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My Favorite Blonde, 1942... bluray reg A
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While singing "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" on the bus, Bob Hope imitates Bing Crosby's "boo-boo-boo" singing style.
Although filmed during World War II, with a plot about a race to the death against Nazi spies, the words "Nazi" and "Germany" are never spoken in the movie. Bob Hope does come close when he calls the villains "nasties" in the climax, "nasty" being a vocal anagram of Nazi.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 19, 1942 with Bob Hope reprising his film role.
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another matthau film now.. Hopscotch (1980)
.. bluray reg A again.. great cast and script
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Stagecoach, 1939.. criterion bluray reg A...
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Yakima Canutt explained how the stunt was accomplished where, as an Apache warrior attacking the stagecoach, he is "shot", falls off his horse, and then gets dragged underneath the stagecoach: "You have to run the horses fast, so they'll run straight. If they run slow, they move around a lot. When you turn loose to go under the coach, you've got to bring your arms over your chest and stomach. You've got to hold your elbows close to your body, or that front axle will knock them off." After the stunt was completed, Canutt ran to director John Ford to make sure they got the stunt on film. Ford replied that even if they hadn't, "I'll never shoot that again."
John Ford liked to bully actors on the set, and this movie was no exception. At one point, he said to Andy Devine, "You big tub of lard. I don't know why the hell I'm using you in this picture." Undaunted, Devine replied, "Because Ward Bond can't drive six horses." Likewise, he attacked Thomas Mitchell, who eventually retorted, "Just remember: I saw [Ford's earlier film] Mary of Scotland (1936)," effectively humbling the director. Worst of all was Ford's treatment of John Wayne. He called him a "big oaf" and a "dumb bastard" and continually criticized his line delivery and manner of walking, even how he washed his face on camera. However, at least part of this was to provoke the actor into giving a stronger performance. Claire Trevor recalls how Ford grabbed Duke by the chin and shook him. "Why are you moving your mouth so much?" he said. "Don't you know you don't act with your mouth in pictures? You act with your eyes." Wayne tolerated the rough treatment and rose to the challenge, reaching a new plateau as an actor. Ford helped cement the impression that Wayne makes in the film by giving him plenty of expressive reaction shots throughout the picture.
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Marathon Man, 1976...
directed by John Schlesinger... great cast and story.. deffo an A film..
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Goldman was paid a reported $500,000 for the film rights to his novel and to do a screenplay, before the novel had even been published. "The book reads like the movie-movie of all time", said producer Robert Evans. "I regard it as a cheap investment because you don't often find books that translate into film. This is the best thing I've read since The Godfather. It could go all, all the way – if we don't foul it up in the making."
Marathon Man is famous in acting circles for an often quoted exchange between Hoffman and Olivier concerning a perceived difference in their approaches to acting.
In the usual telling of the story Hoffman, a proponent of method acting, prepared for a scene where his character had been awake for three days by doing the same himself. Following much goading and verbal-bullying by Hoffman of Olivier, who criticized Olivier for not being as committed to his art as Hoffman, Olivier suggested "why don't you just try acting?"[9] In an interview on Inside the Actors Studio, Hoffman said that this exchange had been distorted: he had been up all night at the Studio 54 nightclub for personal rather than professional reasons and Olivier, who understood this, was joking.
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Under the Volcano, 1984...
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On lead actor Albert Finney in this "Under the Volcano" film, director John Huston said: "I think it's the finest performance I have ever witnessed, let alone directed".
QUOTES:: Geoffrey Firmin: How, unless you drink as I do, can you hope to understand the beauty of an old indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?
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^^^ terrific film..
now, The Spy In Black, 1939.. a ww1 spy thriller made by Powell and Pressburger... The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote "This intricate story is gripping from beginning to end, and very skilfully directed";[8] Variety opined "Production is A1, as is the direction";[9] and The New York Times called it "the most exciting spy melodrama since the advent of the Second World War. The British may not have the Bremen, but they still have Conrad Veidt."
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