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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 20, 2016 13:13:37 GMT -5
I just watched "The Black Cat" recently as well, love the old horror films, especially the ones with Lugosi & Karloff. Also just watched "Dracula", "Frankenstein", "The Mummy" & "Bride of Frankenstein". Not sure if anyone mentioned it yet, but another great old film with Karloff is "The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)". The Mask of Fu Manchu is off the hook! I’ve seen it a bunch of times, including a special screening at the Cinematheque in Hollywood. I especially love Myrna Loy as Fah Lo Suee, and her unseemly pre-Code delight as she tortures one of the Englishmen. Love Mask and really love Face of Fu Manchu, the first of the Christopher Lee Fu Manchu films. That one has a great story and Nigel Green is the perfect Nayland Smith.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 20, 2016 13:19:27 GMT -5
The wife and I watched The French Connection this past Friday night as part of our attempt to go through the entire AFI Top 100 movies list (the 2008 version). While we both agreed that Gene Hackman did a great job as Popeye Doyle and the car chase scene with the train is rightfully revered, we both thought the movie, as a whole, is overrated. There are scenes that don't serve much, if any purpose, and the ending is poor, like the producer ran out of money and couldn't do anything other put up stills of the individual characters with an explanation of what happened to them rather than providing any real sense of closure.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 20, 2016 22:22:10 GMT -5
I've been watching The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) in 20- to 30-minutes segments for the past few days. So it's a lot like a sitcom. I don't feel the Hitler character is very sympathetic. The Vichy collaborators are not very amusing. This Petain fellow seems to be in a bit over his head. He needs a catchphrase. When thing get tough, he should say, "Its time for my nap." I still have two hours to go.
(I'm joking. It's a great documentary. But there's so many sub-titles that my mind wanders a lot, so it's taking me a few days to watch it.)
I started watching Quintet (1979). I DVRed it on a whim because of Paul Newman and Bibi Andersson! I've just watched the first 12 minutes and it's SO WEIRD! It's directed by Robert Altman! I did not know that until his name popped up on screen. I'm going to watch the rest now.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 9:12:28 GMT -5
I watched The Lost Patrol from 1934. I recorded it as I wanted to see Boris Karloff in a non-horror role, although his character does undergo a breakdown due to the horrors of war. A group of British soldiers are lost in the desert and are picked off one by one by the enemy. What struck me about this movie is that many of our veterans today have endured what these soldiers endured. PTSD, seeing friends killed....I had a hard time getting into this movie, but once it got rolling, I couldn't stop watching.
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 21, 2016 9:25:11 GMT -5
I watched The Lost Patrol from 1934. I recorded it as I wanted to see Boris Karloff in a non-horror role, although his character does undergo a breakdown due to the horrors of war. A group of British soldiers are lost in the desert and are picked off one by one by the enemy. What struck me about this movie is that many of our veterans today have endured what these soldiers endured. PTSD, seeing friends killed....I had a hard time getting into this movie, but once it got rolling, I couldn't stop watching. Nice insight here. Another well made movie in this vein is Sahara (1943). Excellent cast, headed by Humphrey Bogart. A unique war film with a diverse cast (a Sudanese soldier!) and a more realistic approach than any films of the WWII-era.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 21, 2016 10:19:28 GMT -5
Malpertuis (1971) can be seen in three parts on Youtube.
Adapted from a famous gothic novel by Flemish writer Jean Ray, this weird and dreamlike tale features Orson Welles and (much to my surprise) Quebec actor Daniel Pilon.
A huge, old house in Brugge; strange people who never seem to go out and share some dark secret, little hints here and there... Neil Gaiman would probably have loved to script this adaptation (especially since, as in Sandman, Greek mythology plays a large role in the story).
I used to re-read Malpertuis whenever the holiday season returned, for God knows what reason (it has nothing to do with Christmas). I guess it was the mysterious atmosphere of the thing that fit with the spiritual aspect of the season.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 21, 2016 13:58:03 GMT -5
I watched The Lost Patrol from 1934. I recorded it as I wanted to see Boris Karloff in a non-horror role, although his character does undergo a breakdown due to the horrors of war. A group of British soldiers are lost in the desert and are picked off one by one by the enemy. What struck me about this movie is that many of our veterans today have endured what these soldiers endured. PTSD, seeing friends killed....I had a hard time getting into this movie, but once it got rolling, I couldn't stop watching. It's been a while since I saw it so I don't remember much about it aside from British soldiers wandering around in the Iraqi desert during World War I. And Karloff's breakdown. That's great! I remember that. (Another great Karloff role is in The Criminal Code, a great early 1930s prison movie.) But I do remember that I was blown over by the whole movie and I thought it was pretty awesome. I'll have to check it out next time I see it scheduled on TCM.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 21, 2016 14:12:56 GMT -5
I watched The Lost Patrol from 1934. I recorded it as I wanted to see Boris Karloff in a non-horror role, although his character does undergo a breakdown due to the horrors of war. A group of British soldiers are lost in the desert and are picked off one by one by the enemy. What struck me about this movie is that many of our veterans today have endured what these soldiers endured. PTSD, seeing friends killed....I had a hard time getting into this movie, but once it got rolling, I couldn't stop watching. Nice insight here. Another well made movie in this vein is Sahara (1943). Excellent cast, headed by Humphrey Bogart. A unique war film with a diverse cast (a Sudanese soldier!) and a more realistic approach than any films of the WWII-era. I was thinking of Sahara a few days ago. Love it! Especially Bogart and J. Carroll Naish (as an Italian soldier). I was thinking of Sahara because I just saw Fury (2014), a recent World War II tank movie with Brad Pitt. It's really good! (A lot of disagreeable people are attacking its accuracy on IMDB. Some of what they're saying might be true. Still, I'm not really clear why people who liked the movie have to be called f***ing idiots so often.) Fury was quite a fun movie to watch with awesome battle scenes and a better-than-decent cast and a gritty look at the fall of Germany in April 1945. It got me to thinking about tank movies, and the only one I could think of that was noticeably better than Fury was Sahara. But there's a bunch I've never seen. For example, I've never seen Tank Force (1958). STARRING VICTOR MATURE! It has to be great!
