The Green Man, 1956. Stars Alistair Sim and George Cole, and co- starring Terry-Thomas and Jill Adams.
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The Green Man, 1956. Stars Alistair Sim and George Cole, and co- starring Terry-Thomas and Jill Adams.
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The Magnificent Seven, 1960.
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How the West Was Won, 1962. epic Western film directed by Henry Hathaway(mostly). All topstar cast for this classic (with overtures and all)
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Surprisingly for such an American film, How the West Was Won had its world premiere in the United Kingdom at London's Casino Cinerama Theatre on November 1, 1962. It had a $450,000 advance. The film ran at the Casino for 123 weeks, ending in April 1965.
Harold Myers of Variety called it a "magnificent and exciting spectacle" and in relation to the Cinerama process noted that there had been "a vast improvement in the process. The print joins are barely noticeable, and the wobble, which beset earlier productions, has been eliminated."
Spencer Tracy did the narration.
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The Hustler (1961)
Must be a long time since I watched this last as there are whole scenes I don't remember. They aren't making them like this anymore, more's the pity.
Great actors and dialogue and authentic NYC settings. The pool halls were real, for the bus station dining area 'the film crew built a dining area that was so realistic that confused passengers sat there and waited to place their orders.'
The jazz soundtrack is also excellent, sadly it appears to be 'out of print'.
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Showing on Netflix, 7-part mini series. Some might say it's slow, but worth watching imo. Perfect binge-watch for Halloween. Some good performances, and a bit disturbing at times.
Stagecoach, 1939. Directed by John Ford and starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne, with Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell and Louise Platt.
This is the Criterion Region A version.
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Before production, Ford shopped the project around to several Hollywood studios, all of which turned him down because big budget Westerns were out of vogue, and because Ford insisted on using John Wayne in the key role in the film. Independent producer David O. Selznick finally agreed to produce it, but was frustrated by Ford's indecision about when shooting would begin, and had his own doubts over the casting. Ford withdrew the film from Selznick's company and approached independent producer Walter Wanger about the project. Wanger had the same reservations about producing an "A" western and even more about one starring John Wayne. Ford had not directed a western since the silent days. Wanger said he would not risk his money unless Ford replaced John Wayne with Gary Cooper and brought in Marlene Dietrich to play Dallas.
Ford refused to budge; it would be Wayne or no one. Eventually they compromised, with Wanger putting up $250,000, a little more than half of what Ford had been seeking, and Ford would give top billing to Claire Trevor, better known than John Wayne at the time.
Following the film's release on March 2, 1939, Ford's faith in John Wayne was rewarded as the film met with immediate critical and trade paper success[11] and made a profit of $297,690. Cast member Louise Platt, in a letter recounting the experience of the film's production, quoted Ford on saying of Wayne's future in film: "He'll be the biggest star ever because he is the perfect 'everyman'".
Stagecoach has been lauded as one of the most influential films ever made.[citation needed] Orson Welles argued that it was a perfect textbook of film-making and claimed to have watched it more than 40 times in preparation for the making of Citizen Kane. In 1995, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry.
Raid On Entebbe, 1976, directed by Irvin Kershner. It is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of hostages at Entebbe Airport in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 1976. The portrayal of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was Peter Finch's final performance; he died five days after the film's release.
Raid on Entebbe describes the rescue of the hostages held in Uganda, the discussions within the Israeli government, and the controversy prompted by the rescue.
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Raid on Entebbe was filmed entirely in the United States, with the Stockton Metropolitan Airport in Stockton, California, serving as both Entebbe Airport and an Israeli Air Force (IAF) base. Producers Blatt and Scherick turned to the "Hollywood Squadron", the 146th Airlift Wing of the California Air National Guard to provide three C-130 Hercules transports. Scenes were also shot at the Van Nuys Military airport, Los Angeles; these included footage of passenger jets, and the interior of a C-130 in which Bronson made his speech to the team about to attack Entebbe.
The C-130E variant used by the Israeli Air Force was the same variant that was flown by the 146th Wing. The camouflage scheme used by both the United States Air Force and IAF was virtually identical, and with the overpainting of Israeli markings, the Hercules transports became both "set dressing" for an Israeli airfield and as the aircraft used in the raid on Entebbe. The 146th Airlift Wing also supplied all the military equipment, such as M151 jeeps and weapons that would be seen at an active base.
Other aircraft used in Raid on Entebbe include an Airbus A300B2 F-BVGA (seen in archive footage); a Boeing 707, two Douglas DC-8-31s, 10 North American F-86 Sabre (1/2 scale models representing the Ugandan Air Force MiGs), North American FJ-3 Fury and Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter.
Principal photography on Raid on Entebbe took place in November 1976, with the training for the raid that took place using a replica of the Entebbe Airport. The actual airport had been built by an Israeli construction company and their involvement led to an accurate mockup being built to test out tactics devised for the raid.
