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Post by DE Sinclair on Jul 12, 2016 10:07:54 GMT -5
I made a mistake about The Sea Chase. John Wayne isn't a submarine captain, he's a German freighter captain trying to get back to Germany at the start of World War II. I'm relieved to hear that. I wasn't sure how he was going to fit inside a WWII era submarine. He was kind of a big guy.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 12, 2016 10:09:22 GMT -5
I made a mistake about The Sea Chase. John Wayne isn't a submarine captain, he's a German freighter captain trying to get back to Germany at the start of World War II. I'm sure I watched it years ago but don't recall the details. However, it would have to be a better performance than the movie The Conqueror where he played Genghis Khan
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 12, 2016 10:25:59 GMT -5
I made a mistake about The Sea Chase. John Wayne isn't a submarine captain, he's a German freighter captain trying to get back to Germany at the start of World War II. I'm sure I watched it years ago but don't recall the details. However, it would have to be a better performance than the movie The Conqueror where he played Genghis Khan I've never seen the whole thing but I've seen bits of it over the years. It's hilarious.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 12, 2016 11:46:23 GMT -5
And I saw another great old obscure Bette Davis movie a few days ago. It was called It's Love I'm After (1937) and it's a hilarious screwball comedy that reminded me of something like Twentieth Century or My Man Godfrey, and as far I'm concerned it was better than the first and almost as good as the second. It also starred Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland. And Eric Blore is amazing and hilarious! Leslie Howard and Bette Davis are famous stage actors, and the movie starts with them performing the end of "Romeo and Juliet." They are involved in a rather stormy relationship and they are mad at each other, and they keep whispering at each other while onstage. And they purposefully try to piss each other off. When Leslie Howard (as Romeo) has taken the poison and carefully arranged himself in a sitting position on the bier so the audience can see him, Bette Davis (as Juliet) purposefully poses in front of him so he can't be seen as she recites the "O happy dagger" part. "They can't see my face!" he hisses at her. Olivia de Havilland is an impressionable and romantic girl, barely 20, attending the theater with her father and her aunt. She develops a huge crush on Leslie Howard! It gets so bad that her fiancé (Patric Knowles) goes to see Leslie Howard. They come up with a scheme for Leslie Howard to invade the home of Olivia's family and be so terrible and awful that it will take care of her crush and she will be happy to marry boring Patric Knowles. Obviously it doesn't go as smoothly as that. Leslie Howard's character relates everything to a play he was in. As his predicaments get more and more complicated (Olivia is not a fickle girl; she defends everything he says and does, no matter how awful), he thinks of a play he was in with a similar predicament, and uses the plot to save himself. It never works, but he still keeps doing it. Eric Blore is Leslie Howard's dresser, and they are hilarious together. When Leslie Howard starts thinking about how to get out of it (he always thinks out loud), he says things like "This is just like the second act of "Tears of the Outsider." And Eric Blore will say "But sir, you were dying of tuberculosis in a garret! I don't see it." Howard just ignores him. It's pretty madcap and funny throughout. There's some other great Warners Brothers actors to help keep the energy going, notably Spring Byington and also Bonita Granville as a nosy teenager who constantly peeps through keyholes and sees some interesting things. Highly recommended for everybody, except people who won't watch movies made before 1972 and call themselves movie buffs anyway for some reason.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 12, 2016 12:58:26 GMT -5
I made a mistake about The Sea Chase. John Wayne isn't a submarine captain, he's a German freighter captain trying to get back to Germany at the start of World War II. I'm sure I watched it years ago but don't recall the details. However, it would have to be a better performance than the movie The Conqueror where he played Genghis Khan "I believe this Tartar woman is for me; my blood says take her!"
