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The Front Page, 1974...




Classic Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau film.. set in 1928 when it was written as a play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur

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It was the 1970 version with the rather cute Jenny Agutter.

ah yes as Bobbie. she was also in the remake as the mother.

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A New Leaf, 1971... bluray reg a

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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, 1976.. bluray reg a




Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "nothing less than the most exhilarating entertainment of the film year to date." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film four stars out of four and called it "the classiest motion picture of the holiday season" and "a rare combination of money and brains."

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Watson, i'll trouble you for the service revolver...

CLASSIC LINE IN THIS VERY GOOD VERSION OF A HOLMES FILM..

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The League of Gentlemen (1960).. bluray.




Jack Hawkins was ill with cancer during filming. Shooting was shut down for several days. A chain smoker, underwent cobalt treatment after filming ended for what was described as a "secondary condition of the larynx".

The Army raid was inspired partly by a real I.R.A. raid when I.R.A. members impersonated officers and stole weapons from a barracks.

"Neatly written and expertly played," wrote The New York Times in its 1961 review, "a devilishly inventive and amusing screen play by Mr. Forbes...directed crisply and spinningly by Basil Dearden"; while more recently The Daily Telegraph called it "a masterpiece of British cinema"; Dennis Schwartz noted "a fine example of old-fashioned English humor: droll and civil"; and Time Out, "A terrific caper movie...with typically excellent character playing from a lovable set of old lags."

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Murder on the Orient Express, 2017... 4k bluray





The Fragilite cake scene, the exchange between Hercule Poirot and Edward Ratchett, was filmed over a day and a half. In addition to improvisation, the scene also required numerous bites of cake. According to Sir Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp "is absolutely unafraid of a world most actors live in fear of, which is eating on-screen."

Johnny Depp asked director Branagh to apologize to Derek Jacobi on his behalf after filming their scene together "because I had to shout at him, I don't want to shout at Derek Jacobi."

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Nowhere near as good as the 1974 version with Albert Finney as Poirot. Also it departs significantly from the book.

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Nowhere near as good as the 1974 version with Albert Finney as Poirot. Also it departs significantly from the book.

i wouldn't go that far, although i know you dislike it... its a different take, and often these things do stray. but its a really well made film for me.

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A a hard-luck drama from Barbara Loden which she wrote, directed, and starred in; Wanda, 1970.. has a cinéma vérité style. Loden rejected Hollywood style, wanting to only present the world "as it actually is". She worked mainly with non-professional actors, which resulted in the film's original script being loosely referenced. The film was made with a skeleton crew of only four people. These two factors led to the film's improvisational style. The visuals in the film were inspired by several Andy Warhol films.
Kazan(whom she was married to) compared Loden's acting technique to Marlon Brando: "There was always an element of improvisation, a surprise, in what she was doing. The only one, as far as I know, who was like that is Brando when he was young. He never knew exactly what he was going to say, therefore everything would come out of his mouth very alive."

A film that is or was very difficult to see is now available on the Criterion bluray label.