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Post by berkley on Aug 13, 2016 20:10:06 GMT -5
I'm drawing a blank on the 2nd Guess-the-Film. Is the clue the part about the producer and Steve Jobs, etc, or was there meant to be something else?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 13, 2016 20:15:49 GMT -5
I'm drawing a blank on the 2nd Guess-the-Film. Is the clue the part about the producer and Steve Jobs, etc, or was there meant to be something else? The clue is the whole thing I wrote about the producer and Steve Jobs only. I'd be surprised if Mad didn't do Love Story parody. Pretty sure they did. Love Story was the #1 film at the box office for 1970, followed by Airport, M.A.S.H. and Patton
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Post by berkley on Aug 13, 2016 21:07:30 GMT -5
I'll take a wild guess and say the Howard the Duck movie, even though I would have thought that George Lucas made too much money from Star Wars to ever be in financial difficulties. But HtD was a pretty big bomb, so who knows.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 13, 2016 21:26:25 GMT -5
oh that berkley, he did it again George Lucas had just spent $50 million to construct his Skywalker Ranch complex and counted on Howard The Duck to recoup his money. When it bombed, Steve Jobs offered to help his friend by buying the CGI animation division George put together for the Howard movie, Job's offer was extremely generous and George was in debt. The rest is history
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 13, 2016 21:33:37 GMT -5
One more guess-the-film quiz. It's tough to come up with them since anyone can seem like a smarty with some google-fu skills. Here we go:
Tonight I watched, for the first time, a classic doggie movie. It co-starred this famous actress. Then it dawned on me. This famous actress has been paired with 4 animals during her career. The doggie, a horsie, an alcoholic and a child-molester. Only the child-molester was off screen
Who's the actress and who's the animals?
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Post by berkley on Aug 13, 2016 22:22:23 GMT -5
Looks like I'm the only one playing!
The horse makes you think of Elizabeth Taylor, in which case the alcoholic would be Richard Burton. But I don't know about the dog or the child-molester.
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Post by berkley on Aug 13, 2016 22:23:10 GMT -5
Oh, Michael Jackson, of course. Still can't remember a dog movie, though. Was she in Lassie?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 13, 2016 22:57:25 GMT -5
berkley for the clean sweep Lassie Come Home (1943) the beginning of the classic Lassie Trilogy It's Ireland during the great depression of the 1930s. Little Roddy McDowall loves his collie. But the parents are struggling for money, daddy is out of work, they can't afford to feed Lassie and mommy doesn't have any dog casserole recipes. So Lassie gets sold to the rich Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) and his daughter Elizabeth Taylor. Lassie escapes twice and returns to his young masters home. However Dr. Watson, learning a few tricks from Sherlock Holmes, always gets him back. Finally Dr.Watson decides to relocate La Liz and Lassie to his Scottish estate and end this cat-and-mouse (I mean Dog-and-Watson) game. Well nothing will stop Lassie. So Lassie escapes one last time, to travel hundreds of miles back to Ireland, through storms and rivers and hunters and attack dogs and dog-catchers and..oh my, that Lassie has some harrowing experiences. They better have a bowl of pudding waiting for him Lassie was Liz's first love. Then came the horse Roddy's parents. What kind of parents would sell Lassie so they can have Pop-Tarts for breakfast? Lassie also does jail time but she was no one's bitch Lassie vs. the dog-catchers. This movie was breaking my heart Lassie was a good dog
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 13, 2016 23:10:54 GMT -5
Lassie Correction:
There were 7 Lassie films made in the series
Lassie is supposed to be a female dog but she's always portrayed by male collies because they are easier to train
This was Liz Taylor's 2nd film. Her salary was less than Lassies. And rightly so
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 14, 2016 17:44:26 GMT -5
Fine And Funny Under-Rated ComedyNever Too Late (1965) Paul Ford, Maureen O'Sullivan, Jim Hutton, Connie Stevens, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Wyatt, Henry Jones Adaptation of a hit Broadway play that starred both Paul Ford and Maureen O'Sullivan Ford is 60+ years old with his 50+ wife Maureen, He owns a lumber company and his daughter and her husband (Stevens & Hutton) still live under his roof. Try as they might, the young couple can't conceive a baby. But Paul Ford and his wife do!! The movie was produced by Norman Lear and directed by Bud Yorkin. In just a few mire years they will team up again for the landmark TV show All In The Family. The movie has a great cast and smart, witty and sparkling dialogue. It runs a bit long but actually ends before it should. The real story is the wonderful performance of Paul Ford, his best role ever. An old favorite of mine, he plays aged, blustering, cantankerous blow-hards to a tee. He's crotchety to a fault. Superb as military brass. Didn't start his acting profession until he was in his 40s. Hats off to Paul Ford
