Haven’t watched that in decades but I loved it as a kid/teenager - I do have it recorded as well as Carry On At Your Convenience, for when I feel the urge...Quote:
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Haven’t watched that in decades but I loved it as a kid/teenager - I do have it recorded as well as Carry On At Your Convenience, for when I feel the urge...Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
The Four Feathers, 1939. directed by Zoltan Korda, starring John Clements, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, and C. Aubrey Smith.
John Laurie plays the Khalifa (was he ever young?) but alas even as he speaks a foreign language, he still sounds like Laurie.:D
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This is the Reg A Criterion Bluray. Its colour and pretty decent pic for a film so old.
The action scenes, photographed by Osmond Borradaile, were not only filmed where the historical battles had taken place, but also included among the many extras, people who had witnessed or participated in the fighting more than forty years earlier. These battle scenes further benefitted from Director Zoltan Korda's expertise at large-scale action and his early experience as a cavalry officer. The sailing ships pulled by hordes of Sudanese along the Nile were constructed specially for the production in exact period detail at great cost.
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The Jungle Book (2016) Just quality.
super film steve.. really realistic tooQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Big Jake, 1971. starring John Wayne, Richard Boone and Maureen O'Hara. supporting cast features Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum, Glenn Corbett, Jim Davis, John Agar, Harry Carey Jr. and Hank Worden.
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Poirot series 1(tv series)1989. David Suchet plays the title role....fabulously
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David Suchet is now the definitive Poirot, he has made that part his own. (Though I thought Albert Finney made a good job in playing Poirot in 'Murder on the Orient Express'.)
Notorious, 1946. Dircted by Alfred Hitchcock and stars Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.
This is the remastered Criterion version and region A
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After filming had ended, Cary Grant kept the famous UNICA key. A few years later he gave the key to his great friend and co-star Ingrid Bergman, saying that the key had given him luck and hoped it would do the same for her. Many years later, at a tribute to director Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Bergman went off-script and presented the key to him, to his surprise and delight.
I will stay with my region A collection and this...Night Train to Munich, 1940. Its directed by Carol Reed and starring Margaret Lockwood and Rex Harrison. Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, based on the 1939 short story Report on a Fugitive by Gordon Wellesley.
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The second of six film appearances by Charters and Caldicott (played by Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne). They first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes (1938)," also written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. They later appeared in "Crook's Tour (1940)," "Millions Like Us (1943)," and "It's Not Cricket (1949)," which were also written by Gilliat and Lauder, and in "Dead of Night (1945)."
Considering the early release date of this movie--August 1940 in the UK and December 1940 in the US--there are many remarkable depictions of the onerous nature of the Nazi system, something not fully appreciated even by UK audiences at the time. The UK had bent over backward to accommodate Adolf Hitler in the late 1930s, and the war had only "gotten serious" a few months earlier with the debacle at Dunkirk in France and the following aerial Battle of Britain, which was well underway when this movie was released. The US would not enter the war for a full year after the December release date.
As of 2011, this movie has not been released in Germany at all.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939. Directed by Sidney Lanfield, the film stars Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. John Watson. with Richard Greene as The Baskerville in question.
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Quite good this version.
The Spy in Black , 1939. This was the first collaboration between the British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson and Sebastian Shaw, with Marius Goring and Torin Thatcher as two German submarine officers. Grant Sutherland, a minister in Powell's The Edge of the World (1937), appears in this film as a Scottish air raid warden. Bernard Miles has a small uncredited role here; he was knighted in 1969, and was created a life peer as Baron Miles, He was only the second British actor to receive a peerage, after Laurence Olivier..
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The Spy in Black was filmed at Denham Studios, with location shooting at Northchurch Common in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire and in Orkney, Scotland. The film wrapped production on 24 December 193 and was released in the U.K. on 7 August 1939 – just weeks before the country again went to war with Germany. Its American premiere was held in New York City on 5 October of that year, and it went into general release two days later.
this is the restored version from a dvd and then onto my plex. pic is rather good too
Vertigo, 1958, directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring James Stewart and Kim Novak.
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This movie is often credited or blamed for creating or popularizing the misconception that vertigo means a fear of heights. For the record, the proper name for that condition is "Acrophobia", whereas vertigo is "a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great height" (Oxford Dictionary).
The Matrix Reloaded, 2003.
