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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 25, 2016 19:14:21 GMT -5
I just finished Love Me Tonight (1932) with Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, Myrna Loy and Charles Ruggles. I've known about it for years but I never got around to watching it because it just didn't sound that interesting from the summary. This movie is a heckuva lot more than the summary. As much as I love the movies of the early 1930s, I should have seen this twenty years ago. Highly recommended.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 25, 2016 19:31:34 GMT -5
Just watched Rio Lobo (1970). Great dialogues! And the ladies in that film just kick ass!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2016 19:38:14 GMT -5
Just watched Rio Lobo (1970). Great dialogues! And the ladies in that film just kick ass! I think that movie is just OK. Not one I've seen much. Definitely the worst of the 5 films that The Duke made with Howard Hawks.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 27, 2016 13:16:29 GMT -5
I watched Me and My Gal (1932) yesterday. Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett. I'd never seen it before. From the title, it doesn't really sound like it would be that interesting. It's on the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die list, and I've been having pretty good luck with movies from The List lately, so I thought I would give Me and My Gal a try. It was free on YouTube. And it's only 75 minutes long. What a pleasant surprise! It's an odd mix of humor, romance and gangster suspense. Spencer Tracy is a beat cop on the waterfront. He likes Joan Bennett, who works at a weird little diner on the pier. They're both wisecracking, tough-as-nails New Yorkers who hardly have a nice word to say to the other, even after they decide to get married. Spencer becomes a detective. Joan's just-married sister has a dirty little secret: her old boyfriend is the gangster Duke Cunningham, and she's hiding him in the attic. Henry B. Walthall is an old crippled veteran who communicates with sign language. It bounces along with a lot of fun dialogue and the occasional tense scene. My mere words can't do it justice. And my favorite bit player – George Chandler – is in it! He even gets a credit for a change!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 27, 2016 14:07:47 GMT -5
How can this 1957 movie leave me disappointed? It highlighted the dynamic duo of Mamie Van Doren and Marie Windsor It featured the young Anne Bancroft It starred former Tarzan Lex Barker It had Dan Blocker from Bonanza as a bartender It had a serial slasher on the loose It had a nasty paralyzed man in a wheelchair that you wished someone would smack around But somehow it did. And there was no girl in black stockings to boot. But Mamie was in a tight swimsuit
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 27, 2016 18:00:33 GMT -5
Maybe substituting Jayne Mansfied for Mamie van Doren would move this into the "guilty pleasure" column?
It's no shame to Ms. van Doren that she wasn't quite Jayne Mansfield.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2016 2:14:01 GMT -5
I just watched Fantastic Voyage tonight on TCM and it's probably one of the best movies in the 60's and I've enjoyed it so much that I was chuckling along seeing Raquel Welch in a role that I'm not used of seeing her in. She did a great job as Cora Peterson. Great acting all around with an impressive cast Stephen Boyd who played Grant, Edmond O'Brien as General Carter, and Donald Pleasence as Dr. Michaels that kind of makes things difficult for the crew who have one hour to remove the clot from Scientist Jan Benes and get out of there to be successful. I haven't seen this movie in 30 years and I'm glad that I had a chance to watch it tonight on TCM.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 28, 2016 9:56:43 GMT -5
I just watched Fantastic Voyage tonight on TCM and it's probably one of the best movies in the 60's and I've enjoyed it so much that I was chuckling along seeing Raquel Welch in a role that I'm not used of seeing her in. She did a great job as Cora Peterson. Great acting all around with an impressive cast Stephen Boyd who played Grant, Edmond O'Brien as General Carter, and Donald Pleasence as Dr. Michaels that kind of makes things difficult for the crew who have one hour to remove the clot from Scientist Jan Benes and get out of there to be successful. I haven't seen this movie in 30 years and I'm glad that I had a chance to watch it tonight on TCM. I noticed it was on when I deleted the DVR movie I had just finished, and I thought about watching it. Great movie! But I've seen it fairly recently, and I had just finished Hoop Dreams, which is three hours long, and I didn't feel like watching another movie right away. I read some Golden Age Human Torch instead.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 29, 2016 8:25:24 GMT -5
The wild geese, with Richard Burton, Roger Moore and Richard Harris.
