Carry on Jack, 1964.
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Carry on Jack, 1964.
Well, it's got the lovely Juliette in it.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1beebbacfd.jpg
Enjoying a recent 4K release of this,
Wow.. This is great!
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Loved it way back when the first time I saw it,
Never seen it like this though.
Forgotten how good an actor James Farentino was.
been looking for the 4k versionQuote:
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Good premise for a story but it goes nowhere interesting.
oh well, i wont bother going there then :ner:Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956. Director Don Siegel.
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Kevin McCarthy and author Jack Finney have always denied the rumor that the story is a statement against McCarthyism and Communism; they just saw it as a thriller. Director Don Siegel, however, believes that the political references to Sen. Joseph McCarthy and totalitarianism are inescapable, even though he tried not to emphasize them.
The last sequence was shot, not on the actual Hollywood Freeway, but on a little used cross-bridge. The cars were driven by stunt drivers. Don Siegel said later that Kevin McCarthy was in real danger of getting hit, because the sequence was shot at dawn and he was near complete exhaustion.
Another Don Siegal film now with... Escape From Alcaraz, 1979.
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A 2015 History Channel documentary received photographs from the family of the Anglin brothers, allegedly taken around 1975, somewhere in South America. Their facial recognition experts believe that the photo is authentic, confirming that at least the Anglins survived the escape. As of 2018, they are still considered at large.
The Warden, who is never named during the film, at one point refers to his "predecessors, Wardens Johnston and Blackwell." Warden Blackwell was the actual warden at the time of Frank Lee Morris' escape, and this script reference was clearly done to avoid legal trouble.
Paramount Pictures had to spend quite a large amount of money in maintenance, re-fitting, and refurbishment costs on the prison. This totalled around half a million dollars. A great deal of expense and work was required to restore the prison to its 1963 state. Fifteen miles of cable were required to reconnect the island to the city's electricity, much of the wiring having corroded. Many of the improvements were kept intact after the film. For the shoot, water-soluble, removable, and peelable paint, and other temporary camouflages were put over paintings and graffiti painted there by Native Americans. They had once occupied the island as a political process, and the material was of a heritage nature. After filming, the paint had to be carefully removed, so the markings could be visually recovered.
Jeremiah Johnson, 1970. It is based partly on the life of the legendary mountain man John Jeremiah Johnson, recounted in Raymond Thorp and Robert Bunker's book Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson and Vardis Fisher's novel Mountain Man.
Directed by Sydney Pollack.
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Liver Eatin' Johnston's wife (who was pregnant at the time) was actually killed by a random raiding party of Crow, not as revenge for a violation of their burial grounds. She was killed in the spring while Johnston was off trapping and he didn't return to find her body until several months later. He identified the band that had killed her because he recognized a Tennessee rifle he had given her in the possession of a Crow warrior. Also, rather than isolated incidents as shown in the movie, Johnston often recruited other mountain men as well as Indians (particularly Flatheads) to help him with his vendetta. The part about the warriors sent to kill him and told not to return without his scalp was true.
According to the book "Crow Killer," the Crazy Woman was a real person who had settled in the Wolf Tail Valley. After her children were killed and her husband taken captive, she remained in her cabin. Liver Eatin' Johnson, Del Gue and Anton Sepulveda were among the mountain men who "avenged" her. One popular story was that the mountain man known as "Hatchet Jack" was actually her husband who had gone insane after being scalped and tortured by the Blackfoot Indians when they took him away. It was known that Hatchet Jack had been scalped at some point in his life and that he was mentally unbalanced. Johnson refers to this when he tells the Crazy Woman that he cannot find any sign of her husband, but that he might return if he escaped from the Indians.
Old Favorite, Hopscotch, 1980. Director Ronald Neame.
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The Oktoberfest scene at the beginning of the film was not staged. The filmmakers hid eight cameras to prevent people from knowing they were being filmed.
The U.S. State Department issued several "real" passports for Matthau's character's several aliases. The documents were filmed in tight close-ups and were kept in a safe at the production company's office for security. When filming was complete, they were returned by hand to the State Department.
The Four Feathers, 1939. Director Zoltan Korda.
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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.
Although he was a stickler for historical fidelity, Director Zoltan Korda was not above stretching the truth for the sake of spectacle. As shooting was about to begin on the lavish ballroom scene, he went into a fit over the fact that the officers were all clad in blue uniforms. Technical Advisor Brigadier Hector Campbell, informed him that this was the proper dress for a private party in the late 1800s. "But this is Technicolor!" Korda roared, and the uniforms were changed to bright red.
