'A Zulu regiment can run fifty miles in a day and fight a battle at the end of it'
'That's daft. I don't see no sense in running to fight a battle.'
Has to be one of the best films ever.
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'A Zulu regiment can run fifty miles in a day and fight a battle at the end of it'
'That's daft. I don't see no sense in running to fight a battle.'
Has to be one of the best films ever.
'independent, fire at will'
always expect the soldier to say..."poor will, why pick on him":ner: aka carry on up kyber.
If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short-chambered, Boxer-Henry .45 calibre miracle.
vast majority of the men weren't welsh either, although the film gives that impression. Baker and Chard both died of cancer at about same age surprisingly as both were heavy smokers. Baker owned, what he thought was a copy of Chard's VC, and after he died it proved to be authentic after tests.
now,,
Blazing Saddles, 1974... Directed by Mel Brooks.
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Cleavon Little was not warned about the "you know. . . . morons" line. His reaction was real.
While filming, Burton Gilliam (Lyle, the henchman of Taggart (Slim Pickens)) was having a difficult time saying the word "nigger", especially to Cleavon Little, because he really liked him. Finally, after several takes, Little took Gilliam off to the side and told him it was okay because these weren't his words. Little jokingly added, "If I thought you would say those words to me in any other situation we'd go to fist city, but this is all fun. Don't worry about it."
After promising Warner Brothers that he would edit out several "offensive" scenes, such as the infamous farting sequence, Mel Brooks never cut a single scene except one: after the room is darkened and Lilly (Madeline Kahn) informs Bart "It's TWUE! It's TWUE!," Bart (Cleavon Little) quietly states, "You're sucking on my arm." The scene was later added back to the home video release.
''Well, they've got a very good bass section, mind, but no top tenors that's for sure''
Coming To America, 1988. Directed by John Landis.
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The McDowell's restaurant was actually a Wendy's on Queens Boulevard that was scheduled to be closed for renovation. The production had approval from McDonald's corporate headquarters, which apparently didn't pass the word down to their local outlets. On the day the McDowell's sign went up, the manager of the McDonald's one half mile up the road arrived with his lawyer and took photographs, telling the set dressing crew they were going to be sued for everything they were worth. The restaurant remained in business until early 2013.
Most of the dance performed by the royal dancers before presenting Prince Akeem's queen-to-be is a high-tempo rendition of the dance from Michael Jackson: Thriller (1983).
The barbers call Akeem "Kunta Kinte." John Amos played the adult Kunta Kinte in Roots (1977). Madge Sinclair played Kunta Kinte's wife, and James Earl Jones played Alex Haley, Jr. in Roots: The Next Generations (1979).
When King Jaffe Joffer ( James Earl Jones ) comes looking for his son Akeem at McDowell's restaurant, his line "No. Do not alert him to my presence. I shall deal with him myself" is a homage to Darth Vader (who is voiced by Jones) who in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) has a similar line, "No. Leave them to me. I will deal with them myself". In Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Vader (Jones) kills an admiral for an error, saying, "They have been alerted to your presence."
Agreed - I have a copy somewhere.Quote:
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“The Royal penis is clean” :lol:
"I assumed you had sex with all your bathers - I know I did."
probably the most formidible preditor...raj-bera...
BBC's Dynasties... tiger
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Cowboys and Aliens, 2011. directed by Jon Favreau.
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Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde are the only ones in the cast to wear a Six Gun holster for rapid draw, in the front w/the gun not on the side like so many movies showing Cowboys on the side draw
A "Southland Ice Company" wagon is visible in the final scene. Southland Ice Company was the predecessor to 7-11 stores
where we are heading now if not careful... Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984. directed by Michael Radford.
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In poor health during most of the filming, Richard Burton had great difficulty remembering his lines and sometimes had to film a scene dozens of times before he could get it right. The scene in O'Brien's apartment where O'Brien is talking to Winston about Goldstein's book took a record of forty-one takes for Burton to say his speech without fumbling his lines. He died in August of 84 at the age of 58. The film was shot in April to June.