Harh! That was fun! A real Boy's Adventure, in which grizzled old soldiers become mercenaries to help rescue an African president (a saint of a man) who is supposed to be dead but who in reality is kept in a jail!
The action is very 1970s-like: machine guns going bratatata and guys randomly falling down, with a few trampoline + fireworks grenade explosions. It wasn't yet the era of graphically depicted viscera spewing everywhere. It still works, though, and practical effects go a long way with me.
The politics is what makes the film so cool, though... We just loathe those fat cat politicians who strike deals behind closed doors and are ready to sacrifice their own agents when a better deal present itself.
The film is also kind of progressive for its time: the African president is a visionary, and I wouldn't be surprised if he had been based on Nelson Mandela; there's also a stereotypical gay character who proves to be not only sympathetic but very heroic. There was still a lot of ground to cover, socially speaking, but the seeds of a more liberal world were there.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2016 8:52:03 GMT -5
The Wild Geese is exactly what you have written here RR.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 29, 2016 9:15:36 GMT -5
Haven't posted lately reviews of classic films I've recently seen due to my own laziness as well as not wanting to make it into an automatic chore. But view them I do, just about every day. Instead, here's the batch I just picked up from the library that will keep me busy for over a week
First, a 5 movie Gary Cooper collection that includes-Design For Living (1933),Peter Ibbetson (1935), The General Died At Dawn (1936), Beau Geste (1939) and Lives Of A Bengal Lancer (1935)
Her Jungle Love (1938) Ray Milland, Dorothy Lamour
The Hour Of 13 (1952) Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams
How Sweet It Is (1968) James Garner, Debbie Reynolds
Heller In Pink Tights (1960) Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn
Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978) Barbara Eden, Pat Paulsen
Heaven Can Wait (1977) Warren Beatty, Julie Christie
Harper (1966) Paul Newman
Finally, a double-billed DVD of movies with the Three Stooges: Gold Raiders (1951) and Meet The Baron (1933) with Jimmy Durante
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 29, 2016 9:23:52 GMT -5
Haven't posted lately reviews of classic films I've recently seen due to my own laziness as well as not wanting to make it into an automatic chore. But view them I do, just about every day. Instead, here's the batch I just picked up from the library that will keep me busy for over a week Beau Geste (1939) and Lives Of A Bengal Lancer (1935) Excellent choices!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 29, 2016 9:35:44 GMT -5
Haven't posted lately reviews of classic films I've recently seen due to my own laziness as well as not wanting to make it into an automatic chore. But view them I do, just about every day. Instead, here's the batch I just picked up from the library that will keep me busy for over a week Beau Geste (1939) and Lives Of A Bengal Lancer (1935) Excellent choices! I watched the 1st Gary Cooper film from that collection so far, Design For Living, which co-starred Miriam Hopkins and Fredric March. It was released right before the Hayes Code took effect and man, it must have been controversial for it's time. Cooper and March both love Hopkins and they decide to make it a threesome and all live together. Then she marries one but has an affair with the other. Then she leaves both to shack up with Edward Everett Horton because she loves the way he narrates Aesop Fables. Yikes
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 29, 2016 12:23:42 GMT -5
Movie Trivia Question Harper Valley P.T.A. was a hit single in 1968 10 years later, a movie was based on the song and starred Barbara Eden In 1967 this song was a big hit by Bobbie Gentry 9 years later, a movie starring Robbie Benson was based on the song So, what are other instances of movies based on a hit song that came out much later? I'm not talking about movies based on concept albums like Pink Floyd's The Wall or The Who's Tommy and Quadrophenia. i believe Purple Rain by Prince was made in conjunction with a movie and anyway that song really didn't have a story attached to it. Michael Jackson's Thriller comes close but it wasn't a full-length feature film. Songs that are part of musicals that were adapted to film do not count as well I'm sure there are other examples that took the story from a hit single and made it to film
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 29, 2016 12:38:32 GMT -5
Ish Kabbible Going with a couple off the top of my head: Convoy (1978) based on the 1975 C.W. McCall "song." The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981) based on the 1973 Vicki Lawrence hit. Of course, Yellow Submarine and Alice's Restaurant. And the best of them all, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus Is Coming to Town!
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