Kelly's Heroes, 1970. directed by Brian G. Hutton.
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Donald Sutherland (Oddball) became seriously ill during filming on-location in Yugoslavia. His wife received a telegram telling her to come immediately but warning her that he would probably be dead before she arrived. He said he saw "the white light" when he died for a "few seconds" . during the middle of shooting he was hit with a bout of spinal meningitis, causing him to go into a coma and he admits he "dug his feet in" so as not to pass away.
He said: "I got sick in the middle of shooting 'Kelly's Heroes'. I came to Yugoslavia for a day's filming and I was out for six weeks.
"They took me to hospital – I had spinal meningitis. They didn't have the antibiotics, so I went into a coma, and they tell me that for a few seconds, I died. I saw the blue tunnel, and I started going down it. I saw the white light. I dug my feet in."
However, Donald was tempted for a second to stop fighting to stay alive.
He added: "I didn't want to go – but it was incredibly tempting. You just go: 'Aw, s**t man, why not?'. "
At the beginning of the movie, Big Joe (Telly Savalas) is desperate to know about the best places to stay in the city of Nancy, and he uses a Michelin tourist guide book. Use of these books by Allied troops during WWIi is accurate. When planning the Normandy invasion, staff officers were concerned about how the troops would navigate in light of the possibility that retreating Germans would take down or reverse road signs. The U.S. government quietly reprinted the most recent edition from 1939, as new publications had been suspended because of the war. So when Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normany on June 6, 1944, they carried the Michelin guides and, for the remainder of the war, advancing forces depended on their Michelin maps.
During filming in Yugoslavia in 1969, Donald Sutherland (Oddball) received word, via co-star Clint Eastwood (Lieutenant Kelly), that his then-wife Shirley Douglas was arrested: she had tried to buy--using a personal check--hand grenades from an undercover FBI agent for the Black Panthers. Sutherland recounts this story often, mentioning that when Eastwood got to the part about the personal check, he laughed so hard that he fell to his knees and Sutherland had to help him up. Eastwood then put his arm around Sutherland, walked him down the hill that overlooked the Yugoslavian countryside, and assured his friend of his complete support with his predicament. Sutherland and Douglas, who are the parents of Kiefer Sutherland and twin sister Rachel Sutherland, divorced in 1970.
The movie was mainly filmed in Yugoslavia because the Yugoslavian army still had a large quantity of Sherman tanks in 1970.
Big Joe quote:
Look, we're not worried about the German Army - we've got enough troubles of our own. To the right, General Patton. To the left, the British Army. To the rear, our own goddamn artillery! And, besides all that, it's rainin'. And, the only good thing to say about the weather: it keeps our Air Corps from blowin' us all to Hell because it's too lousy to fly! Verstehen?!?
Saturday matinee is I'm All Right Jack, 1959.
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Two of the shop stewards in the movie, brothers Tony Comer and John Comer, got the roles after winning a talent show as a comedy double act, "The Comer Brothers". The prize was one thousand pounds sterling and a movie contract with The Boulting Brothers.
Yet another film showing a British judge with a gavel! Neither British or Canadian judges have a gavel.
Ian Carmichael was one of several people who witnessed the mini silent films made by Peter Sellers on the set of this movie. Insomnia Is Good For You and Dearth Of A Salesman.
A year on and a few of cast in this too... School For Scoundrels, 1960. Based on the Stephen Potter "One Upmanship" and "Lifemanship" books.
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The 'Bellini' sports car driven by Terry-Thomas in the film, is in reality the actual Aston Martin DB3S which was once driven by Sterling Moss in the Mila Migilia and has been valued recently at £7 million.
The burbling sound made by Palfrey's Swiftmobile car is the same sound effect used for Sidney Stratton's experiments in "The Man in the White Suit" (1951). The swiftmobile was in fact a disguised 1928 Bentley 4½-Litre Open Tourer. The other car used was an ex-Works Austin-Healey 100-Six.
Terry-Thomas's expression "Oh to be in England now that April is here" is a quote from the start of Robert Browning's poem "Home Thoughts from Abroad".
More British comedy from a bit earlier. The classic Kind Hearts and Coronets, 1949.
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Sir Alec Guinness took his extensive roles very seriously, always showing up to work every day thoroughly professional and prepared. Playing eight different roles did come with its challenges, however. "Quick transformation from one character to another has a disturbing effect", he told Collier's Magazine in 1952. "I had to ask myself from time to time: 'Which one am I now?' I had fearful visions of looking like one of the characters and thinking and speaking like one of the others. It would have been quite disastrous to have faced the cameras in the make-up of the suffragette, and spoken like the Admiral."