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 21, 2016 14:23:37 GMT -5
OMG! I checked YouTube for Tank Force! a few months ago and it wasn't there. I just checked it again, and there it is! Somebody posted it four months ago. I'll have to watch it in the next few days to make sure it doesn't disappear before I see it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 16:53:12 GMT -5
A customer of ours is trying to remember a Western, probably from the late 60s or 70s, which featured a black man raised by Apaches so he was using a bow and arrow to mow down enemies. It wasn't one of the Clint Eastwood films.
Does it ring a bell with anyone?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 21, 2016 23:05:26 GMT -5
A customer of ours is trying to remember a Western, probably from the late 60s or 70s, which featured a black man raised by Apaches so he was using a bow and arrow to mow down enemies. It wasn't one of the Clint Eastwood films. Does it ring a bell with anyone? From your info, the best bet would be former football star Jim Brown, who starred in many action films as well as being one of The Dirty Dozen. Perhaps this is the film www.imdb.com/title/tt0065570/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_43
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Post by Warmonger on Nov 22, 2016 8:55:12 GMT -5
Not a movie, but...I've been using the Starz subscription on Amazon Instant Video to mostly watch the new season of Ash vs Evil Dead, but I decided to check out the "classic shows" category yesterday and low and behold...the first 6 seasons of Gunsmoke!!
Awesome!!
I know they play it on TV Land all the time but it's always the color episodes from the early 70's. Definitely prefer the black and white episodes. Seemed to have a darker tone and the focus was more on Marshall Matt Dillon than in the later episodes.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 22, 2016 9:54:55 GMT -5
I watched Tank Force! (1958) yesterday on YouTube. I was delighted from start to finish! Not because it's a great movie or anything. It's a low-budget British film about World War II that's short on brains, barely adequate on action but high on B-movie charm.
The YouTube print is a bit muddy and the soundtrack is a bit off, so the voices weren't in sync. It looked like the most-badly dubbed Italian war movie ever at times. But that only added to the effect that Tank Force! is a comic book ad come to life! KIDS! Get the exciting NEW "El Alamein Playset"! With 24 Panzer tanks, 36 Sherman tanks, 12 Tiger tanks, 40 British tank commanders, 36 German tank commanders, 482 Italian POWs." (And so on.)
The movie is just like a bunch of kids playing Tank Force. "What happens next?" "Uh, we're captured by the Jerries." "What now?" "We steal an ambulance and crash the gate." "The Krauts will see us crossing the desert!" "Well, there's a sandstorm! And then we meet some Arabs!" "How about we come across a weird night club for Italian officers that's been set up in an abandoned Roman villa from the first century?" "OK."
Victor Mature is pretty awesome. He's an American fighting with the British. He was married to a Jewish woman who was carted away by the Germans and died at Belsen. So he gets to be all pouty and emotional and extra anguished. And he's so great at that! (And by great, I mean hilarious!) He's worried about the Germans finding out who he is because he threw a bomb at Goebbels and barely escaped the Reich. He acts the hell out of this! As if somebody told him the audience was hard-of-hearing.
Your mileage may vary.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2016 12:13:30 GMT -5
A customer of ours is trying to remember a Western, probably from the late 60s or 70s, which featured a black man raised by Apaches so he was using a bow and arrow to mow down enemies. It wasn't one of the Clint Eastwood films. Does it ring a bell with anyone? From your info, the best bet would be former football star Jim Brown, who starred in many action films as well as being one of The Dirty Dozen. Perhaps this is the film www.imdb.com/title/tt0065570/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_43I'll ask him to check it out on youtube, thanks for the link!
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 22, 2016 15:22:06 GMT -5
My wife is still in her Jean Harlow phase. Last night we watched The Beast of the City from 1932, which starts with a title card from President Herbert Hoover urging people to glorify the police rather than the criminals who had captured the country's imagination. This was the "Public Enemy Era" of Al Capone, John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, et al. Harlow is a mob moll who tempts the police chief's brother into cooperating in a robbery that ends badly. When the crooks are acquitted, the chief gathers a few stalwart policemen and they crash the mob's victory celebration, and soon bullets are flying. The crooks hide behind tables and walls but the cops just stand all together in the middle of the room, blasting away. Most of the cast is dead by the end. The Hays Code put an end to this sort of movie for a few decades.
Next up is Hell's Angels, produced and directed by Howard Hughes!
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