Now Screening - What Are You Watching Right Now? [Archive] - Page 45

struth

16-01-2022, 13:15

Now, John Carpenter's, The Thing, 1982.

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The opening title attempts to replicate the appearance of the original Howard Hawks film. To create the effect of the title, an animation cell with "The Thing" written on it was placed behind a smoke-filled fish tank which was covered with a plastic garbage bag. The bag was ignited, creating the effect of the title burning onto the screen.

When the dog wanders down a hallway and pauses outside a door, we see a shadow of one of the men, beckoning it in. John Carpenter wanted it to be mysterious which character was involved, so didn't use any of his actors to cast the shadow.

John Carpenter comments that one of the bush pilots used on the film offered to crash one of the helicopters for money. When MacReady and Dr. Copper go to visit the Norwegian camp via helicopter, the bush pilot actually turned the controls over to Kurt Russell once the chopper was off the ground. If you watch the shot you see the 'copter actually wobble - that's Russell taking the controls.

walpurgis

16-01-2022, 13:27

Now, John Carpenter's, The Thing, 1982

Another unforgettable film!

Lawrence001

16-01-2022, 14:44

Yes great film but I recall the poster being different to that.

struth

16-01-2022, 15:01

A bit lighter now with the John Huston 1951 classic... The African Queen.

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Humphrey Bogart hated Africa immediately and was miserable, but Katharine Hepburn adored it, calling it "utterly divine." Bogie complained about everything: the heat, the humidity, the dangers, the food. He recalled, "While I was griping, Katie was in her glory. She couldn't pass a fern or berry without wanting to know its pedigree, and insisted on getting the Latin name for everything she saw walking, swimming, flying or crawling. I wanted to cut our ten-week schedule, but the way she was wallowing in the stinking hole, we'd be there for years."

To show her disgust with the amount of alcohol that John Huston and Humphrey Bogart consumed during filming, Katharine Hepburn drank only water. As a result, she suffered a severe bout of dysentery.

struth

16-01-2022, 16:58

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, 2003. directed by the great Peter Weir.

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During the film's pre-production, the replica of Captain James Cook's ship, HMS Endeavour, was circumnavigating the globe. The production was able to fly 2 cameramen to the ship as it was about to sail round the bottom of South America; a route the HMS Surprise takes in the film. Thus, the footage of the stormy seas from that part of the voyage is genuine. The Endeavour sailors were used in costumes kept on board for displays.

The toast to "wives and sweethearts (may they never meet)" is the traditional toast for Saturdays in the Royal Navy.

struth

16-01-2022, 19:01

good film, i always say that when i ve watched it. lol .. russell crowe learned to play violin for the part; saying it was hardest thing he'd ever done.

6 stars for its reality it deserves...

struth

16-01-2022, 19:10

The Lavander Hill Mob, 1951.... Directed by Charles Crichton.

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Ealing Studios, planning a bank robbery movie, asked the Bank of England to devise a way in which a million pounds sterling could be stolen from the bank. A special committee was created to come up with an idea, and their plan is the one used in this movie.

Audrey Hepburn (Chiquita) was considered for a larger role in this movie, but stage work made her unavailable. Sir Alec Guinness was impressed with the young actress and arranged for her to appear in a bit part. This is considered to be Hepburn's first appearance in a major movie.

During the filming of the scene where Holland and Pendlebury are pursuing the Eiffel tower paper weights in Paris, Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway both nearly fell off the real Eiffel tower. How this came about, has never been revealed.

struth

17-01-2022, 16:56

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, 1976. directed by Herbert Ross and written by Nicholas Meyer. stars Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Alan Arkin, and Laurence Olivier.
This is the Reg A bluray version.

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While the book showed Dr. Sigmund Freud with a daughter, the child he had in real life, the movie showed him with a make-believe son, because Dr. Anna Freud threatened a lawsuit if she was included. Since her father was dead, she had no control over how he was portrayed.

Holmes' use of cocaine was alluded to in the Basil Rathbone version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), the last line of the movie being Holmes saying, "Oh Watson, the needle." The line was deleted by censors in 1939, but was later restored with the 1975 re-release of the movie. The line is often misquoted as "Quick, Watson! The needle."

struth

17-01-2022, 18:37

"Watson, I'll trouble you for the service revolver" classic line :D

an excellent, if rarely seen film over here.

walpurgis

17-01-2022, 18:47

I believe Nicol Williamson was regarded as 'difficult' by some.

struth

17-01-2022, 18:57

I believe Nicol Williamson was regarded as 'difficult' by some.

i think he could be, yes, especially on stage.. might have been live stress as he seems to have been a different man in films.. smoked like a lum too

struth

18-01-2022, 14:14

Crossed Swords(AKA, The Prince And The Pauper in UK)1977. Directed by Richard Fleischer and has an all star cast including Oliver Reed, Ernest Borgnine, Raquel Welch, George C. Scott, Charlton Heston, Sir Rex Harrison, and Mark Lester, playing the dual role of Edward VI of England and Tom Canty.

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This is the Region A Bluray version.

Although playing a nine-year-old, Mark Lester was actually seventeen, going on eighteen at the time of filming, and a drunken Oliver Reed brought a prostitute as a gift for Mark Lester to celebrate his birthday on July 11, 1976(typical Ollie eh).:eyebrows::doh:

Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch, Oliver Reed, and Sybil Danning also appeared together in two previous Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind productions, The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974). All three films were also written by George MacDonald Fraser, and produced by Pierre Spengler.

struth

18-01-2022, 17:28

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003.. first of the series...possibly the best too.

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Geoffrey Rush has a theory that people watch the screen from left to right, just like when they read a book. Therefore, he tried to be in the left side of the screen as often as possible. He was particularly intent on doing this in the scenes with the monkey and Keira Knightley, because he didn't think anyone would look at him otherwise.

Keira Knightley claimed she was so sure she was going to get fired after a few days work on this film, she only packed a few things to go with her to start filming.

struth

19-01-2022, 10:36

The Cheap Detective, 1978. It stars Peter Falk as Lou Peckinpaugh, a parody of Humphrey Bogart. The film is a parody of Bogart films such as Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon.

The ensemble cast includes Madeline Kahn, Louise Fletcher, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Stockard Channing, Marsha Mason, Sid Caesar, John Houseman, Dom DeLuise, Abe Vigoda, James Coco, Phil Silvers, Fernando Lamas, Nicol Williamson, Scatman Crothers, Vic Tayback and Paul Williams.

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The farewell scene between Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk) and Marlene DuChard (Louise Fletcher) was shot on the same soundstage that was used for the Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman farewell in Casablanca (1942)

The name of the bar, Nix Place, is a spoof of the bar Rick's Place from Casablanca (1942). Neil Simon claimed that Warner Brothers had saved light fixtures and decorations from Humphrey Bogart's club in Casablanca (1942), allowing them to be re-used as props for Charles B. Pierce's Nix Place set. He also claimed some of the original waiters were re-used as well.

struth

19-01-2022, 12:48

Deep Impact, 1998.

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A giant object from space struck the general area of the Eastern Seaboard where "Biederman" impacted in the film. Hitting the Norfolk, Virginia vicinity, it created the huge, now-buried, Chesapeake Bay impact crater.

Macca

19-01-2022, 13:21

Not a bad film that. Just one daft bit where they are all stuck on the freeway going nowhere and the thing is about to hit, but everyone is still just sat in their cars beeping their horns.

That would never happen. Whoever wrote that has never witnessed peoples' instinct for self-preservation.

struth

19-01-2022, 13:24

Macca

19-01-2022, 13:28

people would be running even if there was no real chance of getting to safety. It's what we do. You might get the odd one who would rationalise it and decide they're dead already but not thousands of them.

struth

19-01-2022, 13:55

Macca

19-01-2022, 13:59

smart ones would have got a big boat and gone to sea til it hit:eyebrows:

buy a tent, go to the top of a high mountain and wait it out.

Although that wouldn't work if it impacted on land. I think in the film the one they smash to bits is due to hit Wisconsin or somewhere.

struth

19-01-2022, 14:16

The Big Sleep is a 1946 American film noir directed by Howard Hawks, the first film version of the 1939 novel of the same name by Raymond Chandler. The film stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge.

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Raymond Chandler claimed that Martha Vickers gave such an intense performance as Carmen Sternwood that she completely overshadowed Lauren Bacall, and that much of Vickers' performance ended up on the cutting room floor as a result.

Many of the cars in the film have a "B" sticker in the lower-right corner of their windshields. This is a reflection of the wartime rationing of gasoline. Gas was rationed primarily to save rubber, because Japan had occupied Indochina, Malaysia, and Indonesia. (There was a shortage of gas on the East Coast until a pipeline from Texas was constructed to replace the transport of crude oil by sea.) The B sticker was the second lowest category, entitling the holder to only 8 gallons of gas a week. Marlowe seems to use more than one week's allotment during a 72-hour period, which may be intended to reflect a black market in ration books. However, since Marlowe still has a deputy badge, at least in a deleted scene which existed in the 1945 version, he would be entitled to an X sticker (unlimited gas) as a peace officer. Perhaps the B sticker on the windshield was camouflage, since an X sticker would make the car extremely noteworthy. Marlowe also refers to "three red points," and speaks of a dead body as "cold meat" which refers to the red tokens used to acquire a family's allotment of meat during WWII.

struth

19-01-2022, 14:56

There was a great story re Martha Vickers. Hawks wanted her to simulate an orgasm in a scene with Bogart, and she innocently didnt have a clue what one was(think she was 20).
So Macho Hawks called a break and got one of the male actors(I think it was Regis Toomey) to tell her(was too embarrassed himself). He reckoned it was one of his most embarrassing times lol.
Anyway she did such a good job they had to cut it as it was never getting passed the censor,

Martha Vickers.

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struth

19-01-2022, 16:07

Steptoe and Son, 1972. Stars Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett, and an offshoot of the tv series.

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The 'drag act' performing the night Harold meets Zita is Patrick Fyffe - who a few short years later would become Dame Hilda Bracket, of the hugely popular musical comedy act 'Hinge and Bracket'.
It was also the debut film appearance of comedian, Mike Reid.

struth

19-01-2022, 17:46

good to see again. now a great film and not as good as series but its still fun imo, and 10 times better than the ave crap you get now.

struth

20-01-2022, 10:00

Morning Matinee is Sherlock Holmes Faces Death. 1943.

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Dr. Watson's revolver is an 1878 Colt M1877 "Lightning", an improbable choice for Watson as a service revolver since it was never chambered with a British service cartridge.

Macca

20-01-2022, 10:52

Morning Matinee is Sherlock Holmes Faces Death. 1943.

Dr. Watson's revolver is an 1878 Colt M1877 "Lightning", an improbable choice for Watson as a service revolver since it was never chambered with a British service cartridge.

an interesting one that as we know Watson served in 2nd Afghan which was 1878-1880 so the standard issue sidearm at the time would have been the Colt 'Navy' although that began to be replaced in 1880 with the Enfield .442 and .447

So his 'service revolver' should have been one of those two.

However there may be a connection with the policeman Jerome Caminada who was head of Manchester CID in the late Victorian era. He carried a Colt 'Lightning' and has been described as the 'real life' Sherlock Holmes.

struth

20-01-2022, 11:12

great end quote... but we are still awaiting it?.

Sherlock Holmes: There's a new spirit abroad in the land. The old days of grab and greed are on their way out. We're beginning to think of what we *owe* the other fellow, not just what we're compelled to give him. The time is coming, Watson, when we shant't be able to fill our bellies in comfort while other folk go hungry, or sleep in warm beds while others shiver in the cold. And we shan't be able to kneel and thank God for blessing us before our shining altars while men anywhere are kneeling in either physical or spiritual subjection.

Dr. John H. Watson: You may be right, Holmes... I hope you are.

Sherlock Holmes: And, God willing, we'll live to see that day, Watson.

Opti-cal

20-01-2022, 11:20

What actually does constitute a Christmas film?

'Home Alone' is set at Christmas but it could just as well be at any time of year, doesn't matter to the plot.

Same with 'Die Hard', 'Die Hard 2' and 'Trading Places'

My apologies for dragging this up Macca but the Christmas theme IS integral to the plot of Home Alone! Less so Die Hard but still somewhat. . . .

Firstly the "Wet Bandits" (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) obtain the entire streets 'Christmas' lighting schedules as they are on automatic timers to turn their Christmas lights on at a certain time (as it's an affluent area, very rich pickings etc).

Secondly a lot of Kevin's 'booby traps' are made up of things you would find out around Christmas, including baubles underneath potential entrances (windows) after he has systematically removed said bandits socks with tar on an earlier booby trap, resulting in pain for the intruder and alerting Kevin to their whereabouts.

Also in the second film (Home Alone 2 - Lost In New York) his mum (mom) is only able to travel home because she meets up with a band (led by John Candy) whom also cannot get a flight home (because its Christmas) as they wish to get home to see their families too for the aforementioned reason of Christmas.

Also the now renamed "Sticky Bandits" plan to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve because it's the only night of the year when all the takings from that week are kept in the registers (because the owner likes to take the money down to various children's charities on Christmas).

There are numerous more reasons why these films must occur at Christmas, the plots simply wouldn't work without that factor.

Sorry I totally agree that a lot of films are branded 'Christmas Classics' only due to them being repeatedly aired around the same time, must be cheap or something. In Die Hard the staff are having a Christmas party, hence all of them being unaware of the goings on (inebriated etc). The story-line with the policeman 'driving home for Christmas' would not be so appropriate and a lot of the scenes (machine gun ho-ho-ho) would not really make much sense if it wasn't Christmas.

Also the lack of interest initially by the police department in John Mcclane's calls to them are a result of everyone there being a bit tired/merry, again due to Christmas. I agree though, it probably would have worked just as well without any Christmas references in it, unlike Home Alone.

Arguably Die Hard II (although not as good) is more 'Christmassy' as at least there is a lot of snow.

As some integral films from my childhood, I couldn't let that slide, sorry.

Macca

20-01-2022, 11:58

okay was wrong about Home Alone but have to confess I've never really watched it properly. :)

Opti-cal

20-01-2022, 12:00

okay was wrong about Home Alone but have to confess I've never really watched it properly. :)

Haha, yeah fair enough as it was all the rage and came out at the right time for me to have most of it imprinted on my brain (as you can tell!).

Like reading through this thread by the way chaps, always brings up some interesting stuff.

Macca

20-01-2022, 12:21

Haha, yeah fair enough as it was all the rage and came out at the right time for me to have most of it imprinted on my brain (as you can tell!).

Like reading through this thread by the way chaps, always brings up some interesting stuff.

it's from 1990 so I was 22 when it came out. I did see it a couple of Christmas's ago as my niece and nephew insisted on watching it, but I'd had two dinners and drunk all the beer so I was sort of zoning in and out.

Barry

20-01-2022, 14:34

Sherlock Holmes: There's a new spirit abroad in the land. The old days of grab and greed are on their way out. We're beginning to think of what we *owe* the other fellow, not just what we're compelled to give him. The time is coming, Watson, when we shant't be able to fill our bellies in comfort while other folk go hungry, or sleep in warm beds while others shiver in the cold. And we shan't be able to kneel and thank God for blessing us before our shining altars while men anywhere are kneeling in either physical or spiritual subjection.

Dr. John H. Watson: You may be right, Holmes... I hope you are.

