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struth

04-03-2022, 11:52

Star Trek, Insurection, 1998. Directed by Jonathan Frakes.

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When Data is malfunctioning, Capt. Picard gets him to recite W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore". In the Isaac Asimov story "Runaround", a malfunctioning robot recites Gilbert and Sullivan while evading capture by his human masters. Much of Data's character is taken from Isaac Asimov's writings (such as Data's "Positronic Net", adapted from Asimov's "Positronic" brains).

Although several of the cast members of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) have directed various episodes of the series, Jonathan Frakes is the only cast member from the series to direct any of the "Next Generation"-related films. He directed this one and Star Trek: First Contact (1996).

struth

04-03-2022, 13:57

The Life Of Brian, 1979.

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The film's themes of religious satire were controversial at the time of its release, drawing accusations of blasphemy and protests from some religious groups. Thirty-nine local authorities in the United Kingdom either imposed an outright ban, or imposed an X (18 years) certificate. It was banned in Ireland, for about 8 years - In Malaysia it was banned because of blasphemous content. In Norway it was banned due to jokes deemed offensive to religious people. In Sweden the film was allowed for release and even screened with the tagline "The film so funny that it got banned in Norway":D

Six cast members played forty characters. cheapskates lol...

When Michael Palin as Pontius Pilate addressed the soldiers daring them to laugh, he was truly daring them. The soldier extras were ordered to stand there and not laugh, but not told what Palin was going to do. Palin, in fact, can barely stifle his own laughter when saying "Biggus Dickus" in front of the soldier asked if he finds the name "risible".

struth

04-03-2022, 15:43

The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957. Directed by David Lean.

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The elephants employed in helping build the bridge would take breaks every four hours and lie around in the water, whether the crew wanted them to or not.

Screenwriters Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman had been blacklisted in Hollywood after having been accused of having Communist ties at the time that this movie was made, and went uncredited. The sole writing credit, and therefore the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, went to Pierre Boulle, who wrote the original French novel, but did not speak English. Clearly he had not written the English script, and this became a long-running controversy between the Academy and the actual authors to achieve recognition for their work. In 1984, the Academy retroactively awarded the Oscar to Wilson and Foreman. Sadly, Wilson did not live to see this, and Foreman died the day after it was announced. When this movie was restored, their names were added to the credits.

This movie has many elements of truth woven into its fictitious narrative. While prisoners were used as slave laborers to build the railway depicted, the factual commander, Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey was the senior officer in this camp and risked his own life many times by deliberately sabotaging the bridge building efforts, completely different from the senior officer in this movie.

While Sir David Lean didn't always get along with everyone in his cast, he was very fond of William Holden. Lean found Holden to be extremely professional. He felt that Holden's considerable talent often went unnoticed, in part because the actor made everything look so effortless. At one point during filming, director Sir David Lean nearly drowned when he was swept away by a river current. Actor Geoffrey Horne saved his life.

struth

04-03-2022, 18:20

My Favorite Brunette, 1947. Directed by Elliott Nugent.

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Bob Hope wanted Bing Crosby's cameo as Harry so much that he paid him $5,000 to appear. The sum was later donated to a charity.

struth

05-03-2022, 09:20

The Smallest Show on Earth, 1957(AKA Big Time Operators) This is the network bluray and a super remaster it is. Its directed by
Basil Dearden.

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The exterior of the Bijou Cinema was a façade built for this movie between two railway bridges on Christchurch Avenue in Kilburn, next to Kilburn Underground station.

The production insurers declined to cover Dame Margaret Rutherford, so all of her scenes were squeezed into seven days.

struth

05-03-2022, 10:38

One-Eyed Jacks, 1961. Directed by Marlon Brando.

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Marlon Brando's first cut of the film was allegedly five hours long. He was reportedly unhappy with the final cut of 141 minutes, despite its box-office success. "Now, it's a good picture for them [Paramount]," he said upon its release, "but it's not the picture I made . . . now the characters in the film are black-and-white, not gray-and-human as I planned them." Marlon Brando printed close to 250,000 feet of film (the average is 150,000). All this while utilizing the Vista-Vision process, which cost fifty cents a foot! In the end, the film, originally budgeted at $1.8 million, wound up with a price tag of $6 million.

Marlon Brando's inexperience behind the camera was obvious on set. He shot six times the amount of footage normally used for a film at the time. He was indecisive and ran over schedule and over budget in getting the film finished. Paramount eventually took the film away from him and re-cut it.

According to Karl Malden, during shooting, Marlon Brando would have "two steaks, potatoes, two apple pies a la mode and a quart of milk" for dinner, necessitating constant altering of his costumes.

struth

05-03-2022, 15:18

Oliver Twist, 1948. Directed by David Lean.

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The wordless opening sequence, in which Oliver's mother staggers over the rain-swept moors to give birth on the steps of the workhouse, was devised by actress Kay Walsh (Nancy, and Lean's wife at time).

John Howard Davies was only eight at the time, and child labor laws prohibited children under the age of thirteen from working in movie studios, but Sir David Lean managed to get around the restriction. Davies recalled that Lean "was unfailingly nice, unfailingly courteous. He used various devices on me. When I felt inhibited about doing something, he would often shoot the rehearsal. He wasn't silly enough not to do the take. But I pretty soon cottoned on to this because my hearing was even better than his, with his large ears, and I could detect the sound of a Mitchell turning over."

Some insurance companies would not even cover Robert Newton(due to his alcoholism), and the J. Arthur Rank Organisation wanted to boycott him, but Sir David Lean persisted, having worked with Newton previously on Major Barbara (1941).

struth

05-03-2022, 17:50

Blithe Spirit, 1945. David Lean again Directs.

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As with most of Noël Coward's work, this movie is renowned for its dialogue. During an argument with Ruth (Constance Cummings), Charles (Sir Rex Harrison) declares, "If you're trying to compile an inventory of my sex life, I feel it only fair to warn you that you've omitted several episodes. I shall consult my diary and give you a complete list after lunch." The line, considered extremely risqué by censors, was deleted from the U.S. release.

Although it received positive critical reviews, this movie was a box-office failure on both sides of the Atlantic, but is now widely regarded as a classic.

Charles' first car is a 1938 Triumph Dolomite roadster coupe. His second, replacement car after the first one was wrecked is a 1935 (Hudson) Terraplane DeLuxe convertible coupe.

struth

06-03-2022, 10:30

The Devil's Brigade, 1968. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen.

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The Devil's Brigade actually existed; its formal military designation was the First Special Service Force (FSSF), and alternatively known as the "Black Devils". It was indeed a joint American-Canadian unit, was comprised of three regiments of two battalions each, and was envisioned for difficult, cold-weather, mountain-warfare missions. The members were known as "Forcemen". Initially earmarked for Northern Europe, the FSSF was first sent to the Pacific, then to the Italian campaign, before finishing its service in southern France in 1944. During World War II, the brigade suffered casualty rates of 39%. Upon disbandment in 1944, each nations' Forcemen were incorporated into their national armies. Veterans of the Devil's Brigade have been meeting each year since 1945, in Montana, at the former training facility depicted in the movie, although in the movie, filming took place in Utah, as a stand-in for Montana.

struth

06-03-2022, 10:43

The 1st Special Service Force was an elite American–Canadian commando unit in World War II, under the command of the United States Fifth Army. The unit was organized in 1942 and trained at Fort William Henry Harrison near Helena, Montana in the United States. The Force served in the Aleutian Islands, and fought in Italy, and southern France before being disbanded in December 1944.

The modern American and Canadian special operations forces trace their heritage to this unit. In 2013, the United States Congress passed a bill to award the 1st Special Service Force the Congressional Gold Medal.

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Macca

06-03-2022, 12:03

struth

06-03-2022, 12:08

lol, i guess they needed to see the action for cameras. yup its not the greatest film ever by a mile but its enjoyable enough.

Macca

06-03-2022, 12:15

lol, i guess they needed to see the action for cameras. yup its not the greatest film ever by a mile but its enjoyable enough.

Aye. Having said that you watch the 'Audie Murphy Story' and the whole thing seems totally unrealistic and improbable but it's actually very close to what really happened.

struth

06-03-2022, 12:17

Aye. Having said that you watch the 'Audie Murphy Story' and the whole thing seems totally unrealistic and improbable but it's actually very close to what really happened.

audie lost his marbles and attacked on his own basically. he never adjusted back to civilian life alas(no risks)

walpurgis

06-03-2022, 12:20

audie lost his marbles and attacked on his own basically

That's what I thought too. Probably happened a fair bit.

struth

06-03-2022, 12:45

The Britisher's time now with "The Battle Of The River Plate", 1956. Lots of stiff uppers and deadpan one-liners but a good and true story.

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The Midshipmen's quarters were empty because Captain Langsdorff had promoted all of his Midshipmen to Ensigns in order to make room for his prisoners.

Attention to detail was particularly important to the producers, so all of the naval procedures depicted in this movie are completely accurate. The scene where Harwood meets with his Captains on-board the Ajax, however, was a fictitious one, created in order to explain the situation to the audience.

Ships used in this movie: H.M.S. Sheffield as H.M.S. Ajax, I.N.S. Delhi (H.M.S. Achilles 1933-1941, H.M.N.Z.S. Achilles 1941-1946) as H.M.S. Achilles, H.M.S. Cumberland as H.M.S. Cumberland, Heavy Cruiser U.S.S. Salem as the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. Light cruiser H.M.S. Jamaica played the part of heavy cruiser H.M.S. Exeter.

There was strong speculation than German Captain Hans Langsdorff committed suicide rather than face the humiliation of losing his ship. There was even more speculation that he did it because he feared what Adolf Hitler would do to him if he returned to Germany. At the time, the Graf Spee was the pride of the German Navy, and scuttling her would have been regarded as treason.

struth

06-03-2022, 13:23

Might add it should really be battle of river Plato (silver river) error of translation or reading, take pick.

Also the real captain of the Africa Shell was both in film as another captain(Bernard Lee played him) and also technical advisor. His name was Patrick Dove.

Also John Schlesinger, the director was an actor at this time and in this film in a small role.

Directors of this film were Powell and Pressburger.

struth

06-03-2022, 14:33

The Fighting Kentuckian, 1949. Although generally thought to be based on a true story, it was only very slightly.

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The myth of the "Vine and Olive Colony" was born in Albert Pickett's 1851 book, History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period. According to that telling, military noblemen were forced to leave France after the fall of Napolean and were offered land grants by Congress in the Alabama Territory near what is now Demopolis if they would grow grapes and olives. Soon broken by the effort in the wilderness, they and their families returned to France.

In his article on the topic in the Encyclopedia of Alabama, Rafe Blaufarb of Florida State University demonstrates most of that story to be somewhat less than accurate. None of the French settlers were noble and few were military; most were whites who had fled Haiti after the 1791 rebellion and settled in New Orleans and Philadelphia. Congress did grant some 92,000 acres and in August 1817 about 40 of the Philadelphia group left for Mobile. There were some 347 original grantees; only 150 or so ended up in Alabama. By the early 1830's most of those had left the state.

Oliver Hardy's accent was authentic and was no approximation, as he was born and raised in Georgia.

Barry

06-03-2022, 16:28

Read the title in a hurry and it comes out as something entirely different! :D

struth

06-03-2022, 16:28

Casablanca, 1942. Directed by Michael Curtiz.

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I heard Madonna wanted to remake the film with her as Lund, but was told by every studio the film is "Untouchable"

Humphrey Bogart's then-wife, actress Mayo Methot, continually accused him of having an affair with Ingrid Bergman, often confronting him in his dressing room before a scene was to be shot. Bogart would come onto the set in a rage. In fact, despite the undeniable on-screen chemistry between Bogart and Bergman, they hardly spoke, and the only time they bonded was when the two had lunch with Geraldine Fitzgerald. According to Fitzgerald, "The whole subject at lunch was how they could get out of that movie. They thought the dialogue was ridiculous and the situations were unbelievable . .

In the 1980s this film's script was sent to readers at a number of major studios and production companies under its original title, "Everybody Comes to Rick's". Some readers recognized the script but most did not. Many complained that the script was "not good enough" to make a decent movie. Others gave such complaints as "too dated", "too much dialog" and "not enough sex".

Because the film was made during WWII the production was not allowed to film at an airport after dark for security reasons. Instead, it used a sound stage with a small cardboard cutout airplane and forced perspective. To give the illusion that the plane was full-sized, they used little people to portray the crew preparing the plane for take-off. Years later the same technique was used in Alien (1979), in the scene where the crew discovers the dead "space jockey", with director Ridley Scott's son and some of his friends in scaled-down spacesuits.

Director Michael Curtiz's Hungarian accent often caused confusion on the set. He asked a prop man for a "poodle" to appear in one scene. The prop man searched high and low for a poodle while the entire crew waited. He found one and presented it to Curtiz, who screamed, "A poodle! A poodle of water!" :eek:

struth

06-03-2022, 18:26

another classic. Rio Bravo, 1959.

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Claude Akins recalled that during filming all the actors found themselves starting to talk like John Wayne. Wayne was not impressed by this.

Dean Martin's agent approached Howard Hawks to consider his client for the role of the drunken deputy Dude. Hawks agreed to meet with Martin at 9:30 the next morning. When Hawks learned that Martin had done a show in Las Vegas until midnight, and hired a plane to fly him to the meeting, he was so impressed that he simply sent Martin to get a costume and told him he had the part.

For most of the film Chance (John Wayne) has the front of his hat turned up to make him look a little soft and friendly. However in the tough guy scenes when Chance informs Nathan Burdette that he will have Stumpy kill his brother if there is any trouble, the front of the hat is turned down, in traditional tough guy mode.

struth

07-03-2022, 10:24

Forrest Gump. 1994. Directd by Robert Zemeckis. Forrest Gump won Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Hanks had won the previous year for Philadelphia), Best Director, Best Visual Effects, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing at the 67th Academy Awards.

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Kurt Russell did the voice of Elvis Presley.

Magician Ricky Jay designed a special wheelchair for Gary Sinise that used an illusion to hide his legs, which were on a hidden platform underneath. The contortion required to sit in it meant that Sinise could only be in it for about ten minutes at a time. In other scenes, Gary Sinise's lower legs were wrapped in a special blue fabric that allowed them to be digitally removed later.

struth

07-03-2022, 12:45

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, 1957. Directed by John Huston.

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When filming began, Robert Mitchum worried that Deborah Kerr would be like the prim characters she frequently played. However, after she swore at director John Huston during one take, Mitchum, who was in the water, almost drowned laughing. The two stars went on to have an enduring friendship which lasted until Mitchum's death in 1997.

The script called for several Japanese-speaking officers and a company of Japanese troops to be on the island. There were no Japanese men on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, where the film was shot. A half-dozen who spoke the language were finally found in a Japanese emigrant community in Brazil and flown to the location to play the officers. For the non-speaking roles of Japanese troops, the company hired 50 Chinese who worked in the island's restaurants and laundries. This caused friction with the local islanders, who found it difficult if not impossible to get their clothes cleaned or to get a meal in a restaurant because most of the employees were working on the film.