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more of this today. as Barry said, he made the role his own really. Hugh Fraser did a super job as Hastings too, as did Philip Jackson as Japp.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Insignificance, 1985. directed by Nicolas Roeg, and starring Gary Busey, Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis, and Will Sampson.
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Adapted by Terry Johnson from his 1982 play of the same name, the film follows four famous characters who converge in a New York City hotel one night in 1954: Joe DiMaggio, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, and Joseph McCarthy—billed as The Ballplayer, The Professor, The Actress and The Senator, respectively.
This is the Bluray version
As 'The Ipcress File' has just started on BBC 2, I'm watching it. Excellent movie!
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great film geoff..Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006.
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The first and the best. I have it on DVD.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
I love the bit where Marilyn explains/confirms some aspect of relativity theory to Einstein, after which he says "I'm so glad". :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
its an interesting film.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Well that was annoying...Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
I started watching this (never seen it before), but then nodded off :( When I woke up I was looking at Robert Duvall dressed like an SS officer. Took a minute or two to realise I was now watching The Eagle Has Landed.
Happens all the time with films, no matter how good they are. If I'm stationary for more than 20 minutes I go into standby, like my CD player.
It's called 'getting old'. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Death Wish 1,2,3,4 and 5.
'Like losers in a Michael Winner script'
Talking of Michael Winner, Im about to watch one of his. Chato's Land, 1972. Starring(of course) Chuck Bronson, with Jack Palance and James Whitmore.
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Charles Bronson refused to eat at the same table as Jack Palance during the shooting breaks. Michael Winner's book says Bronson had a great dislike for Palance during the filming of "Chato's Land". Every evening Charlie, Jill, and Winner would have dinner together at the hotel restaurant while Palance ate by himself. Winner would tell Charlie that there was nothing wrong with Palance but Charlie held a great distrust. Finally, toward the end of filming Charlie had dinner with Palance. The next day Charlie told Winner that "Jack Palance is a very nice man." Winner said that was typical of Charlie to be so guarded.
Palance did have a reputation in Hollywood for being as eccentric as he was tough. Jack Palance and Bronson were maybe the two toughest actors ever.
Jack was a professional boxer before he served in WW II.He had also worked as a coal-miner in Pennsylvania.Bronson was also a coal-miner and he served in the WW II too.They were both wounded and received the purple heart.
Thanks for that Grant, educational as always :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
I bet Michael Winner wouldn't have got away with saying "Calm down dear" to Bronson... to be fair Palance didn't have a "come sit with me" kind of face. Seems like a lot of the yesteryear Hollywood "tough guys" were just that in real life too, I wonder how many of today's actors could be described thus.
Interesting bit re Keanu Reeves.
Keanu Reeves donated 70% of his salary from the first The Matrix film to fund leukaemia research - after his younger sister battled the disease for 10 years.
The actor, 57, who was reportedly paid $10million upfront and earned $35million total for the first film in the franchise in 1999, was inspired to fund research into the blood cancer after his sister Kim, now 55, was diagnosed in 1991.
Keanu became Kim's primary carer during this time and helped with her recovery after she spent a decade fighting the cancer, before going into remission.*
Dark Passage, 1947. directed by Delmer Daves and starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
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The photo of Vincent before surgery is shown in the newspaper and elsewhere. It represents the height of photomanipulation of the day, with carefully masked double-exposures and careful airbrushing. The lower half of the face is that of character actor Kenneth MacDonald. The upper half, from just below the bridge of the nose, is that of Bogart himself.
Warner Brothers studio head Jack L. Warner was not pleased to discover that the face of one of his biggest stars, Humphrey Bogart, is not seen for the first half of the movie. By the time Warner knew this, the film was too far along to be changed.
Enemy of the State, 1998. Stars Will Smith, Gene Hackman and John Voight. Directed by Tony Scott.
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The N.S.A. refused to cooperate with the production. Aerial footage of their headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland had to be shot from public air space.
The mark left on the mailbox to signal Brill is standard spycraft.
Time Bandits, 1981.. Written and directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Sean Connery, John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Ralph Richardson, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, Peter Vaughan, and David Warner.
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In the original script, King Agamemnon was introduced as: "The warrior took off his helmet, revealing someone that looks exactly like Sean Connery, or an actor of equal but cheaper stature." To writer, producer, and director Terry Gilliam's surprise, the script ended up in Connery's hands. He expressed interest in the part, and his agent approached them for the role.
Joe Kidd, 1972. Directed by John Sturges and starring Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall.
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Writer Elmore Leonard 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).
