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The Green Man, 1956. Stars Alistair Sim and George Cole, and co- starring Terry-Thomas and Jill Adams.
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The Magnificent Seven, 1960.
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How the West Was Won, 1962. epic Western film directed by Henry Hathaway(mostly). All topstar cast for this classic (with overtures and all)
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Surprisingly for such an American film, How the West Was Won had its world premiere in the United Kingdom at London's Casino Cinerama Theatre on November 1, 1962. It had a $450,000 advance. The film ran at the Casino for 123 weeks, ending in April 1965.
Harold Myers of Variety called it a "magnificent and exciting spectacle" and in relation to the Cinerama process noted that there had been "a vast improvement in the process. The print joins are barely noticeable, and the wobble, which beset earlier productions, has been eliminated."
Spencer Tracy did the narration.
Got the DVD. Cracking film and an all time classic!
Agree - I also have it on DVD.
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The Hustler (1961)
Must be a long time since I watched this last as there are whole scenes I don't remember. They aren't making them like this anymore, more's the pity.
Great actors and dialogue and authentic NYC settings. The pool halls were real, for the bus station dining area 'the film crew built a dining area that was so realistic that confused passengers sat there and waited to place their orders.'
The jazz soundtrack is also excellent, sadly it appears to be 'out of print'.
Pigmy Pony
31-10-2021, 10:32
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Showing on Netflix, 7-part mini series. Some might say it's slow, but worth watching imo. Perfect binge-watch for Halloween. Some good performances, and a bit disturbing at times.
Stagecoach, 1939. Directed by John Ford and starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne, with Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell and Louise Platt.
This is the Criterion Region A version.
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Before production, Ford shopped the project around to several Hollywood studios, all of which turned him down because big budget Westerns were out of vogue, and because Ford insisted on using John Wayne in the key role in the film. Independent producer David O. Selznick finally agreed to produce it, but was frustrated by Ford's indecision about when shooting would begin, and had his own doubts over the casting. Ford withdrew the film from Selznick's company and approached independent producer Walter Wanger about the project. Wanger had the same reservations about producing an "A" western and even more about one starring John Wayne. Ford had not directed a western since the silent days. Wanger said he would not risk his money unless Ford replaced John Wayne with Gary Cooper and brought in Marlene Dietrich to play Dallas.
Ford refused to budge; it would be Wayne or no one. Eventually they compromised, with Wanger putting up $250,000, a little more than half of what Ford had been seeking, and Ford would give top billing to Claire Trevor, better known than John Wayne at the time.
Following the film's release on March 2, 1939, Ford's faith in John Wayne was rewarded as the film met with immediate critical and trade paper success[11] and made a profit of $297,690. Cast member Louise Platt, in a letter recounting the experience of the film's production, quoted Ford on saying of Wayne's future in film: "He'll be the biggest star ever because he is the perfect 'everyman'".
Stagecoach has been lauded as one of the most influential films ever made.[citation needed] Orson Welles argued that it was a perfect textbook of film-making and claimed to have watched it more than 40 times in preparation for the making of Citizen Kane. In 1995, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry.
Raid On Entebbe, 1976, directed by Irvin Kershner. It is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of hostages at Entebbe Airport in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 1976. The portrayal of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was Peter Finch's final performance; he died five days after the film's release.
Raid on Entebbe describes the rescue of the hostages held in Uganda, the discussions within the Israeli government, and the controversy prompted by the rescue.
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Raid on Entebbe was filmed entirely in the United States, with the Stockton Metropolitan Airport in Stockton, California, serving as both Entebbe Airport and an Israeli Air Force (IAF) base. Producers Blatt and Scherick turned to the "Hollywood Squadron", the 146th Airlift Wing of the California Air National Guard to provide three C-130 Hercules transports. Scenes were also shot at the Van Nuys Military airport, Los Angeles; these included footage of passenger jets, and the interior of a C-130 in which Bronson made his speech to the team about to attack Entebbe.
The C-130E variant used by the Israeli Air Force was the same variant that was flown by the 146th Wing. The camouflage scheme used by both the United States Air Force and IAF was virtually identical, and with the overpainting of Israeli markings, the Hercules transports became both "set dressing" for an Israeli airfield and as the aircraft used in the raid on Entebbe. The 146th Airlift Wing also supplied all the military equipment, such as M151 jeeps and weapons that would be seen at an active base.
Other aircraft used in Raid on Entebbe include an Airbus A300B2 F-BVGA (seen in archive footage); a Boeing 707, two Douglas DC-8-31s, 10 North American F-86 Sabre (1/2 scale models representing the Ugandan Air Force MiGs), North American FJ-3 Fury and Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter.
Principal photography on Raid on Entebbe took place in November 1976, with the training for the raid that took place using a replica of the Entebbe Airport. The actual airport had been built by an Israeli construction company and their involvement led to an accurate mockup being built to test out tactics devised for the raid.
Jeremiah Johnson, 1972. directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character and Will Geer as "Bear Claw" Chris Lapp.
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After Warner Bros. advanced Redford $200,000 to secure him for the film, Warner decided that the film had to be shot on the Studio's backlot due to cost constraints. Insisting that it must be shot on location in Utah, Redford and Pollack convinced the studio that this could be done at the same cost. To prepare for production, art director Ted Haworth drove over 26,000 miles to find locations. Ultimately, it was shot in nearly one hundred locations across Utah, including: Mount Timpanogos, Ashley National Forest, Leeds, Snow Canyon State Park, St. George, Sundance Resort, Uinta National Forest, Wasatch-Cache National Forest, and Zion National Park.
Stay in the west with Rooster Cogburn, 1975. Directed by Stuart Millar and starring John Wayne(reprising his role) and Katharine Hepburn. This is the sequel to the 1969 film True Grit.
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John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn were both born in May 1907 (Hepburn the elder by two weeks), and their careers paralleled each other, yet this marked the only time the Hollywood veterans appeared together in a film. Although it was promoted as Rooster Cogburn (...and the Lady), the opening credits of the film give the title as simply Rooster Cogburn. During filming, both 67-year-old stars stayed in Sunriver, Oregon; Governor Tom McCall flew in for a brief visit with them in early October.
Noted character actor Strother Martin portrayed Shanghai McCoy; he also appeared in True Grit, but as the horse trader Colonel G. Stonehill.
The War Wagon, 1967. Directed by Burt Kennedy and starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas. Supporting cast includes Howard Keel, Robert Walker Jr., Keenan Wynn, Joanna Barnes and Bruce Dern.
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The War Wagon was met with generally positive reviews from critics. Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars, who called it "that comparative rarity, a Western filmed with quiet good humor. It is also a point of departure for John Wayne, who plays a bad guy for just about the first time in his career."
The movie holds a 90% "Fresh" score on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 10 reviews.
Tombstone, 1993. Although it states directed by George P. Cosmatos, I believe it was actually directed by main star Kurt Russell. Also stars Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, and Dana Delany in supporting roles, as well as narration by Robert Mitchum.
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It made a good profit and was mostly liked, even if it strays from history somewhat(although much of that history is somewhat dubious in itself)
Loved the phrases, "i'm your huckleberry" and "your no daisy at all". Kilmer practiced for a long time to get part right and became a very fast draw apparently.
What is it with all these cowboy (sorry 'western') films Grant?
What is it with all these cowboy (sorry 'western') films Grant?
lol, not sure just fancied some classic wild west shootemups:D
its a great genre
I will admit there are a few that I like: 'High Noon' and some of the later stuff by, and starring, Clint Eastwood, but most seem to be romantic escapism and far removed from history.
walpurgis
02-11-2021, 14:43
Many 'westerns' weren't set in the west. Dodge City is bang in the middle of the US.
Many 'westerns' weren't set in the west. Dodge City is bang in the middle of the US.
Hence the quotes.
Dodge was a wild west frontier town , in Kansas. it was wild west in those days or at least the gateway to it...:eyebrows:
A change of direction now as im getting complaints :eyebrows: Dial M For Murder is a crime mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson, and John Williams.
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Why anyone whould want to bump off Grace i don't know but hey ho...
"This is a technical triumph that Hitchcock has achieved," wrote Bosley Crowther of The New York Times in a favourable review. "It is one for which he needed good actors. He has them—and the best of the lot is John Williams, late of the stage play, who is the detective who solves the sinister ruse."
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Scrooge, 1951.
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possibly the best of the christmas carol versions... for me anyway.
Shaun of the Dead, 2004.
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film did well here and in the states and is well regarded still.
Dog Soldiers, 2002. British action horror film written, directed and edited by Neil Marshall, in his directorial debut, and starring Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby and Liam Cunningham.
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 79%, based on 38 reviews, and an average rating of 6.90/10. The site's consensus reads, "Frightening, funny, and packed with action, Dog Soldiers is well worth checking out for genre fans -- and marks writer-director Neil Marshall as a talent to keep an eye on."
Jamie Russell of the BBC gave it 4 out of 5 and called it "A rip-roaring comedy action fest that'll put hairs on your chest." Empire magazine gave it 4 out of 5. Reviewing the 2020 rerelease the Guardian gave it 3 out of 5 and note that despite the limitations of the film the talent shown by Marshall in his debut feature that "You can easily draw a clear line through this to his later work". They conclude that "Dog Soldiers has aged pretty well."
Awards
In 2002, the film won the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film's Golden Raven, the festival's top award, as well as the audience prize, the Pegasus.
Something light now after all that intense bloodletting :eyebrows:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail grossed more than any British film exhibited in the US in 1975. In the US, it was selected in 2011 as the second-best comedy of all time in the ABC special Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time behind Airplane!. In the UK, readers of Total Film magazine in 2000 ranked it the fifth-greatest comedy film of all time; a similar poll of Channel 4 viewers in 2006 placed it sixth.
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Corny acting but fights are well choreographed.
The Fugitive, 1993. The film was directed by Andrew Davis and stars Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
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On Rotten Tomatoes The Fugitive has a "Certified Fresh" 96% rating based on 78 reviews, with an average rating of 8.00/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Exhilarating and intense, this high-impact chase thriller is a model of taut and efficient formula filmmaking, and it features Harrison Ford at his frantic best." On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 87 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a rare "A+" grade on a scale of A+ to F.
DAD'S ARMY, 2016.
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THIS IS ONE NO ONE BUT ME LIKES
Another Scott Adkins 'epic'
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The Cruel Sea, 1953. Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, Liam Redmond, Virginia McKenna and Moira Lister star. Directed by Charles Frend and produced by Leslie Norman.
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This is a story of the Battle of the Atlantic, the story of an ocean, two ships, and a handful of men. The men are the heroes; the heroines are the ships. The only villain is the sea, the cruel sea, that man has made more cruel...
Wilt, 1989.
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The African Queen, 1951.Was adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. The film was directed by John Huston It was photographed in Technicolor by Jack Cardiff and has a music score by Allan Gray. The film stars Humphrey Bogart (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor – his only Oscar) and Katharine Hepburn with Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner and Theodore Bikel.