The knife used by Cpl. Allison is a Ka-Bar. It is standard issue for the US Marines since 1942.
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struth

07-03-2022, 15:20

Hope And Glory, 1987. Directed by John Boorman.
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A 650 feet long suburban street set with seventeen semi-detached houses was constructed for this movie. Apparently, at the time at least, it was the largest set built in the UK for twenty-five years.

struth

07-03-2022, 17:42

a touch of pirating now... Dead Man's Chest, 2006.

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struth

08-03-2022, 10:53

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007.

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struth

08-03-2022, 13:35

A bit of classic humour now with.... Some Like It Hot, 1959. Directed by Billy Wilder.

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Jack Lemmon wrote that the first sneak preview had a bad reaction with many audience walkouts. Many studio personnel and agents offered advice to Billy Wilder on what scenes to reshoot, add and cut. Lemmon asked Wilder what he was going to do. Wilder responded: "Why, nothing. This is a very funny movie and I believe in it just as it is. Maybe this is the wrong neighborhood in which to have shown it. At any rate, I don't panic over one preview. It's a hell of a movie." Wilder held the next preview in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, and the audience stood up and cheered.

Years after the film's release, a movie reviewer asked Tony Curtis why his "Josephine" was so much more feminine than Jack Lemmon's "Daphne." Curtis explained he was so scared to be playing a woman (or a man pretending to be one) that his tightly wound body language could be read as demure and shy, traditionally feminine traits, whereas Lemmon, who was completely unbothered, and "ran out of his dressing room screaming like the Queen of the May," kept much more of his masculine body language.

struth

08-03-2022, 15:49

Back to the Future, 1985. Directed by Robert Zemeckis.

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The script was rejected 44 times before it was finally green-lit.

Writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis actually received a fan letter from John DeLorean after the film's release, thanking them for immortalizing his car.

Musician Mark Campbell did all of Michael J. Fox's singing. He is credited as "Marty McFly." Mark was perhaps best known as the lead singer of popular 1980s band Jack Mack and the Heart Attack.

struth

08-03-2022, 17:41

Key Largo, 1948. Directed by John Huston.

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Although they played on-screen enemies, off-screen Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson treated each other with great respect. Bogart insisted Robinson be treated like a major star, and he would not come to the set until Robinson was ready. Often, he would go to Robinson's trailer to personally escort him to the set.

In the film, James Temple describes the 1935 hurricane that devastated Matacumbe Key--one of the worst hurricanes in U.S. history. Many of the victims of the storm were World War I veterans who were building the Florida Keys portion of U.S. Highway 1, also known as the Overseas Highway. A portion of this highway is seen in the film's opening shots. The storm also produced the lowest-ever recorded barometric pressure over land in the North American continent.

Barry

08-03-2022, 17:42

Barry

08-03-2022, 17:45

Key Largo, 1948. Directed by John Huston.

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My second favourite Bogart - Bacall pairing (after 'To Have and Have Not' of course).

struth

08-03-2022, 19:44

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Barry

08-03-2022, 20:04

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Read the book at school, but found the film disappointing. :(

struth

09-03-2022, 11:53

Back to the Future Part II, 1989. Robert Zemeckis again..

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After Biff gets his cane stuck in the DeLorean upon returning to 2015, he starts to thrash around in pain, apparently having a hard time from the exertion. Robert Zemeckis has stated that Biff was experiencing the same thing Marty did at the dance in the first movie: fading out of history. The idea was that, by going back in time to give the sports almanac to his younger self, Biff had somehow altered his own future so that he no longer existed in the year 2015. According to script drafts, Biff's wife (Marty's mother) had shot and killed the abusive Biff in 1996. A deleted scene in the DVD extras makes this much clearer as we actually see Biff vanish.

struth

09-03-2022, 12:33

Back to the Future Part III, Robert Zemeckis again, again.

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According to the book "Billy Gibbons: Rock & Roll Gearhead", ZZ Top was hanging around the set, and was asked to be the town band. During one take, the camera broke. While waiting for the camera to be repaired, Michael J. Fox asked if they would play "Hey Good Lookin'" which they did. Afterwards, more requests were played. Two hours later, someone inquired if the camera had been repaired. Robert Zemeckis replied that it had been fixed for quite a while, he just didn't want to stop the party that had evolved.

Marty uses a "Frisbie's" pie plate to knock a gun out of Mad Dog's hand. In 1871, the Frisbie Pie Company started in Connecticut. Their pie pans were thrown on the campus of Yale, and this eventually lead to the invention of Frisbees.

struth

09-03-2022, 16:04

The Belles of St. Trinian's, 1954. Directed by Frank Launder

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Debut of actress Barbara Windsor. It is also oft-cited as featuring the debut of actress Shirley Eaton, most famous for being the golden girl in Goldfinger (1964). But she has pointed out in interviews that she isn't even in it. People confuse her with Belinda Lee, who does appear in this film, because they look similar.

struth

09-03-2022, 17:45

The Captain's Paradise, 1953. directed by Anthony Kimmins.

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Professional dancer Yvonne De Carlo persuaded Director Anthony Kimmins to talk Sir Alec Guinness into doing the mambo with her in a night club sequence. Guinness, not usually thought of as a physical actor, consented to a week's worth of dance lessons from De Carlo and the sequence is one of this movie's highlights.

Quotes... dialogue..

Chief Officer Ricco: Mrs. 'Gibraltar' St. James: she's in there.

Capt. Henry St. James: I know.

Chief Officer Ricco: Madame 'Kalik' St. James: she's also in there.

Capt. Henry St. James: I'm quite aware of the fact.

Chief Officer Ricco: Then what do we do?

Capt. Henry St. James: In the words of a famous English statesman, "We cultivate the faculty of patient expectancy."

struth

10-03-2022, 10:25

Goodbye Charlie, 1964. directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis.

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Both Debbie Reynolds and Pat Boone accepted their roles in this filn in hopes the salacious and suggestive premise would help them shake off their squeaky clean, essentially asexual screen personas. Reynolds received some of the most unflattering reviews of her entire career, and Boone was not only dropped by 20th Century-Fox, but rarely played a starring role again ;)

This was remade in 1991 as Switch which was a better film imo.

struth

10-03-2022, 12:29

Murder Most Foul, 1964. Directed by George Pollock. Margaret Rutherford and Ron Moody star.

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Like Murder at the Gallop (1963), this movie was adapted from an Hercule Poirot novel, the 1953 book "Mrs. McGinty's Dead".

There are various references to the work of William Shakespeare: the title hails from "Hamlet" Act I, Scene V (lines 27-28) where the Ghost speaks: "Murder most foul, as in the best it is;/But this most foul, strange, and unnatural."; a key phrase in this movie hails from "Romeo and Juliet" ("What's in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet" (Act II, Scene II)); and H. Driffold Cosgood alludes to "Macbeth"'s line "Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care" (Act II, Scene II, lines 34-35).

struth

10-03-2022, 14:42

Now the remake of Goodbye Charlie.... Switch, 1991. Directed by Blake Edwards. Ellen Barkin and Jimmy Smits star.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41Yr9wtzhVL._AC_.jpg

struth

10-03-2022, 16:26

Macca

10-03-2022, 17:39

Nothing like keeping it in the family. Did his daughter do the catering at the premier?

struth

10-03-2022, 17:45

Nothing like keeping it in the family. Did his daughter do the catering at the premier?Dunno but I got tired of it 30mins in. More space now with the ever real red dwarf

Barry

10-03-2022, 22:54

Dunno but I got tired of it 30mins in. More space now with the ever real red dwarf

Think I saw that film a year or so ago. Didn't make much of an impression on me. :(

Pigmy Pony

11-03-2022, 07:30

Sunshine, 2007. Directed by Danny Boyle.

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Prof. Brian Cox, CERN / Manchester University, acted as the film's science advisor. His wife was involved in production of the movie's blog.

Look like a right bunch of smartarses on the poster. You know the type: if you went to Tenerife, they went to Elevenerife. "What, you're doing your bit to save the planet, well we're off to save the sun, so there"

struth

11-03-2022, 09:16

Look like a right bunch of smartarses on the poster. You know the type: if you went to Tenerife, they went to Elevenerife. "What, you're doing your bit to save the planet, well we're off to save the sun, so there"

lol... the basic premise of a highly manned spacecraft going to explode all our uranium into sun, when an unmanned one would no doubt have done it better is one of my gripes...and i could have saved myself 30 mins

struth

11-03-2022, 10:35

Salazar's Revenge, 2017.

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struth

11-03-2022, 14:01

All Of Me, 1984...directed by Carl Reiner.....

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Lily Tomlin was born the day World War II started. Steve Martin was born the day World War II ended.

This is the first of three films that Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin made together. The other two are And the Band Played On (1993) and, The Pink Panther 2 (2009).

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".

Barry

11-03-2022, 15:30

I'm not a big Steve Martin by any means, yet for some reason I enjoyed "All of Me" when i first saw it. :)

struth

11-03-2022, 15:44

The Day of the Jackal, 1973. directed by Fred Zinnemann.

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During the filming of the final sequence where President Charles de Gaulle is presenting medals to veterans, the many extras were unaware of how close a resemblance actor Adrien Cayla-Legrand bore to the actual President. On the first take, when the President exits his limousine, most of the crowd gasped, and an elderly extra, who was playing one of the veteran soldiers, fainted in shock.

The novel/film adaptation of "The Day of the Jackal" caused the London Public Records and Passport offices to tighten their regulations to reduce the chance of anybody stealing and using a deceased person's identity, as the Jackal did. Frederick Forsyth said in an interview that he was aware that such things happened in the 1960s. However, no one in the British government took notice of this in spite of letters of caution from him to them until after this movie was released.

The special lightweight rifle that The Jackal concealed in a crutch was a genuine working model. Two of them were made for this movie. One was handed over to the British authorities, and the other now resides in the Paris Cinematheque.

Barry

11-03-2022, 15:46

One of my favourite films! :)

struth

11-03-2022, 16:12

One of my favourite films! :)

yes its a great, early forsyth novel to screen. think there were 4 all pretty good earlyish ones of which this is probably the best. they remade it under the title, 'the jackal' if memory serves. it was supposedly poor fare, although ive not seen it.

struth

11-03-2022, 18:19

Another of Forsyth's films now, The Fourth Protacol, 1987. Directed by John Mackenzie.

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The radio presenter reading the news broadcast to which Valeri Petrofsky (Pierce Brosnan) is listening for information was Frederick Forsyth. (not many people know that:D)

Pigmy Pony

11-03-2022, 20:03

yes its a great, early forsyth novel to screen. think there were 4 all pretty good earlyish ones of which this is probably the best. they remade it under the title, 'the jackal' if memory serves. it was supposedly poor fare, although ive not seen it.

I'm guessing the other two are "The Odessa File" and "The Dogs of War". Read both the books but only saw the "Odessa" film, which was great imo. I'll look out for the Dogs of War film, I know I enjoyed the book.

I saw The Jackal remake, and thought it was a bit meh, but not unwatchable.

Macca

11-03-2022, 20:08

'Dogs of War' is a bit disappointing compared to the book, but it's worth a watch.

Pigmy Pony

11-03-2022, 20:18

Barry

11-03-2022, 21:05

Another of Forsyth's films now, The Fourth Protacol, 1987. Directed by John Mackenzie.

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Another good film, although Kim Philby died of old age, rather than being shot. I have a DVD copy somewhere. :)

Macca

11-03-2022, 21:31

I seem to remember that in "The Dogs of War" novel, Mr Forsyth went into some detail about the cost of mercenaries and their weapons/logistics, which added interest to an already good read. Maybe I'll just re-read the book.

That's the bulk of the film too but it's not done as well as the same process in 'Day Of The Jackal.' Not the same standard of direction, acting or script.

struth

12-03-2022, 10:58

Farewell My Lovely,1975. Bob Mitchum stars.

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The dark pin-striped suit worn by Robert Mitchum in the film was the only one available from the wardrobe department, with no backup suit available if needed. Originally made for Victor Mature during the 1940s, Mitchum hated the outfit, and complained constantly(typical Mitch) during production about having to wear "Victor Mature's old farted-up suit."

The filming of Farewell, My Lovely (1975) was a trip down memory lane for Robert Mitchum. The movie brought him back to the derelict neighborhoods he knew decades prior when he was a poverty stricken teenager. One night, as Mitchum handed money to vagrants on the streets, his actions attracted the attention of an old beat cop on patrol. The officer took a good look at Bob and said, "So you're back."

Third film version of Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely" novel. The first was The Falcon Takes Over (1942) in 1942 and the second was Murder, My Sweet (1944) in 1944.

walpurgis

12-03-2022, 11:53

Third film version of Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely" novel. The first was The Falcon Takes Over (1942) in 1942 and the second was Murder, My Sweet (1944) in 1944.

I've recently re-read most of Chandler's stories, they are excellent! 'The High Window' is my favourite I think.

struth

12-03-2022, 12:30

I've recently re-read most of Chandler's stories, they are excellent! 'The High Window' is my favourite I think.

A great writer was Chandler.. smarter than most think.

now an old favorite... Ruthless People, 1986.

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Gazjam

12-03-2022, 15:21

Not the most exciting bluray I've ever put in my player, story wise...
But hoping for a good ending.

Some calibrationey shenanigans of a Saturday.
:thumbsup:

https://i.imgur.com/M765chu.jpeg

struth

12-03-2022, 15:30

Not the most exciting bluray I've ever put in my player, story wise...
But hoping for a good ending.

Some calibrationey shenanigans of a Saturday.
:thumbsup:

https://i.imgur.com/M765chu.jpeg

looks the biz gary... let us know how you get on mate. :)

struth

12-03-2022, 15:32

Tucker and Dale vs Evil, 2010. The film was shelved for over 3 years before it was finally released.

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walpurgis

12-03-2022, 16:11

Tucker and Dale vs Evil, 2010

That is a great film. A lot of fun!

struth

12-03-2022, 16:15

That is a great film. A lot of fun!

great line after he accidentally fed half the guy through the chipper..."are you ok?":D

struth

12-03-2022, 16:56

The Fugitive, 1993.

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struth

12-03-2022, 19:12

Romancing The Stone, 1984.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Romancing_the_stone.jpg

This was the only produced screenplay for writer Diane Thomas. She had been working as a waitress in Malibu when producer/star Michael Douglas optioned her script for $250,000, allowing her to quit her job. Sadly, Thomas died in a car accident, while working on a new movie project with Steven Spielberg the following year, about seven weeks before the opening of this film's sequel, The Jewel of the Nile (1985). She was a passenger while her boyfriend was driving a Porsche that Douglas had bought for her as a thank you gift. The Jewel of the Nile (1985) was dedicated "In Memory of" Thomas.

