'Happy Birthday Gwen Stefani' on MTV Classic
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'Happy Birthday Gwen Stefani' on MTV Classic
So this is on Netflix? If so, I might give it a watch later. I've liked him since 'Donnie Darko'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy S
At least you weren't cutting chilles while watching one from your porn library - that would bring a tear to your eyes, all three of them :eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
Bit of a Gwen fan then? Does she still have those Chinese birds following her round?Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I have a couple of her CDs, "Underneath it all" is my favourite song.
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Would have matched this morning's ring of fire I guess!
Yes, it’s not bad but I understand that it’s a remake of a danish film that’s supposed to be better?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
The Admirable Crichton. 1957.
Kenny More stars as the title role in a desert island home from home. [emoji23]
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Yeah Gwen is ace. I don't think she has the Karajuki girls no more but then she did say they could just be a figment of her imagination.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Just started on 4, can't beat a nazi zombie movie
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Carry On Henry, 1971.
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Paint Your Wagon , 1969. Directed by Joshua Logan, and starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, and Jean Seberg.
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Lee Marvin accepted the lead role instead of appearing in The Wild Bunch. He received $1 million while Eastwood was paid $750,000. Faye Dunaway turned down the role of Elizabeth before Seberg was cast. Diana Rigg and Julie Andrews were also considered for the role. Eastwood and Marvin did their own singing, while Seberg's songs were dubbed. The early incarnation of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band had a cameo in the song "Hand Me Down That Can o' Beans."
The Producers, 1967. Written and directed by Mel Brooks and starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars.
The Producers was Brooks's directorial debut. For the film, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 1996, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry and placed eleventh on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs list. It was later adapted by Brooks and Thomas Meehan as a stage musical, which itself was adapted into a film.
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According to Brooks, after the film was completed, Embassy executives refused to release it as being in "bad taste." The film's premiere in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on November 22, 1967, was a disaster and the studio considered shelving it. However, relief came when Pink Panther star Peter Sellers saw the film privately and placed an advertisement in Variety in support of the film's wide release. Sellers was familiar with the film because, according to Brooks, Sellers "had accepted the role of Bloom and then was never heard from again." The film allegedly was "banned in Germany." The film was screened in New York City in March 1968. The film's wide release would take place on March 18, 1968.
Well I would be happy to watch the Danish one. Trouble is, Mrs. P hates subtitles and I can't be doing with overdubbed dialogue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy S
To Have and Have Not, 1944. Directed by Howard Hawks and stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall; it also features Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Dan Seymour, and Marcel Dalio.
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One of my favourite films. In some ways I prefer it to 'Casablanca'. :sofa:Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
One that wasn't made 100 years ago ;)
Never seen this all the way through, thought I'd give it a go.
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Like this film, seen it a lot. Brick Top is my favourite character, but they're all good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy S
Bit of trivia for you. The line 'I'll cut your f***ing jacobs off' (jacobs crackers - knackers) was initially adlibbed by Bradley Walsh when he auditioned for the part of Brick Top. Guy Ritchie ultimately decided that Walsh's alter ego of game show host might harm the films credibility.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
And I still haven't seen it all the way through, fell asleep.
You're not really selling this film Roy. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy S
Very true but I was being optimistic about my staying power when I started watching a two hour film at 2 am.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007.
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The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)
Audie Murphy is a gunfighter and gambler whose father is killed by claim jumpers. He teams up with a sherriff whose friend has been killed by the same men, and they hunt them down.
There's no bad Audie Murphy westerns. Murphy was not just some celluloid hero either, he won the Medal Of Honour in WW2:
''The Germans scored a direct hit on an M10 tank destroyer, setting it alight, forcing the crew to abandon it.
Murphy ordered his men to retreat to positions in the woods, remaining alone at his post, shooting his M1 carbine and directing artillery fire via his field radio while the Germans aimed fire directly at his position.
Murphy mounted the abandoned, burning tank destroyer and began firing its .50 calibre machine gun at the advancing Germans, killing a squad crawling through a ditch towards him. For an hour, Murphy stood on the flaming tank destroyer returning German fire from foot soldiers and advancing tanks, killing or wounding 50 Germans.