Although tame by today's standards, Dennis Price's love scenes with the purring Joan Greenwood shocked Ealing Studios head Michael Balcon, and almost led to a major re-edit of the finished movie.
Dennis Price's shortened quote from Johnson was in full... “Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
Joan Greenwood again with.... Whisky Galore!, 1949.
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Alexander Mackendrick insisted on making the film entirely on location, an unusual move for Ealing Studios. This was primarily because the most of the studio space was taken up by two other films in simultaneous production - Passport to Pimlico (1949) and Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).
Because of financial pressures on the studio, Michael Balcon decided to release it with little promotion. John Jympson, one of the editors at Ealing, recommended the film to his father Jympson Harman, the film critic for The Evening News. Although there was to be no trade viewing, Harman and several other press reviewers visited the studios to see the film. They all wrote good reviews, which forced Balcon to provide funds for promotion
You have a colourized version of 'School For Scoundrels Grant?
One of my favourite films that.
nope, the original B&W version. i like the b&w ones tbh.Quote:
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edit.. i did a search and been unable to find a colourized version so there might not be one, although i had an odd feeling there was.
I was wondering that too. One of my mum's favourite films, the tennis part always cracked her up. "Hard cheese!"Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Picked this up recently. Shooter, 2007. This is the 4k version.
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The dog featured in the film as Bob Lee Swagger's companion was trained by owner Drew Thompson. The dog's real name is Logan. He is a Bernese Mountain and English Mastiff X. Drew states that "he is easily the smartest dog I have ever trained".
The large caliber rifle that Swagger owns, with which he is framed, is a Cheyenne Tactical M200 Intervention. It fires a .408 caliber projectile accurately out to and beyond two thousand meters. The CheyTac M200 is also available with a Long Range Rifle System, which consists of a laser range finder, magnifying scope with night vision capability, and a weather-sensing module, all of which interface with a PDA running ballistics calculation software.
Swagger's wristwatch is a Suunto Vector, a digital watch made in Finland. Besides telling time, it also has an altimeter, barometer, and digital compass.
Duck, You Sucker!, 1971. (aka, A Fistful of Dynamite)
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When James Coburn (who had been offered roles in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)) was offered the role of John Mallory by Leone, he was initially reluctant. He had dinner with Henry Fonda (star of Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)) and asked him what he thought of Leone. Fonda told him that he considered Leone the greatest director he ever worked with. Coburn then took the part (similarly, Fonda himself had been reluctant to take the part Leone offered him, but was persuaded by his friend, Eli Wallach).
Despite the politically charged setting, the film was not intended as a political film: Sergio Leone himself said that the Mexican Revolution in the film is meant only as a symbol, not as a representation of the real one, and that it was chosen because of its fame and its relationship with cinema, and he contends that the real theme of the film is friendship:
"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"".
One of the great westerns now, Unforgiven, 1992. May well one day be 'THE WESTERN'
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When English Bob departs, cursing at the town, he speaks with a rough, lower-class cockney accent, confirming that Bob's refined, upper-crust persona was fake. In a 1992 interview Richard Harris revealed, "I read the script and I said to Clint Eastwood, 'You know, it would be great if I could play this man as a very sort of upper-class fake, and at the end of the picture--when he gets the hell beaten out of him--maybe all of that drops, and you see behind it all he's really sort of a low life'. And Clint said, 'Yes, great! Go for it!'."
According to Clint Eastwood in a 2000 interview, Gene Hackman was very concerned about how they were going to show the violence in the movie, concerned about rising gun violence in American cities. Eastwood assured Hackman that this movie wouldn't glorify gun violence.
yeah that's a nice touch, lots of them in that film.Quote:
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I wonder if Roy has one? :DQuote:
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(BTW What is this obsession with providing details of the firearms used in the films you watch. Mind you, I have a similar obsession with any camera displayed in a film. ;) )
Sorry, and i was going to add this..lolQuote:
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The rifle Deputy Andy Russell (Jeremy Ratchford) carries to arrest English Bob (Richard Harris) is a Winchester '66 "Yellowboy" with the fore-stock removed, to resemble a first-model Henry.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948. Director John Huston.
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In his Oscar acceptance speech, Walter Huston said, "Many, many years ago, I brought up a boy and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime'. Well, by cracky, that's what he did!"