Saw that again recently, not a bad movie. Was there ever a film where Don Stroud didn't play a baddie?
lol yeah he has the face of a real baddie. still alive and lives in hawaii. still surfs i think.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Prime Cut, 1972 again, and also featuring Gregory Walcott as Weenie.(who was the Sheriff in Joe Kidd) Stars Lee Marvin, Sissy Spacek and Gene Hackman(all 3 Oscar winners).
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The submachine gun used by Nick Devlin in the last part of the film is the now rare Smith & Wesson model 76, a near copy of the Swedish M/45. It was produced in very small numbers in the late 1960s, and it was eventually discontinued due to lack of interest in such a weapon by military and law enforcement agencies. In US service, it was largely known as the "Swedish-K" or "K-Rifle. It was used by US special services (like Navy SEALS and CIA operatives) during the Vietnam War.
Lee Marvin had a serious feud with director Michael Ritchie, because Ritchie wanted him to have love scenes with the too young actress Sissy Spacek. Marvin hated Ritchie for this lack of respect for Spacek. Actually she was 22 at time so not"TOO Young", but Marvin was a bit of a dick at times.
Very rarely shown and not well known now. One of my favourites!
a class film geoff.. its on my plex drive; ex a dvd. as you say fairly rarely shownQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Back to the Future, 1985. directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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Universal Pictures head Sid Sheinberg did not like the title "Back to the Future", insisting that nobody would see a movie with "future" in the title. In a memo to Robert Zemeckis, he said that the title should be changed to "Space Man From Pluto", tying in with the Marty-as-alien jokes in the film, and also suggested further changes like replacing the "I'm Darth Vader from planet Vulcan" line with "I am a spaceman from Pluto!" Sheinberg was persuaded to change his mind by a response memo from Steven Spielberg, which thanked him for sending a wonderful "joke memo", and that everyone got a kick out of it. Sheinberg, too proud to admit he was serious, gave in to letting the film retain its title.
Back to the Future Part II, 1989. again directed by Robert Zemeckis .
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To commemorate the release of a 30th anniversary Back to the Future Blu-ray box-set, a short movie called Back to the Future: Doc Brown Saves the World (2015) was filmed with Christopher Lloyd reprising his role of Doc Brown. In the movie, Doc tapes a video message, explaining that he travelled to the 2040s in a rebuilt DeLorean, and discovered that inventions such as the Hoverboard and hydrated 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.
I watched that again the other day.
I suppose if they remade it then the present day Marty would have to go back to 1992
I don't think that the differences between 2022 and 1992 would be of the same magnitude as the difference between 1985 and 1955. No smartphones or flat-screen TVs I guess, otherwise not much has really changed that I can think of. The sequel was way off in its predictions of what 2015 would be like.
Me too. The opening of the film is quite shocking - enough to put you off eating sausages for life. The "cattle market" is equally shocking.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Lee Marvin is always a good actor however, and I'll watch everything he is in. Certainly no "dick"!
he was a decent man, but his drinking got in the way of things often, and his attitude at times annoyed his fellow workers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
this from the professionals.. According to Richard Brooks, Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin did not get along during filming due to Marvin's alcoholism, which was making him unreliable and difficult at the time, infuriating Lancaster. Brooks, who had directed Lancaster in Elmer Gantry (1960), felt the need to intervene because he feared Lancaster was going to "take Lee Marvin by the ass and throw him off that mountain".
Burt Lancaster was as tough as they came and rediculously strong apparently.
it was one of the best trilogy films ever i think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Fox was in asia in a jungle clearing and they came across some monks, and one said, hey, its marty mcfly.:D
Back to the Future Part III, 1990. Robert Zemeckis again directs the third part ...
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Clint Eastwood 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.
When Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen tried to lynch Marty, Michael J. Fox was accidentally hanged, rendering him unconscious for a short time. He records this in his autobiography "Lucky Man"
Happy birthday Mr. Duvall. 91 today.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
"I love the smell of 91 candles burning on my birthday cake". ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
:D Smells like victoryQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Predestination, 2014. It stars Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, and Noah Taylor, and is based on the 1959 short story " '—All You Zombies—' " by Robert A. Heinlein.
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The picture of the Crosby Shoes building in the beginning of the movie is actually a picture of the exploded reactor number 4 from Chernobyl Power Plant which erupted on 26 April 1986.
Seen that a couple of times and enjoyed it. It keeps you thinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth