The House on 92nd Street, 1945. Directed by Henry Hathaway and stars William Eythe and Lloyd Nolan.
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One of these oddities that were liked more in the day than now.
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The House on 92nd Street, 1945. Directed by Henry Hathaway and stars William Eythe and Lloyd Nolan.
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One of these oddities that were liked more in the day than now.
Pickup Alley, 1957(aka Interpol). Directed by John Gilling and starring Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, Trevor Howard, Bonar Colleano and Sid James.
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This is the new master from Arrow Academy. A rarely seen British film noir filmed in B&W cinemascope by Ted Moore.
British 50's singer Yana has a slot in it too. she was quite famous once.
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One, Two, Three, 1961. It was directed by Billy Wilder and written by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond. It is based on the 1929 Hungarian one-act play Egy, kettő, három by Ferenc Molnár, with a "plot borrowed partly from" Ninotchka, a 1939 film co-written by Wilder. The comedy features James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Liselotte Pulver, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, Leon Askin, Howard St. John, and others. It would be Cagney's last film appearance until Ragtime in 1981, 20 years later.
Cagney thouroughly disliked Buchholz and wanted to thump him.;)
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Wilder was filming in Berlin the morning the Berlin Wall went up, forcing the crew to move to Munich. During principal photography, Wilder received a call from Joan Crawford, recently appointed to the board of directors of Pepsi-Cola following her husband Alfred Steele's death. In response to Crawford's protests over the use of the Coca-Cola brand in the film, Wilder scattered some references to Pepsi, including the final scene.
When the movie opened, it came with a spoken preface by Cagney, added by Wilder:
On Sunday, August 13th, 1961, the eyes of America were on the nation's capital, where Roger Maris was hitting home runs #44 and 45 against the Senators. On that same day, without any warning, the East German Communists sealed off the border between East and West Berlin. I only mention this to show the kind of people we're dealing with—real shifty.
This is the Eureka remastered Bluray/
Classic film that.. Cagney was superb, as were most of cast tbh. Buchholz stood out as the poorest actor alas.
War film with a difference now and, 'Heaven Knows Mr Allison', 1957. Directed by John Huston and stars Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum.
Cinematography by Oswald Morris.
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The Marines provided troops for the invasion climax. Six Japanese living in Brazil played some of the leading Japanese characters, while Chinese from the laundries and restaurants of Trinidad and Tobago filled out the rest of the Japanese soldiers.
Kerr was nominated for an Academy Award for her role.
Sullivan's Travels, 1941. It was written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake.
Sullivan's Travels received disparate critical reception: The New York Times described it as "the most brilliant picture yet this year", praising Sturges's mix of escapist fun with underlying significance, and ranked it as one of the ten best films of 1941. But The Hollywood Reporter said that it lacked the "down to earth quality and sincerity which made [Sturges's] other three pictures of 1941 – The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, and Christmas in July – "a joy to behold".
Over time, the film's reputation has improved tremendously. Media historian Hal Erickson classified it as a "classic", "one of the finest movies about movies ever made" and a "masterpiece".[3] In 1990, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
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"The HD master for Sullivan's Travels was created from a 35mm dupe negative by Universal Digital Services and delivered by Hollywood Classics. Additional picture and audio restoration work was carried out using a combination of software tools and techniques at Deluxe Digital - EMEA, London.
Film restoration supervisor: James White.
Film restoration for Deluxe Production: Mark Bonnici, Graham Jones, Tom Barrett, Clayton Baker.
Special Thanks: Peter Schade, NBC Universal."
The high-definition transfer has been struck from a pre-existing master and rather predictably there are some sporadic fluctuations. To be perfectly clear, there are portions of the film that look quite good, with image depth in particular being far superior when one compares the Blu-ray release with the R1 DVD release Criterion produced back in 2001 ..
Ths is the Arrow Academy Bluray.
Scarlett Street, 1945. It was directed by Fritz Lang and stars Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea.
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Local authorities in three cities (New York, Milwaukee, and Atlanta) banned Scarlet Street early in 1946 because of its dark plot and themes.
