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Murphy's War, 1971...
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The part of the U-Boat was played by a Venezuelan submarine, the former USS Tilefish (SS-307). The floating crane was, itself, a former WW2 tank landing craft. The airplane itself, a Grumman Duck, that was used in the movie and flown by Frank Tallman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848184), can now be seen on static display at US Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.
The type of aircraft used, a Grumman J2F Duck amphibian, never served with any British or Commonwealth navies. Equally, the camouflage does not match the markings used: it carries early war British roundels on a (very) late war colour scheme. Understandably, however, there were quite a few surplus J2Fs around in the late 60s, as it had been used by quite a few South American navies for several years after WW2. It would have been impossible to have a more authentic aircraft, such as the Fairey Seafox, which was probably the most common shipboard naval reconnaissance floatplane in the early years of WW2.
Peter O'Toole (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000564) performed most of his own stunts for this movie.
walpurgis
09-10-2022, 16:08
Murphy's War, 1971.
Great movie. O'Toole was perfectly cast.
Just watched my recently obtained DVD of 'Blood and Wine' 1996, with Michael Caine and Jack Nicholson playing despicable cheap crooks. Well worth a look!
My copy was a Dutch import, it's not an easy film to find on DVD.
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Great movie. O'Toole was perfectly cast.
Just watched my recently obtained DVD of 'Blood and Wine' 1996, with Michael Caine and Jack Nicholson playing despicable cheap crooks. Well worth a look!
My copy was a Dutch import, it's not an easy film to find on DVD.
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yeah i looked for that before but it was expensive.. one might come up yet tho.
Key Largo, 1948...
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi7gqnF1tP6AhWGIMAKHeaTCdQQFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0040506 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0axaWZvxS_lwojwLgxwqTi)The script was adapted from a 1939 play of the same name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Largo_(play)) by Maxwell Anderson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Anderson). In the play, the gangsters are Mexican bandidos, the war in question is the Spanish Civil War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War), and McCloud is a disgraced deserter who dies at the end.
Robinson had top billing over Bogart in their four previous films together: Bullets or Ballots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullets_or_Ballots) (1936), Kid Galahad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Galahad_(1937_film)) (1937), The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Dr._Clitterhouse) (1938) and Brother Orchid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Orchid) (1940), but the situation switched for the billing in this final film in which Bogart and Robinson worked together. In at least one trailer for the film, however, Robinson is billed above Bogart in a list of the actors' names at the end of the preview, and photographs exist of Robinson being billed above Bogart on some theatre marquees. In the film itself and in posters, Robinson's name is between Bogart's and Bacall's but slightly higher than the other two. In some posters, Robinson's picture is substantially larger than Bogart's, and in the foreground manhandling Bacall while Bogart is in the background.
The film was shot primarily at the Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Studios,_Burbank)
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Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid, 1973... directed by Sam Peckinpah; music by Bob Dylan..
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Sam Peckinpah (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001603)'s alcoholism was so advanced during the making of this film that he would have to start the day with a large tumbler of neat vodkas to stop his shakes. By mid afternoon, he would have moved onto grenadine. After that, he was too drunk to work. James Coburn (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000336) recalled that Peckinpah was only really coherent for four hours a day.
Kris Kristofferson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001434) and Sam Peckinpah (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001603) had several heated arguments during the making of the film, and others on the set often thought it would end up in a fight. Peckinpah, always very confrontational, wanted to fight Kristofferson but said that he feared Kristofferson, a former Army Airborne Ranger, would "kill him". Kristofferson answered, "Yeah, Sam, I think you're right". In spite of this, Peckinpah referred to Kristofferson as a "fucking great guy" and said that working with him was "one of the greatest experiences of my life".
Serengeti, 2019..Narrator John Boyega
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We're No Angels, 1955..
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Serengeti, 2019..Narrator John Boyega
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Hombre, 1967..
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The photo in the closing credits was taken in 1886 by Camillus Fly, the famous Tombstone (AZ) photographer. The white boy in the photo is Jimmy (Santiago) McKinn, captured by the Apaches in 1885. Like the Paul Newman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000056) character in the film, McKinn was totally assimilated in the tribe and was rescued against his will when Geronimo (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1521149) surrendered in 1886. He died in December 1941.
Steve McQueen (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000537) was offered the role of John Russell but turned it down because it reminded him of Melodie Batchelor (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0060748), in which he played a half-Indian. After the release of this film, McQueen said it was one of Paul Newman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000056)'s best roles.
Escape from Alcatraz, 1979...
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In 2018 a CBS News affiliate obtained a copy of a letter purporting to be from a terminally ill John Anglin asking the SFPD for a deal offering to turn himself in if they will help him access end of life medical care. The 2013 letter claimed his brother Clarence had died in 2008 and Morris in 2005. The letter was handed to the FBI to check its authenticity and was kept quiet from the press for five years whilst the claim was investigated. Apparently the SFPD did not reply to the letter, possibly for fear of it being revealed as a hoax. However in 2015 the History Channel, whist researching the story of the escape for a documentary, came across a 1975 color photograph taken in Brazil of two men who the broadcaster alleges to be the Anglin brothers.
The FBI investigation into the escape was finally closed in 1979 and the FBI investigation into the 2013 letter was inconclusive. The Anglin family have always maintained they were never contacted after the escape although they did say the Anglin brothers' mother did get anonymous roses sent to her on her birthday for several years which she took as a sign that at least one of her boys had made it. However, again this is pure speculation.
more info...make of it what you will ..
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjL85D93dr6AhWEZMAKHThzBbIQFnoECA4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0079116 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3_oGzQwxozs4xIaIF5lEBh)A day after the escape, a man claiming to be John Anglin called a lawyer, Eugenia MacGowan, in San Francisco to arrange a meeting with the U.S. Marshals office. When MacGowan refused, the caller terminated the phone call.
Robert Checchi, a San Francisco police officer, said that at 1:00 a.m. on the morning of June 12, he saw an "illegal" boat in the bay near Alcatraz. A few minutes later, the boat left, heading under the Golden Gate Bridge. This led to speculation that the prisoners might have enlisted outside confederates to pick them up. The FBI dismissed Checchi's account out of hand.
In 1993, a former Alcatraz inmate named Thomas Kent told the television program America's Most Wanted (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Most_Wanted) that he had helped plan the escape, and claimed to have provided "significant new leads" to investigators. He said that Clarence Anglin's girlfriend had agreed to meet the men on shore and drive them to Mexico. He declined to participate in the actual escape, he said, because he could not swim. Officials were skeptical of Kent's account, because he had been paid $ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USD)2,000 for the interview.
A man named John Leroy Kelly dictated an extended deathbed confession (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathbed_confession) to his nurse in 1993. Kelly claimed that he and a partner picked up Morris and the Anglins in a boat and transported them to the Seattle, Washington area. Later, under the guise of transporting them to Canada, Kelly and his partner murdered the escapees to get the $40,000 their families had collected for them. At a location in Seattle where Kelly claimed the three escapees were buried, no human remains were found.
A 2003 MythBusters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters) episode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2003_season)#Episode_8_–_"Alcatraz_Es cape") on the Discovery Channel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Channel) tested the feasibility of an escape from the island aboard a raft constructed with the same materials and tools available to the inmates, and concluded that it was "possible".
A 2011 documentary on the National Geographic Channel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_Channel) entitled Vanished from Alcatraz reported that contrary to the official FBI report, a raft was discovered on Angel Island on June 12, 1962, the day after the escape, with footprints leading away from it. Furthermore, a 1955 blue Chevrolet (California license plate KPB076) was reported stolen in Marin County (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin_County,_California) the same day—a claim corroborated by contemporaneous stories in the Humboldt Times and the San Francisco Examiner. The following day, a motorist in Stockton, California (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton,_California), 80 miles (130 km) east of San Francisco, reported to the California Highway Patrol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Highway_Patrol) that he had been forced off the road by three men in a blue Chevrolet.
The same year, an 89-year-old man named Bud Morris, who claimed he was a cousin of Frank Morris, said that on "eight or nine" occasions prior to the escape he delivered envelopes of money to Alcatraz guards, presumably as bribes. He further claimed to have met his cousin face to face in a San Diego (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego) park shortly after the escape. His daughter, who was "eight or nine" years old at the time, said she was present at the meeting with "Dad's friend, Frank", but "had no idea [about the escape]".
A 2014 study of the ocean currents by scientists at Delft University (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delft_University_of_Technology) concluded that if the prisoners left Alcatraz at 11:30 pm on June 11, they could have made it to Horseshoe Bay, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, and that any debris would have floated in the direction of Angel Island, consistent with where the paddle and belongings were actually found. If they left before or after that time, they said, tides and currents were such that their chances of survival were slim.
A 2015 History Channel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_(U.S._TV_channel)) documentary entitled Alcatraz: Search for the Truth presented further circumstantial evidence gathered over the years by the Anglin family. Kenneth and David Widner displayed Christmas cards containing the Anglins' handwriting, and allegedly received by family members for three years after the escape. While the handwriting was verified as the Anglins', none of the envelopes contained a postmarked stamp, so experts could not determine when they had been delivered. The family cited a story from family friend Fred Brizzi, who grew up with the brothers and claimed to have recognized them in Rio de Janeiro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro) in 1975. They produced photographs purportedly taken by Brizzi, including one of two men, who according to Brizzi were John and Clarence Anglin, standing next to a large termite mound. Other photos showed a Brazilian farm that Brizzi claimed was owned by the men. Forensic experts working for the family confirmed that the photos were taken in 1975, and asserted that the two men were "more than likely" the Anglins, although the age and condition of the photo, and the fact that both men were wearing sunglasses, hindered efforts to make a definitive determination. Brizzi also presented an alternative escape theory: Rather than use the raft to cross the bay, he said, they paddled around the island to the boat dock, where they attached an electrical cord—which was reported missing from the dock on the night of the escape—to the rudder of a prison ferry that departed the island shortly after midnight, and were towed behind it to the mainland.
Art Roderick, a retired Deputy U.S. Marshal who had once headed the investigation and later worked with the Anglin family, called Brizzi's photograph of the two men "absolutely the best actionable lead we've had," but added, "it could still all be a nice story which isn't true"; or the photograph could be a misdirection, aimed at steering the investigation away from the Anglins' actual whereabouts. Michael Dyke, the last Deputy Marshal assigned to the case, said Brizzi was "a drug smuggler and a con man," and was suspicious of his account. Brizzi's widow said that she never heard him mention seeing the Anglin brothers in Rio, and that he was “a con man” who was prone to making up stories. An expert working for the U.S. Marshal's Service did not believe the photograph was legitimate. Dyke said measurements of the physical characteristics of the Anglin brothers indicate that they are not the men in the Brazil photo, but he acknowledged the difficulty in making a definitive determination and ruling it out as a valid lead. In January 2020, an Irish creative agency and AI specialists at Identv used facial recognition techniques to conclude that the men in the photo were John and Clarence Anglin.
Robert Anglin reportedly told family members before his death in 2010 that he had been in contact with John and Clarence from 1963 until approximately 1987. Surviving family members, who said they have heard nothing since Robert lost contact with the brothers in 1987, announced plans to travel to Brazil to conduct a personal search; but Roderick cautioned that they could be arrested by Brazilian authorities because the Alcatraz escape remains an open Interpol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol) case.
In 2018, the FBI confirmed the existence of a letter, allegedly written by John Anglin and received by the San Francisco Police Department (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Police_Department) in 2013. The writer asserted that Frank Morris died in 2008 and was buried in Alexandria under a different name, and Clarence Anglin died in 2011. His purpose in writing the letter, he said, was to negotiate his surrender in exchange for medical treatment of his cancer.The letter's authenticity was deemed inconclusive.
In a 2019 episode of the series Mission Declassified, investigative journalist Christof Putzel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christof_Putzel) corroborated much of the information released by the FBI and other sources, including the raft found on Angel Island. He quoted various reports mentioning a blue Chevrolet, of the same description as the one stolen after the escape, spotted in Oklahoma,[79] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1962_Alcatraz_escape_attempt#cite_note-79) Indiana,[80] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1962_Alcatraz_escape_attempt#cite_note-80) Ohio,[81] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1962_Alcatraz_escape_attempt#cite_note-81) and South Carolina, where, three months after the escape, three men matching the escapees' description attempted to acquire a residence in the woods.[82] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1962_Alcatraz_escape_attempt#cite_note-82)
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Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968..
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After making his American Civil War epic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Leone had intended to make no more Westerns, believing he had said all he wanted to say. He had come across the novel The Hoods by the pseudonymous " (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiijfDpmtv6AhXLQUEAHYJyAnIQFnoECCUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FOnce_U pon_a_Time_in_the_West&usg=AOvVaw2UhfFgstw6jVMtKxtBeQGC)Harry Grey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Grey)", a fictionalized book based on the author's own experiences as a Jewish hood during Prohibition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition), and planned to adapt it into a film (17 years later, it would become his final film, Once Upon a Time in America (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_America)). Leone, though, was offered only Westerns by the Hollywood studios. United Artists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists) (which had produced the Dollars Trilogy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollars_Trilogy)) offered him the opportunity to make a film starring Charlton Heston (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Heston), Kirk Douglas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas), and Rock Hudson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Hudson), but Leone refused. When Paramount offered Leone a generous budget along with access to Henry Fonda—his favorite actor, and one with whom he had wanted to work for virtually all of his career—Leone accepted the offer.
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Joe Kidd, 1972..
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Writer (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjdye7ljd36AhWWRsAKHd9cAOEQFnoECCUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJoe_Ki dd&usg=AOvVaw0bCDIU0fF2dJc23XuOo7sG)Elmore Leonard (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001465) certainly did know something about classic firearms. From Frank Harlan's (Robert Duvall's) Custom Savage 99 (1899), Olin Mingo's (James Wainwright's) Remington-Keene sporter (1880) in .45-70, Lamarr Simms' (Don Stroud's) Mauser C-96 (1896) broomhandle, and Joe Kidd's (Clint Eastwood's) Cased Ross Rifle sporter model M-10 (1910) in .280 Ross. Leonard took special care to ensure all weapons (even the optics) were period accurate for that movie, being set in pre-statehood New Mexico territory (1912).
In an interview given to French student Emmanuel Laborit in 1990, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjdye7ljd36AhWWRsAKHd9cAOEQFnoECCUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJoe_Ki dd&usg=AOvVaw0bCDIU0fF2dJc23XuOo7sG)John Sturges (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0836328) said he had a lot of problems directing Clint Eastwood (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142), and regretted that he did not resign during filming. This is the last time someone else ( (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjdye7ljd36AhWWRsAKHd9cAOEQFnoECCUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJoe_Ki dd&usg=AOvVaw0bCDIU0fF2dJc23XuOo7sG)John Sturges (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0836328)) directed Clint Eastwood (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142) in a western. Eastwood appeared in four more westerns, all directed by himself.
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The Professionals, 1966...
Despite the principal male actors being in their 50's (except for Lee Marvin, who was only 42), all of them insisted on performing their own stunts. However, only Woody Strode performed all of his stunts as there were no black stuntmen who came close to his height and stature. Burt Lancaster, who was 52 at the time, did most of his own stunts, including being hung upside down in Coyote Pass and running across the top of the moving train car. The studio balked, however, at Lancaster climbing the side of the cliff in the pass to plant the dynamite and a stuntman was substituted. Even though Palance was as tall as Strode, he had to use a stunt double for the scenes where he was wounded and fell off his horse, because falling the wrong way off a horse could lead to serious injuries.
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During the filming of the scene where Maria attempts to escape through a canyon wired with dynamite, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjt_-_CwN36AhXSgVwKHdYjCBEQFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Pr ofessionals_(1966_film)&usg=AOvVaw1O_ksEQbO4TCdfhHMkCXzN)Claudia Cardinale (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001012)'s stunt double was badly injured during the explosion. Cardinale, who had never ridden a horse before, performed the stunt herself for the final cut, and escaped uninjured.
First western to feature nudity although it is a long-range view and tame by later standards.
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Silver Streak, 1976...
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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 (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0731772). 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.
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The Legend of Tarzan , 2016...Alexander Skarsgård, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjgjM-U7N_6AhUIXcAKHX_eCHcQFnoECB4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Le gend_of_Tarzan_(film)&usg=AOvVaw2TVh4mNGV48eGqQGXRytPH) Samuel L. Jackson and (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_L._Jackson)Margot Robbie. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_Robbie)
North West Frontier, 1959...