Jonboy

12-03-2022, 19:20

Radio 2 piano room on BBC 2 , interesting to note there appears to be a pair of Tannoy Westminster’s on stage as monitors?

Just been studying them again , Not Westminster’s but 15 inch monitors

struth

13-03-2022, 13:15

Cold Mountain, 2003.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Cold_Mountain_Poster.jpg

The pistol carried by Inman during much of his journey is a LeMat model known as the "Grape Shot Revolver" due to its having a central smooth-bore barrel which could function much like a shotgun. A nine-shot (.36 or .42 calibre) "cap and ball" cylinder serves the upper barrel.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Le_Mat_Revolver.jpg note the lower shotgun type barrel below.

struth

13-03-2022, 15:40

The Titfield Thunderbolt, 1953. Directed by Charles Crichton.

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The 'Thunderbolt' is a genuine veteran locomotive, its real name is "Lion". It was built for the Liverpool and Manchester railway in 1838, making it 115 years old when it was used in the film.

The credited driver, fireman and guard were not actors, they were British Railways employees from Westbury depot and were originally to be uncredited extras. After director Charles Crichton spoke to them on location and realized they "looked and sounded the part", they were given speaking parts.

The locomotive "Lion" was damaged during filming when the carriage train is reunited with the locomotive. The rear frame was bent by the force of the impact. The damage was still visible in 2001.

struth

13-03-2022, 17:51

Based on a true story....

The Wrong Man, 1956. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Never believe the police when they say if your innocent, youve nothing to fear.

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Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.

Although based on a true story, Alfred Hitchcock deliberately left out some of the information that pointed to Manny's innocence to heighten the tension.
According to a Scientific American Magazine article from 2010, "Since the 1990s, when DNA testing was first introduced, Innocence Project researchers have reported that 73 percent of the 239 convictions overturned through DNA testing were based on eyewitness testimony. One third of these overturned cases rested on the testimony of two or more mistaken eyewitnesses." (Scientific American, "Why Science Tells Us Not to Rely on Eyewitness Accounts")

Balestrero sued the insurance company for the false accusation and settled for $7,000. This was barely enough to pay for the loan to cover his wife's stay in the mental institution. He moved his family to Miami, leaving behind his family, his friends, and even his furniture, which he could not afford to move. His wife continued to suffer from the impact of the events for the rest of her life.

As the actual perpetrator was caught and confessed during Balestrero's second trial, Balestrero was never able to produce witnesses on his behalf. The fact is that at the time of the robbery he was some sixty miles away and in the presence of witnesses.

edit. A bit of fun at the prison(a real prison where he was filmed being encarserated) one of the inmates can be heard shouting. " what they get you for Henry?":D

struth

14-03-2022, 12:31

Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970. Director, Don Siegel.

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Clint Eastwood has on the same gun belt and holster that Eastwood as "The Man with No Name" wore in the "Dollars" trilogy.. the three Spaghetti Western movies directed by Sergio Leone.

During a Q&A at the TCM Film Fest in 2015, Shirley Maclaine had this to say about Clint Eastwood: "Quite brilliant, and funny, because he's so laconic and doesn't know it. I adore him. I remember when we were doing Two Mules for Sister Sara, his horse was acting up. This is when I knew he's a true Republican. He got off the horse, looked at the horse, and socked him."

Barry

14-03-2022, 14:30

Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970. Director, Don Siegel.

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Excellent film! :)

struth

14-03-2022, 14:43

Another Don Siegal film now and stars Walter matthau. Charley Varrick, 1973.

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Character Maynard Boyle's line, "They're gonna strip you naked and go to work on you with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch," is paraphrased in Pulp Fiction (1994) by character Marsellus Wallace.

Walter Matthau's character makes love repeatedly to Felicia Farr's character. She was the wife of his longtime comedic partner, Jack Lemmon.

walpurgis

14-03-2022, 15:26

Another Don Siegal film now and stars Walter matthau. Charley Varrick, 1973

One of my favourite movies! :thumbsup:

struth

14-03-2022, 16:47

A western now, and Hawks' Rio Lobo, 1970. The 3rd making by hawks/wayne of pretty much same story.

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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?"

The film had numerous issues. Hawks was over 70, Wayne was 53 and fat. The female lead, Jennifer O'neil was inexperienced and thought she was Bacall. The other male lead, Jorge Rivero was Mexican and didn't speak english very well. It all contributed to a picture that could have been much better.

struth

14-03-2022, 17:22

Interestingly most if not all the guns used were either mock ups or Anachronisms...

http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/c/c4/JohnwayneWin92.jpg/350px-JohnwayneWin92.jpg

wayne's 1892 winchester rifle .. its a Saddle Ring Carbine with a large loop lever in . 44-40 form.

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and a colt single action he used.. dates from 1873 onwards.
the film mostly dates from a year after war ended.

sadly pics didnt show.. doh

struth

15-03-2022, 11:36

Holmes double bill. first, Sherlock Holmes in Washington, 1943.

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and now, Sherlock Holmes And The Voice Of Terror, 1942.

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struth

15-03-2022, 15:31

The Bishop's Wife, 1947. Director Henry Koster.

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Over Cary Grant's protests, a skating double wearing a mask with Grant's features was used in the long shots of the complex skating routine. A skating double was also used for Loretta Young on all long shots.
The harp playing for Cary Grant was done by Mr. Gail Laughton, Laughton's hands are seen in the film during close-ups of Grant's character playing the harp.

Originally Cary Grant played the bishop and David Niven the angel. When original director William A. Seiter left the film, Henry Koster replaced him and viewed what had been shot so far. He realized that the two were in the wrong roles. It took some convincing because Grant wanted the title role of the Bishop. He eventually accepted the change and his role as the angel was one of the most widely praised of his career.

struth

15-03-2022, 17:49

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003

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struth

15-03-2022, 18:23

Doctor At Large, 1957.. Director Ralph Thomas.

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Doctor puts the stethoscope to the girl's heart: “Big breaths, Eva” -“Yeth, and I'm only sixteen”.:eyebrows:

struth

16-03-2022, 10:00

Carry On Sergeant, 1958.

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The National Service recruits, who should be in their late teens or early 20s, were all played by actors who were over 30 at the time of filming (in fact, Charles Hawtrey was over 40, Kenneth Connor nearly so).

struth

16-03-2022, 11:18

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

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struth

16-03-2022, 13:52

The Green Man, 1956.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/The_greenman_movieposter.jpg

The dish on offer at the hotel towards the end, Chop Toad, is a variant on Toad in the Hole. Toad in the Hole is fried sausages, baked in a batter pudding. Chop Toad is fried pork or lamb chops baked similarly.

struth

16-03-2022, 17:21

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007.

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The scene in which Jack the Monkey is shivering, was accomplished by the concerted efforts of the special effects and animal training departments. The effects guys made a small wooden barrel with a vibrating plate on top. The animal trainers taught the monkey to sit with her arms crossed on the plate.

A real-life council of pirates existed at one time. The Brethren of the Coast was a loose coalition of pirates and buccaneers, active in the 17th and 18th centuries in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico. They had a base on the island of Tortuga, off the coast of Haiti, and in Port Royal, Jamaica. The Brethren were originally French Huguenots and British Protestants, but their ranks were joined by other adventurers of various nationalities, including Spaniards and Africans.

The green flash is a real, but very rare, optical phenomenon during sunrise or sunset, that is best observed at sea. It is caused by the refraction of light in the atmosphere, amplified by a mirage.

Macca

16-03-2022, 17:24

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'The VIPs' 1963

Looks a lot like a load of rubbish but you've got Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Margert Rutherford, Maggie Smith, Rod Taylor and Orson Welles in it so I thought I'd give it a go.

A bunch of rich/famous people get stuck at Heathrow Terminal 3 due to fog. (No, it's not a horror film like the reality would be).

The delay creates various problems for all of the characters, especially Liz Taylor who is running away from her husband to go to New York with some French bloke, and Rod Taylor who has to get to New York to sign a contract or he'll lose his company.

Quite surprised I watched the whole thing as it's pretty well done and everyone is good in it, especially Richard Burton. Such a shame he mainly starred in complete crap.

They built an exact replica of Terminal 3 interior, one of the largest sets ever built in the UK at the time,

Written by Terence Rattigan who said he based it on the true story of when Vivian Leigh ran off from Olivier, but got stuck at the airport due to bad weather.

struth

16-03-2022, 17:29

Macca

16-03-2022, 17:42

yes, its a good watch.. all the diamonds etc were actually liz taylors own; not fakes.

Really? There's a few bob there then. That bracelet he gives her must be a hundred grand alone. I wonder if they had special security for it?

struth

16-03-2022, 17:47

Really? There's a few bob there then. That bracelet he gives her must be a hundred grand alone. I wonder if they had special security for it?

i would imagine a few security guards were in evidence. but yes im sure there would be heavy insurance. the tiara, i think was given her by mike todd, her husband. the only one she didnt divorce.. he died after a years wedlock.

Macca

16-03-2022, 17:50

Was just thinking the Sixties was the age of the armed blaggers, got to be easier to turn over a film set than a bank.

Although I suppose then you've got the added hassle of having to fence the tom.

struth

16-03-2022, 17:56

Was just thinking the Sixties was the age of the armed blaggers, got to be easier to turn over a film set than a bank.

Although I suppose then you've got the added hassle of having to fence the tom.

studios were often fairly safe but yeah it must have been a risk.

Todd actually died in a private plane crash. taylor had wanted to go too but had a cold and he wouldnt let her.. lucky girl. sure his grave got turned over by blaggers looking for a ring taylor was supposed to have put back on his hand before funeral. That alone shows how stupid they were as there was very little left of the remains and she never got to see the 'bag'

struth

16-03-2022, 19:44

Carry on Jack, 1964.

Well, it's got the lovely Juliette in it.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220316/71fb135580f08a73c885301beebbacfd.jpg

Gazjam

16-03-2022, 20:59

Enjoying a recent 4K release of this,
Wow.. This is great!
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1r9pPJbYxL._SX466_.jpg
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dreadcentral.com%2Freviews%2 F398770%2Fthe-final-countdown-4k-review-a-time-trip-and-a-chance-to-now-rewrite-history%2F&psig=AOvVaw0-Zp7pA0Thss-MzK96C_qa&ust=1647550532320000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAsQjRxqFwoTCIitipnCy_YCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD

Loved it way back when the first time I saw it,
Never seen it like this though.

Forgotten how good an actor James Farentino was.

struth

17-03-2022, 09:05

Macca

17-03-2022, 09:48

Good premise for a story but it goes nowhere interesting.

struth

17-03-2022, 10:03

Good premise for a story but it goes nowhere interesting.

oh well, i wont bother going there then :ner:

struth

17-03-2022, 16:14

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956. Director Don Siegel.

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Kevin McCarthy and author Jack Finney have always denied the rumor that the story is a statement against McCarthyism and Communism; they just saw it as a thriller. Director Don Siegel, however, believes that the political references to Sen. Joseph McCarthy and totalitarianism are inescapable, even though he tried not to emphasize them.

The last sequence was shot, not on the actual Hollywood Freeway, but on a little used cross-bridge. The cars were driven by stunt drivers. Don Siegel said later that Kevin McCarthy was in real danger of getting hit, because the sequence was shot at dawn and he was near complete exhaustion.

struth

17-03-2022, 17:38

Another Don Siegal film now with... Escape From Alcaraz, 1979.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRQQY5E6narkLtwHgOL6mw872A50Yjyk q_Lal3z9Lgxw26fQecJ

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A 2015 History Channel documentary received photographs from the family of the Anglin brothers, allegedly taken around 1975, somewhere in South America. Their facial recognition experts believe that the photo is authentic, confirming that at least the Anglins survived the escape. As of 2018, they are still considered at large.

The Warden, who is never named during the film, at one point refers to his "predecessors, Wardens Johnston and Blackwell." Warden Blackwell was the actual warden at the time of Frank Lee Morris' escape, and this script reference was clearly done to avoid legal trouble.

Paramount Pictures had to spend quite a large amount of money in maintenance, re-fitting, and refurbishment costs on the prison. This totalled around half a million dollars. A great deal of expense and work was required to restore the prison to its 1963 state. Fifteen miles of cable were required to reconnect the island to the city's electricity, much of the wiring having corroded. Many of the improvements were kept intact after the film. For the shoot, water-soluble, removable, and peelable paint, and other temporary camouflages were put over paintings and graffiti painted there by Native Americans. They had once occupied the island as a political process, and the material was of a heritage nature. After filming, the paint had to be carefully removed, so the markings could be visually recovered.

struth

17-03-2022, 19:29

Jeremiah Johnson, 1970. It is based partly on the life of the legendary mountain man John Jeremiah Johnson, recounted in Raymond Thorp and Robert Bunker's book Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson and Vardis Fisher's novel Mountain Man.
Directed by Sydney Pollack.

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Liver Eatin' Johnston's wife (who was pregnant at the time) was actually killed by a random raiding party of Crow, not as revenge for a violation of their burial grounds. She was killed in the spring while Johnston was off trapping and he didn't return to find her body until several months later. He identified the band that had killed her because he recognized a Tennessee rifle he had given her in the possession of a Crow warrior. Also, rather than isolated incidents as shown in the movie, Johnston often recruited other mountain men as well as Indians (particularly Flatheads) to help him with his vendetta. The part about the warriors sent to kill him and told not to return without his scalp was true.
According to the book "Crow Killer," the Crazy Woman was a real person who had settled in the Wolf Tail Valley. After her children were killed and her husband taken captive, she remained in her cabin. Liver Eatin' Johnson, Del Gue and Anton Sepulveda were among the mountain men who "avenged" her. One popular story was that the mountain man known as "Hatchet Jack" was actually her husband who had gone insane after being scalped and tortured by the Blackfoot Indians when they took him away. It was known that Hatchet Jack had been scalped at some point in his life and that he was mentally unbalanced. Johnson refers to this when he tells the Crazy Woman that he cannot find any sign of her husband, but that he might return if he escaped from the Indians.

struth

18-03-2022, 10:44

Old Favorite, Hopscotch, 1980. Director Ronald Neame.

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The Oktoberfest scene at the beginning of the film was not staged. The filmmakers hid eight cameras to prevent people from knowing they were being filmed.

The U.S. State Department issued several "real" passports for Matthau's character's several aliases. The documents were filmed in tight close-ups and were kept in a safe at the production company's office for security. When filming was complete, they were returned by hand to the State Department.

struth

18-03-2022, 14:31

The Four Feathers, 1939. Director Zoltan Korda.

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The action scenes, photographed by Osmond Borradaile, were not only filmed where the historical battles had taken place, but also included among the many extras, people who had witnessed or participated in the fighting more than forty years earlier. These battle scenes further benefitted from Director Zoltan Korda's expertise at large-scale action and his early experience as a cavalry officer.

