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One of my favourites that. A perfect film, a superb work of art.
Kubrick was a perfectionist: he bought up the (two or three) remaining lenses that Zeiss had developed for NASA, so he could film the candle-lit scenes, without using any additional lighting.
The Day The Earth Caught Fire, 1961, directed by Val Guest and stars Edward Judd, Leo McKern and Janet Munro. Also features Arthur Christiansen as the Express editor, a job he had held in real life.
This is the BFI 4K remastered version on 2K bluray.
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In his commentary track, director Val Guest stated that the sound of church bells heard at the very end of the American version had been added by distributor Universal, in order to suggest that the emergency detonation had succeeded and that the Earth had been saved. Guest speculated that the bells motif had been inspired by the film The War of the Worlds (1953), which ends with the joyous ringing of church bells after the emergency (and a nuclear explosion). But Guest maintained that his intention was to always have an ambiguous ending.
I remember seeing it at the cinema; which would make it 60 years ago! :eek:
I remember seeing it at the cinema; which would make it 60 years ago! :eek:
you must have sneaked in as it was X rated at the time due to her breasts being flashed(well parts of them):D well it was 61... val guest said there was some cuts for the american version to get by their censor.
I don't remember seeing any 'flashes' of breasts. :doh:
You had to be (or look) 18 to be allowed to see x-rated films. I definitely saw it at the cinema, but I wouldn't have been 18 at the time; maybe 14, but not 18. I think it might have been at a late-night screening, where presumably the age of the viewers was given scant attention.
walpurgis
04-07-2021, 13:51
As well as 'Barry Lyndon', the other two period dramas I remember seeing around that time were 'Angelique' and 'Tom Jones'. Both of which were also very good.
Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970 directed by Don Siegel and starring Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood.
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Not one of Eastwood's better films but it made a profit.
Oh - I think it a good film. I love the way the Eastwood and Maclaine characters play off one another.
Oh - I think it a good film. I love the way the Eastwood and Maclaine characters play off one another.
yeah i like it too, but dialogue isnt great; just a bit lame. but i like it enough to have the bluray lol
Criterion's New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural of THE FOUR FEATHERS.
John Clements as,
Harry Faversham.
Ralph Richardson as,
Captain John Durrance.
C. Aubrey Smith as,
General Burroughs.
and
June Duprez as,
Ethne Burroughs.
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Directed by Zoltán Korda in 1939, so its 82 years young.
This is the region A bluray.
49th Parallel, 1941. Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Stars Anton Walbrook, Eric Portman, Glynis Johns, Raymond Massey, Laurence Olivier and Leslie Howard.
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Pressburger won an Oscar for Best Story and the film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Screenplay (including Rodney Ackland for additional dialogue). Powell was nominated for Best Director by the New York Film Critics Circle.
The British Film Institute ranked the film the 63rd most popular film with British audiences, based on cinema attendance of 9.3 million in the UK. It was released as 'The Invaders' in the USA; some scenes and dialogue were removed as being too sensitive racially.
walpurgis
05-07-2021, 14:07
49th Parallel, 1941. Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Stars Anton Walbrook, Eric Portman, Glynis Johns, Raymond Massey, Laurence Olivier and Leslie Howard.
Amazing cast there Grant, don't think I've seen it though. Anton Walbrook was a great actor, I thought he was tremendous as 'Michael Strogoff'.
Amazing cast there Grant, don't think I've seen it though. Anton Walbrook was a great actor, I thought he was tremendous as 'Michael Strogoff'.
yes its quite good in a propaganda way of course. the germans were furious.lol
i think either powell or pressburger struggled to get back into britain after making it as one didnt have british passport. Think Leslie Howard sorted it
One of his best now. The Criterion bluray of Notorious, 1946 starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains. Hitch again directs.
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This is the Criterion BluRay and alas is only available in region A. Fortunately my Oppo will play them so I imported it from the states.
This new digital restoration was undertaken by The Walt Disney Company and the Criterion Collection. A new digital transfer was created in 4K resolution on a Lasergraphics Director film scanner at Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging in Burbank, California, from three elements: the 35mm original camera negative and a 35mm nitrate fine-grain, both held by the Museum of Modern Art, and a 35mm safety fine-grain held by the British Film Institute. Several sections of the original camera negative, the primary source for this restoration, have sustained damage over the years and been replaced by duplicate negatives; for some of these portions, the fine-grains were used. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, and warps were manually removed using MTI Film's DRS, while Digital Vision's Phoenix was used for jitter, flicker, small dirt, grain, and noise management. The original monaural soundtrack was first restored in 2001 from a 1954 35mm acetate release print and a 35mm nitrate fine-grain master. Additional restoration work was performed by the Criterion Collection for this release, using Pro Tools HD and iZotope RX.
Scanning supervision: Theo Gluck/The Walt Disney Company, Burbank, CA.
Colorist: Lee Kline/Criterion Post, New York.
Digital scan assembly: Cara Shatzman/Criterion Post."
Superb
this again... top film
Scarlett Street, 1945. directed by Fritz Lang and stars Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea. All 3 also played similar roles in the earlier 1944 The Woman in the Window also directed by Lang. But with a slightly different story and ending etc. This one was banned in several states at the time.
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Oddity this but a good cast and this farce plays out fairly well. Blame It On The BellBoy, 1996. Starring Dudley Moore, Bryan Brown, Richard Griffiths, Andreas Katsulas, Patsy Kensit, Alison Steadman and Penelope Wilton. It was directed by Mark Herman.
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The film was critically panned by all...lol ... but i like it so up the critics; wtf do they know:D
The Count of Monte Cristo ,2002.(he say yes;))directed by Kevin Reynolds, from the novel of same name by Alexandre Dumb Ass.:eyebrows:
Ive a couple of versions of this story; this one stars Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, and Richard Harris.
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The Bishop's Wife, 1947. directed by Henry Koster and starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven.
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The Whistle Blower
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Tora! Tora! Tora!, 1970. directed by Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku, and stars an ensemble cast including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, So Yamamura, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takahiro Tamura, Wesley Addy, and Jason Robards.
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Not the greatest war film by any means but the action scenes are impressive
The Prisoner Of Zenda, 1979. Comedy directed by Richard Quine and adapted from the 1894 adventure novel by Anthony Hope. Stars Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries, Elke Sommer, Gregory Sierra, Jeremy Kemp and Catherine Schell.
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The score by Henry Mancini was a highlight of the film and gained some critical acclaim. It was also Quine's final film as director before dying in 1989.
mmm...Catherine Schell...:drool:
Another Sellers Job.. Two Way Stretch, 1960. This time he is doing a job but is in prison; great alibi tho...
good supporting cast of Wilfrid Hyde-White, Lionel Jeffries, David Lodge, Liz Fraser and Bernard Cribbins.
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The prison scenes were filmed at the South Cavalry Barracks at Aldershot, and it was the most popular film of the year in UK...
walpurgis
08-07-2021, 17:22
Another Sellers Job.. Two Way Stretch, 1960.
Great film!
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/sep/05/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-40-years-on-alec-guinness
I've attempted that a few times but it's heavy going.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943. ITV Studios remastered Bluray. Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook.
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According to the directors, the idea for the film did not come from the newspaper comic strip by David Low but from a scene cut from their previous film, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, in which an elderly member of the crew tells a younger one, "You don't know what it's like to be old." Powell has stated that the idea was actually suggested by David Lean (then an editor) who, when removing the scene from the film, mentioned that the premise of the conversation was worthy of a film in its own right.
Presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of British distributors ITV Studios Home Entertainment.
The restoration of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp was supervised by Michael Pogorzelski and Heather Linville of the Academy Film Archive, with assistance by 20th Century Fox film archivist Schawn Belston. The restoration was done in association with the British Film Institute and ITV Studios Global Entertainment Ltd., the film's rights holders. Funding was provided by Cinema Per Roma Foundation, The Louis B. Mayer Foundation, and the Material World Foundation.
Recently restored in 4K, the film looks spectacular. Definition and clarity are often quite extraordinary (see screencapture #4), while depth is the best I have seen on a Technicolor film released on Blu-ray.
One of the greats....
Ice Cold in Alex, 1958. Directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle and Harry Andrews. From my Plex library
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The film was based on the 1957 novel Ice Cold in Alex and its serialisation (as Escape in the Desert) in the magazine Saturday Evening Post. The New York Times described the book as "an excellent escape story played out in the best Hitchcock manner."
The screenplay contains multiple key changes from the novel, including making Anson rather than Pugh the protagonist. ABPC bought the rights and assigned TJ Morison to collaborate on a treatment with Landon under the supervision of Walter Mycroft.
The producers had intended to shoot the location work for Ice Cold in Alex in Egypt, but the producers had to switch to Libya because of the Suez conflict.
Filming began 10 September 1957.
Sylvia Syms (Sister Murdoch) said in a 2011 interview about the film that conditions during the desert shoot were so difficult it felt like they were actually in the situation the film portrays. She said: "You may find this hard to believe, but there was very little acting. It was horrible. We became those people ... we were those people". She said that today people would probably call it method acting, but added: 'We didn't know what Method Acting was, we just called it 'getting on with it'." Syms said that during the scene where the ambulance rolls backwards down the hill narrowly avoiding her, the actors assumed there would be a hawser to stop the vehicle if anything went wrong, but there was not. The actress said she was "pretty sure" Mills, Quayle and Andrews angrily upbraided director J Lee Thompson for this risky approach. She added: "He liked to push actors a bit". The quicksand sequence was filmed in an ice cold artificial bog in an English studio (some scenes were shot at Elstree) and was "very tough" on Quayle and Mills. Syms said the producers got a good deal out of her for "£30 a week", adding: "But I made a lot more when they turned it into an advert for Carlsberg". She said there are "no false heroics in it" and that she had been told by desert war veterans it is a good picture of soldiers in that theatre of war, adding: "I am proud of it"
The Assassination Bureau Ltd, 1969, directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, and Curd Jürgens.
