Chato's Land, 1972...
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Chato's Land, 1972...
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another regular now with...
Jeremiah Johnson, 1972...
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Star Trek: First Contact, 1996...
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On account of budgetary restrictions, the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) was never quite satisfied with the Borg sets and costumes as used during the series. However, the significantly bigger budget for this film finally allowed them to design the Borg in a way that was much closer to what they had intended. As a result, the suits and sets were reused extensively on Star Trek: Voyager (1995).
another from Hope, this time with Jane Russell.... The Paleface, 1948..
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The Adjustment Bureau, 2011...
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Outside of the bar written on the wall is "24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not" a quote attributed to Paul Newman.
The first of three films Emily Blunt has been in where characters try to change the future; the other two are Looper (2012) and Edge of Tomorrow (2014).
one of the above mentioned now...Looper, 2012..
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Ooh Emily... not sure what it is about her, but she certainly has something I like :)
she's got great teeth;)Quote:
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Cat Ballou, 1965..
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At his acceptance of the Oscar, Lee Marvin opened by saying, "Half of this probably belongs to a horse out in the Valley somewhere".
Nat 'King' Cole had a nightly singing engagement at a Lake Tahoe nightclub. He would commute daily between Lake Tahoe and the set in order to do both. Everyone noticed that Cole was coughing a great deal whenever he was on the set and losing weight, but most figured he was just running himself down with such a gruelling schedule. Unbeknownst to them and to Cole himself, he was already very sick with lung cancer. Nat 'King' Cole died several months before the film was released.
Not conventionally beautiful - but damned sexy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I have followed her career since her debut in 'My Summer of Love' (in which she appears naked in one brief scene and topless in another).
The Square Peg, 1959..
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another norman wisdom vehicle he is in army now lol
why am I only just learning about this film?Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I like her in 'The Devil Wears Prada' I always did have a thing for posh totty. It's the haughtiness, very sexy.
was a good film if really for a girl audience.. the wolfman was good too and more my style.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Key Largo, 1948.. bluray.
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finally got this on bluray... a classic.
Great film! :)
Murder by Decree, 1979... Holmes on the trail of the ripper... Plummer and Mason as the dynamic duo..lol
excellent cast and well done.
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Yes, it is :).Quote:
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The Naval Treaty... Jeremy Brett as Holmes..
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Murder on the Orient Express, 1974... Albert Finney and Co..
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classic stuff from an all star cast.
'Magnum P.I' - the proper ones with Tom Selleck.
Typically they started showing these on ITV4 in the daytime as soon as I went back to work. But I've figured out how to automatically tape a whole series on the cable box now.
All the episodes right from the start. I quite liked the reboot but no question that the original is loads better.
that and rockford were prescribed viewingQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
still got to start on my Rockford box set. Odd that they never seem to show them on the telly anymore.Quote:
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dont have rights anymore i guess.Quote:
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now.. The Terminator, 1984.
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original and best
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991..
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picked this up on dvd so scanned it into my plex system...
Small Time Crooks, 2000...
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Woody Allen claims he cast Tracey Ullman because she's one of the few comedians that makes him laugh.
The film contains several references to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story 'The Red-Headed League,' including the plot to break into a bank through the basement of an adjacent storefront and Frenchy's attempt memorize the contents of the dictionary.
The Wolfman, 2010... bluray. 2 disc theatrical extended version.
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When he meets the gypsies, Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) rescues a woman searching frantically for her daughter. The daughter is named Maria, after Maria Ouspenskaya, who played Maleva in The Wolf Man (1941) and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943).Benicio Del Toro's Wolfman make-up took approximately three hours to apply and one hour to remove. Producer and star Benicio Del Toro is a huge fan of The Wolf Man (1941), and remained attached to the remake ever since it was first announced in 2006, and passed through the hands of several directors.
When the Wolfman is being chased in London, he jumps off of a building and lands on a policeman. This was accomplished with real actors and stuntmen, and not CGI.