Sherlock Holmes: And, God willing, we'll live to see that day, Watson.

Sadly, at the moment there are powerful parties, both here and abroad, intending to deny and reverse those sentiments. But that's a topic best discussed elsewhere.

struth

20-01-2022, 15:47

The Spider Woman, 1943. starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, the seventh of fourteen such films the pair were involved in.

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At one point Holmes says to Watson, "If you ever see me getting too sure again, fancying myself more clever then Adrea Spedding, just whisper one word to me: pygmy." This line was inspired by the short story "The Adventure of the Yellow Face," in which Holmes tells Watson, "If it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."

Barry

20-01-2022, 16:19

Nah! Sherlock Holmes not only enjoyed his 8% solution, he was also into bondage. "Pygmy" and "Norbury" were code release words for when things went a bit too far! :D

struth

20-01-2022, 16:26

Nah! Sherlock Holmes not only enjoyed his 8% solution, he was also into bondage. "Pygmy" and "Norbury" were code release words for when things went a bit too far! :D

lol... think it was 7% tho.:D

Barry

20-01-2022, 16:45

Yes, you are quite right it was 7%.

struth

20-01-2022, 17:32

A Scandal in Bohemia, from the 1984 series, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Jeremy Brett stars.

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After speaking with the King of Bohemia, Holmes says the great Russian composer Tchaikovsky is "conducting his own works at St James's Hall on Friday." Tchaikovsky conducted in London on four occasions between 1888 and 1893. Given that Conan Doyle published A Scandal in Bohemia in June 1891, we can assume that this episode is set in between 30 March and 11 April 1889 when Tchaikovsky conducted a concert at St James's Hall. The only Friday he would've conducted his orchestra will have been 5 April 1889.

Barry

20-01-2022, 17:39

Who is your favourite Sherlock Holmes? Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Peter Cushing, Robert Stephens, .... ?

struth

20-01-2022, 18:12

brett is the man, but i did like nicol williamson too

Pigmy Pony

20-01-2022, 18:28

Jeremy Brett for me too, and having read many of the Conan Doyle stories I think the Granada TV series portrays Watson more accurately too.

struth

20-01-2022, 18:37

Pigmy Pony

21-01-2022, 19:10

Ordered the usa region a bluray boxset of 12 monkeys series 1-4. came today, but they sent me 2 boxsets :lol: both the same, with 8 discs. my lovely old oppo does reg a so i benefit from getting some nice regional stuff not available in uk, but im a bit flabbered with 2 sets lol.

ps its a great film but ive not seen series yet. anyone seen it

Always nice, getting free stuff :)

The film is one of my favourites, but I didn't know there was a TV series.

This kind of thing is happening a lot now - Couple of years ago we watched a TV series of "Shooter". It was cack. Then last night a new series started, and it's based around the "Bourne" films. It's called "Treadstone" and looks like it might be ok. I've recorded episode 1 and will watch later.

struth

22-01-2022, 11:32

The Bourne Ultimatum, 2007. directed by Paul Greengrass.

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When they were shooting in Tangiers, it was in the middle of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, where no Muslim can eat or drink during the daylight hours. Interviews in the bonus material reveal that several of the crew members were Muslims, and found it exhausting to do the movie while being unable to eat or drink. Matt Damon comments on how he would see them look "longingly at a cup of coffee or a sandwich". To accommodate these crew members, the remaining members of the crew tried to discreetly eat and drink.

struth

22-01-2022, 15:39

Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968. directed by Sergio Leone, and stars Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards and the delectable Claudia Cardinale.
Almost certainly in my top 10 of all-time greats.

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Sergio Leone liked to tell the story of a cinema in Paris, where the film ran uninterrupted for two years. When he visited this theater, he was surrounded by fans who wanted his autograph, as well as the projectionist, who was less than enthusiastic. Leone claimed the projectionist told him "I kill you! The same movie over and over again for two years! And it's so SLOW!"

Al Mulock, who played one of the three gunmen in the opening sequence, committed suicide by jumping from his hotel window in full costume after a day's shooting. Production manager Claudio Mancini and screenwriter Mickey Knox, who were sitting in a room in the hotel, witnessed Mulock's body pass by their window. Knox recalled in an interview that while Mancini put Mulock in his car to drive him to the hospital, director Sergio Leone said to Mancini, "Get the costume! We need the costume!" Mulock, who had appeared as the one-armed bounty hunter in Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), was wearing the costume he wore in the movie when he made his fatal leap.

struth

22-01-2022, 18:25

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, 1942.

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The fourth of 14 films based on Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson.

During the sequence showing the trials of the new bomb-sight, several different types of aircraft are seen in the stock footage used. A Douglas A-20 (known in RAF service as the "Boston") takes off, then a Bristol Blenheim flies low past the camera, and finally a Vickers Wellington is seen for the rest of the sequence. The interior of the aircraft shown also appears to be a Wellington, recognisable by its unique framework of aluminium triangles.

struth

23-01-2022, 11:56

The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939.

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After being out of circulation for many years, partly because of the 1959 Hammer remake (The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)) in Technicolor starring Peter Cushing, this film was restored and re-released to theaters in 1975 with great fanfare, to the point of having the national evening news do a story on it. The film was shown at its full 80-minute length, and newspaper and magazine articles commented on the fact that the line "Oh, Watson, the needle!", referring to Holmes' cocaine habit (and usually misquoted as "Quick, Watson, the needle!") was put back in after having been cut by the censors. As an added attraction, the studio added a rare sound film featurette which showed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes books, talking about his creation.

At approximately 51 minutes into the film, Holmes plays the first three notes of what would become "Stairway to Heaven" on the Lire for Watson.

walpurgis

23-01-2022, 12:06

Seen both versions and read the story several times, always enjoyed it. That Stapleton was a bounder! :D

Pigmy Pony

23-01-2022, 12:20

The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939.

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At approximately 51 minutes into the film, Holmes plays the first three notes of what would become "Stairway to Heaven" on the Lire for Watson.

Always an education :) And I won't be the only one who finds your movie trivia fascinating.

Last night I watched the first episode of "Treadstone", based around Robert Ludlum's "Bourne" books. Looks promising. But I seem to remember you saying you don't watch regular TV any more, and this on "5 Action", formerly Paramount channel.

struth

23-01-2022, 12:22

Always an education :) And I won't be the only one who finds your movie trivia fascinating.

Last night I watched the first episode of "Treadstone", based around Robert Ludlum's "Bourne" books. Looks promising. But I seem to remember you saying you don't watch regular TV any more, and this on "5 Action", formerly Paramount channel.

season 1 is available on amazon prime free, so ive marked it as to watch:)

struth

23-01-2022, 12:34

Dad's Army, 2016.

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When other members of the platoon are quoting famous literature, and Mainwaring offers "who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men," he is actually quoting a famous radio program's opening lines. The Shadow was an adventure serial in the 1930s that began every program with that tag line.

The Home Guardsmen appear to be using the M1917 Enfield Rifle. Although a First World War-era American gun, the M1917 was commonly issued to the Home Guard (under the 'Lend Lease' agreement) as supplies of the British Army's main weapon, the SMLE Rifle, were required for front line troops

Pigmy Pony

23-01-2022, 12:40

season 1 is available on amazon prime free, so ive marked it as to watch:)

That's good, but you know that now I've built it up it'll turn out to be crap!

struth

23-01-2022, 13:24

That's good, but you know that now I've built it up it'll turn out to be crap!

these things are usually pitifully slow to start with as they introduce the cast. so if you dislike it straight off, your likely to not get to the action.

struth

23-01-2022, 13:52

"They Don't Like It Up 'Em":lol:

struth

23-01-2022, 14:11

A good wartime drama now with Leslie Norman's Dunkirk, 1958. A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force's 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany.

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Strand Quay, on the west side of the town of Rye, was used for the Dunkirk perimeter. In one shot, the top of St. Mary's Parish Church may be spotted, and in another, we get a glimpse of the famous Mermaid Street in the background.
The command center used by Vice Admiral Ramsey (Nicholas Hannen) was the actual bunker used during the operation. It's part of a large underground complex beneath Dover Castle. It's open to the public. The balcony in the cliffs is visible from the ferry terminal below.

The beach sequences were shot at Camber Sands on the south coast of England, while the town of Dunkirk was re-created in the nearby English town of Rye.

struth

23-01-2022, 16:34

Heaven Can Wait, 1978. fantasy-comedy film co-directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry and stars Julie Christie, Warren Beatty, James Mason, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon, Buck Henry and Jack Warden.

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The role of Joe Pendleton was originally a boxer in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941). Warren Beatty originally wanted to have Muhammad Ali play the boxer. When Ali's boxing schedule prevented him from doing the movie, Beatty - who could not box but could play football - recast the lead role as a football player

Barry

23-01-2022, 16:40

Dad's Army, 2016.

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Not a bad little film, but I was bit disappointed with the result given the status of the cast.

struth

23-01-2022, 17:59

Not a bad little film, but I was bit disappointed with the result given the status of the cast.I like it a lot. You need to watch it a few times but it's made with lots of love from the old series and actors. The stupid boy and the vicar both were in it as well which was nice.

struth

23-01-2022, 18:09

Hobson's Choice, 1954. Directed by David Lean.

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In the middle of the movie, Henry Hobson (Charles Laughton) staggers drunk out of his favorite bar, "The Moonrakers", and pursues the full moon's reflection in a puddle. This is likely an allusion to the legend of the Wiltshire moonrakers. An exciseman caught smugglers using rakes to retrieve barrels of contraband brandy hidden in a pond, but they explained they were after a wheel of cheese, pointing to the reflected moon. So the exciseman laughed at them and left them in peace.

Sir John Mills often cited this as his favorite movie.

struth

24-01-2022, 11:03

Murder on the Orient Express, 1974. directed by Sidney Lumet. Albert Finney takes the role of Belgian detective Poirot.

Top class cast and Finney was superb.

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The luxury food that is inspected and carried aboard the train early in the movie had been stolen from the set just before shooting. All of the food had to be bought again, in the middle of the night, on-location in Paris, France.

The final scene, in which Poirot relates his solution to the crime, had to be shot countless times, as it required more angles than could be captured in a single take, and more cameras than could fit on the confining dining car set. The multiple takes were especially challenging for Albert Finney, whose uninterrupted monologue was eight pages long, but many cast members later recalled the tedium of sitting motionless for so long, maintaining their physical posturing for continuity, bolstered only by their professional drive to provide support for Finney's tour de force.

struth

24-01-2022, 13:18

Now a more modern version, also an all star cast...Murder on the Orient Express, 2017. directed by and starring as Poirot, ...Kenneth Branagh.

The Orient Express ran over a variety of routes. The "Classic" Orient Express ran between Paris and Istanbul via Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, and Bucharest. The train in this movie, as a station announcement makes clear, is the Simplon Orient Express, which ran via Milan, Venice, Belgrade, and Sofia.

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Johnny Depp asked director Branagh to apologize to Derek Jacobi on his behalf after filming their scene together, "because I had to shout at him, I don't want to shout at Derek Jacobi."

Veteran actress Jacqueline Bisset, who starred in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), told director Kenneth Branagh how excruciating it was to shoot the extended scene in which the murder was revealed. To avoid this feeling among the actors and actresses in his version, Branagh shot his side as Poirot first, cut wherever he could when shooting the actors and actresses up close, and did everything to make sure the whole cast spent as little time as possible on-set during the lengthy scene.

struth

24-01-2022, 15:21

Both excellent in their own ways. Branagh was very good.

now, The Legend of Tarzan, 2016. directed by David Yates and stars Alexander Skarsgard, Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Djimon Hounsou, Jim Broadbent, and Christoph Waltz.

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Alexander Skarsgard's first cheat meal occurred more than five months into his training. Skarsgard had been on a very strict diet for five straight months, avoiding any fat completely, as he was in the process of developing an eight-pack. He said, "It was a Sunday, and we were training hard in the gym, and my trainer saw that my will to live was fading. He told me to put down the weights and he took me to lunch. That day he let me order whatever I wanted. I got to eat pizza, pasta, tiramisu. I get emotional just talking about that day." On the last day of filming, the crew congratulated him on the end of his diet by gifting him with a huge Banoffee Pie, a British dessert. Skarsgard said that to celebrate, he ate the entire pie by himself in a single sitting.
Trainer Magnus Lygdback revealed that Alexander Skarsgård impressed the entire cast and crew with his physical transformation. He said, "On the first day of filming, when he took off his shirt for the first time, the first thing you noticed was his huge back. You could hear people whispering; that's when I knew we had done it." Margot Robbie added, "Words failed me. My jaw was on the floor. As was everyone else's in the crew. People stopped working and were staring. Even the men were like, 'Wow.' It was amazing. He worked so hard; I am so impressed."

struth

24-01-2022, 17:12

All of Me, 1984. Steve Martin stars with Lily Tomlin in this fantasy comedy, with a touch of jazz flung in. Martin is a good banjo and guitar player ..
Lily Tomlin was born the day World War II started. Steve Martin was born the day World War II ended.

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In an interview, Steve Martin once said of this movie: "This man is not an idiot. He is a contemporary person with some brains . . . he's not naive or a victim of circumstances. He's an intelligent man who happens to get caught in a disaster. That's a big difference between this role and any other part I've played . . . For the first time I'm in a story with a beginning, middle, and end. It's old-fashioned and solid . . . This movie was like going to school. I learned a lot about structure and character".

Pigmy Pony

24-01-2022, 18:17

struth

25-01-2022, 10:02

The Good die Young, 1954. Directed By Lewis Gilbert.
This is the BFI bluray.

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Several of the main cast lived up to the "dying young" part of the title. Laurence Harvey and Margaret Leighton were married in 1957 and divorced in 1961. She was made a CBE, won two Tony Awards, and died in 1976 at age 53. Harvey died in 1973 at age 45. Those of the remaining cast who also met a relatively early demise were Stanley Baker in 1976 at age 48, Susan Shaw in 1978 at age 49, Gloria Grahame in 1981 at 57, and James Kenney in 1987 at 56. As of late summer 2021, only Dame Joan Collins is still alive at age 88. Robert Morley was one cast member to buck the trend, passing in 1992 at age 84.

struth

25-01-2022, 11:08

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I need to look out for this film, looks like something I'd enjoy. Excellent cast - Christoph Waltz (who was great in "Inglourious Basterds"), and Margot Robbie, who in an ideal world would have a massive crush on me :) Though it looks like Skarsgard might give me some competition.

think you will enjoy it steve. its fairly well done

struth

25-01-2022, 12:46

Throw Momma from the Train, 1987. directed by Danny DeVito.

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When Larry reads the book title "100 Girls I'd Like to Pork", the word "pork" is clearly dubbed in, because he is saying something else, most likely "fuck", which you cannot say in a sexual context without receiving an R rating from the MPAA. The word "pork" is at a different volume and doesn't match his lip movement.

Anne Ramsey's speech impediment was caused by operations she underwent in order to treat throat cancer. During filming, Ramsey was undergoing additional oral surgery and endured intense pain. However, according to director Danny DeVito, she never requested to be excused from work. "Momma" went on to become Ramsey's most critically-lauded performance, culminating with Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1988.

struth

25-01-2022, 14:27

Danny again from the year before.. Ruthless People...

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fabulous comedy

struth

25-01-2022, 16:12

Apish fun now with... War for the Planet of the Apes, 2017, directed by Matt Reeves. This is the 4k version.