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The film was based on the Jack London novel, The Assassination Bureau. London purchased a storyline from Sinclair Lewis in 1910 and used it as the basis of two short stories and a novel. He was two-thirds of the way through finishing the novel (having written 40,000 words) when he died in 1916. The novel was later completed by Robert L. Fish and finally published in 1963. The New York Times called it "delightfully ridiculous".
Dead Of Night, 1945. Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer. Stars include Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes and Michael Redgrave.
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Film is based around several dreams and was the first horror film i Britain since start of war(they were banned)
walpurgis
09-07-2021, 16:05
Dead Of Night, 1945. Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer. Stars include Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes and Michael Redgrave.
Another good one.
okay I agree with you on that one :D
The History Of Mr Polly, 1949. John Mills stars.
Mills daughter played the child too.
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943. ITV Studios remastered Bluray. Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81gas-lV%2B2L._AC_SL1500_.jpg
According to the directors, the idea for the film did not come from the newspaper comic strip by David Low but from a scene cut from their previous film, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, in which an elderly member of the crew tells a younger one, "You don't know what it's like to be old." Powell has stated that the idea was actually suggested by David Lean (then an editor) who, when removing the scene from the film, mentioned that the premise of the conversation was worthy of a film in its own right.
Presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of British distributors ITV Studios Home Entertainment.
The restoration of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp was supervised by Michael Pogorzelski and Heather Linville of the Academy Film Archive, with assistance by 20th Century Fox film archivist Schawn Belston. The restoration was done in association with the British Film Institute and ITV Studios Global Entertainment Ltd., the film's rights holders. Funding was provided by Cinema Per Roma Foundation, The Louis B. Mayer Foundation, and the Material World Foundation.
Recently restored in 4K, the film looks spectacular. Definition and clarity are often quite extraordinary (see screencapture #4), while depth is the best I have seen on a Technicolor film released on Blu-ray.
One of the greats....
A good film, but looks very dated now.
Ice Cold in Alex, 1958. Directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle and Harry Andrews. From my Plex library
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Ice_Cold_in_Alex_poster.jpg
The film was based on the 1957 novel Ice Cold in Alex and its serialisation (as Escape in the Desert) in the magazine Saturday Evening Post. The New York Times described the book as "an excellent escape story played out in the best Hitchcock manner."
The screenplay contains multiple key changes from the novel, including making Anson rather than Pugh the protagonist. ABPC bought the rights and assigned TJ Morison to collaborate on a treatment with Landon under the supervision of Walter Mycroft.
The producers had intended to shoot the location work for Ice Cold in Alex in Egypt, but the producers had to switch to Libya because of the Suez conflict.
Filming began 10 September 1957.
Sylvia Syms (Sister Murdoch) said in a 2011 interview about the film that conditions during the desert shoot were so difficult it felt like they were actually in the situation the film portrays. She said: "You may find this hard to believe, but there was very little acting. It was horrible. We became those people ... we were those people". She said that today people would probably call it method acting, but added: 'We didn't know what Method Acting was, we just called it 'getting on with it'." Syms said that during the scene where the ambulance rolls backwards down the hill narrowly avoiding her, the actors assumed there would be a hawser to stop the vehicle if anything went wrong, but there was not. The actress said she was "pretty sure" Mills, Quayle and Andrews angrily upbraided director J Lee Thompson for this risky approach. She added: "He liked to push actors a bit". The quicksand sequence was filmed in an ice cold artificial bog in an English studio (some scenes were shot at Elstree) and was "very tough" on Quayle and Mills. Syms said the producers got a good deal out of her for "£30 a week", adding: "But I made a lot more when they turned it into an advert for Carlsberg". She said there are "no false heroics in it" and that she had been told by desert war veterans it is a good picture of soldiers in that theatre of war, adding: "I am proud of it"
Now that is a good film, and terribly "British". :) I have it in my collection.
Dead Of Night, 1945. Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer. Stars include Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes and Michael Redgrave.
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Film is based around several dreams and was the first horror film in Britain since start of war(they were banned)
The Micheal Redgrave ventriloquist tale is the best of them. :)
The History Of Mr Polly, 1949. John Mills stars.
Mills daughter played the child too.
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Studied the book at school. I've seen the film, but can't remember much about it. :doh:
Blackdog
09-07-2021, 18:58
Since this pandemic started my wife and I have been into mystery series. Usually British or Australian. Stuff like Midsomer Murders, Shakespeare and Hathaway, Dr. Blake Mysteries, Blue Heelers.
Any others that you can recommend?
Since this pandemic started my wife and I have been into mystery series. Usually British or Australian. Stuff like Midsomer Murders, Shakespeare and Hathaway, Dr. Blake Mysteries, Blue Heelers.
Any others that you can recommend?
poirot (david suchet)and sherlock holmes (jeremy brett) spring to mind. Bergerac, inspector morse etc
new tricks, george gently
Saturday matinee farce now. Carry On Up the Jungle, 1970. They dont come much more farcical :eyebrows:
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But there is Jacki Piper
A bit of class now with Casablanca, 1942.
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Blackdog
10-07-2021, 12:08
poirot (david suchet)and sherlock holmes (jeremy brett) spring to mind. Bergerac, inspector morse etc
new tricks, george gently
Thanks.
We watched New Tricks, that was pretty good.
I'll get with the missus and give some of the others a go.
My Fellow Americans, 1996. Directed by Peter Segal. It stars Jack Lemmon and James Garner as feuding ex-presidents, with Dan Aykroyd, Lauren Bacall, Esther Rolle, John Heard, Wilford Brimley, Bradley Whitford and Jeff Yagher in supporting roles.
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Not loved by many but i liked it. Thats what counts;)
Still awaiting my nice new bluray of this but will wathc it in sd.. The Front Page, 1974. Directed by Billy Wilder and starring 2 troupers, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, with Susan Sarandon.
Marvelleous..
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Some Like It Hot, 1959... 62 years young, directed by Billy Wilder again. stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and features George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney, and Nehemiah Persoff.
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Another of the greats this.. Just wonderful stuff.
Private's Progress, 1956. Stars Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price and Terry-Thomas.
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from my plex library
Will stick with T-T and How to Murder Your Wife, 1956. stars Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Eddie Mayehoff and Terry-Thomas.
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Top Film and premise:eyebrows:
my plex library again.
Fury, 2014. 4k UHD Amazon library edition. directed by David Ayer, and starring Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, Jon Bernthal, Jason Isaacs and Scott Eastwood.
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Made a tidy profit as most Pitt film do i suppose, grossing well over $200m
Fabulous film that.. worth the catching.
Since this pandemic started my wife and I have been into mystery series. Usually British or Australian. Stuff like Midsomer Murders, Shakespeare and Hathaway, Dr. Blake Mysteries, Blue Heelers.
Any others that you can recommend?
Harrow is worth a look.
Film Time. Stir Crazy, 1980. directed by Sidney Poitier, and stars Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor ....
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It was the third-highest-grossing film of 1980, behind The Empire Strikes Back and 9 to 5.
Trading Places, 1983. directed by John Landis and stars Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis.
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Trading Paces was the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1983, behind such films as Flashdance, Terms of Endearment and Return of the Jedi.
Carry on Jack, 1964. The lovely Juliet Mills joins the cast.
I had a crush on her [emoji23]
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Written and directed by John Landis, An American Werewolf in London, 1981, starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne and John Woodvine.
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At the 54th Academy Awards, An American Werewolf in London won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Makeup.
This is actually the older universal bluray version.
The Man In The White Suit, 1951. stars Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Ernest Thesiger and Cecil Parker and was directed by Alexander Mackendrick.
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This is the Studio Canal restored Bluray and is absolutely perfect imo.
Over to my Apple Library for Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows , 2011.
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Little Big Man, 1970. directed by Arthur Penn. stars Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey and Richard Mulligan.
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I watch this a lot as its superb. it has everything in it and maybe my fav film.
Bluray edition.
walpurgis
14-07-2021, 09:11
Little Big Man, 1970. directed by Arthur Penn. stars Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey and Richard Mulligan.
Not seen that for a long time Grant. I also recall it as being a marvellous movie :).
Not seen that for a long time Grant. I also recall it as being a marvellous movie :).
yes geoff its a work of genius imo.. great fun, but with serious messages too. acting is fabulous(deliberately overdone at times)
walpurgis
14-07-2021, 09:33
I expect Hoffman looks the age to play his older self now :).
I expect Hoffman looks the age to play his older self now :).
must be in 80's now.. was talk about folk saying he was perving girls and boys when younger. these things seem to be coming out more now.
walpurgis
14-07-2021, 10:12
must be in 80's now.. was talk about folk saying he was perving girls and boys when younger. these things seem to be coming out more now.
Well he was buddies with Kevin Spacey.
Well he was buddies with Kevin Spacey.
lol, that might account for it then. possibly weinstein too then?