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Much of the film was shot on location in Uganda and the Congo in Africa. This was rather novel for the time, especially for a Technicolor picture that used large, cumbersome cameras. The cast and crew endured sickness and spartan living conditions during their time on location. In an early scene, Hepburn was playing an organ but had a bucket to vomit in at her feet because she was often sick between takes. Bogart later bragged that he and Huston were the only members of the cast and crew who escaped illness, which he credited to not drinking any water on location but instead fortifying themselves from the large supply of whiskey they had brought along.
Wilt, 1989.
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I love the Tom Sharpe books. Most of which gave been successfully adapted to TV ('Blott on the Landscape' and 'Porterhouse Blue') and film ('Wilt').
Would love to see an adaptation of the South Africa series of books, though these days that might be difficult given the current 'woke' and PC sensibilities.
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I love the Tom Sharpe books. Most of which gave been successfully adapted to TV ('Blott on the Landscape' and 'Porterhouse Blue') and film ('Wilt').
Would love to see an adaptation of the South Africa series of books, though these days that might be difficult given the current 'woke' and PC sensibilities.
Reminds me
Watched a documentary the other night, Victorian Walks in Liverpool. Thought it might be interesting, lots of fascinating Victorian buildings in Liverpool. Of course it wasn't 5 minutes in before we were on to slavery. The whole thing presented in sub - 'Blue Peter Special' style with numerous factual inaccuracies. Couldn't make it through.
Watched another doc about London's Bridges. Waterloo Bridge. How would you possibly get racism into that? Well they managed it. Bridge is named after the battle and apparently there was a soldier from Jamaica in the British forces there.
Racism? He didn't get an invite to the opening of the bridge. Disregarding that there were 40,000 troops at that battle and none of them got invited either.
And although they had his birth certificate there was nothing to indicate on it that he was a black man. In fact it's highly improbable that a black man was serving with the British in the European theatre in 1815. I think they were just too thick to realise that white people got born in Jamaica too.
modern docu's and tv shows; even films are becoming too woke now. and far too much critism of say the 19th c attitudes.. they were 19thc attitudes ffs, not todays, but they are still relevent as to the time the depict. its history folks, warts and all.
im a great lover of flashman novels; yes they are racist, yes they are sexist, but them were the times, and tbh still are, just folk like to think they are better.
To Have and Have Not, 1944... watched it recently but its a good un... don't make em like this no more;)
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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."
i mean, walter brennan was a co star.... yet he won 3 academy awards...
To Have and Have Not, 1944... watched it recently but its a good un... don't make em like this no more;)
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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."
i mean, walter brennan was a co star.... yet he won 3 academy awards...
One of my favourite films - I actually prefer it to Casablanca. :sofa:
The Big Sleep, 1946. Hawks directs Bogey and Bacall again ...
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The re-shot, re-edited and revised The Big Sleep was released on 23 August 1946. The cinematic release is regarded as more successful than the 1945 pre-release version, even though it is difficult to follow. Audiences' difficulty in following this version of the film may be due in part to the omission of a long conversation between Marlowe and the Los Angeles District Attorney where the facts of the case, thus far, are laid out. Yet some film critics prefer the 1946 version because they consider the Bogart-Bacall appearances more important than a well-told story. For an example of this point of view, see Roger Ebert's The Great Movies essay on the film. According to Warner Bros records the film earned $3,493,000 domestically and $1,375,000 foreign.
One of my favourite films - I actually prefer it to Casablanca. :sofa:
its certainly about as good, partly due to the Bogey/Bacall magic, and Brennan at his best. Story isnt quite as good tho
walpurgis
06-11-2021, 11:49
Bogart was just great! The coolest actor ever.
The Big Sleep, 1946. Hawks directs Bogey and Bacall again ...
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The re-shot, re-edited and revised The Big Sleep was released on 23 August 1946. The cinematic release is regarded as more successful than the 1945 pre-release version, even though it is difficult to follow. Audiences' difficulty in following this version of the film may be due in part to the omission of a long conversation between Marlowe and the Los Angeles District Attorney where the facts of the case, thus far, are laid out. Yet some film critics prefer the 1946 version because they consider the Bogart-Bacall appearances more important than a well-told story. For an example of this point of view, see Roger Ebert's The Great Movies essay on the film. According to Warner Bros records the film earned $3,493,000 domestically and $1,375,000 foreign.
One of my all-time favourite films that. No idea how many times I've watched it. Must have read the book half a dozen times as well.
All about characters and atmosphere, the plot is just a vehicle. Even Chandler said he didn't know how all the loose ends tie up.
walpurgis
06-11-2021, 12:01
Must have read the book half a dozen times as well.
All about characters and atmosphere, the plot is just a vehicle. Even Chandler said he didn't know how all the loose ends tie up.
I have the book waiting to be read. Been going through the Chandler novels, fine stuff.
ive got it as an audio book
From the sublime to Carry On Cowboy, 1965.:D
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some great character names too... Sid James as Johnny Finger/The Rumpo Kid, Kenneth Williams as Judge Burke, Jim Dale as Marshal P. Knutt and Charles Hawtrey as Big Heap.
classic lines like; someone's dropped one.:eek:
On the Fiddle, 1961. It stars Sean Connery, Alfred Lynch, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Eric Barker, Mike Sarne, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Kathleen Harrison, Victor Maddern and John Le Mesurier.
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The fighting scenes in the woods were shot in and around "The Sandpit" on Horsell Common near Woking, Surrey. Interiors were completed at Shepperton Studios, Surrey.
The film was not released in the United States until 21 May 1965, retitled "Operation Snafu" and later "Operation War Head" by the US distributor American International Pictures. The only purpose of the US release was to capitalise on the popularity of Sean Connery, who by then had become world-famous as James Bond in Dr No, From Russia with Love and Goldfinger.
Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968. Classic spaghetti from the master.
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Fabulous cast here and maybe the best western ever.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest; 4k. 2006. Second in the series this one.
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Captain Davy Jones had originally been designed with chin growths, before the designers made the move to full-blown tentacles; the skin of the character incorporates the texture of a coffee-stained Styrofoam cup among other elements. To portray Jones on set, Bill Nighy wore a motion capture tracksuit that meant the animators at Industrial Light & Magic did not have to reshoot the scene in the studio without him or on the motion capture stage. Nighy wore make-up around his eyes and mouth to splice into the computer-generated shots, but the images of his eyes and mouth were not used. Nighy only wore a prosthetic once, with blue-colored tentacles for when Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) steals the key to the Dead Man's Chest from under his "beard" as he sleeps. To create the CGI version of the character, the model was closely based on a full-body scan of Nighy, with Jones reflecting his high cheekbones. Animators studied every frame of Nighy's performance: the actor himself had blessed them by making his performance more quirky than expected, providing endless fun for them. His performance also meant new controls had to be stored. Finally, Jones' tentacles are mostly a simulation, though at times they were hand-animated when they act as limbs for the character.
The Kraken was difficult to animate as it had no real-life reference, until animation director Hal Hickel instructed the crew to watch King Kong vs. Godzilla which featured a live octopus crawling over miniatures. On the set, two pipes filled with 30,000 pounds (14,000 kg) of cement were used to crash and split the Edinburgh Trader: Completing the illusion are miniature masts and falling stuntmen shot on a bluescreen stage. The scene where the Kraken spits at Jack Sparrow does not use computer-generated spit: it was real gunge thrown at Johnny Depp
Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961. directed and produced by Stanley Kramer and starring Judy Garland, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, William Shatner and Montgomery Clift.
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The film depicts the "Judges' Trial", the trial of Nazi judges for their role in the Holocaust. Abby Mann wrote the role of Judge Haywood with Tracy in mind; Tracy called it the best script he had ever read. At the end of the film, Tracy delivered a 13-minute speech. He recorded it in one take and received a round of applause from the cast and crew. Upon seeing the film, Mann wrote to Tracy: "Every writer ought to have the experience of having Spencer Tracy do his lines. There is nothing in the world quite like it." The film met with positive reviews and a large audience; Tracy received an eighth Oscar nomination for his performance.
Ladies Who Do is a 1963 British comedy film directed by C.M. Pennington-Richards starring Peggy Mount, Robert Morley and Harry H. Corbett.
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Good British cast for this light hearted comedy
Too Many Crooks, 1959. directed by Mario Zampi and stars George Cole, Sidney James, Brenda de Banzie, Terry-Thomas and Bernard Bresslaw.
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Another good British comedy from the days when we were good at it.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, 1947. starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
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Charles Lang received a 1947 Academy Award nomination for his black-and-white cinematography on the movie.
Zulu, 1964. British epic war film depicting the Battle of Rorke's Drift between the British Army and the Zulus in January 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War. Directed by Cy Endfield and produced by Stanley Baker.
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On its initial release in 1964, it was one of the biggest box-office hits of all time in the British market. For the next 12 years it remained in constant cinema circulation before making its first appearance on television. It then went on to become a television perennial, and remains beloved by the British public.
A great cast and Michael Caine's first major role.
modern docu's and tv shows; even films are becoming too woke now. and far too much critism of say the 19th c attitudes.. they were 19thc attitudes ffs, not todays, but they are still relevent as to the time the depict. its history folks, warts and all.
im a great lover of flashman novels; yes they are racist, yes they are sexist, but them were the times, and tbh still are, just folk like to think they are better.
The ironic thing with the Tom Sharpe South Africa books ('Riotous Assembly' etc.), is they ridicule and lampoon the system of apartheid operating in South Africa at the time. Sharpe was expelled from Africa after a play based on Riotous Assembly was performed there.
However the treatment of the blacks in SA could not be shown now, despite it being history, as it would upset the 'woke' generation.
No doubt they get upset by recent films such as 'Selma' and '12 Years a Slave', which need to be seen to show to people that conditions haven't changed that much for some.
Ride Lonesome, 1959, directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts, Lee Van Cleef, and James Coburn in his film debut.
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One of the many Boetticher/Scott collaborations in 50's.
Psycho, 1960. It was produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam.
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Hitchcock insisted that Bernard Herrmann write the score for Psycho despite the composer's refusal to accept a reduced fee for the film's lower budget. The resulting score, according to Christopher Palmer in The Composer in Hollywood (1990) is "perhaps Herrmann's most spectacular Hitchcock achievement." Hitchcock was pleased with the tension and drama the score added to the film, later remarking "33% of the effect of Psycho was due to the music." and that "Psycho depended heavily on Herrmann's music for its tension and sense of pervading doom."
Herrmann used the lowered music budget to his advantage by writing for a string orchestra rather than a full symphonic ensemble, contrary to Hitchcock's request for a jazz score. He thought of the single tone color of the all-string soundtrack as a way of reflecting the black-and-white cinematography of the film. The strings play con sordini (muted) for all the music other than the shower scene, creating a darker and more intense effect. Film composer Fred Steiner, in an analysis of the score to Psycho, points out that string instruments gave Herrmann access to a wider range in tone, dynamics, and instrumental special effects than any other single instrumental group would have.
Star Trek: Insurrection, 1998. ninth film in the Star Trek film series, directed by Jonathan Frakes.