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Matt Reeves also pointed out that the apes in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) don't wear clothing. The ape society seen in Planet of the Apes (1968) wears clothing, and Bad Ape is also supposed to be the start of a progression in this direction. To survive in a harsh winter, he wears heavy winter coats he scavenged. This is primarily assisted by the fact that he is bald, similarly to Rocket. However, while Rocket likely has Alopecia, Bad Ape seems to have lost his hair from old age.

When Maurice speaks to the human child with her new name "Nova... No-va," the dialogue is the actual voice of Charlton Heston speaking the same words to Linda Harrison in Planet of the Apes (1968). The voice has been electronically altered, but is still clearly recognizable

struth

25-01-2022, 18:27

Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942. Jimmy Cagney showing off his dancing spurs as George M. Cohan, known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway".
James Cagney became the first actor to win the Best Actor Academy Award for a musical performance.

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Walking down the stairs at the White House, James Cagney goes into a tap dance. According to TCM, that was completely ad-libbed.
James Cagney broke a rib while filming a dance scene, but continued dancing until it was completed.

Despite failing health, the real George M. Cohan acted briefly as a consultant on the film. He lived long enough to see the finished result and approved wholeheartedly of James Cagney's depiction of himself.

Joan Leslie portrays Mary Cohan, aging from 18 to 57 throughout proceedings. Leslie turned 17 during the production of the film. The fact that she was still attending school during production caused numerous delays.

walpurgis

26-01-2022, 21:04

Watching the DVD of the Coen brothers 'Blood Simple' 1984, with Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya and M Emmet Walsh.

Thought I'd seen it before, but doesn't look familiar. Supposed to be good!

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walpurgis

26-01-2022, 22:02

Watching the DVD of the Coen brothers 'Blood Simple' 1984

I enjoyed that, nice and mean, good film! A keeper I think :).

Pigmy Pony

26-01-2022, 22:34

I enjoyed that, nice and mean, good film! A keeper I think :).

Coen brothers films are usually excellent. Particularly like Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Big Lebowski and Fargo. Don't remember seeing Blood Simple though.

Barry

26-01-2022, 23:21

I think I have at some time seen all of the Coen brothers' films, either at my film club or on TV. Most all pretty good and well worth watching. :)

The only film I thought was poor was their remake of 'The Ladykillers'. It in no way improved over the 1955 Ealing comedy.

Roy S

27-01-2022, 01:30

Watching the DVD of the Coen brothers 'Blood Simple'

Recall that film more for the use of one of my favourite Motown numbers than anything else

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3dXA0Vnzmo

Pigmy Pony

27-01-2022, 07:02

And this from "The Big Lebowski" is a favourite of mine:

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Barry

27-01-2022, 17:19

That sort of thing can happen if you drink too many 'White Russian'.

Macca

27-01-2022, 18:37

'The Sweeny' - classic episode where Tristram's dad off of 'George And Mildred' joins the squad, but he bottles it when they have to go against slags who are tooled up.

Saw all of them when they were repeated in the late 1970s but I think I was too young then to really appreciate just how good this series was. Puts the modern rubbish to shame in every respect - acting, direction, characters, dialogue, camera work, you name it.

They've got no idea how to make proper telly these days. It's a disgrace, really.

struth

28-01-2022, 11:10

Rogue Male, 1976. based on Geoffrey Household's 1939 novel Rogue Male, and directed by Clive Donner . It stars peter O'Toole, Alistair Sim, John Standing and Harold Pinter.

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Despite its low budget, the finished film was regarded by the BBC as being suitable for a cinema release internationally. This had the potential to cause legal and industrial problems in the UK, because the crew had not been paid at the rate applicable to cinema releases. The BBC decided to terminate screenings in the UK and disallow future screenings in the UK. In an interview with Francine Stock for BBC Radio 4's Film Programme in 2007, Peter O'Toole named the film as his favourite among those that he had made.

struth

28-01-2022, 14:43

Sherlock Holmes in Washington, 1943.

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The "V for victory" match books were for war bonds and were not fictional.

Outside the club car, the steward George (Clarence Muse) identifies a uniformed man as a Navy flyer, then adds that his son is in the Army. "He's gong to be a flyer, too." This is a reference to the Tuskegee Airmen, who were the first Black military aviators in the U.S. armed forces.

walpurgis

28-01-2022, 15:13

Rogue Male, 1976. based on Geoffrey Household's 1939 novel Rogue Male, and directed by Clive Donner

That was a great tale. Read the book a lifetime ago and always wanted to see the movie again.

struth

28-01-2022, 15:42

That was a great tale. Read the book a lifetime ago and always wanted to see the movie again.

there is an older film version of book too called Man Hunt starring Walter Pidgeon, from 40's... ive got that too.

struth

28-01-2022, 17:43

The Copper Beeches, 1985.. Sherlock Holmes adventure starring Jermy Brett as his nibbs.

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Natasha Richardson gets her "Introducing" credit in this production.

struth

28-01-2022, 18:52

The Greek Interpreter. 1985. Sherlock Holmes adventure starring Jermy Brett as his nibbs.

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This was the second time that Charles Gray played Mycroft Holmes. He previously did so in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution.

This episode has the first reference to The Diogenes Club. Dr Watson asks Holmes what the qualifications for membership of the club are. Holmes replies that they are "shyness and misanthropy."

This series was very much correct on Victorian fashion and Sidney Paget's illustrations on Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. Therefore, Sherlock Holmes is only wearing the trademark deerstalker on several occasions while visiting the countryside, and not even all of them. In episodes set in London, Holmes is more often seen wearing a top hat, although a few episodes show him with a bowler or a homburg.

struth

28-01-2022, 20:01

The history Of Mr polly, 1949. John Mills.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220128/49033a5d207750140b3a61db23232866.jpg
Bed time fare
Good film imo

struth

29-01-2022, 13:43

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006.

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The scene when Jack Sparrow calls Davy Jones "fish face", and sings to them "I got a jar of dirt", was unscripted and improvised by Johnny Depp, most of the reactions of the rest of the characters are real.

A popular pirate punishment was marooning. The pirate who was being punished was put on an island and left, sometimes for a few days, sometimes permanently. The "dead man's chest" is a small rocky island, so called because the rocks reminded pirates of a ribcage. It has no water or shade, and is so low that waves frequently wash over it. To be marooned on the "chest" was to be given a death sentence under the broiling Caribbean sun.

Alex_UK

29-01-2022, 23:03

struth

30-01-2022, 09:41

Man Hunt, 1941. directed by Fritz Lang and starring Walter Pidgeon and Joan Bennett. It is based on the 1939 novel Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household and is set in Europe just prior to the Second World War. Lang had fled Germany into exile in 1933 and this was the first of his four anti-Nazi films, which include Ministry of Fear, Hangmen Also Die!, and Cloak and Dagger. It was Roddy McDowall's first Hollywood film after escaping London following the Blitz. Man Hunt was one of many films released in 1941 that were considered so pro-British that they influenced the public of the neutral U.S. to sympathize with the British side in World War II.

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When Thorndike (Pidgeon) is captured, the George Sanders character inspects his belongings including his rifle, which bears the maker's name of "Hammond and Hammond, Bond Street". There was no such gunsmith in the UK and it seems likely the name is borrowed from a very famous gunsmith called Holland and Holland of Bruton Street, which is situated nearby.

This was one of several films mentioned in the September 1941 Senate subcommittee hearings on Propaganda in Motion Pictures, where isolationist senators Nye, Clark and Wheeler attacked Hollywood for "war-mongering." Senator Nye, who testified before the committee, had not seen most of the films mentioned. The subcommittee did not reconvene after September due to the attack on Pearl Harbor in December. The featurette included on the 2009 DVD release contends that the making of war-mongering films would be a violation of the Neutrality Act, which focused on restricting arms sales to belligerent nations, regardless of their status of aggressor or defender.

struth

30-01-2022, 11:33

Here Comes Mr. Jordan, `1941. directed by Alexander Hall and stars Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains and Evelyn Keyes.
This is the Criterion remastered Bluray.

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James Gleason was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the role of Max Corkle. This is the first time in Academy Awards history for a person to be nominated for a supporting Oscar for a role for which a different person would later also be nominated for a supporting Oscar: Jack Warden was nominated for Best Supporting Actor as Max Corkle in Heaven Can Wait (1978).
This paved the way for a series of films all dealing with the afterlife. Some of the more notable examples included A Guy Named Joe (1943), Down to Earth (1947), The Bishop's Wife (1947), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and A Matter of Life and Death (1946).

Pigmy Pony

30-01-2022, 14:15

Nobody (2021)

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Just watched this on Sky Cinema, totally unbelievable and over the top action film, but one of the most enjoyable movies I’ve watched in a long time, even my wife really enjoyed it, and she’s very hard to please with this genre! If you liked “Falling Down” or “Roadhouse” I think you’d enjoy this. :)

We too saw this last week, complete nonsense, completely enjoyable! The main character Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) moves easily between an almost invisible Mr. Average and remorseless killer, and is totally convincing as both.

Like John Wick, but with added humour :)

struth

30-01-2022, 14:29

The Pearl of Death, 1944. Messrs Rathbone and Bruce again.

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For some curious reason Holmes' cluttered Baker Street apartment has a photograph of a beardless Abraham Lincoln.

struth

30-01-2022, 18:11

The Final Problem, 1985. Jeremy Brett.

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struth

31-01-2022, 15:46

Rio Lobo, 1970.

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During a break in filming, John Wayne collected his Best Actor Oscar for True Grit (1969) from Barbra Streisand at The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (1970). When he returned, every member of the cast was wearing an eye patch, including his horse.

When Howard Hawks told John Wayne that he was remaking Rio Bravo (1959) for the second time, Wayne's immediate response was: "Do I get to play the drunk this time?"

struth

01-02-2022, 10:44

Home now so some pirates is called for.... Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007.

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Captain Barbossa can be seen wearing an Eagle Scout ring in several sequences. This ring signifies that some one in the Boy Scouts has earned the highest rank known as Eagle Scout.

struth

02-02-2022, 10:27

Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge, 2017.

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The severed heads in the guillotine basket are of directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg.

Henry (Lewis McGowan) recognizes a ship as Bonnet's ship called "Royal James". Stede Bonnet was a real-life pirate who worked closely with Edward Teach, a.k.a. Blackbeard. Bonnet was active from December 1717 to December 1718 before he was hanged in Charles Town for piracy.

struth

04-02-2022, 14:25

Peter O'Toole in Murphy's War, 1971. Peter O'Toole performed most of his own stunts for this movie.

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The part of the U-Boat was played by a Venezuelan submarine, the former USS Tilefish (SS-307). The floating crane was, itself, a former WW2 tank landing craft. The airplane itself, a Grumman Duck, that was used in the movie and flown by Frank Tallman, can now be seen on static display at US Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

Gazjam

04-02-2022, 15:56

Got the new telly up 'n running yet Grant?

struth

04-02-2022, 16:08

Got the new telly up 'n running yet Grant?No, not yet mate. Hoping maybe this weekend.

struth

04-02-2022, 16:24

The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951. remastered version uhd too although im getting upscale. Michael Rennie stars.

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Klaatu: 'I won't resort to threats, Mr. Harley. I merely tell you the future of your planet is at stake'. ....oh how we need you now Klaatu:doh:

To give the appearance of seamlessness to the space ship, the crack around the door was filled with putty, then painted over. When the door opened the putty was torn apart, making the door seem to simply appear.

Barry

05-02-2022, 12:07

struth

05-02-2022, 13:49

struth

06-02-2022, 09:23

Frequency, 2000. starring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel.

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On April 25, 2000, the New York Mets and Cincinnati Reds played a game wearing their 1969 uniforms to promote the film.

All of the World Series facts were true in this film. The Mets' Cleon Jones really did get hit on the shoe with a pitched ball. At first the umpire didn't award him first base, but when Mets manager Gil Hodges showed him the shoe polish on the ball, the umpire changed his call and awarded him first base. It became known as the "Shoe Polish Incident".

In the warehouse fire scene, all the firefighters except Dennis Quaid, Peter MacNeill and Jordan Bridges are real. Dennis Quaid received 16 stitches just above his hairline after being injured in the stunt where he slides down the construction funnels during the warehouse fire. He had to remove his helmet as a story element. If not for that, he wouldn't have been injured.

Macca

06-02-2022, 10:23

struth

06-02-2022, 10:30

Dennis Quaid. His name on a film is a sign that it will either be mediocre, or terrible.

The only really good thing he's ever been in was 'The Right Stuff.' I quite like 'The Long Riders' for it's authenticity but it's not a great film.

didnt do well in cinema but won a few oscars i think. its not in my library ..

struth

06-02-2022, 11:26

How to Murder Your Wife, 1965. Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, and Terry-Thomas star.

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During a taping of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), Jack Lemmon told this story. Prior to starting the film, the husband of co-star Virna Lisi made her promise that she would not be talked into doing a nude scene in her first American film. She assured him that she would not, signed the contract and traveled to Hollywood. While filming the "revelation" scene, where Lemmon awakens to discover in horror that he had gotten married at the bachelor party, she had to disrobe and lay in the bed nude but discreetly covered with a sheet. However, it was this day that her husband, an architect, arrived unannounced at the set to surprise his wife. When he walked into the scene, he became very upset. He focused his anger toward Lemmon who, realizing that discretion was the better part of valor, exited the set at full speed with Virna's husband in pursuit. Running past several sound stages on the MGM lot, he quickly found a garbage dumpster, jumped in and closed the cover. He waited there until security officers found him. lol

walpurgis

06-02-2022, 11:34

'glopita-glopita'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhXb04Ho0-M&ab_channel=unitron6991

struth

06-02-2022, 12:02

'glopita-glopita'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhXb04Ho0-M&ab_channel=unitron6991

eddie mayehoff as his lawyer steals every scene... quality stuff

struth

06-02-2022, 13:31

Mulholland Drive, 2001.

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struth

06-02-2022, 14:15

Porridge, 1978. Film of the series with same cast... The film was one of the more popular of 1979 at the British box office, grossing more than 16 million pounds in the UK.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/Porridgemovie.jpg

The film was shot at Essex's Category B jail HMP Chelmsford, before it was returned to service following a fire in March 1978. The film company admin offices were located in the prison's hospital block. Authentic prison staff from HMP Chelmsford were employed as extras.

Some regular cast-members found the extremely cold weather during filming, plus the surroundings of a real prison, prompted a genuinely oppressive feel, being more used to the comparatively pleasant working environments of BBC Television Centre or Ealing Film Studios.

struth

06-02-2022, 14:55

they were drinking double diamond in the prison officers club and it reminded me of their really terrible ad's in 80's.

like this cracker...lol

https://youtu.be/7TGCrBE3JvY

Pigmy Pony

06-02-2022, 15:18

12 Monkeys, 2015/18. Lossely based on the film.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91nD35R7rOL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

In Twelve Monkeys (1995), the main title song used for the film was by Astor Piazzolla, called "Suite Punta Del Este". This same song can be heard in season two, episode nine, "Hyena", of this show. (i have this piece of music on one of Astor's cd's)

The show, much like its film counterpart, is based on the short film La jetée (1962). This film also served as an influence on films such as The Terminator (1984) and The Jacket (2005).