Hope and Glory, 1987. directed by John Boorman . Stars Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Derrick O'Connor, Susan Wooldridge, Sammi Davis and Ian Bannen.
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It was a critical and commercial success; it won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy and received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. It also received 13 BAFTA Award nominations, winning for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Susan Wooldridge).
Evil Under the Sun, 1982. directed by Guy Hamilton. Peter Ustinov stars as Hercule Poirot. Also stars Jane Birkin, Colin Blakely, Roddy McDowall, Diana Rigg and Maggie Smith.
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The film was a commercial failure, grossing just $6 million against its $10 million budget.
Kind Hearts and Coronets, 1949 stars Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness;
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Evil Under the Sun, 1982. directed by Guy Hamilton. Peter Ustinov stars as Hercule Poirot. Also stars Jane Birkin, Colin Blakely, Roddy McDowall, Diana Rigg and Maggie Smith.
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The film was a commercial failure, grossing just $6 million against its $10 million budget.
Not surprised, a film so crap even Peter Ustinov couldn't save it. Mind you the book is far from her best work too.
Hope and Glory, 1987. directed by John Boorman . Stars Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Derrick O'Connor, Susan Wooldridge, Sammi Davis and Ian Bannen.
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It was a critical and commercial success; it won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy and received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. It also received 13 BAFTA Award nominations, winning for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Susan Wooldridge).
Yes that is a brilliant film, based on Boorman's own childhood. Knew what he was doing did Boorman.
Pigmy Pony
14-07-2021, 15:45
Fury, 2014. 4k UHD Amazon library edition. directed by David Ayer, and starring Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, Jon Bernthal, Jason Isaacs and Scott Eastwood.
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Made a tidy profit as most Pitt film do i suppose, grossing well over $200m
Good film, a bit brutal. I like Michael Pena, one of my favourite of the new(ish) actors.
Pigmy Pony
14-07-2021, 15:49
Little Big Man, 1970. directed by Arthur Penn. stars Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey and Richard Mulligan.
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I watch this a lot as its superb. it has everything in it and maybe my fav film.
Bluray edition.
Well it has Faye Dunaway in it, and that's enough just on its own :)
The thinking man's crumpet - back in the day anyways.
'William Shatner Meets Ancient Aliens' (2021)
Two hour special with Bill interrogating the usual suspects. I mean if Captain Kirk can't sort it out who can?
Rare you get quality shows like this anymore.
Written and directed by John Landis, An American Werewolf in London, 1981, starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne and John Woodvine.
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At the 54th Academy Awards, An American Werewolf in London won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Makeup.
This is actually the older universal bluray version.
watched this earlier in old bluray form as i knew i was gettig this arrow newer version so i could see differences better.
Blacks and low light colours are much better as is audio as a 2 channel original audio track is now on disc for first time.
Worth getting
Total Recall, 1990. uhd version. Stars Big Arnie as Doug Quaid.. Directed by Paul Verhoeven.
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Some fun shocks now with; Shaun of the Dead, 2004. directed by Edgar Wright and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.(the less than dynamic duo)
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The film did very well at the box office....
The Big Clock, 1948. stars Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, and Maureen O'Sullivan. Elsa Lanchester and Harry Morgan. Directed by John Farrow.
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The film was very well received by critics, and as of September 7, 2020, holds a 100% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times extolled the film's virtues as a thriller, writing, "When you hear the musical chime at the end of this ticking review of The Big Clock, it will be exactly the time for all devotees of detective films to make a mental memorandum to see it without possible fail." He added that the film "is a dandy clue-chaser of the modern chromium-plated type [and] requires close attention from the start ... Scriptwriter Jonathan Latimer and Director John Farrow have fetched a film which is fast-moving, humorous, atmospheric and cumulative of suspense."
Mr. Majestyk, 1974. directed by Richard Fleischer and stars Charles Bronson.
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good bronson fare
I've always wondered if Bronson was rock hard in real life too. Like Lee Marvin or James Coburn were.
I've always wondered if Bronson was rock hard in real life too. Like Lee Marvin or James Coburn were.
he was as hard as nails mate:eyebrows:
https://groovyhistory.com/charles-bronson-stories
he was as hard as nails mate:eyebrows:
https://groovyhistory.com/charles-bronson-stories
Good read that was.
Stick with Chuck and this Winner Western. Chato's Land from '72..
full of nastiness this.
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Saturday matinee for frights today.. John Carpenter's The Thing, 1982..
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Didnt do particularly well and wasnt liked by critics at time; its now a classic.
from my amazon library. i do have it on bluray too
walpurgis
17-07-2021, 10:58
Saturday matinee for frights today.. John Carpenter's The Thing, 1982.
Always loved that film, it and 'Alien' were my two favourite horror movies back then.
Something lighter now... Directed by Hugh Wilson, the 1996 First Wives Club. Stars Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton, and has Sarah Jessica Parker, Maggie Smith etc in support.
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It did well at box office and got decent reviews. The wives work well together in this sarky comedy
The Halfway House, 1944. directed by Basil Dearden and starring Mervyn Johns, his daughter Glynis Johns, Tom Walls and Francoise Rosay.
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The film tells the story of ten people who are drawn to stay in an old Welsh countryside inn. Location scenes were shot at Barlynch Priory on the Devon/Somerset border.[3]
BFI Screenonline writes, "The high-quality personnel involved and the tight, professional scripting mark the film out as one of the earliest templates of what would become the traditional Ealing style"
walpurgis
17-07-2021, 14:02
The Halfway House, 1944. directed by Basil Dearden and starring Mervyn Johns, his daughter Glynis Johns, Tom Walls and Francoise Rosay.
Glynis Johns must have been quite young in that. Attractive girl she was even if her voice was a bit squeaky :).
Glynis Johns must have been quite young in that. Attractive girl she was even if her voice was a bit squeaky :).
about 20 i think. yes very pretty girl. She is still alive too afaik. edit. yes she is 97 now...
Sally Ann Howes was in it too. edit.. sally is still going too. she is 90.
walpurgis
17-07-2021, 14:17
about 20 i think. yes very pretty girl. She is still alive too afaik.
Married Roland Culver I think. Bloody good actor when he was sober :).
yes culver was a good actor.. dunno about who either married tho.. but ive a few films with him in; mostly made in the 40's. Col Blimp which i watched recently he was in.
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1949. Stars Duke Wayne and the John Ford Stock Company...
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The cast and crew lived in relatively primitive conditions in Monument Valley. Most slept in dirt-floor cabins that only had communal cold-water drum showers. The film was completed ahead of schedule and under budget.
Although the film's cinematographer, Winton Hoch, won an Academy Award for his work, filming was not a smooth creative process because of conflicts with Ford. Ironically one of the most iconic scenes from the film was created during a dispute. As a line of cavalry rode through the desert, a real thunderstorm grew on the horizon. Hoch began to pack up the cameras as the weather worsened only for Ford to order him to keep shooting. Hoch argued that there was not enough natural light for the scene and, more importantly, the cameras could become potential lightning rods if the storm swept over them. Ford ignored Hoch's complaints; completing the scene as the thunderstorm rolled in, soaking the cast and crew. Hoch later had filed a letter of complaint against Ford with the American Society of Cinematographers over the filming of this scene.
The story of Hoch's refusal to shoot in this thunderstorm has often been repeated, but actor Harry Carey, Jr., who was on the set, contests it. He says Ford had finished shooting for the day, but when the picturesque storm brewed he asked Hoch if they could shoot in the declining light. Hoch answered, "It's awfully dark, Jack. I'll shoot it. I just can't promise anything." Ford then instructed, "Winnie, open her up [the camera lens] and let's go for it. If it doesn't turn out, I'll take the rap." Winnie complied, saying, "Fair enough, Jack."
Rio Lobo, 1970. directed by Howard Hawks, and starring John Wayne. This was Hawks last film, and the 3rd in the series of lawman films preceded by Rio Bravo (1959) and El Dorado (1966).
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Quigley Down Under. 1990 stars Tom Selleck and Alan Rickman.
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Quality western(Aussie) Both top actors at top of game and a good supporting cast too.
walpurgis
18-07-2021, 12:44
Quigley Down Under. 1990 stars Tom Selleck and Alan Rickman.
Not seen that, but I can imagine their contrasting personas making it worth watching.
Not seen that, but I can imagine their contrasting personas making it worth watching.
Its a really good film and worth getting.
now a jim carey classic, Me, Myself and Irene. 2000..
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Some funny stuff and some more than crazy.. But its a laugh mostly. Renee Zellweger co stars
Gregory's Girl, 1980, stars John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn and Clare Grogan. Directed by Bill Forsyth
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The film was very well liked and is rated No. 30 in the British Film Institute's list of the top 100 British films.
Gregory's Girl, 1980, stars John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn and Clare Grogan. Directed by Bill Forsyth
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The film was very well liked and is rated No. 30 in the British Film Institute's list of the top 100 British films.
marvellous film really considering the lack of experience of all involved. young Allison Forster as Gregory's little sister probably stole the film tho
Hope and Glory, 1987. directed by John Boorman . Stars Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Derrick O'Connor, Susan Wooldridge, Sammi Davis and Ian Bannen.
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It was a critical and commercial success; it won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy and received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. It also received 13 BAFTA Award nominations, winning for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Susan Wooldridge).
It's a good film. :)
Gregory's Girl, 1980, stars John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn and Clare Grogan. Directed by Bill Forsyth
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The film was very well liked and is rated No. 30 in the British Film Institute's list of the top 100 British films.