Director Michael Radford and cinematographer Roger Deakins originally wanted to shoot this movie in black and white, but the financial backers of the production, Virgin Films, opposed this idea. Instead, Deakins used a film processing technique called bleach bypass to create the distinctive washed-out look of the movie's color visuals. This movie is a rare example of the technique being done on every release print, rather than the inter-negative or inter-positive; as the silver is retained in the print, and the lab is unable to reclaim the silver, so the cost is higher, but the retained silver gives a "depth" to the projected image. The 2003 DVD release (the only release to restore Dominic Muldowney's full musical score) was mastered from the original negatives (not a release print), and thus inadvertently restored the movie's original color saturation.
The confessions of the "Thought Criminals" Rutherford (Peter Frye), Aaronson (Joscik Barbarossa), and Jones (Anthony Benson) were based on the Soviet show trials of the 1930s, which included fabricated confessions by prominent Bolsheviks Nikolai Bukharin, Grigori Zinoviev, and Lev Kamenev to the effect that they were being paid by the Nazi government to undermine the Soviet regime under Leon Trotsky's direction.
The Final Countdown, 1980. Directed by Don Taylor.
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The script called for the Japanese pilot to try to force the F-14 into the water. The pilot who basically did a hammerhead and pulled out real close to the water was Richard "Fox" Farrell (VF-84 XO), now retired. He did kick up quite a bit of seawater and was really pushing the envelope with the Tomcat. WWII ace-in-a-day Archie Donahue was one of the Zero pilots. The Zeroes (converted AT-6 Texans) were flying with the throttle to the stops and the F-14s were flying at stall speed (note wings fully extended in most scenes). That was so they could get both aircraft in the same shot at the same time (remember, no CGI stuff back then!
In the mid 1980s the communist government banned the movie in Hungary, claiming it glorified the United States Armed Forces. However, some illegal copies were circulated on VHS with parts about the Russian trawler spying on the USS Nimitz edited out.
During shooting of the opening shot where the CAG's Tomcat is taking off from Pearl Harbor, the film crew actually underestimated the blast radius of the Tomcat's exhaust and one of their cameras was blown over when the plane went to full afterburner, which resulted in the shot being filmed from a slightly different angle than originally planned.
Filmed in the Atlantic, not the Pacific Ocean (where it takes place). The USS Nimitz was an Atlantic fleet ship until the summer of 1987 when it was transferred to the Pacific. USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) stood in for the Nimitz for the arrival past the 'Arizona' into Pearl Harbor.
Is that the one with Peter Cushing as Winston Smith? It's very good, as was the later (1984 :lol:) version with John Hurt.Quote:
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john hurt one from 1984..lolQuote:
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Ah - I didn't look at the cover properly. :doh: Does it also have Tara Fitzgerald as Smith's love interest?
The Peter Cushing version was made by the BBC in 1954, and is well worth watching.
it was Suzanna Hamilton. not seen the Cushing one for a long time; think Yvonne Mitchell was the love interest in that.
The Ghost And Mrs Muir, 1947. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
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Despite being set in London and on the English Coast and having mostly English actors and actresses, this movie was shot entirely in California and along the central Pacific coastline.
The word "muir" means "sea" in Scots Gaelic. Many times sailors are said to have been "married" to the sea, or that the only woman they ever loved was the sea.
49th Parallel, 1941. This was particularly aimed at the Americans, and that the Nazis are evil and should be opposed. It had to be cut badly to'not offend':doh: Powell and Pressburger in an early collaberation.
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On a trip home to Wales, Niall MacGinnis was stopped and searched by police. He was arrested as a German spy when the police found a photo in his wallet of MacGinnis dressed in a German sailor's uniform, standing next to what appeared to be a U-boat. In fact, it was a publicity photo from MacGinnis' role in this movie. MacGinnis spent several days in jail before documents were sent from London verifying that he had been in the movie.
Peter Cushing had gone to Hollywood before the war, but things hadn't worked out too well, and he ended up doing a variety of odd jobs, which is how he came to be making props (not acting) on this movie. One day he had the job of making flags for model boats to be pushed around a map, and he made a lot of swastikas and laid them out in his digs. They were found by his landlady, who promptly called the police.