The film was based on the French novel La Chienne (literally The Bitch) by Georges de La Fouchardière, that previously had been dramatized on stage by André Mouëzy-Éon, and cinematically as La Chienne (1931) by director Jean Renoir.
Go back a year and same cast and director for a very similar film.. The Woman In The Window, 1944.
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One of first film noir and some say it was the film that caused the term to be used.
This is the Eureka Bluray from my collection
The Westerner, 1940. directed by William Wyler and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, and Doris Davenport.
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The film is remembered for Walter Brennan's performance as Judge Roy Bean for which he won his record-setting third Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946. William Wyler again as director.. starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo and Harold Russell.
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The Film won seven Academy Awards. The Best Years of Our Lives was also a massive commercial success and one of the top of the whole decade.
Despite his Oscar-nominated performance, Harold Russell(who had lost both hands during the war) was not a professional actor. As the Academy Board of Governors considered him a long shot to win, they gave him an Academy Honorary Award "for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance". When Russell in fact won Best Supporting Actor, there was an enthusiastic response. He is the only actor to have received two Academy Awards for the same performance.
Bunny Lake Is Missing, 1965. Stars Laurence Olivier. Directed by Otto Preminger.
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As with the 1960 film Psycho, audiences were not admitted after the film's start. This was not common practice at the time and was emphasised in the film's promotion, including on the poster, which warned: "No One Admitted While the Clock Is Ticking!"
The fim again is now thought of in a much better light than on release. This is the Bluray version.
It's a good film. I didn't know about the 'no admittance after the start of the screening' policy either for this film or for "Psycho!. You learn something everyday. :)Quote:
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Strange film, I've seen it a few times. Quite liked it, but no doubt not to everybody's taste. Carol Lynley was a great looking girl.Quote:
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yes its an interesting film and Jane Fonda was hoping to get the role, but Preminger had already decided he wanted Lynley. And yes she was very pretty. Keir Dullea Got the role in 2001 off the back of his performance here, and didnt have to even audition.
A rarity now.. After The Fox, 1966. directed by Vittorio De Sica and starring Peter Sellers, Victor Mature and Britt Ekland.
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Alas some of the best jokes were cut by Italians who didnt speak English and missed their humour. But it is still a cult film. Vitor Mature was great at making himself a joke.
This is the bfi bluray
Shaun of the Dead, 2004. Simon pegg and Nick Frost star.
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Bad Day at Black Rock, 1955. directed by John Sturges and starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Lee Marvin, and Ernest Borgnine. this is the bluray edition.
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Just before shooting began, an indecisive Tracy tried to back out of the picture. Schary made clear that he was willing to sue the actor if he quit the film.According to Robert Osborne of the television network Turner Classic Movies, in the introduction to the film's airing on its weekly segment The Essentials, Tracy, weighed down by his growing alcoholism, refused to give MGM an answer. In order to close the deal, according to Osborne, an MGM executive contacted Tracy shortly before filming was to begin and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Tracy, a copy of the script has been sent to Alan Ladd and he has agreed to do the picture." The next day, Tracy committed to Bad Day at Black Rock. Ladd, however, apparently never even saw the script. It turned out to be Tracy's last film for MGM, with the exception of How the West Was Won (1962), for which Tracy supplied the narration.
Great film with a superb cast!Quote:
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yeah, its superb.. robert ryan is great too.. tbh they all play their parts well.Quote:
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House of Bamboo, 1955. Directed and co-written by Samuel Fuller, and starring Robert Ryan, this is an American film noir shot in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color. Supporting cast is Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell and DeForest Kelley.
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For many years after its initial release, the film was only seen on TV in pan-and-scan prints, leading people to believe that DeForest Kelley has a small role near the end of the film. When Fox finally struck a new 35mm CinemaScope print for a film festival in the 1990s, viewers were surprised to see that Kelley was in the film all the way through—he was just always off to one side and thus had been panned out of the frame.
This is the remastered Eureka Bluray from late 2020.
12 Angry Men, 1957. Directed by Sidney Lumet and stars among others, Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, E. G. Marshall, and Jack Warden.