I've always enjoyed it as a 'coming of age' movie. It's quirky (what is the meaning of the person in the penguin suit who is wandering around lost?), whimsical, if not a little 'twee'.
Coincidentally, I have only just bought myself a copy (50p in a boot sale). :)
marvellous film really considering the lack of experience of all involved. young Allison Forster as Gregory's little sister probably stole the film tho
Yes - someone who has a wiser head on her than her age would suggest.
The Black Windmill, 1974. Directed by Don Siegel and stars Michael Caine, John Vernon, Janet Suzman and Donald Pleasence.
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The film was made, in part, on location at Clayton Windmills, south of Burgess Hill, in West Sussex, England. It also featured scenes filmed at Aldwych and Shepherd's Bush tube stations. Also The Red Lion public house in the Duke of York Street A section of the film was also shot at Pegwell Bay, Ramsgate Hoverport,[3] where Tarrant makes his way across the channel and sneaks onto the back of a bus which is on board the hovercraft Sure.
Strangely it wasnt well recieved.
It's contrived, but I enjoyed it when I first saw it. Might change my mind now.
It's contrived, but I enjoyed it when I first saw it. Might change my mind now.
yeah its maybe not the greatest film but its not too shabby either. i picked up the bluray recently along with another older good un, i will watch tomorrow starring sir sean.:eyebrows:
Talking of Sean Connery, The Rock, 1996, also starring Nick Cage and Ed Harris. It was the 4th highest grosser of year and a cracking action film if a bit ott...
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There were tensions during shooting between director Bay and Walt Disney Studios executives who were supervising the production. On the commentary track for the Criterion Collection DVD, Bay recalls a time when he was preparing to leave the set for a meeting with the executives when he was approached by Sean Connery in golfing attire. Connery, who also produced the film, asked Bay where he was going, and when Bay explained he had a meeting with the executives, Connery asked if he could accompany him. Bay complied and when he arrived in the conference room, the executives' jaws dropped when they saw Connery appear behind him. According to Bay, Connery then stood up for Bay and insisted that he was doing a good job and should be left alone.
Most of the film was shot on location in the Alcatraz Prison on Alcatraz Island. As it is governed by the national park service, it was not possible to close Alcatraz down, and much of the filming had to accommodate tour parties milling around. The scene in which FBI director Womack is thrown off the balcony was filmed on location at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. The filming led to numerous calls to the hotel by people who saw a man dangling from the balcony. The film's closing scene was shot outside the historic Sacred Heart Mission Church in Saticoy, California.
At one point, Arnold Schwarzenegger was to have played the role of Dr. Stanley Goodspeed. Schwarzenegger turned the role down because he did not like the script
yeah its maybe not the greatest film but its not too shabby either. i picked up the bluray recently along with another older good un, i will watch tomorrow starring Sir Sean. :eyebrows:
"The Man Who Would be King"?
"The Man Who Would be King"?
no, i do have that tho... the frightened city; pre bond.
no, i do have that tho... the frightened city; pre bond.
I've never seen that, though the very first 7" single I bought was 'Frightened City' by the Shadows. :)
walpurgis
19-07-2021, 16:42
Alfred Marx got the point!
I've never seen that, though the very first 7" single I bought was 'Frightened City' by the Shadows. :)
indeed the shadows had biggish hit with the title tune. film is from 61
Alfred Marx got the point!
was a good cast and some in film will be in a film after it:eyebrows:
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The Desert Rats (1953)
Richard Burton plays a Scottish officer (he doesn't bother doing an accent) assigned to command a company (later a battalion) of Australian troops during the siege of Tobruk in 1941
There's so many things historically wrong with this film that it would probably be quicker to list what it gets right. There were no British officers in the Australian units, the Desert Rats were the 7th Armoured, a British unit that wasn't even in the siege, no-one in the film knows how to do a salute and none of the events depicted actually happened. Which is the worst part really since there's a wealth of real events they could have depicted.
Despite that it's still a good watch. James Mason reprises his role as Rommel (the film is a sort of prequel to 1951's 'The Desert Fox) and Burton is always good.
Never let facts get in the way of a good story.
You remind me of a late friend of mine. Very knowledgeable about historical battles (such as those of Napoleon) but would rail at the TV or in the cinema if such details as the grouping of the buttons on the uniform was wrong! :doh:
would be nice if they got some of it right tho:D but i agree its entertainment, not just a documentary.. still i do dislike silly bad research when it wouldnt affect film overly. I understand why Americans alter films so a Yank is the hero, as without that Americans wont watch it. They are so introverted to their own successes thay are not interested in the rest of world. Sadly they are not the only nation
Even Carry on Don't Lose your head gets somethings right from 1967.
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walpurgis
20-07-2021, 07:10
That's a top class film.
Unfortunately, I find Michael Sheen annoying.
Studio Canal's recent remaster of the 1961 classic, The Frightened City starring Sean Connery, Ynonne Remain(who was lovely), Kenneth Griffith, Herbert Lom, Alfred Marks and John Gregson.
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from My Bluray collection.
edit, as Barry said, the title of film was also a no3 hit for the Shadows back in the day.
Ynonne Remain
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Enemy of the State, 1998. film directed by Tony Scott and stars Will Smith and Gene Hackman, with Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet and Gabriel Byrne.
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The film did well at the box office and was broadly liked. many felt it was a bit ott on the govt's abilities until the Snowden whistleblowing
Circus of Horrors, 1960. directed by Sidney Hayers and stars Anton Diffring, Yvonne Monlaur, Erika Remberg, Kenneth Griffith, Jane Hylton, Conrad Phillips, Yvonne Romain and Donald Pleasence.
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In England 1947, Dr. Rossiter (Anton Diffring) is a plastic surgeon wanted by the police after an operation goes hideously wrong. However, believing himself to have brilliant abilities as a surgeon, he and his assistants (Kenneth Griffith and Jane Hylton) evade capture and escape as Dr. Schüler to the Continent. There Rossiter sees a girl scarred in the recent war, Nicole (played by Carla Challoner as a child, Yvonne Monlaur as an adult), and befriends her father, a circus owner (Donald Pleasence).
He worms his way into the family, operating on the girl and curing her injuries for "free" and manipulates his way into running the circus, taking it over when the owner dies in a drunken incident with a bear. A decade later, he is running an internationally successful circus, which he uses as a front for his surgical exploits. He befriends scarred women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents which raise the suspicions of international police (Conrad Phillips among them), who are soon hot on his trail.
The film was a big hit in the USA oddly.
All Of Me, 1984. directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin.
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Not a bad little film. I like Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin.
I need some python...Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975
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Will finish up with some rubbish but Idle is the link.. Nuns on the Run, 1990... no not a curry gone wrong but a heist comedy
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Absolute Power, 1997. directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood, with Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis, Scott Glenn and Dennis Haysbert.
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my plex library
The Lady Vanishes, 1938. Hitchcock directs, and stars Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave.
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with Naunton Wayne as Caldicott, Basil Radford as Charters and Cecil Parker as Mr. Todhunter.
Indiscreet, 1958. directed by Stanley Donen and starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Support comes from Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert, David Kossoff and Megs Jenkins.
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This is the bluray of the 2 format set.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003.
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Bedtime viewing.. Ie resting on bed with fan beating down on me [emoji23]
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square 1947. Or 49.i forgot. [emoji23]
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Blazing Saddles(again)1974. Directed by and starring Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens and of course Cleavon Little.
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Count Basie and his orchestra make a cameo appearance, playing "April in Paris" in the middle of the desert
Irma La Douce, 1963. Directed by Billy Wilder and stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. Music by André Previn.
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Presented in its original aspect ratio of 2:35:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Billy Wilder's Irma la Douce arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Eureka Entertainment. Audio is 2.0 24 bit and excellent.
A great bluray presentation.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, 1983. It was directed by Nagisa Ōshima, stars David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano and Jack Thompson.
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Last night, on Film4, I saw the digital frame-for-frame 4K restoration of Wim Wenders "Wings of Desire". This having been done in celebration of the film's 35th anniversary.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_of_Desire
I have a copy, but sadly it's only a standard DVD.
An American re-make was made in 1998, with Nick Cage and Meg Ryan - but IMO whilst it was a decent stab, it was in no way superior to the Wender's original. This I find to be sadly typical of American re-makes.
decent film. not seen it for years.. the criterion version is i think region a
Romancing the Stone, 1984. directed by Robert Zemeckis, and stars Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito.
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Was well recieved and was a big hit at box office t'boot.
a good saturday matinee from my amazon library.
The Jewel of the Nile, 1985. follow up film this
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Cost more and didnt do as well, as is often the case, still its not too bad.
Rio Bravo, 1959. directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, and Ward Bond.
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A proper film instead of schlock or impenetrable Bowie-related tedium. :D
Gladiator, 2000.Directed by Ridley Scott and stars Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Ralf Möller, Oliver Reed (in his final role), Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, John Shrapnel, Richard Harris, and Tommy Flanagan.
Music by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard.
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The film is loosely based on real events that occurred within the Roman Empire in the latter half of the 2nd century AD.
The film did well at box office earning over $450m.
Madagasscar, 2011. Attenborough.
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The Kino Lorber 2k bluray of the 1974 The Front Page Directed by Billy Wilder and stars Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau and Susan Sarandon. I watched this recently and decided to pick up a good bluray version. this is USA Region A locked so playing on my oppo which i have set for such, as i have a few reg a's..
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Arriving on Blu-ray in North America for the first time, The Front Page is presented with a 1080p MPEG-4 AVC encoded high definition presentation in the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1 widescreen. Kino Lorber has given the film a generally strong presentation with the source video available. Although it is apparent that the film utilizes a dated master (and is not a fresh scan) it's remarkably clean, clear, and proficient in giving the film a high-definition boost. Scratches and dirt don't ail the print and the appearance of the cinematography is naturally filmic without detriments like DNR. This presentation is one which fully preserves the 35 mm Technicolor image well. While it may have looked somewhat better with a 4K scan, it's nice to see the visual improvements this Blu-ray does offer viewers.
The film is presented with a lossless DTS-HD Master Audio mono audio soundtrack. This is certainly an impressive sound presentation that has excellent clarity and detail throughout. The dialogue is always clear and easy to understand. The music accompanying the film sounds clear, bright, and impressive. While the film might lack something in the way of bass production and sound-effects throughout the film are minimally used, The Front Page ultimately sounds fine for a film of its age.
I like Matthau and Lemmon and like them even better together but I didn't really rate The Front Page so much.
What's that one called where Matthau is a hit man and he gets stuck with Lemmon and they go all over the country? Not seen that in years but I remember it as being brilliant.
I like Matthau and Lemmon and like them even better together but I didn't really rate The Front Page so much.
What's that one called where Matthau is a hit man and he gets stuck with Lemmon and they go all over the country? Not seen that in years but I remember it as being brilliant.
buddy, buddy i think it was called
buddy, buddy i think it was called
That's the one thanks.
Must order the DVD, I think I saw it about twenty years ago now and not seen it come on the telly since then.
That's the one thanks.
Must order the DVD, I think I saw it about twenty years ago now and not seen it come on the telly since then.
it was put out in eu so you should get a copy via amazon. no uk or us edition tmk
£14 on Amazon so that's not happening. £14 for a DVD? Must be out of their tiny minds.
i ee that.. yup you'd need to really need it. a bluray yes but not a dvd that isnt even english
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, 2017. aka Salazar's Revenge
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Some light animation now with Hotel Transylvania, 2012. It stars the voices of Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade and CeeLo Green.
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A Bronx Tale, 1993. stars Robert De Niro, who also directs and Chazz Palminteri.
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De Niro's directorial debut and a excellent film which didnt do as well in the box office as it should have alas.
This is the Bluray edition.
Marvellous film.
Now, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, 1966 (bluray edition) Stars Clint Eastwood as "the Good", Lee Van Cleef as "the Bad", and Eli Wallach as "the Ugly. Directed by Sergio Leone. Music by Ennio Morricone.
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Original critics mostly disliked Spaghetti Westerns, and the violence depicted etc, but now this is classed as one of the greatest ever of any genre
Jason Bourne, 2016. directed by Paul Greengrass.
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39 Steps, 1959.
Not the best version but a pretty Taina Elghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210727/79bd71aebf594bebf8924e32c3c46b7f.jpg
Not just the worst version it's also one of the worst films ever. Diabolically bad in every respect.
The Robert Powell version was also pretty poor IMO.
Crazy People, 1990. Stars Dudley Moore and Daryl Hannah...
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The Robert Powell version was also pretty poor IMO.
The correct order best to worst is:
Robert Donat version
Robert Powell version
Crappy BBC TV version from 2008
Kenneth More version
There's also the ITV TV series with Robert Powell reprising the role, which is watchable but suffers from poor scripts and low production values.
Avanti!, 1972.. directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills.
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This is The Bluray(German) version from Koch media. Its a fairly decent copy that has english settings etc. pleased to pick this up as its a fav of mine
The correct order best to worst is:
Robert Donat version
Robert Powell version
Crappy BBC TV version from 2008
Kenneth More version
There's also the ITV TV series with Robert Powell reprising the role, which is watchable but suffers from poor scripts and low production values.
i would have the more version above the 2008 one. its not that bad really, just done in a late 50's style. The dialogue didnt really fit more and niether did the role tbh. but it was quite watchable if you ignore the book
Paris Texas. 1984. directed by Wim Wenders and starring Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski and Hunter Carson.
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music by ry cooder... this is courtesy of the bfi
Night Train To Munich, 1940. directed by Carol Reed and starring Margaret Lockwood and Rex Harrison, with Paul Henreid, Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne. Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder.
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An excellent propaganda film and more than just a re-run of The Lady Vanishes.
Ths is the Region A locked 2k bluray from The Criterion Collection.
The Grapes of Wrath, 1940. Directed by John Ford, It was based on John Steinbeck's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and the executive producer was Darryl F. Zanuck.
It stars, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell and John Carradine.
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Film won 2 Academy Awards; Jane Darwell(Best Supporting Actress), and John Ford(director).
A superb transfer this; one of the best, and helped by being shot in low light i think.
Bluray version from i think 2012.
Deja Vu, 2006. Stars Denzel Washington and Val Kilmer.. Directed by Tony Scott.
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The film did fairly well at Box Office, but not so well with the critics.
This is the Bluray edition.
The Mouse that Roared, 1959. Stars Peter Sellers and Jean Seberg.
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Pigmy Pony
29-07-2021, 18:57
Crazy People, 1990. Stars Dudley Moore and Daryl Hannah...
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I think I've seen this - if it's the one with the 'honest' advertising slogans like Bony Sony and Volvos being boxy but good, I thought it was quite funny :)
The Grapes of Wrath, 1940. Directed by John Ford, It was based on John Steinbeck's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and the executive producer was Darryl F. Zanuck.
It stars, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell and John Carradine.
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Film won 2 Academy Awards; Jane Darwell(Best Supporting Actress), and John Ford(director).
A superb transfer this; one of the best, and helped by being shot in low light i think.
Bluray version from i think 2012.
A wonderful film - just a shame the ending was changed so as not to upset the conservative/prudish sensibilities of American viewers. :doh:
Murder My Sweet, 1944. Stars Dick Powell, Claire Trevor and Anne Shirley. 6'5" Mike Mazurki, who was also a pro wrestler, plays Moose Malloy..https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Mike_Mazurki.gif a scary guy.lol
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Murder, My Sweet is considered one of the better adaptations of Chandler's work. Glenn Erickson wrote, "Murder, My Sweet remains the purest version of Chandler on film, even if it all seems far too familiar now."
Cat Ballou, 1965. Stars Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin.. Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye are the travelling minstrels who pop up throughout the film.
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Lee Marvin won an Academy Award for his duel role..
The film was well recieved and did very well at box office. The film was selected by the American Film Institute as the 10th greatest Western of all time in its AFI's 10 Top 10 list in 2008.
Picnic at Hanging Rock , 1975. Directed by Peter Weir, and starring Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Vivean Gray and Jacki Weaver.
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Weir recalled that when the film was first screened in the United States, American audiences were disturbed by the fact that the mystery remained unsolved. According to Weir, "One distributor threw his coffee cup at the screen at the end of it, because he'd wasted two hours of his life—a mystery without a goddamn solution!"
Critic Vincent Canby noted this reaction among audiences in a 1979 review of the film, in which he discussed the film's elements of artistic "Australian horror romance", albeit one without the cliches of a conventional horror film.
Despite this, the film was a critical success, with American film critic Roger Ebert calling it "a film of haunting mystery and buried sexual hysteria" and remarked that it "employs two of the hallmarks of modern Australian films: beautiful cinematography and stories about the chasm between settlers from Europe and the mysteries of their ancient new home."
Courtesy of BFI for this film.
A marvellous bit of film making tbh, all the more so because you dont get the closure you strived for:)
Something lighter hearted now with a bit of pirating from Johnny Depp
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Little Big Man, 1970. directed by Arthur Penn. stars Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey and Richard Mulligan.
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I watch this a lot as its superb. it has everything in it and maybe my fav film.
Bluray edition.
this again
Dr Strangelove, 1964. The Criterion Collection presents.... fabulously reconstructed from various sources, this is one of the greats.
Directed by Stanley Kubrick and stars Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, and Slim Pickens.
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Dr. Strangelove is Kubrick's highest-rated film on Rotten Tomatoes, holding a 98% approval rating based on 91 reviews, with an average rating of 9.13/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Stanley Kubrick's brilliant Cold War satire remains as funny and razor-sharp today as it was in 1964." The film also holds a score of 97 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 32 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". The film is ranked number 7 in the All-Time High Scores chart of Metacritic's Video/DVD section. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
The Nightingale, 2018. Aussie western, written, directed, and co-produced by Jennifer Kent. It stars Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, and Baykali Ganambarr,
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Probably a very difficult watch for most, but this type of thing did go on in Tasmania back in the day. Jennifer Kent got a lot of abuse for it, but not from me.
Marco would like this i think.
Stalag 17, 1953. Starring: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Peter Graves, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck and Richard Erdman. It was directed by Billy Wilder.
Holden won the Academy Award for best actor.
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This is the Masters Of Cinema(eureka) bluray which is in lovely condition bot picture and 2 channel audio.
To Kill a Mockingbird , 1962. Based on Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and starring Gregory Peck and Robert Duvall(in his screen debut) with Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, William Windom, and Alice Ghostley.
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The film received widespread critical acclaim. As of May 2021, it maintains a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 66 reviews, with an average rating of 8.90/10. The site's critical consensus states, "To Kill a Mockingbird is a textbook example of a message movie done right – sober-minded and earnest, but never letting its social conscience get in the way of gripping drama." According to Bosley Crowther.