Producer and Director Michael Powell forgot that Newfoundland was a Crown Colony, and not a part of Canada, and when they moved the full-sized submarine model there, it was impounded by Customs and Excise, which demanded that import duty be paid. The matter was finally resolved when Powell appealed to the Governor of Newfoundland, citing their work for the war effort. Newfoundland finally became a Canadian province in 1949.
Screenwriter Emeric Pressburger said, "Goebbels (Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister) considered himself a master of propaganda, but I thought I'd show him a thing or two." Ironically, Pressburger's status in Britain, at the time, was as an enemy alien. He was born and raised in Hungary, which had allied itself with Nazi Germany. So when he returned from filming in Canada, he found himself imprisoned and threatened with deportation. Thanks to the intervention of Producer and Director Michael Powell and the Ministry of Information, this did not happen.
When the film was first shown in France in 1952, huge scenes had to be cut from it for fear of offending German audiences. In 1974, there were objections from Germans to it being shown on British television.
Sad to hear Sally Kellerman, M*A*S*H’s original ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan has died aged 84. Just watched mash the other day too. A great loss as she was excellent.
The Seven Percent Solution, 1976. Directed by Herbert Ross.
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Dr. Watson's revolver appears to be a Webley RIC No. 1 New Model (distinguishable from the older RICs by its fluted cylinder), an inspired choice by the filmmakers as it dovetails perfectly into Watson's service time, British Army regulations about service cartridge chambering, and Watson's likely financial means at the time (the New Model had been in production for several years by 1879 and used specimens could have been had fairly cheaply).
While the book showed Dr. Sigmund Freud with a daughter, the child he had in real life, the movie showed him with a make-believe son, because Dr. Anna Freud threatened a lawsuit if she was included. Since her father was dead, she had no control over how he was portrayed.
Heaven Can Wait, 1943. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch...
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Gene Tierney recalled that during production, "Lubitsch was a tyrant on the set, the most demanding of directors. After one scene, which took from noon until five to get, I was almost in tears from listening to Lubitsch shout at me. The next day I sought him out, looked him in the eye, and said, 'Mr. Lubitsch, I'm willing to do my best but I just can't go on working on this picture if you're going to keep shouting at me.' 'I'm paid to shout at you', he bellowed. 'Yes', I said, 'and I'm paid to take it - but not enough.' After a tense pause, Lubitsch broke out laughing. From then on we got along famously." (From Tierney's autobiography 'Self-Portrait'.)
Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
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Peter Cushing supposedly only agreed to do this film if Roberta Tovey returned as his grand-daughter alongside him, having built up a rapport on the previous film.
This sequel to Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) was to have been followed by a third film, to be based on the 1965 TV episode "The Chase." This was never made due to disappointing box office results of the first two films and the producers thinking that "The Chase" wouldn't have made a very good movie.
was watching 'Genesis Of The Daleks' the other day on Forces TV. Quality one that, probably the best one they ever did. Terry Nation writes ofc.
davros
Yep. At the end he clearly gets blasted by about half a dozen Daleks at point-blank range, but he comes back multiple times in later serials.Quote:
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yeah i think ive got that baker series.. i liked tom; good actor.Quote:
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His are really the only ones worth watching for me. Some of the Jon Pertwee stories aren't bad though.
daleks were based on nazis; i guess today they'd be russians... with a big putin face of course.
Terry Nation though, almost everything he did was about the Nazis or based on the Nazis.
Donovan's Reef, 1963... Directed by John Ford.
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When John Ford offered Lee Marvin the role of Gilhooley, he told the actor it didn't matter what the story was as it would be a good excuse for the cast and crew to have a free holiday in Hawaii.
Because of the age difference, John Wayne felt very uncomfortable with the romantic scenes with Elizabeth Allen, and asked John Ford to cast Maureen O'Hara opposite him instead. Ford refused and replied "Are you going to be the one who tells her she's perfect because she's old?". After this movie, Wayne made the decision to confine his romantic interests to mature women.
In a fight with Lee Marvin, John Wayne underestimated an uppercut. He crashed through a table and fell down. Director John Ford decided to leave the scene in the movie.