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 12, 2016 13:16:36 GMT -5
I'm sure I watched it years ago but don't recall the details. However, it would have to be a better performance than the movie The Conqueror where he played Genghis Khan "I believe this Tartar woman is for me; my blood says take her!" It's fun to make jokes about The Conqueror. But it's not so funny when you remember that THIS MOVIE MIGHT HAVE KILLED JOHN WAYNE, AGNES MOOREHEAD, SUSAN HAYWARD, DICK POWELL AND PEDRO ARMENDARIZ!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 12, 2016 13:43:05 GMT -5
"I believe this Tartar woman is for me; my blood says take her!" It's fun to make jokes about The Conqueror. But it's not so funny when you remember that THIS MOVIE MIGHT HAVE KILLED JOHN WAYNE, AGNES MOOREHEAD, SUSAN HAYWARD, DICK POWELL AND PEDRO ARMENDARIZ! Anything that stopped Dick Powell from acting was OK with me. John Wayne would have made a great Hulk from all that radiation he absorbed.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 12, 2016 13:54:44 GMT -5
It's hard to go wrong with a Bette Davis film, even the mediocre ones. Don't believe I ever saw It's Love I'm After but in recent days I've watched That Certain Woman (1937) with Henry Fonda whereby Henry's father forces him to break off his marriage with Bette right after the elopement, not knowing she's already been knocked up
Also saw The Golden Arrow (1936) with George Brent as a reporter and Bette as a wealthy socialite who finds him amusing. Its starts off routine but halfway through the film the story throws you a big curveball and Bette, it seems, is not all what you thought she was
I've read that Bette thought of George Brent as her favorite co-star. Probably that's because she knew his performance would never outshine hers
Got another new, for me, Bette movie coming up to watch. The Girl From 10th Avenue (1935). Hope it has real location scenes from Manhattan's Hells Kitchen from that time period
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 12, 2016 16:55:43 GMT -5
"I believe this Tartar woman is for me; my blood says take her!" It's fun to make jokes about The Conqueror. But it's not so funny when you remember that THIS MOVIE MIGHT HAVE KILLED JOHN WAYNE, AGNES MOOREHEAD, SUSAN HAYWARD, DICK POWELL AND PEDRO ARMENDARIZ! There's someone else I just realized a couple of weeks ago was in this who suffered from cancer. I'll think of him or her...
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 12, 2016 17:17:22 GMT -5
It's fun to make jokes about The Conqueror. But it's not so funny when you remember that THIS MOVIE MIGHT HAVE KILLED JOHN WAYNE, AGNES MOOREHEAD, SUSAN HAYWARD, DICK POWELL AND PEDRO ARMENDARIZ! There's someone else I just realized a couple of weeks ago was in this who suffered from cancer. I'll think of him or her... Co-star John Hoyt died of lung cancer in 1991
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 12, 2016 17:51:22 GMT -5
There's someone else I just realized a couple of weeks ago was in this who suffered from cancer. I'll think of him or her... Co-star John Hoyt died of lung cancer in 1991 THAT WAS IT! Thank you!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 12, 2016 18:15:48 GMT -5
It's fun to make jokes about The Conqueror. But it's not so funny when you remember that THIS MOVIE MIGHT HAVE KILLED JOHN WAYNE, AGNES MOOREHEAD, SUSAN HAYWARD, DICK POWELL AND PEDRO ARMENDARIZ! Anything that stopped Dick Powell from acting was OK with me. John Wayne would have made a great Hulk from all that radiation he absorbed. Dick Powell was awesome as Philip Marlowe in Murder My Sweet. Also dressed as cat doing a number with Ruby Keeler in Footlight Parade. And anyway, he wasn't acting in The Conqueror. He was the director. Powell directing a movie about Genghis Khan is almost as weird as John Wayne playing Genghis Khan.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 12, 2016 18:23:26 GMT -5
It's hard to go wrong with a Bette Davis film, even the mediocre ones. Don't believe I ever saw It's Love I'm After but in recent days I've watched That Certain Woman (1937) with Henry Fonda whereby Henry's father forces him to break off his marriage with Bette right after the elopement, not knowing she's already been knocked up Also saw The Golden Arrow (1936) with George Brent as a reporter and Bette as a wealthy socialite who finds him amusing. Its starts off routine but halfway through the film the story throws you a big curveball and Bette, it seems, is not all what you thought she was I've read that Bette thought of George Brent as her favorite co-star. Probably that's because she knew his performance would never outshine hers Got another new, for me, Bette movie coming up to watch. The Girl From 10th Avenue (1935). Hope it has real location scenes from Manhattan's Hells Kitchen from that time period I've never seen any of these. I want to see the film they used for the scene in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? where they are talking about what a bad actress she is. It seems to me that I heard it was two movies - Ex-Lady and Parachute Jumper, I think - and I also heard that the reason her Southern accent is so bad is that the character she's playing is faking a Southern accent and it's not supposed to be good.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 18:34:34 GMT -5
I've always did not care for The Conqueror of where John Wayne played Genghis Khan and I watch it once over 30 years ago and vow to never, ever see it again.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 12, 2016 22:09:48 GMT -5
Dick Powell was awesome as Philip Marlowe in Murder My Sweet. Also dressed as cat doing a number with Ruby Keeler in Footlight Parade. I'll give you his portrayal of Philip Marlowe in Murder My Sweet but then a stopped clock is correct twice a day. Everyone looks good in a cat costume. Subconsciously, that's why you chose your avatar I must watch The Conqueror again and re-evaluate it for I have a suspicion it might be very good. If Prince Hal can recall it's dialogue, that's all the reason I need
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