, stuck in their lives, and stuck in Las Vegas. Both seem to want to get out of their situations. But how, when, and why will they make a move to move on? I was glad that TCM added this new film to their collection since it gave me a chance to sample it. 
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Post by kijii on Mar 20, 2018 17:52:18 GMT
The Naked Edge (1961) was Gary Coopers last movie. In fact, he died of cancer (13 May 1961) before the movie was released (18 August 1961). But, unlike other actors' or directors' swan songs, this is one of his best movies. It is a suspenseful thriller which, imo, is better than Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941). (I often thought of Hitchcock's movie while watching this one; I couldn't help comparing the two movies.) The movie is about a man convicted of a murder; a witness to the crime (Cooper)--with the courtroom scene at the beginning of the movie; and an odd set of circumstances that leads Cooper's wife (Deborah Kerr) to rethink the court case five years later. Kerr starts to doubt her husband's account of the crime and can't get it out of her mind that the wrong man may have been convicted. She even traces down the convicted man's wife (Diane Cilento) and finds her bitterly living on welfare as a result of her husband's conviction and imprisonment. This was one of those pleasant surprises for me. There is a touch of Hermione Gingold in the movie and even a touch of blackmail too. I saw it on YouTube; www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHIPfVrjlns   Cooper made his last two movies--this one and The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)--in England under director Michael Anderson with principally British casts. I love them both!! They both show a Cooper's darker side. Edit Update: I just saw this again tonight and found it to be very taunt with great direction and editing. The music also enhanced the tension of the movie completely, including Kerr watching someone playing Rachmaninoff's dramatic 3rd piano concerto on TV as the final actions were occurring. Sometimes the variety of movies made by one director amazes me. For example, The director of these movies, Michael Anderson, also directed The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1956). I can't think of three more different types of movies.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 20, 2018 18:09:41 GMT
Birth of the Blues 1941, directed by Victor Schertzinger, based on a story by Harry Tugend, starring Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Brian Donlevy, Carolyn Lee, Rochester Anderson, J. Carrol Naish, Warren Hymer, Horace McMahon, Jack Teagarden and others. The story is based very very very losely on the story of The Original Dixieland Jass Band at their beginnings before traveling to Chicago spreading a new kind of music. Jack Teagarden had actually played with that band in the 1920s, but in this movie he actually plays a role. Songs like "The Birth of the Blues", "By The Light of the Silvery Moon", "Cuddle Up a Little Closer", "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie", "My Melancholy Baby" and "St. Louis Blues" passes by. One new song was written by Johnny Mercer, "The Waiter, and the Porter and the Upstairs Maid". It's unusual to see fistfights and pistols in a Bing Crosby movie, and he and Mary are great singers and proves it here. Nice to see Brian Donlevy in a sort of nice guy role. Production values seems hight. The 85 minutes passes by in a nice pace. Though the movie is in black and white, in one scene, when Bing Crosby is singing "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" in a movie theater, a slide show being projected behind him is in full color, though Bing is still in black and white. It should be warned that at in a few places African-American's music is refered to as "blackie music". The Blues that is refered to in the movie is actually mostly dixieland. 
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Mar 20, 2018 19:14:24 GMT
Gun Crazy (1950), recent TCM broadcast. A re-watch for me (3rd time I've seen it). Enjoyable film with a plot that really pulls you in and holds your interest until the end. Also must say that I find this one a real off-beat film, with many parts of it seeming a bit bizarre and surreal.