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Although it faired badly at box office in the USA, it did better abroad, and is now classed as one of the great movies ...Jurer no8(Fonda) was named 28th in a list of the 50 greatest movie heroes of the 20th century.
Love me Or Leave Me, 1955. the life story of Ruth Etting, and stars Doris Day as Etting, James Cagney as gangster Martin "Moe the Gimp" Snyder, her first husband and manager, and Cameron Mitchell as pianist/arranger Johnny Alderman, her second husband. It was written by Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart and directed by Charles Vidor.
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The role of Snyder was originally intended for Spencer Tracy, but he turned down the project. Cagney suggested to producer Joe Pasternak casting Doris Day in the Etting role. The role had been sought by Ava Gardner and Jane Russell.
It was nominated for 6 Oscars and wone one for 'Best Motion Picture Story'
An Inspector Calls, 1954. Based on a play by J.B. Priestley. Directed by Guy Hamilton and written for the screen by Desmond Davis. It stars Alistair Sim as 'The Inspector'...
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Another 60th anniversary edition, Hobson's Choice, 1954. Directed by the great David Lean and stars John Mills, Charles Laughton, Brenda DeBanzie and Prunela Scales.
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This was the most popular film of its year and was John Mills favorite of all his films.
Another remaster of a classic tale; Film of E Nesbit's novel, The Railway Children, 1970. Directed by Lionel Jefferies and stars Dinah Sheriden, Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett, Iain Cuthbertson, William Mervin and Bernard Cribbins.
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Lionel Jeffries used the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, and its station at Oakworth, as the backdrop for the film, referring to it as the "Great Northern and Southern Railway".
At the time of filming, there were still very few heritage railways in Britain and only the KWVR could provide a tunnel, which is important in a number of scenes. The tunnel is a lot shorter in reality than it appears in the film, for which a temporary extension to the tunnel was made using canvas covers.
The film was and still is a critical mastepiece and was Jeffries debut as a director.
Interestingly Sally Thomsett was older that Agutter but had to pretent to be younger, even on set, so wasnt allowed to smoke lol
It's a very good movie. I did jury service thirty years ago - and the film went through my mind at the time.Quote:
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Everyone remembers Henry Fonda, but I think Lee J. Cobb's rôle was equally commendable, playing the part of the bigoted jurer.
Yes, a classic. :)Quote:
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I haven't seen that version - and I should, but for me the one with David Thewlis as the 'Inspector' will be the definitive version.Quote:
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its the more modern version and is used in schools a lot, but the sim one is just so perfect i cant see it not being a masterpiece for everQuote:
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Farewell My Lovely, 1975. Neo noir directed by Dick Richards and featuring Robert Mitchum as private detective Phillip Marlowe.
also stars Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Jack O'Halloran, Sylvia Miles and Harry Dean Stanton, with an early screen appearance by Sylvester Stallone.
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Mitchum(who was the only actor to play Marlowe twice on the big screen) says Charlotte Rampling "arrived with an odd entourage, two husbands or something. Or they were friends and she married one of them and he grew a mustache and butched up. She kept exercising her mouth like she was trying to swallow her ear. I played her on the right side because she had two great big blackheads on her left ear, and I was afraid they'd spring out and lodge on my lip."[8]
Mitchum later admitted, "This kid Richards, the director, he's got something. It'll be a good picture."
Another neo noir now with Charley Varrick, 1973. It was directed by Don Siegel and starred Walter Matthau, Andrew Robinson, Joe Don Baker and John Vernon.
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Matthau won the 1974 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards for Best Actor in Charley Varrick. In addition, Frank Morriss was nominated for the 1974 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards for Best Editing.
Top class movie. I have the DVD, should watch it again.Quote:
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yup as its a fav of mine i ordered the remastered bluray from the states. they take a few weeks to come tho and are reg a..Quote:
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EDIT.. actually the order is for the next film doh.. lol
Hopscotch, 1980..Directed by Ronald Neame, and stars Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, and Herbert Lom.