This is the Reg A bluray boxset, (of which i have 2 both brand new lol; cockup on the film front)

The idea of going back in time and making changes in order to alter history, has always been a fascinating, if not unlikely concept, and so these three films have always been among my favourites. With Twelve Monkeys (1995) being at the top of that list :)

I'm hoping to find "The Jacket" on Netflix or something, not seen it for a while.

Pigmy Pony

06-02-2022, 15:26

Dennis Quaid. His name on a film is a sign that it will either be mediocre, or terrible.

The only really good thing he's ever been in was 'The Right Stuff.' I quite like 'The Long Riders' for it's authenticity but it's not a great film.

I'm not sure whether Mr Quaid is drawn towards cack film roles, or if it's his presence that makes an ok film cack, but cack is generally the result. It might be something to do with his face, no offence Dennis.

struth

06-02-2022, 15:52

Terminator Genisys, 2015.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger worked out for six months, about three hours a day, before shooting started, by which time he had the exact same body weight and muscle measurements as he had 12 years previously while shooting Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003). Coincidentally, Schwarzenegger had done the exact same thing prior to Terminator 3, which had put him on the same weight and measurements as in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), so despite his age, his dimensions have remained fairly constant throughout the series.

J.K. Simmons(the detective) was stated to have improvised many of his lines. His description of a rocket to the T-800 ("Blows a door clean off. You know, for people who can't do that themselves.") even earns a stare of surprise from Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Macca

06-02-2022, 16:01

I'm not sure whether Mr Quaid is drawn towards cack film roles, or if it's his presence that makes an ok film cack, but cack is generally the result. It might be something to do with his face, no offence Dennis.

You go to Cruse and he turns it down because it's too crap, so you go to Cage and he turns it down too. Then you go to Quaid.

In the unlikely event that he passes then they throw it open to The Rock, Jason Statham, all that lot, and they draw straws.

Pigmy Pony

06-02-2022, 16:30

You go to Cruse and he turns it down because it's too crap, so you go to Cage and he turns it down too. Then you go to Quaid.

In the unlikely event that he passes then they throw it open to The Rock, Jason Statham, all that lot, and they draw straws.

I thought this film had Dennis Quaid written all over it, but there's no sign of him. Unless one of the sharks got him right at the beginning. Such a waste if that were true.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Sharknado_poster.jpg

Pigmy Pony

06-02-2022, 16:36

Macca

06-02-2022, 17:39

Though there are three names, which if they appear in the TV listings, will guarantee that I change channels in plenty of time. They are Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal and "The Mussels from Brussels" Jean Claude Van Damme Cable.

Norris and Seagal can be unintentionally funny. I mean who has not played the 'Under Siege 2' drinking game?

Van Damme has nothing to recommend him though - personality-free - always worth avoiding.

I also avoid anything with Robin Williams.

Quaid or Cage is an amber warning. Likewise anything with one or more of the Bridges or Baldwin brothers in it. It might be okay but be prepared for it to be crap.

Cruse is an odd one because although his appearance means it probably will be at least watchable, he will be annoying in it. Paradoxically, his best films are the ones were he is really annoying ('Rain Man', 'The Color Of Money')

struth

06-02-2022, 17:44

nick cage has made a couple of ecent ones, but has made loads of crap.. mind you, he is a Coppola so??;)

Gazjam

06-02-2022, 18:08

I'm not sure whether Mr Quaid is drawn towards cack film roles, or if it's his presence that makes an ok film cack, but cack is generally the result. It might be something to do with his face, no offence Dennis.

His Laddie is doing great in Amazon's "The Boy's" as one of its main characters.
He's got his Old Man's charisma.

...in other News:
He's not faked an orgasm in a NY restaurant like his Mum yet, but doesn't make him a a bad person.

Gazjam

06-02-2022, 18:12

Norris and Seagal can be unintentionally funny. I mean who has not played the 'Under Siege 2' drinking game?

Van Damme has nothing to recommend him though - personality-free - always worth avoiding.

I also avoid anything with Robin Williams.

Quaid or Cage is an amber warning. Likewise anything with one or more of the Bridges or Baldwin brothers in it. It might be okay but be prepared for it to be crap.

Cruse is an odd one because although his appearance means it probably will be at least watchable, he will be annoying in it. Paradoxically, his best films are the ones were he is really annoying ('Rain Man', 'The Color Of Money')

Refer you, my Young Sir, to Good Will Hunting.
tell me Robin W. in that doesn't punch you in the Feelz?

struth

06-02-2022, 18:18

the fisher king catches two of your targets lol

Barry

06-02-2022, 18:26

Though there are three names, which if they appear in the TV listings, will guarantee that I change channels in plenty of time. They are Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal and "The Mussels from Brussels" Jean Claude Van Damme Cable.

Agreed, to which I would add Adam Sandler. I'm also weary of films starring the very annoying Tom Cruise, though he wa excellent in 'Rain Man' and 'Eyes Wide Shut'.

Barry

06-02-2022, 18:32

didnt do well in cinema but won a few oscars i think. its not in my library ..

'Frequency' is in mine. :) Although not a great film by any means, and a load of nonsense with the changing of history thing, there were some nice touches to show that history had been changed: the fading of the scortch marks on the work bench for example.

struth

06-02-2022, 18:34

'Frequency' is in mine. :) Although not a great film by any means, and a load of nonesense with the changing of history thing, there were some nice touches to show that history had been changed: the fading of the scortch marks on the work bench for example.

its a decent film, but could have been better. not especially blaming the actors. direction and script were limiting. but its still enjoyable.
ps..i have frequency as a stream... not as a disc

struth

06-02-2022, 19:14

Agreed, to which I would add Adam Sandler. I'm also weary of films starring the very annoying Tom Cruise, though he wa excellent in 'Rain Man' and 'Eyes Wide Shut'.

AS isnt high in my list of actors tbh buy i did like Little Nicky. it was fun and well done, despite adam :ner:

Macca

06-02-2022, 21:32

A.W.E.S.O.M - O pitches Adam Sandler movie ideas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4msIjHlEeSk

struth

07-02-2022, 13:17

Tom Selleck as Quigley Down Under, 1990. Co stars Alan Rickman and Laura San Giacomo.

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In the scene where Quigley demonstrates the rifle, he mentions that the bullet is paper patched, which might sound like some Hollywood mumbo jumbo. However, it's an actual technique common in the mid- to late-1800's to maximize accuracy/ precision. A thin layer of paper is placed around the bullet which is then used by the barrel rifling to spin the bullet fast enough to stabilize it during flight.

Sharps Rifles are now so inseparably related to this film that they are commonly nicknamed "Quigley guns." Sales for such weapons increased by over 1000% following the film's release, especially in the United States and Australia, and continue through 2013.

Matthew Quigley's gun is a replica model 1874 Sharps Buffalo Rifle, built by Shiloh Rifles of Montana. They are chambered in .45-110, which is a .45 caliber bullet propelled by 110 grains of black powder. This round was the most accurate and powerful in the world until the advent of smokeless gunpowders.

struth

07-02-2022, 17:05

Rambo, First Blood.

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When Rambo is racing down the pavement on the motorcycle, shouting "get out of the way" to terrified pedestrians, his mouth indicates he is shouting "fucking move it".

Sylvester Stallone hated the first cut of the film so much that he tried to buy the film back and destroy it. When he couldn't do that, he suggested that the producers cut much of his part and let the rest of the characters tell the story. That cut the movie time in half and set a precedent for future action movies.

During a Q&A with "Ain't It Cool News", Sylvester Stallone revealed the following: "I was doing the scene in FIRST BLOOD where I'm in the cell being whipped in the lower back with a piece of rubber hose. David Caruso was standing directly behind me. After every hit with the hose, David's character was suppose to exclaim, 'Jesus, can't you see this guy's crazy?' and then I get hit again. We had about four takes and David had repeated the line perfectly on each take, yet the director said, 'Let's try it again.' At this point, my back was on fire and I turned to the director and said, 'How many more times are you going to do this? The kid said it perfectly.' And the director basically said, 'Just shut up and do it again.' As he came forward, I pushed him back and the next thing I knew I was tackled by a pair of security men and driven against the cell wall, which in turn cracked my rib. Anyway, after several moments, everything cooled down, we all apologized and marched on."

Pigmy Pony

07-02-2022, 18:25

Barry

08-02-2022, 00:39

And now for something different:

Romantics Anonymous

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTYVDMsSe6ctlgm09os6YBqZUcSkAjQH 4AQmBGzAm3bL3JyxhVn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantics_Anonymous

Released 2011

struth

08-02-2022, 09:55

True Grit, 1969. John Wayne, Glen Campbell and Kim Darby star along with a suprb co star lineup.

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Stunt double Jim Burk performed the entire scene where Rooster Cogburn charged Ned Pepper's gang on horseback. John Wayne was only seen briefly in close-up, and he was riding on a trailer, not a horse.

Glen Campbell later said, "I'd never acted in a movie before, and every time I see 'True Grit', I think my record's still clean!" Henry Hathaway later said he hated Glen Campbell's performance, which he described as wooden, and claimed the singer was only cast so he could have a hit with the theme song which would help promote the film.

In this and other John Wayne westerns, he wears his gun low and to the rear. He also carries one long bullet in the center back of his ammunition belt.

A few other things come to mind... Wayne wanted his daughter to be cast as maddie Ross, but Hathaway wouldn't have it, thus wayne wouldn't speak to Darby outwith the film making. Darby tho had nothing but good words for Wayne, although disliked Hathaway with a vengence. Wayne was always inclined to be a bit childish in things like that alas.

struth

08-02-2022, 16:59

9 to 5, 1980.... stars Dabney Coleman, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton ......

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This was Dolly Parton's theatrical film debut. In preparation for her role as Doralee Rhodes, she not only committed to memory her own part, but the parts of every other role in the film. Apparently, the two experienced starring actresses, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda, burst out laughing when Parton let on that she believed that pictures were filmed in the chronological order of a film's script.

struth

08-02-2022, 17:05

Cat Ballou, 1965. Jane Fonda again, and Lee Marvin star..

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/Cat_Ballou_Poster.jpeg

At his acceptance of the Oscar, Lee Marvin opened by saying, "Half of this probably belongs to a horse out in the Valley somewhere".

Even though everyone knew that they were making at least a good film, no one had any idea that they were making a classic. Jane Fonda recalled - "I have to admit, it wasn't until I saw the final cut of Cat Ballou that I realized we had a hit on our hands. I hadn't been around when they filmed Lee's horse, leaning cross-legged up against the barn in what's become a classic image, or when Lee tries to shoot the side of the barn."

struth

08-02-2022, 18:17

Paint Your Wagon, 1969. Marvin again this time with Clint Eastwood and Jean Seberg.

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Lee Marvin drank real alcohol throughout the production, even though director Joshua Logan fought him about it. In most movies, the actors and actresses drink tea for whiskey and water for vodka. Marvin would only work if he got real liquor. Lee Marvin was apparently drunk nearly every day of filming.

Jean Seberg's singing voice was dubbed by Anita Gordon. Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin did their own singing. Marvin's recording of the song "Wanderin' Star" went to number one on the U.K. charts, earning him a gold record.

Lee Marvin and director Joshua Logan became fast friends, and he developed a genuine fondness for Logan's two teenaged children. Logan was amazed at the contrasts in Marvin's character. Raised as a Southern gentleman, he always tipped his hat for ladies and referred to older men as "sir". But he also started drinking beer the moment he arrived on the set. If his drinking ruined a shot one day, he more than made up for it the next with a letter perfect performance. A few weeks after this movie came out, a New York City gossip columnist printed a story about Logan and Marvin having an on-set fight which climaxed with Marvin using Logan's boots "like a dog uses a fire hydrant." When Logan's children pointed out the article, he set the story straight with a letter stating, "Lee Marvin is a very close friend of mine and we will stay friends for many years to come. It is true that we have had a few mild discussions, never any violent ones. Lee Marvin is a great Southern gentleman. Therefore, when he is sober, it is absolutely impossible for him to have done such a thing, and when he is drunk, which he is once in a while I must admit, he is really drunk. He staggers and careens in such a way that he wouldn't have the aim."

Clint Eastwood and Jean Seberg had an affair during filming in Baker County, Oregon. Jerry Pam, a publicist for both actors at the time, told Seberg biographer David Richards in 1981: "Once they got back to Paramount, it was as if Clint didn't know who she was. Jean couldn't believe that he could be that indifferent to her, after everything that had gone on in Baker. She was a very vulnerable woman, and it was a terrible trauma for her." At the same time, Eastwood was having yet another affair with one of the extras. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the said extra told Seberg biographer Garry McGee in 2008: "We had an affair for two years. Since I was involved with Clint at the time, he pulled a few strings and got me work on the film." When asked if Seberg knew about Eastwood's other involvement, the woman said, "No. She had no idea."

struth

09-02-2022, 11:08

The Lady Vanishes, 1938. The Criterion Collection.(Hitchcock) Superb remastered film this. Hard to believe at times its from the 30's, although there are occasional issues.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/films/2fed34c1c6f7f467f24763b2185827dc/723P9Fd9nV3vxwIe1xQFQyoJioZZG8_large.jpg

In an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, Alfred Hitchcock revealed that this movie was inspired by a legend of an Englishwoman who went with her daughter to the Palace Hotel in Paris in the 1880s, at the time of the Great Exposition: "The woman was taken sick and they sent the girl across Paris to get some medicine in a horse-vehicle, so it took about four hours. When she came back she asked, 'How's my mother?' 'What mother?' 'My mother. She's here, she's in her room. Room 22.' They go up there. Different room, different wallpaper, everything. And the payoff of the whole story is, so the legend goes, that the woman had bubonic plague and they dared not let anybody know she died, otherwise all of Paris would have emptied." The urban legend, known as the Vanishing Hotel Room, also formed the basis of one segment of the German portmanteau movie Eerie Tales (1919), So Long at the Fair (1950) (in which the missing person was the young woman's brother as opposed to her mother) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) season one, episode five, "Into Thin Air", starring Hitchcock's daughter Patricia Hitchcock.

interesting article here...

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/fucur9/the_vanishing_hotel_room_a_true_urban_legend/

struth

09-02-2022, 12:51

John Ford's Stagecoach, 1939, starring John Wayne .....

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Stuntman Yakima Canutt explained how the stunt was accomplished where, as an Apache warrior attacking the stagecoach, he is "shot", falls off his horse, and then gets dragged underneath the stagecoach: "You have to run the horses fast, so they'll run straight. If they run slow, they move around a lot. When you turn loose to go under the coach, you've got to bring your arms over your chest and stomach. You've got to hold your elbows close to your body, or that front axle will knock them off." After the stunt was completed, Canutt ran to director John Ford to make sure they got the stunt on film. Ford replied that even if they hadn't, "I'll never shoot that again."
While working on Mascot serials, Canutt practiced and perfected his most famous stunts, including the drop from a stagecoach that he would employ in John Ford's 1939 Stagecoach. That famous stunt in Stagecoach was filmed on Lucerne Dry Lake, north of Lucerne Valley, California. He first did it in Riders of the Dawn in 1937 while doubling for Jack Randall. In his 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg paid homage to Canutt, recreating the stunt when stuntman Terry Leonard (doubling for Harrison Ford) 'dropped' from the front of a German transport truck, was dragged underneath (along a prepared trench) and then climbed up the back and round to the front again.
Yakima in John Ford's Stagecoach doing the "drop" part of his most famous stunt
John Wayne

While at Mascot, Canutt met John Wayne while doubling for him in a motorcycle stunt for The Shadow of the Eagle in 1932. Wayne admired Canutt's agility and fearlessness, and Canutt respected Wayne's willingness to learn and attempt his own stunts. Canutt taught Wayne how to fall off a horse.