He sustained a leg wound during his stand, and stopped only after he ran out of ammunition. Murphy re-joined his men, disregarding his own injury, and led them back to repel the Germans. He insisted on remaining with his men while his wounds were treated.''
as yes audie.. he turned out a nutjob alas. he had great difficulty turning back off his aggression, but a war hero he sure was.
well he had PTSD, the real one not the one people think they have now because they once saw a fire or a car crash. He killed a lot of men, that's always going to weigh on you.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
yup, combat stress i think they called it. before that shell shock, and cowardice. ww1 generals were such wankersQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
One of Our Aircraft is Missing, 1942.
Bedtime viewing lól
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Jesse James, 1939. Directed by Henry King and starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly and Randolph Scott.
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Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 British mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet. It stars Albert Finney as Poirot, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael York, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Perkins and Wendy Hiller.
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Cast members eagerly accepted upon first being approached. Lumet went to Sean Connery first, who admitted that he had been "stupidly flattered" by Lumet saying that if you get the biggest star, the rest will come along. Bergman was initially offered the role of Princess Dragomiroff, but instead requested to play Greta Ohlsson. Lumet said:
She had chosen a small part, and I couldn't persuade her to change her mind. She was sweetly stubborn. But stubborn she was ... Since her part was so small, I decided to film her one big scene, where she talks for almost five minutes, straight, all in one long take. A lot of actresses would have hesitated over that. She loved the idea and made the most of it. She ran the gamut of emotions. I've never seen anything like it.
Bergman eventually won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the portrayal, the last one of her illustrious career.
St Martin's Lane, 1938. starring Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Larry Adler and Tyrone Guthrie in a rare acting appearance. It also features Ronald Shiner as the barman (uncredited).
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super little film this ...
When Leigh was approached to make Sidewalks of London, she did not want to work with Laughton and she felt no attachment to the role. Nevertheless, she was persuaded otherwise. In Alexander Walker's biography of Leigh, Larry Adler is quoted as saying that Leigh was difficult to work with. He said, "She didn't like Charles and he didn't like her. But he was much more professional. One weekend there were a few close-ups of Vivien to be done outside a theater and Charles, who invariably went down to the country with Elsa (Lanchester) at weekends, stayed up in town to 'feed' Vivien lines from behind the camera. I doubt if she'd have done as much for him. [Laurence] Olivier would show up on the set and they'd disappear into her dressing-room and it was quite a business to get her back to work." Olivier would show up on the days that Leigh was to shoot love scenes with the handsome Rex Harrison.
An excellent film - and certainly better (and closer to the book) than the over CGI'd travesty with Kenneth Branagh.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
The Professionals, 1966. Written, produced, and directed by Richard Brooks and starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, and Claudia Cardinale, with Jack Palance, Ralph Bellamy, and Woody Strode in supporting roles.
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The movie, which was shot in Technicolor, was filmed in Death Valley, Valley of Fire and around Coachella Valley in California. The rail scenes were filmed on Kaiser Steel's Eagle Mountain Railroad. The steam locomotive seen in the movie currently resides on the Heber Valley Railroad.
During filming, the cast and crew stayed in Las Vegas. Actor Woody Strode wrote in his memoirs that he and Marvin got into a lot of pranks, on one occasion shooting an arrow into Vegas Vic, the famous smiling cowboy neon sign outside The Pioneer Club.
great pic of claudia from film showing her assets
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great end quote from lee marvin
J.W. Grant : You bastard.
Rico : Yes sir. In my case an accident of birth. But you, you're a self-made man.
:lol:
Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970. Directed by Don Siegel and starring Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood . (She got top billing).
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Carrol Case sold the screenplay to Martin Rackin, who had Albert Maltz, also living in Mexico, rewrite the story. Maltz's version had Clint Eastwood playing a soldier of fortune for the Juaristas and Shirley MacLaine playing a revolutionary prostitute now set during the French intervention in Mexico. The film saw Eastwood embody the tall mysterious stranger once more, unshaven, wearing a serape-like vest and smoking a cigar and the film score was composed by Ennio Morricone. Although the film had Leonesque dirty Hispanic villains, the film was considerably less crude and more sardonic than those of Leone.