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Insurrection was the first Star Trek film with space-based effects produced entirely using computer-generated imagery (CGI). While CGI had been used for specific effects since Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; Insurrection was the first Star Trek film to be made without using physical models of spacecraft. Santa Barbara Studios produced the effects, which included CGI starship models. The texture on the model of the Enterprise-E was created from a series of close-up photographs of the model Enterprise which had been used in First Contact. The planet-based effects, such as phaser fire, transporter effects and the Son'a drones were created by Blue Sky Studios. Peter Lauritson was the co-producer for post-production.
The Lone Ranger , 2013. directed by Gore Verbinski and stars Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp.
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was universally slated and bombed tbh.. pity as i like it... its old school entertainment for me, thats been modernised.
I can never make up my mind about The Lone Ranger - parts of it are pure genius, others are OTT. Always watchable though. :)
Throw Momma from the Train, 1987. starring Danny DeVito(who also directed), also starring Billy Crystal and Anne Ramsey, with Rob Reiner, Branford Marsalis, Kim Greist and Kate Mulgrew appearing in supporting roles.
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Anne Ramsey was singled out for praise for her portrayal of the overbearing Mrs. Lift; she won a Saturn Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Great fun.
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, 1989. directed this time by William Shatner.
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disappointed at box office but still doubled its money.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, 1986. directed by Leonard Nimoy.
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film did very well and made a tidy profit.
You can never have too much of Blazing Saddles, 1974..... directed by Mel Brooks and starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.
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Blackadder the 2nd. 1986. Some more comedy to cheer me...
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F: Your mother is alive and well and living in Droitwich. It is not her
I brood over. I’m sad because, my darling, our poverty has now
reached such extremes that I can no longer afford to keep us. I must
look to my own dear tiny darling to sustain me in my frail dotage.
K: But father, surely…
F: Yes Kate, I want you to become a prostitute.
K: Father!
F: Do you defy me?
K: But indeed, I do. For it is better to die poor than to live in shame
and ignominy.
F: No, it isn’t.
K: I’m young and strong and clever. My nose is pretty. I shall find
another way to earn us a living.
F: Oh, please… go on the game. It is a steady job and you’d be
working from home.
Ghosts of Berkley Square, 1949 I think. In fact 47.
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My Favorite Brunette, 1947. romantic comedy film and film noir parody, directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour.
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Antz, 1998. the voices of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvester Stallone, Christopher Walken, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Danny Glover and Gene Hackman.
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Antz premiered on September 19, 1998, at the Toronto International Film Festival,[11] and was released theatrically in the United States on October 2, 1998, by DreamWorks Pictures. It grossed $171.8 million worldwide on a budget of $42–105 million. The film received positive reviews, with critics praising the voice cast, animation, humor, and its appeal towards adults.
Blow Out, 1981. neo-noir psychological political mystery crime thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma.[3] The film stars John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow and Dennis Franz.
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Roger Ebert's four-star review in the Chicago Sun-Times noted that Blow Out "is inhabited by a real cinematic intelligence. The audience isn't condescended to...we share the excitement of figuring out how things develop and unfold, when so often the movies only need us as passive witnesses." Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 85% based on 52 reviews, with an average grade of 7.7/10, with the critical consensus reading "With a story inspired by Antonioni's Blowup and a style informed by the high-gloss suspense of Hitchcock, De Palma's Blow Out is raw, politically informed, and littered with film references".
49th Parallel, 1941. This was the third film made by the British filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was released in the United States as The Invaders.
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Screenwriter Emeric Pressburger remarked, "Goebbels considered himself an expert on propaganda, but I thought I'd show him a thing or two". Powell persuaded the British and Canadian governments and started location filming in 1940, but by the time the film appeared, in March 1942, the United States, which had been trying to stay out of the war in Europe, had been drawn into taking sides against Germany.
Lawrence001
12-11-2021, 11:16
49th Parallel, 1941. This was the third film made by the British filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was released in the United States as The Invaders.
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Screenwriter Emeric Pressburger remarked, "Goebbels considered himself an expert on propaganda, but I thought I'd show him a thing or two". Powell persuaded the British and Canadian governments and started location filming in 1940, but by the time the film appeared, in March 1942, the United States, which had been trying to stay out of the war in Europe, had been drawn into taking sides against Germany.Great film, it's a bit like Did the Day go Well in subject matter.
Also (your film) music by Vaughan Williams I believe?
Great film, it's a bit like Did the Day go Well in subject matter. Music by Vaughan Williams I believe?
yes, went the day well is a classic too...
now its another Powell and Pressburger film, this time post war and 1948,s The Red Shoes. stars Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook and Marius Goring.
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In 2017, a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine saw it ranked the 5th best British film ever.
Bit of alien comedy now with the uncut version of Paul, 2013..
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Went the Day Well?, 1942. British war film adapted from a story by Graham Greene and directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. It was produced by Michael Balcon of Ealing Studios and served as unofficial propaganda for the war effort.
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Exterior scenes were shot on location in the village of Turville in Buckinghamshire.
bit more up to date now and the 2008 The Bank Job... heist thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and starring Jason Statham, based on the 1971 Baker Street robbery in central London, from which the money and valuables stolen were never recovered. The producers allege that the story was prevented from being told in 1971 because of a D-Notice, to protect a prominent member of the British royal family. According to the producers, this film is intended to reveal the truth for the first time, although it includes significant elements of fiction.
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The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 80% of 148 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Well cast and crisply directed, The Bank Job is a thoroughly entertaining British heist thriller."
Who is the female (lead?), as shown on the cover?
Who is the female (lead?), as shown on the cover?
saffron burrows if memory serves barry.. quite pretty
Ah yes, now you mention it, it is Saffron Burrows. I first became aware of her in the BBC screening of 'Cold Lazarus', and the films 'Circle of Friends' and 'Enigma'.
Cabaret, 1972. directed by Bob Fosse, and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey.
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A Variety staff critic appraised the film in December 1971: "The film version of the 1966 John Kander-Fred Ebb Broadway musical Cabaret is most unusual: it is literate, bawdy, sophisticated, sensual, cynical, heart-warming, and disturbingly thought-provoking. Liza Minnelli heads a strong cast. Bob Fosse's generally excellent direction recreates the milieu of Germany some 40 years ago."
Joel Grey was superb.. the film got 10 Oscar nominations and won 8... simply superb film.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 1971. directed by Robert Altman, and starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie.
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This is the region A Criterion bluray version.
it includes 3 Cohen songs. they fit in very well.
Casablanca, 1942. From my apple library this time. Bogey and Bergman star. Always thought she was one of the most beautiful women of her day, if a bit grim at times.
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The Grapes of Wrath, 1940. based on John Steinbeck's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and was directed by John Ford.
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The film is widely considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. In 1989, it was one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
A good film, despite the 'sanitised' ending (obviously the film makers found the ending in the book would be unacceptable to a prudish US audience).
McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 1971. directed by Robert Altman, and starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie.
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This is the region A Criterion bluray version.
it includes 3 Cohen songs. they fit in very well.
Another good film there Grant.
A good film, despite the 'sanitised' ending (obviously the film makers found the ending in the book would be unacceptable to a prudish US audience).
tbf, im not sure uk would have accepted it either. a step too far in film ; in fact it might not go down well today. but yes its a really good film.
now watching some blackadder 2..
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and episode, "Potato"
Pigmy Pony
13-11-2021, 18:43
Zulu, 1964. British epic war film depicting the Battle of Rorke's Drift between the British Army and the Zulus in January 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War. Directed by Cy Endfield and produced by Stanley Baker.
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On its initial release in 1964, it was one of the biggest box-office hits of all time in the British market. For the next 12 years it remained in constant cinema circulation before making its first appearance on television. It then went on to become a television perennial, and remains beloved by the British public.
A great cast and Michael Caine's first major role.
I think this was the first film I ever saw at a cinema, my dad took me. The bouncy Zulu ladies would have been a bit of an eye opener for a seven year old.
My brother has this on Blu Ray, and the quality is fantastic. better than most new films imo.
I think this was the first film I ever saw at a cinema, my dad took me. The bouncy Zulu ladies would have been a bit of an eye opener for a seven year old.
My brother has this on Blu Ray, and the quality is fantastic. better than most new films imo.
yup its a very good print. and a very good film; boobies and all:D
walpurgis
13-11-2021, 18:56
I knew James Booth quite well. He I also saw him in 'Minder' yesterday.
I knew James Booth quite well. He I also saw him in 'Minder' yesterday.
yeah, a pity his role was one of the bad bits of film; not due to him of course but the writers misclassing hook as a bad lazy chancer.
walpurgis
13-11-2021, 19:09
He was a big sod! :)
He was a big sod! :)Who? Booth. Never met him but he came across a bit of a lad.
Hook was near a model soldier
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At Worlds End, 2007.
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Mysterious Island, 1961. science fiction adventure film about prisoners in the American Civil War who escape in a balloon and then find themselves stranded on a remote island populated by giant and tiny animals.
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Loosely based upon the 1874 novel The Mysterious Island (L'Île mystérieuse) by Jules Verne (which was the sequel to two other novels by Verne, 1867's In Search of the Castaways and 1870's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), the film was produced by Charles H. Schneer and directed by Cy Endfield.
Shot in Catalonia, Spain, and at Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, England, the film serves as a showcase for Ray Harryhausen's stop motion animation effects. Like several of Harryhausen's classic productions, the musical score was composed by Bernard Herrmann.
this is the bluray version, with an excellent 2k scan
Total Recall, 1990. UHD.. Big Arnie stars with Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, and Michael Ironside.
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Expectations were high for Total Recall: it was anticipated to be one of the year's most successful films. On its release, the film earned approximately $261.4 million worldwide, making it the seventh-highest-grossing film of the year. Its critical reception was mixed, with reviewers praising its themes of identity and questioning reality, but criticizing content perceived as vulgar and violent. The practical special effects were also well received, earning the film an Academy Award, and the score by Jerry Goldsmith has been praised as one of his best works.
Since its release, the film has been praised for its ambiguity regarding its ending and whether Quaid's adventures are real or a fantasy. It has also been analyzed for themes of colonialism, authoritarianism, sexism, and racism. Retrospective reviews have called it one of Schwarzenegger's best films and placed it among the best science-fiction films ever made.
Not a patch on the short story by Philip K. Dick: "We Can Remember It for You, Wholesale". As Hollywood goes (and especially that of the director Paul Verhoeven), it's not a bad film; but I wouldn't place it among the best science fiction films ever made.
Colditz, the series, 1970's
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The Running Man, 1987 American dystopian action film directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, and Jesse Ventura. It is very loosely based on the 1982 novel of the same name written by Stephen King and published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
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not one of his best, but a remake closer to the book is in progress i think.
The Jungle Book, 2016. directed and produced by Jon Favreau, Based on Rudyard Kipling's eponymous collective works, the film is a live-action/CGI.
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The film includes voice and motion capture performances from Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong'o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito, and Christopher Walken.
It grossed $364M in the United States and Canada and $602.5M in other countries for a worldwide total of $966.6M, against a budget of $175M.
The Running Man, 1987 American dystopian action film directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, and Jesse Ventura. It is very loosely based on the 1982 novel of the same name written by Stephen King and published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
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not one of his best, but a remake closer to the book is in progress i think.