One of the great films, and should be on everyone's list to watch.
Now another film from same year; Mockingbird won I think 3 Oscars, this got 7 at same ceremony. Lawrence of Arabia, 1962 directed by David Lean and starring Peter O'Toole, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, Jose Ferrer and Omar Sharif among many.
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Score by Maurice Jarre and cinematography by Freddie Young.
A stunner.....
Murder By Decree, 1979.. This is Holmes and Watson on trail of Jack The Ripper.. Stars Christopher Plummer and James Mason as the duo. It has an all star supporting cast too.
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excellent holmes version. top actors and of course a great story you can do lots with. truth is not really known so its all fair game. Plummer is at top of his game.
Picnic at Hanging Rock , 1975. Directed by Peter Weir, and starring Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Vivean Gray and Jacki Weaver.
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Weir recalled that when the film was first screened in the United States, American audiences were disturbed by the fact that the mystery remained unsolved. According to Weir, "One distributor threw his coffee cup at the screen at the end of it, because he'd wasted two hours of his life—a mystery without a goddamn solution!"
Critic Vincent Canby noted this reaction among audiences in a 1979 review of the film, in which he discussed the film's elements of artistic "Australian horror romance", albeit one without the cliches of a conventional horror film.
Despite this, the film was a critical success, with American film critic Roger Ebert calling it "a film of haunting mystery and buried sexual hysteria" and remarked that it "employs two of the hallmarks of modern Australian films: beautiful cinematography and stories about the chasm between settlers from Europe and the mysteries of their ancient new home."
Courtesy of BFI for this film.
A marvellous bit of film making tbh, all the more so because you dont get the closure you strived for:)
A first class film by anyone's standard.
I rarely pay attention to what reviews have to say about films (or indeed Hi-fi)!
One of the great films, and should be on everyone's list to watch.
Agreed, as is 'Lawrence of Arabia'.
Dr Strangelove, 1964. The Criterion Collection presents.... fabulously reconstructed from various sources, this is one of the greats.
Directed by Stanley Kubrick and stars Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, and Slim Pickens.
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Dr. Strangelove is Kubrick's highest-rated film on Rotten Tomatoes, holding a 98% approval rating based on 91 reviews, with an average rating of 9.13/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Stanley Kubrick's brilliant Cold War satire remains as funny and razor-sharp today as it was in 1964." The film also holds a score of 97 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 32 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". The film is ranked number 7 in the All-Time High Scores chart of Metacritic's Video/DVD section. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Another brilliant film by Kubrick. Eveyone should watch it, at least once, in their lifetime.
Just finished Chernobyl on NetFlix.
Criterion's New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural of THE FOUR FEATHERS.
John Clements as,
Harry Faversham.
Ralph Richardson as,
Captain John Durrance.
C. Aubrey Smith as,
General Burroughs.
and
June Duprez as,
Ethne Burroughs.
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Directed by Zoltán Korda in 1939, so its 82 years young.
This is the region A bluray.
This again. Classic boys own stuff and by far the best version. Its an excellent book too although different to the film.
McCabe And Mrs Miller, 1971. directed by Robert Altman, and starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie.
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The film had mixed revies initially but is firmly now classed as a classic.. 3 Cohen songs are perormed in the film.
The film was deemed the 8th greatest Western of all time by the American Film Institute in its AFI's 10 Top 10 list in 2008 and, in 2010, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
Kansass City, 1996. directed by Robert Altman and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Murphy, and Steve Buscemi.
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The film is about a kidnapping that goes down in 1934 Kansas City.. Altman gathered some of the best living jazz musicians, put them on a set representing the Hey Hey Club, and asked them to play period material in the style of the Kansas City jazz giants (Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Jay McShann, Lester Young, etc.). He filmed their work in a concert documentary style, and intercuts it".
Young Guns, 1988. stars Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko, Terence Stamp, Terry O'Quinn, Brian Keith, and Jack Palance.
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Enemy At The Gates, 2001. Stars Jude law, Rachel Weisz, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman, Eva Mattes, Gabriel Marshall Thomson, and Matthias Habich.
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Although not accurate to life it is a decent film overall when it concentrates on the(apparently) fictional dual. Zaitsev's weapon is a 7.62×54mmR Mosin Model 1891/30 sniper rifle with a PU 3.5× sniper scope.
Passage to Marseille, 1944. Bogey in action as a free french sort of guy;)
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My comrades, I can think of no more fitting last words for our friend than those which he himself wrote as his last words and wasn't able to deliver.
"My dear son, today you are 5 years old and your father has never seen you. But someday, in a better world, he will. I write to you of that day. Together we walk, hand in hand. We walk and we look. And some of the things we see are wonderful, and some are terrible. On a green stretch of ground are 10,000 graves, and you feel hatred welling up in your heart. This was, but it will never be again. The world has been cured since your father treated that terrible abscess on its body with iron and fire. And there were millions of healers who worked with him and made sure there would be no recurrence. Their deadly conflict was waged to decide your future. Your friends did not spare themselves and were ruthless to your foes. You are the heir of what your father and your friends won for you with their blood. From their hands, you have received the flag of happiness and freedom. My son, be the standard-bearer of the great age they have made possible. It would be too tragic if the men of goodwill should ever be lax or fail again to build a world where youth may love without fear,and where parents may grow old with their children, and where men will be worthy of each other's faith. Take care of your mother, Jean. I hold you in my arms. I kiss you both. May God keep you and love you as I do. Good night and au revoir till our work is finished.
amen to that
To Have and Have Not, 1944.. Bogey again with Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall. It was directed by Howard Hawks, and loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel.
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In her autobiography, Lauren Bacall described what she called Hawks's "brilliantly creative work method" on set. She described that every morning on set, Hawks would sit with Bacall, Bogart, and whoever else was in the scene in chairs in a circle as a script girl read the scene. After reading through the scene, Hawks would add sexual dialogue and innuendo between Bacall and Bogart. After Hawks and Bogart felt the changes were adequate, Hawks would add one light on the set and they would go through the scene. Hawks would encourage them to move freely and do what felt comfortable for them. After going through the scenes a few times, cinematographer Sidney Hickox would discuss camera set ups with Hawks.
According to biographer Todd McCarthy, To Have and Have Not is a quintessential Hawks film. It contains classic Hawksian characters such as the strong male and his female counterpart. He also states that although elements of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Casablanca can be found in the film, it represents Hawks's capacity for expression, claiming it is, "beyond doubt, exactly the work its director intended it to be, and would have been nothing like this in the hands of anyone else."
Walter Brennan was one of only 3 men to win 3 Oscars... the other two were??? who knows:eyebrows:
Ruthless People, 1986...Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Anita Morris, Helen Slater and Bill Pullman star.
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To Have and Have Not, 1944.. Bogey again with Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall. It was directed by Howard Hawks, and loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel.
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In her autobiography, Lauren Bacall described what she called Hawks's "brilliantly creative work method" on set. She described that every morning on set, Hawks would sit with Bacall, Bogart, and whoever else was in the scene in chairs in a circle as a script girl read the scene. After reading through the scene, Hawks would add sexual dialogue and innuendo between Bacall and Bogart. After Hawks and Bogart felt the changes were adequate, Hawks would add one light on the set and they would go through the scene. Hawks would encourage them to move freely and do what felt comfortable for them. After going through the scenes a few times, cinematographer Sidney Hickox would discuss camera set ups with Hawks.
According to biographer Todd McCarthy, To Have and Have Not is a quintessential Hawks film. It contains classic Hawksian characters such as the strong male and his female counterpart. He also states that although elements of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Casablanca can be found in the film, it represents Hawks's capacity for expression, claiming it is, "beyond doubt, exactly the work its director intended it to be, and would have been nothing like this in the hands of anyone else."
One of my all-time favourite films! :)
One of my all-time favourite films! :)It's a very well made film Barry.
It's a very well made film Barry.
Yes I know - I have it. :)
(Actually I prefer it to 'Casablanca' :sofa:)
Yes I know - I have it. :)
(Actually I prefer it to 'Casablanca' :sofa:)You could have a point, certainly with charisma if cast, brennan is superb, and is only a sidekick
The Lady Vanishes, 1938. Hitchcock's masterpiece reinvented re Criterion's remaster in 1080p. It stars Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave, with Paul Lukas, May Whitty, Cecil Parker, Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford.
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"This high-definition transfer was created on a Spirit Datacine from a 35mm composite fine-grain master positive. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, warps, jitter, and flicker were manually removed using MTI's DRS and Pixel Farm's PFClean, while Image Systems' DVNR was used for small dirt, grain, and noise reduction.
Telecine supervisor: Lee Kline.
Telecine colorist: Martin Southworth/Rushes, London."
The high-definition transfer is a revelation. Every single area of importance we typically address in our reviews, from detail to clarity to color reproduction, has seen dramatic improvements. The darker sequences, for example, that were so problematic on the old Criterion DVD release have been impressively stabilized.
The Maltese Falcon, 1941. Directed by John Huston in his directorial debut, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Ward Bond and Sydney Greenstreet.
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The film premiered in New York City on October 3, 1941, and was nominated for three Academy Awards. Considered one of the greatest films of all time, it was one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress to be included in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It is a part of Roger Ebert's series The Great Movies and was cited by Panorama du Film Noir Américain as the first major film noir.