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New York Times critic Vincent Canby gave the film a rave review: "a lark, a comic cloak-and-dagger adventure ... a stylish, lighter-than-air vehicle that moves from Munich to Salzburg to Washington to the Deep South to Europe and back without once losing its breath. It is beautifully played by Mr. Matthau and Miss Jackson and by a supporting cast ... directed by Ronald Neame and scored largely by Mozart. My only reservation is that Miss Jackson isn't on the screen enough"
Paul, 2011. The unrated version before it was cut for theatrical release. Stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, with Kirsten Wiig and Jason Bateman.
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The Searchers, 1956. Directed by John Ford and stars John Wayne, Natalie Wood and Jeffery Hunter.
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The film continues to be rated as one of the top films ever.
Got access to Netflix now so having a look at this
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The Heiress, 1949. stars Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift and Ralph Richardson. This is an adaptation of the Henry James book, Washington Square(1880). Directed by the great William Wyler
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This Criterion Bluray presentation is rather good with an excellent mono track. Picture is also good and was rescanned in 4k. this was de Havilland's best ever performance.
The sniff of a parents' dislike of his child(as his wife died in childbirth) and a beau who may just be after her money is all too much for a shy girl to bear forever.. The way the actress handles the change to bitterness is amazing.
One of Wyler's greatest.
what did you think of it Roy?Quote:
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More classic acting now with The Boys from Brazil, 1978. Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier star, and featuring James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Anne Meara, Denholm Elliott, and Steve Guttenberg. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.
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Although the bulk of the film is set in South America, Fryer says actually filming in that continent was "logistically impossible" so the decision was made to shoot it in Lisbon, Portugal. Filming started in Portugal in October 1977, with additional filming in London, Vienna, the Kölnbrein Dam in Austria, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The scenes that were set in Massachusetts were shot in London.
There were 3 Academy Awards Nominations from this;(none won) Academy Award for Best Actor – Laurence Olivier, Academy Award for Film Editing – Robert Swink and Academy Award for Original Music Score – Jerry Goldsmith.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan, 1941. stars Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains and Evelyn Keyes. Direction from Alexander Hall.
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Enjoyed it but it wasn’t till I’d got into it then paused it to pop to the loo that I realised it was three and a half hours long so perhaps overly long like Most Scorsese films. De Niro wasn’t too convincing playing his younger self but I liked Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa. Think I dropped off towards the end so might need to revisit the ending lol.Quote:
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Tonight's feature
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It's no Pulp Fiction, extraordinarily violent towards the end.
Another American classic now... Youn Mr Lincoln, 1939. This is the Criterion Bluray and very tidy it is for the year... Henry Fonda portrays Lincoln in his early years as a lawyer. John Ford (director) persuaded Fonda to take the role.
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This is a Reg A film. Picture and audio is superb considering its over 80 years young.
I've watched it a couple of times now, there's a lot to take in. No question the best bit is where Brad Pitt fights Bruce Lee though. That's classic.Quote:
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Yes, it would certainly stand a second watching.Quote:
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I'd like to have a flamethrower in my tool shed.
i used to have a homemade one... gas and compressed air.. boy it burnt hot:eyebrows:Quote:
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quality acting...Quote:
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King Of New York, 1991. American neo-noir crime thriller film starring Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes, and Giancarlo Esposito. It was directed by independent filmmaker Abel Ferrara and written by Nicholas St. John.
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Total Film rated King of New York four stars out of five. Roger Ebert awarded two stars out of four, citing Walken's "usual polished and somehow sinister ease" and the director's strong command of mood and style, marred by a sketchy screenplay and a fragmented plot. Mark Caro, writing for the Chicago Tribune, gave the movie only 1/2 star. He called King of New York "a film that sucked like mad", adding that star Christopher Walken and the movie remain "just out of grasp".
Take your pick, but it crashed at the box office.
Nevada Smith, 1966. Directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy and Suzanne Pleshette.
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The movie was a prequel to the 1961 Harold Robbins novel The Carpetbaggers, which had been made into a highly successful film two years earlier, with Alan Ladd playing McQueen's part as an older man. Nevada Smith depicts Smith's first meeting with another "Carpetbaggers" character, Jonas Cord, but the two films' stories are otherwise unrelated.