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 16, 2016 1:30:00 GMT -5
Who Is George Montgomery?I really had no clue. Here's a guy who worked in films and TV for 50 years, over 100 entries in his IMDB resume, and I had no recollection of him. He was a former boxer turned actor and had a great, deep speaking voice. Did tons of western films and TV work in the 1950s. A star on the TV series Cimarron City (never saw it). But I picked up a movie he starred in from the library which made me wonder who he was 1957's Black Patch is a pretty decent Western. The chief villain is Sebastian Cabot, best known as the butler Mr. French from the TV sitcom Family Affair. The movie is probably best known as being Jerry Goldsmith's first film score. It's got a noir-ish feel, it's dark and George Montgomery's sheriff character is a disturbed man. The eye patch is cool. Runs just 82 minutes and it's a quickly paced ride. Ends kind of abruptly like they ran over budget and shut down production. Maybe they did.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 16, 2016 2:04:11 GMT -5
Another Film I've Avoided (and now I feel silly) Love In The Afternoon (1957) Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver I've always bypassed this film. The title sounds too sentimentally romantic The idea of Cooper paired with Hepburn, he being twice her age, was a bit skivvy. Maurice Chevalier is the most over-rated French celebrity this side of Marcel Marceau. But now I'm checking out the library's stockpile of DVDs and thought I'd finally give this a spin My mistake. I didn't realize this was written by the genius Billy Wilder. And so you get sophisticated and witty dialogue with a delightful story.You also get the film debut of the great John McGiver. Cooper plays a rich American playboy batchelor, an internationally travelling heartbreaker constantly in the newspaper headlines. Chevalier is a Parisian private detective specializing in proving spouse's infidelities. Hepburn is his daughter. Hepburn meets Cooper, she's aware of his reputation, but is so infatuated with him that she makes up these outrageous stories about her own lovers to keep Cooper on the defensive As with just about all of Wilder's scripts ( Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Seven Year Itch, Stalag 17 etc) it bristles with great lines. Wider directed this feature as well.
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Post by berkley on Aug 16, 2016 4:01:08 GMT -5
When I saw Roman Holiday on tv in the late 70s I think I was around 15 years old. At that time I was completely oblivious to the age difference between her and Gregory Peck - they both seemed like adults, far beyond my sphere. But I immediately fell in love with Audrey Hepburn.
I think it was only a month or two later that I saw Sabrina, in which the age difference between her and her two pursuers, William Holden and Humphrey Bogart, is explicitly acknowledged, but it still didn't seem like a big deal to me. I understood the idea but they still appeared to me like a group of grown-ups, though Audrey Hepburn was obviously very young compared to the other two.
The last time I saw Roman Holiday, back in the 90s, I was old enough that the Peck/Hepburn age difference was noticeable to me. It didn't prevent me enjoying the film but my memory of it is enough to make me less than enthusistic about seeing Love in the Afternoon.
I still think that she's the most beautiful person I've seen on-screen, with the possible exception of the completely different Anita Ekberg.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 16, 2016 4:31:07 GMT -5
The movie has nothing to do with hauntings or ghosts. They even show a ghostly casper-like figure during the title credits but there's nothing about that subject during the film. Released in 1942 as the L& H team was winding up their careers. By now they have left the Hal Roach Studis where they did all their classic short and earlier films. It's decent enough but really doesn't approach their earlier heights.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 16, 2016 18:47:47 GMT -5
Lassie Correction: There were 7 Lassie films made in the series Lassie is supposed to be a female dog but she's always portrayed by male collies because they are easier to train This was Liz Taylor's 2nd film. Her salary was less than Lassies. And rightly so Lassie became a big star because Albert Payson Terhune wouldn't or couldn't license his books about his collie Lad. The Lad stories started in magazines in 1915 and the first book came out in 1919 and sold in the millions, but there wasn't a Lad movie until 1962. By that time audiences thought it was a ripoff of Lassie when the reverse was closer to the truth. I went thru a phase of reading dog stories when I was a kid - I read Terhune, and Jack London, and Jim Kjelgaard's Irish Setter stories. PS. Mr. French was a valet, not a butler.
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