The two worked together to create a technique that made on-screen fight scenes more realistic. Wayne and Canutt found if they stood at a certain angle in front of the camera, they could throw a punch at an actor's face and make it look as if actual contact had been made.

Canutt and Wayne pioneered stunt and screen fighting techniques still in use. Much of Wayne's on-screen persona was copied from Canutt. The characterizations associated with Wayne - the drawling, hesitant speech and the hip-rolling walk - were pure Canutt. Said Wayne, "I spent weeks studying the way Yakima Canutt walked and talked. He was a real cowhand." In 1934 the two appeared together in the western Randy Rides Alone in which Wayne starred and Canutt appeared as "henchman Spike."

struth

09-02-2022, 17:46

Frozen Planet, 2011. David Attenborough. HD STREAM.

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superb..

struth

10-02-2022, 08:56

Madagascar, 2011.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71WwfYIVMbL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

struth

10-02-2022, 12:08

Blackadder 2..1986.

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The only location shooting for this season was the courting scene in Blackadder II: Bells (1986) and the closing credit scenes; these scenes were shot over a couple of consecutive days in the gardens of Wilton House, Wiltshire. The rest of the season was shot on the filming stage, using a couple of standard sets (Blackadder's house and the Queen's court) and a couple of sets that would be built for each episode.

The series was the originator of Baldrick's obsession with the turnip; this arose from a botanical error on the part of Ben Elton, who confused the vegetable with the "amusingly shaped" parsnip

struth

10-02-2022, 13:42

Dynasties, 2018.. ep4.. Painted Wolves.. superp animals these..

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQLujQ3oh6PHDnQi08lsMLEGZ0KJz6Pr ofbgHUMJATAfWXtkW4e

struth

10-02-2022, 17:09

Murder She Said, 1961. Stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple.

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Despite privately remaining unimpressed by this movie, Dame Agatha Christie dedicated her 1962 book "The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side" to Dame Margaret Rutherford, "in admiration".

struth

11-02-2022, 10:17

Seven Worlds, One Planet, 2019. Over 1,500 people worked on the series, which was filmed over 1,794 days, with 92 shoots across 41 countries. Sir David Attenborough narrates...

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The series took 4 years to film with over 2000 hours of filming over 7 continents and in over 40 countries

struth

11-02-2022, 17:18

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, 1998 version.. Directors cut uhd.

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Douglas Trumbull achieved the dramatic cloud effects by filling a tank half full of salt water with lighter fresh water on top, then injecting paint into the top layer. The paint billowed through the fresh water but flattened out at the top of the heavier salt water, creating the effect we see on screen.

The little boy, Cary Guffey's performances were so good that they only had to do one or two takes of each shot he was in. He became known as "One-Take Cary" on the set, and director Steven Spielberg had a T-shirt printed up for him with the phrase written on it.

The words that the crowd in India chants are "Aaya Re! Aaya," which means "He has come" in Hindi.

walpurgis

11-02-2022, 17:27

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, 1998 version..

Loved that film. Not seen it for many years.

struth

11-02-2022, 18:05

Loved that film. Not seen it for many years.

yes its fabulous. well ahead of its time..deyfreus chased speilberg from time he heard of it when making jaws about being in it..

Macca

11-02-2022, 20:50

Saw that at the cinema when it came out. Was in the front row as they were the only seats left. That was back when cinemas were massive too.

Thought it was a bit long and a bit boring but I was only nine and didn't get some aspects of it that I appreciated later. My mother judged it to be 'An absolute load of rubbish', which was her default critique for every film ever made except 'A Christmas Carol' (the one with Alistair Sim as Scrooge) and anything with Jack Lemmon in it.

struth

12-02-2022, 10:42

struth

12-02-2022, 13:42

The Woman in the Window, 1944. Stars Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, and Dan Duryea. Directed by Fritz Lang.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/79/WomanintheWindow.jpg

Wanley's (Robinson)car is a 1937 Cadillac Series 65 Touring sedan. MSRP new was $2,190 ($31,900 in 2020). Only 7,003 of this model were made.

For the transition at the end out of the dream, Edward G. Robinson wore a tear-away suit over the original suit he wore in the beginning of the film, and while the camera was focused on his face that suit was removed and all of the set around him was changed in one unbroken shot.

struth

12-02-2022, 15:17

A bit of Python now, and The Holy Grail from 1975.

"your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries"

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During one of the first screenings of this movie in front of a live audience, co-writer and co-director Terry Jones noticed that when music was played during the jokes, there was a marked reduction of laughter from the audience. He went back and edited the music out whenever a punchline was delivered. At subsequent screenings, he noticed a dramatic increase in the audiences' positive reactions to the jokes. From that point on, whenever he directed, he remembered to stop the music for the funny parts

walpurgis

12-02-2022, 16:00

A bit of Python now, and The Holy Grail from 1975

I watched that again the other day. Didn't 'click' with me this time and I lost interest unfortunately.

Barry

12-02-2022, 16:16

I watched that again the other day. Didn't 'click' with me this time and I lost interest unfortunately.

Sadly it never 'clicked' with me. :( Unlike 'Life of Brian'. :)

struth

12-02-2022, 16:44

tis a classic but to a particular taste i guess. life of brian was a different animal really. both great films tho

struth

12-02-2022, 17:04

The Old Dark House, 1932.. golden oldie pre-Code comedy horror film directed by James Whale.

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In a 1988 interview, Gloria Stuart recalled that Boris Karloff ran back and forth across the stage to achieve the desired effect of being out of breath. She asked him, "Can't you just FAKE it?" and he said that wasn't the way he worked.

The Old Dark House (1932) was withdrawn from circulation when the remake The Old Dark House (1963) by William Castle Productions was released. This film was considered to be lost until director Curtis Harrington discovered a printable negative.

A movie poster for The Old Dark House sold at Christie's in New York in December 1991 for $48,400, making it at the time the most valuable poster ever sold.

struth

12-02-2022, 18:13

Always, 1989. directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter and John Goodman.

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This was Audrey Hepburn's final film before her death on January 20, 1993 at the age of 63. She accepted the role of Hap because she wanted to work with Steven Spielberg.

The incident where Dorinda mistakes Ted's John Wayne imitation for Henry Fonda actually occurred between Holly Hunter and Brad Johnson during filming. Steven Spielberg found the incident so comical that he reproduced it in the film.

During production, Steven Spielberg confided that while making Jaws (1975), he and Richard Dreyfuss had traded quips from A Guy Named Joe (1943), which they both wanted to remake. As an "inside joke," a clip from the film is included in a scene in Poltergeist (1982), which Spielberg had produced. Dreyfuss had seen the 1943 melodrama "at least 35 times." For Spielberg, who recalled seeing it as a child late at night, "it was one of the films that inspired him to become a movie director," creating an emotional connection to the times that his father, a wartime air force veteran had lived through. The two friends quoted individual shots from the film to each other and when the opportunity arose, years later, were resolved to recreate the wartime fantasy.

I have A Guy Named Joe (Spencer Tracy)in my collection; must revisit it soon.

struth

13-02-2022, 15:54

The Rock, 1996. directed by Michael Bay.

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There were tensions during shooting between director Michael Bay and Walt Disney Studios executives who were supervising the production. On the commentary track for the Criterion Collection DVD, Bay recalls a time when he was preparing to leave the set for a meeting with the executives and was approached by Sir Sean Connery in golfing attire. Connery, who also produced this movie, asked Bay where he was going, and when Bay explained that he had a meeting with the executives, Connery asked if he could accompany him. Bay complied, and when Bay arrived in the conference room, the executives' jaws dropped when they saw Connery appear behind him. According to Bay, Connery then stood up for him, and insisted that he was doing a good job and should be left alone.

Some of the Navy SEALs in this movie were played by real Navy SEALs. Michael Biehn, who has played Navy SEALs or some variation thereof on multiple occasions, apparently grew unsure of himself while acting for the first time here against real SEALs He told Michael Bay he was freezing up pretending to be the leader in front of them, as well as in Sir Sean Connery's presence.

struth

13-02-2022, 18:11

The Woman in Green, 1945... sherlock holmes mystery...

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The Breen Office ordered two cuts from the original script. First, the victims were supposed to be young girls. That was ordered to be changed to young women although Dr. Simnell's bizarre doll fetish may be a leftover from the initial concept. In addition, during the scene in the Mesmer Club, Watson was supposed to take off his pants, not just roll up his pant leg.

struth

14-02-2022, 10:08

Dark Passage, 1947. Directed by Delmer Daves.

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The third of four films made by husband and wife Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The other three are To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), and Key Largo (1948).

The photo of Vincent before surgery is shown in the newspaper and elsewhere. It represents the height of photomanipulation of the day, with carefully masked double-exposures and careful airbrushing. The lower half of the face is that of character actor [linkKenneth MacDonald. The upper half, from just below the bridge of the nose, is that of Bogart himself.

struth

14-02-2022, 12:13

we're no angels, 1955.. Bogey again with Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov.

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Based on the play "My Three Angels" by Sam and Bella Spewack, which opened on Broadway March 11, 1953 at the Morosco Theatre, where it ran for 344 performances. The roles played by Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov were originated on stage, respectively, by Walter Slezak, Darren McGavin and Jerome Cowan. The roles portrayed by Leo G. Carroll and Joan Bennett were played by Henry Daniell and Joan Chandler.

struth

14-02-2022, 15:41

A Guy Named Joe, 1943. Directed by Victor Fleming and stars Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne and Van Johnson.

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Reportedly Steven Spielberg's favorite movie, he remade it in 1989 as Always (1989). The remake included the three main characters (Pete Sandich, Durinda Durston and Al Yackey), plus the characters of "Ted" and "Nails."

Although she appears to be wearing an RAF uniform and pilot wings, Dorinda (Irene Dunne) is actually wearing the uniform of a third officer in the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), as can be seen by her wings and shoulder rank flash. The ATA was a British government organization whose pilots were not qualified for combat, either through disability or because they were women. They were charged with ferrying airplanes around for the British military, freeing up line pilots for combat duty. Their uniforms were modeled on the RAF, but they were not military. It should be noted that in 1943, at the time this film was made, the women were paid the exact same salary as their male counterparts. Meanwhile, women transport pilots in the U.S. were receiving only 2/3 of a man's pay.

The P-38 Lightning, featured in this film, was one of the best planes of WW2 in the Pacific since it was faster than most Japanese planes, highly maneuverable and could accept heavy damage and still fly. It featured forward firing guns, including 20mm cannon, rather than the angled wing guns on most planes. It had two bad features. First, it was not suited to cold weather at high altitudes in Europe, which kept it out of air-to-air fighting there and limited its participation to low-level strikes. Second, when bailing out a pilot had to roll the plane and fall out rather than crawling out and jumping since the horizontal stabilizer between the two tails frequently would hit the pilot as he jumped.

struth

15-02-2022, 12:47

Two-Way Stretch, 1960. directed by Robert Day and stars Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Lionel Jeffries and Bernard Cribbins.

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Liz Fraser (Ethel) was still learning to drive at the time the film was made. In the scene where Ethel follows the army convoy in an Aston Martin, she kept stalling as she set off on cue, so ropes were attached to the front of the car, out of shot, and it was towed.

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The gates of the former South Cavalry Barracks in Aldershot stood in for the prison gates in the film

walpurgis

15-02-2022, 13:36

Two-Way Stretch, 1960. directed by Robert Day and stars Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Lionel Jeffries and Bernard Cribbins

That was great fun and a real comedy classic of its time. Brilliant cast and acting!

struth

15-02-2022, 14:20

That was great fun and a real comedy classic of its time. Brilliant cast and acting!

yup one of sellers earlier films and it i think boosted his star value

struth

16-02-2022, 10:46

The Man in the Iron Mask, 1998.

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Although Louis XIV, who was a real king, is a prominently featured character in the movie, the closing credits state that all characters are fictitious. This statement involves a loophole common to movies of this nature. The film portrayal diverges considerably from authentic descriptions of the real person, so the character is fictitious in the sense that the words and actions of the character are not claimed to be things that the real person said and did.

struth

16-02-2022, 13:27

Stargate, 1994. stars Kurt Russell.

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The early pre-release screenings of the movie were disastrous. The percentage of the audience who liked the movie fell into the mid-30s, and executive producer Mario Kassar realized the main problem was that the plot made zero sense. His solution: have the Ra character's dialogue subtitled, and made into information that presented a clear storyline. When these changes were made, the subsequent test screenings produced an overwhelming majority of positive reviews, and this carried the movie into becoming one of the surprise hits of fall 1994.

Macca

16-02-2022, 14:38

Saw that at the cinema when it came out. Starts well but gets progressively worse as it goes on is my only recollection.

Hard to believe that's almost 30 years ago.

struth

16-02-2022, 15:35

Private's Progress, 1956. Directed by John Boulting and stars Ian Charmichael, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas and Dicky Attenborough.

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In addition to playing a German Officer in this movie (mostly speaking in English), Sir Christopher Lee dubbed the voice of the Dennis Price character in the scenes where he is speaking in German.

William Hartnell made a career out of playing tough military NCOs in movies and on television. However, in real-life, he joined the Royal Armoured Corps in World War II, but was invalided out within eighteen months, due to a nervous breakdown. (Tanks I believe)

struth

16-02-2022, 17:10

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, 1973.

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Sam Peckinpah's alcoholism was so advanced during the making of this film that he would have to start the day with a large tumbler of neat vodkas to stop his shakes. By mid afternoon, he would have moved onto grenadine. After that, he was too drunk to work. James Coburn recalled that Peckinpah was only really coherent for four hours a day. Kris Kristofferson and Sam Peckinpah had several heated arguments during the making of the film, and others on the set often thought it would end up in a fight. Peckinpah, always very confrontational, wanted to fight Kristofferson but said that he feared Kristofferson, a former Army Airborne Ranger, would "kill him". Kristofferson answered, "Yeah, Sam, I think you're right". In spite of this, Peckinpah referred to Kristofferson as a "fucking great guy" and said that working with him was "one of the greatest experiences of my life".

struth

17-02-2022, 10:11

Murder by Decree, 1979. Christopher Plummer stars as Holmes in this Jack the Ripper film.

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One of the last actors cast was James Mason. Director Bob Clark had to travel to Spain, where Mason was shooting another movie, to meet with him. Mason agreed to play Watson if he could make him a serious character, not the "silly ass" buffoon character which was the rule. Mason re-wrote two scenes, including the famous "pea scene".

The Masonic signs Sherlock Holmes makes to the Chief Inspector are: the Duegard of the Entered Apprentice (right hand palm down over left hand palm up), the Sign of the Entered Apprentice (drawing the right hand from left to right across the throat), a variation of the Real Grip of a Master Mason (the handshake with the thumb and little finger extended), and finally the Sign of a Fellow Craft (drawing the right hand across the body from the left breast to the right hip). The Signs all refer to the penalties associated with the divulging of the Order's secrets to outsiders, for example, having the throat slit and the chest opened and the heart torn out. The Duegard refers to the gesture of holding the Bible during the initiation ritual in the left hand, with the right resting upon it.

struth

17-02-2022, 12:15

The Apartment, 1960. Directed by Billy Wilder.

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The film was lauded by Soviet-bloc critics as an indictment of the American system and a story that could only have happened in a capitalistic city like New York. At a dinner honoring him in East Berlin, Billy Wilder said the movie "could happen anywhere, in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Rome, Paris, London." When Wilder said the one place it could not have happened was Moscow, the East Germans broke into thunderous applause and cheers. When the ovation died down, Wilder continued: "The reason this picture could not have taken place in Moscow is that in Moscow nobody has his own apartment." The remark was met with grim silence. :D

In the scene, where Karl punches Baxter, Jack Lemmon was supposed to mime being punched, he failed to move correctly and was accidentally knocked down. Billy Wilder chose to use the shot of the genuine punch in the film.

struth

17-02-2022, 14:28

Another Wilder film now, The Spirit of St. Louis, 1957... Jimmy Stewart plays the part of Charles Lindbergh.

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The alpha-numerical ID for the Spirit was NX-211. In aviation nomenclature this indicates that the plane is American, and is an experimental model.

In Charles Lindberghs first view of Ireland, he flies over 'Skellig Island', this is the same island featured in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), when Rey (Daisy Ridley) meets Luke (Mark Hamill) for the first time.

Even though Jimmy Stewart was a decorated World War II bomber pilot, all the aerial sequences were piloted by, Paul Mantz. Years later, Mantz would team up with fellow ace pilot, Frank Tallman. Together they were involved in a number of hit films including the spectacular airplane stunts preformed in, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) Tragically, both would die in separate plane crashes. Mantz, while preforming a routine "Touch 'n Go" scene for the movie, The Flight of the Phoenix (1965).

The film was one of Warners' biggest failures; many felt it was due to Stewart being twice the age of the character he was playing, and just wasn't right for the part.

struth

17-02-2022, 17:02

The Big Sleep, 1946. Directed by Howard Hawks. Watched this recently but I like it.lol

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Warner Bros. studio chief Jack L. Warner gave Howard Hawks $50,000 to purchase the rights for "The Big Sleep." Hawks bought the rights for $5,000 and pocketed the rest. According to film historian Jon Tuska the purchase price was actually $10,000.

struth

19-02-2022, 11:42

Chisum, 1970. John Wayne plays title role which is directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. Its a pretty loose play on history but most of Holywood was. People then wanted the legend not the truth.

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Speaking metaphorically, Chisum says he's a pretty good chess player. In real life, Wayne actually was.

When Billy the Kid and companions break into McSween's store, McSween comes down the stairs in the dark, asking, "Who's there? Who's there?" These similar to are what legend relates as being the last words of Billy the Kid, who spoke them in Spanish in a dark room just moments before he was killed. As quoted by a witness, he said, Quien es? Quien es? (Who is it? Who is it?)

struth

19-02-2022, 13:16

Watched this recently, although it was a fairly old print dvd. This is the remastered bluray i just got as a pressie. The Picture is well cleaned up thankfully.
Rogue Male, 1976, from the novel by Geoffrey Household. Stars Peter O'Toole.

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Regarding the name of the cat, Asmodeus. Asmodeus is a demon who specializes in spreading lust. He preys on common people and royalty and even divine beings.

walpurgis

19-02-2022, 13:30

That's one I've been meaning to get and the book. Read the book and vaguely recall the movie from many years ago.

struth

19-02-2022, 13:32

That's one I've been meaning to get and the book. Read the book and vaguely recall the movie from many years ago.

picture on the bluray is miles ahead of the dvd. it was an old tv film and not shot terribly well.

struth

19-02-2022, 13:46

That's one I've been meaning to get and the book. Read the book and vaguely recall the movie from many years ago.

if i can find the dvd i will send it to you mate

walpurgis

19-02-2022, 13:49

if i can find the dvd i will send it to you mate

Nice! :thumbsup:

struth

19-02-2022, 15:00

Preston Sturges, 1941 classic, Sullivan's Travels. Stars Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake. Remastered bluray via Arrow..

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Cinematographer John Seitz admired Preston Sturges' unconventional approach to his work. The opening scene comprised ten pages of dialogue to cover about four and a half minutes of screen time. It was scheduled for two complete days of shooting. On the morning of the first day, Seitz found Sturges inspecting the set with a viewfinder, looking for where he could cut the scene and change camera set-ups. Seitz dared him to do it all in one take. Never one to refuse a dare, Sturges took him up on it, although the nervous Seitz had never attempted to complete a two-day work schedule in one day. With the endorsement of McCrea and the rest of the actors, Sturges pressed on, determined to set a record. The first take was fine, but the camera wobbled a little in the tracking shot following the men from screening room to office, so they tried again. They did two or three takes at the most and that was it - two full days work by 11 a.m. on the first day, a feat that had the entire studio buzzing.

struth

19-02-2022, 16:56

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 1970. written and produced by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and directed by Wilder.

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The subplot in which Sherlock Holmes is approached by a famous ballerina who wishes him to father her child is inspired by a real-life incident. George Bernard Shaw was once approached by the notorious dancer Isadora Duncan, who told him that, if they had a child together, it would have "my beauty and your brains"; Shaw rebuffed her quickly, saying, "Ah, yes, dear lady, but what if it has my beauty and your brains instead?" In this movie, Sherlock Holmes uses a rather different method of putting the lady off.

Originally, the scenes featuring the Loch Ness Monster were intended to be filmed in the actual Loch. A life-size prop was built which had several Nessie-like humps used to disguise flotation devices. The humps were removed, however, at Billy Wilder's request. Unfortunately, during a test run in Loch Ness, the Monster-prop sank and was never recovered. A second prop, a miniature with just the head and neck, was built, but was only filmed inside a studio tank. Geneviève Page said of this in the biography "Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder" by Charlotte Chandler): "When we lost our Loch Ness monster, he (Wilder) wasn't too concerned, even though he was also the producer. He was more concerned about how the man who made it felt when all his work sank to the bottom of the Loch Ness. He went over and comforted him." The original monster prop was located on the bottom of Loch Ness in April 2016 during a survey of the loch by an underwater robot.

struth

20-02-2022, 10:16

Jack The Ripper, 1959. British version....(both on bluray.) The film is put together from various sources as a complete copy wasnt available. This is as close as it gets. A classic of its day.

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The British version is the Director's version of the movie. There was also a "continental version," which included nudity and more violent murder shots. According to the director's commentary on the Bluray, this was done for purely financial reasons, to get distribution in places that would otherwise be uninterested in it. The continental version ran 88 minutes, includes: a changing room scene with several girls having their breasts exposed; Maggie (Dorinda Stevens) and Hazel (Jane Taylor) join two gentlemen in a private room, then one of these pours champagne over Maggie's chest, and as he kisses the champagne off her chest, her dress is pulled down to expose a breast; Hazel is accosted by the Ripper in an alleyway, her breast is shown, and later there is a shot of her topless corpse; close-up shots of knives and victims faces, and items such as repeated knife thrusts vs. single thrusts, are added to the murder scenes.
The US version has a new score composed by Jimmy McHugh and Pete Rugolo.

This film was well remembered by horror and thriller fans from this period. The massive advertising campaign generated huge ticket sales and a high number of holdover dates. But, according to Joseph E. Levine, the film was a failure in the U.S. He claimed, "We dropped dead in every one! You'd think somewhere, a small town maybe, someplace, it would have done business. But no. That's a record they'll never come close to."

Pigmy Pony

20-02-2022, 10:30

The subplot in which Sherlock Holmes is approached by a famous ballerina who wishes him to father her child is inspired by a real-life incident. George Bernard Shaw was once approached by the notorious dancer Isadora Duncan, who told him that, if they had a child together, it would have "my beauty and your brains"; Shaw rebuffed her quickly, saying, "Ah, yes, dear lady, but what if it has my beauty and your brains instead?" In this movie, Sherlock Holmes uses a rather different method of putting the lady off.

Great stuff! I'll remember that one next time I get propositioned :)

struth

20-02-2022, 13:56

Earlier, The Eagle Has Landed, 1975..

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In his autobiography, Sir Michael Caine confessed to being somewhat disappointed with the end product: "The picture was being directed by the Hollywood old-timer John Sturges, and we were all very pleased that this illustrious veteran had agreed to direct our film. That is, until one day when I was talking to him between set-ups and he informed me that, now that he was older, he only ever worked to get the money to go fishing, which was his passion. Deep-sea fishing off Baja, California, he added, which was very expensive. The moment the picture finished, he took the money and went. Producer Jack S. Wiener later told me that he never came back for the editing nor for any of the other post-production sessions that are where a director does some of his most important work. The picture wasn't bad, but I still get angry when I think of what it could have been with the right director. We had committed the old European sin of being impressed by someone, just because he came from Hollywood."

struth

20-02-2022, 14:01

My Man Godfrey, 1936... The Criterion Collection remastered bluray.

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William Powell suggested his ex-wife Carole Lombard for the leading role with the explanation that his real -life romance with her had been much the same as it was for the characters of Godfrey and Irene. Carole Lombard had a habit of ad-libbing by inserting swear words into the dialogue, which necessitated the re-shooting of several scenes. Although stars William Powell and Carole Lombard had been divorced for three years by the time they made this, when offered the part Powell declared that the only actress right for the part of Irene was Lombard.

When William Powell and director Gregory La Cava had a disagreement over how Godfrey should be played, they talked it out over a bottle of Scotch in Powell's dressing room. The next day, LaCava returned to the movie set with a major headache, but Powell was not there. The director received a telegram from his star: "We may have found Godfrey last night but we lost Powell. See you tomorrow."

struth

20-02-2022, 15:55

Great Expectations, 1946.

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This film has a 100% rating based on 28 critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

struth

20-02-2022, 17:57

The Ballad Of Cable Hogue, 1970... directed by Sam Peckinpah.

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Production on the film fell weeks behind schedule due to bad weather. When filming was suspended, director Sam Peckinpah, along with cast and crew, would drink. When filming finally wrapped, the bar bill came to over $70,000 (equivalent to over $483,000 in 2021).

The chaotic filming wrapped 19 days over schedule and $3 million over budget, terminating Sam Peckinpahs tenure with Warner Bros./Seven Arts, and caused permanent damage to his career. The critical and box office hits Deliverance (1972) and Jeremiah Johnson (1972) were in development at the time, and Peckinpah was considered the first choice to direct them. His departure from Warner Brothers left him with a limited number of directing jobs. Peckinpah was forced to do a 180-degree turn from this film, and travelled to England to direct Straw Dogs (1971), one of his darkest and most psychologically disturbing films. This was the favorite film of the director. Often, when asked to speak about his work, he brought a print of this film to show, instead of one of his more famous works.

Stella Stevens said in a 2004 interview that she adored Jason Robards Jr., but David Warner, on the other hand, was very strange. He had just come over from England and it was his first big film in the United States. She described a scene where he was supposed to be leaning on her as she helps him into the house, but he wouldn't touch her or really lean. And director Sam Peckinpah yelled at her saying "What are you doing? What's the matter with you?" She said "Warner wasn't really leaning; he was pretending. Actors are not pretenders. We are be-ers. We do not pretend. And he pretended. That did not sit well with me. When you see me trying to throw that pitcher at him, I mean it!" (I love Stella; lol)

Macca

20-02-2022, 18:22

Everyone loved Stella Stevens. I think every bloke on the planet fancied her.

struth

20-02-2022, 18:28

Everyone loved Stella Stevens. I think every bloke on the planet fancied her.

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woof

struth

21-02-2022, 10:44

Air America, 1990.

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The sequence where Robert Downey, Jr. is seen hanging from a rope flying across the skies above Thailand, including a Buddhist temple, was done for real, with Downey performing the stunt himself after director Roger Spottiswoode had rejected doing it using such alternative techniques as blue screen or back projection.

In the Special Edition DVD "Making of" documentary, there is a discussion as to how much of Air America's plot is true and how much is false. Some of the real-life pilots interviewed claim that Air America did smuggle guns and drugs for the CIA, while others deny it, saying that the service only shipped food, medicine, and supplies. However, a historian in the documentary asserts that only certain pilots were involved in the illegal activities. The characters of Gene and Billy are a perfect example of this. Gene, who is a bit crazy, cynical, and shady, has no problem getting involved in the illegal smuggling, so he, and pilots like him, would have been used for the real-life illegal smuggling. Whereas Billy, who is young, honest, and idealistic, would be used only for the straight supply drops, and would not be trusted for such illegal activities.

Some of the stunt fliers declined to perform some of the more difficult and dangerous flying stunts. They used veteran stunt fliers, aged around sixty, to perform some more of the more difficult and dangerous flying stunts seen in the film.

struth

21-02-2022, 12:38

Me, Myself & Irene, 2000. directed by the Farrelly brothers.

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The scene where Renée Zellweger kicks Jim Carrey over the railing and down the hill was done by Jim Carrey (instead of a stunt double) after many pleadings. He did a few takes, but they used the first one. A mattress was used for him to pop back into frame.
In the breast-feeding scene, Jim Carrey suckled on Shannon Whirry's real breast which had milk in them. He was so humiliated that he had to clear the set as well as apologized to her before each take.

Jim Carrey ad-libbed the moment when he asks his sons to kiss him before he leaves. One of them looks obviously surprised.

struth

21-02-2022, 16:06

M*A*S*H, 1970. directed by Robert Altman.

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The fourteen-year-old son of director Robert Altman, Mike, wrote the lyrics to the theme song "Suicide is Painless". Because of its inclusion in the subsequent television series, he continued to get residuals throughout its run and syndication. His father was paid $75,000 for directing, but his son eventually made about $2 million in song royalties, with payments continuing, from first syndication through the present day/2020, as M*A*S*H (1972) continues in syndication around the world.

Tom Skerritt recalled that the dialogue was about 80% improvised. In order to create a different kind of atmosphere, Robert Altman cast some of the parts from improvisational clubs who had no previous movie or TV experience.

The first take of the shot where Hot Lips is revealed in the shower didn't work because Sally Kellerman anticipated the reveal, and was already lying on the floor when the tent flap went up. To distract her, Robert Altman and Gary Burghoff entered the shower tent and dropped their trousers while the shot was rolling outside. While Kellerman was staring at them, the tent flap was raised, resulting in her genuine surprise and shock when she realized what had happened. In the Special Edition double disc DVD, they say that Radar (portrayed by Gary Burghoff) had been standing naked beside the camera, and that's the reason why Sally Kellerman looks so surprised when the flap was raised.

During the opening titles, when the soldier carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher trips and falls down, it had not been scripted by Ring Lardner Jr.. It was actually an accident by the actor who tripped over something. Robert Altman decided that instead of editing it out, to use it to foreshadow the dark humor theme as the movie's first small, but real, laugh.

When studio executives first saw the dailies, they complained to Robert Altman that the soldiers looked dirty compared to the soldiers in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and Patton (1970). Altman, a veteran of World War II, replied that soldiers in war are dirty. The next day, the executives told the producers of those two films to make their soldiers look dirtier.

Roger Bowen (who portrayed Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake in the movie) died on February 16, 1996. McLean Stevenson, who portrayed the role of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake on M*A*S*H (1972) for the first three seasons, died on February 15, 1996.