Though the daily rushes impressed Warner Bros., Jack L. Warner, he nearly went berserk with the weekly expenditures. After viewing one scene, Warner threw up his hands and shouted to producer Henry Blanke, "Yeah, they're looking for gold all right - mine!" During another screening of rushes, Warner watched Dobbs stumble along in the desert for water. Warner jumped up in the middle of the scene and shouted to a gaggle of executives, "If that s.o.b. doesn't find water soon I'll go broke!" Warner had reason to be upset. John Huston and Blanke led him to believe that the film would be an easy picture to make and that they would be in and out of Mexico in a matter of weeks. Because Warner was notorious for not actually reading scripts, he assumed the film was a B-movie Western. As the full extent of Huston's plans became apparent, Warner nearly blew a gasket. He was especially unhappy with the way the film ended, arguing that audiences wouldn't accept it. Ironically, Warner was correct, since the initial box office take was as impressive as fool's gold. But the film was a huge critical success and, in its many re-releases, it more than earned its original investment of $3 million.
gold fever for an already unstable dobbs ends up costing 100,000 in gold and his life.
quality film; bogart was superb as the nutjob, and walter huston got the part of his life, and an Oscar.. his son who directed and did screenplay got 2.
Gold Hat: "We are Federales ... you know, the mounted police."
Dobbs: "If you're the police, where are your badges?"
Gold Hat: "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
Psycho, 1960. Hitchcock directs.
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After this movie's release, Sir Alfred Hitchcock received an angry letter from the father of a girl who refused to have a bath after seeing Les Diaboliques (1955), and now refused to shower after seeing this movie. Hitchcock sent a note back simply saying, "Send her to the dry cleaners."
Walt Disney refused to allow Sir Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because Hitchcock had made "that disgusting movie, 'Psycho.'"
Paramount Pictures gave Sir Alfred Hitchcock a very small budget with which to work, because of their distaste with the source material. They also deferred most of the box-office take to Hitchcock, thinking the movie would fail. When it became a sleeper hit, Hitchcock made a fortune.
The Day of the Triffids, 1962.
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The novel, published by Penguin Books, sold over a million copies by 1981. It's been translated into several languages. John Wyndham wrote the novel in 1951; by 1981 it had been reprinted 34 times.
Rumors have circulated for years that the odd gurgling noise made by the triffids was a sound effect achieved by smoking a "bong".
The African Queen, 1951. Director John Huston. Humphrey Bogart won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in this movie, making him the last man born in the 19th century to ever win a leading role Oscar.
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Humphrey Bogart hated Africa immediately and was miserable, but Katharine Hepburn adored it, calling it "utterly divine." Bogie complained about everything: the heat, the humidity, the dangers, the food. He recalled, "While I was griping, Katie was in her glory. She couldn't pass a fern or berry without wanting to know its pedigree, and insisted on getting the Latin name for everything she saw walking, swimming, flying or crawling. I wanted to cut our ten-week schedule, but the way she was wallowing in the stinking hole, we'd be there for years."
While filming the "leeching" scene, Humphrey Bogart insisted on using rubber leeches. John Huston refused, and brought a leech-breeder to the London studio with a tank full of them. It made Bogart queasy and nervous, qualities Huston wanted for his close-ups. Ultimately, rubber leeches were placed on Bogart, and a close-up of a real leech was shot on the breeder's chest.
"The African Queen" sank and had to be raised twice during filming of the movie. Lauren Bacall is quoted as saying, "The natives had been told to watch it and they did. They watched it sink."
Mister Corbett's Ghost, 1987. Director Danny Huston.(son of John, who is also in this, his last role) Leon Garfield's Dickensian novella, set in 1767 in a small English town on New Year's Eve, the work starring bewigged Paul Scofield, who certainly looks the part here of a cold-hearted master.
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Only lasts an Hr, but is very well done..
Tremors, 1990. Directed by Ron Underwood.
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Prior to the film's release, Bacon felt that the film was a career low: "I broke down and fell to the sidewalk, screaming to my pregnant wife, 'I can't believe I'm doing a movie about underground worms!'"
Kevin Bacon later called the filming of Tremors to be "the single most fun time I've ever had making a movie in my entire career".
Ron Underwood said that he was uninterested when Reba McEntire asked to audition for the film, saying he had grown tired of seeing celebrities trying to become actors even if they cannot act, and that it was "gimmicky" casting. However, after begrudgingly letting her audition, he was blown away by her performance and realized she was a great natural actress, immediately knowing she was perfect for Heather Gummer.
and just for barry ;) ....Burt's elephant gun, an 8-gauge Darne Shotgun, was rented from a private collector for uses in the film. It fired dummy cartridges custom-made from solid brass rod stock.
