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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 7, 2014 12:19:03 GMT -5
Ride Lonesome (1959) Directed by Budd Boetticher With Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, James Best, Pernell Roberts, Lee Van Cleef and James Coburn
The Boetticher-Scott westerns are all very solid movies. I don't think I'd ever seen one before Ride Lonesome. It looks like a serious omission in my film education.
Speaking of James Best, have you ever seen Firecreek? With Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, Jack Elam, Brooke Bundy, BarBara Luna and a few other people? (John Qualen is in it!)
A year and a half ago, I'd never heard of it. But it's been on cable three times since then and I've seen chunks of it every time and I find myself intrigued with watching the whole thing eventually.
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Post by Jasoomian on Sept 7, 2014 13:36:00 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 7, 2014 13:50:48 GMT -5
I thought Roquefort Raider's description sounded familiar! |
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 7, 2014 14:19:28 GMT -5
Rollercoaster (1977) Directed by James Goldstone. With George Segal, Richard Widmark, Timothy Bottoms, Henry Fonda and Susan Strasberg. Film debut of Helen Hunt. Also, the band Sparks is in this movie. I haven't thought about them in decades.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
A terrorist blows up a rollercoaster at one amusement park and starts a fire at another and then threatens to keep doing it if the amusement park industry won't give him one million dollars. (That was a lot of money in 1977. Comic book were only 30 cents. A gallon of gas was seventy cents. A new car was $3,000.)
George Segal is a safety inspector who finds out about the plot and convinces the amusement park guys to call in the feds, led by Richard Widmark. There's a great scene where the terrorist leads Segal on a wild goose chase around an amusement park where Segal is supposed to drop off the money.
But the bills are marked so the terrorist can't spend them and now they have to guess where he's going to strike next after he figures out that he's been tricked ...
I love the disaster movies of the 1970s. I'm a sucker for each and every one of them. The Poseidon Adventure is one of my favorite films of the 1970s and I also like lesser-known disaster movies like Juggernaut, The Cassandra Crossing and The Hindenburg. So maybe it doesn't mean a whole lot that I recommend Rollercoaster. But it's a lot of fun, gripping and suspenseful and exciting, and a great cast for film buffs who enjoy seeing their favorite actors in movies that aren't necessarily their best. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 7, 2014 14:35:52 GMT -5
Rollercoaster (1977) Directed by James Goldstone. With George Segal, Richard Widmark, Timothy Bottoms, Henry Fonda and Susan Strasberg.
The Poseidon Adventure is the movie that sparked the avalanche of other disaster films with all-star casts. Rollercoaster was probably the 64th film of that genre, coming out at the tail-end of that trend. I never saw it but recall that it was thoroughly panned. I mean, after films dealing with planes,trains,volcanoes,forest fires,skyscrapers,meteors,earthquakes etc.... we're now down to rollercoasters. The next film, Cycle Of Death, dealt with a Schwinn with faulty brakes strarring Shelly Winters,Susan Anspach,Richard Crenna,Marjoe Gortner and Burgess Meredith as the School-Crossing Guard |
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Post by Jasoomian on Sept 7, 2014 15:13:33 GMT -5
I can't take Timothy Bottoms seriously as a rollercoaster terrorist, or as anything else, in light of his masterful comic performance in TV's That's My Bush!.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 7, 2014 15:25:24 GMT -5
The Poseidon Adventure is the movie that sparked the avalanche of other disaster films with all-star casts. I always thought it was Airport in 1970.
I would love to see a disaster movie with Burgess Meredith as a crossing guard. Didn't SNL (or some other sketch comedy show) do a disaster parody called "Escalator!"?
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 7, 2014 15:28:10 GMT -5
I can't take Timothy Bottoms seriously as a rollercoaster terrorist, or as anything else, in light of his masterful comic performance in TV's That's My Bush!. "That's My Bush!" was hysterical! I liked the next-door neighbor that would stop by and get a beer. I totally forgot that was Timothy Bottoms.
I always watched Lil Bush as well.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 7, 2014 15:48:49 GMT -5
I'm in the middle of Female Vampire (1973) on netflix while I fold laundry. The story is pretty basic. But I'll say this so far less than 30 minutes into it ... in US 1973 you'd be in an adult theater if you were seeing this. Half the fun for me watching foreign films us realizing the negative influence US censorship has done to the art of film.