According to Robert Altman, Ring Lardner Jr. was very upset with the liberties taken with his script. Lardner later won an Academy Award for his screenplay. Lardner allegedly told Elliott Gould, "There's not a word that I wrote on screen." Screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. was the only Academy Award winner out of the movie's five nominations. Before winning the award, Lardner had practically disowned the movie when he saw that very little of his original script made it into the final cut.

struth

22-02-2022, 10:06

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, 1991. directed by Nicholas Meyer.

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Frankie and Johnny (1991) was being filmed in the same studio, and required Al Pacino to have a surprised expression on his face after opening a door. Director Garry Marshall arranged for Kirk (William Shatner) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) be on the other side of the door that Pacino opened.

Nicholas Meyer met with Gene Roddenberry following a rough cut screening, to fulfill Roddenberry's role as creative consultant. Roddenberry, who was in failing health at the time, was bound to a wheelchair, and had to be hooked up to an oxygen tank. Despite his frailty, Roddenberry demanded certain cuts to the film and, according to Meyer, engaged him in a heated argument. Roddenberry died several days after the meeting, and Meyer has expressed deep regret over his behavior in the meeting, not realizing just how sick Roddenberry really was at the time.

struth

22-02-2022, 15:57

The Terminator, 1984. Directed by James Cameron.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger worked with guns every day for a month to prepare for the role. The first two weeks of filming he practiced weapons stripping and reassembly blindfolded until the motions were automatic, like a machine. He spent hours at the shooting range and practicing with different weapons without blinking or looking at them when reloading or cocking. He also had to be ambidextrous. He practiced different moves up to 50 times. He wound up garnering a compliment in "Soldier of Fortune" magazine for his realistic handling of the guns on camera (whereas the magazine usually lampoons movies for their inaccurate depictions of weapons use).

While shooting this film, James Cameron often resorted to what he called "guerilla filmmaking" as a way of getting around acquiring permits needed to film certain scenes. This involved the production crew and actors quickly arriving at a specified location, shooting the scene and leaving before the police arrived. As a result, some of the people seen in a few shots are actual everyday citizens completely unaware they're in a movie. This was also used for re shoots with Cameron even calling and waking Arnold Schwarzenegger once at 3am to meet him at a location already in full costume to quickly re-shoot a scene. Cameron also used this tactic to film the very last scene where Sarah drives off into the desert. This almost backfired, however, when the police came sniffing around.

struth

22-02-2022, 17:41

a bit lighter now with The Devil and Miss Jones, 1941. Directed by Sam Wood.

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Careful inspection of the interior set of Merrick's mansion reveals it to be the Xanadu set of the recently shot RKO picture 'Citizen Kane'. The fireplace behind the Merrick's desk with its unique herring-bone brick pattern is the tip-off.

The wine which John Merrick/Tom Higgins takes to the beach is a 1903 Romanée-Conti which has been called "one of the greatest wines of the world and the most perfect as well as the most expensive of Burgundy". The wine has been highly regarded for centuries. However, it's unlikely that the 1903 vintage yielded only 24 bottles, although Europe recorded particularly chilly weather that year.

struth

23-02-2022, 10:04

3 Days Of The Condor, 1975. Directed by Sydney Pollack.

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In her biography "Looking for Gatsby", Faye Dunaway says of this film: "Now I'm sorry but the idea of being kidnapped and ravaged by Robert Redford was anything but frightening. [At one point, after Redford temporarily left the set and director Pollack took over his role for Dunaway's reaction shots] the cameras were rolling, I was in position, and suddenly Sydney lunged at me, growling 'I AM GOING TO GET YOU!'. I'm tied up at this point, unable to get away or move much at all, but Sydney kept moving toward me, his eyes glaring at me as he went on detailing all the horrible things he was going to do to me, and let me tell you, Sydney has an inventive mind. He is also a great actor, and he scared the hell out of me. Sydney kept the camera rolling and he was relentless".

The van sent to the murder scene once the CIA acts to cover up the murders is labeled "Augean Cleaning Service." This is a reference to one of the Twelve Labors of Hercules, where he was required to clean the stables in which King Augeas kept 3000 oxen, and which had not been cleaned for 30 years, in one day. Hercules did this by diverting the river Alpheus through the stables.

walpurgis

23-02-2022, 10:33

3 Days Of The Condor, 1975

Great movie!

struth

23-02-2022, 12:21

Zulu, 1964. Directed by Cy Endfield.

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Director Cy Endfield wanted a camera crane that was lightweight when disassembled, so it could be packed and transported through the African bush. Ken Eddy designed the first Filmair Giraffe camera crane for the job, starting the world's best-known camera crane company. This key piece of gear is still used in the film industry.

One of this movie's technical advisors was a Zulu Princess, and the tribe's historian. She knew the battle strategy perfectly, and drew it on the sand. Director Cy Endfield shot it exactly as she drew it. Many Zulu extras laughed at Michael Caine because of his long blond hair. Their nickname for him was "Lady" in Zulu. The technical advisor, a Zulu princess and historian, told the extras to stop right away. They did

During the performance of his one-man show, Michael Caine said he auditioned for Lieutenant Bromhead, but was rejected. A few months later, he was at a cocktail party that Joseph E. Levine was also attending. Levine asked Caine if he still wanted the part. Caine reminded him that his audition was considered "terrible". Levine replied that the original actor was very ill, and the crew was leaving for South Africa the next morning. Caine shook Levine's hand, left the party, and went home to pack his bags.

After the battle, British troops finished off the wounded Zulu warriors with bayonets and gunfire.

Macca

23-02-2022, 12:48

'A Zulu regiment can run fifty miles in a day and fight a battle at the end of it'

'That's daft. I don't see no sense in running to fight a battle.'

Has to be one of the best films ever.

struth

23-02-2022, 13:37

'independent, fire at will'

always expect the soldier to say..."poor will, why pick on him":ner: aka carry on up kyber.

struth

23-02-2022, 14:17

If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short-chambered, Boxer-Henry .45 calibre miracle.

struth

23-02-2022, 14:38

vast majority of the men weren't welsh either, although the film gives that impression. Baker and Chard both died of cancer at about same age surprisingly as both were heavy smokers. Baker owned, what he thought was a copy of Chard's VC, and after he died it proved to be authentic after tests.

now,,

Blazing Saddles, 1974... Directed by Mel Brooks.

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Cleavon Little was not warned about the "you know. . . . morons" line. His reaction was real.

While filming, Burton Gilliam (Lyle, the henchman of Taggart (Slim Pickens)) was having a difficult time saying the word "nigger", especially to Cleavon Little, because he really liked him. Finally, after several takes, Little took Gilliam off to the side and told him it was okay because these weren't his words. Little jokingly added, "If I thought you would say those words to me in any other situation we'd go to fist city, but this is all fun. Don't worry about it."

After promising Warner Brothers that he would edit out several "offensive" scenes, such as the infamous farting sequence, Mel Brooks never cut a single scene except one: after the room is darkened and Lilly (Madeline Kahn) informs Bart "It's TWUE! It's TWUE!," Bart (Cleavon Little) quietly states, "You're sucking on my arm." The scene was later added back to the home video release.

Macca

23-02-2022, 14:39

''Well, they've got a very good bass section, mind, but no top tenors that's for sure''

struth

23-02-2022, 17:42

Coming To America, 1988. Directed by John Landis.

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The McDowell's restaurant was actually a Wendy's on Queens Boulevard that was scheduled to be closed for renovation. The production had approval from McDonald's corporate headquarters, which apparently didn't pass the word down to their local outlets. On the day the McDowell's sign went up, the manager of the McDonald's one half mile up the road arrived with his lawyer and took photographs, telling the set dressing crew they were going to be sued for everything they were worth. The restaurant remained in business until early 2013.

Most of the dance performed by the royal dancers before presenting Prince Akeem's queen-to-be is a high-tempo rendition of the dance from Michael Jackson: Thriller (1983).

The barbers call Akeem "Kunta Kinte." John Amos played the adult Kunta Kinte in Roots (1977). Madge Sinclair played Kunta Kinte's wife, and James Earl Jones played Alex Haley, Jr. in Roots: The Next Generations (1979).

When King Jaffe Joffer ( James Earl Jones ) comes looking for his son Akeem at McDowell's restaurant, his line "No. Do not alert him to my presence. I shall deal with him myself" is a homage to Darth Vader (who is voiced by Jones) who in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) has a similar line, "No. Leave them to me. I will deal with them myself". In Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Vader (Jones) kills an admiral for an error, saying, "They have been alerted to your presence."

Barry

23-02-2022, 18:10

Great movie!

Agreed - I have a copy somewhere.

Alex_UK

23-02-2022, 19:08

“The Royal penis is clean” :lol:

Barry

23-02-2022, 19:37

"I assumed you had sex with all your bathers - I know I did."

struth

24-02-2022, 10:15

probably the most formidible preditor...raj-bera...

BBC's Dynasties... tiger

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struth

24-02-2022, 13:44

Cowboys and Aliens, 2011. directed by Jon Favreau.

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Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde are the only ones in the cast to wear a Six Gun holster for rapid draw, in the front w/the gun not on the side like so many movies showing Cowboys on the side draw

A "Southland Ice Company" wagon is visible in the final scene. Southland Ice Company was the predecessor to 7-11 stores

struth

24-02-2022, 15:57

where we are heading now if not careful... Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984. directed by Michael Radford.

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In poor health during most of the filming, Richard Burton had great difficulty remembering his lines and sometimes had to film a scene dozens of times before he could get it right. The scene in O'Brien's apartment where O'Brien is talking to Winston about Goldstein's book took a record of forty-one takes for Burton to say his speech without fumbling his lines. He died in August of 84 at the age of 58. The film was shot in April to June.

Director Michael Radford and cinematographer Roger Deakins originally wanted to shoot this movie in black and white, but the financial backers of the production, Virgin Films, opposed this idea. Instead, Deakins used a film processing technique called bleach bypass to create the distinctive washed-out look of the movie's color visuals. This movie is a rare example of the technique being done on every release print, rather than the inter-negative or inter-positive; as the silver is retained in the print, and the lab is unable to reclaim the silver, so the cost is higher, but the retained silver gives a "depth" to the projected image. The 2003 DVD release (the only release to restore Dominic Muldowney's full musical score) was mastered from the original negatives (not a release print), and thus inadvertently restored the movie's original color saturation.

The confessions of the "Thought Criminals" Rutherford (Peter Frye), Aaronson (Joscik Barbarossa), and Jones (Anthony Benson) were based on the Soviet show trials of the 1930s, which included fabricated confessions by prominent Bolsheviks Nikolai Bukharin, Grigori Zinoviev, and Lev Kamenev to the effect that they were being paid by the Nazi government to undermine the Soviet regime under Leon Trotsky's direction.

struth

24-02-2022, 17:47

The Final Countdown, 1980. Directed by Don Taylor.

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The script called for the Japanese pilot to try to force the F-14 into the water. The pilot who basically did a hammerhead and pulled out real close to the water was Richard "Fox" Farrell (VF-84 XO), now retired. He did kick up quite a bit of seawater and was really pushing the envelope with the Tomcat. WWII ace-in-a-day Archie Donahue was one of the Zero pilots. The Zeroes (converted AT-6 Texans) were flying with the throttle to the stops and the F-14s were flying at stall speed (note wings fully extended in most scenes). That was so they could get both aircraft in the same shot at the same time (remember, no CGI stuff back then!

In the mid 1980s the communist government banned the movie in Hungary, claiming it glorified the United States Armed Forces. However, some illegal copies were circulated on VHS with parts about the Russian trawler spying on the USS Nimitz edited out.

During shooting of the opening shot where the CAG's Tomcat is taking off from Pearl Harbor, the film crew actually underestimated the blast radius of the Tomcat's exhaust and one of their cameras was blown over when the plane went to full afterburner, which resulted in the shot being filmed from a slightly different angle than originally planned.

Filmed in the Atlantic, not the Pacific Ocean (where it takes place). The USS Nimitz was an Atlantic fleet ship until the summer of 1987 when it was transferred to the Pacific. USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) stood in for the Nimitz for the arrival past the 'Arizona' into Pearl Harbor.

Barry

24-02-2022, 18:16

struth

24-02-2022, 18:18

Is that the one with Peter Cushing as Winston Smith? It's very good, as was the later (1984 :lol:) version with John Hurt.

john hurt one from 1984..lol

Barry

24-02-2022, 18:22

Ah - I didn't look at the cover properly. :doh: Does it also have Tara Fitzgerald as Smith's love interest?

The Peter Cushing version was made by the BBC in 1954, and is well worth watching.

struth

24-02-2022, 18:28

it was Suzanna Hamilton. not seen the Cushing one for a long time; think Yvonne Mitchell was the love interest in that.

struth

24-02-2022, 19:29

The Ghost And Mrs Muir, 1947. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

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Despite being set in London and on the English Coast and having mostly English actors and actresses, this movie was shot entirely in California and along the central Pacific coastline.

The word "muir" means "sea" in Scots Gaelic. Many times sailors are said to have been "married" to the sea, or that the only woman they ever loved was the sea.

struth

25-02-2022, 10:16

49th Parallel, 1941. This was particularly aimed at the Americans, and that the Nazis are evil and should be opposed. It had to be cut badly to'not offend':doh: Powell and Pressburger in an early collaberation.

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On a trip home to Wales, Niall MacGinnis was stopped and searched by police. He was arrested as a German spy when the police found a photo in his wallet of MacGinnis dressed in a German sailor's uniform, standing next to what appeared to be a U-boat. In fact, it was a publicity photo from MacGinnis' role in this movie. MacGinnis spent several days in jail before documents were sent from London verifying that he had been in the movie.

Peter Cushing had gone to Hollywood before the war, but things hadn't worked out too well, and he ended up doing a variety of odd jobs, which is how he came to be making props (not acting) on this movie. One day he had the job of making flags for model boats to be pushed around a map, and he made a lot of swastikas and laid them out in his digs. They were found by his landlady, who promptly called the police.

Producer and Director Michael Powell forgot that Newfoundland was a Crown Colony, and not a part of Canada, and when they moved the full-sized submarine model there, it was impounded by Customs and Excise, which demanded that import duty be paid. The matter was finally resolved when Powell appealed to the Governor of Newfoundland, citing their work for the war effort. Newfoundland finally became a Canadian province in 1949.

Screenwriter Emeric Pressburger said, "Goebbels (Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister) considered himself a master of propaganda, but I thought I'd show him a thing or two." Ironically, Pressburger's status in Britain, at the time, was as an enemy alien. He was born and raised in Hungary, which had allied itself with Nazi Germany. So when he returned from filming in Canada, he found himself imprisoned and threatened with deportation. Thanks to the intervention of Producer and Director Michael Powell and the Ministry of Information, this did not happen.

When the film was first shown in France in 1952, huge scenes had to be cut from it for fear of offending German audiences. In 1974, there were objections from Germans to it being shown on British television.

struth

25-02-2022, 12:15

Sad to hear Sally Kellerman, M*A*S*H’s original ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan has died aged 84. Just watched mash the other day too. A great loss as she was excellent.

struth

25-02-2022, 12:27

The Seven Percent Solution, 1976. Directed by Herbert Ross.

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Dr. Watson's revolver appears to be a Webley RIC No. 1 New Model (distinguishable from the older RICs by its fluted cylinder), an inspired choice by the filmmakers as it dovetails perfectly into Watson's service time, British Army regulations about service cartridge chambering, and Watson's likely financial means at the time (the New Model had been in production for several years by 1879 and used specimens could have been had fairly cheaply).