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"DVD Talk" said of this film that it " . . . has a lot in common with (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjWuLb8huD6AhVSZcAKHSckDxkQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0053126 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1oa-V_CwuUwNJNTKJzxhCW)John Ford (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000406)'s Stagecoach (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031971) (1939) in that it's essentially a tale of a motley mix of Anglos confined in a train car, racing across an Indian plain trying to evade 'bloodthirsty savages'. It may be a blatant reworking of Stagecoach (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031971) (1939), as the original story was co-written by John Ford (I)'s son Patrick Ford (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285816) and Maureen O'Hara (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000058)'s husband Will Price (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0697195). The final screenplay was adapted from a script by screenwriter Frank S. Nugent (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0637793), the writer of 11 Ford films."
This picture's setting, the North-West Frontier Province of colonial British India in 1905, is now in modern-day Pakistan, but the movie was actually filmed in Guadix, Granada, in Andalucía, Spain.
The song Capt Scott ( (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjWuLb8huD6AhVSZcAKHSckDxkQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0053126 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1oa-V_CwuUwNJNTKJzxhCW)Kenneth More (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0603336)) sings and which is used as an occasional theme, especially at the end, is the Eton Boating Song, often heard in the Ealing comedies like "The Lavender Hill Mob (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044829) (1951)" and "The Titfield Thunderbolt (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046436) (1953)." (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjWuLb8huD6AhVSZcAKHSckDxkQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0053126 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1oa-V_CwuUwNJNTKJzxhCW)
Lawrence001
14-10-2022, 17:45
I can remember the scene where the little boy was playing with a stick and a big machine and the baddy was going to push him in (think it was the same actor who played Clouseau's mad boss in the Pink Panther). A memorable scene that I saw it when I was at school.
I can remember the scene where the little boy was playing with a stick and a big machine and the baddy was going to push him in (think it was the same actor who played Clouseau's mad boss in the Pink Panther). A memorable scene that I saw it when I was at school.
lol yes, it was herbert lom..
The Adjustment Bureau, 2011...matt damon and emily blunt..(emily is always watchable)
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The names of the three main members of the Adjustment Bureau are Thompson, Richardson, and Harry: a play on the term Tom, Dick, and Harry, which is slang for any anonymous persons. Phillip K. Dick is also the writer of the short story the movie is based on.
Some of Emily Blunt (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1289434)'s dancing scenes were completed using a body double, dancer Acacia Schachte of the Cedar Lake Company, with the actress' face being digitally placed on the dancer's body.
The first of three films Emily Blunt (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1289434) has been in where characters try to change the future; the other two are Looper (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104) (2012) and Edge of Tomorrow (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867) (2014). ( both excellent films by way)
Private's Progress, 1956..
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The closing epilogue and dedication states: "To all those who got away, this film is most respectfully dedicated."
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjjhv75heL6AhU8TEEAHQ6PCAAQFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPrivat e%2527s_Progress&usg=AOvVaw3y9LOAW31iSqk2AT2GiK65)
Peggy Sue Got Married, 1986..
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In the original script, Rosalie, the woman in the wheelchair at Peggy Sue's high school reunion, was a gymnast who was crippled in an accident. In the original script, Peggy Sue tried to take advantage of her knowledge of the future. She invented pantyhose, encouraged people to invest in Xerox, and tried to prevent Rosalie from hurting herself.
While "visiting" 1960, Peggy Sue warns her sister about eating red M&Ms. Red M&Ms were discontinued in 1976, when Red #2 dye was named as a suspected carcinogen. In 1986--after the film was released--red M&Ms were reintroduced with a different red dye.
The opening shot of the film is an optical illusion. Because the camera and crew would have been seen in the reflection of the mirror had the scene been shot in a conventional manner, there is a body double for (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjuov_tneL6AhWMRMAKHdHmCZ0QFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPeggy_ Sue_Got_Married&usg=AOvVaw165Vqp_sgajSXX_Dc6JBOH)Kathleen Turner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000678) (only she can be seen from behind in the shot) on the other side of the "mirror," doing the exact opposite of the star's movements, giving the illusion that Turner and Helen Hunt (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000166) are reflections, when in fact they are the real actors in tableau with a body double sitting in front of them with her back to the camera in front of an empty mirror frame, framing a hole in the wall of the set.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjuov_tneL6AhWMRMAKHdHmCZ0QFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPeggy_ Sue_Got_Married&usg=AOvVaw165Vqp_sgajSXX_Dc6JBOH)
The Day the Earth Caught Fire, 1961... bluray remaster..
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81xa4RAYc5L._AC_SL1500_.jpg
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiJjeadueL6AhXiRUEAHSUUD7UQFnoECCQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0054790 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0OW9bWJKIeYpSFW8vGsWt3)
Towards the end, Peter (Edward Judd) is driving to Jeannie's (Janet Munro's) apartment, when he stops to talk to a policeman, who was played by Sir Michael Caine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000323).
The realistic newspaper footage was shot in the Fleet Street offices of Express Newspapers and gives a vivid picture of the "old" London Fleet Street industry (most British newspapers have now moved out of this area, which was famous as a press center). "Express" editor Arthur Christiansen (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0160144) plays himself in this movie.
Janet Munro appears topless from the front for a fraction of a second. you have to look in the mirror.This and the subject caused the movie to receive an "X" certificate from the British Board of Film Censors upon release, barring anyone under sixteen from seeing it.(it was 16 in those days, since uprated to 18 oddly)
And if there is a future for Man - insensitive as he is, proud and defiant in his pursuit of power - let him resolve to live it lovingly; for he knows well how to do so. Then he may say once more: Truly the light is sweet; and what a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the Sun.
great film.. pity some folk don't listen.
The Last Samurai, 2003...
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjkvbKP1-L6AhXLh1wKHbl5A98QFnoECBMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0325710 %2F&usg=AOvVaw24gqlXW284k4ht-bmKDlce)Tom Cruise (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000129) spent almost two years in preparation for this movie, including swordplay instruction and Japanese-language lessons.
The swordsmith in the village is a real swordsmith. His name is (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjkvbKP1-L6AhXLh1wKHbl5A98QFnoECBMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0325710 %2F&usg=AOvVaw24gqlXW284k4ht-bmKDlce)Shoji Yoshihara (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1491186), brother to Yoshihara Yoshindo. Shoji is a "Mukansa"-level master swordsmith, one of the highest rankings in Japan.
Tom Cruise (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000129) narrowly escaped potentially fatal injuries after a sword was swung within one inch of his neck while filming. He and his co-star Hiroyuki Sanada (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0760796) were acting out a sword fight scene when the incident happened. Sanada swung a sword at Cruise who was on an off-camera mechanical horse at the time. But the machine reportedly malfunctioned and failed to duck at the right moment. Sanada stopped the blade just one inch from his neck.
For the climactic battle scenes, over 500 Japanese extras trained for ten days at the Clifton Rugby Grounds in New Plymouth, New Zealand.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjkvbKP1-L6AhXLh1wKHbl5A98QFnoECBMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0325710 %2F&usg=AOvVaw24gqlXW284k4ht-bmKDlce)
Dead of Night, 1945...anthology horror film, made by Ealing Studios. . The individual segments were directed by Alberto Cavalcanti (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiNr9rwxeT6AhUJJ8AKHcdlCEAQFnoECB4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDead_o f_Night&usg=AOvVaw3SjUFfGZsmCz2v0SVIxxKH), Charles Crichton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Crichton), Basil Dearden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Dearden) and Robert Hamer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hamer). It stars Mervyn Johns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_Johns), Googie Withers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googie_Withers), Sally Ann Howes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ann_Howes) and Michael Redgrave (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Redgrave). The film is best remembered for the concluding story featuring Redgrave and an insane ventriloquist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventriloquism)'s malevolent dummy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventriloquism#Ventriloquist's_dummy).Dead of Night is a rare British horror film of the 1940s; horror films were banned from production in Britain during the war. It had an influence on subsequent British films in the genre. Both of John Baines' stories were reused for later films and the ventriloquist dummy episode was adapted into the pilot episode of the long-running CBS radio series Escape (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_(radio_program)).
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The Untouchables, 1987... all star cast this and fairly good too...
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjP16ij8uT6AhWRecAKHfPEDAMQFnoECCcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0094226 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1LCXd9GihefM3qomdgHptY)Albert H. Wolff (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0938196), the last survivor of the real-life Untouchables, was a consultant on this movie, and helped Kevin Costner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000126) with his portrayal of Eliot Ness (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0626479).
An envelope is dropped on the desk of Eliot Ness in one scene. It is assumed to be a bribe, but the amount inside is never revealed. In real life, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjP16ij8uT6AhWRecAKHfPEDAMQFnoECCcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0094226 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1LCXd9GihefM3qomdgHptY)Al Capone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0135330) promised Eliot Ness that two $1,000 bills would be on his desk every Monday morning if he turned a blind eye to his bootlegging activities (an enormous amount of money then; more than $30,000 today). Ness refused the bribe, and in later years struggled with money. He died almost broke at the age of fifty-four. In real life, Al Capone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0135330), knowing that killing a Prohibition agent would only lead to more trouble than he or his outfit could handle, actually had a non-violence order to his men concerning the Untouchables. While Capone did repeatedly attempt to buy them off, he never once attempted to kill Eliot Ness (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0626479) or any of his men.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjP16ij8uT6AhWRecAKHfPEDAMQFnoECCcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0094226 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1LCXd9GihefM3qomdgHptY)
the life of birds..,attenborough..
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81hO-XaY+tL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
North West Frontier, 1959...
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"DVD Talk" said of this film that it " . . . has a lot in common with (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjWuLb8huD6AhVSZcAKHSckDxkQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0053126 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1oa-V_CwuUwNJNTKJzxhCW)John Ford (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000406)'s Stagecoach (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031971) (1939) in that it's essentially a tale of a motley mix of Anglos confined in a train car, racing across an Indian plain trying to evade 'bloodthirsty savages'. It may be a blatant reworking of Stagecoach (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031971) (1939), as the original story was co-written by John Ford (I)'s son Patrick Ford (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285816) and Maureen O'Hara (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000058)'s husband Will Price (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0697195). The final screenplay was adapted from a script by screenwriter Frank S. Nugent (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0637793), the writer of 11 Ford films."
This picture's setting, the North-West Frontier Province of colonial British India in 1905, is now in modern-day Pakistan, but the movie was actually filmed in Guadix, Granada, in Andalucía, Spain.
The song Capt Scott ( (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjWuLb8huD6AhVSZcAKHSckDxkQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0053126 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1oa-V_CwuUwNJNTKJzxhCW)Kenneth More (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0603336)) sings and which is used as an occasional theme, especially at the end, is the Eton Boating Song, often heard in the Ealing comedies like "The Lavender Hill Mob (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044829) (1951)" and "The Titfield Thunderbolt (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046436) (1953)." (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjWuLb8huD6AhVSZcAKHSckDxkQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0053126 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1oa-V_CwuUwNJNTKJzxhCW)
One of my favourite films, despite Moore's typecast as a 'thoroughly good chap'.
The Adjustment Bureau, 2011...matt damon and emily blunt..(emily is always watchable)
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The names of the three main members of the Adjustment Bureau are Thompson, Richardson, and Harry: a play on the term Tom, Dick, and Harry, which is slang for any anonymous persons. Phillip K. Dick is also the writer of the short story the movie is based on.
Some of Emily Blunt (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1289434)'s dancing scenes were completed using a body double, dancer Acacia Schachte of the Cedar Lake Company, with the actress' face being digitally placed on the dancer's body.
The first of three films Emily Blunt (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1289434) has been in where characters try to change the future; the other two are Looper (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104) (2012) and Edge of Tomorrow (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867) (2014). ( both excellent films by way)
Why do I find Emily Blunt sexy? She's not a classical beauty, but very, very attractive.
Philip K. Dick is one of my favourite SF authors - but sadly, IMO, few films based on his writings work. 'Total Recall' being an obvious example.
Peggy Sue Got Married, 1986..
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In the original script, Rosalie, the woman in the wheelchair at Peggy Sue's high school reunion, was a gymnast who was crippled in an accident. In the original script, Peggy Sue tried to take advantage of her knowledge of the future. She invented pantyhose, encouraged people to invest in Xerox, and tried to prevent Rosalie from hurting herself.
While "visiting" 1960, Peggy Sue warns her sister about eating red M&Ms. Red M&Ms were discontinued in 1976, when Red #2 dye was named as a suspected carcinogen. In 1986--after the film was released--red M&Ms were reintroduced with a different red dye.
The opening shot of the film is an optical illusion. Because the camera and crew would have been seen in the reflection of the mirror had the scene been shot in a conventional manner, there is a body double for (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjuov_tneL6AhWMRMAKHdHmCZ0QFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPeggy_ Sue_Got_Married&usg=AOvVaw165Vqp_sgajSXX_Dc6JBOH)Kathleen Turner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000678) (only she can be seen from behind in the shot) on the other side of the "mirror," doing the exact opposite of the star's movements, giving the illusion that Turner and Helen Hunt (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000166) are reflections, when in fact they are the real actors in tableau with a body double sitting in front of them with her back to the camera in front of an empty mirror frame, framing a hole in the wall of the set.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjuov_tneL6AhWMRMAKHdHmCZ0QFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPeggy_ Sue_Got_Married&usg=AOvVaw165Vqp_sgajSXX_Dc6JBOH)
I have seen that film (will watch anything with Kathleen Turner in it) - but sadly remember very little of it.
The Day the Earth Caught Fire, 1961... bluray remaster..
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81xa4RAYc5L._AC_SL1500_.jpg
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiJjeadueL6AhXiRUEAHSUUD7UQFnoECCQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0054790 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0OW9bWJKIeYpSFW8vGsWt3)
Towards the end, Peter (Edward Judd) is driving to Jeannie's (Janet Munro's) apartment, when he stops to talk to a policeman, who was played by Sir Michael Caine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000323).
The realistic newspaper footage was shot in the Fleet Street offices of Express Newspapers and gives a vivid picture of the "old" London Fleet Street industry (most British newspapers have now moved out of this area, which was famous as a press center). "Express" editor Arthur Christiansen (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0160144) plays himself in this movie.
Janet Munro appears topless from the front for a fraction of a second. you have to look in the mirror.This and the subject caused the movie to receive an "X" certificate from the British Board of Film Censors upon release, barring anyone under sixteen from seeing it.(it was 16 in those days, since uprated to 18 oddly)
Saw it in the cinema on it's release. Don't remember the split-second 'topless' shot - but it was a long time ago, and I was very, very young! (Stricly speaking, too young to be allowed admission.)
Why do I find Emily Blunt sexy? She's not a classical beauty, but very, very attractive.
Philip K. Dick is one of my favourite SF authors - but sadly, IMO, few films based on his writings work. 'Total Recall' being an obvious example.
emily isn't a traditionally beauty, but she is just so desireable.
I have seen that film (will watch anything with Kathleen Turner in it) - but sadly remember very little of it.
its a fun film and some good actors in it; decent story premise, which maybe goes a little awry at end. think the original script might have been better tbh.
Saw it in the cinema on it's release. Don't remember the split-second 'topless' shot - but it was a long time ago, and I was very, very young! (Stricly speaking, too young to be allowed admission.)
you have to be looking in miirror which really aren't and it is very split second really.
M*A*S*H, 1970...
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The fourteen-year-old son of director (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj1u9Cavef6AhVYiFwKHaBWCCEQFnoECBwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FM*A*S* H_(film)&usg=AOvVaw1zhs28kAUbY82vbVOncWUi)Robert Altman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000265), Mike, wrote the lyrics to the theme song "Suicide is Painless". Because of its inclusion in the subsequent television series, he continued to get residuals throughout its run and syndication. His father was paid $75,000 for directing, but his son eventually made about $2 million in song royalties, with payments continuing, from first syndication through the present day, as M*A*S*H (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068098) (1972) continues in syndication around the world.
The operating scenes were almost cut out due to their graphic nature. However, two women who were visiting the set told the producers that the operating scenes were what made the movie, and should be kept in.
A classic for me this, and way better than the series(that did somewhat better for some odd quirk, that is the USA)lol
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj1u9Cavef6AhVYiFwKHaBWCCEQFnoECBwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FM*A*S* H_(film)&usg=AOvVaw1zhs28kAUbY82vbVOncWUi)
walpurgis
17-10-2022, 15:48
Great film!
I should get it.
Agreed - I have a copy.
Yes it's a very good film - though the attempt to find out if Hotlips is a true blonde is fallible and not conclusive.
The Thing, 2011... a prequel...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/Thingprequelfairuse.jpg
In the 1982 version the Norwegian helicopter was a Bell 206 Jet Ranger with stripes painted on the tail and the call sign LKK painted on the side. In the 2011 version the same helicopter is used, with the same paint design and the same call sign on its fuselage.
The dog-Thing that carries the shape-shifting alien to the American base is depicted as a Siberian Husky in this film. However, in The Thing (1982), the dog is a Siberian Malamute, not a Husky; although both species are sled dogs. This is the reason why the dog looks different in this film than its appearance in the John Carpenter movie.