Jack the Ripper, 1988. Michael Caine stars...
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After Mary Jane Kelly's murder, there is a scene where Abberline hands Gull a photo of her body. That photo is an actual crime scene photo of the real Mary Jane Kelly.
Hugh Fraser wore clothes that his character Sir Charles Warren had actually worn.
Sir Michael Caine was persuaded to return to television for the first time in nearly twenty years because of David Wickes's powerful script. Caine later described Wickes as "the nicest, fastest director I've worked for, and the master of filming Victorian London."
A bit of classic noir now with one of my favs... Key Largo, 1948. "When your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses."
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Although they played on-screen enemies, off-screen Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson treated each other with great respect. Bogart insisted Robinson be treated like a major star, and he would not come to the set until Robinson was ready. Often, he would go to Robinson's trailer to personally escort him to the set.
In the five films Robinson and Bogart appeared in together Robinson killed Bogart once, Bogart killed Robinson once, and they killed each other twice.
The scene with Claire Trevor drunkenly singing "Moanin' Low" was inspired by a true-life event from World War II. When Humphrey Bogart was entertaining U.S. troops stationed in Italy, his wife at the time, actress Mayo Methot, insisted on doing an impromptu song number, though quite visibly intoxicated and despite being cautioned. Stammering over forgotten lyrics and singing steadily off-key, she gave a winged performance that was a memorable embarrassment.
Star Trek: Time Travel Fan Collective, 2006(i think)
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Quite a good collection of time travel episodes across the francise.
ep 1 is Tomorrow is Yesterday. The Enterprise is hurled back in time to the year 1969, where the US Air Force sights it as a UFO. The crew must find a way to erase evidence of their visit before trying to get back to their future home.
Here Comes Mr Jordan, 1941. Director Alexander Hall. The Criterion Bluray.
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Columbia chief Harry Cohn had serious misgivings about this adaptation of Harry Segall's minor stage play. He preferred to reserve his more lavish budgets for surefire successes (i.e., anything featuring the studio's biggest star, Rita Hayworth). However, Sidney Buchman was eventually able to talk Cohn into forking out for costly celestial sets and Farnsworth's elaborate mansion and also into hiring Robert Montgomery on loan-out from MGM. Buchman was also able to convince Cohn that he had a better appreciation of what the public would pay to see than the Wall Street bankers who Cohn answered to.
James Gleason was mainly brought on board to polish the dialogue. Gleason had a knack for authentic sounding vernacular language but also happened to be a great actor. He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the role of Max Corkle. This is the first time in Academy Awards history for a person to be nominated for a supporting Oscar for a role for which a different person would later also be nominated for a supporting Oscar: Jack Warden was nominated for Best Supporting Actor as Max Corkle in Heaven Can Wait (1978).
Double Indemnity, 1944. Directed by Billy Wilder.
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The movie was based on the novel by James M. Cain, which in turn was based on the true story of Ruth Snyder, the subject of a notorious 1920s murder trial.
Author James M. Cain later admitted that if he had come up with some of the solutions to the plot that screenwriters Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler did, he would have employed them in his original novel.
Due to strict wartime food rationing, policemen were stationed in the store where a scene with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck was filmed, to make sure nobody on the film crew was tempted to take away any of the food. "Paramount" released publicity stills showing four policemen in the store with MacMurray and Stanwyck.
Raymond Chandler was kept on a writer's retainer during the film's eight-week shooting period. This was a highly unusual occurrence for any writer at any studio at the time, signifying the high regard that Chandler was held in by Paramount and Billy Wilder. Raymond Chandler hated the experience of writing the script with Billy Wilder so much that he actually walked out and would not return unless a list of demands was met. The studio acceded to his demands and he returned to finish the script with Wilder, even though the two detested each other.
The blonde wig that Barbara Stanwyck is wearing throughout the movie was the idea of Billy Wilder. A month into shooting Wilder suddenly realized how bad it looked, but by then it was too late to re-shoot the earlier scenes. To rationalize this mistake, in later interviews Wilder claimed that the bad-looking wig was intentional. On viewing the film's rushes, production head Buddy G. DeSylva remarked of Barbara Stanwyck's blonde wig, "We hired Barbara Stanwyck, and here we get George Washington".
More Noir now with The Blue Dahlia, 1946. Director George Marshall.
