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sad to hear lawrence.. yes that is a good series. ive got the boxset on dvdQuote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
Heist, 2001...
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Gene Hackman mentioned in several interviews that he found shooting the film difficult and somewhat uncomfortable because he was so much older than everyone involved. He therefore kept much to himself, and in the end managed to draw on that feeling of being an outsider in the group for his portrayal.
I wonder how much he cut from 'Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot' ?Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
It's 87 minutes so you have to think the rough cut was ten hours, maybe twenty?
Why would he be so fussy about 'First Blood' but go on to make that embarrassing pile of crap? Makes no sense.
i guess his career was still in making with first blood, where he had also done 2 rocky films.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
but the reason he took this pile on was apparently this which ive heard several times..
Sylvester Stallone famously signed on to the film based solely on Arnold Schwarzenegger claiming that he was interested in the lead. In October 2017, Schwarzenegger confirmed the rumor that, knowing the script was "really bad", he had publicly faked interest in starring for producers to lure Stallone.
they at that time had some less than friendly rivalry..lol
Stallone and Schwarzenegger ‘Disliked Each Other Immensely’ Due to Box Office Rivalry: ‘We Truly Loathed Each Other’
ps, they are now very good friends..
The Wild Bunch, 1969..
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Robert Ryan's incessant complaints about not receiving top billing so annoyed director Sam Peckinpah that he decided to "punish" Ryan. In the opening credits, after freezing the screen on closeups of William Holden's and Ernest Borgnine's faces while listing them, Peckinpah froze the scene on several horses' rear ends as Ryan was listed.
In an interview, Ben Johnson said that the Mexican women who "frolicked" with him and Warren Oates in the huge wine vats weren't actresses but prostitutes from a nearby brothel, who were hired by Sam Peckinpah so he could tell people that Warner Bros. paid for hookers for his cast.
Sam Peckinpah stated that one of his goals for this movie was to give the audience "some idea of what it is to be gunned down". A memorable incident occurred, to that end, as Peckinpah's crew were consulting him on the "gunfire" effects to be used in the film. Not satisfied with the results from the squibs his crew had brought for him, Peckinpah became exasperated; he finally hollered: "That's not what I want! That's not what I want!" He then grabbed a real revolver and fired it into a nearby wall. The gun empty, Peckinpah barked at his stunned crew: "THAT'S the effect I want!!" He also had the gunfire sound effects changed for the film. Before, all gunshots in Warner Brothers movies sounded identical, regardless of the type of weapon being fired. Peckinpah insisted on each different type of firearm having its own specific sound effect when fired.
School for Scoundrels, 1960...
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In this film in 1960, Ms Scott was 22 years old, while Ian Carmichael was 40 and Terry Thomas was already 49! A slightly scandalous age difference that was important at the time in real life, but totally ignored for the film industry.
The used car salesmen Dunstan and Dudley (Dennis Price and Peter Jones) were based on characters from the BBC radio comedy series "In All Directions" broadcast during the 1950s. The radio characters were known as Morry and Dud and were played by Peter Ustinov and Peter Jones who also wrote the scripts together with scriptwriters Frank Muir and Denis Norden. Their catch phrase "run for it!" was reprised in the film
Kind Hearts and Coronets, 1949...
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The original camera negative was saved from the Henderson's Film Laboratories fire of 1993, just before a massive nitrate explosion destroyed the negatives of many other movies, including several other Ealing comedies.
Just watched the full version of Lawrence of Arabia
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The 37 minutes cut from the cinema release, were discovered and have now been reinstated; making the run time 217 minutes (3 hours 37 mins) long.
I'm a great fan of David Lean's cinema epics, but this one is a hard slog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_of_Arabia_(film)
great film.. not sure if mine has the extra time in it or not thoQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
edit.. just checked and mine is 3h 47m so looks like it has
The Lone Ranger, 2013..
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In an interview, Johnny Depp thanked his stunt horse, Scout, for saving his life after a violent fall during filming. After Scout dragged Depp 25 feet, Scout jumped over him to avoid stepping on him. A clip of the fall shows the horse clearly jumping over Depp, and detaching him from the saddle. Depp suffered only minor bruises and scrapes, but says it could have been a lot worse if the horse had stepped on him.
In an interview with Vulture Magazine, Jerry Bruckheimer said, "I think it is going to be looked back on as a brave, wonderful film. I've been though this a lot with journalists. We made a movie years ago called Flashdance (1983), and I remember one journalist just giving us the worst review ever. Then, about five years later, we get this kind of love letter - that he totally "missed" it. That he loved the movie, and it's kind of the same with you that, any time it's on, you have to watch it. It happens, you know."
Red, 2010...