It's a fun film that. I think that the BBC should commission 'Climbing For Dollars'. Ratings winner there.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1967.. directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as "the Good", Lee Van Cleef as "the Bad", and Eli Wallach as "the Ugly". Score by the great Ennio Morricone.
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Critical opinion of the film on initial release was mixed, as many reviewers at that time looked down on "Spaghetti Westerns". In a negative review in The New York Times, critic Renata Adler said that the film "must be the most expensive, pious and repellent movie in the history of its peculiar genre." Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the "temptation is hereby proved irresistible to call The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, now playing citywide, The Bad, The Dull, and the Interminable, only because it is." Roger Ebert, who later included the film in his list of Great Movies, retrospectively noted that in his original review he had "described a four-star movie, but only gave it three stars, perhaps because it was a 'Spaghetti Western' and so could not be art."
Quentin Tarantino has called it "the best directed film of all time" and "the greatest achievement in the history of cinema"
It's a fun film that. I think that the BBC should commission 'Climbing For Dollars'. Ratings winner there.
don't give them ideas macca:D
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1967.. directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as "the Good", Lee Van Cleef as "the Bad", and Eli Wallach as "the Ugly". Score by the great Ennio Morricone.
Critical opinion of the film on initial release was mixed, as many reviewers at that time looked down on "Spaghetti Westerns". In a negative review in The New York Times, critic Renata Adler said that the film "must be the most expensive, pious and repellent movie in the history of its peculiar genre." Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the "temptation is hereby proved irresistible to call The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, now playing citywide, The Bad, The Dull, and the Interminable, only because it is." Roger Ebert, who later included the film in his list of Great Movies, retrospectively noted that in his original review he had "described a four-star movie, but only gave it three stars, perhaps because it was a 'Spaghetti Western' and so could not be art."
Quentin Tarantino has called it "the best directed film of all time" and "the greatest achievement in the history of cinema"
What do critics know anyway!? :doh:
lol, indeed barry.. just one of best films ever
Terminator: Dark Fate, 2019. directed by Tim Miller and stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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didnt do well at box office, although i quite like it. maybe not at t, and t2 levels but better than many
Just binged this on Netflix last few days.
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:eek:
NOT what I expected.
Whoever wrote this was a sadistic genius.
Only 9 episodes, I was hooked 15 minutes into first.
Lives up to the Hype and then some.
Seen this down in the big Leicester Square cinema in London,
Quite the action movie, left a big impression.
Had its flaws, but enjoyed it.
Rewatched a couple of times at home too, normally a good sign!
Terminator: Dark Fate, 2019. directed by Tim Miller and stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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didnt do well at box office, although i quite like it. maybe not at t, and t2 levels but better than many
Star Trek: First Contact, 1996. directed by Jonathan Frakes in his motion picture directorial debut.
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Four days were spent in the Titan Missile Museum, south of Tucson, Arizona—the disarmed nuclear missile was fitted with a fiberglass capsule shell to stand in for the Phoenix's booster and command module. The old missile silo provided a large set that the budget would have prohibited building from scratch, but the small size created difficulties. Each camera move was planned in advance to work around areas where the lighting would be added, and electricians and grips donned rock-climbing harnesses to move down the shaft and attach the lights. To give greater dimension to the rocket and lend the missile a futuristic appearance, Leonetti chose to offset the missile's metallic surface with complementary colors. Using different-colored gels made the rocket appear longer than it actually was; to complete the effect, shots from the Phoenix's nose downwards and from the engines up were filmed with a 30 mm lens to lengthen the missile.
Scrooged, 1988. Christmas comedy film directed by Richard Donner and stars Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Carol Kane and Bob Mitchum.
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Bill Murray said that "being the meanest person in the world" as Frank Cross was fun. He described his challenge as having an edge but then completing Cross' transformation into a decent person at the end. Murray said "being a decent person is not that hard. But acting like one is." Carol Kane's ghost was intended to have a body double for ballet scenes until set designer saw Kane rehearsing the dance and convinced Donner that the resulting scene would be funnier with Kane's "horrible" dancing. Donner and Murray said that Kane would sometimes experience long crying periods during filming, caused by frustration over her violent scenes. Murray also endured some physical pain during his encounters with Kane's character, insisting that she actually hit him during their scenes together, and at one point tearing the inside of his lip when Kane pulled his lip too hard. Kane herself said "I hit Bill Murray with a toaster, and with my wings, and I kicked him in areas that weren't pleasant for him. I had fun. I don't think it was as fun for Bill, because he was the victim! I did what the stunt people told me, but when I had to flap my wings in his face, I really couldn't control them."
Ruthless People, 1986. Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Anita Morris, Helen Slater and with Bill Pullman star.
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Ruthless People received critical acclaim, and holds a 93% rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 42 reviews. The consensus on the site reads: "It's sometimes crude and tasteless, but Ruthless People wrings acid-soaked laughs out of its dark premise and gleefully misanthropic characters."
Outbreak, 1995. directed by Wolfgang Petersen and based on Richard Preston's 1994 nonfiction book The Hot Zone. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland, and co-stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey and Patrick Dempsey.
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Outbreak topped the U.S. box-office list its opening weekend with earnings of $13.4 million, and spent three weeks at number one before Tommy Boy's release. The film, which grossed $67.7 million domestically and $122.2 million internationally, was a commercial success.
partially topical i suppose.
Hoffman's not been in a good film since 'Rain Man' in 1988.
My Fellow Americans, 1996. Its 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.
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Guess it could have been better scripted but the main stars, Lemmon and Garner do sterling with what they have.
Marathon Man, 1976. directed by John Schlesinger and stars Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane and Marthe Keller.
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"The book reads like the movie-movie of all time", said producer Robert Evans. "I regard it as a cheap investment because you don't often find books that translate into film. This is the best thing I've read since The Godfather. It could go all, all the way – if we don't foul it up in the making."
Laurence Olivier was cast early on. However he had health problems, and at one stage, it was uncertain whether he would be able to do the film. Richard Widmark auditioned for the part, but Olivier eventually recovered and was able to participate in filming. Reportedly, Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman did not get along well during filming. Olivier did not agree with Hoffman's style of Method Acting, which involved staying up days at a time to appear truly out of his mind and in physical pain for the film's famous torture scenes. "My dear boy," Olivier is remembered as saying, "why don't you just try acting?"
Forbidden Planet, 1956. directed by Fred M. Wilcox, that stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. A so called loose adaptation of The tempest.
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Forbidden Planet's effects team was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 29th Academy Awards.
At a cost of roughly $125,000, Robby the Robot was very expensive for a film prop at this time; it represented almost 7% of the film's $1.9 million budget and equates to at least $1 million in 2017 dollars. Both the electrically controlled passenger vehicle driven by Robby and the truck/tractor-crane off-loaded from the starship were also constructed especially for this film. Robby also starred in the science fiction film The Invisible Boy (1957) and later appeared in many TV series and films.
A classic of the genre
walpurgis
17-11-2021, 18:44
Forbidden Planet, 1956.
Great movie!
Tonight's Flic,
No Time To Die.
Damn good send off for Daniel Craig.
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Forbidden Planet, 1956. directed by Fred M. Wilcox, that stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. A so called loose adaptation of The tempest.
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Forbidden Planet's effects team was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 29th Academy Awards.
At a cost of roughly $125,000, Robby the Robot was very expensive for a film prop at this time; it represented almost 7% of the film's $1.9 million budget and equates to at least $1 million in 2017 dollars. Both the electrically controlled passenger vehicle driven by Robby and the truck/tractor-crane off-loaded from the starship were also constructed especially for this film. Robby also starred in the science fiction film The Invisible Boy (1957) and later appeared in many TV series and films.
A classic of the genreMorbius told the doc he couldn't get it up ..he was right . lol
Marathon Man, 1976. directed by John Schlesinger and stars Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane and Marthe Keller.
"Is it safe?"
Forbidden Planet, 1956. directed by Fred M. Wilcox, that stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. A so-called loose adaptation of The Tempest.
Two first class films there Grant. :)
Original and the best...The Terminator, 1984.. directed by James Cameron. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger (who originally was up for the Reese part), Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn.
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For the role of Kyle Reese, Orion wanted a star whose popularity was rising in the United States but who also would have foreign appeal. Orion co-founder Mike Medavoy had met Arnold Schwarzenegger and sent his agent the script for The Terminator. Cameron was uncertain about casting Schwarzenegger as Reese as he felt he would need someone even more famous to play the Terminator. Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson both turned down the Terminator role. The studio suggested O. J. Simpson but Cameron did not feel that Simpson, at that time, would be believable as a killer.
Cameron agreed to meet with Schwarzenegger and devised a plan to avoid casting him; he would pick a fight with him and return to Hemdale and find him unfit for the role. However, Cameron was entertained by Schwarzenegger, who would talk about how the villain should be played. Cameron began sketching his face on a notepad and asked Schwarzenegger to stop talking and remain still. After the meeting, Cameron returned to Daly saying Schwarzenegger would not play Reese but that "he'd make a hell of a Terminator".
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991. directed by James Cameron and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong, and Joe Morton.
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It grossed over $500m.
Terminator Genisys, 2015. directed by Alan Taylor, and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney and J. K. Simmons.
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The film is inspired by the first two Terminator films from Cameron – The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day – while largely ignoring the two subsequent films that came before Genisys. Concepts from the second movie, such as the T-1000, are featured, but its events are disregarded; the 2029 that is depicted in Genisys is one in which the attack on the Cyberdyne building either had no effect on Skynet's development or did not happen at all, as August 29th 1997 is still the date of Judgment Day in that timeline. David Ellison described the film and its intended film trilogy as standalone projects based on Cameron's original Terminator films.
Great bit of trivia for a great movie.
Worth mentioning too,
James Cameron originally envisaged "The Terminator" as someone who would blend in with other people, and be the last person you'd suspect as a murdering cyborg?
(Source: many MANY Starlog magazines from back in the day - have a few of em still, worth a few bob nowadays)
Cameron's original pick for the Terminator was Lance Henriksen, great actor (but in Cameron's words an "Everyman") who fitted his idea_ at that time_ of the Character perfectly.
Even concept art floating about out there of Henriksen as the Terminator.
He did of course get recast in the movie as "#2 Cop".
Complete Nerd about this movie. :)
As Grant said:
then He met Arnold.
History was made.
Original and the best...The Terminator, 1984.. directed by James Cameron. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger (who originally was up for the Reese part), Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Terminator1984movieposter.jpg
For the role of Kyle Reese, Orion wanted a star whose popularity was rising in the United States but who also would have foreign appeal. Orion co-founder Mike Medavoy had met Arnold Schwarzenegger and sent his agent the script for The Terminator. Cameron was uncertain about casting Schwarzenegger as Reese as he felt he would need someone even more famous to play the Terminator. Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson both turned down the Terminator role. The studio suggested O. J. Simpson but Cameron did not feel that Simpson, at that time, would be believable as a killer.