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Just after the fight scene between Alan Ladd and the two thugs who kidnapped him, one of the thugs is seen soaking his broken leg in a round tub. That wasn't in the script; the actor had actually broken his leg filming the fight and, without consulting screenwriter Raymond Chandler, director George Marshall rewrote the script to have the character break his leg as well.
The pressure of having to finish the screenplay combined with the curve ball of having to write an entirely new ending was too much for Raymond Chandler. He quickly came down with a severe case of writer's block. According to a near-legendary story, screenwriter Raymond Chandler offered to finish the screenplay by working drunk: in exchange for sacrificing his health to produce the requisite pages on time, Chandler was permitted to work at home (a privilege rarely granted to screenwriters) and was provided two chauffeured cars, one to convey the completed pages to the studio and the other for his wife. Chandler turned the script in on time. Many now believe the "drunkenness" was simply a ruse by Chandler to wrangle extraordinary privileges from the desperate studio.
Elizabeth Short got the nickname "The Black Dahlia" from a bartender at a Long Beach bar she frequented. This film was playing at a theater down the street, and the bartender got the name wrong. Elizabeth picked up on that and kept the nickname, adding a flower to her hair to complete the transformation. She was murdered the next year (1947). The local newspapers dubbed the case the "Black Dahlia" as a morbid twist on this film's title. Unlike the movie, the Short murder case is still unsolved. Short's unsolved murder and the details surrounding it have had a lasting cultural intrigue, generating various theories and public speculation. Her life and death have been the basis of numerous books and films, and her murder is frequently cited as one of the most famous unsolved murders in American history, as well as one of the oldest unsolved cases in Los Angeles County. It has likewise been credited by historians as one of the first major crimes in post–World War II America to capture national attention.
The 6th Day, 2000. Arnie stars...
not the greatest script to be fair but its fun enough.
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The Sim-Pal slogan is "A Sim-Pal that's fun to be with!", a derivation from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series by Douglas Adams. There, the corporation that created robots with "Genuine People Personalities", had the slogan "Your plastic pal that's fun to be with!"
Set in 2015, but released in 2000, the only accurate future technologies predicted (excluding cloning) were flatscreen televisions, interactive computerized refrigerators, self-driving vehicles (though as of 2018, they're still in the prototype phase), and aerial drones (though as of 2021 drones this size are exclusively used by the military). The movie also accurately predicted automated phone systems to be annoying, frustrating, and functionally useless.
Taking a plunge over the weekend to watch some old B-Movie Classics stored on the Internet Archive Site "The Wayback Machine" Archive.org.
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Been curious about Manos: The Hands of Fate?
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worst movie ever made apparently, mighty IMDB score of 1.9/10:eek:
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"Last Man on Earth" is on there as well, never seen that one before.
Its a great "Library of free stuff" website Btw,
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could get lost for days in it.
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Originally Posted by Gazjam
stay with the colour and... High Plains Drifter, 1973. Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.
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Shortly after this movie's release, Clint Eastwood wrote to John Wayne, suggesting that they make a western together. Wayne sent back an angry letter in reply, in which he denounced this movie for its violence and revisionist portrayal of the Old West. Eastwood did not bother to answer his criticisms, and consequently they did not work together.
The town of Lago was built 300 miles away from Hollywood. A 46-man crew of technicians and ten laborers worked ten hours a day for eighteen days constructing fourteen houses and a two-story hotel. They were burned down at this movie's completion.
Headstones bear the names of Sergio Leone(Dollars), Don Siegel (Clint Eastwood's director on five movies, four of which preceded this one) and Brian G. Hutton (director of Where Eagles Dare (1968) and Kelly's Heroes (1970)). Patrick McGilligan's 2002 Clint Eastwood biography quotes the star as saying, "I buried my directors."
Oh and Clint carries a Colt Single Action Army 7 1/2" Cavalry - .45 Long Colt. Most of the others use Colt Single Action Army 5 1/2" Artillery - .45 Long Colt models... Exception is Mordecai, who buys a gun like Clint;)
Another Eastwood director/Actor film nowThe Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976.
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According to legend, this movie was based on the life of Thomas Atticus Hawkins, a Missouri farmer from Maries County. Others say it was Bill Wilson, which im inclined to go with as Wales is called Mr Wilson at one point.