Good fun movie. A bit corny maybe, but they all looked like they enjoyed being in it. Bar punch-up was a laugh!
Marathon Man, 1976. Directed by John Schlesinger.
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Producer Robert Evans was set upon getting Sir Laurence Olivier to play the role of Dr. Szell. However, because Olivier at the time was riddled with cancer, he was uninsurable, so Paramount Pictures refused to use him. Desperate, Evans called his friends Merle Oberon and David Niven to arrange a meeting with the House of Lords (the upper body of the British parliament). There, he urged them to put pressure on Lloyd's of London to insure Britain's greatest living actor. The ploy succeeded, and a frail Olivier started working on this movie. In the end, not only did he net an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, but his cancer also went into remission. Olivier lived on for another thirteen years.
Olivier took the role of Dr. Szell in part to leave a great deal of money to his wife and children, as he expected to die from the cancer that afflicted him throughout production. He performed the role while undergoing treatment for his cancer, which included heavy doses of painkillers to allow him to work every day. The pain medication affected his memory, and at times Olivier could not remember more than one or two of his lines at a time. In a testament to his fierce concentration, his performance garnered rave reviews and an Oscar nomination, and despite working under such aggressive medical treatment, he experienced a full recovery, allowing him to enjoy the success of this movie, and a series of leading roles that followed.
Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968.. Classic western from Sergio Leone...
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Sergio Leone originally wanted Sophia Loren to play Jill McBain, and Carlo Ponti, her husband, was willing to provide a considerable amount of financial backing if she was in the film. However, Leone decided not to cast her because he feared that she would try to gain too much dominance and influence on how the film was made, given her famously headstrong and temperamental personality. He instead cast Claudia Cardinale, a personal friend of his, whom he convinced to play Jill without showing her the script.
Claudia Cardinale's first day of filming was her nude love scene with Henry Fonda. This also marked the first time Fonda had done such a scene. His wife insisted on being on-set during the filming of it.
Al Mulock(one of the 3 gunmen at beginning) died by suicide by jumping from his hotel room in Guadix, Granada, Spain in May 1968, while filming for Once Upon a Time in the West. He was wearing his cowboy-style costume at the time of his fall. Mickey Knox, screenwriter for the film, and production manager Claudio Mancini witnessed Mulock's suicide as his body passed their hotel window near the end of the shoot. Mulock survived the fall, but suffered a pierced lung from a broken rib during the bumpy ride to the hospital. Before being taken away in the ambulance, director Sergio Leone shouted, "Get the costume, we need the costume." The reasons for his suicide, as well as for his choice of killing himself while wearing his costume, are unknown. About a year before Mulock’s suicide his wife had died of cervical cancer. However they had been separated for some time before her death so this may or may not have had an influence on his decision to end his life. Mickey Knox also claimed in his book, The Good, the Bad and the Dolce Vita, that Mulock was a drug addict, and committed suicide out of desperation, as he was unable to acquire drugs in Guadix. He was also the one armed bounty hunter in the good, the bad and the ugly.
But "Is it safe?"Quote:
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A treat for me as it was a film bought with birthday money. Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent, 1940. This is a Reg A bluray from Criterion Collection. Joel McCrea stars in lead...(Gary Cooper admitted he made a mistake turning the role down).
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Shooting was completed on May 29, 1940, after which director Alfred Hitchcock made a visit to England. He returned on July 3 with the word that the Germans were expected to start bombing at any time. Ben Hecht was hurriedly called in and wrote the tacked-on final scene set at a London radio station. It was filmed on July 5, and the real-life bombing started on July 10, 1940.
In a 1972 interview on The Dick Cavett Show (1968), Alfred Hitchcock revealed that the plane crash scene was filmed by using footage shot from a stunt plane diving on the ocean, rear projected on rice paper in front of a cockpit set. Also, behind the rice paper were two chutes aimed at the cockpit's windshield connected to large tanks of water. With the press of a button at the right moment, water came crashing through the rice paper, into the plane simulating the plane crashing into the sea from the cockpit view.