Joel Cairo: You always have such a smooth explanation.
Sam Spade: What to you want me to do, learn to stutter?
The House on 92nd Street, 1945. Directed by Henry Hathaway and stars William Eythe and Lloyd Nolan.
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One of these oddities that were liked more in the day than now.
Pickup Alley, 1957(aka Interpol). Directed by John Gilling and starring Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, Trevor Howard, Bonar Colleano and Sid James.
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This is the new master from Arrow Academy. A rarely seen British film noir filmed in B&W cinemascope by Ted Moore.
British 50's singer Yana has a slot in it too. she was quite famous once.
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One, Two, Three, 1961. It was directed by Billy Wilder and written by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond. It is based on the 1929 Hungarian one-act play Egy, kettő, három by Ferenc Molnár, with a "plot borrowed partly from" Ninotchka, a 1939 film co-written by Wilder. The comedy features James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Liselotte Pulver, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, Leon Askin, Howard St. John, and others. It would be Cagney's last film appearance until Ragtime in 1981, 20 years later.
Cagney thouroughly disliked Buchholz and wanted to thump him.;)
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Wilder was filming in Berlin the morning the Berlin Wall went up, forcing the crew to move to Munich. During principal photography, Wilder received a call from Joan Crawford, recently appointed to the board of directors of Pepsi-Cola following her husband Alfred Steele's death. In response to Crawford's protests over the use of the Coca-Cola brand in the film, Wilder scattered some references to Pepsi, including the final scene.
When the movie opened, it came with a spoken preface by Cagney, added by Wilder:
On Sunday, August 13th, 1961, the eyes of America were on the nation's capital, where Roger Maris was hitting home runs #44 and 45 against the Senators. On that same day, without any warning, the East German Communists sealed off the border between East and West Berlin. I only mention this to show the kind of people we're dealing with—real shifty.
This is the Eureka remastered Bluray/
Classic film that.. Cagney was superb, as were most of cast tbh. Buchholz stood out as the poorest actor alas.
War film with a difference now and, 'Heaven Knows Mr Allison', 1957. Directed by John Huston and stars Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum.
Cinematography by Oswald Morris.
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The Marines provided troops for the invasion climax. Six Japanese living in Brazil played some of the leading Japanese characters, while Chinese from the laundries and restaurants of Trinidad and Tobago filled out the rest of the Japanese soldiers.
Kerr was nominated for an Academy Award for her role.
Sullivan's Travels, 1941. It was written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake.
Sullivan's Travels received disparate critical reception: The New York Times described it as "the most brilliant picture yet this year", praising Sturges's mix of escapist fun with underlying significance, and ranked it as one of the ten best films of 1941. But The Hollywood Reporter said that it lacked the "down to earth quality and sincerity which made [Sturges's] other three pictures of 1941 – The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, and Christmas in July – "a joy to behold".
Over time, the film's reputation has improved tremendously. Media historian Hal Erickson classified it as a "classic", "one of the finest movies about movies ever made" and a "masterpiece".[3] In 1990, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
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"The HD master for Sullivan's Travels was created from a 35mm dupe negative by Universal Digital Services and delivered by Hollywood Classics. Additional picture and audio restoration work was carried out using a combination of software tools and techniques at Deluxe Digital - EMEA, London.
Film restoration supervisor: James White.
Film restoration for Deluxe Production: Mark Bonnici, Graham Jones, Tom Barrett, Clayton Baker.
Special Thanks: Peter Schade, NBC Universal."
The high-definition transfer has been struck from a pre-existing master and rather predictably there are some sporadic fluctuations. To be perfectly clear, there are portions of the film that look quite good, with image depth in particular being far superior when one compares the Blu-ray release with the R1 DVD release Criterion produced back in 2001 ..
Ths is the Arrow Academy Bluray.
Scarlett Street, 1945. It was directed by Fritz Lang and stars Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea.
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Local authorities in three cities (New York, Milwaukee, and Atlanta) banned Scarlet Street early in 1946 because of its dark plot and themes.
The film was based on the French novel La Chienne (literally The Bitch) by Georges de La Fouchardière, that previously had been dramatized on stage by André Mouëzy-Éon, and cinematically as La Chienne (1931) by director Jean Renoir.
Go back a year and same cast and director for a very similar film.. The Woman In The Window, 1944.
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One of first film noir and some say it was the film that caused the term to be used.
This is the Eureka Bluray from my collection
The Westerner, 1940. directed by William Wyler and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, and Doris Davenport.
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The film is remembered for Walter Brennan's performance as Judge Roy Bean for which he won his record-setting third Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946. William Wyler again as director.. starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo and Harold Russell.
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The Film won seven Academy Awards. The Best Years of Our Lives was also a massive commercial success and one of the top of the whole decade.
Despite his Oscar-nominated performance, Harold Russell(who had lost both hands during the war) was not a professional actor. As the Academy Board of Governors considered him a long shot to win, they gave him an Academy Honorary Award "for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance". When Russell in fact won Best Supporting Actor, there was an enthusiastic response. He is the only actor to have received two Academy Awards for the same performance.
Bunny Lake Is Missing, 1965. Stars Laurence Olivier. Directed by Otto Preminger.
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As with the 1960 film Psycho, audiences were not admitted after the film's start. This was not common practice at the time and was emphasised in the film's promotion, including on the poster, which warned: "No One Admitted While the Clock Is Ticking!"
The fim again is now thought of in a much better light than on release. This is the Bluray version.
Bunny Lake Is Missing, 1965. Stars Laurence Olivier. Directed by Otto Preminger.
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As with the 1960 film Psycho, audiences were not admitted after the film's start. This was not common practice at the time and was emphasised in the film's promotion, including on the poster, which warned: "No One Admitted While the Clock Is Ticking!"
The fim again is now thought of in a much better light than on release. This is the Bluray version.
It's a good film. I didn't know about the 'no admittance after the start of the screening' policy either for this film or for "Psycho!. You learn something everyday. :)
walpurgis
07-08-2021, 08:57
Bunny Lake Is Missing, 1965
Strange film, I've seen it a few times. Quite liked it, but no doubt not to everybody's taste. Carol Lynley was a great looking girl.
yes its an interesting film and Jane Fonda was hoping to get the role, but Preminger had already decided he wanted Lynley. And yes she was very pretty. Keir Dullea Got the role in 2001 off the back of his performance here, and didnt have to even audition.
A rarity now.. After The Fox, 1966. directed by Vittorio De Sica and starring Peter Sellers, Victor Mature and Britt Ekland.
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Alas some of the best jokes were cut by Italians who didnt speak English and missed their humour. But it is still a cult film. Vitor Mature was great at making himself a joke.
This is the bfi bluray
Shaun of the Dead, 2004. Simon pegg and Nick Frost star.
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Bad Day at Black Rock, 1955. directed by John Sturges and starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Lee Marvin, and Ernest Borgnine. this is the bluray edition.
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Just before shooting began, an indecisive Tracy tried to back out of the picture. Schary made clear that he was willing to sue the actor if he quit the film.According to Robert Osborne of the television network Turner Classic Movies, in the introduction to the film's airing on its weekly segment The Essentials, Tracy, weighed down by his growing alcoholism, refused to give MGM an answer. In order to close the deal, according to Osborne, an MGM executive contacted Tracy shortly before filming was to begin and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Tracy, a copy of the script has been sent to Alan Ladd and he has agreed to do the picture." The next day, Tracy committed to Bad Day at Black Rock. Ladd, however, apparently never even saw the script. It turned out to be Tracy's last film for MGM, with the exception of How the West Was Won (1962), for which Tracy supplied the narration.
walpurgis
07-08-2021, 17:27
Bad Day at Black Rock, 1955. directed by John Sturges and starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Lee Marvin, and Ernest Borgnine.
Great film with a superb cast!
Great film with a superb cast!
yeah, its superb.. robert ryan is great too.. tbh they all play their parts well.
House of Bamboo, 1955. Directed and co-written by Samuel Fuller, and starring Robert Ryan, this is an American film noir shot in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color. Supporting cast is Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell and DeForest Kelley.
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For many years after its initial release, the film was only seen on TV in pan-and-scan prints, leading people to believe that DeForest Kelley has a small role near the end of the film. When Fox finally struck a new 35mm CinemaScope print for a film festival in the 1990s, viewers were surprised to see that Kelley was in the film all the way through—he was just always off to one side and thus had been panned out of the frame.
This is the remastered Eureka Bluray from late 2020.
12 Angry Men, 1957. Directed by Sidney Lumet and stars among others, Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, E. G. Marshall, and Jack Warden.
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Although it faired badly at box office in the USA, it did better abroad, and is now classed as one of the great movies ...Jurer no8(Fonda) was named 28th in a list of the 50 greatest movie heroes of the 20th century.
Love me Or Leave Me, 1955. the life story of Ruth Etting, and stars Doris Day as Etting, James Cagney as gangster Martin "Moe the Gimp" Snyder, her first husband and manager, and Cameron Mitchell as pianist/arranger Johnny Alderman, her second husband. It was written by Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart and directed by Charles Vidor.
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The role of Snyder was originally intended for Spencer Tracy, but he turned down the project. Cagney suggested to producer Joe Pasternak casting Doris Day in the Etting role. The role had been sought by Ava Gardner and Jane Russell.
It was nominated for 6 Oscars and wone one for 'Best Motion Picture Story'
An Inspector Calls, 1954. Based on a play by J.B. Priestley. Directed by Guy Hamilton and written for the screen by Desmond Davis. It stars Alistair Sim as 'The Inspector'...