Cameron agreed to meet with Schwarzenegger and devised a plan to avoid casting him; he would pick a fight with him and return to Hemdale and find him unfit for the role. However, Cameron was entertained by Schwarzenegger, who would talk about how the villain should be played. Cameron began sketching his face on a notepad and asked Schwarzenegger to stop talking and remain still. After the meeting, Cameron returned to Daly saying Schwarzenegger would not play Reese but that "he'd make a hell of a Terminator".
Silver Streak, 1976. directed by Arthur Hiller and stars Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, and Richard Pryor, with Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty, Clifton James, and Richard Kiel in supporting roles.
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Film did very well and was well recieved by most critics.
The Enforcer, 1951. Bogey stars in this take on the Murder, Inc. trials.
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The Enforcer, 1951. Bogey stars in this take on the Murder, Inc. trials.
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great film based as i said on murder inc.
Murder, Inc. (Murder, Incorporated) was an organized crime group, active from 1929 to 1941, that acted as the enforcement arm of the Italian-American Mafia, the Jewish Mob, and other closely connected organized crime groups in New York City and elsewhere. The group was composed of Jewish-American and Italian-American gangsters, and members were mainly recruited from poor and working-class Jewish and Italian neighborhoods in Manhattan (primarily the Lower East Side) and from the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Brownsville, East New York, and Ocean Hill. It was initially headed by Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and later by Albert "The Mad Hatter" Anastasia. Murder, Inc. was believed to be responsible for between 400 and 1,000 contract killings, until the group was exposed in 1941 by former group member Abe "Kid Twist" Reles. Murder, Inc. committed hundreds of murders on behalf of the National Crime Syndicate during 1929 through 1941. In the trials that followed, many members were convicted and executed, and Abe Reles himself died after suspiciously falling from a window. Thomas E. Dewey first came to prominence as a prosecutor of Murder, Inc. and other organized crime cases.
Stir Crazy, 1980. directed by Sidney Poitier and stars Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor .....
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The film was a box office success, setting a record opening week for Columbia Pictures of $12,972,131 and then setting a studio record $15,336,245 the following week, including a studio record single day gross of $3,237,279.[4] It went on to gross $101,300,000, being the third-highest-grossing film of 1980, behind The Empire Strikes Back and 9 to 5. It was Columbia's third film to gross $100 million and third highest-grossing film of all time, after Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Kramer vs. Kramer. The box office total marked the first time a film directed by an African-American earned more than $100 million.
walpurgis
19-11-2021, 16:04
great film based as i said on murder inc.
Murder, Inc. (Murder, Incorporated) was an organized crime group, active from 1929 to 1941, that acted as the enforcement arm of the Italian-American Mafia, the Jewish Mob, and other closely connected organized crime groups in New York City and elsewhere. The group was composed of Jewish-American and Italian-American gangsters, and members were mainly recruited from poor and working-class Jewish and Italian neighborhoods in Manhattan (primarily the Lower East Side) and from the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Brownsville, East New York, and Ocean Hill. It was initially headed by Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and later by Albert "The Mad Hatter" Anastasia. Murder, Inc. was believed to be responsible for between 400 and 1,000 contract killings, until the group was exposed in 1941 by former group member Abe "Kid Twist" Reles. Murder, Inc. committed hundreds of murders on behalf of the National Crime Syndicate during 1929 through 1941. In the trials that followed, many members were convicted and executed, and Abe Reles himself died after suspiciously falling from a window. Thomas E. Dewey first came to prominence as a prosecutor of Murder, Inc. and other organized crime cases.
That sort of reminds me, I wanted to watch 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' again. I'll dig it out :).
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, 1984. directed by Leonard Nimoy, and based on the television series Star Trek. It is the third film in the Star Trek franchise, and is the second part of a three-film story arc that begins with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and concludes with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
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To guard against leaks that had prefigured Spock's death during production of The Wrath of Khan, Paramount took precautions to secure the sets. Set designer Cameron Birnie noted that the production's security was highly unusual; sets were built out of sequence and the crew given only as many pages as they needed to fabricate each locale. Security guards checked the picture identification cards of production staff. Any mention of the production was removed from stationery and documents, and "Trois" (three, in French) was written as a code word. Offices and workshops were bereft of identifying signage, with doors double-locked for extra protection. The Search for Spock's scripts were chemically treated so that copies could be traced to the original; as a further canary trap, subtle changes in wording distinguished each copy. Nimoy's name never appeared on call sheets, and Spock was referred to in the script as "Nacluv" (Vulcan spelled backwards). Despite the precautions, word of the Enterprise's destruction leaked out before the film's release.
A Matter Of Life And Death, 1946. 4k.
Classic Powell and Pressburger https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211119/2e4db2414de9fc82fd86d2e89a8fbf34.jpg
𝞹 - Directed by Darren Aronofsky (1998)
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ힹ - Directed by Darren Aronofsky (1998)
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Top Movie.
Killer soundtrack too.
walpurgis
20-11-2021, 08:14
𝞹 - Directed by Darren Aronofsky (1998)
I have the DVD. Don't think I ever watched it though.
never seen it. not really my 'a' list style but i would give it a whirl.
Some Like It Hot, 1959. directed, produced, and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon, and features George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney, and Nehemiah Persoff.
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Some Like It Hot received widespread acclaim from critics, and is considered among the best films of all time.
"nobody's perfect" ...class film that.
now, Red 2... 2013...sequel to red. It was based on the limited comic book series of the same name, created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, and published by the DC Comics imprint Homage. The film stars Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lee Byung-hun, Anthony Hopkins, and Helen Mirren, with Dean Parisot directing a screenplay by Jon and Erich Hoeber.
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it made a decent profit and is quite enjoyable, although not as good as first film.
walpurgis
20-11-2021, 12:34
Today at 2pm on BBC2. 'The Third Man', just the perfect film noir. They got everything right with this!
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Today at 2pm on BBC2. 'The Third Man', just the perfect film noir. They got everything right with this!
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yup, top class...
Some Like It Hot, 1959. directed, produced, and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon, and features George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney, and Nehemiah Persoff.
Some Like It Hot received widespread acclaim from critics, and is considered among the best films of all time.
I've been to the hotel that they stay at. It's in San Diego, although in the film they're in Florida.
never seen it. not really my 'a' list style but i would give it a whirl.
Part sci-fi, part thriller, part meditation on the nature of existence, it's maybe not for everyone. But being a bit of a maths 'geek' and also being filmed in black and white, it's right up my street. :)
Today at 2pm on BBC2. 'The Third Man', just the perfect film noir. They got everything right with this!
https://i.ibb.co/TtpfV9m/Screen-Shot-11-20-21-at-12-28-PM.png (https://ibb.co/YhYCzHp)
Thanks for the notice Geoff - I'll watch it in ten minutes time!
I've been to the hotel that they stay at. It's in San Diego, although in the film they're in Florida.
supposdly Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, California, playing the Seminole Ritz Hotel in Miami.
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That's the one. Got a photo of me standing on the beach with it in the background somewhere.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, 2017. directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg from a script by Jeff Nathanson. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
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Did terribly only making $500m at box office:D
Murder, She Said, 1961.. Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice, and Stringer Davis . It was directed by George Pollock, based on the 1957 novel 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie.
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Despite Agatha Christie's personal dislike of this adaptation, Murder, She Said received a generally positive response from critics, and maintains an 83% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Almar Halfidason, a critic for the BBC film website, awarded the picture four stars out of a possible five, calling it "delightfully dotty" and "fun".
The film made a profit of 342,000 U.S. dollars.
walpurgis
20-11-2021, 17:54
At 6.20pm shortly today on 'GREAT! movies channel', another chance to see Ice Cold in Alex. One of my favourites :).
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a bit hopeful on sylvia's em, charms in that pic i'd say.:eek:
walpurgis
20-11-2021, 18:02
a bit hopeful on sylvia's em, charms in that pic i'd say.:eek:
Funny how she went from being a great looking girl to a saggy old pudding almost overnight, think the booze did it. Her daughter went the same way looks wise.
she suffered from depression i think. dunno if she drank or not.
Yes, that cover would put me off, but it is an 'enhancement' of the actual cover for the Region 1 DVD:
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A great film nonetheless - fortunately my copy has a far more 'sober' cover. ;)
ive got the new hd version as a file on amazon, but have the older dvd too. the cleaned up one is much better.
Funny how she went from being a great looking girl to a saggy old pudding almost overnight, think the booze did it. Her daughter went the same way looks wise.
Carlsberg?
walpurgis
20-11-2021, 18:28
Carlsberg?
What did she drink in the film? If she did, can't recall.
they all had carlsberg i think. mills had several takes on swallowing his in a oner and ended up pished:D
they had to use the real stuff to get the head etc
It's not made explicit, as we don't actually see her drink her glass of lager, but the implication is it's the same lager as all the others are drinking: Carlsberg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvatyFzYfak
Jackie Brown, 1997. directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, and Robert De Niro.
The film is an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1992 novel Rum Punch. It is the only feature-length film that Tarantino has adapted from a previous work.
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Tarantino's choice to use the 'N' word was defended by actor Samuel Jackson, who plays the role of Ordell Robbie. "Did they have another name to call the (black) people they were talking about at the time?" Jackson asks. He goes on to say, "If you're going to deal with the language of the time, you deal with the language of the time. And that was the language of the time. I grew up in the South. I heard 'nigger' all my life. I'm not disturbed by it."
walpurgis
21-11-2021, 11:02
Jackie Brown, 1997. directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, and Robert De Niro.
Good film. Robert Forster was an underrated actor.
Good film. Robert Forster was an underrated actor.
yes he was very good in it.
Samuel L jackson... Tthe films in which he has appeared have collectively grossed over $27 billion worldwide, making him the highest-grossing actor of all time (when cameo appearances are excluded).
walpurgis
21-11-2021, 12:38
I was just flipping through the channels and came across 'The Fugitive' and who should be in it, but Pat Hingle. The actor whose name nobody remembers but whose face everybody knows. He was the 'standard issue, universal actor' and was in hundreds of TV and film roles. I thought he was excellent.
Here he is with Clint Eastwood.
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i was just flipping through the channels and came across 'the fugitive' and who should be in it, but pat hingle. The actor whose name nobody remembers but whose face everybody knows. He was the 'standard issue, universal actor' and was in hundreds of tv and film roles. I thought he was excellent.
Here he is with clint eastwood.
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i remember him from hang em high again with eastwood.
walpurgis
21-11-2021, 12:50
i remember him from hang em high again with eastwood.
He was in several Eastwood films, along with Geoffrey Lewis.
The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976. Stars Clint Eastwood and co stars Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Sam Bottoms, and Geraldine Keams.
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The Outlaw Josey Wales was inspired by a 1972 novel by supposedly-Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, alias of former KKK Leader and segregationist speech writer of George Wallace, Asa Earl Carter, an identity that would be exposed in part due to the success of the film, and was originally titled The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales and later retitled Gone to Texas.
Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970. directed by Don Siegel and starring Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood.
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The film was shot over 65 days in Mexico and cost around $4 million. Many of the cast and crew, including MacLaine, were stricken by illness while filming, due to having to adjust to the food and water in Mexico.
Tremors, 1990. western-themed monster horror comedy film directed by Ron Underwood, and stars Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, and Reba McEntire.