Young Frankenstein, 1974...
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Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000698/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): You know, I'm a rather brilliant surgeon. Perhaps I can help you with that hump.
Igor (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001204/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): What hump?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000698/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Well, dear, are you ready?
Inga (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000414/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Yes, Doctor.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000698/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Elevate me.
Inga (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000414/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Now? Right here?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000698/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Yes, yes, raise the platform.
Inga (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000414/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Oh. Ze platform. Oh, zat, yah, yah... yes.
[after sex with The Monster]
Elizabeth (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001404/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Oh. Where you going?... Oh, you men are all alike. Seven or eight quick ones and then you're out with the boys to boast and brag. YOU BETTER KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. Oh... I think I love him.
The African Queen, 1951...
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwim-6PSkOr6AhUXbsAKHSYlBK0QFnoECCcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Af rican_Queen_(film)&usg=AOvVaw0xUUDhiJ_3cCAyUrppz_NH)Humphrey Bogart (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007) 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.
The African Queen was actually the L.S. Livingston, which had been a working diesel boat for 40 years. The steam engine was a prop, and the real diesel engine was hidden under stacked crates of gin and other cargo. It is now docked next to the Holiday Inn in Key Largo, FL, just off US Highway 1.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwim-6PSkOr6AhUXbsAKHSYlBK0QFnoECCcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Af rican_Queen_(film)&usg=AOvVaw0xUUDhiJ_3cCAyUrppz_NH)
some nice info on making of THE AFRICAN QUEEN..
https://www.yoursretro.co.uk/filmblog/behind-the-scenes-of-the-african-queen
Ruthless People, 1986..
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Ruthless_people_poster.jpg
Hudson Hawk, 1991..
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjLk4u5xuz6AhVPi1wKHb0vBYMQFnoECA0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0102070 %2F&usg=AOvVaw39nLcwbiHhrLXhJH8SL95N)
When Mark Kermode (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0449417) met Richard E. Grant (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001290), Kermode told Grant that he was one of the few people who liked the film. Grant responded "It was a stinking pile of steaming hot donkey droppings and you are an idiot."
sums it up well :D... but it is better than many ive seen. it crashed and burned in the US, only taking $17m, but did fairly well internationally and turned a profit overall at $95m. ..and the theme tune was sung by Dr John too..:eyebrows:
Little Big Man, 1970.... yes, again..lol
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Chief Dan George (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Dan_George) was nominated for an Academy Award (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award) as Best Actor in a Supporting Role (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor). He won many honors for his performance, including the National Society of Film Critics Award (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Society_of_Film_Critics) and the New York Film Critics Circle Award (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Film_Critics_Circle_Award). He was also nominated for a Golden Globe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe) as Best Supporting Actor.
Black farce now with... The Death Of Stalin, 2017.
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The movie was banned in Russia on January 23, 2018, two days before it was due to be released. The Cultural Ministry stated, "The distribution certificate for the film The Death of Stalin has been withdrawn." One member of the Culture Ministry's advisory board was quoted as saying, "The film desecrates our historical symbols - the Soviet hymn, orders and medals, and Marshal Zhukov is portrayed as an idiot", and added that this movie's release in advance of the 75th Anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad (February 2nd), would be "an affront to Russia's World War II veterans." :lol:
In one scene, Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Simon Russell Beale (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0750971)) locks a young woman in a cell and later gives her a bunch of flowers upon release. Beria was a notorious sexual predator, sometimes driven around Moscow in search of victims to assault. After Beria had finished with his victims, they were routinely offered a bunch of flowers. To accept was to imply that whatever had happened was consensual. To refuse could lead to arrest, torture, and disappearance.
Vyacheslav Molotov (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0597254)'s (Sir Michael Palin (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001589)) wife Polina's (Diana Quick (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0703438)) arrest and release is more or less consistent with the real events. Polina was arrested in 1949 on bogus charges and sentenced to five years of hard labor and got her freedom only after the death of Iosif Stalin (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0821672). Molotov was forced to divorce her by Stalin during that time. She was used as a tool by Lavrenti Beria (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0075186) as depicted in this movie to secure Molotov's loyalty. They got remarried and lived together until her death in 1970. Even though their relationship seems sincere and lovely, Molotov never blamed Stalin or criticized him for the purges that led to the hardships his wife faced.
Joe Versus the Volcano, 1990.
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Joseph Banks was the name of Captain Cook's chief botanist on his expeditions to the South Pacific in the 18 century.
The only major issue that executive producer Steven Spielberg (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229) took with the production, was with the long unbroken take of Joe leaving Dr. Ellison's office building. The issue was that John Patrick Shanley (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788234) did not shoot any coverage of the scene besides the one shot. Spielberg sent Shanley back to the location to film additional angles, which were promptly discarded in favor of the one-shot take.
Luggage Salesman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569547/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Have you thought much about luggage, Mr. Banks?
Joe Banks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000158/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): No.
Luggage Salesman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569547/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): It's the central preoccupation of my life.
Luggage Salesman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569547/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): This is our premier steamer trunk, it's all handmade, only the finest materials. It's even watertight, tight as a drum. If I had the need, and the wherewithal, Mr. Banks, this would be my trunk of choice.
Joe Banks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000158/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): I'll take four of them.
Luggage Salesman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569547/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): May you live to be a thousand years old, sir.
Paint Your Wagon, 1969..
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Rumson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001511/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): She's picked up a bad case of the respectabilities. And in just a few days from now, that poor woman's going to be burnin' up in a fever of virtue. And then LOOK OUT.
Pardner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Why?
Rumson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001511/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Pardner, it's been my experience that there ain't nothin' more ruthless and treacherous than a genuine good woman.
Elizabeth (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0781029/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Did you know that the Fenty's had an apple farm back in Pennsylvania?
Ben Rumson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001511/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Apple jack, huh?
Mr. Fenty (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0062667/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): No, sir, we did not make apple jack!
Ben Rumson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001511/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Then, what did you grow the apples for?
Mr. Fenty (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0062667/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Mr. Rumson, do you think that everything that comes out of the earth should be used to make liquor?
Ben Rumson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001511/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Whenever possible, yes.
Pardner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Where I come from, Mr. Rumson, we're cautious of strangers who talk in an easy manner.
Rumson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001511/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Oh. You've got me down as some kind of low scuff from New Orleans, hm? Sell you patent medicine with one hand, pinch your purse with the other?
Pardner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Matter of fact, that's kind of what I was thinkin'.
Rumson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001511/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): As a matter of fact, Pardner, you're right. But I ain't yet sunk to horse stealin'. Oh, I've salted claims, yeah. And I've sold whiskey to Injuns. And once a man in Walla Walla come at me with a gun and I killed him. I can't think of one commandment I ain't shattered regular. I never did fancy my mother and father, let alone respect 'em or honor 'em. And I have coveted my neighbor's wife - whenever I had a neighbor and he had a wife, mm, mmm! And I gamble and I cheat at cards, but there's one thing I do not do. I ain't never gulled a pardner. The one sacred thing, even to low scuff like me, is a man's pardner.
Black farce now with... The Death Of Stalin, 2017.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.rogerebert.com/uploads/movie/movie_poster/the-death-of-stalin-2018/large_Stalin-2018.jpg
The movie was banned in Russia on January 23, 2018, two days before it was due to be released. The Cultural Ministry stated, "The distribution certificate for the film The Death of Stalin has been withdrawn." One member of the Culture Ministry's advisory board was quoted as saying, "The film desecrates our historical symbols - the Soviet hymn, orders and medals, and Marshal Zhukov is portrayed as an idiot", and added that this movie's release in advance of the 75th Anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad (February 2nd), would be "an affront to Russia's World War II veterans." :lol:
In one scene, Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Simon Russell Beale (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0750971)) locks a young woman in a cell and later gives her a bunch of flowers upon release. Beria was a notorious sexual predator, sometimes driven around Moscow in search of victims to assault. After Beria had finished with his victims, they were routinely offered a bunch of flowers. To accept was to imply that whatever had happened was consensual. To refuse could lead to arrest, torture, and disappearance.
Vyacheslav Molotov (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0597254)'s (Sir Michael Palin (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001589)) wife Polina's (Diana Quick (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0703438)) arrest and release is more or less consistent with the real events. Polina was arrested in 1949 on bogus charges and sentenced to five years of hard labor and got her freedom only after the death of Iosif Stalin (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0821672). Molotov was forced to divorce her by Stalin during that time. She was used as a tool by Lavrenti Beria (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0075186) as depicted in this movie to secure Molotov's loyalty. They got remarried and lived together until her death in 1970. Even though their relationship seems sincere and lovely, Molotov never blamed Stalin or criticized him for the purges that led to the hardships his wife faced.
A film I've always wanted to see - but never got around to doing so.
A film I've always wanted to see - but never got around to doing so.It's all the better as it's pretty much true
golden oldie ww2 naval film today... In Which We Serve, 1942..
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Three Sirs' and a Dame in the lineup... some might say 2 and 2 with Noel lol, plus Michael Wilding who was married to Liz... Taylor that is, not Truss lol.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjSs_GzifH6AhUh_7sIHbypCPcQFnoECCEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FIn_Whi ch_We_Serve&usg=AOvVaw3rrTr_x2vY50NKAXMa12m9)Noël Coward (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002021) vetoed the casting of James Mason (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000051) in a key role because of his stance on the war.
Noël Coward (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002021) was a friend of Lord Louis Mountbatten (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0609884), 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.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjSs_GzifH6AhUh_7sIHbypCPcQFnoECCEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FIn_Whi ch_We_Serve&usg=AOvVaw3rrTr_x2vY50NKAXMa12m9)
Went the Day Well?, 1942..
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When the man running the pub in the village where the film was being shot discovered that he had used up his alcohol ration on the film crew, he was so distraught he committed suicide.
This is the same church that was used in "The Vicar Of Dibley."
The Interrupted Journey, 1949..
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The reason for the crash which was due to Richard Todd pulling the communication cord mirrors an actual crash the previous year near Winsford in Cheshire when a serviceman on his way home did the same thing so he could get home quicker rather than continuing to Crewe and then catching a train back to Winsford.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interrupted_Journey)On 17 April 1948, 24 people died when the 17:40 Glasgow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Central_railway_station) to London Euston (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euston_railway_station) train hauled by LMS Princess Royal Class (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS_Princess_Royal_Class) 4-6-2 No 6207 Princess Arthur of Connaught was stopped after the communication cord (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_cord) was pulled by a passenger (a soldier on leave who presumably lived near Winsford (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsford) and was seen to leave the train after it had stopped). The stopped train was then run into by a following postal express hauled by LMS Coronation Class (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS_Coronation_Class) 4-6-2 No 6251 City of Nottingham.
The collision happened at between 40 and 45 mph (64 and 72 km/h) and was so severe that only five of the ten passenger coaches could be pulled away on their wheels and only the rear eight of the 13 Postal coaches could be pulled back. 24 passengers were killed. The signalman at Winsford (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsford_railway_station) had, in error, reported the passenger train clear of the section and accepted the postal train.
The person who pulled the emergency cord was a railway employee who worked as a signalbox lad in Winsford Junction, but was currently serving in the army having been called up (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription). He thought that the train would be perfectly safe because he knew how the signalling equipment of the time in that area worked; but he did not know that the train had stopped short of the track circuit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_circuit), which would have reminded the signalman of its presence. He attended the enquiry to confess, and was still a signalman in Winsford Junction until he retired in the 1990s.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interrupted_Journey)
David Copperfield, 1969..
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https://i.ibb.co/19mzJD5/Star-Wars-The-Last-Jedi.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)
'Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi' (2017)
Let's be honest here there are only two really good Star Wars films - the original (now Episode IV) and 'The Empire Strikes Back (ep. V). So no point in expecting too much almost 40 years on especially as it's now a Disney franchise.
It's watchable, though, with only a few really lame bits and nothing like as bad as Episode I, so that's something at least.
As with most things that get flogged to death they lose sight of what made the early ones so successful. Here they have opted for a succession of set-pieces that are only just barely linked together by the plot (a bit like that 'Harry Potter' film I saw once).
It does seem to me that they have the inevitable video game tie-in in mind when they write these things. There's no structure or tightness to it, and the tone is uneven. Did people who lived a long time ago in a galaxy far away really use transiently fashionable 21st century expressions? Well, who knows? - but it certainly jars you out of the moment (see also: the 'Lord Of The Rings films) - and that's never a good thing.
Also watched episode IX - 'The Rise Of Skywalker' - not doing a separate review as it's just more of the same except they have Richard E Grant in it as a baddie but don't do anything with him. What a waste of probably the best actor they've had in the series since Alec Guinness.
Will there be more? - well it grossed over a billion dollars world wide from a budget of $275 million so I think we can expect episode X at some point not too far distant, and there doesn't seem to be any incentive for them to try harder next time. Oh well.
i aw the 2 originals way back, and wasnt impressed but they were at least competent. i expected all the others were just gravy. so it appears. good write up tho.
the original (which was unquestionably ground-breaking at the time) came out when I was nine years old, so I was an impressionable age...
The original was genius really, a fabulous combination of archetypes that everyone of any age could relate to, but it was never trite or child-like.
I bought a copy of the original theatrical release of it earlier this year - it does not have all the crappy additions and edits of the 'Special Edition' re-release. Han kills Greedo in cold blood and there's no Jawas doing a comedy act in the background.
Okay it's in letterbox format and the print is a bit muddy but it's still a much better watch.
the original (which was unquestionably ground-breaking at the time) came out when I was nine years old, so I was an impressionable age...
The original was genius really, a fabulous combination of archetypes that everyone of any age could relate to, but it was never trite or child-like.
I bought a copy of the original theatrical release of it earlier this year - it does not have all the crappy additions and edits of the 'Special Edition' re-release. Han kills Greedo in cold blood and there's no Jawas doing a comedy act in the background.
Okay it's in letterbox format and the print is a bit muddy but it's still a much better watch.
my older brother loved it, yeah. dunno why but it was just ok to me and i never watched it or second one again. still haven't... not like me i guess..
on the other hand i love these oddly.... Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003...
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great acting and sets maybe the sea is more in my blood than space..
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_The_Curse_of_the_Black_P earl)
I've seen the first one of those, have to say first time I watched it didn't get past 15 minutes but tried again once I sort of understood where they were going with the tone of it and I quite enjoyed it.
Depp is really good in it, carries it really.
Not seen any of the others as they don't seem to come on the telly very often, but I'll look out for them.
I've seen the first one of those, have to say first time I watched it didn't get past 15 minutes but tried again once I sort of understood where they were going with the tone of it and I quite enjoyed it.
Depp is really good in it, carries it really.
Not seen any of the others as they don't seem to come on the telly very often, but I'll look out for them.
needless to say it was banned in china.. they wont show ghosts, afterlife etc as it was once connected to lying political leaders:eyebrows: holywood these days is inclined to censor itself to suit the chinese now. i say screw them and their money.:ner:
Back to the Future Part III, 1990..
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Another great series of films culminating in this..
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjG5sjKifT6AhWhmFwKHTHEB_gQFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBack_t o_the_Future_Part_III&usg=AOvVaw1VYNijU_mF8etHmg-NhlCQ)Clint Eastwood (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142) was asked for permission about his name being used for Marty in the film. He consented and was said to be tickled by the homage.
According to the book " (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjG5sjKifT6AhWhmFwKHTHEB_gQFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBack_t o_the_Future_Part_III&usg=AOvVaw1VYNijU_mF8etHmg-NhlCQ)Billy Gibbons (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316531): Rock & Roll Gearhead", ZZ Top (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1151396) 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 (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000150) 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 (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000709) replied that it had been fixed for quite a while, he just didn't want to stop the party that had evolved.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjG5sjKifT6AhWhmFwKHTHEB_gQFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBack_t o_the_Future_Part_III&usg=AOvVaw1VYNijU_mF8etHmg-NhlCQ)
finish off with an old favourite... Scrooge, 1951...
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The word "humbug" provides insight into Ebenezer Scrooge's hatred of Christmas, as it describes deceitful efforts to fool people by pretending to a fake loftiness or false sincerity. Therefore, when Scrooge calls Christmas a humbug, he is claiming that people only pretend to be charitable and kind in an effort to delude him, each other, and themselves. In Scrooge's eyes, he is the one man who is honest enough to admit that no one really cares about anyone else, so (to him) every wish for a Merry Christmas is one more deceitful effort to fool him and take advantage of him. This is a man who has turned to profit because he honestly believes everyone else will someday betray him or abandon him the moment he trusts them.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiUvJnvqPT6AhXGT8AKHV9kBi0QFnoECCEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FScroog e_(1951_film)&usg=AOvVaw0pSVYMaxbO7x7bsTTu8RTn)
The 6th Day, 2000..
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fun Sunday film
The Fugitive, 1993..