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 20, 2018 19:14:58 GMT
The Naked Edge (1961) www.imdb.com/title/tt0055214/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt was Gary Coopers last movie. In fact, he died of cancer (13 May 1961) before the movie was released (18 August 1961). But, unlike other actors' or directors' swan songs, this is one of his best movies. It is a suspenseful thriller which, imo, is better than Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941). (I often thought of Hitchcock's movie while watching this one; I couldn't help comparing the two movies.) The movie is about a man convicted of a murder; a witness to the crime (Cooper)--with the courtroom scene at the beginning of the movie; and an odd set of circumstances that leads Cooper's wife (Deborah Kerr) to rethink the court case five years later. Kerr starts to doubt her husband's account of the crime and can't get it out of her mind that the wrong man may have been convicted. She even traces down the convicted man's wife (Diane Cilento) and finds her bitterly living on welfare as a result of her husband's conviction and imprisonment. This was one of those pleasant surprises for me. There is a touch of Hermione Gingold in the movie and even a touch of blackmail too. I saw it on YouTube; www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHIPfVrjlnsCooper made his last two movies--this one and The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)--in England under director Michael Anderson with principally British casts. I love them both!! They both show a Cooper's darker side. I have always loved “The Naked Edge.” It is a terrific British noir. It got mixed to poor reviews when it opened and critics still rate it low (two and a half stars in Leonard Maltin), yet, like Cary Grant in “Charade,” Coop could make himself appear menacing and guilty. The screenplay is by Joseph Stefano who also penned the screenplay to “Psycho,” a fact that this movie’s tagline screams in ALL CAPS. Australian born Diane Cilento was pretty much unknown at the time of filming but was only two years away from a Best Supporting Actress nomination (“Tom Jones”) and one year away from marriage to an equally unknown actor, Sean Connery (they divorced in 1973). Cilento is the mother of actor Jason Connery. She died in 2011 at the age of 78. I think I’m going to watch “The Naked Edge” again soon, as soon as I can squeeze it into my busy movie watching schedule. |
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 20, 2018 19:20:48 GMT
The Party / Sally Potter (2017). This is a superb example of the couples-meet-for-dinner-and-murky-depths-are-revealed genre of film and play but it is also a brilliant satire of those kinds of shows as more and more outrageous revelations are made. Great cast with Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Cherry Jones, Emily Mortimore, Timothy Spall, Bruno Ganz, and Cillian Murphy.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2018 20:59:50 GMT
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
I did not like this movie i rate it 3.5\10
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Mar 20, 2018 21:14:33 GMT
Isle of Fury (1936), dvr'd off of TCM. Intrigue and love triangle on a remote tropical island, with Humphrey Bogart, Margaret Lindsay and Donald Woods.
This one's a real oddity - some even call it Bogart's worst film. I'm not ready to go that far, as I've not seen all his films, so can hardly judge. But personally I didn't find it all that bad. You'll just have to get over the image of Bogart sporting a very closely trimmed black mustache that makes him look genuinely absurd. Oh, and there's a large octopus that figures into the plot at one point. Other than that, watch it and enjoy the ride.
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 20, 2018 22:21:59 GMT
Isle of Fury (1936), dvr'd off of TCM. Intrigue and love triangle on a remote tropical island, with Humphrey Bogart, Margaret Lindsay and Donald Woods.
This one's a real oddity - some even call it Bogart's worst film. I'm not ready to go that far, as I've not seen all his films, so can hardly judge. But personally I didn't find it all that bad. You'll just have to get over the image of Bogart sporting a very closely trimmed black mustache that makes him look genuinely absurd. Oh, and there's a large octopus that figures into the plot at one point. Other than that, watch it and enjoy the ride.
