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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 8, 2017 23:17:36 GMT -5
Hoosier X, always wanted that last seen to be the giant bird flipping the claw at everyone as he sinks into the ocean. Which raises the question, do birds flip each other off by flipping themselves?
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 8, 2017 23:23:47 GMT -5
I love all of these! The first three films I've been watching since I was a kid - especially THEM and Tarantula which I've seen 10 or more times each. I saw The Black Scorpion a few months ago and found it very entertaining. Mara Corday! And also that bit where the kid hides in the platform that gets lowered into the Cave of the Giant Scorpions and gets chased around. I would have laughed SO HARD if he had been eaten. I've never seen The Giant Claw. It's starting to seem like a major omission. Check it out if you can. For monster movie fans, it's worth your time. Oh, yeah, forgot about Earth Versus The Spider and The Beginning of the End. Now, who's seen this flick from the early 70's: Night of the Lepus? OMG! I love The Night of the Lepus! If that really happened, you wouldn't scream as the rabbits came toward you. You would laugh and laugh as they bit your head off.
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Post by WestPhillyPunisher on Jan 9, 2017 4:17:39 GMT -5
I DVRed Meet Boston Blackie (1941) because Rochelle Hudson is in it, and she's one of my favorite obscure 1930s actresses. I've heard of Boston Blackie before (and also Boston Quackie) but I don't think I've ever seen a Boston Blackie movie before last night. If I had known Chester Morris was the lead, I might have made more of an effort to see one long ago. I tend to like him in those early 1930s movies I love so much. And it was a fun little 58-minute romp, with Rochelle Hudson as the girl he accidently kidnaps while escaping from murderers, but she joins up with him and helps him prove his innocence. Numerous scenes are set at a carnival, which is always good for a few points. What a coincidence! I had recently gotten hooked on listening to old school crime/detective radio shows from the 40's and 50's via an internet radio channel, and Boston Blackie was one of the shows I quickly came to enjoy! By the by, here's a list of the radio shows I've been listening to (in alphabetical order): Boston Blackie Broadway Is My Beat Bulldog Drummond Dangerous Assignment David Harding, Counter Spy Dragnet I Was A Communist For The FBI Let George Do It Michael Shayne Mr. & Mrs. North Nero Wolfe Nick Carter, Master Detective Night Beat Richard Diamond Sherlock Holmes The Adventures of Philip Marlowe The Adventures of Sam Spade The Adventures of The Falcon The Adventures of The Saint The Fat Man The Man Called X The Shadow The Whistler Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 9, 2017 9:32:46 GMT -5
I DVRed Meet Boston Blackie (1941) because Rochelle Hudson is in it, and she's one of my favorite obscure 1930s actresses. I've heard of Boston Blackie before (and also Boston Quackie) but I don't think I've ever seen a Boston Blackie movie before last night. If I had known Chester Morris was the lead, I might have made more of an effort to see one long ago. I tend to like him in those early 1930s movies I love so much. And it was a fun little 58-minute romp, with Rochelle Hudson as the girl he accidently kidnaps while escaping from murderers, but she joins up with him and helps him prove his innocence. Numerous scenes are set at a carnival, which is always good for a few points. What a coincidence! I had recently gotten hooked on listening to old school crime/detective radio shows from the 40's and 50's via an internet radio channel, and Boston Blackie was one of the shows I quickly came to enjoy! By the by, here's a list of the radio shows I've been listening to (in alphabetical order): Boston Blackie Broadway Is My Beat Bulldog Drummond Dangerous Assignment David Harding, Counter Spy Dragnet I Was A Communist For The FBI Let George Do It Michael Shayne Mr. & Mrs. North Nero Wolfe Nick Carter, Master Detective Night Beat Richard Diamond Sherlock Holmes The Adventures of Philip Marlowe The Adventures of Sam Spade The Adventures of The Falcon The Adventures of The Saint The Fat Man The Man Called X The Shadow The Whistler Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar It's been a while since I listened to old-time radio, but I used to be quite a fan. You have several listed that I've listened to pretty regularly at one time or another. Dragnet, Nightbeat, Marlowe, The Whistler (I love The Whistler!) and Johnny Dollar. Other favorites of mine - Gunsmoke, Fort Laramie, The Six-Shooter, Burns and Allen, Jack Benny, Have Gun Will Travel, Dimension X, Inner Sanctum. Based on your list, I would recommend Box 13, with Alan Ladd.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 9, 2017 11:16:00 GMT -5