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In 2019, Kevin Bacon hinted that Tremors only made "a fifth of what the charts at Universal said it would." Its creators blamed the subpar theatrical performance on its marketing campaign; S. S. Wilson felt that the film was not well promoted once its release date was delayed, while Brent Maddock stated the theatrical trailer was "cringeworthy" and likely deterred audiences.
Tremors was hailed by critics for its diverse cast and humor. As of September 2020 the film holds a "certified fresh" rating of 86% at the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 44 reviews and an average score of 7.17 out of 10, with the consensus: "An affectionate throwback to 1950s creature features, Tremors reinvigorates its genre tropes with a finely balanced combination of horror and humor.
Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970. directed by Don Siegel and starring Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51ZneIe5axL._AC_SY445_.jpg
The film was shot over 65 days in Mexico and cost around $4 million. Many of the cast and crew, including MacLaine, were stricken by illness while filming, due to having to adjust to the food and water in Mexico.
Good film! :)
Tremors, 1990. western-themed monster horror comedy film directed by Ron Underwood, and stars Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, and Reba McEntire.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/Tremors_official_theatrical_poster.jpg
In 2019, Kevin Bacon hinted that Tremors only made "a fifth of what the charts at Universal said it would." Its creators blamed the subpar theatrical performance on its marketing campaign; S. S. Wilson felt that the film was not well promoted once its release date was delayed, while Brent Maddock stated the theatrical trailer was "cringeworthy" and likely deterred audiences.
Tremors was hailed by critics for its diverse cast and humour. As of September 2020 the film holds a "certified fresh" rating of 86% at the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 44 reviews and an average score of 7.17 out of 10, with the consensus: "An affectionate throwback to 1950s creature features, Tremors reinvigorates its genre tropes with a finely balanced combination of horror and humour.
I've seen it a couple of times - but it didn't have such an effect on me as it seems to do with others. :scratch:
i've seen it a couple of times - but it didn't have such an effect on me as it seems to do with others. :scratch:
lol.. Yes ive heard a few folk just not getting it. Its one of few films of that age and style i do get.
Murder by Decree, 1979. directed by Bob Clark, and stars Christopher Plummer, who plays Holmes and James Mason who plays Watson.
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Faired badly at the box office but was generally liked by critics.
Rio Lobo, 1970. directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne.
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Jason Bourne, 2016. directed by Paul Greengrass and stars Matt Damon and Tommy Lee Jones.
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ason Bourne became a commercial success, with a modest budget compared to its final gross. The film grossed $162.4 million in the United States and Canada and $253.1 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $415.5 million, against a production budget of $120 million.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007. some fun now with the pirates.. This is the third in series.
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For a Budget of $300 million, it grossed $960.9 million at Box office. easy money eh?
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003. First in the series...
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From a Budget of $140m, it grossed $654.3m. Half a billion profit. no wonder they made 5.:lol:
Verbinski did not want an entirely romanticized feel to the film: he wanted a sense of historical fantasy. Most of the actors wore prosthetics and contact lenses. Depp had contacts that acted as sunglasses, while Rush and Lee Arenberg wore dulled contacts that gave a sinister feel to the characters. Mackenzie Crook wore two contacts to represent his character's wooden eye: a soft version, and a harder version for when it protrudes. In addition, their rotten teeth and scurvy skin were dyed on, although Depp did have gold teeth added, which he forgot to remove after filming. Depp also used a genuine pistol which was made in 1760 in London, which the crew bought from a dealer in Connecticut. A number of swords were built for the production by blacksmith Tony Swatton. The crew spent five months creating the cavern in which Barbossa and the Black Pearl crew attempt to reverse their curse, filling it with five feet of water, 882 Aztec coins, and some gold paint on the styrofoam rocks for more impressions of treasure. The crew also built the fortress at Port Royal in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, and Governor Swann's palace was built at Manhattan Beach. A fire broke out in September 2002, causing $525,000 worth of damage, though no one was injured.
Farewell, My Lovely, 1975. directed by Dick Richards and featuring Robert Mitchum as private detective Philip Marlowe. The picture is based on Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely (1940), which had previously been adapted for film as Murder, My Sweet in 1944.
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Critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars and wrote, "These opening shots are so evocative of Raymond Chandler's immortal Marlowe, archtypical private eye, haunting the underbelly of Los Angeles, that if we're Chandler fans we hold our breath. Is the ambience going to be maintained, or will this be another campy rip-off? Half an hour into the movie, we relax. Farewell, My Lovely never steps wrong...in the genre itself there hasn't been anything this good since Hollywood was doing Philip Marlowe the first time around. One reason is that Dick Richards, the director, takes his material and character absolutely seriously.
Absolute Power, 1997. directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood as a master jewel thief who witnesses the killing of a woman by Secret Service agents. also stars Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis, Scott Glenn and Dennis Haysbert.
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When Eastwood first heard of the book being turned into a film, he liked the basic plot and the characters, but disliked that most of those he considered interesting were killed off. He requested that Goldman make sure that "everyone the audience likes doesn't get killed off."
walpurgis
23-11-2021, 12:31
Absolute Power, 1997. directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood as a master jewel thief who witnesses the killing of a woman by Secret Service agents. also stars Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis, Scott Glenn and Dennis Haysbert
Enjoyable movie.
Enjoyable movie.
and here is another... Key largo, 1948. directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall. The supporting cast features Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor.
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The script was adapted from a 1939 play of the same name by Maxwell Anderson. In the play, the gangsters are Mexican bandidos, the war in question is the Spanish Civil War, and McCloud is a disgraced deserter who dies at the end.
Robinson had top billing over Bogart in their four previous films together: Bullets or Ballots (1936), Kid Galahad (1937), The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) and Brother Orchid (1940), but the situation switched for the billing in this final film that Bogart and Robinson worked together on. In at least one trailer for the film, however, Robinson is billed above Bogart in a list of the actors' names at the end of the preview, and photographs exist of Robinson being billed above Bogart on some theatre marquees. In the film itself and in posters, Robinson's name is between Bogart's and Bacall's but slightly higher than the other two. In some posters, Robinson's picture is substantially larger than Bogart's, and in the foreground manhandling Bacall while Bogart is in the background.
The film was shot primarily at the Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank, in order to keep costs down. The beach and hotel exterior were constructed on the Warner Bros. backlot; the interior scenes were filmed on a sound stage; and the boat scenes were filmed in Sound Stage 21, a huge indoor water tank. Exterior shots of the hurricane were taken from stock footage used in Night Unto Night, a Ronald Reagan melodrama which Warner Bros. also produced in 1948. Filming took 78 days.
The boat used by Rocco's gang to depart Key Largo, with Bogart's character at the helm, is named the Santana, which was also the name of Bogart's personal 55-foot (17 m) sailing yacht.
Dressed to Kill, 1980. directed by Brian De Palma. Starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, and Keith Gordon.
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Dressed to Kill was a box office hit in the United States, grossing over $30 million. It received largely favorable reviews, and critic David Denby of New York Magazine proclaimed it "the first great American movie of the '80s."
Little Big Man, 1970. 51 yrs old now and still top 10 in my charts. directed by Arthur Penn and stars Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey and Richard Mulligan.
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The role of Chief Old Lodge Skins was initially offered to Marlon Brando, Paul Scofield, and Laurence Olivier, all of whom turned it down. The Little Bighorn battle scenes were filmed on location at Crow Agency, Montana near the actual battle site. Some of the town scenes were filmed in Nevada City, Montana, a town that by 1970 consisted predominantly of historic 19th-century buildings brought from elsewhere in Montana. All outdoor Indian scenes other than the Little Bighorn battle were filmed near Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Some interior and various footage was shot on Hollywood sets. All Indian extras were North American Indians, though Aimée Eccles, who played Sunshine, is actually of Chinese descent, and Cal Bellini, who played Younger Bear, is actually a Malay originally from Singapore.
Another of my favs is this.. Avanti!, 1972. directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and the delectable Juliet Mills, who had to gain 25lbs for film.
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The film is set on the island of Ischia, where some of the exterior scenes were shot, including a brief scene outside the morgue (the interior of which, as with all the interior sets, was designed by Italian production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti), at and around the port of Ischia.
Classic comedy from 1957, with Basil Dearden's The Smallest Show on Earth, starring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers and Margaret Rutherford, with support from Bernard Miles, Leslie Phillips, Francis de Wolff, George Cross, June Cunningham and Sid James..
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The Bijou Kinema was not a real building; both the exterior and interior were sets. The exterior facade was constructed between two railway bridges in Christchurch Avenue, London NW6, next to Kilburn tube station. A replica at Shepperton Studios was used for close-up shots and interior scenes.
The Gaumont Palace, Hammersmith in London (subsequently called the Hammersmith Odeon, and now the Hammersmith Apollo) was used for the exterior shots of the rival Grand Cinema with interiors at the Odeon in Richmond.
Back projection shots of Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire were used for the final scenes in the railway carriage.
The silent film shown in the film is Comin' Thro the Rye (1923) starring Alma Taylor. Taylor is among the uncredited viewers in the audience.
Murder at the Gallop (1963) is the second of four Miss Marple films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Stars Dame Margaret Rutherford.
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Murder Ahoy!(1964) is the last of four Miss Marple films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that starred the great Margaret Rutherford.
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Scandal, 1989. fictionalised account of the Profumo affair that rocked the government of British prime minister Harold Macmillan. It stars Joanne Whalley as Christine Keeler and John Hurt as Stephen Ward. Co stars Bridget Fonda, Britt Ekland, Leslie Philips and Ian McKellen.
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The film received positive reviews. At the movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Scandal received an overall approval rating of 91% based on 32 reviews.
Dead of Night is a 1945 black and white British anthology horror film, made by Ealing Studios. The individual segments were directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer. It stars Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes and Michael Redgrave. The film is best remembered for the concluding story featuring Redgrave and an insane ventriloquist's malevolent dummy.
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Dead of Night is a rare British horror film of the 1940s; horror films were banned from production in Britain during the war. It had an influence on subsequent British films in the genre. Both of John Baines' stories were reused for later films and the possessed ventriloquist dummy episode was adapted into the pilot episode of the long-running CBS radio series Escape.
While primarily in the horror genre, there are shades of the comedy that would make the studio's name.
walpurgis
25-11-2021, 18:41
Dead of Night is a 1945 black and white British anthology horror film, made by Ealing Studios.
The Michael Redgrave part with Hugo the dummy, is one of the few really creepy things I've seen in film. It was brilliantly done.
The Michael Redgrave part with Hugo the dummy, is one of the few really creepy things I've seen in film. It was brilliantly done.
YUP, a classic.
there are two short storys horror from not sure; 50' to 70's i guess that i cannot find. one was an antique mirror or painting that took person to another place, and the other was a new caretaker of a home for elderly who treated them badly for profit and the inmates boxed him into his office or something like that.