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Irresistible fun
3 Godfathers, 1948...
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This is a remake of the silent film The Three Godfathers (1916), which starred Ford's long-time friend Harry Carey. When Carey died in 1947, Ford decided to remake the story in Technicolor and dedicate the film to his memory. Carey's son, Harry Carey Jr., plays one of the three, "The Abilene Kid". The film Three Godfathers (1936) is based on the same source, so this film is, in some sense, a remake of that film as well. John Ford had previously directed a silent film version of the same story, called Marked Men (1919). No prints of this films are known to be in existence.
For the scene where Deputy Curly (Hank Worden) has trouble pulling a mule aboard a train, director John Ford rigged the reins to pull backwards whenever Worden pulled forward.
Pedro Armendariz, who plays the character of Pedro, commits suicide by gunshot in this film. 15 years later, Armendariz would take his own life by gunshot, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
classic xmas time redemption film that... shame it wasn't actually released at xmas time:ner:..needless to say the duke comes out of it better than he went in ....:D
thats it for tonight folks lol
It's not a bad film - but neither is it a great film. I think "irresistible fun" sums it up nicely (as well as applies to the sequel).Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Jeremiah Johnson, 1972.. super film this.
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Based upon a real-life trapper named John Johnston, nicknamed "Crow Killer" and "Liver Eater Johnston" for his penchant for cutting out and eating the livers of Crow Indians he had killed (several Crows had murdered his wife and he swore vengeance against the entire tribe).
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.
Three Days of the Condor, 1975...
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The Bell System switching station is a noisy place. As this was in the mid-1970s before the phone company could ramp up to digital, all of the switching was done mechanically using tiny servos to physically move electronic contacts. One can see the earliest stages of this transition as both touch-tone and dial phones (the stolen handset) are used for the same phone system.
When Mr. Wabash (John Houseman) says of his WWII OSS service, "I sailed the Adriatic with a movie star at the helm." he is speaking of actual events which really happened. While Mr. Houseman was not involved, the movie star in question was Sterling Hayden. Hayden played New York Police Captain McCluskey in "The Godfather" (1972) who brutally punches Michael Corleone in the face and whom Michael Corleone later assassinates along with Sollozzo. During World War Two Hayden captained a fishing boat in the Adriatic Sea running the German naval blockade to smuggle guns and other supplies to resistance fighters in Yugoslavia ambushing and sabotaging the Nazi German occupiers. He was decorated with the Silver Star for heroism.
The Devil and Miss Jones, 1941...
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Frank Ross and Norman Krasna decided to produce a movie together starring Jean Arthur (Ross' wife) based on a story by Krasna. The three formed a partnership and borrowed $600,000 from a bank to finance the film.
The script was written in ten weeks and then Sam Wood came on board as director. Krasna described the experience of making the film as one of the best in his career.
RKO agreed to distribute the film. It was Arthur's first film at RKO since The Ex-Mrs. Bradford. Robert Cummings was signed to play the male lead; he was shooting a film at MGM concurrently.
Not a bad film, based on the book 'Six Days of the Condor'. Does this mean you only get half of the story, or did they only have half the money needed to make the full version?Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
:lol:
maybe saving it for a sequel? If they'd started with 'One Day Of The Condor' they'd have had enough for a whole franchise. It's what Disney would have done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Saboteur, 1942... Bob Cummings again..
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Alfred Hitchcock's original cameo was cut by order of the censors. He and his secretary played deaf pedestrians. When Hitchcock's character made an apparently indecent proposal to her in sign language, she slapped his face. A more conventional cameo in front of a drugstore was substituted.
When the French liner, the S.S. Normandie burned and partially sank in New York City harbor, Alfred Hitchcock quickly dispatched a Universal newsreel crew to the scene to get footage that he incorporated into this movie, intercut with studio shots of the saboteur smiling from the back seat of a taxi as he looks out on the supposedly sabotaged ship.
For the shots of police inspecting the long circus caravan at night, Alfred Hitchcock created perspective by using vehicles and people of different sizes, starting with full-sized trucks and extras at the closer end of the caravan, using smaller trucks and shorter people as it receded into the distance, and finally miniatures and cutouts with workable arms with tiny illuminations to simulate flashlights at the far end. (typical Hitch)
Young Frankenstein, 1974...
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When Gene Wilder leans in to kiss Madeline Kahn goodnight in her bedroom, her last-second quip "No tongues" was ad-libbed by Kahn.
When they started to film the "Puttin' on the Ritz" scene, no one was sure what the creature should say. The first time out of the gate, however, Peter Boyle came up with a strangled version of "Puiinin on da reeez!"
Two-Way Stretch, 1960...