Jeremiah Johnson, 1972. directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character and Will Geer as "Bear Claw" Chris Lapp.
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After Warner Bros. advanced Redford $200,000 to secure him for the film, Warner decided that the film had to be shot on the Studio's backlot due to cost constraints. Insisting that it must be shot on location in Utah, Redford and Pollack convinced the studio that this could be done at the same cost. To prepare for production, art director Ted Haworth drove over 26,000 miles to find locations. Ultimately, it was shot in nearly one hundred locations across Utah, including: Mount Timpanogos, Ashley National Forest, Leeds, Snow Canyon State Park, St. George, Sundance Resort, Uinta National Forest, Wasatch-Cache National Forest, and Zion National Park.
Stay in the west with Rooster Cogburn, 1975. Directed by Stuart Millar and starring John Wayne(reprising his role) and Katharine Hepburn. This is the sequel to the 1969 film True Grit.
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John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn were both born in May 1907 (Hepburn the elder by two weeks), and their careers paralleled each other, yet this marked the only time the Hollywood veterans appeared together in a film. Although it was promoted as Rooster Cogburn (...and the Lady), the opening credits of the film give the title as simply Rooster Cogburn. During filming, both 67-year-old stars stayed in Sunriver, Oregon; Governor Tom McCall flew in for a brief visit with them in early October.
Noted character actor Strother Martin portrayed Shanghai McCoy; he also appeared in True Grit, but as the horse trader Colonel G. Stonehill.
The War Wagon, 1967. Directed by Burt Kennedy and starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas. Supporting cast includes Howard Keel, Robert Walker Jr., Keenan Wynn, Joanna Barnes and Bruce Dern.
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The War Wagon was met with generally positive reviews from critics. Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars, who called it "that comparative rarity, a Western filmed with quiet good humor. It is also a point of departure for John Wayne, who plays a bad guy for just about the first time in his career."
The movie holds a 90% "Fresh" score on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 10 reviews.
Tombstone, 1993. Although it states directed by George P. Cosmatos, I believe it was actually directed by main star Kurt Russell. Also stars Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, and Dana Delany in supporting roles, as well as narration by Robert Mitchum.
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It made a good profit and was mostly liked, even if it strays from history somewhat(although much of that history is somewhat dubious in itself)
Loved the phrases, "i'm your huckleberry" and "your no daisy at all". Kilmer practiced for a long time to get part right and became a very fast draw apparently.
What is it with all these cowboy (sorry 'western') films Grant?
lol, not sure just fancied some classic wild west shootemups:DQuote:
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its a great genre
I will admit there are a few that I like: 'High Noon' and some of the later stuff by, and starring, Clint Eastwood, but most seem to be romantic escapism and far removed from history.
Many 'westerns' weren't set in the west. Dodge City is bang in the middle of the US.
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Dodge was a wild west frontier town , in Kansas. it was wild west in those days or at least the gateway to it...:eyebrows:
A change of direction now as im getting complaints :eyebrows: Dial M For Murder is a crime mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson, and John Williams.
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Why anyone whould want to bump off Grace i don't know but hey ho...
"This is a technical triumph that Hitchcock has achieved," wrote Bosley Crowther of The New York Times in a favourable review. "It is one for which he needed good actors. He has them—and the best of the lot is John Williams, late of the stage play, who is the detective who solves the sinister ruse."
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Scrooge, 1951.
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possibly the best of the christmas carol versions... for me anyway.
Shaun of the Dead, 2004.
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film did well here and in the states and is well regarded still.
Dog Soldiers, 2002. British action horror film written, directed and edited by Neil Marshall, in his directorial debut, and starring Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby and Liam Cunningham.
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 79%, based on 38 reviews, and an average rating of 6.90/10. The site's consensus reads, "Frightening, funny, and packed with action, Dog Soldiers is well worth checking out for genre fans -- and marks writer-director Neil Marshall as a talent to keep an eye on."
Jamie Russell of the BBC gave it 4 out of 5 and called it "A rip-roaring comedy action fest that'll put hairs on your chest." Empire magazine gave it 4 out of 5. Reviewing the 2020 rerelease the Guardian gave it 3 out of 5 and note that despite the limitations of the film the talent shown by Marshall in his debut feature that "You can easily draw a clear line through this to his later work". They conclude that "Dog Soldiers has aged pretty well."
Awards
In 2002, the film won the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film's Golden Raven, the festival's top award, as well as the audience prize, the Pegasus.
Something light now after all that intense bloodletting :eyebrows:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail grossed more than any British film exhibited in the US in 1975. In the US, it was selected in 2011 as the second-best comedy of all time in the ABC special Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time behind Airplane!. In the UK, readers of Total Film magazine in 2000 ranked it the fifth-greatest comedy film of all time; a similar poll of Channel 4 viewers in 2006 placed it sixth.