Pigmy Pony
25-11-2021, 20:18
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, 1984. directed by Leonard Nimoy, and based on the television series Star Trek. It is the third film in the Star Trek franchise, and is the second part of a three-film story arc that begins with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and concludes with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
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To guard against leaks that had prefigured Spock's death during production of The Wrath of Khan, Paramount took precautions to secure the sets. Set designer Cameron Birnie noted that the production's security was highly unusual; sets were built out of sequence and the crew given only as many pages as they needed to fabricate each locale. Security guards checked the picture identification cards of production staff. Any mention of the production was removed from stationery and documents, and "Trois" (three, in French) was written as a code word. Offices and workshops were bereft of identifying signage, with doors double-locked for extra protection. The Search for Spock's scripts were chemically treated so that copies could be traced to the original; as a further canary trap, subtle changes in wording distinguished each copy. Nimoy's name never appeared on call sheets, and Spock was referred to in the script as "Nacluv" (Vulcan spelled backwards). Despite the precautions, word of the Enterprise's destruction leaked out before the film's release.
When my mum watched "The Wrath of Khan", she had a bit of a thing for Khan. I told her that wasn't his real chest, but she didn't care. She had a strange taste in men, which included Max McGill (Man in a Suitcase) and DCI Jack Meadows from the early "Bill" series. Oh and Bogey too, which is fair enough.
Pigmy Pony
25-11-2021, 20:30
Absolute Power, 1997. directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood as a master jewel thief who witnesses the killing of a woman by Secret Service agents. also stars Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis, Scott Glenn and Dennis Haysbert.
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When Eastwood first heard of the book being turned into a film, he liked the basic plot and the characters, but disliked that most of those he considered interesting were killed off. He requested that Goldman make sure that "everyone the audience likes doesn't get killed off."
Can't believe I've never seen this (maybe at the weekend). Not a single actor there that I don't like.
Star Trek, The Motion Picture, 1979. directed by Robert Wise.. Enter V'Ger..
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Although it made a good profit it wasn't well recieved.
the models left a bit to be desired too.
When my mum watched "The Wrath of Khan", she had a bit of a thing for Khan. I told her that wasn't his real chest.
Actually it was. Montalban was tough as nails in real life apparently, the rest of the cast and the director treated him with kid gloves.
YUP, a classic.
there are two short storys horror from not sure; 50' to 70's i guess that i cannot find. one was an antique mirror or painting that took person to another place, and the other was a new caretaker of a home for elderly who treated them badly for profit and the inmates boxed him into his office or something like that.
The antique mirror story is in 'Dead of Night'? The main character starts to see the reflection of a different room to his own.
And I think your second reference may be a story called 'Blind Alleys' from 'Tales From The Crypt', a 1972 horror anthology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Crypt_(film)
The antique mirror story is in 'Dead of Night'? The main character starts to see the reflection of a different room to his own.
And I think your second reference may be a story called 'Blind Alleys' from 'Tales From The Crypt', a 1972 horror anthology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Crypt_(film)
blind alleys is the one..thanks... the mirror one on dead of night isnt one im thinking of. not sure if it was a mirror or an old picture. more i think of it, its a picture on wall, maybe in an attic ?
ordered tales from crypyt.. thanks again, ive been after this for a while
A Fish Called Wanda, 1988. directed by Charles Crichton and stars John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin.
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Wanda was a huge financial and critical success.
Just binge watched this show on Netflix.
Terrific edge of the seat 6 Episode Korean Horror series.
Terrifies you and makes you think, cracking stuff if this is your bag.
https://youtu.be/UWfgm20-LTM
Soylent Green, 1973. directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young and Edward G. Robinson in his final film role.
Loosely based on the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison.
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By the year 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution and an apparent climate catastrophe have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water and housing. There are 40 million people in New York City alone, where only the city's elite can afford spacious apartments, clean water and natural food (at horrendously high prices, with a jar of strawberry jam fetching $150). The homes of the elite are fortressed, with private security, bodyguards for their tenants, and usually include concubines (who are referred to as "furniture" and serve the tenants as slaves).
Sounds almost familiar;)
the mirror one on dead of night isnt one im thinking of. not sure if it was a mirror or an old picture. more i think of it, its a picture on wall, maybe in an attic ?
Sounds a little like 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray' ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray_(1945_film)
Based on the Oscar Wilde novel.
Sounds a little like 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray' ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray_(1945_film)
Based on the Oscar Wilde novel.
will look into that roy...cheers. ive got there a beyond the grave which might be similar
the ocean is dying they are feeding us people! crazy thought 50 yrs ago; maybe not so crazy now. soylent green folks:eek:
now, Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, 1942. updated stories to the then present. this was partly the dancing men in a spt case.
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Pigmy Pony
26-11-2021, 21:24
Actually it was. Montalban was tough as nails in real life apparently, the rest of the cast and the director treated him with kid gloves.
I found that hard to believe, so googled his chest. Turns out you're right. Too late to give mum the good news, but maybe I should finally confess to my brother that singer Alicia Keys' dad doesn't work on Blackpool beach and his name isn't Don.
I found that hard to believe, so googled his chest. Turns out you're right. Too late to give mum the good news, but maybe I should finally confess to my brother that singer Alicia Keys' dad doesn't work on Blackpool beach and his name isn't Don.
:D
From Beyond The Grave, 1974. Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, Ian Bannen, Diana Dors and David Warner. ive a couple of these so far ..quite good.
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British anthology horror film from Amicus Productions, directed by Kevin Connor, produced by Milton Subotsky and based on short stories by R. Chetwynd-Hayes.
It was the last in a series of anthology films from Amicus and was preceded by Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1965), Torture Garden (1967), The House That Dripped Blood (1970), Asylum, Tales from the Crypt (both 1972) and The Vault of Horror (1973).[
You'll have nightmares!
is what my mother would say if she saw us watching those shows.
You'll have nightmares!
is what my mother would say if she saw us watching those shows.
there was a time, yes...:D its actually rather well done and with a nice tinge of humour
Something lighter now, the link being Ian Charmichal.. From 1960, School for Scoundrels, starring the aforementioned Ian Carmichael, Alastair Sim, Edward Chapman, Jannette Scott and the great Terry-Thomas.
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Based on the Gamesmanship series by Stephen Potter. Although the film only credits its producer, Hal E. Chester, and Patricia Moyes for the screenplay, it was co-written by Peter Ustinov and Frank Tarloff. Its director, Robert Hamer, was sacked during filming due to his return to drinking and the enterprise was completed by Chester and an (uncredited) Cyril Frankel. Hamer did not work in the film industry again, and died in 1963.
walpurgis
27-11-2021, 15:19
From 1960, School for Scoundrels, starring the aforementioned Ian Carmichael, Alastair Sim, Edward Chapman, Jannette Scott and the great Terry-Thomas.
Great fun movie and one of my favourites from that period, along with 'Two-Way Stretch'.
Great fun movie and one of my favourites from that period, along with 'Two-Way Stretch'.
yeah, both good films you can watch umpteen times
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, 2011. directed by Guy Ritchie and stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law.
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Though the film received mixed reviews from critics, it was commercially successful, with a worldwide gross of over $545 million. A third film was originally set for release on December 22, 2021, with Downey and Law set to return, although its status is uncertain.
running this from my youtube videos to a chromecast i got in black friday.. picture is decent
The antique mirror story is in 'Dead of Night'? The main character starts to see the reflection of a different room to his own.
And I think your second reference may be a story called 'Blind Alleys' from 'Tales From The Crypt', a 1972 horror anthology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Crypt_(film)
I think the 'antique mirror' story is from "From Beyond the Grave", the last of the Amicus anthology horror fims. It is the first of four stories, and is called 'The Gatecrasher':
Edward Charlton (David Warner) buys an antique mirror for a knockdown price, believing that he has tricked the proprietor into accepting that it is a reproduction. Charlton holds a seance at the suggestion of his friends and falls into a trance. He finds himself in an other world where he is approached by a sinister figure (Marcel Steiner) who appears to stab him. Charlton wakes up screaming. Later the figure's face appears in the mirror and orders Charlton to kill so that he can "feed". Charlton butchers people until the apparition is able to manifest himself outside the mirror. The figure then explains that Charlton must do one more thing before the figure can walk abroad and join others like him. The figure says he will take Charlton "beyond the ultimate" and persuades Charlton to kill himself by impaling himself on a knife. The mirror stays in Charlton's flat for years after his death, until the latest owner also decides to hold a seance. Charlton's hungry spectre appears in the mirror.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Beyond_the_Grave
Dad's Army, 2016.
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new version but top quality
I think the 'antique mirror' story is from "From Beyond the Grave", the last of the Amicus anthology horror fims. It is the first of four stories, and is called 'The Gatecrasher':
Edward Charlton (David Warner) buys an antique mirror for a knockdown price, believing that he has tricked the proprietor into accepting that it is a reproduction. Charlton holds a seance at the suggestion of his friends and falls into a trance. He finds himself in an other world where he is approached by a sinister figure (Marcel Steiner) who appears to stab him. Charlton wakes up screaming. Later the figure's face appears in the mirror and orders Charlton to kill so that he can "feed". Charlton butchers people until the apparition is able to manifest himself outside the mirror. The figure then explains that Charlton must do one more thing before the figure can walk abroad and join others like him. The figure says he will take Charlton "beyond the ultimate" and persuades Charlton to kill himself by impaling himself on a knife. The mirror stays in Charlton's flat for years after his death, until the latest owner also decides to hold a seance. Charlton's hungry spectre appears in the mirror.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Beyond_the_Grave
just watched that. its not one i was thinking of alas. sure it might have been an old picture and you could go into it and out again. starting to think it is my imagination lol
The Black Cat, 1981. directed by Lucio Fulci and stars Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, Al Cliver, David Warbeck, and Dagmar Lassander. The film is based loosely on the 1843 story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe.
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The film's original shooting title was Il gatto di Park Lane (transl. "The Cat of Park Lane"). It was shot on location in the villages of West Wycombe, Chalfont St Giles and Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, and at various studios in Rome. Filming took place between 11 August and 28 September 1980.
The Black Cat was distributed theatrically in Italy by Italian International Film on April 4, 1981. It was released theatrically in the United States in February 1984.
From the Arrow films streaming channel on prime.
The Black Cat, 1981. directed by Lucio Fulci and stars Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, Al Cliver, David Warbeck, and Dagmar Lassander. The film is based loosely on the 1843 story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe.
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The film's original shooting title was Il gatto di Park Lane (transl. "The Cat of Park Lane"). It was shot on location in the villages of West Wycombe, Chalfont St Giles and Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, and at various studios in Rome. Filming took place between 11 August and 28 September 1980.
The Black Cat was distributed theatrically in Italy by Italian International Film on April 4, 1981. It was released theatrically in the United States in February 1984.
From the Arrow films streaming channel on prime.
well that was terrible lol..
King Solomon's Mines, 1985. fourth of five film adaptations of the 1885 novel of the same name by H. Rider Haggard. It stars Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom and John Rhys-Davies. It was adapted by Gene Quintano and James R. Silke and directed by J. Lee Thompson. This version of the story was a light, comedic take, deliberately referring to, and parodying Indiana Jones.
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King Solomon's Mines, 1985. fourth of five film adaptations of the 1885 novel of the same name by H. Rider Haggard. It stars Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom and John Rhys-Davies. It was adapted by Gene Quintano and James R. Silke and directed by J. Lee Thompson. This version of the story was a light, comedic take, deliberately referring to, and parodying Indiana Jones.