I liked “Isle of Fury,” giant octopus notwithstanding. Not all that bad a film for what it is: a medium-budgeted programmer produced as a second feature attraction – I say medium-budgeted because they were given five days for location shooting on Catalina Island. Humphrey Bogart was, at the time, a contract player who had to take whatever role the studio ordered him to. He hated this film and would even deny he ever made it. Personally, the only thing he got out of it was a love for Catalina to which he often returned in later years. Now, 80-some years later, the film seems pretty harmless and is moderately entertaining. There is a twist ending and a nice moment when Lucille has to decide between her new husband and the handsome newcomer. As was his personal policy, no matter how hard he had partied the night before, Bogart always showed up on time, knew his lines, and gave 100% no matter the script. |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 20, 2018 22:45:53 GMT
I'm watching Murder On The High Seas (1932) which was originally released with the title "Love Bound." It stars Natalie Moorhead, any relation to Agnes?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 20, 2018 22:57:31 GMT
Murder On The High Seas (1932) stars Natalie Moorhead, any relation to Agnes? Prolly not : Natalie Moorhead Birth Name Nathalia Messner .. Born: July 27, 1901 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Agnes MooreheadBirth Name Agnes Robertson Moorehead December 6, 1900 in Clinton, Massachusetts Interesting "bit" I never read before : she went to Paris to study pantomime with Marcel Marceau. Lotsa cool stuff in that bio-link !  |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 20, 2018 23:00:44 GMT
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Mar 21, 2018 0:11:16 GMT
mikef6: thanks for the background info on Isle of Fury. I recognized Catalina Island in the background of several of the scenes, which I thought was a bit comical, because other "sound stage" scenes gave the impression that this was a lush, verdant tropical island abounding with palm trees (to which Catalina does not compare). I, too, found the story adequately interesting, with a nice plot twist thrown in that I did not expect. If anybody here reading this hasn't seen it, give it a shot next time it comes on. No guarantees, but you may be pleasantly surprised.
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Post by kijii on Mar 21, 2018 0:12:51 GMT
Young Cassidy (1965) recorded from TCM on St Patrick's Day. It will show again--Wed, Mar 28 5:30 PM TCM (276). This is a biopic of Sean O'Casey's early years in Dublin in 1910 through the The Irish Rebellion and beyond. Rod Taylor is great in the title role and there is a great British cast here too. This is often thought of as a John Ford movie, directed by Cinematographer, Jack Cardiff.  Actually, I wasn't as hot as the above poster would make you think...
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Places in the Heart (1984)
I thougth it was a very good movie 9\10
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Post by teleadm on Mar 21, 2018 18:30:18 GMT
Teacher's Pet 1958, directed by George Seaton, from an original script by Fay and Michael Kanin (Oscar nominated), staring Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young (Oscar nominated), Mamie van Doren, Nick Adams, Peter Baldwin, Marion Ross, Charles Lane, Jack Albertson and others. Doris Day sings the title song, and Mamie van Doren does a number called "The Girl Who Invented Rock and Roll" that is deliberatly bad. Romantic comedy of a "battle of the sexes" and the methods of journalism, learning the long hard way (Gable) vs go to journalism school (Day). There is an obvious age difference between Gable and Day, but that didn't disturb me, since they worked so well together, and Gable returning to comedy after nearly 15 years really dives into his role, and delivers it with pleasure. Gig Young is also great as the third part in the romance. The movie is a joy to watch, if you like this kind of movies. 
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Post by kijii on Mar 21, 2018 23:56:56 GMT
The Good Fairy (1935) is a great comedy that I happened to find while looking through the older movies from the Wyler William filmography. It's made up of a chain of events that starts when the oldest resident in an all girl' orphan asylum (Margaret Sullavan) is ready to go out into the world with limited knowledge of how the world works. When a movie theater owner (Alan Hale) asks the director of a girls' the orphanage, (Beulah Bondi) for a girl of good character, Bondi recommends Sullavan. Sullavan is then hired as a theater usherette who meets a restaurant waiter (Reginald Owen) while he is attending a movie on his time off. Realizing that she is innocent and in need of guidance. Owen strives to protect her from one of the diners at the restaurant (Frank Morgan) who looks like he may be a wolf, but isn't. Morgan is a really a rich lonely man who simply wants to help someone out but doesn't know how. When he offers a fur coat to Sullavan, she pretends to be married. Morgan then suggests that he could help her husband out and make HIM rich. But, how does Sullavan find a husband who looks important but isn't? She picks a poor lawyer (Herbert Marshall) at random from the phone book. Marshall is a poor lawyer because he is too honest to be rich. Every man in this chain of events is truly a well-meaning man. Also, every one of these men adds a different touch of hilarity to the movie as they trip all over each other trying to do the right thing. Here is a comedy that is not TOO mad cap but contains tons of humor. The play was written by Ferenc Molnár, translated by Jane Hinton, but Preston Sturges must have had a big part in writing the screenplay. Here is the movie as shown in YouTube in 10 continuous sections: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0543B4DF2513B1E5 Dr. Schultz (Beulah Bondi): Would you like to be an usherette, Luisa?
