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Post by shaxper on Jun 26, 2014 8:59:18 GMT -5
I've been meaning to check out Dr. Mabuse for years now. I didn't realize Netflix had it!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 26, 2014 12:46:20 GMT -5
It All Came True (1940)
Ann Sheridan,Jeffrey Lynn,Humphrey Bogart,Zasu Pitts
D-Lewis Seiler
After crooked nightclub owner Chips Maguire (Bogart) murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player Tommy Taylor (Lynn)to allow him to stay incognito at his eccentric mother's boarding house. Amongst the boarders are Sarah Jane (Sheridan),nightclub performer and Tommy's childhood sweetheart .
Amusing comedy with plenty of eccentric old-timers and an impressive trained poodle. Bogart loosens up a bit as he is mothered by the spinsters as he hides out at the boarding house.Ann Sheridan plays a tough little cookie who can stand up to Bogie.Jeffrey Lynn basically takes up space
To save the boarding house from going broke Chips turns the parlor into a combo restaurant/stage revue. Suddenly the parlor, through the miracle of Hollywood, can fit 3 dozen performers and 100 patrons.If I can only learn that secret and apply it to my small apartment
Watch Chips force fed beef broth by the spinsters and he freaks out at all the stuffed animals in his room
A forgotten movie in his filmography but highly entertaining. Bogart is now ready to be a full-fledged star 7 of 10 stars
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 26, 2014 12:59:18 GMT -5
It All Came True is one I've never seen. Sounds interesting. Ann Sheridan is just all-around awesome!
Did you ever see Stand-In? It's Hollywood poking fun at itself, the way they did from time to time in the 1930s. Leslie Howard is the star. Bogart is a movie producer. It's been a while since I saw it but I remember it as being fairly amusing with a couple of very funny scenes.
It's not near as good as Boy Meets Girl (with Jimmy Cagney), but what is?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 26, 2014 13:09:55 GMT -5
It All Came True is one I've never seen. Sounds interesting. Ann Sheridan is just all-around awesome! Did you ever see Stand-In? It's Hollywood poking fun at itself, the way they did from time to time in the 1930s. Leslie Howard is the star. Bogart is a movie producer. It's been a while since I saw it but I remember it as being fairly amusing with a couple of very funny scenes. It's not near as good as Boy Meets Girl (with Jimmy Cagney), but what is? Never caught Stand-In or about a dozen other Bogart films,especially early in his career.But as of yet,I've never seen a dud.Which reminds me,what got you all riled up with the ending of Virginia City? Was it Erroll Flynn turning traitor at the last moment or Ultimate Nullifier Lincoln? |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 26, 2014 13:51:56 GMT -5
Which reminds me,what got you all riled up with the ending of Virginia City? Was it Erroll Flynn turning traitor at the last moment or Ultimate Nullifier Lincoln? Nothing specific. I just think it gets boring after they leave Virginia City. It's more like hackwork, they sort of wander around in the desert and there's some action thrown in. I'm trying to remember specifically what I don't like about the ending, but I just sort of lose interest in the last act whenever I see it. I just don't remember that well.
The last few minutes are OK. I don't have any problem with Ultimate Nullifier Lincoln, that's for sure.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 26, 2014 13:58:47 GMT -5
Passage to Marseille just started on TCM. I've seen it and I remember it as being a (mostly) entertaining programmer. It's sort of famous for having a flashback-within-a-flashback-within-a-flashback story structure. Every time they meet a new character, somebody starts to tell his story. And then a new character pops up during the flashback and so another flashback starts. It's hysterical. (And Sydney Greenstreet is a SCREAM as a pro-Nazi French general.)
It gets less and less interesting as it goes on, as I remember. Claude Rains and Bogart are both good.
I'm going to skip it because I have some things to do today and I want to be mostly done so I can watch Hotel Berlin later today. I never saw that before.
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Post by Jasoomian on Jun 26, 2014 16:54:22 GMT -5
Broccolis' A View to a Kill (1985).