Although he was a stickler for historical fidelity, Director Zoltan Korda was not above stretching the truth for the sake of spectacle. As shooting was about to begin on the lavish ballroom scene, he went into a fit over the fact that the officers were all clad in blue uniforms. Technical Advisor Brigadier Hector Campbell, informed him that this was the proper dress for a private party in the late 1800s. "But this is Technicolor!" Korda roared, and the uniforms were changed to bright red.

struth

18-03-2022, 18:18

Kelly's Heroes, 1970. directed by Brian G. Hutton.

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Donald Sutherland (Oddball) became seriously ill during filming on-location in Yugoslavia. His wife received a telegram telling her to come immediately but warning her that he would probably be dead before she arrived. He said he saw "the white light" when he died for a "few seconds" . during the middle of shooting he was hit with a bout of spinal meningitis, causing him to go into a coma and he admits he "dug his feet in" so as not to pass away.

He said: "I got sick in the middle of shooting 'Kelly's Heroes'. I came to Yugoslavia for a day's filming and I was out for six weeks.

"They took me to hospital – I had spinal meningitis. They didn't have the antibiotics, so I went into a coma, and they tell me that for a few seconds, I died. I saw the blue tunnel, and I started going down it. I saw the white light. I dug my feet in."

However, Donald was tempted for a second to stop fighting to stay alive.

He added: "I didn't want to go – but it was incredibly tempting. You just go: 'Aw, s**t man, why not?'. "

At the beginning of the movie, Big Joe (Telly Savalas) is desperate to know about the best places to stay in the city of Nancy, and he uses a Michelin tourist guide book. Use of these books by Allied troops during WWIi is accurate. When planning the Normandy invasion, staff officers were concerned about how the troops would navigate in light of the possibility that retreating Germans would take down or reverse road signs. The U.S. government quietly reprinted the most recent edition from 1939, as new publications had been suspended because of the war. So when Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normany on June 6, 1944, they carried the Michelin guides and, for the remainder of the war, advancing forces depended on their Michelin maps.

During filming in Yugoslavia in 1969, Donald Sutherland (Oddball) received word, via co-star Clint Eastwood (Lieutenant Kelly), that his then-wife Shirley Douglas was arrested: she had tried to buy--using a personal check--hand grenades from an undercover FBI agent for the Black Panthers. Sutherland recounts this story often, mentioning that when Eastwood got to the part about the personal check, he laughed so hard that he fell to his knees and Sutherland had to help him up. Eastwood then put his arm around Sutherland, walked him down the hill that overlooked the Yugoslavian countryside, and assured his friend of his complete support with his predicament. Sutherland and Douglas, who are the parents of Kiefer Sutherland and twin sister Rachel Sutherland, divorced in 1970.
The movie was mainly filmed in Yugoslavia because the Yugoslavian army still had a large quantity of Sherman tanks in 1970.

Big Joe quote:
Look, we're not worried about the German Army - we've got enough troubles of our own. To the right, General Patton. To the left, the British Army. To the rear, our own goddamn artillery! And, besides all that, it's rainin'. And, the only good thing to say about the weather: it keeps our Air Corps from blowin' us all to Hell because it's too lousy to fly! Verstehen?!?

struth

19-03-2022, 11:35

Saturday matinee is I'm All Right Jack, 1959.

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Two of the shop stewards in the movie, brothers Tony Comer and John Comer, got the roles after winning a talent show as a comedy double act, "The Comer Brothers". The prize was one thousand pounds sterling and a movie contract with The Boulting Brothers.

Yet another film showing a British judge with a gavel! Neither British or Canadian judges have a gavel.

Ian Carmichael was one of several people who witnessed the mini silent films made by Peter Sellers on the set of this movie. Insomnia Is Good For You and Dearth Of A Salesman.

struth

19-03-2022, 13:36

A year on and a few of cast in this too... School For Scoundrels, 1960. Based on the Stephen Potter "One Upmanship" and "Lifemanship" books.

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The 'Bellini' sports car driven by Terry-Thomas in the film, is in reality the actual Aston Martin DB3S which was once driven by Sterling Moss in the Mila Migilia and has been valued recently at £7 million.

The burbling sound made by Palfrey's Swiftmobile car is the same sound effect used for Sidney Stratton's experiments in "The Man in the White Suit" (1951). The swiftmobile was in fact a disguised 1928 Bentley 4½-Litre Open Tourer. The other car used was an ex-Works Austin-Healey 100-Six.

Terry-Thomas's expression "Oh to be in England now that April is here" is a quote from the start of Robert Browning's poem "Home Thoughts from Abroad".

struth

19-03-2022, 16:24

More British comedy from a bit earlier. The classic Kind Hearts and Coronets, 1949.

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Sir Alec Guinness took his extensive roles very seriously, always showing up to work every day thoroughly professional and prepared. Playing eight different roles did come with its challenges, however. "Quick transformation from one character to another has a disturbing effect", he told Collier's Magazine in 1952. "I had to ask myself from time to time: 'Which one am I now?' I had fearful visions of looking like one of the characters and thinking and speaking like one of the others. It would have been quite disastrous to have faced the cameras in the make-up of the suffragette, and spoken like the Admiral."

Although tame by today's standards, Dennis Price's love scenes with the purring Joan Greenwood shocked Ealing Studios head Michael Balcon, and almost led to a major re-edit of the finished movie.

Dennis Price's shortened quote from Johnson was in full... “Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

struth

19-03-2022, 18:08

Joan Greenwood again with.... Whisky Galore!, 1949.

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Alexander Mackendrick insisted on making the film entirely on location, an unusual move for Ealing Studios. This was primarily because the most of the studio space was taken up by two other films in simultaneous production - Passport to Pimlico (1949) and Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).

Because of financial pressures on the studio, Michael Balcon decided to release it with little promotion. John Jympson, one of the editors at Ealing, recommended the film to his father Jympson Harman, the film critic for The Evening News. Although there was to be no trade viewing, Harman and several other press reviewers visited the studios to see the film. They all wrote good reviews, which forced Balcon to provide funds for promotion

Macca

20-03-2022, 08:48

You have a colourized version of 'School For Scoundrels Grant?

One of my favourite films that.

struth

20-03-2022, 08:50

You have a colourized version of 'School For Scoundrels Grant?

One of my favourite films that.

nope, the original B&W version. i like the b&w ones tbh.

edit.. i did a search and been unable to find a colourized version so there might not be one, although i had an odd feeling there was.

Pigmy Pony

20-03-2022, 08:55

You have a colourized version of 'School For Scoundrels Grant?

One of my favourite films that.

I was wondering that too. One of my mum's favourite films, the tennis part always cracked her up. "Hard cheese!"

struth

20-03-2022, 09:19

Picked this up recently. Shooter, 2007. This is the 4k version.

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The dog featured in the film as Bob Lee Swagger's companion was trained by owner Drew Thompson. The dog's real name is Logan. He is a Bernese Mountain and English Mastiff X. Drew states that "he is easily the smartest dog I have ever trained".

The large caliber rifle that Swagger owns, with which he is framed, is a Cheyenne Tactical M200 Intervention. It fires a .408 caliber projectile accurately out to and beyond two thousand meters. The CheyTac M200 is also available with a Long Range Rifle System, which consists of a laser range finder, magnifying scope with night vision capability, and a weather-sensing module, all of which interface with a PDA running ballistics calculation software.

Swagger's wristwatch is a Suunto Vector, a digital watch made in Finland. Besides telling time, it also has an altimeter, barometer, and digital compass.

struth

20-03-2022, 12:36

Duck, You Sucker!, 1971. (aka, A Fistful of Dynamite)

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When James Coburn (who had been offered roles in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)) was offered the role of John Mallory by Leone, he was initially reluctant. He had dinner with Henry Fonda (star of Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)) and asked him what he thought of Leone. Fonda told him that he considered Leone the greatest director he ever worked with. Coburn then took the part (similarly, Fonda himself had been reluctant to take the part Leone offered him, but was persuaded by his friend, Eli Wallach).

Despite the politically charged setting, the film was not intended as a political film: Sergio Leone himself said that the Mexican Revolution in the film is meant only as a symbol, not as a representation of the real one, and that it was chosen because of its fame and its relationship with cinema, and he contends that the real theme of the film is friendship:

"I chose to oppose an intellectual, who has experienced a revolution in Ireland, with a naïve Mexican... you have two men: one naïve and one intellectual (self-centred as intellectuals too often are in the face of the naïve). From there, the film becomes the story of Pygmalion reversed. The simple one teaches the intellectual a lesson. Nature gains an upper hand and finally the intellectual throws away his book of Bakunin's writings. You suspect damn well that this gesture is a symbolic reference to everything my generation has been told in the way of promises. We have waited, but we still are waiting! I have the film say, in effect "Revolution means confusion"".

struth

20-03-2022, 14:50

One of the great westerns now, Unforgiven, 1992. May well one day be 'THE WESTERN'

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When English Bob departs, cursing at the town, he speaks with a rough, lower-class cockney accent, confirming that Bob's refined, upper-crust persona was fake. In a 1992 interview Richard Harris revealed, "I read the script and I said to Clint Eastwood, 'You know, it would be great if I could play this man as a very sort of upper-class fake, and at the end of the picture--when he gets the hell beaten out of him--maybe all of that drops, and you see behind it all he's really sort of a low life'. And Clint said, 'Yes, great! Go for it!'."

According to Clint Eastwood in a 2000 interview, Gene Hackman was very concerned about how they were going to show the violence in the movie, concerned about rising gun violence in American cities. Eastwood assured Hackman that this movie wouldn't glorify gun violence.

Macca

20-03-2022, 15:38

When English Bob departs, cursing at the town, he speaks with a rough, lower-class cockney accent, confirming that Bob's refined, upper-crust persona was fake.

yeah that's a nice touch, lots of them in that film.

Barry

20-03-2022, 16:01

Swagger's wristwatch is a Suunto Vector, a digital watch made in Finland. Besides telling time, it also has an altimeter, barometer, and digital compass.

I wonder if Roy has one? :D

(BTW What is this obsession with providing details of the firearms used in the films you watch. Mind you, I have a similar obsession with any camera displayed in a film. ;) )

struth

20-03-2022, 16:15

I wonder if Roy has one? :D

(BTW What is this obsession with providing details of the firearms used in the films you watch. Mind you, I have a similar obsession with any camera displayed in a film. ;) )

Sorry, and i was going to add this..lol

The rifle Deputy Andy Russell (Jeremy Ratchford) carries to arrest English Bob (Richard Harris) is a Winchester '66 "Yellowboy" with the fore-stock removed, to resemble a first-model Henry.

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struth

20-03-2022, 19:14

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948. Director John Huston.

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In his Oscar acceptance speech, Walter Huston said, "Many, many years ago, I brought up a boy and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime'. Well, by cracky, that's what he did!"

Though the daily rushes impressed Warner Bros., Jack L. Warner, he nearly went berserk with the weekly expenditures. After viewing one scene, Warner threw up his hands and shouted to producer Henry Blanke, "Yeah, they're looking for gold all right - mine!" During another screening of rushes, Warner watched Dobbs stumble along in the desert for water. Warner jumped up in the middle of the scene and shouted to a gaggle of executives, "If that s.o.b. doesn't find water soon I'll go broke!" Warner had reason to be upset. John Huston and Blanke led him to believe that the film would be an easy picture to make and that they would be in and out of Mexico in a matter of weeks. Because Warner was notorious for not actually reading scripts, he assumed the film was a B-movie Western. As the full extent of Huston's plans became apparent, Warner nearly blew a gasket. He was especially unhappy with the way the film ended, arguing that audiences wouldn't accept it. Ironically, Warner was correct, since the initial box office take was as impressive as fool's gold. But the film was a huge critical success and, in its many re-releases, it more than earned its original investment of $3 million.

struth

21-03-2022, 15:28

gold fever for an already unstable dobbs ends up costing 100,000 in gold and his life.
quality film; bogart was superb as the nutjob, and walter huston got the part of his life, and an Oscar.. his son who directed and did screenplay got 2.

Gold Hat: "We are Federales ... you know, the mounted police."
Dobbs: "If you're the police, where are your badges?"
Gold Hat: "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"

struth

21-03-2022, 16:00

Psycho, 1960. Hitchcock directs.

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After this movie's release, Sir Alfred Hitchcock received an angry letter from the father of a girl who refused to have a bath after seeing Les Diaboliques (1955), and now refused to shower after seeing this movie. Hitchcock sent a note back simply saying, "Send her to the dry cleaners."

Walt Disney refused to allow Sir Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because Hitchcock had made "that disgusting movie, 'Psycho.'"

Paramount Pictures gave Sir Alfred Hitchcock a very small budget with which to work, because of their distaste with the source material. They also deferred most of the box-office take to Hitchcock, thinking the movie would fail. When it became a sleeper hit, Hitchcock made a fortune.

struth

21-03-2022, 17:54

The Day of the Triffids, 1962.

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The novel, published by Penguin Books, sold over a million copies by 1981. It's been translated into several languages. John Wyndham wrote the novel in 1951; by 1981 it had been reprinted 34 times.

Rumors have circulated for years that the odd gurgling noise made by the triffids was a sound effect achieved by smoking a "bong".

struth

22-03-2022, 10:11

The African Queen, 1951. Director John Huston. Humphrey Bogart won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in this movie, making him the last man born in the 19th century to ever win a leading role Oscar.

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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."

While filming the "leeching" scene, Humphrey Bogart insisted on using rubber leeches. John Huston refused, and brought a leech-breeder to the London studio with a tank full of them. It made Bogart queasy and nervous, qualities Huston wanted for his close-ups. Ultimately, rubber leeches were placed on Bogart, and a close-up of a real leech was shot on the breeder's chest.

"The African Queen" sank and had to be raised twice during filming of the movie. Lauren Bacall is quoted as saying, "The natives had been told to watch it and they did. They watched it sink."

struth

22-03-2022, 11:57

Mister Corbett's Ghost, 1987. Director Danny Huston.(son of John, who is also in this, his last role) Leon Garfield's Dickensian novella, set in 1767 in a small English town on New Year's Eve, the work starring bewigged Paul Scofield, who certainly looks the part here of a cold-hearted master.

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Only lasts an Hr, but is very well done..

struth

22-03-2022, 12:54

Tremors, 1990. Directed by Ron Underwood.

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Prior to the film's release, Bacon felt that the film was a career low: "I broke down and fell to the sidewalk, screaming to my pregnant wife, 'I can't believe I'm doing a movie about underground worms!'"
Kevin Bacon later called the filming of Tremors to be "the single most fun time I've ever had making a movie in my entire career".

Ron Underwood said that he was uninterested when Reba McEntire asked to audition for the film, saying he had grown tired of seeing celebrities trying to become actors even if they cannot act, and that it was "gimmicky" casting. However, after begrudgingly letting her audition, he was blown away by her performance and realized she was a great natural actress, immediately knowing she was perfect for Heather Gummer.

and just for barry ;) ....Burt's elephant gun, an 8-gauge Darne Shotgun, was rented from a private collector for uses in the film. It fired dummy cartridges custom-made from solid brass rod stock.

struth

23-03-2022, 14:06

Jack the Ripper, 1988. Michael Caine stars...

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After Mary Jane Kelly's murder, there is a scene where Abberline hands Gull a photo of her body. That photo is an actual crime scene photo of the real Mary Jane Kelly.

Hugh Fraser wore clothes that his character Sir Charles Warren had actually worn.

Sir Michael Caine was persuaded to return to television for the first time in nearly twenty years because of David Wickes's powerful script. Caine later described Wickes as "the nicest, fastest director I've worked for, and the master of filming Victorian London."

struth

23-03-2022, 17:09

A bit of classic noir now with one of my favs... Key Largo, 1948. "When your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses."

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Although they played on-screen enemies, off-screen Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson treated each other with great respect. Bogart insisted Robinson be treated like a major star, and he would not come to the set until Robinson was ready. Often, he would go to Robinson's trailer to personally escort him to the set.

In the five films Robinson and Bogart appeared in together Robinson killed Bogart once, Bogart killed Robinson once, and they killed each other twice.

The scene with Claire Trevor drunkenly singing "Moanin' Low" was inspired by a true-life event from World War II. When Humphrey Bogart was entertaining U.S. troops stationed in Italy, his wife at the time, actress Mayo Methot, insisted on doing an impromptu song number, though quite visibly intoxicated and despite being cautioned. Stammering over forgotten lyrics and singing steadily off-key, she gave a winged performance that was a memorable embarrassment.

struth

24-03-2022, 11:57

Star Trek: Time Travel Fan Collective, 2006(i think)

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Quite a good collection of time travel episodes across the francise.

ep 1 is Tomorrow is Yesterday. The Enterprise is hurled back in time to the year 1969, where the US Air Force sights it as a UFO. The crew must find a way to erase evidence of their visit before trying to get back to their future home.

struth

25-03-2022, 09:44

Here Comes Mr Jordan, 1941. Director Alexander Hall. The Criterion Bluray.

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Columbia chief Harry Cohn had serious misgivings about this adaptation of Harry Segall's minor stage play. He preferred to reserve his more lavish budgets for surefire successes (i.e., anything featuring the studio's biggest star, Rita Hayworth). However, Sidney Buchman was eventually able to talk Cohn into forking out for costly celestial sets and Farnsworth's elaborate mansion and also into hiring Robert Montgomery on loan-out from MGM. Buchman was also able to convince Cohn that he had a better appreciation of what the public would pay to see than the Wall Street bankers who Cohn answered to.

James Gleason was mainly brought on board to polish the dialogue. Gleason had a knack for authentic sounding vernacular language but also happened to be a great actor. He 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).

struth

25-03-2022, 11:31

Double Indemnity, 1944. Directed by Billy Wilder.

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The movie was based on the novel by James M. Cain, which in turn was based on the true story of Ruth Snyder, the subject of a notorious 1920s murder trial.
Author James M. Cain later admitted that if he had come up with some of the solutions to the plot that screenwriters Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler did, he would have employed them in his original novel.

Due to strict wartime food rationing, policemen were stationed in the store where a scene with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck was filmed, to make sure nobody on the film crew was tempted to take away any of the food. "Paramount" released publicity stills showing four policemen in the store with MacMurray and Stanwyck.

Raymond Chandler was kept on a writer's retainer during the film's eight-week shooting period. This was a highly unusual occurrence for any writer at any studio at the time, signifying the high regard that Chandler was held in by Paramount and Billy Wilder. Raymond Chandler hated the experience of writing the script with Billy Wilder so much that he actually walked out and would not return unless a list of demands was met. The studio acceded to his demands and he returned to finish the script with Wilder, even though the two detested each other.

The blonde wig that Barbara Stanwyck is wearing throughout the movie was the idea of Billy Wilder. A month into shooting Wilder suddenly realized how bad it looked, but by then it was too late to re-shoot the earlier scenes. To rationalize this mistake, in later interviews Wilder claimed that the bad-looking wig was intentional. On viewing the film's rushes, production head Buddy G. DeSylva remarked of Barbara Stanwyck's blonde wig, "We hired Barbara Stanwyck, and here we get George Washington".

struth

25-03-2022, 14:10

More Noir now with The Blue Dahlia, 1946. Director George Marshall.

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Just after the fight scene between Alan Ladd and the two thugs who kidnapped him, one of the thugs is seen soaking his broken leg in a round tub. That wasn't in the script; the actor had actually broken his leg filming the fight and, without consulting screenwriter Raymond Chandler, director George Marshall rewrote the script to have the character break his leg as well.

The pressure of having to finish the screenplay combined with the curve ball of having to write an entirely new ending was too much for Raymond Chandler. He quickly came down with a severe case of writer's block. According to a near-legendary story, screenwriter Raymond Chandler offered to finish the screenplay by working drunk: in exchange for sacrificing his health to produce the requisite pages on time, Chandler was permitted to work at home (a privilege rarely granted to screenwriters) and was provided two chauffeured cars, one to convey the completed pages to the studio and the other for his wife. Chandler turned the script in on time. Many now believe the "drunkenness" was simply a ruse by Chandler to wrangle extraordinary privileges from the desperate studio.

Elizabeth Short got the nickname "The Black Dahlia" from a bartender at a Long Beach bar she frequented. This film was playing at a theater down the street, and the bartender got the name wrong. Elizabeth picked up on that and kept the nickname, adding a flower to her hair to complete the transformation. She was murdered the next year (1947). The local newspapers dubbed the case the "Black Dahlia" as a morbid twist on this film's title. Unlike the movie, the Short murder case is still unsolved. Short's unsolved murder and the details surrounding it have had a lasting cultural intrigue, generating various theories and public speculation. Her life and death have been the basis of numerous books and films, and her murder is frequently cited as one of the most famous unsolved murders in American history, as well as one of the oldest unsolved cases in Los Angeles County. It has likewise been credited by historians as one of the first major crimes in post–World War II America to capture national attention.

struth

25-03-2022, 16:01

The 6th Day, 2000. Arnie stars...

not the greatest script to be fair but its fun enough.

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The Sim-Pal slogan is "A Sim-Pal that's fun to be with!", a derivation from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series by Douglas Adams. There, the corporation that created robots with "Genuine People Personalities", had the slogan "Your plastic pal that's fun to be with!"

Set in 2015, but released in 2000, the only accurate future technologies predicted (excluding cloning) were flatscreen televisions, interactive computerized refrigerators, self-driving vehicles (though as of 2018, they're still in the prototype phase), and aerial drones (though as of 2021 drones this size are exclusively used by the military). The movie also accurately predicted automated phone systems to be annoying, frustrating, and functionally useless.

Gazjam

26-03-2022, 10:57

Taking a plunge over the weekend to watch some old B-Movie Classics stored on the Internet Archive Site "The Wayback Machine" Archive.org.

https://archive.org/details/SciFi_Horror

Been curious about Manos: The Hands of Fate?
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worst movie ever made apparently, mighty IMDB score of 1.9/10:eek:
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(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060666/)
"Last Man on Earth" is on there as well, never seen that one before.

Its a great "Library of free stuff" website Btw,
https://archive.org/

could get lost for days in it.

struth

26-03-2022, 11:24

struth

26-03-2022, 11:46

Red 2, 2013.

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struth

26-03-2022, 13:21

stay with the colour and... High Plains Drifter, 1973. Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.

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Shortly after this movie's release, Clint Eastwood wrote to John Wayne, suggesting that they make a western together. Wayne sent back an angry letter in reply, in which he denounced this movie for its violence and revisionist portrayal of the Old West. Eastwood did not bother to answer his criticisms, and consequently they did not work together.

The town of Lago was built 300 miles away from Hollywood. A 46-man crew of technicians and ten laborers worked ten hours a day for eighteen days constructing fourteen houses and a two-story hotel. They were burned down at this movie's completion.

Headstones bear the names of Sergio Leone(Dollars), Don Siegel (Clint Eastwood's director on five movies, four of which preceded this one) and Brian G. Hutton (director of Where Eagles Dare (1968) and Kelly's Heroes (1970)). Patrick McGilligan's 2002 Clint Eastwood biography quotes the star as saying, "I buried my directors."

Oh and Clint carries a Colt Single Action Army 7 1/2" Cavalry - .45 Long Colt. Most of the others use Colt Single Action Army 5 1/2" Artillery - .45 Long Colt models... Exception is Mordecai, who buys a gun like Clint;)

struth

26-03-2022, 15:40

Another Eastwood director/Actor film nowThe Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976.

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According to legend, this movie was based on the life of Thomas Atticus Hawkins, a Missouri farmer from Maries County. Others say it was Bill Wilson, which im inclined to go with as Wales is called Mr Wilson at one point.

The real Josey Wales was a Confederate guerilla fighter, a “bushwacker,” an associate of the bloody Quantrill Raiders, horse rustler, deadly shot, and killer of many. He was born William “Bill” Wilson in the Ozarks in Missouri of a well-to-do family. He grew into a very tall, dark and handsome man—6’2”, with jet black curly hair and sparkling crystal blue eyes. He was an amiable fellow, good-natured, clever, and skilled at playing the violin, so he was always in demand for weddings and parties. Bill’s prosperous farmer father had made pains to remain neutral in the violently split border state of Missouri. He had owned several slaves but freed them before the War and advised his grown children remain as neutral as possible. But, in the summer of 1861, just after the War had started, some horses were stolen from the Union government in the area by a Confederate guerilla gang. Bill Wilson was immediately regarded as a suspect. A few days later, a group of Union solders raided his home, threw out his family, stole everything they could and set the entire homestead on fire. That was the end of Bill’s “neutrality.”
He moved his family to a small cabin on his parents’ farm and began a campaign of blood vengeance that would become legend in the Ozark Mountains, then the entire country.

Because of Chief Dan George's age, he would have trouble remembering his lines, so during takes, Clint Eastwood would begin to mouth his lines without realizing it and had to be told to stop because it would ruin the take. In a featurette on the DVD about making this movie, Eastwood says he'd have people drill Dan George on his lines, but when it came time to shoot the scene, he'd say "Chief, just forget about the lines, tell me the story about the man who rode over the hill." And Dan George, who was apparently a natural storyteller, would then tell the story perfectly.

According to famed music producer David Geffen, Clint Eastwood's tough reputation is well-deserved. When Geffen was a young executive at Warner Brothers, one of his assignments was to give notes on a screening of this movie. All of the other Warner Brothers executives were unanimous in their praise for this movie. Geffen liked this movie, but told Eastwood that perhaps this movie could be shortened by a half-hour. Eastwood calmly told Geffen that if he (Geffen) wanted the picture shortened by that much time, then he could do it himself. Geffen then asked Eastwood where he would be . . . to which Eastwood replied: "I'll be across the street at Paramount cutting a new deal." Geffen was never asked to sit in on any other Eastwood movie after that encounter.

guns wise ... Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) carries a Sharps 1865 rifle fitted with a full length J. Stevens brass tube target scope, which he uses to shoot the ferry rope in two, leaving the pursuing Redlegs stranded in the water. He later uses it to tie a white flag to when approaching the Commancheros before using it to shoot one of them off their horse.

Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) carries two Colt Walker 1847 revolvers in twin holsters as his primary sidearms, although he carries four pistols in total. While not supposed to be known by the audience, the guns are converted to fire metallic cartridges instead of firing percussion cap and ball, since this it is safer to use blanks than firing blackpowder blank shot. While some of the guns are anachronistically seen with conventional metallic conversion kits with ejector rods and loading gates, these guns lack these features to try to hide its conversion. In some scenes though, the guns are non-firing models which do have percussion nipples so the audience can be tricked into thinking the guns are a percussion only. The famous image in which Wales poses with his Colt Walkers is a good example.

struth

26-03-2022, 18:25

The Secret of My Success, 1987.

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This film was inspired by the early Hollywood experiences of Steven Spielberg, who snuck onto the Universal Studios lot at a young age and began using an empty office as his own production office. The character of Brantley Foster does the same thing in this movie.

Night Ranger performed the title song to this film. Expecting the song to not only be used in the film, but also the trailer. However, when the trailer was released, instead of the title song by Night Ranger, Walking On Sunshine but Katrina and the Waves was used.

struth

27-03-2022, 08:31

First Men in the Moon, 1964.

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In the book, the large monster which the Selenites hunt is called a Mooncalf. This is an old English term for idiot, since it was believed that being out under a full moon could cause madness (think also "lunatic"), but is also a clever pun on H.G. Wells' part, as the Selenites also hunt this beast like cattle, the young of which is called a calf.

The Russian spoken by the astronauts at the film's beginning is in fact Czech.

a faux pax was Professor Cavor calls out "SOS" when he becomes stuck between the rocks on the moon's surface; however, SOS did not come into use until 1905, six years later. maybe he invented it;)

struth

27-03-2022, 10:21

A few years on, and.... Quatermass and the Pit, 1967.

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In the London Underground, there are quite a few posters from other Hammer projects such as The Reptile (1966), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), and The Witches (1966), as well as My Fair Lady (1964) and Hotel (1967), on the station walls. An old, partially-ripped poster for Sex and the Single Girl (1964) can be seen on the wall opposite the entrance to Hobbs End station.

A Sony CV-2000B Videocorder - a very early and primitive form of videotape recorder - is on display during the sequences in which the Martian race memory is both recorded and later played back to the skeptical military.

The original BBC serials were not shown on American television. As a result "Quatermass" was unknown to potential U.S. audiences. As was done with the previous two movie adaptations, the title was changed. Twentieth Century Fox released this in the United States as "Five Million Years to Earth" (1967).

struth

27-03-2022, 12:38

Back to ww2 time and Sullivan's Travels, 1941. Director, Preston Sturges.

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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

27-03-2022, 14:07

Back to sixties si-fi and The Mouse on the Moon, 1963.

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Director Richard Lester's first movie for United Artists.

Although other characters from The Mouse That Roared (1959) appeared (Prime Minister Rupert Mountjoy and his opposition leader Benter) David Kossoff (Kokintz) was the only principal cast member of The Mouse That Roared (1959) who returned to play the same role in this movie.

struth

27-03-2022, 15:35

partial si-fi i suppose(or is it?);)... Capricorn One, 1977. For all the moon landing nay sayers lol

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Despite being portrayed as a villain, NASA provided technical assistance, including mock-up spacecraft, sets, vehicles, front screen projection expertise.

One of the stunt pilots, Frank Tallman, who flew the red stearman plane, claimed this film was the most dangerous film he'd ever flown for. He was killed in a crash soon after filming finished.

During his interview in the 2016 ESPN documentary O.J.: Made in America, Capricorn One director Peter Hyams admitted that the studio had given him a mandate to cast O.J. Simpson as John Walker. Hyams said, "I thought there were worthy African American actors who had paid their dues as actors, who had shown their talent. My first choice was either Robert Hooks or Bernie Casey, so my reaction was less than enthusiastic. I had seen The Towering Inferno (1974). I thought [Simpson's acting ability] was not going to frighten Daniel Day-Lewis. O. J. was a celebrity of enormous stature, and somebody who had not shown the chops to play the part. My goal was to see if I could make this guy work for what I wanted. It came time to do his last scene. He's a guy who's parched and delusional. So rather than him acting somebody who was desperately thirsty, I put appliances on his face that made it difficult for him to move and difficult to talk, and it just made him sound like he was in desperate trouble. And he was pretty good. You know, what can I say? He was a charming, terrific guy, he was a positive guy, he tried very hard, and it was clear that he saw a future for himself in film."

Writer-director Peter Hyams once said of audience reaction to this movie: "Audiences just stood up and cheered at one point in the film. It wasn't because it was such a great movie, it's just that certain movies strike certain chords with people. In a successful movie, the audience, almost before they see it, know they're going to like it. I remember standing in the back of the theater and crying because I knew that something had changed in my life. Sitting on the film cans outside the screening room, I felt my cheeks were wet with tears. A bright man, David Picker [studio executive David V. Picker] came over to me and said, 'You're going to have a lot of new best friends tomorrow. You better know how to handle it'."

struth

27-03-2022, 17:33

still a good film even if it had more holes in it than a crochet blanket:D... so many infact it might take all day to mention so i wont.lol

now, The Password Is Courage, 1962.

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"Hogan's Heroes" (1965) shared many similarities to this movie. The regular characters in "Hogan's Heroes" (1965) are characters straight out of this movie, and many of the antics in the series are things that happen in the movie. However, there is no mention of Mr. Coward's autobiography or of this movie in any of the "Hogan's Heroes" (1965) credits.

Colin Blakely has a small, but funny, part as what was surely the model for the Sergeant Schultz character on "Hogan's Heroes" (1965) (In fact anyone who grew up watching television in the 1960s knew of "Hogan's Heroes" (1965), and almost certainly knew of the hapless Sergeant Schultz and his key phrase, "I know noth-thing, I know NOTH-THING!''). Americans know Colin from such classics as "A Man for All Seasons" (1966), Dr. Watson in "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (1970), "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974), and "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" (1976). He played in many more movies and television series, but just as his career seemed to growing even stronger, he died on May 7, 1987 of leukemia.

In both this and "The Great Escape", the tunnel comes up short of the trees.

struth

27-03-2022, 18:07

Based on the book by John Castle(real name, Sergeant-Major Charles Coward) . Charles Joseph Coward (30 January 1905 – 1976), known as the "Count of Auschwitz", was a British soldier captured during the Second World War who rescued Jews from Auschwitz and claimed he had smuggled himself into the camp for one night, subsequently testifying about his experience at the IG Farben Trial at Nuremberg. He also smuggled at least several hundred Jewish prisoners out of concentration camps.

Coward joined the Army in June 1924 and was captured in May 1940 near Calais while serving with the 8th Reserve Regimental Royal Artillery as BQMS, Battery Quartermaster Sergeant. He managed to make two escape attempts before even reaching a prisoner of war camp, then made seven further escapes; on one memorable occasion managing to be awarded the Iron Cross while posing as a wounded soldier in a German Army field hospital. When in captivity he was equally troublesome to his captors, arranging several acts of sabotage while out on work details.

After the war Coward testified at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, describing the conditions inside the Monowitz camp, the treatment of Allied POWs and Jewish prisoners and the locations of the gas chambers. In 1953, Coward also appeared as a witness in the "Wollheim Suit", when former slave labourer Norbert Wollheim sued IG Farben for his salary and compensation for damages.

struth

28-03-2022, 09:38

King of Thieves, 2018.

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Ray Winstone (Danny Jones) went to school with the real Danny Jones.

In the flashback scene of the villains' previous motors, clips are used from 1970s cop show, The Sweeney and the 1967 Stanley Baker movie, Robbery. There is also a brief shot of a blue Hillman Hunter estate, the same actual car also appeared as both a background vehicle and a police car in the tv series, Life on Mars.

struth

28-03-2022, 11:18

Silver Streak, 1976. Director Arthur Hiller.

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Originally meant to be filmed in the United States. However, the National Rail Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) was fearful of adverse publicity, and refused to cooperate. As a result, the producers were forced to work with the Canadian Pacific Railway, using thinly disguised CPRail equipment and shooting exteriors along the CP Rail right-of-way.

When meeting Gene Wilder after having seen Silver Streak (1976), Cary Grant asked him if the script had been in any way inspired by North by Northwest (1959). As Wilder admitted it was correct, Grant then added, "I knew it! Have you noticed that each time you take ordinary people, say, like you and me, then take them in a situation way above their heads, it makes a great thriller?"

The twin open cockpit vintage plane was a de Havilland Tiger Moth model DH 82-C, registration N523R, which had been built in 1950. Its serial number was 1481, and its scenes were filmed in the Mojave Desert in California. Publicity for the film stated that the plane was owned by Cliff Robertson. The plane was painted with water soluble silver paint to camouflage its original colors, which were white with orange on a strip down the sides, and also on its leading edges. The plane was substantially damaged in a forced landing near Fontana, California on 23 June 2012, and it's registration was allowed to expire in 2018.

struth

28-03-2022, 14:49

The Enforcer, 1951. Director Bretaigne Windust fell seriously ill part way through and Raoul Walsh came in at Bogart's request and did the rest(most of it tbh) but wouldn't take any credit.

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The death of the "Joe Rico" character in a fall from a building parallels the real-life death (in 1941) of Abe Reles (aka "Kid Twist"), an underworld killer whose arrest the previous year led authorities first to discover the existence of the organization popularly dubbed "Murder Inc." in the newspapers. Reles, in order to avoid execution in the electric chair, agreed to testify against the organization after submitting to a police interrogation about it, which famously took a full two weeks to complete, so exhaustive were his recollections. However, he never appeared on the stand, dying --after falling or being pushed out of a window in the hotel where he was staying---the day before he was due to appear. The film depicts Rico's death as a tragic accident, but it is more than likely that Reles' death was murder--one which, furthermore, almost certainly had the collusion of corrupt police officers, although this was never proved.

The film was released in Great Britain under the title "Murder, Inc.", although it has reverted to its proper title on British television. Although the plot is clearly suggested by the true-life story of the notorious underworld organization dedicated to murdering people for profit, with the killers having no overt connection to the victims, popularly called "Murder Incorporated" in the press, this phrase is never actually used in the film itself.

struth

28-03-2022, 16:48

Another Bogey film(maybe his best) To Have And Have Not, 1944.

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At the funeral for her husband, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall put a whistle in his coffin. It was a reference to the famous line in the film where she says to him: "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow."

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall fell in love during production. Director Howard Hawks afterward said that it was actually Bacall's character Marie (Slim) that Bogart had fallen for, "so she had to keep playing it the rest of her life." However, it has also been said that Hawks---who was a notorious womanizer and who had a fling with Dolores Moran during the shooting of the film--was jealous and frustrated that Bacall had fallen for Bogart and not for Hawks himself. He even threatened to sell her contract to Monogram, a lowly Poverty Row studio.

Pigmy Pony

28-03-2022, 17:39

In the flashback scene of the villains' previous motors, clips are used from 1970s cop show, The Sweeney and the 1967 Stanley Baker movie, Robbery. There is also a brief shot of a blue Hillman Hunter estate, the same actual car also appeared as both a background vehicle and a police car in the tv series, Life on Mars.

Did they have a white Jag going over a cliff at any point? A lot of 60s/70s British stuff used that same car.

struth

28-03-2022, 18:00

Did they have a white Jag going over a cliff at any point? A lot of 60s/70s British stuff used that same car.

never noticed it steve.. quite a decent film tho

struth

28-03-2022, 18:52

The Ghosts of Berkeley Square

1947.
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struth

29-03-2022, 13:42

earlier from 1974,.. Callan https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Laie9YxaL._AC_SY445_.jpg

and now

Get Carter, 1971.

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In the first shot in the long bar, the second local man to stare at Jack Carter actually has five fingers and a thumb. This was a genuine abnormality of the "extra" who played the part. It can be seen as he raises his glass of beer to drink.

Following this movie's release, barmen in Newcastle got sick of being asked for drinks "In a thin glass!"

struth

29-03-2022, 15:19

The Scalphunters, 1968. Director Sydney Pollack.

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Burt Lancaster had met Ossie Davis on the historic, Martin Luther King "Civil Rights March on Washington" on Aug. 28, 1963. This chance meeting, led to the talented Davis, being cast as "Joseph Winfield Lee" the runaway slave, who uses his clever, resourceful ways to manipulate fur trapper, "Joe Bass", Lancaster, in the film. Lancaster also stated, that first time screenwriter, William W. Norton submitted such a unique, clever script, that he just had to do the film.

In his review for the film a critic remarked that Burt Lancaster's performances had not varied much over the years, unlike his hairstyles.

struth

30-03-2022, 15:47

Oldie war effort from USA.. Airforce, 1943. Director was Howard Hawks. It also won an Oscar.

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Because of the constant noise in the planes air crews wore "throat mics." These had two pickups that sat against the larynx (vocal cords) and picked the sound up directly from them. You will notice that whenever a crew member speaks he puts his hand up against the mic and presses it against his throat. This helped ensure good sound pickup.

Early in the film, an analyst is shown using a period-era teletype machine and a Hollerith punched card typewriter. This was very high-tech stuff for the time. Such devices became standard equipment on early digital computers, which were under development as this film was being produced in 1943. The punched card deck in particular became an essential component of so-called batch processing of large amounts of data, and for making hard copy of computer programs that could be rapidly (for the era) loaded into another computer.

The U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft that appeared in the film were:

Ten Boeing B-17B/C/D Flying Fortresses from Hendricks Field, Sebring, Florida.
North American AT-6 Texans (as Japanese fighters) and Bell P-39 Airacobras, Curtiss P-40Cs and Republic P-43A Lancers from Drew Field.
Six Martin B-26C Marauders from MacDill Field, Tampa, Florida, as the Japanese bombers.

walpurgis

30-03-2022, 20:26

Well, It looks like 'Farscape' is back on the box. Monday 6.00pm on Horror Channel.

Looking forward to that, it was the best Sci-Fi series ever! Scorpius was the best baddie ever and Chiana (Gigi Edgley) was gorgeous.

I see many folk feel the same judging by user reviews on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187636/reviews?ref_=tt_urv

Macca

31-03-2022, 06:41

might give that a watch, people were always recommending it to me.

Pigmy Pony

31-03-2022, 07:31

The Avengers, "The Superlative Seven" (1967). Charlotte Rampling looking good in her cowboy outfit. But Emma Peel's fight scenes are the main draw, always make me smile.

Macca

31-03-2022, 07:46

The Avengers, "The Superlative Seven" (1967). Charlotte Rampling looking good in her cowboy outfit. But Emma Peel's fight scenes are the main draw, always make me smile.

could never decide between Emma Peel and Tara King.

Pigmy Pony

31-03-2022, 08:06

Emma Peel for me, but you were born ten years later than me, so Tara probably more of your time. But really, either would do, I'm not fussy.

Pigmy Pony

31-03-2022, 08:08

Emma Peel for me, but you were born ten years later than me, so Tara probably more of your time. But really, either would do, I'm not fussy.

ITV4 has it going on this morning - Avengers, Professionals, and now Minder. Shame I'm having to play records, but I have the room to myself, so making the most of it.

Macca

31-03-2022, 08:46

Emma Peel for me, but you were born ten years later than me, so Tara probably more of your time. But really, either would do, I'm not fussy.

No I was only one year old when the Tara King episodes were shown, I didn't see them until they were repeated in the 1980s.

It's her eyes that do it for me.

ITV4 has all the proper telly these days, and to a lesser extent Forces TV. Although Horror channel is showing The Prisoner at the moment (edit: and proper Star Trek).

struth

31-03-2022, 08:49

diana rigg was my no 1 over ms thorston

Macca

31-03-2022, 08:51

It's that hooded thing with her eyes, I'm a sucker for that, and for overbites:

https://i.ibb.co/qYM7RCt/tara-king-the-avengers.jpg (https://ibb.co/whNBK79)

walpurgis

31-03-2022, 08:56

She aged badly, was a complete mess last time I saw her in anything.

struth

31-03-2022, 09:05

She aged badly, was a complete mess last time I saw her in anything.

dont think either did particularly well, but linda thorston aged better than diana rigg i think. Lumley did well for while too although Julie Andrews and helen mirren both aged with style

Pigmy Pony

31-03-2022, 09:05

How about this for an overbite?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Marge_Simpson.png

I'm a fan of 'dodgy eyes' too, but I like it when she looks at you with one eye, while the other eye is looking at something behind you. It may take a while to find a well-known example.

Macca

31-03-2022, 09:09

dont think either did particularly well, but linda thorston aged better than diana rigg i think. Lumley did well for while too although Julie Andrews and helen mirren both aged with style

never fancied Julie Andrews.

walpurgis

31-03-2022, 09:11

dont think either did particularly well, but linda thorston aged better than diana rigg i think.

It was the booze got them, like Kathleen Turner and Sylvia Syms, did them no good at all.

walpurgis

31-03-2022, 09:13

never fancied Julie Andrews.

At least she flashed her tits! :lol:

struth

31-03-2022, 09:13

never fancied Julie Andrews.

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Macca

31-03-2022, 09:27

At least she flashed her tits! :lol:

so did Diane Keene but never fancied her either. Linda Bellingham on the other hand...

Pigmy Pony

31-03-2022, 09:30

One with dodgy peepers

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Another

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struth

31-03-2022, 09:33

the last one deffo.. she didnt notice she hadn't buttoned her shirt ffs:doh: dont see anything wrong with no 2

struth

31-03-2022, 10:09

Classic today.. Guns At Batasi, 1964. A tour de force from Sir Richard Attenborough as Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale.

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Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Sir Richard Attenborough) demands that a royal portrait of the Queen of England was hung behind the bar of the mess.

The personal weapon used by the British is the Sterling sub machine gun which replaced the Sten in the British Army in 1953. This weapon is held with the left hand on the barrel and never the magazine or housing. Holding the magazine is a throwback to its predecessor, the Sten. The experienced senior members of the Mess are holding it incorrectly whilst the most inexperienced among them (Private Wilkes) holds it correctly and naturally.
and, At regimental dinners in the Sgts Mess, the Loyal Toast is always proposed by Mr Vice, the junior member of the mess, and not by the RSM.