The "Ancient Gypsy Lore" text that Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt) is shown reading, are the two pages "Luxorious - Luzan", from the Encyclopedia Britannica.
The Man in the Iron Mask, 1977.. bluray.
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Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later", of which there are many filmed versions, has usually been shot under the title of "The Man in the Iron Mask", this being the final section of the book.
Though made for television, this movie was released theatrically in several territories around the world, including Denmark, Hungary, East Germany, and West Germany.
The Sign of Four, 1983..bluray
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In 1982, American producer Sy Weintraub partnered with English producer Otto Plaschkes to make six television films of Sherlock Holmes stories. Charles Edward Pogue was enlisted to pen the screenplays but only The Sign of the Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles were ultimately filmed as Granada Television's Sherlock Holmes series premiered in 1984.
In an interview with Scarlet Street, Ian Richardson explained:
"That was the fly in our ointment. Initially, an unseen fly. You see, when Sy Weintraub was planning the films, he was unaware that the copyright on the Holmes stories was about to expire in England and he had to go through a great deal of legal negotiations with the Conan Doyle estate in order to gain permission to use them. However, he was totally ignorant of Granada's plans to film a series with Jeremy Brett...Weintraub was furious, because he'd paid a lot of money to get permission from the estate and here was Granada saying, 'Thank you - but we're going to do it.' So Weintraub took them to court. He had a very good case, apparently; but eventually there was an out of court settlement for an extraordinary sum of money - something like two million pounds - which was enough for Weintraub to cover his costs on both The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles, and make a profit, too. And so he wrapped the project up."
2 Days in the Valley, 1996...
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Charlize Theron revealed in an interview that she overdid the audition a bit for this role, and was later embarrassed about it. It was her first audition and she followed advice she got in acting class about making it as real as possible. The scene involved her character showing up at a house after being shot. So when her audition began, she walked into the hallway and poured ketchup all over herself. Then she barged back into the room, starting stumbling everywhere, getting ketchup all over the furniture, as she recited her lines very loudly. To her shock, it worked. They eventually gave her the role and director John Herzfeld said it was because, "I knew you'd be up for anything."
Scarlet Street, 1945...bluray
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Director Fritz Lang and three of the stars (Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea) also made the similarly themed The Woman in the Window (1944).
Edward G. Robinson's character talks lovingly about art and says he wishes he owned a Cezanne. In real life, Robinson was a great collector of fine art and was considered an expert.
Sitting down to watch first episode of this this later today,
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HBO adaption of an acclaimed viral outbreak/ post apocalyptic earth based Video Game .
Enjoyed the game, very story/ character driven so curious about this.
Pedro Pascal (Mandelorian) stars as one of the main leads, always worth a watch.
From the same Showrunner as Chernobyl, which was incredible.
Been looking forward to it.
The Woman in the Window, 1944...bluray...
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Fritz Lang has another winner here with the same cast that he used in "Scarlet Street" a year later in 1946.....wonderful portrayals from all concerned. In both films, Edward G. is caught up in a situation that traps him and forces him to make decisions that go against his sense of morality. Joan Bennett is gorgeous as the beautiful woman who ensnares Robinson in her troubles. Dan Duryea again proves that he was one hell of an actor.....he was stereotyped throughout his career in roles in which he was a coward, a weakling and a thoroughly unlikeable guy and nobody played it better.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60-minute radio adaptation of the movie on June 25, 1945 with Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, and Edward G. Robinson reprising their film roles.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1983... bluray
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Rather bafflingly, the character of Inspector Lestrade is introduced far earlier in the story in this version than he is in the novel, but is left out of the scene of Holmes and Watson confronting and killing the hound - the one scene in the book in which he appears.
Ian Richardson is regarded by fans of the Baker Street sleuth, to be one of the best Holmes interpretations of the last 35 years.
I haven't seen that version Grant. But any film with Ian Richardson and Denholm Elliot in it is worth watching. :)
Its pretty decent Barry...
another version now... The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1959... bluray..