It made a modest profit.
Another good film there Grant. :)
Another classic now with M*A*S*H, 1970. directed by Robert Altman and stars Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, and Elliott Gould, with Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, René Auberjonois, Gary Burghoff, Roger Bowen, Michael Murphy, and in his film debut, professional football player Fred Williamson.
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with a budget of $3m, it grossed over $80m, making it the 3rd highed of the year.
I have that, as well as some of the early TV episodes. :)
Porridge, 1979. includes one of the last appearances by Richard Beckinsale, the actor who played Godber. He died in March 1979, a few weeks after its completion.
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The film was one of the more popular of 1979 at the British box office, grossing more than 16 million pounds in the UK from a budget of only £250k.
Mackay:
Are you wearing make-up again, Whittaker?
Whittaker:
Just a touch of rouge Mr Mckay.
:D
Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple in MURDER SHE SAID, 1961. with with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, Joan Hickson, James Robertson Justice, and Stringer Davis(Rutherford's husband).
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Typical Rutherford performance and a 'good fun' murder mystery.
How many films do you watch in a day Grant!?
that depends on my mobility barry. im pretty much immobile at moment having smashed my good leg. 4/5 a day plus when in bed i may watch more if i cant sleep.( pain can cause sleepless nights. )Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
currently im pretty pissed off:D
The Defiant Ones, 1986. Is a made-for-television crime drama film directed by David Lowell Rich starring Robert Urich and Carl Weathers. It is a remake of the 1958 film of the same name.
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The Bishop's Wife, 1947. Directed by Henry Koster and starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven.
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A Xmas film with a great cast and a pleasent enough storyline. This was remade(badly) in 1996.
The film won the Academy Award for Best Sound (Gordon E. Sawyer), and was nominated for Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Best Picture.
Duck You Sucker, 1971.aka A Fistful Of Dynamite.aka Once Upon A Time In The Revolution.aka Giù la testa,
A revolution is not a dinner party, an embroidery, writing an essay, or painting a picture. It cannot be done with elegance and courtesy. The revolution … is an act of violence…” Mao-Tse Tung.
Directed by Sergio Leone and stars James Coburn and Rod Steiger. Set during the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s, the film tells the story of Juan Miranda, an amoral Mexican outlaw, and John Mallory, a former member of the Irish Republican Army. After they accidentally meet under less-than-friendly circumstances, Juan and John involuntarily become heroes of the Revolution, despite being forced to make heavy sacrifices.
One of Leone's best and much ovelooked. It crashed in usa no doubt due to its leftist leanings but did well elsewhere. Music from Ennio Morricone is fabulous.
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I chose to oppose an intellectual, who has experienced a revolution in Ireland, with a naïve Mexican... you have two men: one naïve and one intellectual (self-centred as intellectuals too often are in the face of the naïve). From there, the film becomes the story of Pygmalion reversed. The simple one teaches the intellectual a lesson. Nature gains an upper hand and finally the intellectual throws away his book of Bakunin's writings. You suspect damn well that this gesture is a symbolic reference to everything my generation has been told in the way of promises. We have waited, but we still are waiting! I have the film say, in effect "Revolution means confusion".
The Man in the Iron Mask, 1998. starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu and Gabriel Byrne.
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The film made over $180m for a $35m outlay. It opened while another DiCaprio film was in the box office, Titanic.
Not a bad film. It certainly had a stellar cast. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 1962. John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles and Lee Marvin star. Directed by John Ford.
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The film was both a critical and financial success.
A proper movie! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
yeah, its a top film..Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
now, Shirley Valentine from 1989. Directed by Lewis Gilbert (with the screenplay by Willy Russell). It stars Pauline Collins and Tom Conti, with Alison Steadman and Bernard Hill in support.
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In the UK, it was the highest-grossing independent British film of the year, with a gross of £11.5 million, while it made a further $6.1m in usa/canada.
And allegedly the film is a favourite of the Queen.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Young Frankenstein, 1974. directed by Mel Brooks. It stars Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn, and Gene Hackman.
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Pure class...