Last night, I watched The Far Country (1955), with James Stewart, Ruth Roman and Walter Brennan. I've seen it before, but it's been a while. Stewart takes his cattle to Alaska to make a fortune selling beef to the gold miners near Dawson. He runs afoul of the local corrupt sheriff and his crime syndicate (which includes ol' Colonel Potter himself, Harry Morgan). (Jimmy Stewart's character is a bit of an ass and brings some of his misfortune on himself. It's pretty good. It's not my favorite of the films Anthony Mann and James Stewart made together - that would be Winchester '73 or The Naked Spur - but it's better than watchable. Ruth Roman and Corinne Calvet are both great!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2017 13:20:16 GMT -5
I just watched Bathing Beauty starring Esther Williams and Red Skelton today and I just find it so entertaining and it's a joyful movie to watch. It has everything, Comedy, Drama, Musical, and Romance. I just find the combo of Williams and Skelton very complimentary and they do work well together. I also enjoyed listening the music of Xavier Cugat, the dancing of Carmen Miranda, and the great water dance in the end of the movie of which the lovely ladies wore striking pink and green bathing suits. It was fun & entertaining to watch.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 9, 2017 13:25:31 GMT -5
Watched Psycho over the weekend. It was the first time my youngest son had seen it. He knew the twist, of course. But it was a great time watching a classic film.
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Post by WestPhillyPunisher on Jan 10, 2017 4:01:08 GMT -5
What a coincidence! I had recently gotten hooked on listening to old school crime/detective radio shows from the 40's and 50's via an internet radio channel, and Boston Blackie was one of the shows I quickly came to enjoy! By the by, here's a list of the radio shows I've been listening to (in alphabetical order): Boston Blackie Broadway Is My Beat Bulldog Drummond Dangerous Assignment David Harding, Counter Spy Dragnet I Was A Communist For The FBI Let George Do It Michael Shayne Mr. & Mrs. North Nero Wolfe Nick Carter, Master Detective Night Beat Richard Diamond Sherlock Holmes The Adventures of Philip Marlowe The Adventures of Sam Spade The Adventures of The Falcon The Adventures of The Saint The Fat Man The Man Called X The Shadow The Whistler Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar It's been a while since I listened to old-time radio, but I used to be quite a fan. You have several listed that I've listened to pretty regularly at one time or another. Dragnet, Nightbeat, Marlowe, The Whistler (I love The Whistler!) and Johnny Dollar. Other favorites of mine - Gunsmoke, Fort Laramie, The Six-Shooter, Burns and Allen, Jack Benny, Have Gun Will Travel, Dimension X, Inner Sanctum. Based on your list, I would recommend Box 13, with Alan Ladd. Cool! I'll be sure to check out Box 13! Thanks for the recommendation!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 10, 2017 9:56:26 GMT -5
I watched Ecstasy (1933) last night. I had seen it on the cable schedule, being shown by Cinemoi, and I decided to watch it. It's kind of famous in certain film buff circles because Hedy Lamarr runs around naked for a while after the horse runs off with her clothes while she's skinny dipping. Despite its notoriety, I don't think I've ever talked to anyone who's seen it, and I was under the impression that it's not such a great film. So I never went out of my way to see it. But there it was on Cinemoi, and I DVRed it and watched it yesterday morning, mostly because it was raining and I couldn't do my chores until later. But it's actually pretty good. I liked it a lot. It's certainly some interesting filmmaking. It was made in Czechoslovakia and, from a tiny bit of Internet research that may turn out to be specious, I learned that the Czech film industry was still in a rather primitive condition, and that's why Ecstasy is a bit of a weird silent/sound hybrid. There's not much dialogue. So several minutes go by, with people looking off into space and musing and looking out the window. There's no sound of footsteps or anything in the scenes, just music. And it seems a lot like a silent film. And then somebody talks (in German) and you hear what they are saying. Important sound effects, like the telephone or a gunshot, are heard, but not the horse running or the car engine. It's all dubbed. No one ever speaks during a close-up. All the dialogue is delivered from medium and long shots. So the film has a sort of dream-like quality. I enjoyed it quite a bit. I really like these silent/sound hybrids. Films like Beauty Prize (with Louise Brooks) or Hitchcock's Blackmail or Our Dancing Daughters (with Joan Crawford and Anita Page) are fun (for me), but they are also pretty good movies that are also interesting for the various ways they experiment with emerging film technology.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2017 10:24:58 GMT -5