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Post by Jasoomian on Sept 7, 2014 17:08:47 GMT -5
Carrotblanca (1995)It's Bugs as Bogey in this animated short, leading the Looney Tunes cast in an interpretation of Casablanca (1939). Wikipedia credits the writing staff of TV's Animaniacs with this one. That was a very funny show, and this is a very funny short; with lush animation and a number of funny gags. Tweety Bird as Peter Lorre is amazing. Two thumbs up. This was originally released on a bill with The Amazing Panda Adventure. It is available on the Casablanca Special Edition DVD/BR, and on The Essential Bugs Bunny 2-DVD set. The latter of which contains two shorts which failed to ever get their planned theatrical releases... CLASSIC FAILED WOULD-BE MOVIES:- Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers (1991) - Overlong 11-min "Body-Snatchers" gag has Bugs' nemeses replaced with blocky 1990 computer-game graphics. Some laughs. One thumb up.
- Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas (2003) - Yosemite Sam builds a casino adjacent to Bugs' desert rabbit-hole. Includes cheap anti-France joke. Split thumbs.
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Post by Jesse on Sept 7, 2014 18:31:17 GMT -5
Young Frankenstein (1974)  Great performance from Gene Wilder. Mel Brooks' direction is superb as he captures the mood and atmosphere of the horror films he's parodying perfectly. Teri Garr and Madeline Kahn both looked incredible. Peter Boyle is great especially during the "Puttin' On the Ritz" dance sequence.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 7, 2014 23:30:23 GMT -5
I don't know how many times I've seen Young Frankenstein. Over and over again since I first saw it in a theater in 1975 when I was 11.
I watched it again a few weeks ago. It's so great!
(My favorite Mel Brooks film, though, is The Producers.)
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Post by Jasoomian on Sept 7, 2014 23:55:21 GMT -5
 A Wild Hare (1940)
This first Bugs Bunny film. Two thumbs up, of course. I've seen this many times on television, but the only version available there has been a 1944 reissue that dubbed over the line "Carole Lombard?" with "Barbara Stanwyck?". The original version is available on THE ESSENTIAL BUGS BUNNY two-DVD set. |
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Post by MDG on Sept 8, 2014 12:03:46 GMT -5
Rollercoaster (1977) Directed by James Goldstone. With George Segal, Richard Widmark, Timothy Bottoms, Henry Fonda and Susan Strasberg.
The Poseidon Adventure is the movie that sparked the avalanche of other disaster films with all-star casts. Rollercoaster was probably the 64th film of that genre, coming out at the tail-end of that trend. I never saw it but recall that it was thoroughly panned. I mean, after films dealing with planes,trains,volcanoes,forest fires,skyscrapers,meteors,earthquakes etc.... we're now down to rollercoasters. The next film, Cycle Of Death, dealt with a Schwinn with faulty brakes strarring Shelly Winters,Susan Anspach,Richard Crenna,Marjoe Gortner and Burgess Meredith as the School-Crossing Guard Along with Capricorn One, my favorite 70s popcorn movie. I really wouldn't call it a disaster film, 'cause it's not like the whole cast is on a rollercoaster that won't stop--more a suspense thriller. Also during the period when Henry Fonda would sleepwalk through any movie for a paycheck. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 8, 2014 13:36:41 GMT -5
Young Frankenstein (1974) Great performance from Gene Wilder. Mel Brooks' direction is superb as he captures the mood and atmosphere of the horror films he's parodying perfectly. Teri Garr and Madeline Kahn both looked incredible. Peter Boyle is great especially during the "Puttin' On the Ritz" dance sequence. I'm not an unconditional fan of Mel Brooks and thought that Spaceballs in particular was a dismal pile of sophomoric dreck. But when he's good? He's damn good. Blazing saddles and Young Frankenstein are really neat movies, full of quotable lines; the latter was my erstwhile Italian roommate's favourite movie, if memory serves. I love the way a horse neighs in panic whenever Frau Blücher's name is uttered! |
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