Luisa (Margaret Sullavan): Oh, yes, ma'am.
Dr. Schultz : Do you know what an usherette is?
Luisa : N-n-no, ma'am.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Mar 22, 2018 4:16:35 GMT
Riot on Sunset Strip (1967), DVR'd off of TCM a while back. First time viewing for me.
Hard to describe this one: campy, counter-culture, lurid, sensationalistic, cheesy, and quite possibly ripe for MST3K treatment all come to mind. It's about a Los Angeles police lieutenant, played by Aldo Ray, who is faced with containing a growing problem of youths hanging out along the Sunset Strip in L.A. Many of these "kids" are just teenagers or young college kids hanging out for a good time, while many others are of the hippie or counter-culture persuasion with long hair, funny clothes and protest signs. Whatever the case, conservative business owners along the Strip don't like the growing throngs of kids, the presence of whom seem to be putting a crimp on their businesses. Call in the police, who are brought in to start enforcing a 10PM curfew. Conflict ensues. And for added drama, it just so happens that one of the kids caught up in this fray is none other than the policeman's daughter, played by Mimsy Farmer (who, btw, performs a decidedly loopy LSD trip scene, which has to be seen to be appreciated).
It could have been a much more gripping drama - this was, in fact, based on actual events that happened in late 1966. Problem is, the filmmakers took this to about the level of a glorified Dragnet episode, with other elements of mid-60s color-TV thrown in for good measure. Many times throughout the film I swore I thought the costumes, acting, camera shots and dialogue all came directly from episodes of The Brady Bunch, Batman, or even Star Trek. And the soundtrack, which features period rock music, some of which is performed live by local bands, is so groovy your ears will fall off (or maybe not - maybe you're into that stuff, but tbh I found most of it pretty silly).
In spite of all the above, I actually don't want to delete this off my DVR just yet, preferring to watch it again some day and savor some of the more campy vibes all over again. This one's a bit of a unique viewing experience, and if you've never seen it, you just may want to watch it next time it comes up on TCM (who knows when that will be?). No guarantees, but this movie's at least worth a look: it just may be your bag.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 22, 2018 19:24:22 GMT
The Criminal 1960 (in USA called The Concrete Jungle), directed by Joseph Losey, script by Alun Owen, jazzy soundtrack by Johnny Dankworth, starring Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan, Margit Saad, Jill Bennett, Rupert Davies, Laurence Naismith, Patrick Magee, Patrick Wymark, Nigel Green and others. Character study of a career criminal and his place in the criminal hierarchy. Baker plays the career criminal who just of jail does a heist at a racecourse and buries the loot in a field. When someone squeaks he is immediately back in jail, but many want's to know where he buried the loot, both on the inside and the outside of jail. This is neither a thriller or a heist movie in the normal sense, but a character drama showing a wintry and seedy London and it's vicinities that never appears in the tourist brouchurs. There is violence, but it's very sparse. Since this is the second time I've seen it I thought it made more sense this time around. There's no character to root for, but it's very well made. The movie is well worth seeing if you don't expect a normal heist or thriller movie. Stanley Baker was one of Sean Connery's big idols when he was young, as he thought Stanley Baker was the only British actor who could play tough characters convincingly. Hurst Park where the racecourse heist was filmed closed just a few years after this movie premiered.  
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