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that was as bad.. serves me right..:doh:
Something quality and safe now. Cat Ballou, 1965.
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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.
Lee Marvin won an Oscar for his dual role, and film was nominated for 4 more..
walpurgis
28-11-2021, 12:36
Something quality and safe now. Cat Ballou, 1965
That was one of my favourite movies made around that time, along with 'Mash', 'The French Connection' and of course, the unbeatable 'Cool Hand Luke'.
That was one of my favourite movies made around that time, along with 'Mash', 'The French Connection' and of course, the unbeatable 'Cool Hand Luke'.
Another classic from the era... Dr. Strangelove, 1964. directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick and stars Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, and Slim Pickens.
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In 1989, the United States Library of Congress included Dr. Strangelove as one of the first twenty-five films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Kubrick's biographer John Baxter explained, in the documentary Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove:
As it turns out, Slim Pickens had never left the United States. He had to hurry and get his first passport. He arrived on the set, and somebody said, "Gosh, he's arrived in costume!", not realizing that that's how he always dressed ... with the cowboy hat and the fringed jacket and the cowboy boots—and that he wasn't putting on the character—that's the way he talked.
Pickens, who had previously played only supporting and character roles, said that his appearance as Maj. Kong greatly improved his career. He later commented, "After Dr. Strangelove the roles, the dressing rooms, and the checks all started getting bigger."
"Gentlemen - you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."
we'll meet again, some sunny day.
Murder By Death, 1976. All star cast for this broad parody of the traditional country-house whodunit, familiar to mystery fiction fans of classics such as Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
Directed by Robert Moore and written by Neil Simon and stars include Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, and Estelle Winwood.
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Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that the film had one of Simon's "nicest, breeziest screenplays," with James Coco "very, very funny as the somewhat prissy take-off on Hercule Poirot" and David Niven and Maggie Smith "marvelous as Dick and Dora Charleston, though they haven't enough to do."
Hope And Glory, 1987. directed by John Boorman and based on his own experiences of growing up in London during the Second World War. It stars Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Derrick O'Connor, Susan Wooldridge, Sammi Davis and Ian Bannen.
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Hope and Glory 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).
How to Murder Your Wife, 1965. directed by Richard Quine, that stars Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, and Terry-Thomas.
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The comic strip art featured in the film was credited to Mel Keefer, who drew newspaper comic strips such as Perry Mason, Mac Divot and Rick O'Shay. Comics artist Alex Toth did a teaser comic strip in Keefer's style that ran in The Hollywood Reporter and in several newspapers promoting the film for ten days prior to its theatrical opening.
Virna Lisi was quite stunning in her day..https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51134750522_1a93edc693_b.jpg
Dressed To Kill, 1946. the last of fourteen films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.
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Joe Versus the Volcano, 1990. directed by John Patrick Shanley and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
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walpurgis
29-11-2021, 14:28
Joe Versus the Volcano, 1990. directed by John Patrick Shanley and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
Strange and quirky little movie that I liked lot.
Strange and quirky little movie that I liked lot.
yeah i like it too. nothing else out there like it.
The Left Hand of God, 1955. directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Buddy Adler, from a screenplay by Alfred Hayes, based on the novel The Left Hand of God, by William Edmund Barrett. it stars Humphrey Bogart and Gene Tierney, with Lee J. Cobb, Agnes Moorehead and E. G. Marshall.
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Bogey is good in this otherwise wayward screenplay. This is from my Apple film collection.
Great Expectations, 1946, directed by David Lean and stars John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles, Francis L. Sullivan, Anthony Wager, Jean Simmons, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt and Alec Guinness.
A classic Dickensian tale; probably the best film adaptation of any.
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Dickens based Joe Gargery's house on the forge in the village of Chalk, near Gravesend, Kent – a replica was erected on St Mary's Marshes on the Thames Estuary. Pip and Herbert Pocket arrange to meet Magwitch and help him escape at Chatham Docks where slip 8 was used for the scene as well as exterior shots of the prison hulk ships. The River Medway and the adjacent St Mary's Marshes appear in scenes where Pip and his friend, Herbert Pocket, row their boat to a small inn whilst waiting for the paddle steamer to arrive. The ship used in the film was called Empress, dating from the latter half of the nineteenth century and owned by Cosens & Co Ltd of Weymouth. She was brought down to the River Medway for the shoot. "New masts were stepped-in with square rigging and dummy sails, the funnel was lengthened and the paddle-boxes enlarged until it looked exactly right."
When I was about 10 my mum and dad (who were very much hippies/weirdos) used to have a craft stall on a Saturday in Norwich, and I’d get given 50p to take my little sister somewhere to keep us out of their hair. Just across the road was Cinema City, and they would always be showing old films, many in black and white, and therefore much cheaper than “proper” modern cinema. Great Expectations at Cinema City is one of my most vivid childhood memories! Great film. Saw many classics back then, Jason and the Argonauts being another I remember very well.
Ten Bob was a man's daily wage when I was young. Lol
First Blood, 1982. directed by Ted Kotcheff, and co-written by Sylvester Stallone, who also stars as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. Co stars are Richard Crenna and Brian Dennehy..
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First Blood topped the U.S. box office for three weeks in a row, and its $6,642,005 opening weekend was the best October opening at the time. The film grossed $125 million worldwide, against a $15 million budget. It was notably the first major Hollywood blockbuster to be released in China, where it was released in 1985. It sold 76 million tickets in China, the highest for a foreign Hollywood film up until 2018.
Top film that, first film I ever saw on the new-fangled VHS tape.
being able to rent films from the off licence was ace. We forget now but back then that was one of the best things ever. Nothing on the telly? Just nip down the shop and rent a film.
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, 1989. directed by Arthur Hiller, and stars Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance, Anthony Zerbe and Kevin Spacey.
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Oft said to be a poor collaberation and a worse script, which was reworked by Wilder, but its slapstick really so many find it silly.
Top film that, first film I ever saw on the new-fangled VHS tape.
being able to rent films from the off licence was ace. We forget now but back then that was one of the best things ever. Nothing on the telly? Just nip down the shop and rent a film.
i think i had it on vhs myself.
12 Monkeys, 1995. directed by Terry Gilliam.
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The film was released to critical praise and grossed $168.8 million worldwide. Pitt was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and he won a Golden Globe Award for his performance. The film also won and was nominated for various categories at the Saturn Awards.
Five Easy Pieces, 1970. directed by Bob Rafelson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, and Ralph Waite.
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The film was nominated for four Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards, and in 2000, was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and recommended for preservation.
This is the remastered Criterion bluray.
Quality film, I love the ending.
walpurgis
03-12-2021, 12:28
Five Easy Pieces, 1970. directed by Bob Rafelson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, and Ralph Waite.
Excellent movie. It's in my DVD collection.
"hold the chicken"
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High Anxiety, 1977. Directed by Mel Brooks who also stars, along with Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman, and Madeline Kahn.
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Brooks took great pains to not only spoof Hitchcock films, but also to emulate the look and style of his pictures. In an interview he said, "I watch the kind of film we're making with the [director of photography], so he knows not to be frivolous. He's got to get the real lighting, the real texture. For High Anxiety, it was 'What is a Hitchcock film? What does it look like? What does it feel like? How does he light them? How long is a scene? What is the cutting? When does he bring things to a boil?' We just watch everything."
After viewing the film, Hitchcock sent Brooks a case containing six magnums of 1961 Château Haut-Brion wine with a note that read, "A small token of my pleasure, have no anxiety about this."
I fact the two became firm friends and apparently met every Friday for a while .... apparently Hitch was a fan of Brooks as much the other way.
Sticking with Mel and the much loved by me (and Hitchcock), Blazing Saddles, 1974. Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder. The cast includes Slim Pickens, Alex Karras, and David Huddleston, as well as Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, and Harvey Korman. Bandleader Count Basie has a cameo as himself, appearing with his orchestra. Brooks has 3 smallish parts too.
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The film is full of deliberate anachronisms, from the Count Basie Orchestra playing "April in Paris" in the Wild West, to Slim Pickens referring to the Wide World of Sports.
Roger Ebert gave the film four stars out of four, calling it a "crazed grab bag of a movie that does everything to keep us laughing except hit us over the head with a rubber chicken. Mostly, it succeeds. It's an audience picture; it doesn't have a lot of classy polish and its structure is a total mess. But of course! What does that matter while Alex Karras is knocking a horse cold with a right cross to the jaw?"
Five Easy Pieces, 1970. directed by Bob Rafelson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, and Ralph Waite.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Five_easy_pieces.jpg
The film was nominated for four Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards, and in 2000, was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and recommended for preservation.
This is the remastered Criterion bluray.
Yes - a good film. :)
Play It Again Sam, 1972. written by and starring Woody Allen, based on his 1969 Broadway play of the same name. The film was directed by Herbert Ross.
Stars Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Jerry Lacy and Susan Anspach.
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Quentin Tarantino said on his commentary track for True Romance (1993) that the character of Elvis Presley as portrayed by Val Kilmer, who appears to Christian Slater's character and gives advice and assurance, was based on the Bogart character in this film.
Another good film there Grant.
Total recall, 1990.
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Being There, 1979. directed by Hal Ashby and stars Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine, and features Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart, and Richard Basehart.
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The film holds a score of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 55 reviews, with an average rating of 8.56/10. The critical consensus reads: "Smart, sophisticated, and refreshingly subtle, Being There soars behind sensitive direction from Hal Ashby and a stellar Peter Sellers performance." In 2003 The New York Times placed the film on its Best 1000 Movies Ever list.
According to MacLaine, "(Peter) believed he was Chauncey. He never had lunch with me... He was Chauncey Gardiner the whole shoot, but believing he was having a love affair with me."
This is the Criterion remastered Bluray.
"Smart, sophisticated, and refreshingly subtle"
The emphasis is on subtle. I know several fans of Peter Seller films who just don't get it.
walpurgis
04-12-2021, 12:12
Being There, 1979
It's a bit special.
The emphasis is on subtle. I know several fans of Peter Seller films who just don't get it.
It's a bit special.
yes its a vey good, yet strange film i guess. either you get it on not. Thought Shirley Maclaine was outstanding.
Starman, 1984. directed by John Carpenter and stars Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen.
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Jeff Bridges was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, making Starman the only film by John Carpenter to receive an Academy Award nomination.
walpurgis
04-12-2021, 14:58
Starman, 1984. directed by John Carpenter and stars Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen
I loved that film and have the DVD. Not watched it for years though.
(actually, it reminds me of 'K-PAX', which I also haven't seen for ages)
The Odessa File, 1974, adapted from the 1972 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth. It stars Jon Voight, Mary Tamm, Maximilian Schell and Maria Schell and was directed by Ronald Neame.
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Not the best Forsyth adaption but its ok.
The film's title song, "Christmas Dream", written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, was sung by Perry Como and the London Boy Singers.
An old fav now, Throw Momma from the Train, 1987. Great performance from Anne Ramsey as 'Momma', with Billy Crystal and Danny Devito, who also directed.
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Branford Marsalis and Kate Mulgrew both have roles as well
Good fun film...
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