The real Josey Wales was a Confederate guerilla fighter, a “bushwacker,” an associate of the bloody Quantrill Raiders, horse rustler, deadly shot, and killer of many. He was born William “Bill” Wilson in the Ozarks in Missouri of a well-to-do family. He grew into a very tall, dark and handsome man—6’2”, with jet black curly hair and sparkling crystal blue eyes. He was an amiable fellow, good-natured, clever, and skilled at playing the violin, so he was always in demand for weddings and parties. Bill’s prosperous farmer father had made pains to remain neutral in the violently split border state of Missouri. He had owned several slaves but freed them before the War and advised his grown children remain as neutral as possible. But, in the summer of 1861, just after the War had started, some horses were stolen from the Union government in the area by a Confederate guerilla gang. Bill Wilson was immediately regarded as a suspect. A few days later, a group of Union solders raided his home, threw out his family, stole everything they could and set the entire homestead on fire. That was the end of Bill’s “neutrality.”
He moved his family to a small cabin on his parents’ farm and began a campaign of blood vengeance that would become legend in the Ozark Mountains, then the entire country.
Because of Chief Dan George's age, he would have trouble remembering his lines, so during takes, Clint Eastwood would begin to mouth his lines without realizing it and had to be told to stop because it would ruin the take. In a featurette on the DVD about making this movie, Eastwood says he'd have people drill Dan George on his lines, but when it came time to shoot the scene, he'd say "Chief, just forget about the lines, tell me the story about the man who rode over the hill." And Dan George, who was apparently a natural storyteller, would then tell the story perfectly.
According to famed music producer David Geffen, Clint Eastwood's tough reputation is well-deserved. When Geffen was a young executive at Warner Brothers, one of his assignments was to give notes on a screening of this movie. All of the other Warner Brothers executives were unanimous in their praise for this movie. Geffen liked this movie, but told Eastwood that perhaps this movie could be shortened by a half-hour. Eastwood calmly told Geffen that if he (Geffen) wanted the picture shortened by that much time, then he could do it himself. Geffen then asked Eastwood where he would be . . . to which Eastwood replied: "I'll be across the street at Paramount cutting a new deal." Geffen was never asked to sit in on any other Eastwood movie after that encounter.
guns wise ... Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) carries a Sharps 1865 rifle fitted with a full length J. Stevens brass tube target scope, which he uses to shoot the ferry rope in two, leaving the pursuing Redlegs stranded in the water. He later uses it to tie a white flag to when approaching the Commancheros before using it to shoot one of them off their horse.
Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) carries two Colt Walker 1847 revolvers in twin holsters as his primary sidearms, although he carries four pistols in total. While not supposed to be known by the audience, the guns are converted to fire metallic cartridges instead of firing percussion cap and ball, since this it is safer to use blanks than firing blackpowder blank shot. While some of the guns are anachronistically seen with conventional metallic conversion kits with ejector rods and loading gates, these guns lack these features to try to hide its conversion. In some scenes though, the guns are non-firing models which do have percussion nipples so the audience can be tricked into thinking the guns are a percussion only. The famous image in which Wales poses with his Colt Walkers is a good example.
The Secret of My Success, 1987.
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This film was inspired by the early Hollywood experiences of Steven Spielberg, who snuck onto the Universal Studios lot at a young age and began using an empty office as his own production office. The character of Brantley Foster does the same thing in this movie.
Night Ranger performed the title song to this film. Expecting the song to not only be used in the film, but also the trailer. However, when the trailer was released, instead of the title song by Night Ranger, Walking On Sunshine but Katrina and the Waves was used.
First Men in the Moon, 1964.
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In the book, the large monster which the Selenites hunt is called a Mooncalf. This is an old English term for idiot, since it was believed that being out under a full moon could cause madness (think also "lunatic"), but is also a clever pun on H.G. Wells' part, as the Selenites also hunt this beast like cattle, the young of which is called a calf.
The Russian spoken by the astronauts at the film's beginning is in fact Czech.
a faux pax was Professor Cavor calls out "SOS" when he becomes stuck between the rocks on the moon's surface; however, SOS did not come into use until 1905, six years later. maybe he invented it;)
A few years on, and.... Quatermass and the Pit, 1967.
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In the London Underground, there are quite a few posters from other Hammer projects such as The Reptile (1966), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), and The Witches (1966), as well as My Fair Lady (1964) and Hotel (1967), on the station walls. An old, partially-ripped poster for Sex and the Single Girl (1964) can be seen on the wall opposite the entrance to Hobbs End station.
A Sony CV-2000B Videocorder - a very early and primitive form of videotape recorder - is on display during the sequences in which the Martian race memory is both recorded and later played back to the skeptical military.