When the plane crash sequence was shot, a special tub within the studio tank had to be built for Herbert Marshall, who couldn't swim because he only had one leg (he'd lost a leg in combat in World War I).
According to press release information, more than 600 laborers, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, and prop men worked on the sets for this movie. A 600-foot by 125-foot stage was used to re-create Waterloo Station for a few scenes, and even more extravagantly, an entire square in Amsterdam was constructed on a ten-acre site at a cost of $200,000. The scenes in the square, including the elaborate assassination and getaway shots, took place during a rainstorm, so the set had to be rigged with an elaborate drainage system.
Another classic from Criterion REG A, Ministry Of Fear, 1944 directed by Fritz Lang.. Its based on a Graham Greene novel and set in England during the Second World War .... A good film but could have been better had Lang been given his head. Lang was a genius.
According to Lang, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to his offices to inform him – apologetically – that The Testament of Dr Mabuse was being banned but, nevertheless, he was so impressed by Lang's abilities as a filmmaker (especially Metropolis), that he offered Lang the position of head of German film studio UFA. Lang said it was during that meeting he had decided to leave for Paris – but that the banks had closed by the time the meeting was over. Lang claimed that, after selling his wife's jewelry, he fled by train to Paris that evening, leaving most of his money and personal possessions behind.
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Director Fritz Lang was disappointed in "Ministry of Fear" because the producer and the screenwriter, Seton I. Miller, were the same person, and Miller the producer wouldn't let Lang rewrite Miller the writer's script, which Lang said "had practically none of the quality of the Graham Greene book."
Paramount paid Graham Greene £10,000 for the film rights to his novel, money he was very glad to have in wartime England. However, he was very disappointed in the film, especially as it had been directed by Fritz Lang, a film-maker he especially admired. Years later, Greene briefly met Lang, and the director made a point of apologizing to him for the film, by which Greene was touched.
One of the greats now(again lol) Young Frankenstein, 1974.
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Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks got into only one fight during the movie's production, but it was a big one with Mel throwing a huge temper tantrum, yelling and raging and eventually storming out of Gene's apartment (where the men had been working on the script). Roughly ten minutes later, Gene's phone rang. The caller was Mel, who had this to say: "WHO WAS THAT MADMAN YOU HAD IN YOUR HOUSE? I COULD HEAR THE YELLING ALL THE WAY OVER HERE. YOU SHOULD NEVER LET CRAZY PEOPLE INTO YOUR HOUSE, DON'T YOU KNOW THAT? THEY COULD BE DANGEROUS." That, as Gene later put it, was "Mel's way of apologizing."
Dynasties, Chimpanzees.
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Pale Rider, 1985. Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.
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After Club (Richard Kiel) gets hit between the legs, Preacher (Clint Eastwood) helps him back to his horse. You do not see this, but Richard, due to back problems, had to use a step that was on the side of the horse to get onto his saddle. If you look you can see Richard take a step onto the platform before getting on the horse.
The first horse assigned to Richard Kiel collapsed the first time he climbed aboard. He was then assigned a stronger horse.
The title refers to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse from the Book of the Revelation, chapter six. Megan Wheeler (Sydney Penny) is reading the exact verse when she and her mom, Sarah (Carrie Snodgress), first see Preacher (Clint Eastwood) ride up to their house.
four horsemen of the apocalypse, in Christianity, the four horsemen who, according to the book of Revelation (6:1–8), appear with the opening of the first four of the seven seals that bring forth the cataclysm of the apocalypse. The first horseman, a conqueror with a bow and crown, rides a white horse, which scholars sometimes interpret to symbolize Christ or the Antichrist; the second horseman is given a great sword and rides a red horse, symbolizing war and bloodshed; the third carries a balance scale, rides a black horse, and symbolizes famine; and the fourth horseman rides a pale horse and is identified as Death.
Never got the death connection, that's interesting thanks
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006. Directed by Gore Verbinski.