Macca

31-03-2022, 10:57

I fired a Sten and you really can't do it whilst holding the magazine, at least not if you want to hit what you're aiming at. Only in the movies.

struth

31-03-2022, 11:27

I fired a Sten and you really can't do it whilst holding the magazine, at least not if you want to hit what you're aiming at. Only in the movies.

yeah a sten should be held by the shroud, unless your firing from hip at close range. the mag was pretty strong so it wouldnt damage it if careful. not advised for regular tho or it'll jam eventually

Macca

31-03-2022, 11:48

I'm told they often jam if you try firing them on full automatic, didn't try that though as the ammo is too expensive!

struth

31-03-2022, 11:54

sten was a shitty stick quite frankly.. every other army had better, the thompson(tommygun)was very good, but like sten you shoot just a short 3 4 bullet blast at time or it became inaccurate. The Ruskie papasha was probably the best and cheapest. The Owen from Australia was most reliable even covered in shite it worked everytime. it was even cheaper lol

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/W-Ordnance-4-4C-Feb16.jpg Owen.

struth

31-03-2022, 12:22

after saying that the sten was a handy gun. it was small, and great for using when on your belly. soe liked them.

walpurgis

31-03-2022, 12:25

after saying that the sten was a handy gun. it was small, and great for using when on your belly. soe liked them.

My dad used one in WW2. He said they could fire a burst if banged or dropped. Not sure if that was right.

struth

31-03-2022, 12:31

My dad used one in WW2. He said they could fire a burst if banged or dropped. Not sure if that was right.

yup they could indeed and did regularly lol. They could empty themselves and move around as it happened spraying you and yours with bullets...It was quite dangerous weapon for wrong reasons at times.

Macca

31-03-2022, 12:43

Swedish K - pick of the bunch:

https://i.ibb.co/LkMmsYx/Swedish-K45-SMG-5555.jpg (https://ibb.co/6n2zqrH)

of course any of these weapons are ideal for home defence.

struth

31-03-2022, 12:46

Swedish K - pick of the bunch:

https://i.ibb.co/LkMmsYx/Swedish-K45-SMG-5555.jpg (https://ibb.co/6n2zqrH)

of course any of these weapons are ideal for home defence.

american special forces used to use these

Macca

31-03-2022, 13:00

yes Vietnam era, I think because you could fit a silencer and pad the bolt so it didn't make much noise.

struth

31-03-2022, 13:29

The Sons of Katie Elder, 1965. Director was Henry Hathaway.

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This movie marked the return of John Wayne to work after having a cancerous lung and two ribs removed just four months earlier. He insisted on doing some of his own stunts to show the public that the illness hadn't slowed him down. Dean Martin later said of John Wayne, "Someone else would have laid around, feeling sorry for himself, for a year. But Duke, he just doesn't know how to be sick. He's recuperating the hard way. He's two loud speaking guys in one. Me, when people see me, they sometimes say, 'Oh, there goes Perry Como.' But there's only one John Wayne, and nobody makes any mistakes about that".

The gun battle was loosely based on the real-life story of the five Marlow brothers. These were five brothers whose parents had established a homestead in Oklahoma territory, The father was a doctor and the sons raised horses that they sold to the army. Four of the brothers were falsely accused of horse theft, were arrested and brought to Graham, Texas. The remaining brother arrived in hope of proving their innocence, but he was arrested too. After several attempts by a mob to lynch them, they were chained together and were being transported to Weatherford, Texas for trial. At Dry Creek, at the edge of the town of Graham, the mob attacked them. The brothers took the deputies' guns and a battle ensued, much as was portrayed in this film. Two of the brothers were killed. The others escaped. One was later poisoned and then shot in an attempt to make it seem he was shot avoiding capture. The killer was himself charged with murder. In 1891, during the trial of members of the mob, the judge had high praise for the Marlows for their courage and boldness, saying that it would be remembered in story and song. The remaining two brothers moved to Colorado and became well-respected lawmen.

struth

31-03-2022, 13:44

yes Vietnam era, I think because you could fit a silencer and pad the bolt so it didn't make much noise.

yup, and not being from a warring nation it was deniable to being americans, as a lot of times it was used in laos etc. it was also great around water etc.

not us mister. must have been those pesky swedes:D

struth

31-03-2022, 14:11

actually think the swedes put an arms embargo on the usa due to it and their being in se asia. Smith and Wesson started making a version of their own im sure.

edit.. yes, it was called the m76.

walpurgis

31-03-2022, 14:46

The Sons of Katie Elder, 1965. Director was Henry Hathaway

I always thought that film was a touch corny, but really liked it anyway! :) .......... It's in my DVD collection.

struth

31-03-2022, 15:41

I always thought that film was a touch corny, but really liked it anyway! :) .......... It's in my DVD collection.

its not bad, but i'd agree it has some cheese:lol:

Now, Salazar's Revenge, 2017.

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It was shot exclusively in Queensland, Australia.

The sharks were also given broken spines and fins which allowed animators to have the sharks perform erratic, jagged, and inelegant movements. "We wanted them to swim as if they were zombie sharks", adds visual effects supervisor Patrick Ledda. At one point, the sharks take on a rowboat holding Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites), biting at the craft and jumping out of the water, a task made more difficult by the fact that Depp and Thwaites were shot practically on a stage.

struth

01-04-2022, 09:18

Rogue Male, 1976. tv movie by bbc. stars peter o'toole.

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will pit this against Man Hunt(1941), starring Walter Pidgeon and George Sanders later as its same story but given the Hollywood treatment.

struth

01-04-2022, 11:20

Manhunt, 1941. Walter Pidgeon stars..

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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

01-04-2022, 13:57

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.

Emilia Clarke described working with Arnold Schwarzenegger as "definitely quite surreal. Everything you know about him on screen he brings in real life as well". She grew up on his films and idolized him and couldn't believe she was working with him. Clarke first met Schwarzenegger at the read-through and inwardly started geeking out. When she first heard him say "I'll be back" it was a major moment.

struth

01-04-2022, 15:25

Avanti!, 1972.

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Carlo Carlucci: In Italy, the lunch hour is from one to four.

Wendell Armbruster: *Three hours* for lunch?

Carlo Carlucci: Mr. Armbruster. Here we do not rush to drugstore for chicken sandwich & Coca-Cola. Here, we take our time. We cook our pasta, we sprinkle our Parmigiano, we drink our wine, we make our love...

Wendell Armbruster: What do you do in the evening?

Carlo Carlucci: In the evening, we go home to our wives.

struth

02-04-2022, 09:35

The mini series, Porterhouse Blue, 1987.

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Some of the more irreverent scenes, such as the one where Skullion races around the college quad bursting the gas-filled condoms that Zipser has released, were filmed at a mansion near Peterborough because none of the Cambridge colleges would allow them to be filmed there due to allegations of tarnishing the reputation of the university.

The title song "Dives in Omnia" ("There's Money in Everything") was sung by a-cappella group "The Flying Pickets"

struth

02-04-2022, 12:51

More comedy now with Jeeves and Wooster series 1. 1990(I think)

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The theme called "Jeeves and Wooster" is an original piece of music in the jazz/swing style written by composer Anne Dudley for the program. Dudley uses variations of the theme as a basis for all scores and was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for her work on the third series.
For this TV rendition, the character of Wooster was deliberately given quite a talent for music (of which the character in the books possesses precious little), in order to capitalize on Hugh Laurie's own musical talents.

struth

02-04-2022, 14:36

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, 2011.

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Barry

02-04-2022, 14:40

More comedy now with Jeeves and Wooster series 1. 1990(I think)

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I have the complete set of the series. Good at the start, but fell off IMO when they became stranded in America.

struth

02-04-2022, 15:34

I have the complete set of the series. Good at the start, but fell off IMO when they became stranded in America.

yeah ive the dvd boxset and have it on hdd too.

struth

02-04-2022, 17:05

In Which We Serve, 1942.

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Noël Coward was a friend of Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was Captain of the Royal Navy destroyer H.M.S. Kelly from the outbreak of World War II until the Kelly was sunk by enemy action in May 1941. Coward wrote the screenplay for this movie based on Mountbatten's experiences on H.M.S. Kelly. Coward's character in this movie, Captain E.V. Kinross R.N./Captain "D", was also based on Mountbatten's experiences.
This movie was shown to all new Royal Navy recruits after it was released to give them an idea and an impression of what life in the Navy was like.
Lord Louis Mountbatten's contribution cannot be discounted, even in the middle of a war, he was able to obtain approximately two hundred real sailors to play extras for two weeks and in the evening, after he finished his war work, watched the rushes and gave advice.

Several scenes of Torrin underway are of K-class destroyer H.M.S. Kashmir (F12). The scene of Torrin under tow includes 1940 newsreel footage of Lord Louis Mountbatten's heavily-damaged K-class destroyer H.M.S. Kelly. Both ships were sunk by German dive bombers on May 23, 1941 during operations off Crete.

struth

03-04-2022, 08:41

The First Great Train Robbery , 1978.

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Sir Sean Connery spent several days running on top of a moving train. The train was supposed to be travelling at thirty-five miles per hour; Connery argued it was going faster. The train driver was counting telegraph poles to measure the speed. A helicopter pilot confirmed Connery's suspicion. The train was travelling at over fifty-five miles per hour.

The character of Clean Willy was played by one of Britain's premiere ballet dancers, Wayne Sleep, from The Royal Ballet Company. He did his own stunts, including scaling the Newgate prison walls, at the tremendous risk of falling and hurting himself. In a 2011 BBC radio interview, Wayne Sleep (Clean Willy) told how he was asked by Michael Crichton to climb a sixty foot wall. Sleep's response was "I'm an actor, not a stuntman." When Crichton explained that they had not been able to find a stuntman small enough (Sleep is 5'2"), Sleep made the climb anyway.

The method in which Henry Fowler's key is copied was changed for this movie. In the book, Henry Fowler contracts syphilis and, because a rumored cure is to have intercourse with a virgin, has intercourse with a twelve-year-old (presumably virgin) prostitute (in Victorian times, the age of consent for females was twelve), in the course of which his key is abstracted and copied. For comic effect and so as not to depict child sex or pornography, the plot was changed in the screenplay to have Pierce set Fowler up with Miss Miriam (disguised as a high-class prostitute), copy his key while she is disrobing him and then fake a police raid on the bordello before Fowler can even get her undressed.

struth

03-04-2022, 08:50

When it came to casting and shooting the ratting scene, the crew were somewhat closemouthed about discussing certain details with writer and director Michael Crichton. They presented only one dog (not several candidates) and told him that this was the dog he definitely wanted. Likewise, they didn't explain much as to how they would set up the activity in the ratting pit. Only when it came time for the shoot did Crichton realize they had acquired an actual ratting dog and had captured live sewer rats, which the dog killed by biting and snapping their necks with a vigorous shake. Crichton said that the R.S.P.C.A. did find out what was happening and confronted them about it, but no legal action resulted.
The dog used in the ratting scene was present for two scenes, one, in Ireland when the dog is picked up in front of Trent's house, and another back at Pinewood Studios for the actual ratting scene. To avoid the mandatory six month quarantine for transporting animals between the two countries, the terrier was smuggled across the Irish Sea.

Pigmy Pony

03-04-2022, 09:57

Grant, I suspect your write ups are often more interesting than the films they describe. Keep it up :)

struth

03-04-2022, 13:17

Dead Reckoning, 1947. Director was John Cromwell. Stars Bogey and Lizabeth Scott who was a bit of a Bacall lookalike.
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In the train scene, after they discover that Drake is to receive the Medal of Honor, Murdock quips that maybe the president will let Drake "sit on top of his piano". This is a reference to a then-scandalous photo of Harry S. Truman playing piano with a leggy blonde on top that was taken at the National Press Club in 1945. The blonde was Lauren Bacall, wife of Humphrey Bogart.

By the unit insignia on the left shoulder of their uniforms, Rip and Johnny were members of the 82nd Airborne Division, the "AA" standing for the nickname "All American". The insignia on their right shoulders is for the First Allied Airborne Army, formed in August 1944 as the command organization for all Allied airborne forces in Europe.

Filming Location was "St. Petersburg, Florida, USA",(might want to change its name lol) which was founded in 1888 by John C. Williams, who purchased the land, and by Peter Demens who brought the railroad industry into the area.[9][10] A coin toss bet was held between Williams and Demens to name this new community. Demens won the bet and named the land after Saint Petersburg, Russia. Williams was then granted the right to name the first hotel built (which he named the Detroit Hotel). Both named their winnings after their personal hometowns. St Petersburg is a common destination for filming. Such films as Once Upon a Time in America, Ocean's Eleven, Cocoon and Lethal Weapon 3 were partly filmed there among others.

struth

03-04-2022, 18:06

I will see out the day with Blackadder the second.

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The writers realized that they had to rewrite the character of Queen Elizabeth I after they saw Miranda Richardson's wonderfully silly interpretation.

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.

struth

04-04-2022, 09:34

Wilt, 1989. A good british cast but all were unknowns in america, where the film failed. it did well in uk tho.

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Writer Tom Sharpe worked as a lecturer in history at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology from 1963 to 1972. He used this experience as the basis for his "Wilt" series.

walpurgis

04-04-2022, 11:26

I see the movie 'The Blue Dahlia' 1946, is on Film 4 at 12.45pm. I'm sure I must have seen it, but don't recall for sure. With Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, in a Raymond Chandler story directed by George Marshall it should be good, reviews say so. It's also got the excellent William Bendix in it. I'll give it a watch.

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struth

04-04-2022, 11:45

Macca

04-04-2022, 12:21

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'Joe Kidd' (1972)

Low key 'revisionist' Western. Clint Eastwood is an ex bounty hunter hired by Robert Duvall to accompany him and his men on a mission to capture a Mexican bandit leader (John Saxon).

They don't often show this, makes a change from endless repeats of 'Magnum Force.' But there are no bad Clint Eastwood films.

On release it wasn't received well by the usual critics, although if they were still alive today it would probably be acclaimed as genius in light of the wall to wall crap Hollywood is making now.

Well worth a watch. Eastwood goes through the motions as his usual character (he was ill during filming) but Robert Duvall is really good as the ruthless land owner and John Saxon makes a better fist of playing a Mexican than Charlton Heston managed in 'Touch Of Evil.' I suppose it never occurs to them to just hire a Mexican but that's Hollywood for you.

struth

04-04-2022, 12:32

Yeah John Saxon was a good actor(off Italian stock), and a pupil of Stella Adler, who taught such names as Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Elaine Stritch and Kate Mulgrew.

decent film joe kidd. ive got im myself.

walpurgis

04-04-2022, 12:38

'Joe Kidd' (1972)

Robert Duvall is really good as the ruthless land owner and John Saxon makes a better fist of playing a Mexican than Charlton Heston managed in 'Touch Of Evil.' I suppose it never occurs to them to just hire a Mexican but that's Hollywood for you.

Pretty decent.

As you say, Robert Duvall was excellent, as were Don Stroud and James Wainwright, who was a really cool killer.