The original BBC serials were not shown on American television. As a result "Quatermass" was unknown to potential U.S. audiences. As was done with the previous two movie adaptations, the title was changed. Twentieth Century Fox released this in the United States as "Five Million Years to Earth" (1967).
Back to ww2 time and Sullivan's Travels, 1941. Director, Preston Sturges.
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Cinematographer John Seitz admired Preston Sturges' unconventional approach to his work. The opening scene comprised ten pages of dialogue to cover about four and a half minutes of screen time. It was scheduled for two complete days of shooting. On the morning of the first day, Seitz found Sturges inspecting the set with a viewfinder, looking for where he could cut the scene and change camera set-ups. Seitz dared him to do it all in one take. Never one to refuse a dare, Sturges took him up on it, although the nervous Seitz had never attempted to complete a two-day work schedule in one day. With the endorsement of McCrea and the rest of the actors, Sturges pressed on, determined to set a record. The first take was fine, but the camera wobbled a little in the tracking shot following the men from screening room to office, so they tried again. They did two or three takes at the most and that was it - two full days work by 11 a.m. on the first day, a feat that had the entire studio buzzing.
Back to sixties si-fi and The Mouse on the Moon, 1963.
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Director Richard Lester's first movie for United Artists.
Although other characters from The Mouse That Roared (1959) appeared (Prime Minister Rupert Mountjoy and his opposition leader Benter) David Kossoff (Kokintz) was the only principal cast member of The Mouse That Roared (1959) who returned to play the same role in this movie.
partial si-fi i suppose(or is it?);)... Capricorn One, 1977. For all the moon landing nay sayers lol
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Despite being portrayed as a villain, NASA provided technical assistance, including mock-up spacecraft, sets, vehicles, front screen projection expertise.
One of the stunt pilots, Frank Tallman, who flew the red stearman plane, claimed this film was the most dangerous film he'd ever flown for. He was killed in a crash soon after filming finished.
During his interview in the 2016 ESPN documentary O.J.: Made in America, Capricorn One director Peter Hyams admitted that the studio had given him a mandate to cast O.J. Simpson as John Walker. Hyams said, "I thought there were worthy African American actors who had paid their dues as actors, who had shown their talent. My first choice was either Robert Hooks or Bernie Casey, so my reaction was less than enthusiastic. I had seen The Towering Inferno (1974). I thought [Simpson's acting ability] was not going to frighten Daniel Day-Lewis. O. J. was a celebrity of enormous stature, and somebody who had not shown the chops to play the part. My goal was to see if I could make this guy work for what I wanted. It came time to do his last scene. He's a guy who's parched and delusional. So rather than him acting somebody who was desperately thirsty, I put appliances on his face that made it difficult for him to move and difficult to talk, and it just made him sound like he was in desperate trouble. And he was pretty good. You know, what can I say? He was a charming, terrific guy, he was a positive guy, he tried very hard, and it was clear that he saw a future for himself in film."
Writer-director Peter Hyams once said of audience reaction to this movie: "Audiences just stood up and cheered at one point in the film. It wasn't because it was such a great movie, it's just that certain movies strike certain chords with people. In a successful movie, the audience, almost before they see it, know they're going to like it. I remember standing in the back of the theater and crying because I knew that something had changed in my life. Sitting on the film cans outside the screening room, I felt my cheeks were wet with tears. A bright man, David Picker [studio executive David V. Picker] came over to me and said, 'You're going to have a lot of new best friends tomorrow. You better know how to handle it'."
still a good film even if it had more holes in it than a crochet blanket:D... so many infact it might take all day to mention so i wont.lol
now, The Password Is Courage, 1962.
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"Hogan's Heroes" (1965) shared many similarities to this movie. The regular characters in "Hogan's Heroes" (1965) are characters straight out of this movie, and many of the antics in the series are things that happen in the movie. However, there is no mention of Mr. Coward's autobiography or of this movie in any of the "Hogan's Heroes" (1965) credits.
Colin Blakely has a small, but funny, part as what was surely the model for the Sergeant Schultz character on "Hogan's Heroes" (1965) (In fact anyone who grew up watching television in the 1960s knew of "Hogan's Heroes" (1965), and almost certainly knew of the hapless Sergeant Schultz and his key phrase, "I know noth-thing, I know NOTH-THING!''). Americans know Colin from such classics as "A Man for All Seasons" (1966), Dr. Watson in "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (1970), "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974), and "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" (1976). He played in many more movies and television series, but just as his career seemed to growing even stronger, he died on May 7, 1987 of leukemia.
In both this and "The Great Escape", the tunnel comes up short of the trees.