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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 11, 2016 17:39:47 GMT -5
The Busby Berkely DiscI believe this 150 minute DVD came with the box set of Busby Berkely films released from Warner Bros. It contains the music and dance numbers only, edited out of the films themselves. It covers the 9 or 10 films he did from 42nd Street (1933) through Gold Diggers of 1937. That's all, just the performances, no bio or anything else. Still and all its immensely entertaining even if your not a musical fan. In the history of Hollywood, Berkely was unique and his productions were timeless (and often mind-meltingly psychedelic). I wouldn't mind finding a complete bio documentary on his life. Does it include the one where Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell are dressed up as cats? That cracks me up just thinking about it. Especially when Frank McHugh yells at them and shows them HOW IT'S DONE! Yuppers www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/455368/Footlight-Parade-Movie-Clip-Sittin-On-A-Backyard-Fence.html
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 11, 2016 21:23:32 GMT -5
I forgot all about Billy Barty in the mouse suit!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 11, 2016 22:23:26 GMT -5
I'm probably the only one who would pick Footlight Parade as my favorite Jimmy Cagney movie.
Yes, I've seen Public Enemy, White Heat and Yankee Doodle Dandy. I love them all and have seen them multiple times.
But Geez Louise! Footlight Parade starts racking up points when the first "prologue" starts and JUST DOESN'T STOP!
One more reason why 1933 is my favorite year for the movies.
And speaking of Billy Barty and 1933, he was in Alice in Wonderland that same year! He's the baby that turns into a pig!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 11, 2016 22:57:22 GMT -5
I fondly remember Billy Barty. Chiefly for a children's TV show he hosted and aired in the New York City area during the 1960s. Looking for further info on IMDB shows it was filmed in Hollywood, ran from 1963-1967 and also included Three Stooges shorts. It was called Billy Barty's Big Show. I don't recall if it was a weekday show or only on weekends but I saw plenty of them
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2016 12:22:08 GMT -5
And speaking of Billy Barty and 1933, he was in Alice in Wonderland that same year! He's the baby that turns into a pig! I love Alice in Wonderland back in 1933 and I just watched it on TCM the other day! ... I remember that scene that he's turn into a pig! ... Oink! ... Oink!!!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 12, 2016 13:33:52 GMT -5
And speaking of Billy Barty and 1933, he was in Alice in Wonderland that same year! He's the baby that turns into a pig! I love Alice in Wonderland back in 1933 and I just watched it on TCM the other day! ... I remember that scene that he's turn into a pig! ... Oink! ... Oink!!! That Alice in Wonderland from 1933 is phenomenal! I saw it years ago and have always liked it, but watching it again a few days ago ... it was a revelation! An amazing, entertaining experience. Especially W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty. Another reason - along with King Kong, Duck Soup, 42nd Street and others - why 1933 is my favorite years for the movies.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2016 14:03:47 GMT -5
I love Alice in Wonderland back in 1933 and I just watched it on TCM the other day! ... I remember that scene that he's turn into a pig! ... Oink! ... Oink!!! That Alice in Wonderland from 1933 is phenomenal! I saw it years ago and have always liked it, but watching it again a few days ago ... it was a revelation! An amazing, entertaining experience. Especially W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty. Another reason - along with King Kong, Duck Soup, 42nd Street and others - why 1933 is my favorite years for the movies. Same here ... 1933 was a banner year for Movies!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 12, 2016 14:16:13 GMT -5
Other films from 1933 - The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Sons of the Desert, Queen Christina, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Little Women and The Private Life of Henry VIII.
If we look at filmmaking outside of the U.S., we find The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Zero de Conduit and Las Hurdes (also known as Land Without Bread or Tierra sin pan).
Las Hurdes is sometimes called the first mockumentary. It's less than 30 minutes long and you might be able to find it on YouTube. (I watched it in French with Spanish sub-titles. English-only speakers might be out of luck. My Spanish isn't great but it was adequate for the task.)