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Corny acting but fights are well choreographed.
The Fugitive, 1993. The film was directed by Andrew Davis and stars Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
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On Rotten Tomatoes The Fugitive has a "Certified Fresh" 96% rating based on 78 reviews, with an average rating of 8.00/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Exhilarating and intense, this high-impact chase thriller is a model of taut and efficient formula filmmaking, and it features Harrison Ford at his frantic best." On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 87 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a rare "A+" grade on a scale of A+ to F.
DAD'S ARMY, 2016.
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THIS IS ONE NO ONE BUT ME LIKES
Another Scott Adkins 'epic'
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The Cruel Sea, 1953. Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, Liam Redmond, Virginia McKenna and Moira Lister star. Directed by Charles Frend and produced by Leslie Norman.
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This is a story of the Battle of the Atlantic, the story of an ocean, two ships, and a handful of men. The men are the heroes; the heroines are the ships. The only villain is the sea, the cruel sea, that man has made more cruel...
The African Queen, 1951.Was adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. The film was directed by John Huston It was photographed in Technicolor by Jack Cardiff and has a music score by Allan Gray. The film stars Humphrey Bogart (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor – his only Oscar) and Katharine Hepburn with Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner and Theodore Bikel.
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Much of the film was shot on location in Uganda and the Congo in Africa. This was rather novel for the time, especially for a Technicolor picture that used large, cumbersome cameras. The cast and crew endured sickness and spartan living conditions during their time on location. In an early scene, Hepburn was playing an organ but had a bucket to vomit in at her feet because she was often sick between takes. Bogart later bragged that he and Huston were the only members of the cast and crew who escaped illness, which he credited to not drinking any water on location but instead fortifying themselves from the large supply of whiskey they had brought along.
I love the Tom Sharpe books. Most of which gave been successfully adapted to TV ('Blott on the Landscape' and 'Porterhouse Blue') and film ('Wilt').Quote:
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Would love to see an adaptation of the South Africa series of books, though these days that might be difficult given the current 'woke' and PC sensibilities.
Reminds meQuote:
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Watched a documentary the other night, Victorian Walks in Liverpool. Thought it might be interesting, lots of fascinating Victorian buildings in Liverpool. Of course it wasn't 5 minutes in before we were on to slavery. The whole thing presented in sub - 'Blue Peter Special' style with numerous factual inaccuracies. Couldn't make it through.
Watched another doc about London's Bridges. Waterloo Bridge. How would you possibly get racism into that? Well they managed it. Bridge is named after the battle and apparently there was a soldier from Jamaica in the British forces there.
Racism? He didn't get an invite to the opening of the bridge. Disregarding that there were 40,000 troops at that battle and none of them got invited either.
And although they had his birth certificate there was nothing to indicate on it that he was a black man. In fact it's highly improbable that a black man was serving with the British in the European theatre in 1815. I think they were just too thick to realise that white people got born in Jamaica too.
modern docu's and tv shows; even films are becoming too woke now. and far too much critism of say the 19th c attitudes.. they were 19thc attitudes ffs, not todays, but they are still relevent as to the time the depict. its history folks, warts and all.
im a great lover of flashman novels; yes they are racist, yes they are sexist, but them were the times, and tbh still are, just folk like to think they are better.
To Have and Have Not, 1944... watched it recently but its a good un... don't make em like this no more;)
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In her autobiography, Lauren Bacall described what she called Hawks's "brilliantly creative work method" on set. She described that every morning on set, Hawks would sit with Bacall, Bogart, and whoever else was in the scene in chairs in a circle as a script girl read the scene. After reading through the scene, Hawks would add sexual dialogue and innuendo between Bacall and Bogart. After Hawks and Bogart felt the changes were adequate, Hawks would add one light on the set and they would go through the scene. Hawks would encourage them to move freely and do what felt comfortable for them. After going through the scenes a few times, cinematographer Sidney Hickox would discuss camera set ups with Hawks.
According to biographer Todd McCarthy, To Have and Have Not is a quintessential Hawks film. It contains classic Hawksian characters such as the strong male and his female counterpart. He also states that although elements of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Casablanca can be found in the film, it represents Hawks's capacity for expression, claiming it is, "beyond doubt, exactly the work its director intended it to be, and would have been nothing like this in the hands of anyone else."
i mean, walter brennan was a co star.... yet he won 3 academy awards...
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The Big Sleep, 1946. Hawks directs Bogey and Bacall again ...