(Presented on Netflix streaming in the proper aspect ratio.)
We open on the lecherous Roger Moore and his stuntmen on an Arctic mountain. They take out a team of Soviet commandos using only a snowboard and a flare gun.
Then, we cut to the best part of the film, which is a Duran Duran video.
Next, Bond lands in Paris to carjack some comically fat and useless Frenchman. Bond is in France to investigate Christopher Walken and Grace Jones for fixing horse races. (Horse racing is very important to the Queen.) Bond & Walken have a 40-minute French smug-off before Walken announces he is a KGB orphan who will destroy Silicon Valley.
So, Bond follows Walken to San Francisco where 007 carjacks a fire engine and bones down on a rich blonde widow with home Internet access. Turns out Walken is stealing Lex Luthor's gag and wants to use earthquakes to redraw California. But then Bond throws Walken off the Golden Gate Bridge, so movie over.
One thumb up because why not.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 27, 2014 11:10:55 GMT -5
Skipping past some of my recently viewed Bogart films like Brother Orchid w/Edward G Robinson,They Drive By Night w/George Raft,High Sierra w/Ida Lupino. Never saw The Wagons Roll By Night (first movie with Bogart top-billed). We get to:
The Maltese Falcon
Humphrey Bogart,Mary Astor.Peter Lorre,Sidney Greenstreet,Elisha Cook Jr,Gladys George,Barton MacLane,Ward Bond
D-John Huston
A private detective (Bogart) takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals (Greenstreet,Lorre,Cook), a gorgeous liar (Astor), and their quest for a priceless statuette (Falcon).
I'm not going to spend time on the movie itself because if you haven't seen it,you're probably not reading this anyways.Some notes of interest:
The debut of both Sidney Greenstreet and John Huston as a director
The movie was to be called The Gent From Frisco because a Maltese Falcon film was released in 1931
3 movie prop statuettes still exist valued at over 1 million apiece
John Huston had Mary Astor jog before her scenes so she'd appear breathless and nervous
I would love to get ahold of the unusual cigarette lighter Sam Spade has on his desk (called a Ronson Touch-Tip table model)
John Huston's father Walter Huston is in a brief cameo delivering the Falcon to Sam Spade's office and dying
Warner's wanted a sequel by Dashiell Hammett still owned the rights to the characters and the movie studio didn't want to pay him again
Another film George Raft turned down
The American Film Institute ranked this #31 Greatest Film of All Time & #6 Greatest Mystery
The DVD set includes 2 previous versions-the 1931 adaptation and Satan Met A Lady.Plus a Warner Night At The Movies
10 of 10 stars.Easy Peasy
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 27, 2014 11:28:34 GMT -5
High Sierra is one of the most important films of Bogie's career. It's been a long time since I've seen They Drive by Night, but I remember liking it.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 27, 2014 11:37:11 GMT -5
All Through The Night (1941)
Humphrey Bogart,Conrad Veidt,Kaaren Verne,Peter Lorre,William Demarest,Jackie Gleason,Phil Silvers,Jane Darwell,Judith Anderson,Frank McHugh,Barton MacLane
D-Vincent Sherman
Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.
An action/comedy with a treasure trove of great character actors.Gleason,Silvers,Demarest and Lorre with Bogart? What movie fan could resist? Veidt made a great Nazi throughout the war years.Darwell is the All-American mother just like in The Grapes of Wrath.Judith Anderson always played icy cold villianesses.Barton MacLane always yelled in your face.This movie is so packed with character actors that the DVD has a half-hour doc on the subject of character actors
And again,another film George Raft turned down
As usual,Bogart,Lorre and the Nazis play it straight while his gambling buddies do all the clowning. Most hilarious is when Bogart and Demarest infiltrate a Nazi meeting and have to deliver a report.