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A popular pirate punishment was marooning. The pirate who was being punished was put on an island and left, sometimes for a few days, sometimes permanently. The "dead man's chest" is a small rocky island, so called because the rocks reminded pirates of a ribcage. It has no water or shade, and is so low that waves frequently wash over it. To be marooned on the "chest" was to be given a death sentence under the broiling Caribbean sun.
i was reading that Clint's gun was a remington 1858 model, but it wasn't afaik. it was a remington 1861 new model... just to be pedantic:ner:Quote:
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as for above... Revelation 6 tells of a book or scroll in God's right hand that is sealed with seven seals. The Lamb of God/Lion of Judah opens the first four of the seven seals, which summons four beings that ride out on white, red, black, and pale horses. Zechariah describes them as "the ones whom the Lord has sent to patrol the earth," causing it to rest quietly. Ezekiel lists them as "sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague".
In John's revelation, the first horseman rides on a white horse, carries a bow, and is given a crown - he rides forward as a figure of Conquest, perhaps invoking Pestilence, Christ, or the Antichrist. The second carries a sword and rides a red horse and is the creator of War. The third, a food-merchant riding upon a black horse, symbolizes Famine. He carries The Scales. The fourth and final horse is pale, and upon it rides Death, accompanied by Hades. "They were given authority over a quarter of the earth, to kill with sword, famine, and plague, and by means of the beasts of the earth."
Apocalyptic Christianity sometimes interprets the Four Horsemen as a vision of harbingers of the Last Judgment, setting a divine end-time upon the world.
The Day After Tomorrow, 2004.
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Twentieth Century Fox invited a group of scientists to preview this movie, to test their reactions to the "science" used in it. None of the scientists were impressed with what they saw, although most conceded that the movie was enjoyable nonsense. NASA were equally impressed :D
The production team had some doubts about having a major disaster hit New York City, especially after 9/11. Whenever it played in the Big Apple, audiences whooped with delight when the city was hit by an enormous tidal wave.
after saying all that its a pretty enjoyable bit if filmmaking, if silly.
Riot in Cell Block 11, 1954. Directed by Don Siegal. Criterion Collection Reg A bluray.
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Leo Gordon had served five years for armed robbery at San Quentin State Prison. For this reason, Heinze, the Folsom warden, originally objected to Gordon appearing in the film, but director Don Siegel was able to convince him that Gordon was no threat to the prison.
Producer Walter Wanger served a four-month prison term for shooting agent Jennings Lang, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife Joan Bennett. The experiences he had in prison so unnerved him that upon his release he resolved to make a film about what prison was "really" like.
Actual inmates who were incarcerated and guards at Folsom State Prison at the time this movie was made are featured as extras
This was such a financial and critical success for "Allied Artists" (formerly "Monogram"), they were able to book the film into theatres well into the late 1950s.
Dynasties.. Lion.. The Marsh Pride of Kenya's Masai Mara
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The Grapes Of Wrath, 1940. Directed by John Ford..
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John Steinbeck loved the movie and said that Henry Fonda as Tom Joad made him "believe my own words".
The pro-union stance of the film led to both John Steinbeck and John Ford being investigated by Congress during the McCarthy "Red Scare" era for alleged pro-Communist leanings.
In the book, John Steinbeck had the character of Casy parodying the song "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" by singing "Yes sir, that's my Savior/Jesus is my Savior/Jesus is my Savior now." The Motion Picture Production Code then in effect forbade use of the words "God" and "Jesus" except when used "reverently", so the script resorted to having him hum: "Mm-mmm, mmm, my Savior".
Banks and the large farming corporations that controlled most California farms were not keen on the original novel (it was banned in some states and in several counties in California, and the book was not carried in the municipal library of author John Steinbeck's home town of Salinas, California, until the 1990s) and were even less thrilled that a film was being made of it. The Associated Farmers of California called for a boycott of all 20th Century-Fox films, and Steinbeck himself received death threats.
America, the great freedom eh??;)
The film was banned by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union because it showed that even the poorest Americans could afford cars.
Shame the ending of the film was bowdlerised (presumably to pass the censors and not upset prudish American sensibilities). Otherwise a powerful film.
Time After Time, 1979. Directed by Nicholas Mayer.
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The tune played by Jack the Ripper's pocket watch is based on Chants d'Auvergne, "The Spinner".