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue, 1970... as good as they come this...
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How the West Was Won, 1962... all star cast for this epic western.
Henry Hathaway (who directs three out of the five chapters involving the same family), John Ford and George Marshall, produced by Bernard Smith, written by James R. Webb, and narrated by Spencer Tracy.
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Stuntman (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjIoJqEi_v6AhWySUEAHbzcDkoQFnoECBgQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHow_th e_West_Was_Won_(film)&usg=AOvVaw0t6t_td6vh1Kz-KTO2UePP)Bob Morgan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604501) was seriously injured, and almost died, while performing a stunt in this picture. Toward the end of the film, there is a gunfight on a moving train between the sheriff and a gang of train robbers. Morgan was one of the stuntmen playing a robber and was crouched next to a pile of logs on a flatcar. The chains holding the logs together snapped, and Morgan was crushed by the falling logs. He was so badly hurt it took him five years to recover to the point where he was able to move by himself and walk unaided.
John Ford (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000406)'s habit was to always sit beside the camera while it was filming, so he could watch the action intently. Unfortunately, because of the triple lens on the Cinerama camera, he kept appearing in shots until director of photography Joseph LaShelle (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005766) hit on the idea of building a rig that allowed Ford to sit above the camera.
Cinerama was so expansive that it couldn't really be configured for close-ups. The nearest it could manage was to place a key actor in the central frame and try to get in as close as possible. This proved to be very intimidating for a lot of actors as the camera (an enormous piece of apparatus under a black hood with three lenses) would be literally in their face--18 inches away, to be precise.
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Point Blank, 1967...
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Sir (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwju__eHnPv6AhXXPsAKHQL-DNoQFnoECCsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0062138 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1HYJeSI4uL0vJi64yLN6df)John Boorman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000958) was called in for a meeting with MGM President Robert O'Brien in which the executive immediately began expressing concern, but partway into the meeting the phone rang. It was David Lean (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000180) making requests in advance of his next film, Ryan's Daughter (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066319) (1970), and O'Brien was so excited to speak with him that when the call ended, he simply ushered Boorman out, saying only "make a good one". Boorman told Lean years later how he had saved him.
Lee Marvin (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001511) didn't think John Vernon (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006893) was good for the role, as the actor "wasn't strong enough to contend with him"; and during filming, Marvin punched Vernon in the stomach during a fight scene, causing Vernon to cry out and protest that he was an actor, not a fighter. But Vernon followed it with a visibly-increased energy and anger.
On the film's commentary, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwju__eHnPv6AhXXPsAKHQL-DNoQFnoECCsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0062138 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1HYJeSI4uL0vJi64yLN6df)Steven Soderbergh (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001752) talks about the sound of Walker's footsteps as he walks quickly through the airport, and Sir John Boorman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000958) adds that when Lee Marvin (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001511) died, his widow asked the filmmaker if he wanted anything to remember him by, "and I took the shoes from that scene".
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Battle of the Bulge, 1965.... or as a mate once called it... battle of the bugel:eek: .. he complaied as there were no bugels i it:doh:
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An article dated 12/2/65 and circulated by "The Washington Post" said that (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjRucrgv_v6AhU2TEEAHZt7CpoQFnoECBIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBattle _of_the_Bulge_(1965_film)&usg=AOvVaw1RMdOVnxsK1XNfG2IfPpca)Dwight D. Eisenhower (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252032) was "outraged" by this Warner Brothers movie. It said that Columbia Pictures had long had an epic movie in the works about the battle that had the cooperation of the Defense Department, as well as many of the generals who had been involved, including Eisenhower and Bernard L. Montgomery (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0599728). The working title of Columbia's movie was "16th of December:The Battle of the Bulge." Michael Anderson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027183) was slated to direct from a screenplay by Byron Morgan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604526) and Tony Lazzarino (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0493993), and the project was to be co-produced by Lazzorino and Kenneth T. Hoeck. The former president's son John S.D. Eisenhower (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252033) was writing a companion history of the battle and serving as technical advisor. Anderson was quoted as hoping to have Van Heflin (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001336) as Eisenhower, David Niven (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000057) as Montgomery, John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078) as Gen. George S. Patton (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0666567) and Laurence Olivier (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000059) as Adolf Hitler (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386944). Shortly after Columbia announced that filming would begin during the winter of 1964, Warner Brothers registered the title "The Battle of the Bulge" and announced that it was going to make its own fictional movie, upsetting the plans for Columbia's epic. Columbia obtained an injunction against Warners, dropping it after Warners agreed that its picture would not use the names of any of the real-life figures that had contributed to Columbia's project, such as Eisenhower, Montgomery, Omar Bradley (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2927077), Anthony McAuliffe (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3558430), Patton and 10 other figures. The Defense Department had also urged a Federal Trade Commission action against the movie on the grounds that its title was misleading the public. When the article appeared it stated that Columbia's project would go forward, with filming to begin at Camp Drum near Watertown, NY, in the fall of 1966, but the project fell through and the film was never made.
Robert Shaw (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001727) earned $350,000 for his role as the German Panzer commander, more than he had earned in his entire career up to that point. That amount, after adjusting for inflation, would be equivalent to $3 million in 2022.
German King Tiger tanks in this movie are actually American M47 Patton tanks, and the M4 Sherman tanks are actually M24 Chaffee tanks.
My comment on screen before it starts would have been...Any similarity with the real battle of the bulge is purely coincidental. lol....
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Capricorn One, 1978... Telly Savalas plays a nut in this as he did in last film 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, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiUhIju6_v6AhWcQUEAHXkADS8QFnoECCUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCapric orn_One&usg=AOvVaw0Y91j0to62MXbIFp8w9is2)Frank Tallman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848184), 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. At the time of the picture's release, Hollywood aviation expert Frank Tallman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848184) said of the film's dogfight flying finale between a bi-plane and two helicopters: "It is the most dangerous and complex aerial sequence ever executed for a movie".
During his interview in the 2016 ESPN documentary O.J.: Made in America, Capricorn One director Peter Hyams (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001382) admitted that the studio had given him a mandate to cast O.J. Simpson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001740) 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 (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393666) or Bernie Casey (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0143378), so my reaction was less than enthusiastic. I had seen The Towering Inferno (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072308) (1974). I thought [Simpson's acting ability] was not going to frighten Daniel Day-Lewis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000358). 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."
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I've seen the first one of those, have to say first time I watched it didn't get past 15 minutes but tried again once I sort of understood where they were going with the tone of it and I quite enjoyed it.
Depp is really good in it, carries it really.
Not seen any of the others as they don't seem to come on the telly very often, but I'll look out for them.
Inclined to agree - I saw the first and then the second, which did not add much. It's now a franchise, and despite the inclusion of the inestimable Geoffrey Rush they all seem to be much of a muchness.
Earlier...
The Front Page, 1974...
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NOW...
Jeremiah Johnson, 1972...
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on being offered the indian chief's daughter, Del Gue had these words for Jeramiah....
He may be a Christian and talk white; but he's still an Indian and his rules is his rules. Now, when this is over you can take her to Fort Hawley and trade her, but you will get married my friend. Besides, maybe she ain't half bad. You turn down this gift, and they'll slit you, me, Caleb and the horses from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler!
a good reason to marry me thinks... father in laws are all the same:D
Bicentennial Man, 1999...
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When Andrew regales the family with jokes, the jokes themselves were unscripted. (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj_qdrstoD7AhVA_rsIHaW0BLoQFnoECCQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBicent ennial_Man_(film)&usg=AOvVaw0D9tU3bADXnejqkDYvsakD)Robin Williams (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000245) ad-libbed all of the jokes. The other actors' reactions to the jokes and their laughter are real.
The aria that Andrew is listening to when he first uses the record player is from Dvorak's opera "Rusalka." The opera is concerned with the fairy-tale story of a water nymph who wants to become mortal for love.
The female robot, Galatea, is named after the statue brought to life by the gods in the Pygmalion myth.
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The Ipcress File, 1965..
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Harry Palmer is depicted as an accomplished cook, but when you see Palmer skillfully break a couple of eggs, the hands in the close-up belong to (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiYvOGZzoD7AhWmhP0HHQpuCrwQFnoECCIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ip cress_File_(film)&usg=AOvVaw1BNxKsXT-fxwudNzIlgVb-)Len Deighton (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0215050), author of the book on which this movie was based. Deighton was an accomplished cook and also wrote a comic strip about cooking for The Observer. The walls of Palmer's kitchen are full of these strips.
Palmer is the first action hero to wear glasses. (Sir (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiYvOGZzoD7AhWmhP0HHQpuCrwQFnoECCIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ip cress_File_(film)&usg=AOvVaw1BNxKsXT-fxwudNzIlgVb-)Michael Caine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000323) is near-sighted in real life.) Caine chose to wear glasses because he expected this movie to be the first of a franchise, similar to the Bond movies. He feared being over-identified with the character of Harry Palmer, and so he wore the glasses so that he could remove them for other roles.
Harry's glasses frames were dark brown, contrary to the widely held view that they were black. They were a style called "Teviot 74" manufactured by a company called "U.K. Optical". They were already popular at the time for being a stylish and inexpensive alternative to the standard models that were issued for "free" by the National Health Service in Britain. They became even more popular after the success of this movie. (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiYvOGZzoD7AhWmhP0HHQpuCrwQFnoECCIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ip cress_File_(film)&usg=AOvVaw1BNxKsXT-fxwudNzIlgVb-)Len Deighton (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0215050) wore the same frames at this time. Those frames have been described by some as the first affordable "designer" frames available in the U.K.
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Shooter, 2007...
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjRkofC5ID7AhUIQkEAHTduARgQFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FShoote r_(2007_film)&usg=AOvVaw1GJHS8s3DtqFlkHfhRyrJv)Welcome to Tennessee, patron state of shootin' stuff
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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.
When Swagger ( (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjRkofC5ID7AhUIQkEAHTduARgQFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FShoote r_(2007_film)&usg=AOvVaw1GJHS8s3DtqFlkHfhRyrJv)Mark Wahlberg (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000242)) directs his M200 at a can of beef stew he set up for target practice. He locks his scope dead center on it and looks over at his dog and says "1760 (meters), that's about a mile". At that distance, a shooter has to take into account wind, bullet spin drift, the Coriolis Effect, etc. which means Swagger would have needed to apply "Kentucky Windage" to compensate for these variables. In other words, the scope would have been off center as snipers use the scope cross hair mil dots to compensate. In addition, the Cheytac M200 Intervention sniper rifle includes a ballistic computer PDA as well as mathematical documentation to aide in precise aiming, which means the scope would be anything but dead center on the beef stew can.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjRkofC5ID7AhUIQkEAHTduARgQFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FShoote r_(2007_film)&usg=AOvVaw1GJHS8s3DtqFlkHfhRyrJv)
[URL="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiYvOGZzoD7AhWmhP0HHQpuCrwQFnoECCIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ip cress_File_(film)&usg=AOvVaw1BNxKsXT-fxwudNzIlgVb-"]The Ipcress File, 1965..
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Good film - the first and the best of the Harry Palmer trilogy.
This is or was available on Netflix, outstanding and thoroughly recommended. I can't see anybody, young or old not enjoying this brilliant doccy.
My Octopus Teacher
2020 | U | 1h 25m | Nature & Ecology Documentaries
A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
I tried to get a pic up here for you, sorry no luck.
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marvellous and worth another watch..
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BBC Earth.. Madagascar, 2011...
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Starman, 1984..
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The Maltese Falcon, 1941..
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiFosv8t4X7AhUOaMAKHeoiBisQFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0033870 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3WteNk5BwOA5_dlv4PiQFV)John Huston (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001379) and company tickled themselves with a number of other on-set jokes. As Mary Astor (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000802) recounted in her autobiography, the cast and crew had a system, whereby Huston would signal for a certain practical joke to be played for visitors to the set. For the benefit of visiting star-struck social club women, the "No. 5" had Humphrey Bogart (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007) going into a prepared act with Sydney Greenstreet (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002113). He'd start yelling and cursing at him, calling him a fat old fool. "Who the hell do you think you are? You upstaged me, and I'm telling you I'm not having any--," at which point Huston would jump into the act, holding back Bogart's mock rage. Very quickly, the embarrassed and disillusioned ladies would shuffle towards the nearest exit. Meanwhile, the "No. 10" had Peter Lorre (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000048) coming out of Astor's dressing room at the appropriate moment, adjusting his fly and saying, "See you later, Mary."
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The Dead Pool, 1988.. (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiyxMTpzYX7AhWY_rsIHYrCAPMQFnoECBMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0094963 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1fH90uDadczxtcvB5El9_p)Evan C. Kim (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0453447)(Eastwood's partner) did all of his own stunts, including the martial-arts fighting(Taekwondo) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwib49vx1oX7AhU8_bsIHRkhD_8QFnoECAwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTaekwo ndo&usg=AOvVaw3Oa1KwMinlAEh8SRygpgft)
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In the outdoor elevator action sequence, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiyxMTpzYX7AhWY_rsIHYrCAPMQFnoECBMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0094963 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1fH90uDadczxtcvB5El9_p)Patricia Clarkson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165101) stated how she was petrified when the elevator was shot at by a blaze of deafening and frightening firepower, but was comforted greatly by Clint Eastwood (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142), who, as Dirty Harry, covered and protected her. Clarkson has revealed that the bullets from the battery of Uzis were in fact marbles.
This movie came about when Warner Brothers greenlit and financed (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiyxMTpzYX7AhWY_rsIHYrCAPMQFnoECBMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0094963 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1fH90uDadczxtcvB5El9_p)Clint Eastwood (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142)'s pet project, the biopic of musician Charles "Yardbird" Parker, Jr. called Bird (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094747) (1988). Eastwood, returning the favor to the studio, agreed to make a movie for them that would be commercial and carry box-office weight. Warner Brothers suggested another Dirty Harry movie.
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one of the older Harry's now and the 1973 Magnum Force.
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David Soul (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0815800)'s performance as Officer John Davis, one of the vigilante cops, led to his being cast as Detective Ken Hutchinson in the classic cop series Starsky and Hutch (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072567) (1975).
Albert Popwell, who played the pimp, appeared in the first four "Dirty Harry" movies with Clint Eastwood. He portrayed a different character in each movie. He was the bank robber in Dirty Harry (1971), the pimp in this movie, a black militant leader in The Enforcer (1976), and as Harry's partner Horace in Sudden Impact (1983).
The motorcycles used by the "death squad" cops through most of the movie are Moto Guzzi Eldorado Police bikes. However, Triumph 500cc T100 Tiger motorcycles were used during the scenes on the aircraft carrier at the end. These were favored by the stunt riders, as they were lighter and easier to handle than the Moto Guzzis.
A man's gotta know his limitations..lol
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror, 1942...
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Voice of Terror (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057422/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): [off-screen] Germany broadcasting. Germany broadcasting. People of Britain, greetings from the Third Reich. This is the voice you have learned to fear. This is the Voice of Terror. Again, we bring you disaster: crushing, humiliating disaster. It is folly to stand against the mighty wrath of the Fuhrer. Do you need more testimony of his invincible might to bring you to your knees? Very well. Are you ready, Operative Number 7? This is the Voice of Terror. A secret airplane factory somewhere in England. Listen. Screams of the dying can still be heard. This is the Voice of Terror. Are you there, people of Britain, shivering in your cellars? Listen, Operative 41. The fuse is lighted. Oil to fuel your navy, to feed your tanks, there it goes up in smoke by the millions of gallons. This is the Voice of Terror. Do you still believe that there are secrets unknown to the Fuhrer? Listen. Tonight at 7:10 an important diplomat boarded a train at a little station outside Liverpool. Each split second is accounted for. The rails divide, the train hurtles through the air, the diplomat will make no report in London. This is the Voice of Terror. Englishmen, do you still await your doom in your stupid, stuffy little clubs? It will come, I promise you. Operative 23, the time is now. We strike you on the high seas as well as on the land. This is the Voice of Terror. Englishmen, the Fuhrer strikes you now as he pleases. Water pours through your greatest dams, smashing everything before it, even as our invincible armies roar toward their objectives.
reminds me of someone..lol
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939...
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first of the rathbone bruce films... richard greene as top billed as he was better known at time.
How To Murder Your Wife, 1965.
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Taken, 2002... si-fi mini series ....
I have this idea about why people do the terrible things they do. Same reason little kids push each other on the schoolyard. If you're the one doing the pushing, then you're not going to be the one who gets pushed. If you're the monster, then nothing will be waiting in the shadows to jump out at you. It's pretty simple, really. People do the terrible things they do because they're scared.
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At the time of its airing, it was the highest rated program on the Sci-Fi Channel (now SyFy). The record was beaten the next year with Battlestar Galactica (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314979) (2003).