The DVD includes,besides the character actor doc,a Warners night at the Movies that has a Joe Doakes "So You Want To Give Up Smoking?" and a cartoon "Lights Fantastic"
9 of 10 stars
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 27, 2014 12:34:36 GMT -5
All Through The Night (1941)
Humphrey Bogart,Conrad Veidt,Kaaren Verne,Peter Lorre,William Demarest,Jackie Gleason,Phil Silvers,Jane Darwell,Judith Anderson,Frank McHugh,Barton MacLane
D-Vincent Sherman
Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs. An action/comedy with a treasure trove of great character actors.Gleason,Silvers,Demarest and Lorre with Bogart? What movie fan could resist? Veidt made a great Nazi throughout the war years.Darwell is the All-American mother just like in The Grapes of Wrath.Judith Anderson always played icy cold villianesses.Barton MacLane always yelled in your face.This movie is so packed with character actors that the DVD has a half-hour doc on the subject of character actors And again,another film George Raft turned down As usual,Bogart,Lorre and the Nazis play it straight while his gambling buddies do all the clowning. Most hilarious is when Bogart and Demarest infiltrate a Nazi meeting and have to deliver a report. The DVD includes,besides the character actor doc,a Warners night at the Movies that has a Joe Doakes "So You Want To Give Up Smoking?" and a cartoon "Lights Fantastic" 9 of 10 stars This movie is just seven kinds of insanity. I saw it once and I remember it very fondly, one of the best of Bogart's less-well-known films. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2014 18:16:59 GMT -5
Broccolis' A View to a Kill (1985). (Presented on Netflix streaming in the proper aspect ratio.) We open on the lecherous Roger Moore and his stuntmen on an Arctic mountain. They take out a team of Soviet commandos using only a snowboard and a flare gun. Then, we cut to the best part of the film, which is a Duran Duran video.As much as I adore Roger Moore (he's the reason I became a Bond fan), AVTAK is easily his worst movie. Great theme though, and yes, I'm biased. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 27, 2014 21:50:18 GMT -5
A View to a Kill, despite being in many ways a horrifying mess, is a delightful mix of insanity, eccentricity and charm. I find it easy to sit and watch it, and soon I start smiling and pretty soon I'm laughing and enjoying the hell out of it.
Grace Jones is incredibly out of place, as if she got caught in a weird surreal punk rock video that is just going on way too long. Christopher Walken just kind of wanders in and starts doing his thing, and it's pretty much the thing he does, whether it's a Batman movie, or he's reading Goodnight Moon, or he's singing Poker Face.
God knows where Tanya Roberts came from. She got lost between Charlie's Angels and That '70s Show and ended up in a James Bond movie. The poor thing. But she never gives up! I admire her spirit.
Duran Duran sings the theme song so you know it's the 1980s.
And I love the way Roger Moore takes it all in stride, business as usual.
The really bad James Bond movie is Moonraker. If you've forgotten how bad it is, watch it again. By the fifth or sixth hour, you'll be wishing you had Grace Jones, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts and a stolen fire truck.
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Post by Jesse on Jun 27, 2014 22:44:04 GMT -5
There's a movie that I can't remember the name of and it's really been bothering me. I figure this may be the place to ask. The film is very long and IIRC in french. It shows a woman repeatedly doing menial tasks. She wakes up, makes breakfast, sends her sons off to school. The director shows that same sequence of events over and over again for like 3 hours. Any one have a clue what I'm talking about?
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 27, 2014 22:52:46 GMT -5
There's a movie that I can't remember the name of and it's really been bothering me. I figure this may be the place to ask. The film is very long and IIRC in french. It shows a woman repeatedly doing menial tasks. She wakes up, makes breakfast, sends her sons off to school. The director shows that same sequence of events over and over again for like 3 hours. Any one have a clue what I'm talking about? It sounds like Bunuel or Antonioni or Tarkovsky. Godard, maybe?
I'm sure I've never seen it, but there are a few directors who do stuff like that.
Do you have any other clues? Is it in color? Is it relatively recent?
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