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Another 60th anniversary edition, Hobson's Choice, 1954. Directed by the great David Lean and stars John Mills, Charles Laughton, Brenda DeBanzie and Prunela Scales.
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This was the most popular film of its year and was John Mills favorite of all his films.
Another remaster of a classic tale; Film of E Nesbit's novel, The Railway Children, 1970. Directed by Lionel Jefferies and stars Dinah Sheriden, Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett, Iain Cuthbertson, William Mervin and Bernard Cribbins.
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Lionel Jeffries used the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, and its station at Oakworth, as the backdrop for the film, referring to it as the "Great Northern and Southern Railway".
At the time of filming, there were still very few heritage railways in Britain and only the KWVR could provide a tunnel, which is important in a number of scenes. The tunnel is a lot shorter in reality than it appears in the film, for which a temporary extension to the tunnel was made using canvas covers.
The film was and still is a critical mastepiece and was Jeffries debut as a director.
Interestingly Sally Thomsett was older that Agutter but had to pretent to be younger, even on set, so wasnt allowed to smoke lol
12 Angry Men, 1957. Directed by Sidney Lumet and stars among others, Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, E. G. Marshall, and Jack Warden.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/12_Angry_Men_%281957_film_poster%29.jpg/800px-12_Angry_Men_%281957_film_poster%29.jpg
Although it faired badly at box office in the USA, it did better abroad, and is now classed as one of the great movies ...Jurer no8(Fonda) was named 28th in a list of the 50 greatest movie heroes of the 20th century.
It's a very good movie. I did jury service thirty years ago - and the film went through my mind at the time.
Everyone remembers Henry Fonda, but I think Lee J. Cobb's rôle was equally commendable, playing the part of the bigoted jurer.
Another remaster of a classic tale; Film of E Nesbit's novel, The Railway Children, 1970. Directed by Lionel Jefferies and stars Dinah Sheriden, Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett, Iain Cuthbertson, William Mervin and Bernard Cribbins.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81i3FfwBKhL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
Lionel Jeffries used the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, and its station at Oakworth, as the backdrop for the film, referring to it as the "Great Northern and Southern Railway".
At the time of filming, there were still very few heritage railways in Britain and only the KWVR could provide a tunnel, which is important in a number of scenes. The tunnel is a lot shorter in reality than it appears in the film, for which a temporary extension to the tunnel was made using canvas covers.
The film was and still is a critical mastepiece and was Jeffries debut as a director.
Interestingly Sally Thomsett was older that Agutter but had to pretent to be younger, even on set, so wasnt allowed to smoke lol
Yes, a classic. :)
An Inspector Calls, 1954. Based on a play by J.B. Priestley. Directed by Guy Hamilton and written for the screen by Desmond Davis. It stars Alistair Sim as 'The Inspector'...
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I haven't seen that version - and I should, but for me the one with David Thewlis as the 'Inspector' will be the definitive version.
I haven't seen that version - and I should, but for me the one with David Thewlis as the 'Inspector' will be the definitive version.
its the more modern version and is used in schools a lot, but the sim one is just so perfect i cant see it not being a masterpiece for ever
Farewell My Lovely, 1975. Neo noir directed by Dick Richards and featuring Robert Mitchum as private detective Phillip Marlowe.
also stars Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Jack O'Halloran, Sylvia Miles and Harry Dean Stanton, with an early screen appearance by Sylvester Stallone.
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Mitchum(who was the only actor to play Marlowe twice on the big screen) says Charlotte Rampling "arrived with an odd entourage, two husbands or something. Or they were friends and she married one of them and he grew a mustache and butched up. She kept exercising her mouth like she was trying to swallow her ear. I played her on the right side because she had two great big blackheads on her left ear, and I was afraid they'd spring out and lodge on my lip."[8]
Mitchum later admitted, "This kid Richards, the director, he's got something. It'll be a good picture."
Another neo noir now with Charley Varrick, 1973. It was directed by Don Siegel and starred Walter Matthau, Andrew Robinson, Joe Don Baker and John Vernon.
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Matthau won the 1974 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards for Best Actor in Charley Varrick. In addition, Frank Morriss was nominated for the 1974 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards for Best Editing.
walpurgis
10-08-2021, 10:55
Another neo noir now with Charley Varrick, 1973.
Top class movie. I have the DVD, should watch it again.
Top class movie. I have the DVD, should watch it again.
yup as its a fav of mine i ordered the remastered bluray from the states. they take a few weeks to come tho and are reg a..
EDIT.. actually the order is for the next film doh.. lol
Hopscotch, 1980..Directed by Ronald Neame, and stars Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, and Herbert Lom.
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New York Times critic Vincent Canby gave the film a rave review: "a lark, a comic cloak-and-dagger adventure ... a stylish, lighter-than-air vehicle that moves from Munich to Salzburg to Washington to the Deep South to Europe and back without once losing its breath. It is beautifully played by Mr. Matthau and Miss Jackson and by a supporting cast ... directed by Ronald Neame and scored largely by Mozart. My only reservation is that Miss Jackson isn't on the screen enough"
Paul, 2011. The unrated version before it was cut for theatrical release. Stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, with Kirsten Wiig and Jason Bateman.
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The Searchers, 1956. Directed by John Ford and stars John Wayne, Natalie Wood and Jeffery Hunter.
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The film continues to be rated as one of the top films ever.
Got access to Netflix now so having a look at this
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The Heiress, 1949. stars Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift and Ralph Richardson. This is an adaptation of the Henry James book, Washington Square(1880). Directed by the great William Wyler
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This Criterion Bluray presentation is rather good with an excellent mono track. Picture is also good and was rescanned in 4k. this was de Havilland's best ever performance.
The sniff of a parents' dislike of his child(as his wife died in childbirth) and a beau who may just be after her money is all too much for a shy girl to bear forever.. The way the actress handles the change to bitterness is amazing.
One of Wyler's greatest.
Got access to Netflix now so having a look at this
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what did you think of it Roy?
More classic acting now with The Boys from Brazil, 1978. Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier star, and featuring James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Anne Meara, Denholm Elliott, and Steve Guttenberg. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.
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Although the bulk of the film is set in South America, Fryer says actually filming in that continent was "logistically impossible" so the decision was made to shoot it in Lisbon, Portugal. Filming started in Portugal in October 1977, with additional filming in London, Vienna, the Kölnbrein Dam in Austria, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The scenes that were set in Massachusetts were shot in London.
There were 3 Academy Awards Nominations from this;(none won) Academy Award for Best Actor – Laurence Olivier, Academy Award for Film Editing – Robert Swink and Academy Award for Original Music Score – Jerry Goldsmith.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan, 1941. stars Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains and Evelyn Keyes. Direction from Alexander Hall.
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what did you think of it Roy?
Enjoyed it but it wasn’t till I’d got into it then paused it to pop to the loo that I realised it was three and a half hours long so perhaps overly long like Most Scorsese films. De Niro wasn’t too convincing playing his younger self but I liked Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa. Think I dropped off towards the end so might need to revisit the ending lol.
Tonight's feature
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It's no Pulp Fiction, extraordinarily violent towards the end.
Another American classic now... Youn Mr Lincoln, 1939. This is the Criterion Bluray and very tidy it is for the year... Henry Fonda portrays Lincoln in his early years as a lawyer. John Ford (director) persuaded Fonda to take the role.
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This is a Reg A film. Picture and audio is superb considering its over 80 years young.
Tonight's feature
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It's no Pulp Fiction, extraordinarily violent towards the end.
I've watched it a couple of times now, there's a lot to take in. No question the best bit is where Brad Pitt fights Bruce Lee though. That's classic.
I've watched it a couple of times now, there's a lot to take in. No question the best bit is where Brad Pitt fights Bruce Lee though. That's classic.
Yes, it would certainly stand a second watching.
I'd like to have a flamethrower in my tool shed.
Yes, it would certainly stand a second watching.
I'd like to have a flamethrower in my tool shed.
i used to have a homemade one... gas and compressed air.. boy it burnt hot:eyebrows:
another american classic now... Youn mr lincoln, 1939. This is the criterion bluray and very tidy it is for the year... Henry fonda portrays lincoln in his early years as a lawyer. John ford (director) persuaded fonda to take the role.
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this is a reg a film. Picture and audio is superb considering its over 80 years young.
quality acting...
King Of New York, 1991. American neo-noir crime thriller film starring Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes, and Giancarlo Esposito. It was directed by independent filmmaker Abel Ferrara and written by Nicholas St. John.
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Total Film rated King of New York four stars out of five. Roger Ebert awarded two stars out of four, citing Walken's "usual polished and somehow sinister ease" and the director's strong command of mood and style, marred by a sketchy screenplay and a fragmented plot. Mark Caro, writing for the Chicago Tribune, gave the movie only 1/2 star. He called King of New York "a film that sucked like mad", adding that star Christopher Walken and the movie remain "just out of grasp".
Take your pick, but it crashed at the box office.
Nevada Smith, 1966. Directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy and Suzanne Pleshette.
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The movie was a prequel to the 1961 Harold Robbins novel The Carpetbaggers, which had been made into a highly successful film two years earlier, with Alan Ladd playing McQueen's part as an older man. Nevada Smith depicts Smith's first meeting with another "Carpetbaggers" character, Jonas Cord, but the two films' stories are otherwise unrelated.
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