In "High Hopes", the third episode, Owen Crawford examines the photo of an unidentified married couple abducted by aliens. The photo is of real-life couple Betty and Barney Hill, who became famous in the early 1970's when hypnotherapy sessions allegedly revealed that they had been abducted by aliens.
Sullivan's Travels, 1941..
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John L. Sullivan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0566948/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): There's a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that that's all some people have? It isn't much, but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan.
Cinematographer John Seitz (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0782715) admired Preston Sturges (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002545)' 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.
Preston Sturges (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002545) had originally intended to use a clip from a Charles Chaplin (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000122) film for the church sequence, but Chaplin wouldn't give permission. In an earlier scene, Joel McCrea (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0566948) does parody the Little Tramp character. The cartoon eventually used was Walt Disney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000370)'s Playful Pluto (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025657) (1934).
The Bourne Identity, 2002..
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The Terminator, 1984..
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Original and best.
stay with arnie and ...The Running Man, 1987...
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It's hinted that Mic Fleetwood plays himself in the movie. In the film, the resistance leader's name is Mick and he is British and when Mick meets Richards to remove his explosive collar from around his neck he says to him "You're one of the cops who locked up all my friends, burned my songs."
When (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjl0rqA1Y37AhWPasAKHeTQAe4QFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0093894 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0qhkfnWoscVgbNTT2a3Z7q)Rob Cohen (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003418) purchased the rights to the Richard Bachman novel "The Running Man", he had no idea that Bachman was actually a pseudonym for Stephen King (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000175).
Many people who worked with (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjl0rqA1Y37AhWPasAKHeTQAe4QFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0093894 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0qhkfnWoscVgbNTT2a3Z7q)Richard Dawson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206241) on the game show Family Feud (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073991) (1976) say that in real life Dawson was more like his character Damon Killian in his handling of underlings. Although Arnold Schwarzenegger hates Richard Dawson onscreen, in real life they were lifelong friends.
Erland van Lidth (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887419) ("Dynamo") was a classically trained Helden baritone opera singer, so in his introduction when Dynamo is singing an aria from "The Marriage of Figaro", it actually is van Lidth singing. This was also his final movie( he died of a heart attack at 34 i seem to remember. he was 6'6" and 350lbs), as well as that of Richard Dawson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206241) (Damon Killian).
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Taken, 2002... si-fi mini series ....
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At the time of its airing, it was the highest rated program on the Sci-Fi Channel (now SyFy). The record was beaten the next year with Battlestar Galactica (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314979) (2003).
In "High Hopes", the third episode, Owen Crawford examines the photo of an unidentified married couple abducted by aliens. The photo is of real-life couple Betty and Barney Hill, who became famous in the early 1970's when hypnotherapy sessions allegedly revealed that they had been abducted by aliens.
last of the series watched... superb stuff if taken with that pinch of salts
The Spy in Black, 1939... directed by Michael Powell, with screenplay by Emeric Pressburger.
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In the German submarine, the officers refer to depths in feet, and the depth gauge is calibrated in feet. On a German ship, depths would be measured in meters.
This was the first film to pair Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger who went on to become an important partnership in British film history.
The Searchers, 1956...directed by John Ford and written by Frank S. Nugent.
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The "dead" Indian under the rock, when the rock is removed, is clearly breathing. lol..
Beulah Archuletta (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0033815) (who played the indian woman 'Look') was found crying in one of the tipis by John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078) in between shooting scenes. When Wayne asked her why she was crying, she responded that she was going to miss her son's wedding because she was filming her scenes at the time. Wayne stopped production of the film for a few days and flew her to California so that she could attend the wedding.
The eccentric character of Mose Harper, played by Hank Worden (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941401), is loosely based on an actual historical personage called Mad Mose, a legendary half-crazy Indian fighter of the American southwest with a fondness for rocking chairs.
a grim film at times with wayne's characters' massive racial hatred eventually finding some redemption. maybe a film that wouldn't get made like it is today(which is sad).
going to watch a comedic drama now with .. Throw Momma from the Train, 1987...
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A great film this. very funny at times too.
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Memoirs of an Invisible Man, 1992... disliked by most; i like it
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Earlier...
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Now..
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjSpb-x6JT7AhXARkEAHV3yAb0QFnoECCEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0093044 %2F&usg=AOvVaw21x3-3Ihk79Nn4rRwo4gWY)Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968...
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjP756A6ZT7AhWSS8AKHUiTCx4QFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FOnce_U pon_a_Time_in_the_West&usg=AOvVaw2UhfFgstw6jVMtKxtBeQGC)
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Steptoe and Son, 1972...
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Long suffering Harold pulls a stripper and weds her much to Albert's dismay, and he plans to destroy the match asap... As much as i loved Steptoe and Son, i always felt bloody sorry for Harold..
walpurgis
04-11-2022, 19:59
Steptoe and Son, 1972.
Carolyn Seymour was very tasty! :)
The Fourth Protocol, 1987.
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A deeply implausable but entertaing film. Spoilt for me from the start of the film where Kim Philby is shot dead. (:doh:)
Harlem Nights, 1989..
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NOW...
Back to the Future II, 1989....
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To commemorate the release of a 30th anniversary Back to the Future trilogy Blu-ray and DVD release, a short movie called (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiOuq-vqJf7AhWCScAKHeDFD54QFnoECCQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHarlem _Nights&usg=AOvVaw0p_fA_xtBfWs823yFfxEgC)Back to the Future: Doc Brown Saves the World (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5162276) (2015) was filmed with Christopher Lloyd (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000502) reprising his role of Doc Brown. In the movie, Doc tapes a video message, explaining that he traveled to the 2040s in a rebuilt DeLorean, and discovered that inventions such as the Hoverboard and dehydrated food will cause people to become massively overweight; even worse, a simultaneous glitch in every nuclear Mr. Fusion device on the planet will cause a nuclear holocaust that decimates the world's population. He subsequently travels back in time, and successfully prevents such dangerous devices from ever being invented, thus explaining why the future 2015 as seen in this movie did not come true in reality.
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Paul, 2011.. the uncut version..
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What are the cuts that have been retained in the uncut version?
What are the cuts that hve been retained in the uncut version?A number of small bits, mostly dialogue that were cut to get a certificate I think.
It's better with them in
RED, 2010... again lol
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Looper, 2012...
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Looper, 2012...
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Interesting film. :)
Interesting film. :)
as well as being well done and having good actors, its quite a good story for a si-fi. one of my favs
Chato's Land, 1972...
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think i mentioned it before but bronson was a private and suspicious man. he didn't like saying 2 words where a look would do. him, his wife jill ireland and winner dined every night together while jack palance ate alone. Bronson thought Palance was the devil and refused to sit or talk to him.
oddly near the end of the shoot he sat down at his table and later came back to winner and said jack is a really nice man.
both interestingly were hard men, both had been in the war etc and were whats known as tough as nails types.
Yellowstone, 2009. Narrated by Peter Firth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Firth)
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Life Story, 2014.. Narrated by, David Attenborough
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excellent series life story... worth catching again if you get chance.
now some... Jeeves and Wooster - Season 1
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Season One was excellent - but the later series went down hill when the two of them were stranded in America.
Lawrence001
07-11-2022, 23:36
Yes I wondered if that was made to export there?
Lawrence001
07-11-2022, 23:39
Carolyn Seymour was very tasty! :)You dirty old man
Pigmy Pony
08-11-2022, 15:27
Interesting film. :)
Yes, and one of the last films where Bruce Willis appears to know what film he's in. Shame really, I like Bruce.
Strangers on a Train, 1951...
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The final scene of the so-called "American" version of this movie had Barbara and Anne Morton waiting for Guy to call on the telephone. Sir (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjBho6I7qD7AhXWilwKHbMNAJ0QFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FStrang ers_on_a_Train_(film)&usg=AOvVaw2j6nGjxXOE02GCm0LtgC9D)Alfred Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033) wanted the phone in the foreground to dominate the shot, emphasizing the importance of the call, but the limited depth-of-field of contemporary movie camera lenses made it difficult to get both phone and women in focus. So Hitchcock had an oversized phone constructed and placed in the foreground. Anne reaches for the big phone, but actually answers a regular one. Hitchcock explained that "I did that on one take, by moving in on Anne so that the big phone went out of the frame as she reached for it. Then a grip put a normal-sized phone on the table, where she picked it up."
The stunt where the man crawled under the carousel was not done with trick photography. Sir (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjBho6I7qD7AhXWilwKHbMNAJ0QFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FStrang ers_on_a_Train_(film)&usg=AOvVaw2j6nGjxXOE02GCm0LtgC9D)Alfred Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033) claimed that this was the most dangerous stunt ever performed under his direction, and he would never allow it to be done again.
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Tombstone, 1993...
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The line quoted by Doc at the end of the fight at the OK Corral is historically true, and was reported in the Tombstone papers reporting the fight. When confronted by one of the cowboys at point blank range, the cowboy reportedly said, "I got you now Doc, you son of a bitch!", to which Doc gleefully retorted, "You're a daisy if you do!"
Some years after the death of Doc Holliday, Wyatt was quoted in an interview as saying, "Doc was a dentist, not a lawman or an assassin, whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long lean ash-blond fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun that I ever knew."
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwji_9TuhqH7AhUCY8AKHa3JBwEQFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0108358 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0qChX6Sn3qXK44g3woI3rr)Robert Mitchum (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000053) was signed on to star as Old Man Clanton. Prior to principal photography, he fell from his horse and injured his back, forcing him to quit the part. Instead, Mitchum provides the narration at the beginning and end of the film.
Wyatt Earp died in 1929 having never been so much as scratched by a single bullet. The fact his name is known above, for instance, Virgil's, the marshall of Tombstone at the time of the famous gunfight, is largely due to Wyatt's self-promotion. Before his death he walked in Hollywood circles, and John Wayne once claimed to have met him, apparently modelling his famous walk on that of Wyatt Earp.
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The Day of the Jackal, 1971..
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During the filming of the final sequence where President (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwio5JSTo6H7AhXKTcAKHShiAwQQFnoECBcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Da y_of_the_Jackal_(film)&usg=AOvVaw0M_sofNrtUmzFWAAE7Z1tb)Charles de Gaulle (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0208540) is presenting medals to veterans, the many extras were unaware of how close a resemblance actor Adrien Cayla-Legrand (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0147294) 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. (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwio5JSTo6H7AhXKTcAKHShiAwQQFnoECBcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Da y_of_the_Jackal_(film)&usg=AOvVaw0M_sofNrtUmzFWAAE7Z1tb)Frederick Forsyth (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0287046) said in an interview that he was aware that such things happened in the 1960s. (Several years later, it was revealed that the British Member of Parliament John Stonehouse, in a notorious case, had obtained what newspapers called a "Jackal passport" to escape retribution after faking his own death). 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.
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Ghost, 1990...
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The horrific sounds made by the "dark shadows" are really the sounds of babies' cries, played at extremely slow speed backwards.
The role of Molly Jensen was given to (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwirlq7M0aH7AhWOSMAKHcHSBBMQFnoECCUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0099653 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0lFUg97Gh8ffHoc5p5x5LB)Demi Moore (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000193) largely in part because Moore could cry out of either eye on cue.
When they were filming the chase scene at night in New York City, it was really cold, and everyone else was bundled up except for (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwirlq7M0aH7AhWOSMAKHcHSBBMQFnoECCUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0099653 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0lFUg97Gh8ffHoc5p5x5LB)Patrick Swayze (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000664)'s character Sam Wheat, and since he's a ghost they didn't want his breath showing so they had him chew ice.
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One of my favourite films.
Yesterday I watched 'The Whistle Blower' (1987) starring Michael Caine
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tonight I'll start the Shogun box set:
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The Jungle Book, 2016..
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The CGI character Baloo (voiced by Bill Murray) is so large and furry, he took almost five hours of rendering time per frame.
The animal characters were motion-captured and performed live on-set by puppeteers from the Jim Henson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001345) Company. For the on-set performances, Jim Henson's Creature Shop built elaborate life-sized puppets to act alongside Mowgli, and serve as eye-lines.
All the locations in the movie are computer generated visual effects. The story may have been set primarily in India, but the movie was completely shot at Los Angeles Center Studios in Los Angeles, California.
Lyricist Richard M. Sherman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792556), who wrote songs for The Jungle Book (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061852) (1967), composed a new verse for "Wanna Be Like You" for Christopher Walken (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000686), where King Louie declares that he is a Gigantopithecus.
The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976..
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The Gatling guns shown during the massacre of the surrendering confederates are not Civil War-period versions of that weapon. The Model 1861 Gatling was a .58 caliber weapon firing from individually-loaded brass or steel chambers, which were fed into the receiver via a hopper or chute attached to the side of the gun's housing. As a result, the gun's rate of fire was significantly slower than is shown in in the film. The guns shown in the movie were models of 1867 or later, which were chambered for fixed ammunition, usually 45/70 and fed through a stick magazine on the top of the weapon's receiver.
Absolute Power, 1997..
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiYnte4qqT7AhVUXMAKHXh_D0sQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0118548 %2F&usg=AOvVaw26e0RZcZXVQjbFxBKKBxcI)Clint Eastwood (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142) has said of this movie's development: "I was sent the script by the production team at Castle Rock and I liked it immediately. It was written by William Goldman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001279), who is one of the best screenwriters around. He had nicely tightened up the story from the book to fit into a movie format, while keeping the characters well defined and interesting people."
The cast includes two Oscar winners: (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiYnte4qqT7AhVUXMAKHXh_D0sQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0118548 %2F&usg=AOvVaw26e0RZcZXVQjbFxBKKBxcI)Clint Eastwood (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142) and Gene Hackman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000432); and four Oscar nominees: Ed Harris (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000438), Judy Davis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001114), Laura Linney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001473), and Richard Jenkins (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0420955).
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Quatermass and the Pit, 1967..
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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).
The Captain's Paradise, 1953..
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwja5PXwlqb7AhUGWcAKHZM1BLQQFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ca ptain%2527s_Paradise&usg=AOvVaw1xp8VmZHXt7SKkWaZfZA7V)The film was refused approval by the US Production Code on the ground it was immoral because the lead character was a bigamist. An extra scene was shot to say St James only lived with Nita in North Africa, he was not married to her, he was only married to Maud. This allowed the film to be released.
There were further issues with censors in the US. The film was banned in Maryland because it "made light of marriage".
Eventually further changes were made. A line referring to Guinness' character as a "saint" was cut, and an epilogue added to the end which stated the film was only a fairytale.
The movie was seen widely in the USA.
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The Apartment, 1960...
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great film that. super casting etc. top script etc.... they don't come much better.
now an episode of poirot before an early night...:) might have another dram too...
We're No Angels (https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWe%252 7re_No_Angels_(1955_film)&psig=AOvVaw1aw9LuKlBqfEvh_gIzfWYV&ust=1668334050049000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=2ahUKEwj6t9Dksqj7AhUGBRoKHZdgBbQQr4kDegUIARDFA Q), 1955..... Bogart, Ray and Ustinov comedy... top class too.
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The Cruel Sea, 1953... based on the best-selling 1951 novel of the same name (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiNwb2byqj7AhVRkFwKHZLDD7MQFnoECBgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Cr uel_Sea_(1953_film)&usg=AOvVaw2IFCjaEZzQMty4cfcj7og7) by former naval officer Nicholas Monsarrat. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Monsarrat)
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Jack Hawkins (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370144) wrote in his 1973 autobiography "Anything for a Quiet Life" regarding this film, "All of us in the film were sure that we were making something quite unusual, and a long way removed from the Errol Flynn-taking-Burma-single-handed syndrome. This was the period of some very indifferent American war movies, whereas 'The Cruel Sea' contained no false heroics. That is why we all felt that we were making a genuine example of the way in which a group of men went to war."
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Red Dwarf series 9... back to earth.
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Red Dwarf series 10..
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Scrooge, 1951... (B&W version)
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cant watch one without other i guess so the second best version..
A Christmas Carol, 1984...
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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 (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjlrsTOkav7AhWxSEEAHTtWAqAQFnoECCYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0087056 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0I7_0g_wDTKVcOAw90eTVd)George C. Scott (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001715) 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. Scott was a scholar of Dickens..
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjlrsTOkav7AhWxSEEAHTtWAqAQFnoECCYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0087056 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0I7_0g_wDTKVcOAw90eTVd)George C. Scott (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001715) noticeably plays a slightly-different version of Ebenezer Scrooge in this film; Scrooge has a slightly dark sense of humor such as laughing at his nephew when he claims Christmas is humbug and refusing to dine with him and at times is sarcastic to his peers, especially the Ghost of Christmas Past, and to a lesser extent the Ghost of Christmas Present. Plus, Scrooge is quite clever at using wit to get what he wants from his fellow businessmen at the exchange; he uses very complex words and claims to be an expert at the game 'Simile.' Scott claimed he wanted to play Scrooge as primarily lonely and exhausted rather than miserly.
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Death on the Nile, 2022...
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In both this film and (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjCspq_iaz7AhWLTMAKHf55AgUQFnoECCQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt7657566 %2F&usg=AOvVaw134HD5pN6zLHI0_LgSaI4Y)Murder on the Orient Express (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3402236) (2017), Poirot shows signs of being obsessive compulsive (Letitia Wright's character even calls him "obsessive" at one point). His need for balance and symmetry is shown when he sends back one of the desserts so that he has an even number and when he straightens the feet of one of the victims. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (or OCD) is considered a relatively new discovery, but the term was actually coined in 1877 by German psychiatrist Carl Westphal.
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Private's Progress, 1956...
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjvgNrsxK37AhXRWMAKHRh6AhkQFnoECBwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0049637 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1W0JbC_IsnmZEt6RnB_khq)Maj. Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0856103/?ref_=tt_trv_qu)(Terry-Thomas): Good Lord - Windrush! What on earth are you doing dressed up as a Jerry? You're an absolute bounder.
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The Mouse on the Moon, 1963..
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi2qsyQ3q37AhUSi1wKHdr6CNQQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0057328 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1bGf93ZcxX7k4Z5cdiOiZl)
Cat Ballou, 1965...
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwip44CBmq77AhWFbcAKHaxyB5AQFnoECBIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0059017 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0tigGaxoqBi1lHsjICVCvr)Lee Marvin (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001511)'s larger-than-life personality and fondness for tipping back the bottle made the actor a raucous but irresistible presence on the set. "Working with Lee Marvin was an unbelievable experience," said Dwayne Hickman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0382722). "Never have I met such an outrageous personality. Lee loved to drink, and the more he drank, the more outrageous he became. He had a story about everything and everybody. He also had very definite theories on acting and a style that was all his own. Lee figured if a little bit was good, a lot would be so much better. As a result, each take of a scene was bigger than the last." According to Hickman, Marvin sometimes used alcohol to enhance his performance as the drunken Kid Shelleen. For instance, the very first scene that Marvin shot was the one in which everyone meets Kid Shelleen for the first time, and he is falling down drunk. "He rehearsed several times," said Hickman, "and then went behind the barn and took a shot of vodka to steel himself. I ran into him in front of his dressing room where he had just gotten sick. When I asked if he was all right, he said, in typical Lee Marvin fashion, 'Tension, baby...just a little tension.'"
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwip44CBmq77AhWFbcAKHaxyB5AQFnoECBIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0059017 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0tigGaxoqBi1lHsjICVCvr)
The Grapes of Wrath, 1940...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006.
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Crap 1980s TV night on 'Legend' channel:
'Star Trek' 'TNG' - the first series so veers widely in quality from poor to shockingly poor.
'Knight Rider' - you might remember this as being so bad it was good, but you'd be mistaken.
I used to have a girlfriend who was a big fan of it (she liked the talking car) but that probably says more about me than it does about the programme.
'Walker, Texas Ranger' - according to one critic this show has 'acting that makes William Shatner seem like Marlon Brando' It's watchable, just about.
We got this channel as a replacement for 'Forces TV' but it's not a patch on it.
Pigmy Pony
15-11-2022, 22:10
Crap 1980s TV night on 'Legend' channel:
'Star Trek' 'TNG' - the first series so veers widely in quality from poor to shockingly poor.
'Knight Rider' - you might remember this as being so bad it was good, but you'd be mistaken.
I used to have a girlfriend who was a big fan of it (she liked the talking car) but that probably says more about me than it does about the programme.
'Walker, Texas Ranger' - according to one critic this show has 'acting that makes William Shatner seem like Marlon Brando' It's watchable, just about.
We got this channel as a replacement for 'Forces TV' but it's not a patch on it.
Isn't that the thing with Chuck Norris? Chuck Bloody Norris? You're a tougher man than me if you can sit through an episode of that. Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, they're the reason remote controls were invented.
Isn't that the thing with Chuck Norris? Chuck Bloody Norris? You're a tougher man than me if you can sit through an episode of that. Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, they're the reason remote controls were invented.
with you on JCVD but Seagal films are so bad they are good, except for 'Under Siege' which is a classic.
with you on JCVD but Seagal films are so bad they are good, except for 'Under Siege' which is a classic.
is that the 'nobody beats me in the kitchen' one
Dunkirk, 1958...
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original and best. great cast too.
Sir John Mills was fifty-years-old at the time of filming. The British Expeditionary Force in France in 1940 were a professional army, not conscripts (conscription (the draft) only began after Dunkirk to recoup numbers) therefore, Sir John Mills would be beyond the retirement age for a soldier, and would have been considered too old even for conscription, the maximum age being forty-five. The only soldiers aged fifty or above would have been senior officers, not frontline soldiers, and certainly not Corporals.
Ice Cold in Alex, 1958.... John Mills again.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51LZJY-PtXL._AC_SY445_.jpg
The love scene between Anson and Diana had to be re-shot after the British censor decided that (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjN0uLe4bL7AhV2RkEAHRKqBVkQFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FIce_Co ld_in_Alex&usg=AOvVaw19el_XT4QiAxCei75s_mbz)Sylvia Syms (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0843401) had too many buttons undone on her blouse, revealing too much cleavage. Censor John Nicholls had already requested over eighty alterations to the script before shooting and, following protests by Director J. Lee Thompson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0496746), he was eventually replaced as BBFC Chief by John Trevelyan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1047404) in May 1958. Other additional dialogue cuts included the removal of the phrase "made a balls of it" and the overdubbing of "bloody good old bitch".
In the bar scene in Alexandria, Sir (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjN0uLe4bL7AhV2RkEAHRKqBVkQFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FIce_Co ld_in_Alex&usg=AOvVaw19el_XT4QiAxCei75s_mbz)John Mills (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590055) was drinking real beer because ginger ale and other substitutes didn't look real enough on film. In the final cut (the fourteenth take) he actually was quite drunk.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjN0uLe4bL7AhV2RkEAHRKqBVkQFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FIce_Co ld_in_Alex&usg=AOvVaw19el_XT4QiAxCei75s_mbz)
John Mills again in Hobson's Choice, 1954...
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In the middle of the movie, Henry Hobson (Charles Laughton) staggers drunk out of his favorite bar, "The Moonrakers", and pursues the full moon's reflection in a puddle. This is likely an allusion to the legend of the Wiltshire moonrakers. An exciseman caught smugglers using rakes to retrieve barrels of contraband brandy hidden in a pond, but they explained they were after a wheel of cheese, pointing to the reflected moon. So the exciseman laughed at them and left them in peace.
Sir John Mills (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590055) often cited this as his favorite movie.
Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968..
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possibly the best film leone did and one of the great westerns
Kelly's Heroes, 1970... pure class...
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiJrsjdo7X7AhXLh1wKHd81CMMQFnoECBMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FKelly% 2527s_Heroes&usg=AOvVaw08wMoLG_IseLqzrTtkcowG)https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSCwN6Umikpc30JrWF5updkpKP-flbOmUh2WQqiRxeEhfzwjUMF
Big Joe (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001699/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): [shouting to the captured German Colonel] 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 raining. And the only good thing to say about the weather: it keeps our air corps from blowing us all to Hell because its too lousy to fly, versteh?
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1967... leone again with his civil war classic spaghetti western..
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According to (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj-4p7s67X7AhVPZ8AKHUuTDvwQFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Go od%2C_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly&usg=AOvVaw1ZgzDKMN1Ms__7j_uriw83)Eli Wallach (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908919), when it came time to blow up the bridge, Sergio Leone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001466) asked the Spanish Army Captain in charge to trigger the fuse, as a sign of gratitude for the Army's collaboration. They agreed to blow up the bridge when Leone gave the signal "Vai!" (Go!) over the walkie-talkie. Unfortunately, another crew member spoke on the same channel, saying the words "vai, vai!", meaning "it's okay, proceed" to a second crew member. The Captain heard this signal, thought it was for him, and blew up the bridge. Unfortunately, no cameras were running at the time. Leone was so upset that he fired the crewman, who promptly fled from the set in his car. The Captain was so sorry for what happened that he proposed to Leone that the Army would rebuild the bridge to blow it up again, with one condition: that the fired crewman be re-hired. Leone agreed, the crewman was forgiven, the bridge was rebuilt, and the scene was successfully shot.
WarGames, 1983...
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51aLtscr+FL._AC_.jpg (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjirLe817f7AhWUbcAKHXCcBlgQFnoECBAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0086567 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0Kt6LXLVIv3blUipZldmDZ)
Duck, You Sucker!, 1971.. AKA. A Fistful Of Dynamite.
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When James Coburn (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000336) (who had been offered roles in Sergio Leone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001466)'s A Fistful of Dollars (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058461) (1964) and Once Upon a Time in the West (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116) (1968)) was offered the role of John Mallory by Leone, he was initially reluctant. He had dinner with Henry Fonda (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000020) (star of Once Upon a Time in the West (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116) (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 (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908919)).
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991..
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Murder on the Orient Express, 2017..
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Murder on the Orient Express, 1974...
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The great Albert Finney at work... a tour de force
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwji1ZjH1Lr7AhXYgVwKHdAcC6cQFnoECCQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0071877 %2F&usg=AOvVaw07bSfsaclDIgAaErRzIhqM)
Murder on the Orient Express, 1974...
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The great Albert Finney at work... a tour de force
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwji1ZjH1Lr7AhXYgVwKHdAcC6cQFnoECCQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0071877 %2F&usg=AOvVaw07bSfsaclDIgAaErRzIhqM)
Much, much better than the Branagh version - and a lot closer to the book.
Ice Cold in Alex, 1958.... John Mills again.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51LZJY-PtXL._AC_SY445_.jpg
The love scene between Anson and Diana had to be re-shot after the British censor decided that (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjN0uLe4bL7AhV2RkEAHRKqBVkQFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FIce_Co ld_in_Alex&usg=AOvVaw19el_XT4QiAxCei75s_mbz)Sylvia Syms (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0843401) had too many buttons undone on her blouse, revealing too much cleavage. Censor John Nicholls had already requested over eighty alterations to the script before shooting and, following protests by Director J. Lee Thompson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0496746), he was eventually replaced as BBFC Chief by John Trevelyan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1047404) in May 1958. Other additional dialogue cuts included the removal of the phrase "made a balls of it" and the overdubbing of "bloody good old bitch".
In the bar scene in Alexandria, Sir (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjN0uLe4bL7AhV2RkEAHRKqBVkQFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FIce_Co ld_in_Alex&usg=AOvVaw19el_XT4QiAxCei75s_mbz)John Mills (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590055) was drinking real beer because ginger ale and other substitutes didn't look real enough on film. In the final cut (the fourteenth take) he actually was quite drunk.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjN0uLe4bL7AhV2RkEAHRKqBVkQFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FIce_Co ld_in_Alex&usg=AOvVaw19el_XT4QiAxCei75s_mbz)
Excellent film!
Pigmy Pony
20-11-2022, 09:58
is that the 'nobody beats me in the kitchen' one
"I don't know, I'm just the chef".
Casablanca, 1942.... classic this of course and no intro really needed.
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Many of the actors who played the Nazis were in fact German Jews who had escaped from Nazi Germany.
Rick's Cafe was one of the few original sets built for the film, the rest were all recycled from other Warner Bros. productions due to wartime restrictions on building supplies.
During the scene in which the "La Marseillaise" is sung over the German song "Die Wacht am Rhein" ("The Watch on the Rhine"), many of the extras had real tears in their eyes as a large number were actual refugees from Nazi persecution in Germany and elsewhere in Europe and were overcome by the emotions the scene brought out. The scene was copied from Jean Renoir (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0719756)'s La Grande Illusion (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028950) (1937), in which French soldiers in a German POW camp sing the song as a similar gesture of defiance. In that film the song was led by a prisoner who was in drag for a show the prisoners were putting on. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0209160) in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin" ("War Song for the Rhine Army").
Humphrey Bogart (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007)'s then-wife, actress Mayo Methot (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0582551), continually accused him of having an affair with Ingrid Bergman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000006), 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 (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0280242). 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 . . . The film made both of them tbh..
staying with bogey, ... The African Queen, 1951...
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interesting combo of bogart and hepburn; not one that you'd think would work but it did.
Sources claimed that everyone in the cast and crew got sick except (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjUlt6qgb37AhWPecAKHfNUBogQFnoECCgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Af rican_Queen_(film)&usg=AOvVaw0xUUDhiJ_3cCAyUrppz_NH)Humphrey Bogart (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007) and John Huston (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001379), who said they avoided illness by essentially living on imported Scotch whisky. Bogart later said, "All I ate was baked beans, canned asparagus and Scotch whisky. Whenever a fly bit Huston or me, it dropped dead."
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjUlt6qgb37AhWPecAKHfNUBogQFnoECCgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Af rican_Queen_(film)&usg=AOvVaw0xUUDhiJ_3cCAyUrppz_NH)
bogey again and..... The Big Sleep, 1946...
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According to Lauren Bacall (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000002), production was such fun that they got a memo from Jack L. Warner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0912491) saying, "Word has reached me that you are having fun on the set. This must stop."
During shooting, Howard Hawks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001328) added the strong implication that Marlowe and the bookstore clerk are about to make love as the scene ends. There is no such indication in the novel, but Hawks was so struck with the 19-year-old Dorothy Malone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0540416)'s mature sexuality that he decided to make the scene steamier.
Rio Lobo, 1970.... John Wayne said "haven't I made this film before" lol
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bogey again and..... The Big Sleep, 1946...
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According to Lauren Bacall (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000002), production was such fun that they got a memo from Jack L. Warner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0912491) saying, "Word has reached me that you are having fun on the set. This must stop."
During shooting, Howard Hawks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001328) added the strong implication that Marlowe and the bookstore clerk are about to make love as the scene ends. There is no such indication in the novel, but Hawks was so struck with the 19-year-old Dorothy Malone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0540416)'s mature sexuality that he decided to make the scene steamier.
yes I always like to think that he shags her in the film, although like you say he doesn't in the book.
yes I always like to think that he shags her in the film, although like you say he doesn't in the book.Dorothy Malone only died 4 years ago. Not a bad innings at 93
walpurgis
21-11-2022, 07:26
Dorothy Malone only died 4 years ago. Not a bad innings at 93
I remember her in Peyton Place. That Norman Harrington was a miserable git :). Lee Grant and Barbara Parkins were gorgeous!
I remember her in Peyton Place. That Norman Harrington was a miserable git :). Lee Grant and Barbara Parkins were gorgeous!
the guy that played him died young i remember.. forgot his name. my mum watched that show a lot lol
earlier... Dark Passage, 1947...Bogart/Bacall number.
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now..
To Have and Have Not, 1944..
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Bogart/Bacall gain with Walter Brennan stealing many scenes, and Hoagy Carmichael (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoagy_Carmichael) playing the bar pianist.. sounds familiar? its a little like casablanca at times... the boating theme was again used in the later key largo
Blazing Saddles, 1974...
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one of the greats..
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwijg9jsyr_7AhVFilwKHfKVCSQQFnoECBAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0071230 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0QDhe0gs6wVi6tCKukUeqG)
great line... never mind that shit... here comes Mongo!
Hedley Lamarr (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0466327/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
Taggart (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001620/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): God darnit, Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore.
Small Time Crooks, 2000...
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from same year;
O Brother, Where Art Thou?, 2000.
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Sherlock Holmes, 2011..
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second of 2 holmes films by downey and law
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjbpLa6h8L7AhUWi1wKHS4ZD0QQFnoECCwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSherlo ck_Holmes_(2009_film)&usg=AOvVaw3xEDUDdKKUvegrWzIE3CHJ)
Pigmy Pony
22-11-2022, 16:17
from same year;
O Brother, Where Art Thou?, 2000.
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Excellent film with great cast and great soundtrack. One of my favourite films.
Little Big Man, 1970...
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Although Dustin Hoffman plays the "younger" adopted son of Faye Dunaway's character in the film, he's actually four years older than Dunaway. Hoffman was born in 1937, while Dunaway was born in 1941.
When Dustin Hoffman played Jack Crabb as an old man his face was covered with a 14 piece latex mask,created by Dick Smith, which took 5 hours a day to apply.
Dustin Hoffman had quit smoking cigarettes for 8 months, but his part in this film was so rough, he started again.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, 2017... aka Salazar's Revenge.
https://prod-ripcut-delivery.disney-plus.net/v1/variant/disney/48D8E4C0EDEE4E42C78C0E3A1475493D69333C6B4592543C2E 883EA3C4F09831/scale?width=1200&aspectRatio=1.78&format=jpeg (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi8ocuAlcT7AhUPYcAKHVsfBu4QFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPirate s_of_the_Caribbean%3A_Dead_Men_Tell_No_Tales&usg=AOvVaw1Xv5qbbgzAHNu2FPSyh8wB)
Arsenic and Old Lace, 1944. Classic black comedy farce, directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant, Pricilla Lane, Ramond Massey and Peter Lorre.
this is the new criterion bluray...
https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/films/bc834199ef177e83604b93c31a1ad1a4/bWEA41YCQNEKPfVmws5oTnDP3FYcpa_large.jpg
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiKl_HryMT7AhXiSkEAHaugBncQFnoECCIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FArseni c_and_Old_Lace_(film)&usg=AOvVaw2kOJc2okdfgmo3CPwvM6xq)Cary Grant (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000026)'s (birth name), Archie Leach appears on a tombstone in the cemetery near the Brewster's house. In Grant's earlier picture, His Girl Friday (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032599) (1940), his character, Walter, responded to a threat by saying 'listen, the last man that said that to me was Archie Leach, just a week before he cut his throat'. As a gag, the 'departed' Mr. Leach was apparently interred in the Brooklyn cemetery by the Brewster's home.
According to Dear Boris biographer (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiKl_HryMT7AhXiSkEAHaugBncQFnoECCIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FArseni c_and_Old_Lace_(film)&usg=AOvVaw2kOJc2okdfgmo3CPwvM6xq)Cynthia Lindsay (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0512198), Josephine Hull (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401449) and Jean Adair (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010443) went to their graves believing that Boris Karloff (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000472) had been so saintly as to agree to let them go to Hollywood to make this film while he stayed on Broadway doing the play. Nothing could have been further from the truth: Karloff was very angry and disappointed that he was the only play cast member not allowed out of his contract to do the film.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiKl_HryMT7AhXiSkEAHaugBncQFnoECCIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FArseni c_and_Old_Lace_(film)&usg=AOvVaw2kOJc2okdfgmo3CPwvM6xq)QUOTE::: Mortimer Brewster (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000026/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Look I probably should have told you this before but you see... well... insanity runs in my family... It practically gallops. (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiKl_HryMT7AhXiSkEAHaugBncQFnoECCIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FArseni c_and_Old_Lace_(film)&usg=AOvVaw2kOJc2okdfgmo3CPwvM6xq)
fabulous clean up of the print i have to say. last time i saw it it was borderline unwatchable.
now.. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_The_Curse_of_the_Black_P earl)from 2003..
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Firecreek, 1968..
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Looper, 2012..
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Charade, 1963..
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006..
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(at around 2h) The scene when Jack Sparrow calls Davy Jones "fish face", and sings to them "I got a jar of dirt", was unscripted and improvised by (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi_osPcn8n7AhUaSkEAHXKuAlgQFnoECBcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPirate s_of_the_Caribbean%3A_Dead_Man%2527s_Chest&usg=AOvVaw38hfKY-ZdWTSUgGwIIxoSA)Johnny Depp (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000136), most of the reactions of the rest of the characters are real.
The dice game that Will Turner plays with Davy Jones is called Liar's Dice, a gambling game where each player has to make consecutively higher bids based upon how many of each die they claim are on the table (two threes, four fives, etc.), until a player is called a liar, in which case, all the dice are shown, and it's seen if the bid is correct. Normally, a player only loses a die when caught in a lie, and is not out of the game until he has lost all of his dice.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi_osPcn8n7AhUaSkEAHXKuAlgQFnoECBcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPirate s_of_the_Caribbean%3A_Dead_Man%2527s_Chest&usg=AOvVaw38hfKY-ZdWTSUgGwIIxoSA)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 1970.. Bluray
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi45LW0xMn7AhWShFwKHY-oCOwQFnoECBkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Pr ivate_Life_of_Sherlock_Holmes&usg=AOvVaw11-5EFr-Udwj9YbUVVlpMY)
Starman, 1984... Bluray.
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Alan Jones awarded it four stars out of five for Radio Times (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Times), arguing that "John Carpenter's religious sci-fi parable has as much heart and emotion as it does special effects, and gives Oscar-nominated Jeff Bridges a real chance to stretch his acting talent." He described it as "funny, suspenseful and moving" and concluded that "this engaging space odyssey is one of Carpenter's best efforts."
Starman, 1984... Bluray.
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Alan Jones awarded it four stars out of five for Radio Times (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Times), arguing that "John Carpenter's religious sci-fi parable has as much heart and emotion as it does special effects, and gives Oscar-nominated Jeff Bridges a real chance to stretch his acting talent." He described it as "funny, suspenseful and moving" and concluded that "this engaging space odyssey is one of Carpenter's best efforts."
lol one of his worst IMO.
Jeff Bridges was nominated for the an Oscar for best actor so couldn't be that bad :D i like Karen Allen too.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007..
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The most expensive film ever made (at the time), not adjusted for inflation. The budget ran to $300 million. That's more than the budget of all three Lord of the Rings films combined.
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 flags hoisted by the pirate fleet are based on flags of real-world pirates: Christopher Moody (red flag with a winged chalice, arm and knife, and skull on crossbones), Thomas Tew (an arm with a cutlass), De Vranck (a man clubbing a skull and crossbones), Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts (a man dancing with a skeleton, who holds a spear), Edward "Blackbeard" Teach (a skeleton holding a spear, stabbing a red heart), and Edward Low (a red skeleton). The flag hoisted by the Black Pearl is that of John "Calico Jack" Rackham (a skull and crossed cutlasses).
https://i.ibb.co/gDHfD5G/A-Walk-in-the-Woods-Poster.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)
'A Walk In The Woods' (2015)
Robert Redford is travel writer Bill Bryson attempting to hike the whole distance of the Appalachian trail, with Nick Nolte tagging along.
Bryson's books are mildly amusing but this isn't really. Nothing much happens, and what does happen isn't very well done from a comedy point of view. Nick Nolte is very good in it and carries the film along enough that I watched it to the end, but it's all just too bland and a bit trite in places too.
American Guerrilla in the Philippine, 1950...
classic american patriotic film this, and classically not all that good, but watchable for all that. Director (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjEpM24_Mv7AhVSZ8AKHTiBAoUQFnoECBUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAmeric an_Guerrilla_in_the_Philippines&usg=AOvVaw00YhG9ZTcbJ1qhINjSaPyE)Fritz Lang (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000485) only made the film to pay his bills. In later years, he actively denied even making it. :lol:
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The bamboo dance in the movie is known as the Tinikling dance. It involves two people hitting bamboo poles on the ground and against each other in coordination with one or more dancers who step over and in between the poles in a dance. It is a Philippine traditional national dance that is still performed to this day at Fiesta.(it may be the highlight if the film actually.)
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjEpM24_Mv7AhVSZ8AKHTiBAoUQFnoECBUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAmeric an_Guerrilla_in_the_Philippines&usg=AOvVaw00YhG9ZTcbJ1qhINjSaPyE)
First Blood, 1982... 4k bluray.
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Sylvester Stallone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000230) accidentally broke the nose of Alf Humphreys (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401969) (Lester) during the jail escape scene by elbowing him in the face, which is why he is seen wearing a band-aid throughout the rest of the film. Coincidentally, this is what Rambo does to a policeman in the novel during the exact same scene.
After watching a rough cut of the film, which was about three hours long, Sylvester Stallone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000230) and his agent claimed that the film was so bad that it made them sick. Stallone also feared that the film would kill his career, and he attempted to buy all the footage and destroy it. When he couldn't do that, he suggested that the producers cut much of his part and let the rest of the characters tell the story. After heavy edits, the film was cut down to 93 minutes and set a precedent for future action movies.
Doctor Zhivago
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David Lean's great film epic was just shown today on BBC TV.= (although I do have a copy).
Lawrence001
26-11-2022, 18:36
First Blood, 1982... 4k bluray.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71TAKI02P9L._AC_SL1500_.jpg
Sylvester Stallone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000230) accidentally broke the nose of Alf Humphreys (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401969) (Lester) during the jail escape scene by elbowing him in the face, which is why he is seen wearing a band-aid throughout the rest of the film. Coincidentally, this is what Rambo does to a policeman in the novel during the exact same scene.
After watching a rough cut of the film, which was about three hours long, Sylvester Stallone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000230) and his agent claimed that the film was so bad that it made them sick. Stallone also feared that the film would kill his career, and he attempted to buy all the footage and destroy it. When he couldn't do that, he suggested that the producers cut much of his part and let the rest of the characters tell the story. After heavy edits, the film was cut down to 93 minutes and set a precedent for future action movies.One of my favourite films this, I wonder what the 3 hour version was like.
Lawrence001
26-11-2022, 18:37
One of my favourite films.
Yesterday I watched 'The Whistle Blower' (1987) starring Michael Caine
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51SYYH5BXXL._AC_.jpg,
tonight I'll start the Shogun box set:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51FHHZZ8X6L._AC_.jpgI have fond memories watching Shogun with my mum when it was on TV, I was at school back then.
My mum passed away last Sunday bless her.
Now:
Hidden Figures
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/The_official_poster_for_the_film_Hidden_Figures%2C _2016.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures
One of my favourite films this, I wonder what the 3 hour version was like.
so bad sly tried to buy it and destroy it :lol:
Will be watching new documentary on Hendrix at 9 tonight on BBC2
I have fond memories watching Shogun with my mum when it was on TV, I was at school back then.
My mum passed away last Sunday bless her.
sad to hear lawrence.. yes that is a good series. ive got the boxset on dvd
Heist, 2001...
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjes-L9mc77AhUIRsAKHYmnACEQFnoECCMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0252503 %2F&usg=AOvVaw30J773iGIh4nuaNfRkOws8)Gene Hackman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000432) mentioned in several interviews that he found shooting the film difficult and somewhat uncomfortable because he was so much older than everyone involved. He therefore kept much to himself, and in the end managed to draw on that feeling of being an outsider in the group for his portrayal.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjes-L9mc77AhUIRsAKHYmnACEQFnoECCMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0252503 %2F&usg=AOvVaw30J773iGIh4nuaNfRkOws8)
so bad sly tried to buy it and destroy it :lol:
I wonder how much he cut from 'Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot' ?
It's 87 minutes so you have to think the rough cut was ten hours, maybe twenty?
Why would he be so fussy about 'First Blood' but go on to make that embarrassing pile of crap? Makes no sense.
I wonder how much he cut from 'Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot' ?
It's 87 minutes so you have to think the rough cut was ten hours, maybe twenty?
Why would he be so fussy about 'First Blood' but go on to make that embarrassing pile of crap? Makes no sense.
i guess his career was still in making with first blood, where he had also done 2 rocky films.
but the reason he took this pile on was apparently this which ive heard several times..
Sylvester Stallone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone) famously signed on to the film based solely on Arnold Schwarzenegger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger) claiming that he was interested in the lead. In October 2017, Schwarzenegger confirmed the rumor that, knowing the script was "really bad", he had publicly faked interest in starring for producers to lure Stallone.
they at that time had some less than friendly rivalry..lol
Stallone and Schwarzenegger ‘Disliked Each Other Immensely’ Due to Box Office Rivalry: ‘We Truly Loathed Each Other’
ps, they are now very good friends..
The Wild Bunch, 1969..
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjJsbmqss77AhUBi1wKHXiwAEYQFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0065214 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1WvvPwLSlrriTTnC_VTDOL)Robert Ryan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0752813)'s incessant complaints about not receiving top billing so annoyed director Sam Peckinpah (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001603) that he decided to "punish" Ryan. In the opening credits, after freezing the screen on closeups of William Holden (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000034)'s and Ernest Borgnine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000308)'s faces while listing them, Peckinpah froze the scene on several horses' rear ends as Ryan was listed.
In an interview, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjJsbmqss77AhUBi1wKHXiwAEYQFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0065214 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1WvvPwLSlrriTTnC_VTDOL)Ben Johnson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424565) said that the Mexican women who "frolicked" with him and Warren Oates (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0643105) in the huge wine vats weren't actresses but prostitutes from a nearby brothel, who were hired by Sam Peckinpah (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001603) so he could tell people that Warner Bros. paid for hookers for his cast.
Sam Peckinpah (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001603) stated that one of his goals for this movie was to give the audience "some idea of what it is to be gunned down". A memorable incident occurred, to that end, as Peckinpah's crew were consulting him on the "gunfire" effects to be used in the film. Not satisfied with the results from the squibs his crew had brought for him, Peckinpah became exasperated; he finally hollered: "That's not what I want! That's not what I want!" He then grabbed a real revolver and fired it into a nearby wall. The gun empty, Peckinpah barked at his stunned crew: "THAT'S the effect I want!!" He also had the gunfire sound effects changed for the film. Before, all gunshots in Warner Brothers movies sounded identical, regardless of the type of weapon being fired. Peckinpah insisted on each different type of firearm having its own specific sound effect when fired.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjJsbmqss77AhUBi1wKHXiwAEYQFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0065214 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1WvvPwLSlrriTTnC_VTDOL)
I'm All Right Jack, 1959..
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi8r-6Y0877AhWPecAKHfvKB3AQFnoECBgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FI%2527 m_All_Right_Jack&usg=AOvVaw0HWp3ZRivtPUq7nYOq_4DR)
School for Scoundrels, 1960...
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In this film in 1960, Ms Scott was 22 years old, while Ian Carmichael was 40 and Terry Thomas was already 49! A slightly scandalous age difference that was important at the time in real life, but totally ignored for the film industry.
The used car salesmen Dunstan and Dudley ( (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwibhPKz7877AhXhlFwKHSRdD6QQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSchool _for_Scoundrels_(1960_film)&usg=AOvVaw1SrJybui81U0JuSvXojv0i)Dennis Price (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0696866) and Peter Jones (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429012)) were based on characters from the BBC radio comedy series "In All Directions" broadcast during the 1950s. The radio characters were known as Morry and Dud and were played by Peter Ustinov (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001811) and Peter Jones (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429012) who also wrote the scripts together with scriptwriters Frank Muir (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0611350) and Denis Norden (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629428). Their catch phrase "run for it!" was reprised in the film
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwibhPKz7877AhXhlFwKHSRdD6QQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSchool _for_Scoundrels_(1960_film)&usg=AOvVaw1SrJybui81U0JuSvXojv0i)
Kind Hearts and Coronets, 1949...
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The original camera negative was saved from the Henderson's Film Laboratories fire of 1993, just before a massive nitrate explosion destroyed the negatives of many other movies, including several other Ealing comedies.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwilipaJhc_7AhXRolwKHXQeBF4QFnoECCQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FKind_H earts_and_Coronets&usg=AOvVaw3KyaEyBcgP91tGMGa5N74_)
Just watched the full version of Lawrence of Arabia
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51+Fb8jXoLL._AC_SY445_.jpg
The 37 minutes cut from the cinema release, were discovered and have now been reinstated; making the run time 217 minutes (3 hours 37 mins) long.
I'm a great fan of David Lean's cinema epics, but this one is a hard slog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_of_Arabia_(film)
Just watched the full version of Lawrence of Arabia
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51+Fb8jXoLL._AC_SY445_.jpg
The 37 minutes cut from the cinema release, were discovered and have now been reinstated; making the run time 217 minutes (3 hours 37 mins) long.
I'm a great fan of David Lean's cinema epics, but this one is a hard slog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_of_Arabia_(film)
great film.. not sure if mine has the extra time in it or not tho
edit.. just checked and mine is 3h 47m so looks like it has
The Lone Ranger, 2013..
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In an interview, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjtusOi9ND7AhUMTcAKHTXYAFEQFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Lo ne_Ranger_(2013_film)&usg=AOvVaw1DINlBT-hSeuqpXTf1ZeH9)Johnny Depp (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000136) thanked his stunt horse, Scout, for saving his life after a violent fall during filming. After Scout dragged Depp 25 feet, Scout jumped over him to avoid stepping on him. A clip of the fall shows the horse clearly jumping over Depp, and detaching him from the saddle. Depp suffered only minor bruises and scrapes, but says it could have been a lot worse if the horse had stepped on him.
In an interview with Vulture Magazine, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjtusOi9ND7AhUMTcAKHTXYAFEQFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Lo ne_Ranger_(2013_film)&usg=AOvVaw1DINlBT-hSeuqpXTf1ZeH9)Jerry Bruckheimer (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000988) said, "I think it is going to be looked back on as a brave, wonderful film. I've been though this a lot with journalists. We made a movie years ago called Flashdance (1983), and I remember one journalist just giving us the worst review ever. Then, about five years later, we get this kind of love letter - that he totally "missed" it. That he loved the movie, and it's kind of the same with you that, any time it's on, you have to watch it. It happens, you know."
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjtusOi9ND7AhUMTcAKHTXYAFEQFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Lo ne_Ranger_(2013_film)&usg=AOvVaw1DINlBT-hSeuqpXTf1ZeH9)
Red, 2010...
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Irresistible fun
3 Godfathers, 1948...
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This is a remake of the silent film (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjRg7PWr9H7AhUHfMAKHY03BNUQFnoECBYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F3_Godf athers_(1948_film)&usg=AOvVaw3pcJd4wqG7w3l27AGpvXJ9)The Three Godfathers (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007453) (1916), which starred Ford's long-time friend Harry Carey (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002503). When Carey died in 1947, Ford decided to remake the story in Technicolor and dedicate the film to his memory. Carey's son, Harry Carey Jr. (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001013), plays one of the three, "The Abilene Kid". The film Three Godfathers (1936) is based on the same source, so this film is, in some sense, a remake of that film as well. John Ford (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000406) had previously directed a silent film version of the same story, called Marked Men (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010438) (1919). No prints of this films are known to be in existence.
For the scene where Deputy Curly (Hank Worden (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941401)) has trouble pulling a mule aboard a train, director John Ford (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000406) rigged the reins to pull backwards whenever Worden pulled forward.
Pedro Armendariz, who plays the character of Pedro, commits suicide by gunshot in this film. 15 years later, Armendariz would take his own life by gunshot, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjRg7PWr9H7AhUHfMAKHY03BNUQFnoECBYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F3_Godf athers_(1948_film)&usg=AOvVaw3pcJd4wqG7w3l27AGpvXJ9)
classic xmas time redemption film that... shame it wasn't actually released at xmas time:ner:..needless to say the duke comes out of it better than he went in ....:D
thats it for tonight folks lol
Red, 2010...
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Irresistible fun
It's not a bad film - but neither is it a great film. I think "irresistible fun" sums it up nicely (as well as applies to the sequel).
Jeremiah Johnson, 1972.. super film this.
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Based upon a real-life trapper named John Johnston, nicknamed "Crow Killer" and "Liver Eater Johnston" for his penchant for cutting out and eating the livers of Crow Indians he had killed (several Crows had murdered his wife and he swore vengeance against the entire tribe).
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.
Three Days of the Condor, 1975...
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The Bell System switching station is a noisy place. As this was in the mid-1970s before the phone company could ramp up to digital, all of the switching was done mechanically using tiny servos to physically move electronic contacts. One can see the earliest stages of this transition as both touch-tone and dial phones (the stolen handset) are used for the same phone system.
When Mr. Wabash (John Houseman) says of his WWII OSS service, "I sailed the Adriatic with a movie star at the helm." he is speaking of actual events which really happened. While Mr. Houseman was not involved, the movie star in question was Sterling Hayden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Hayden). Hayden played New York Police Captain McCluskey in "The Godfather" (1972) who brutally punches Michael Corleone in the face and whom Michael Corleone later assassinates along with Sollozzo. During World War Two Hayden captained a fishing boat in the Adriatic Sea running the German naval blockade to smuggle guns and other supplies to resistance fighters in Yugoslavia ambushing and sabotaging the Nazi German occupiers. He was decorated with the Silver Star for heroism.
The Devil and Miss Jones, 1941...
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiW5ISi_NP7AhWvSEEAHaHYABgQFnoECBQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_De vil_and_Miss_Jones&usg=AOvVaw055p88RTN3398heki2hUW9)Frank Ross and Norman Krasna decided to produce a movie together starring Jean Arthur (Ross' wife) based on a story by Krasna. The three formed a partnership and borrowed $600,000 from a bank to finance the film.
The script was written in ten weeks and then Sam Wood came on board as director. Krasna described the experience of making the film as one of the best in his career.
RKO agreed to distribute the film. It was Arthur's first film at RKO since The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ex-Mrs._Bradford). Robert Cummings was signed to play the male lead; he was shooting a film at MGM concurrently.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiW5ISi_NP7AhWvSEEAHaHYABgQFnoECBQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_De vil_and_Miss_Jones&usg=AOvVaw055p88RTN3398heki2hUW9)
Three Days of the Condor, 1975...
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The Bell System switching station is a noisy place. As this was in the mid-1970s before the phone company could ramp up to digital, all of the switching was done mechanically using tiny servos to physically move electronic contacts. One can see the earliest stages of this transition as both touch-tone and dial phones (the stolen handset) are used for the same phone system.
When Mr. Wabash (John Houseman) says of his WWII OSS service, "I sailed the Adriatic with a movie star at the helm." he is speaking of actual events which really happened. While Mr. Houseman was not involved, the movie star in question was Sterling Hayden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Hayden). Hayden played New York Police Captain McCluskey in "The Godfather" (1972) who brutally punches Michael Corleone in the face and whom Michael Corleone later assassinates along with Sollozzo. During World War Two Hayden captained a fishing boat in the Adriatic Sea running the German naval blockade to smuggle guns and other supplies to resistance fighters in Yugoslavia ambushing and sabotaging the Nazi German occupiers. He was decorated with the Silver Star for heroism.
Not a bad film, based on the book 'Six Days of the Condor'. Does this mean you only get half of the story, or did they only have half the money needed to make the full version?
:lol:
Not a bad film, based on the book 'Six Days of the Condor'. Does this mean you only get half of the story, or did they only have half the money needed to make the full version?
:lol:
maybe saving it for a sequel? If they'd started with 'One Day Of The Condor' they'd have had enough for a whole franchise. It's what Disney would have done.
Saboteur, 1942... Bob Cummings again..
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjdn-yJkdT7AhWXRsAKHYkOBUwQFnoECCMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0035279 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2kEzrFKcSh5CPiIRXQKV30)Alfred Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033)'s original cameo was cut by order of the censors. He and his secretary played deaf pedestrians. When Hitchcock's character made an apparently indecent proposal to her in sign language, she slapped his face. A more conventional cameo in front of a drugstore was substituted.
When the French liner, the S.S. Normandie burned and partially sank in New York City harbor, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjdn-yJkdT7AhWXRsAKHYkOBUwQFnoECCMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0035279 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2kEzrFKcSh5CPiIRXQKV30)Alfred Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033) quickly dispatched a Universal newsreel crew to the scene to get footage that he incorporated into this movie, intercut with studio shots of the saboteur smiling from the back seat of a taxi as he looks out on the supposedly sabotaged ship.
For the shots of police inspecting the long circus caravan at night, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjdn-yJkdT7AhWXRsAKHYkOBUwQFnoECCMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0035279 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2kEzrFKcSh5CPiIRXQKV30)Alfred Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033) created perspective by using vehicles and people of different sizes, starting with full-sized trucks and extras at the closer end of the caravan, using smaller trucks and shorter people as it receded into the distance, and finally miniatures and cutouts with workable arms with tiny illuminations to simulate flashlights at the far end. (typical Hitch)
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjdn-yJkdT7AhWXRsAKHYkOBUwQFnoECCMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0035279 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2kEzrFKcSh5CPiIRXQKV30)
Silver Streak, 1976..
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Young Frankenstein, 1974...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Young_Frankenstein_movie_poster.jpg
When Gene Wilder (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000698) leans in to kiss Madeline Kahn (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001404) goodnight in her bedroom, her last-second quip "No tongues" was ad-libbed by Kahn.
When they started to film the "Puttin' on the Ritz" scene, no one was sure what the creature should say. The first time out of the gate, however, Peter Boyle (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001967) came up with a strangled version of "Puiinin on da reeez!"
Two-Way Stretch, 1960...
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Liz Fraser (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292187) (Ethel) was still learning to drive at the time the film was made. In the scene where Ethel follows the army convoy in an Aston Martin, she kept stalling as she set off on cue, so ropes were attached to the front of the car, out of shot, and it was towed.
Peter Sellers (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000634) proved very difficult for director Robert Day (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206560) to work with and at one point, even walked off the film. He was eventually persuaded to return, but Day later calculated that he had put about ten days on the shooting schedule through his tantrums.
Cowboys & Aliens, 2011..
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During an interview with The Toronto Sun in 2010, an excited Adam Beach told them, "We just finished shooting Olivia Wilde naked in front of a bonfire in front of 500 Apache warriors. That was beautiful. You won't get to see what I saw, but you'll get a glimpse." When asked by The Sun about her nude scene, Wilde replied "Did Adam Beach talk to you? Adam Beach is the best. Last night, we did a scene where I'm naked in front of a group of [a] couple hundred Apache. Pretty amazing, pretty interesting."
Blast from the Past, 1999...
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In 2015, A Mickey Mantle rookie card sold for over $525,000 in an auction to an anonymous collector.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj8tJvLldj7AhWBSMAKHfS3B3MQFnoECBgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0124298 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2zSIq077Jw_pGMOHfCqsfo)
High Plains Drifter, 1973...
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Universal Pictures wanted this movie to be shot on the studio lot. Instead, Clint Eastwood had a whole town built in the desert near Mono Lake in the California Sierras. Many of the buildings were complete and three-dimensional, so that interiors could be shot on-location.
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.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiOu8uvsNj7AhWWaMAKHaEADyQQFnoECBMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHigh_P lains_Drifter&usg=AOvVaw20bgcZolu7lTMR79nvqv66)
Esquire did a good write up on this film and Eastwood....https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a33671312/high-plains-drifter-clint-eastwood-best-movie-anniversary-essay-analysis/
Switch, 1991... A complete change of pace now.. quite like this, as its a modern remake of 'Goodbye Charlie'.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge, 2017..
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiZydbu59j7AhUHhFwKHboxD7AQFnoECGoQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.disneyplus.com%2Fen-gb%2Fmovies%2Fpirates-of-the-caribbean-salazars-revenge%2F7PFQVnMu2UCz&usg=AOvVaw2MpEuRZ_GNZIPXYFjQNcQo)
Hope and Glory, 1987...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Hope_and_Glory_poster.jpg (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiYoYS6_9j7AhWPd8AKHZW2D08QFnoECBkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0093209 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2Ru5BWOsd8WYqquoVVbcW2)
Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984... criterion bluray remaster. reg A
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In poor health during most of the filming, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi3uL2wv9v7AhUpSkEAHSWWDLoQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNinete en_Eighty-Four_(1984_film)&usg=AOvVaw2RTV_NBRxixgB7ho_I7wIU)Richard Burton (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000009) had great difficulty remembering his lines and sometimes had to film a scene dozens of times before he could get it right. The scene in O'Brien's apartment where he is talking to Winston about Goldstein's book took a record of forty-one takes for Burton to say his speech without fumbling his lines.
Director (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi3uL2wv9v7AhUpSkEAHSWWDLoQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNinete en_Eighty-Four_(1984_film)&usg=AOvVaw2RTV_NBRxixgB7ho_I7wIU)Michael Radford (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0705535) and cinematographer Roger Deakins (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005683) originally wanted to shoot this movie in black and white, but the financial backers of the production, Virgin Films, opposed this idea. Instead, Deakins used a film processing technique called bleach bypass to create the distinctive washed-out look of the movie's color visuals. This movie is a rare example of the technique being done on every release print, rather than the inter-negative or inter-positive; as the silver is retained in the print, and the lab is unable to reclaim the silver, so the cost is higher, but the retained silver gives a depth to the projected image. The 2003 DVD release (the only release to restore Dominic Muldowney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0611766)'s full musical score) was mastered from the original negatives (not a release print), and thus inadvertently restored the movie's original color saturation.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi3uL2wv9v7AhUpSkEAHSWWDLoQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNinete en_Eighty-Four_(1984_film)&usg=AOvVaw2RTV_NBRxixgB7ho_I7wIU)
Hope and Glory, 1987...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Hope_and_Glory_poster.jpg (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiYoYS6_9j7AhWPd8AKHZW2D08QFnoECBkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0093209 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2Ru5BWOsd8WYqquoVVbcW2)
Good film. :)
1984 was a scary prospect.. i am betting much of the world live under such a system. that is the sadness of much of mankind.
i am glad im near the end of my life and not the beginning:(
Dances with Wolves, 1990.. difficult to see bye this film..
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Casablanca, 80th Anniversary edition 4k.
https://cdn.hmv.com/r/w-640/hmv/files/e2/e2d8071f-3313-4077-9c0e-35968defcc3e.jpg
couldn't resist i'm afraid.
stunning 4k repro. occasionally to sharp but some of the soft shots of bergman's face at times are just fabulous... worth it for that alone but a collectors dream i guess and probably my fav film.
Casablanca, 80th Anniversary edition 4k.
https://cdn.hmv.com/r/w-640/hmv/files/e2/e2d8071f-3313-4077-9c0e-35968defcc3e.jpg
couldn't resist i'm afraid.
wow three discs, does it have the alternative ending?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o8FLdIIVeg
Mikeandvan
03-12-2022, 22:26
Watched the supremely creepy 'Seconds' last night, starring Rock Hudson, it's quite a film. Also watched recently 'The thin red line' directed by Terence Malick (badlands, days of heaven, The new world), that was brilliant.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060955/
The Titfield Thunderbolt, 1953... bluray..
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don't make 'em like this no more...
Looper, 2012...
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Villain, 1971...
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Changing his clothes and hair-style, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi4kvTTk-D7AhUKecAKHcKeBL8QFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FVillai n_(1971_film)&usg=AOvVaw0N-mPvE6bp-9v1llRaJcgY)Joss Ackland (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000722) burst into producer Alan Ladd Jr. (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0480440)'s London office, hauled him out of his chair and made things quite plain as befitting an East End gangster. "If you don't give me this bleedin' part, I'll break your bloody neck."
On 10 November 1970, on his 45th birthday, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi4kvTTk-D7AhUKecAKHcKeBL8QFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FVillai n_(1971_film)&usg=AOvVaw0N-mPvE6bp-9v1llRaJcgY)Richard Burton (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000009) took a day off from filming to collect his CBE from Buckingham Palace, accompanied by his older sister Cicely and his wife Elizabeth Taylor (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000072).
Joss Ackland (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000722), T.P. McKenna (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0571435), Del Henney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0377328), Tony Selby (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783007), Colin Welland (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919815), James Cossins (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167839), Michael Robbins (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0730425), Godfrey James (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0416528), Leslie Schofield (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0774532), and Cheryl Hall (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0355411) would all go on to appear in The Sweeney (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071059) (1974).
The critical and financial failure of this film ended (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi4kvTTk-D7AhUKecAKHcKeBL8QFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FVillai n_(1971_film)&usg=AOvVaw0N-mPvE6bp-9v1llRaJcgY)Richard Burton (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000009)'s viability as a box office star. The character of Vic Dakin was based on (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi4kvTTk-D7AhUKecAKHcKeBL8QFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FVillai n_(1971_film)&usg=AOvVaw0N-mPvE6bp-9v1llRaJcgY)Ronald Kray (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1839925).
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Jeremiah Johnson, 1972.. watched it recently but missed a fair chunk so am trying again...another of my favs
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How the West Was Won, 1962... american frontier epic with an all star cast.. it was narrated by Spencer Tracy, who couldnt be in film due to illness.
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Hopscotch, 1980...
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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.
According to the DVD special feature "Introduction by Neame & Garfield", Walter Matthau (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000527)'s agent suggested the film include music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003665), as this would be pleasing to Matthau. So they made Matthau's character Kendig a lover of Mozart's music. Conductor and arranger Ian Fraser (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292143) located many pieces of Mozart's music but was at a loss for the scenes where Kendig is typing his book. So they asked Matthau if he could make any suggestions and he obliged by finding some.
The Belles of St. Trinian's, 1954..
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The conversation between Miss Anderson ( played by Vivien Wood (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0940068) ) and The Sultan of Makyad ( played by Eric Pohlmann (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688384) ) in the opening scenes about the schooling in England of his daughter Fatima ( played by Lorna Henderson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0376526) ) establishes that St Trinians is located in Barchester - the fictional English county created by Anthony Trollope in his series of Chronicles of Barchester novels.
In the scenes of panic at the arrival of the "school special" in the village, one scene shows a policeman running into a police station where the noticeboard bears the title "Barchester Constabulary". Further, the police constable mentions the name of the town as being "Little Twyning" when he reports the arrival of the train to the Superintendent on the phone.
This was the debut film of actress Barbara Windsor.
Quality film that, you couldn't do something like that these days, the actors now aren't good enough to carry it off.
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, 1976... It was directed by Herbert Ross and written by Nicholas Meyer Stars Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Alan Arkin and Vanessa Redgrave.Its on a Reg A bluray.
https://www.slantmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/sevenpercentsolutionbr.jpg (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjm8p2BoOX7AhU4TEEAHSkLBasQFnoECCUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Se ven-Per-Cent_Solution_(film)&usg=AOvVaw3J0yMclp0-yZWfrH6BY_H9)
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, 1989...
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81+ZZSxoqmL._AC_SL1500_.jpg (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi2h8bNweX7AhUJbsAKHZVDCXUQFnoECAwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0098282 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0-wu9IPgDA1cFQ26qAI5zz)
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