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 12, 2016 14:30:51 GMT -5
1939 would be my favorite year for movies before I was born. When I get home, I'll post a list of the movies that came out that year that I own
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 12, 2016 18:42:50 GMT -5
OK first up are the 1933 movies I own on DVD
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
BABY FACE
BOMBSHELL
DANCING LADY
DESIGN FOR LIVING
DEVIL'S BROTHER
DINNER AT 8
DOCTOR BULL
DUCK SOUP
FEMALE
FOOTLIGHT PARADE
FORTY SECOND STREET
FRISCO JENNY
FROM HEADQUARTERS
GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933
HEROES FOR SALE
HOLD YOUR MAN
I COVER THE WATERFRONT
I'M NO ANGEL
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
INVISIBLE MAN
ISLAND OF LOST SOULS
KENNEL MURDER CASE
KING KONG
LADY FOR A DAY
LADY KILLER
LITTLE GIANT
MAYOR OF HELL
MEET THE BARON
MIDNIGHT MARY
MORNING GLORY
MURDERS IN THE ZOO
MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM
NIGHT FLIGHT
NO MAN OF HER OWN
PICTURE SNATCHER
PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII
PRIZEFIGHTER AND THE LADY
SHE DONE HIM WRONG
SON OF KONG
SONS OF THE DESERT
STUDY IN SCARLET
TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE
THREE-CORNERED MOON
TORCH SINGER
TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS IN SING SING
WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD
A bunch would have been part of box set collections and not sold separably
And now comes 1939
ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
ALLEGHENNY UPRISING
ANGELS WASH THEIR FACES
ANOTHER THIN MAN
AT THE CIRCUS
BABES IN ARMS
BACHELOR MOTHER
BEAU GESTE
BEAU GESTE
BLONDIE BRINGS UP BABY
BLONDIE MEETS THE BOSS
BLONDIE TAKES A VACATION
CAT AND THE CANARY
CHARLIE CHAN AT TREASURE ISLAND
CHARLIE CHAN IN CITY OF DARKNESS
CHARLIE CHAN IN RENO
CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY
DARK VICTORY
DAY-TIME WIFE
DESTRY RIDES AGAIN
DODGE CITY
DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK
EACH DAWN I DIE
FLYING DEUCES
FOUR FEATHERS
GIRL FROM MEXICO
GOLDEN BOY
GONE WITH THE WIND
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
GUNGA DIN
HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
IDIOT'S DELIGHT
IN NAME ONLY
INVISIBLE STRIPES
JESSE JAMES
JUAREZ
MADE FOR EACH OTHER
MAN IN THE IRON MASK
MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG
MEXICAN SPITFIRE
MIDNIGHT
MR. MOTO IN DANGER ISLAND
MR. MOTO TAKES A VACATION
MR. MOTO'S LAST WARNING
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
NINOTCHKA
OF MICE AND MEN
OLD MAID
ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS
PRIVATE LIVES OF ELISABETH & ESSEX
RETURN OF DOCTOR X
ROARING 20S
RULES OF THE GAME
SON OF FRANKENSTEIN
STAGECOACH
TARZAN FINDS A SON
THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL
THREE MUSKETEERS
TORCHY BLAINE IN CHINATOWN
TORCHY BLAINE PLAYING WITH DYNAMITE
TORCHY BLAINE RUNS FOR MAYOR
TOWER OF LONDON
UNION PACIFIC
WIZARD OF OZ
WOMEN
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
YOU CAN'T CHEAT A HONEST MAN
YOUNG MR. LINCOLN
So thats 48 films for 1933 and 69 for 1939
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 13, 2016 9:33:56 GMT -5
You have Murders in the Zoo?!?!
Have you seen it? I used to have it on VHS and I watched it a bunch of times.
Lionel Atwill is SO EVIL! That scene at the alligator bridge - wow - that's just cold.
And that's Kathleen Burke playing his wife. She's most famous as the Panther Girl in Island of Lost Souls.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 13, 2016 10:46:41 GMT -5
Have not seen it yet but will get to it sooner than later. It was part of a box set called Universal Cult Horror Collection - House of Horrors (1946), Murders in the Zoo (1933), The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942), The Mad Ghoul (1943), The Strange Case of Doctor RX (1942). The set seems to have gone OOP and commands high prices
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 13, 2016 13:13:08 GMT -5
The Hindenburg (1975) George C. Scott, Anne Baxter, William Atherton, Burgess Meredith, Charles Durning, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young, Richard Dysart, Rene Auberjonois
Oh the humanity!
Big epic telling with an all star cast, fitting right in with similar disaster films that were all the rage at this time (Towering Inferno, Earthquake etc.) It certainly had potential to be great, turned out merely decent. George C. Scott is a German security officer assigned by the Nazis to root out a suspected sabotage scheme on board the Hindenburg's maiden flight in 1937 from Frankfort, Germany to New Jersey .Charles Durning is the Captain of the ship and on board are approximately 90 crewmen, aristocratic passengers and a few Gestapo to make sure George C. does his job
There's not much that's interesting with passenger subplots or characterization which made films like the Poseidon adventure entertaining. Plus the fact, are you rooting for the Nazis to complete the zeppelin's journey safely or the resistance that is willing to kill all on board to prove Hitler's not infallible. And unlike The Titanic, the Hindenburg's disaster took just several minutes and therefore less suspenseful and less conducive to heroics . When its time for the big scene, the film switches to black and white so it can utilize actual footage from the disaster and of course everything slows down to wring out all the drama as possible.
Only 35 people died on the Hindenburg. I always thought there were so much more
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 13, 2016 13:26:46 GMT -5
Cleopatra (1934) Directed by Cecil B. Demille Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxin
Cleo, Caesar and Marc Anthony as per a little bit of Shakespeare and a little bit of Demille spectacular
DeMille once again with an opulent film rife with magnificent sets, costumes and a cast of thousands. Colbert as Cleo is stunningly beautiful. Warren William as Caesar is a bit underwhelming. Beetle-browed Wilcoxin puts in a great performance as Marc Anthony. Wilcoxin always seems to be bombastic and brimming with energy and self assurance. He would have made a fine superhero if alive in modern times. This is nothing like the Shakespeare play although it uses some of the famous lines from the play (Octavian to Anthony- "Oh you and your friends, romans and countrymen..."). It got some of its own great dialogue (Cleo-"Queens don't hiccup")
The Hayes production code was just coming into effect and this film seems to be one of the last to be able to skirt around it. Lots of very skimpy costumes on Cleo and her harem girls. The second biggest grossing film of 1934 Great popcorn entertainment
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2016 20:51:24 GMT -5
I'm watching Double Indemnity on TCM right now - it's starred Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson.
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