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Originally proposed by brief Hammer cohort Kenneth Hyman, this movie was planned to be the first in a series of many Sherlock Holmes movies starring Peter Cushing, produced by Hammer Films. The audience disapproved of a Hammer movie without any monsters and failed to turn up. The planned series was consequently dropped.
André Morell was one of the first movie portrayals to show Watson as a more than competent colleague of Holmes, rather than the lovable buffoon that Nigel Bruce had portrayed.
The Wolf Man, 1941...
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In Curt Siodmak's original script for the film, whether or not Lawrence Talbot really underwent a physical transformation to a werewolf or if the transformation simply occurred in his mind was left ambiguous. The Wolf Man was never to appear onscreen. Ultimately, the studio determined that Talbot's literal transformation into a werewolf would be more appealing to the audience and thus more profitable. The script was revised accordingly.
The Wolfman battled a bear in one scene but unfortunately the bear ran away during filming. What few scenes were filmed were put into the theatrical trailer.
Eye of the Needle, 1981...
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A cottage and lighthouse were constructed on the The Isle of Mull for the production of this movie. The set building utilized the skills of a seventy-two year old master thatcher, a local of the island.
This movie is what led George Lucas to hire Richard Marquand to direct Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983). Lucas was mainly impressed how Marquand was able to finish a difficult production on time and on budget, a factor which was critical on a huge production like Star Wars. Lucas also had to hire someone who was not a member of the Hollywood director's union as he was having a dispute with the Director's Guild at the time.
A blue Ford BB truck, registration number BUC 852 appears in the film. This is the same vehicle that appeared as Lance Corporal Jones's butcher's van in both the Dad's Army TV series and the 2016 Dad's Army film (which also featured Bill Nighy, and involved a German spy being picked up by submarine in the run-up to D-Day). According to the Ford Model A Register the vehicle is now the only Ford Model BB truck known to still exist.
Deadline - U.S.A., 1952... bluray (reg a)
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Originally titled 'The Newspaper Story', location shooting took place both in the newsroom and the printing plant of The New York Daily News, with real pressmen playing themselves. This was augmented by an 'almost letter-perfect' reproduction of a newsroom on a Hollywood soundstage.
There are two famous photos pinned up on the wall in the photo lab. The first is the pin-up photo of Betty Grable - it is reportedly the most famous pin-up photo of the Second World War. The second is the first photo taken of an execution in an electric chair. It was taken by Tom Howard for New York's 'Daily News'.
Compton Mackenzie's classic; Whisky Galore, 1949...
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Great little film. :)
Director Alexander Mackendrick used story boards for film, a first for Ealing studios.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
He was into advertising and they were used there
Two Way stretch, 1960...
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Again? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
I must admit it's one of my favourite British comic movies from back then, alongside School for Scoundrels, but there were so many good ones.
yes, its a classic...i watch classics like this a lot. keep me cheery being on my own.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Young Frankenstein, 1974.
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Inga: Werewolf!
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Werewolf?
Igor: There.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What?
Igor: There, wolf. There, castle.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Why are you talking that way?
Igor: I thought you wanted to.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: No, I don't want to.
Igor: [shrugs] Suit yourself. I'm easy.
Back to the Future, 1985...
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The guitar Marty plays in 1955 is a Gibson ES-345 with a retrofitted Bigsby vibrato (you can still see the studs on which the original stop tailpiece had been fitted); both the guitar and vibrato were introduced after 1955. The ES-345 was first produced in 1958 and it uses humbucker pickups invented by Seth Lover of Gibson in 1957.
In 1955, the record shop has Chordettes record sleeve art used on a CD from the 1980s, and Eydie Gormé's album 'Eydie In Dixieland' from 1959. There's also Patti Page's album 'In The Land Of HiFi' (1956) and 'Nat King Cole''s album 'Unforgettable' (1954), the only record released before 1955.