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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 8, 2015 16:51:45 GMT -5
Someone else had a slightly different idea for a Batman movie cast:
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 8, 2015 17:34:22 GMT -5
With Rosalind Russell as Vicki Vale, Irene Dunne as Linda Page, Charles Ruggles as Alfred, Ralph Bellamy as Commissioner Gordon, Edmund Gwenn as the Penguin and Vincent Price as the Joker.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 8, 2015 18:00:42 GMT -5
Leave us not forget another possibility... (Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs)
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 8, 2015 18:08:48 GMT -5
Edward Arnold as The Penguin? Burt Lancaster as Batman? (Gina Lollabrigida as the Kathy Kane Batwoman and Tony Curtis as Nightwing?) Kirk Douglas as the Riddler?
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 8, 2015 18:12:00 GMT -5
Leave us not forget another possibility... (Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs) Oh, yes! I saw The Man Who Laughs at the Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles in the 1990s. Great movie to see with a crowd and somebody playing the organ. And Veidt would have still been around in the early 1940s for a Batman movie. (I think he died in 1944.)
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 8, 2015 18:14:39 GMT -5
Maureen O'Hara as Poison Ivy
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 8, 2015 18:16:55 GMT -5
Leave us not forget another possibility... (Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs) Oh, yes! I saw The Man Who Laughs at the Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles in the 1990s. Great movie to see with a crowd and somebody playing the organ. And Veidt would have still been around in the early 1940s for a Batman movie. (I think he died in 1944.) Pretty sure that Bob Kane has acknowledged the influence of this character on the creation of The Joker. To wit:
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 8, 2015 18:17:51 GMT -5
Maureen O'Hara as Poison Ivy Too strong to be Vicki Vale. Maybe a Catwoman, too?
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Post by crazyoldhermit on Dec 8, 2015 18:26:00 GMT -5
To me there is only one choice for Joker: Dwight Frye.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 8, 2015 18:34:00 GMT -5
Just watched for the first time "The Spy Who Came From The Cold", even if I've already watched all of other film/TV John LeCarré adaptations. First, off, Richard Burton maybe is my fave actor, mostly because of Huston's "Night Of The Iguana". Again, he palys to perfection a washed out character who lost himself to too many lies and avoids all social interactions he can. Is it a spy story, a tragic romance one? it is of course both, and Ritter's impecable filming makes the gloomiest settings shine in an eerieway, almost as beautiful as "Touch Of Evil". Great great movie, and one step closer to my completion of watching all spy dramas i can.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 8, 2015 18:36:08 GMT -5
Rin Tin Tin as Ace The Bat Hound
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2015 18:36:09 GMT -5
Maureen O'Hara as Poison Ivy What about Rita Hayworth as Poison Ivy?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2015 18:37:34 GMT -5
Conrad Veidt is my 1st and only choice for the Joker!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 8, 2015 18:56:37 GMT -5
A quick interruption to the Batmania auditions
The Comedians (1967) Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Paul Ford, Lillian Gish, Cicely Tyson
Richard Burton manages a bankrupt, family owned hotel in Haiti. Politically he's uninvolved and cynic but gets drawn into the corruption and brutality which are the hallmarks of the "Papa Doc" Duvalier regime that's in power. Peter Ustinov is a South American Ambassador with his wife Elizabeth Taylor. Burton, of course, is having an affair with La Liz. Alec Guinness is a decorated British officer being held by the Haitian government.
This is quite a remarkable film for several reasons. Firstly is based on a novel by Graham Greene who also wrote the film's screenplay. Secondly, it's got a stellar cast. But what's most remarkable is that Papa Doc Duvalier was firmly in office in Haiti when this film was released. It paints a very ugly and essentially truthful picture of what was occurring in Haiti at that time. But Papa Doc was anti-communist so he was America's friend and while we focused our venom on Cuba, we gave Haiti a free pass. Besides which, the American public was more attuned to what was going on in Vietnam, The Civil Rights movement, The 6 Day Arab/Israeli War and The Boston Red Sox coming so close to winning the World Series.
I think it kind of fizzled at the box office, never recalled anyone talking about it when it was released or in the subsequent years. But a hard-hitting, timely and factual political film from a Hollywood studio like MGM, it is amazing. I would think Costa-Gavras would have been influenced by this as well as the classic Battle Of Algiers. See it!!
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 8, 2015 19:01:57 GMT -5
A quick interruption to the Batmania auditions
The Comedians (1967) Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Paul Ford, Lillian Gish, Cicely Tyson
Richard Burton manages a bankrupt, family owned hotel in Haiti. Politically he's uninvolved and cynic but gets drawn into the corruption and brutality which are the hallmarks of the "Papa Doc" Duvalier regime that's in power. Peter Ustinov is a South American Ambassador with his wife Elizabeth Taylor. Burton, of course, is having an affair with La Liz. Alec Guinness is a decorated British officer being held by the Haitian government.
This is quite a remarkable film for several reasons. Firstly is based on a novel by Graham Greene who also wrote the film's screenplay. Secondly, it's got a stellar cast. But what's most remarkable is that Papa Doc Duvalier was firmly in office in Haiti when this film was released. It paints a very ugly and essentially truthful picture of what was occurring in Haiti at that time. But Papa Doc was anti-communist so he was America's friend and while we focused our venom on Cuba, we gave Haiti a free pass. Besides which, the American public was more attuned to what was going on in Vietnam, The Civil Rights movement, The 6 Day Arab/Israeli War and The Boston Red Sox coming so close to winning the World Series.
I think it kind of fizzled at the box office, never recalled anyone talking about it when it was released or in the subsequent years. But a hard-hitting, timely and factual political film from a Hollywood studio like MGM, it is amazing. I would think Costa-Gavras would have been influenced by this as well as the classic Battle Of Algiers. See it!! It was scheduled on TCM a few months ago and I was planning on watching it but TCM changed the schedule for a tribute to somebody who had just died. I had really wanted to see it.
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