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The re-shot, re-edited and revised The Big Sleep was released on 23 August 1946. The cinematic release is regarded as more successful than the 1945 pre-release version, even though it is difficult to follow. Audiences' difficulty in following this version of the film may be due in part to the omission of a long conversation between Marlowe and the Los Angeles District Attorney where the facts of the case, thus far, are laid out. Yet some film critics prefer the 1946 version because they consider the Bogart-Bacall appearances more important than a well-told story. For an example of this point of view, see Roger Ebert's The Great Movies essay on the film. According to Warner Bros records the film earned $3,493,000 domestically and $1,375,000 foreign.
its certainly about as good, partly due to the Bogey/Bacall magic, and Brennan at his best. Story isnt quite as good thoQuote:
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Bogart was just great! The coolest actor ever.
One of my all-time favourite films that. No idea how many times I've watched it. Must have read the book half a dozen times as well.Quote:
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All about characters and atmosphere, the plot is just a vehicle. Even Chandler said he didn't know how all the loose ends tie up.
I have the book waiting to be read. Been going through the Chandler novels, fine stuff.Quote:
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ive got it as an audio book
From the sublime to Carry On Cowboy, 1965.:D
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some great character names too... Sid James as Johnny Finger/The Rumpo Kid, Kenneth Williams as Judge Burke, Jim Dale as Marshal P. Knutt and Charles Hawtrey as Big Heap.
classic lines like; someone's dropped one.:eek:
On the Fiddle, 1961. It stars Sean Connery, Alfred Lynch, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Eric Barker, Mike Sarne, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Kathleen Harrison, Victor Maddern and John Le Mesurier.
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The fighting scenes in the woods were shot in and around "The Sandpit" on Horsell Common near Woking, Surrey. Interiors were completed at Shepperton Studios, Surrey.
The film was not released in the United States until 21 May 1965, retitled "Operation Snafu" and later "Operation War Head" by the US distributor American International Pictures. The only purpose of the US release was to capitalise on the popularity of Sean Connery, who by then had become world-famous as James Bond in Dr No, From Russia with Love and Goldfinger.
Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968. Classic spaghetti from the master.
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Fabulous cast here and maybe the best western ever.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest; 4k. 2006. Second in the series this one.
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Captain Davy Jones had originally been designed with chin growths, before the designers made the move to full-blown tentacles; the skin of the character incorporates the texture of a coffee-stained Styrofoam cup among other elements. To portray Jones on set, Bill Nighy wore a motion capture tracksuit that meant the animators at Industrial Light & Magic did not have to reshoot the scene in the studio without him or on the motion capture stage. Nighy wore make-up around his eyes and mouth to splice into the computer-generated shots, but the images of his eyes and mouth were not used. Nighy only wore a prosthetic once, with blue-colored tentacles for when Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) steals the key to the Dead Man's Chest from under his "beard" as he sleeps. To create the CGI version of the character, the model was closely based on a full-body scan of Nighy, with Jones reflecting his high cheekbones. Animators studied every frame of Nighy's performance: the actor himself had blessed them by making his performance more quirky than expected, providing endless fun for them. His performance also meant new controls had to be stored. Finally, Jones' tentacles are mostly a simulation, though at times they were hand-animated when they act as limbs for the character.
The Kraken was difficult to animate as it had no real-life reference, until animation director Hal Hickel instructed the crew to watch King Kong vs. Godzilla which featured a live octopus crawling over miniatures. On the set, two pipes filled with 30,000 pounds (14,000 kg) of cement were used to crash and split the Edinburgh Trader: Completing the illusion are miniature masts and falling stuntmen shot on a bluescreen stage. The scene where the Kraken spits at Jack Sparrow does not use computer-generated spit: it was real gunge thrown at Johnny Depp
Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961. directed and produced by Stanley Kramer and starring Judy Garland, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, William Shatner and Montgomery Clift.
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The film depicts the "Judges' Trial", the trial of Nazi judges for their role in the Holocaust. Abby Mann wrote the role of Judge Haywood with Tracy in mind; Tracy called it the best script he had ever read. At the end of the film, Tracy delivered a 13-minute speech. He recorded it in one take and received a round of applause from the cast and crew. Upon seeing the film, Mann wrote to Tracy: "Every writer ought to have the experience of having Spencer Tracy do his lines. There is nothing in the world quite like it." The film met with positive reviews and a large audience; Tracy received an eighth Oscar nomination for his performance.
Ladies Who Do is a 1963 British comedy film directed by C.M. Pennington-Richards starring Peggy Mount, Robert Morley and Harry H. Corbett.
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Good British cast for this light hearted comedy
Too Many Crooks, 1959. directed by Mario Zampi and stars George Cole, Sidney James, Brenda de Banzie, Terry-Thomas and Bernard Bresslaw.
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Another good British comedy from the days when we were good at it.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, 1947. starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
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Charles Lang received a 1947 Academy Award nomination for his black-and-white cinematography on the movie.