While the book showed Dr. Sigmund Freud with a daughter, the child he had in real life, the movie showed him with a make-believe son, because Dr. Anna Freud threatened a lawsuit if she was included. Since her father was dead, she had no control over how he was portrayed.

struth

25-02-2022, 16:32

Heaven Can Wait, 1943. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch...

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Gene Tierney recalled that during production, "Lubitsch was a tyrant on the set, the most demanding of directors. After one scene, which took from noon until five to get, I was almost in tears from listening to Lubitsch shout at me. The next day I sought him out, looked him in the eye, and said, 'Mr. Lubitsch, I'm willing to do my best but I just can't go on working on this picture if you're going to keep shouting at me.' 'I'm paid to shout at you', he bellowed. 'Yes', I said, 'and I'm paid to take it - but not enough.' After a tense pause, Lubitsch broke out laughing. From then on we got along famously." (From Tierney's autobiography 'Self-Portrait'.)

struth

26-02-2022, 11:32

Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.

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Peter Cushing supposedly only agreed to do this film if Roberta Tovey returned as his grand-daughter alongside him, having built up a rapport on the previous film.
This sequel to Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) was to have been followed by a third film, to be based on the 1965 TV episode "The Chase." This was never made due to disappointing box office results of the first two films and the producers thinking that "The Chase" wouldn't have made a very good movie.

Macca

26-02-2022, 11:52

was watching 'Genesis Of The Daleks' the other day on Forces TV. Quality one that, probably the best one they ever did. Terry Nation writes ofc.

struth

26-02-2022, 12:00

davros

Macca

26-02-2022, 12:13

davros

Yep. At the end he clearly gets blasted by about half a dozen Daleks at point-blank range, but he comes back multiple times in later serials.

struth

26-02-2022, 12:15

Yep. At the end he clearly gets blasted by about half a dozen Daleks at point-blank range, but he comes back multiple times in later serials.

yeah i think ive got that baker series.. i liked tom; good actor.

Macca

26-02-2022, 12:18

His are really the only ones worth watching for me. Some of the Jon Pertwee stories aren't bad though.

struth

26-02-2022, 12:19

daleks were based on nazis; i guess today they'd be russians... with a big putin face of course.

Macca

26-02-2022, 12:27

Terry Nation though, almost everything he did was about the Nazis or based on the Nazis.

struth

26-02-2022, 13:02

Donovan's Reef, 1963... Directed by John Ford.

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When John Ford offered Lee Marvin the role of Gilhooley, he told the actor it didn't matter what the story was as it would be a good excuse for the cast and crew to have a free holiday in Hawaii.

Because of the age difference, John Wayne felt very uncomfortable with the romantic scenes with Elizabeth Allen, and asked John Ford to cast Maureen O'Hara opposite him instead. Ford refused and replied "Are you going to be the one who tells her she's perfect because she's old?". After this movie, Wayne made the decision to confine his romantic interests to mature women.

In a fight with Lee Marvin, John Wayne underestimated an uppercut. He crashed through a table and fell down. Director John Ford decided to leave the scene in the movie.

walpurgis

26-02-2022, 13:07

Good fun movie. A bit corny maybe, but they all looked like they enjoyed being in it. Bar punch-up was a laugh!

struth

26-02-2022, 14:54

Marathon Man, 1976. Directed by John Schlesinger.

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Producer Robert Evans was set upon getting Sir Laurence Olivier to play the role of Dr. Szell. However, because Olivier at the time was riddled with cancer, he was uninsurable, so Paramount Pictures refused to use him. Desperate, Evans called his friends Merle Oberon and David Niven to arrange a meeting with the House of Lords (the upper body of the British parliament). There, he urged them to put pressure on Lloyd's of London to insure Britain's greatest living actor. The ploy succeeded, and a frail Olivier started working on this movie. In the end, not only did he net an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, but his cancer also went into remission. Olivier lived on for another thirteen years.
Olivier took the role of Dr. Szell in part to leave a great deal of money to his wife and children, as he expected to die from the cancer that afflicted him throughout production. He performed the role while undergoing treatment for his cancer, which included heavy doses of painkillers to allow him to work every day. The pain medication affected his memory, and at times Olivier could not remember more than one or two of his lines at a time. In a testament to his fierce concentration, his performance garnered rave reviews and an Oscar nomination, and despite working under such aggressive medical treatment, he experienced a full recovery, allowing him to enjoy the success of this movie, and a series of leading roles that followed.

struth

26-02-2022, 17:05

Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968.. Classic western from Sergio Leone...

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Sergio Leone originally wanted Sophia Loren to play Jill McBain, and Carlo Ponti, her husband, was willing to provide a considerable amount of financial backing if she was in the film. However, Leone decided not to cast her because he feared that she would try to gain too much dominance and influence on how the film was made, given her famously headstrong and temperamental personality. He instead cast Claudia Cardinale, a personal friend of his, whom he convinced to play Jill without showing her the script.

Claudia Cardinale's first day of filming was her nude love scene with Henry Fonda. This also marked the first time Fonda had done such a scene. His wife insisted on being on-set during the filming of it.

struth

26-02-2022, 17:15

Al Mulock(one of the 3 gunmen at beginning) died by suicide by jumping from his hotel room in Guadix, Granada, Spain in May 1968, while filming for Once Upon a Time in the West. He was wearing his cowboy-style costume at the time of his fall. Mickey Knox, screenwriter for the film, and production manager Claudio Mancini witnessed Mulock's suicide as his body passed their hotel window near the end of the shoot. Mulock survived the fall, but suffered a pierced lung from a broken rib during the bumpy ride to the hospital. Before being taken away in the ambulance, director Sergio Leone shouted, "Get the costume, we need the costume." The reasons for his suicide, as well as for his choice of killing himself while wearing his costume, are unknown. About a year before Mulock’s suicide his wife had died of cervical cancer. However they had been separated for some time before her death so this may or may not have had an influence on his decision to end his life. Mickey Knox also claimed in his book, The Good, the Bad and the Dolce Vita, that Mulock was a drug addict, and committed suicide out of desperation, as he was unable to acquire drugs in Guadix. He was also the one armed bounty hunter in the good, the bad and the ugly.

Barry

26-02-2022, 19:40

struth

27-02-2022, 10:59

A treat for me as it was a film bought with birthday money. Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent, 1940. This is a Reg A bluray from Criterion Collection. Joel McCrea stars in lead...(Gary Cooper admitted he made a mistake turning the role down).

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Shooting was completed on May 29, 1940, after which director Alfred Hitchcock made a visit to England. He returned on July 3 with the word that the Germans were expected to start bombing at any time. Ben Hecht was hurriedly called in and wrote the tacked-on final scene set at a London radio station. It was filmed on July 5, and the real-life bombing started on July 10, 1940.

In a 1972 interview on The Dick Cavett Show (1968), Alfred Hitchcock revealed that the plane crash scene was filmed by using footage shot from a stunt plane diving on the ocean, rear projected on rice paper in front of a cockpit set. Also, behind the rice paper were two chutes aimed at the cockpit's windshield connected to large tanks of water. With the press of a button at the right moment, water came crashing through the rice paper, into the plane simulating the plane crashing into the sea from the cockpit view.

When the plane crash sequence was shot, a special tub within the studio tank had to be built for Herbert Marshall, who couldn't swim because he only had one leg (he'd lost a leg in combat in World War I).

According to press release information, more than 600 laborers, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, and prop men worked on the sets for this movie. A 600-foot by 125-foot stage was used to re-create Waterloo Station for a few scenes, and even more extravagantly, an entire square in Amsterdam was constructed on a ten-acre site at a cost of $200,000. The scenes in the square, including the elaborate assassination and getaway shots, took place during a rainstorm, so the set had to be rigged with an elaborate drainage system.

struth

27-02-2022, 13:12

Another classic from Criterion REG A, Ministry Of Fear, 1944 directed by Fritz Lang.. Its based on a Graham Greene novel and set in England during the Second World War .... A good film but could have been better had Lang been given his head. Lang was a genius.
According to Lang, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to his offices to inform him – apologetically – that The Testament of Dr Mabuse was being banned but, nevertheless, he was so impressed by Lang's abilities as a filmmaker (especially Metropolis), that he offered Lang the position of head of German film studio UFA. Lang said it was during that meeting he had decided to leave for Paris – but that the banks had closed by the time the meeting was over. Lang claimed that, after selling his wife's jewelry, he fled by train to Paris that evening, leaving most of his money and personal possessions behind.

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Director Fritz Lang was disappointed in "Ministry of Fear" because the producer and the screenwriter, Seton I. Miller, were the same person, and Miller the producer wouldn't let Lang rewrite Miller the writer's script, which Lang said "had practically none of the quality of the Graham Greene book."
Paramount paid Graham Greene £10,000 for the film rights to his novel, money he was very glad to have in wartime England. However, he was very disappointed in the film, especially as it had been directed by Fritz Lang, a film-maker he especially admired. Years later, Greene briefly met Lang, and the director made a point of apologizing to him for the film, by which Greene was touched.

struth

27-02-2022, 14:42

One of the greats now(again lol) Young Frankenstein, 1974.

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Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks got into only one fight during the movie's production, but it was a big one with Mel throwing a huge temper tantrum, yelling and raging and eventually storming out of Gene's apartment (where the men had been working on the script). Roughly ten minutes later, Gene's phone rang. The caller was Mel, who had this to say: "WHO WAS THAT MADMAN YOU HAD IN YOUR HOUSE? I COULD HEAR THE YELLING ALL THE WAY OVER HERE. YOU SHOULD NEVER LET CRAZY PEOPLE INTO YOUR HOUSE, DON'T YOU KNOW THAT? THEY COULD BE DANGEROUS." That, as Gene later put it, was "Mel's way of apologizing."

struth

27-02-2022, 17:06

Dynasties, Chimpanzees.

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struth

27-02-2022, 18:06

Pale Rider, 1985. Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.

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After Club (Richard Kiel) gets hit between the legs, Preacher (Clint Eastwood) helps him back to his horse. You do not see this, but Richard, due to back problems, had to use a step that was on the side of the horse to get onto his saddle. If you look you can see Richard take a step onto the platform before getting on the horse.
The first horse assigned to Richard Kiel collapsed the first time he climbed aboard. He was then assigned a stronger horse.

The title refers to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse from the Book of the Revelation, chapter six. Megan Wheeler (Sydney Penny) is reading the exact verse when she and her mom, Sarah (Carrie Snodgress), first see Preacher (Clint Eastwood) ride up to their house.

four horsemen of the apocalypse, in Christianity, the four horsemen who, according to the book of Revelation (6:1–8), appear with the opening of the first four of the seven seals that bring forth the cataclysm of the apocalypse. The first horseman, a conqueror with a bow and crown, rides a white horse, which scholars sometimes interpret to symbolize Christ or the Antichrist; the second horseman is given a great sword and rides a red horse, symbolizing war and bloodshed; the third carries a balance scale, rides a black horse, and symbolizes famine; and the fourth horseman rides a pale horse and is identified as Death.

Lawrence001

27-02-2022, 22:48

Never got the death connection, that's interesting thanks

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struth

28-02-2022, 10:46

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006. Directed by Gore Verbinski.

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A popular pirate punishment was marooning. The pirate who was being punished was put on an island and left, sometimes for a few days, sometimes permanently. The "dead man's chest" is a small rocky island, so called because the rocks reminded pirates of a ribcage. It has no water or shade, and is so low that waves frequently wash over it. To be marooned on the "chest" was to be given a death sentence under the broiling Caribbean sun.

struth

28-02-2022, 18:04

Never got the death connection, that's interesting thanks

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i was reading that Clint's gun was a remington 1858 model, but it wasn't afaik. it was a remington 1861 new model... just to be pedantic:ner:

as for above... Revelation 6 tells of a book or scroll in God's right hand that is sealed with seven seals. The Lamb of God/Lion of Judah opens the first four of the seven seals, which summons four beings that ride out on white, red, black, and pale horses. Zechariah describes them as "the ones whom the Lord has sent to patrol the earth," causing it to rest quietly. Ezekiel lists them as "sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague".

In John's revelation, the first horseman rides on a white horse, carries a bow, and is given a crown - he rides forward as a figure of Conquest, perhaps invoking Pestilence, Christ, or the Antichrist. The second carries a sword and rides a red horse and is the creator of War. The third, a food-merchant riding upon a black horse, symbolizes Famine. He carries The Scales. The fourth and final horse is pale, and upon it rides Death, accompanied by Hades. "They were given authority over a quarter of the earth, to kill with sword, famine, and plague, and by means of the beasts of the earth."

Apocalyptic Christianity sometimes interprets the Four Horsemen as a vision of harbingers of the Last Judgment, setting a divine end-time upon the world.

struth

28-02-2022, 18:11

The Day After Tomorrow, 2004.

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Twentieth Century Fox invited a group of scientists to preview this movie, to test their reactions to the "science" used in it. None of the scientists were impressed with what they saw, although most conceded that the movie was enjoyable nonsense. NASA were equally impressed :D

The production team had some doubts about having a major disaster hit New York City, especially after 9/11. Whenever it played in the Big Apple, audiences whooped with delight when the city was hit by an enormous tidal wave.

after saying all that its a pretty enjoyable bit if filmmaking, if silly.

struth

01-03-2022, 13:41

Riot in Cell Block 11, 1954. Directed by Don Siegal. Criterion Collection Reg A bluray.

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Leo Gordon had served five years for armed robbery at San Quentin State Prison. For this reason, Heinze, the Folsom warden, originally objected to Gordon appearing in the film, but director Don Siegel was able to convince him that Gordon was no threat to the prison.
Producer Walter Wanger served a four-month prison term for shooting agent Jennings Lang, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife Joan Bennett. The experiences he had in prison so unnerved him that upon his release he resolved to make a film about what prison was "really" like.
Actual inmates who were incarcerated and guards at Folsom State Prison at the time this movie was made are featured as extras

This was such a financial and critical success for "Allied Artists" (formerly "Monogram"), they were able to book the film into theatres well into the late 1950s.

struth

01-03-2022, 17:06

Dynasties.. Lion.. The Marsh Pride of Kenya's Masai Mara

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struth

01-03-2022, 18:20

The Grapes Of Wrath, 1940. Directed by John Ford..

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John Steinbeck loved the movie and said that Henry Fonda as Tom Joad made him "believe my own words".

The pro-union stance of the film led to both John Steinbeck and John Ford being investigated by Congress during the McCarthy "Red Scare" era for alleged pro-Communist leanings.

In the book, John Steinbeck had the character of Casy parodying the song "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" by singing "Yes sir, that's my Savior/Jesus is my Savior/Jesus is my Savior now." The Motion Picture Production Code then in effect forbade use of the words "God" and "Jesus" except when used "reverently", so the script resorted to having him hum: "Mm-mmm, mmm, my Savior".

Banks and the large farming corporations that controlled most California farms were not keen on the original novel (it was banned in some states and in several counties in California, and the book was not carried in the municipal library of author John Steinbeck's home town of Salinas, California, until the 1990s) and were even less thrilled that a film was being made of it. The Associated Farmers of California called for a boycott of all 20th Century-Fox films, and Steinbeck himself received death threats.

America, the great freedom eh??;)

The film was banned by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union because it showed that even the poorest Americans could afford cars.