John Saxon, I found annoying as usual. You could always tell he was acting, had a big opinion of himself too I believe.

struth

04-04-2022, 12:45

Directed by David Lean, This Happy Breed, 1944, this episodic telling of 20 years of the working-class Gibbons family in their South London rental house from 1919 to 1939--from just after the conclusion of WWI to just before the start of WWII..

Kay Walsh was only 6 years her screen dad Robert Newton's junior, while John Mills plays Celia Johnson's future son in law but they were both same age. Newton had a fine in place for everytime he got drunk and held up shooting(him being an alcoholic) and by end of filming his £9k salary was all used up. They paid him anyway lol

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The comment early in the movie about the cat and buttering its paws comes from a technique used when a cat moves houses. According to this, if the cat has butter on its paws it will stop and lick it off. As cats are very clean creatures, the butter on its paws and the bits of dirt/dust/debris that will inevitably stick to it will annoy the cat. The cat will sit down to clean itself and, in doing so, will take in its new surroundings creating a mental map of where its new home is and helping it to make the adjustment to its new surroundings.

Billy (Sir John Mills) works his way up in the Navy through the movie. When he is first seen, he is a Leading Seaman/Rate having a 3rd Class Quarters Rating in Gunnery. At Reg's (John Blythe) wedding, he is now a Petty Officer, with two stripes (chevrons) indicating 10 Years Good Conduct, and is still working in Gunnery. Finally, when he comes to tell the Gibbons (Robert Newton and Celia Johnson) he has found Queenie (Kay Walsh), he wears the thin ring which, in 1939 and until 1956, indicated the rank of Warrant Officer rather than a commissioned Sub-Lt, who would wear a thicker gold ring.

The title is taken from a monologue of John of Gaunt's in William Shakespeare's "Richard II", act II, scene 1, which is widely renowned for its stirring pro-Anglicism. It reads, in part, "This happy breed of men, this little world, / This precious stone set in the silver sea, / Which serves it in the office of a wall, / Or as a moat defensive to a house, / Against the envy of less happier lands, / This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."

This is the remastered bluray.

Macca

04-04-2022, 12:59

Pretty decent.

As you say, Robert Duvall was excellent, as were Don Stroud and James Wainwright, who was a really cool killer.

Yes Don Stroud is always good, should have mentioned him.

struth

04-04-2022, 13:41

yeah don is still alive afaik. was a big surfer and comes from hawaii. was in another eastwood one about same time

struth

04-04-2022, 14:48

struth

04-04-2022, 15:24

Cant think of anything i fancy so will have a trusty old western from 1970 ..Two Mules for Sister Sara....

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Two Mules for Sister Sara received moderately favorable reviews, and Roger Greenspun of the New York Times reported, "I'm not sure it is a great movie, but it is very good and it stays and grows on the mind the way only movies of exceptional narrative intelligence do"

firearms :D

Hogan (Clint Eastwood) carries a Single Action Army 5 1/2" Artillery as his sidearm in the film. This is historically incorrect since the Colt Single Action Army was introduced in 1873 and the French had withdrawn from Mexico in 1866.
Same story with his 2 Winchester 1873 Saddle Ring Carbines.

struth

04-04-2022, 17:21

Spoof western now with Carry On Cowboy, 1965. great names in marshall p knut and the rumpo kid among them..:D

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Angela Douglas was terrified about her singing sequence. Joan Sims literally pushed her onto the sound stage, having given her two brandies before she went on!

This has the distinction of being the only Western film in history where the town has a left hand turn at the end of the main road. This was due to the fact that Pinewood didn't have sprawling prairies behind it.

Eric Rogers' brother Alan Rogers wrote the saloon song "This is the night for love" and if you look closely you can see Alan playing the piano in the saloon.

For the stagecoach scene, you can see it racing across open country near Esher in Surrey with dust flying up from the wheels. This was provided by a crewman sitting in the coach with a powder gun and despite the fact that the horses were kicking up mud as it was one of the wettest days on location.

struth

05-04-2022, 09:31

The Parallax View, 1974.

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The film's director Alan J. Pakula described the picture as "sort of an American myth based on some things that have happened, some fantasies we may have had of what might have happened, and a lot of fears a lot of us have had . . . The Parallax View was a whole other kind of filmmaking for me".

walpurgis

05-04-2022, 09:48

The Parallax View, 1974

Very good thriller movie. I must watch it again, the DVD is in my collection.

struth

05-04-2022, 11:15

Very good thriller movie. I must watch it again, the DVD is in my collection.

yes it was good. been years since i saw it.

now, crime and The Outfit, 1973. stars Robert Duval, Joe Don Baker and Karen Black

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Brian Garfield, in an intro to a reprint of the novel on which this film is based, notes that it was originally written by director John Flynn as a period piece, intending to be set in the postwar 1940s. That's why such "film noir" veterans such as Elisha Cook Jr., Richard Jaeckel, Marie Windsor, and Jane Greer appeared in it. The studio, however, decided it would be too expensive to shoot a period picture, so the script was superficially updated, the World War II vets became Vietnam vets, and actors and actresses like Robert Ryan, Karen Black, and Sheree North joined the cast. The result was that the story was restored to its original conception (the series on which this book was based was written and set in the then contemporary 1960s and 1970s). Had the period piece idea gone through, this would have represented a rare case of backdating a character.

walpurgis

05-04-2022, 11:36

The Outfit, 1973. stars Robert Duval, Joe Don Baker and Karen Black

Not seen that for many years, recall it was good.

If you want something gritty to watch, track down 'Rush', 1991. Not well known and never shown, but very good. With Jason Patric, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Sam Elliott. I have that on DVD too, one of my favourites, 'cos it's mean! :).

struth

05-04-2022, 11:56

Not seen that for many years, recall it was good.

If you want something gritty to watch, track down 'Rush', 1991. Not well known and never shown, but very good. With Jason Patric, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Sam Elliott. I have that on DVD too, one of my favourites, 'cos it's mean! :).

i got a copy of that on amazon prime cheapish so will watch it soon. cheers... elisha cook had a small part; he was a strange guy. A loner and mountain man type. liked to live in a cabin up in the high sierras and fish/hunt.. very much the opposite of his screen personnas. he also made more film noir appearances than any other actor at 21.

struth

05-04-2022, 13:24

Chato's Land, 1972. Chuck Bronson stars.

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Charles Bronson refused to play in the scene where he saves a naked woman. He refused because she was without clothes. Director Michael Winner eventually used a trick to make the scene without Bronson's agreement.

The Hooker ranch house and barn are the same as the McBain house and barn in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).

Macca

05-04-2022, 13:36

i got a copy of that on amazon prime cheapish so will watch it soon. cheers... elisha cook had a small part; he was a strange guy. A loner and mountain man type. liked to live in a cabin up in the high sierras and fish/hunt.. very much the opposite of his screen personnas. he also made more film noir appearances than any other actor at 21.

'The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.'

Lawrence001

05-04-2022, 13:46

struth

05-04-2022, 14:17

That reminds me, when I was doing operational research at uni, I read that many of the computational methods were developed by the military in WWII to optimise the bombing campaign. The computers may have been doing this?

I think it was this that led to the USAAF targeting ball bearing factories as the weak spot in German aircraft production. IIRC the infamous Schweinfurt raids (as in the film with Clarke Gable) were the result.

BB's were pretty much in everything for war. yup schweinfurt made most of their bearings; maybe 2/3 at one time so bombing them, although very difficult due to where they were and the protection they had was an important thing to try. the bombed regensburg at same time to split nazi response but the losses were catastrophic. 1 in 6 planes and men lost.

we, the british got our bearings from neutral sweden, by hook and crook at times. some by air but a lot by using gunboats(which is a long story in itself)

Macca

05-04-2022, 14:26

struth

05-04-2022, 14:32

Norden M Bomb Sight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norden_bombsight

yeah, they dumped it out over sea when they were going down. it was at that time very secret.

struth

05-04-2022, 17:53

The Man Who Knew Too Little, 1997.

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stars Bill Murray and the delectible Joanne Whalley

struth

06-04-2022, 11:44

A Christmas Carol, 1984. George C Scott plays title role of Scrooge.(and very well too). David Warner is an equally good Cratchit.

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This is probably the only version of 'A Christmas Carol' in which Scrooge wears dress pants with a dress shirt, vest, and smoking jacket instead of his nightshirt, slippers, and cap. Rumor has it that George C. Scott openly reeled at the very thought of portraying Scrooge under such conditions, especially in an English winter. In the book, Scrooge wears his shirt, pants, vest, dressing gown, and slippers. Scott's clothing is very close to the book.

This is the only traditional adaptation of A Christmas Carol where Scrooge's father is seen onscreen. He is mentioned in the book but never seen.

The word "humbug" is misunderstood by many people, which is a pity since the word provides a key insight into Scrooge's hatred of Christmas. The word "humbug" describes deceitful efforts to fool people by assuming a fake loftiness or false sincerity. So when Scrooge calls Christmas a humbug, he is claiming that people only feign charity and kindness in a scoundrel effort to delude him, each other, and themselves. In Scrooge's eyes, he is the one man honest enough to admit that no one really cares about anyone else, so for him, every wish for a Merry Christmas is one more deceitful effort to fool or take advantage of him. This is a man who has turned to profit because he honestly believes that everyone else will someday betray him or abandon him the moment he trusts them.

struth

06-04-2022, 16:28

Harlem Nights, 1989.

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The story of Irish mobster Bugsy Calhoune trying to take over Sugar Ray's night club in order to control black Harlem is loosely inspired by the real-life feud between Jewish gangster Dutch Schultz and black gangster Bumpy Johnson over control of Harlem's lucrative "numbers" gambling rackets in the mid 1930s.

struth

06-04-2022, 17:49

some of the interplay with redd foxx(God rest his smutty soul) and della reese is fantastic.

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think they ended up with their own show after this film..

struth

06-04-2022, 18:15

A bit of fun sleuthing from Miss Marple with Murder Ahoy!, 1964. Margaret Rutherford if Marple and her real Husband, Stringer Davis plays hr sidekick and love hopeful.

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The screenplay was not based on any published Dame Agatha Christie story. It did, however, borrow a few obscure plot details from "They Do It With Mirrors", and there is a delightful moment when Miss Jane Marple pays homage to Christie's long-running play, "The Mousetrap".

H.M.S. Battledore was portrayed on deck by T.S. Arethusa, a training ship used by the Royal Navy (known in later years as the "Peking"). The story of the real ship may have inspired the script in many ways, as the Arethusa was used for many years as a sail training vessel and a "children's home" for wayward boys. However, the aft section of the ship in this movie featuring the panoramic stern windows of the Captain's cabin was a creation (as a matte painting in the wide shots and a set in the closer ones), as the real ship's stern had no resemblance to it. The ship was moved from Britain to the U.S. in 1974 and was docked in New York for many years, but it was moved to Hamburg, Germany in 2016.

struth

07-04-2022, 09:41

The Bourne Ultimatum, 2007.

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This is the only Bourne film to win an Academy Award. It won three, in all the categories for which it was nominated, while the other Bourne movies weren't even nominated.

The film crew was unable to shut down Waterloo station, so pedestrians in the station can be seen looking and pointing at the camera. In the Tangier chase scene, Nicky, played by Julia Stiles, and Desh, played by Joey Ansah, are seen pushing past the citizens. These are not extras; Tangier was too crowded and the flow of the people was hard to control, hence the two are genuinely pushing through the crowd.

struth

07-04-2022, 11:06

Next, ...The Ipcress File, 1965.

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One night early in 1964, Michael Caine was having dinner with his flatmate Terence Stamp at the Pickwick Club on the edge of Soho, when a waiter handed him a note from Canadian film producer Harry Saltzman, who was dining with his family following an outing to the cinema.

Would Caine like to join them for a quick coffee?

The two men didn’t know one another, but the film Saltzman had just seen was Zulu, about the 1879 Battle of Rorke’s Drift, from which he recognised Caine as the pompous British army lieutenant Gonville Bromhead.

It was a supporting role but Saltzman reckoned that the 30-year-old actor was on the road to major stardom and wanted to accelerate his journey.

Caine walked across the restaurant, heart pounding, thinking that Saltzman, who by then had co-produced the first three Bond films, might be about to offer him a part alongside his pal Sean Connery in the next 007 movie.

Instead, Saltzman asked him if he’d read Len Deighton’s Cold War spy thriller about brainwashing and atomic secrets, The Ipcress File, published just a couple of years earlier? Caine replied, truthfully, that he was half-way through it.

‘Good,’ said Saltzman, then asked if he wanted to play the lead in the film version?

Taken aback, Caine said yes. ‘Good,’ replied Saltzman. And would he also like a seven-year-contract? Again, Caine said yes. And would he like to have lunch the next day at Les Ambassadeurs?

Once more, Caine said yes, then walked back to his table in a daze and told Stamp what had happened. He had just been turned from a supporting player into a movie star.

‘But you’ve only been gone two minutes,’ said Stamp.

Macca

07-04-2022, 11:21

Great story.

walpurgis

07-04-2022, 11:22

He had just been turned from a supporting player into a movie star

He deserved it too.

struth

07-04-2022, 13:29

Operation Petticoat, 1959. Good cast in this comedy

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In the film the submarine is on a constant quest to reach a submarine repair ship to restore her operational status again. In real life Tony Curtis served on the submarine repair ship USS Proteus during WW2. It was alleged his enlistment in the Pacific Submarine Force was inspired by the film Destination Tokyo (1943), starring Cary Grant.

A submarine based at Cavite, the USS Seadragon, did go on patrol with a red paint job. Her original black paint was damaged by fire in the air raid, and ended up peeling off while she was on patrol. She ended up sinking three Japanese ships during the time her paint was peeling, leading Tokyo Rose to make broadcasts about "Red pirate submarines."

The "sinking" of a truck was inspired by a real incident that happened in 1944. On August 9, USS Bowfin (SS-287) followed four Japanese ships into Minami Daito Harbor. She fired her six bow torpedoes at the moored ships, hitting three and sinking two of them, but one torpedo went astray and hit a pier. A bus parked on it was blown up and thrown into the water by the explosion.

struth

07-04-2022, 17:08

The Adjustment Bureau, 2011. from a Phillip K. Dick story.

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Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo played God in the original cut of the film. According to Shohreh Aghdashloo herself in a Los Angeles Times interview, she was replaced by the studio because she was raised a Muslim and the studio wasn't ready for Muslim to portray God in a movie. Her exact quote: "Oh, my God, I loved that role. As actors, we all know we're at the mercy of the editing table, but not to this extent, never had I experienced it. The director, George Nolfi, decided I should play God. Everything went great until I got a call from the director who was asking to have lunch with me. He was on the verge of crying. He said, the distribution company believes that you cannot play this role....That's right, although if I'm asked what religion I am, I say I was raised a Muslim. I don't introduce myself as a Muslim woman, but I guess the distribution company put the dots together and felt it's too early for this."