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Liz Fraser (Ethel) was still learning to drive at the time the film was made. In the scene where Ethel follows the army convoy in an Aston Martin, she kept stalling as she set off on cue, so ropes were attached to the front of the car, out of shot, and it was towed.
Peter Sellers proved very difficult for director Robert Day to work with and at one point, even walked off the film. He was eventually persuaded to return, but Day later calculated that he had put about ten days on the shooting schedule through his tantrums.
Cowboys & Aliens, 2011..
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During an interview with The Toronto Sun in 2010, an excited Adam Beach told them, "We just finished shooting Olivia Wilde naked in front of a bonfire in front of 500 Apache warriors. That was beautiful. You won't get to see what I saw, but you'll get a glimpse." When asked by The Sun about her nude scene, Wilde replied "Did Adam Beach talk to you? Adam Beach is the best. Last night, we did a scene where I'm naked in front of a group of [a] couple hundred Apache. Pretty amazing, pretty interesting."
Blast from the Past, 1999...
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In 2015, A Mickey Mantle rookie card sold for over $525,000 in an auction to an anonymous collector.
High Plains Drifter, 1973...
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Universal Pictures wanted this movie to be shot on the studio lot. Instead, Clint Eastwood had a whole town built in the desert near Mono Lake in the California Sierras. Many of the buildings were complete and three-dimensional, so that interiors could be shot on-location.
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.
Esquire did a good write up on this film and Eastwood....https://www.esquire.com/entertainmen...ssay-analysis/
Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984... criterion bluray remaster. reg A
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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 he 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.
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.
Good film. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
1984 was a scary prospect.. i am betting much of the world live under such a system. that is the sadness of much of mankind.
i am glad im near the end of my life and not the beginning:(
Dances with Wolves, 1990.. difficult to see bye this film..
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Casablanca, 80th Anniversary edition 4k.
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couldn't resist i'm afraid.
stunning 4k repro. occasionally to sharp but some of the soft shots of bergman's face at times are just fabulous... worth it for that alone but a collectors dream i guess and probably my fav film.
wow three discs, does it have the alternative ending?Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
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Watched the supremely creepy 'Seconds' last night, starring Rock Hudson, it's quite a film. Also watched recently 'The thin red line' directed by Terence Malick (badlands, days of heaven, The new world), that was brilliant.
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The Titfield Thunderbolt, 1953... bluray..
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don't make 'em like this no more...
Looper, 2012...
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Villain, 1971...
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Changing his clothes and hair-style, Joss Ackland burst into producer Alan Ladd Jr.'s London office, hauled him out of his chair and made things quite plain as befitting an East End gangster. "If you don't give me this bleedin' part, I'll break your bloody neck."
On 10 November 1970, on his 45th birthday, Richard Burton took a day off from filming to collect his CBE from Buckingham Palace, accompanied by his older sister Cicely and his wife Elizabeth Taylor.
Joss Ackland, T.P. McKenna, Del Henney, Tony Selby, Colin Welland, James Cossins, Michael Robbins, Godfrey James, Leslie Schofield, and Cheryl Hall would all go on to appear in The Sweeney (1974).
The critical and financial failure of this film ended Richard Burton's viability as a box office star. The character of Vic Dakin was based on Ronald Kray.
Jeremiah Johnson, 1972.. watched it recently but missed a fair chunk so am trying again...another of my favs
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How the West Was Won, 1962... american frontier epic with an all star cast.. it was narrated by Spencer Tracy, who couldnt be in film due to illness.
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Hopscotch, 1980...
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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.
According to the DVD special feature "Introduction by Neame & Garfield", Walter Matthau's agent suggested the film include music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as this would be pleasing to Matthau. So they made Matthau's character Kendig a lover of Mozart's music. Conductor and arranger Ian Fraser located many pieces of Mozart's music but was at a loss for the scenes where Kendig is typing his book. So they asked Matthau if he could make any suggestions and he obliged by finding some.
The Belles of St. Trinian's, 1954..
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The conversation between Miss Anderson ( played by Vivien Wood ) and The Sultan of Makyad ( played by Eric Pohlmann ) in the opening scenes about the schooling in England of his daughter Fatima ( played by Lorna Henderson ) establishes that St Trinians is located in Barchester - the fictional English county created by Anthony Trollope in his series of Chronicles of Barchester novels.
In the scenes of panic at the arrival of the "school special" in the village, one scene shows a policeman running into a police station where the noticeboard bears the title "Barchester Constabulary". Further, the police constable mentions the name of the town as being "Little Twyning" when he reports the arrival of the train to the Superintendent on the phone.
This was the debut film of actress Barbara Windsor.
Quality film that, you couldn't do something like that these days, the actors now aren't good enough to carry it off.