Hoosier XI saw that Movie that featured a young Hedy and I was stunned by the photography and the visual effects that was pretty good at the time it was made. I did not expect to see her (Hedy Lamarr) to be naked at first because that alone kind of shocked me and spite that it was one of the better films of that era. When, you written it was silent/sound hybrids I didn't expect that and you were right on the nose about that. I saw this movie about 8 years ago at a friend's place and we've spent time talking about it.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 10, 2017 10:49:19 GMT -5
I knew I would be getting home kind of late so I hadn't planned on watching a movie last night. But then I saw that Female (1933) was listed on the TCM schedule, and as it's one of the key pre-Code Hollywood films I haven't seen and also as it's only a little over an hour long, I thought it was something I could fit into my schedule before going to bed. (And I kept dozing off at the end. I woke up and re-wound it back a couple of minutes three or four times. I was so close to the end at that point that I didn't want to just go to bed.) Ruth Chatterton (a big star in the early 1930s) is the top executive at an automobile manufacturing company. She's all-business and no-nonsense in the office. But sometimes she invites the handsome young employees to her home at night for a different kind of business - funny business. And the next day, it's business as usual and she's not interested in continuing any of these relationships past the first night. (And if one her boytoys gets out of hand, he gets sent to the Montreal office.) Quite shocking for 1933. It wouldn't have been released a year later. But then she meets George Brent - a real man! - and suddenly she wants to be a regular wife and cook his dinner and have lots of babies. I didn't much like the ending. But there's a lot of great scenes in the earlier part of the movie. Ruth Chatterton is like a hard-driving efficient machine, whether she's making marketing decisions or getting some big dumb young guy into bed. And the scene where she meets George Brent - at an urban shooting gallery that seems to be under an overpass - is really good. So it's worth seeing, if you like pre-Code Hollywood movies that are only an hour long. But I much prefer Baby Face or Red Headed Woman or something with Norma Shearer.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 11, 2017 11:10:07 GMT -5
Another rainy morning, so I watched Tangerine (2015), a movie shot entirely on a cell phone camera.
I heard of it because it's a recent addition to the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list, and I try to watch a few of the movies from that list every month.
It's only 87 minutes long and it's available on Netflix Instant Watch, so it was very easy to watch, pausing now and then to make breakfast or answer the phone or put the laundry in the dryer or whatever.
It's about a transsexual prostitute who has just gotten out of jail who goes back to the streets and finds out her boyfriend/pimp is cheating on her, setting her off on a Hollywood odyssey to find the pimp and the cis-woman he's sleeping with.
I laughed a lot. Part of my approval derives from the many years I lived in these neighborhoods.
Highly recommended, though your mileage may vary depending on the individual viewer's tolerance for Hollywood sex worker adventures.
And last night, I watched another movie from The List, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), which I liked, but I probably should have watched it when I was a little more alert. I dozed off and then went to bed and watched the last 45 minutes this morning (another rainy morning) and I didn't quite follow how Gary Oldman got to the mole (or moles). Still, it was pretty exciting for a movie about an old guy walking around London and asking questions. I'd love to see it on a big screen at some point.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 11, 2017 13:17:18 GMT -5
Another rainy morning and I noticed that Clerks (1994) is available on Netflix Instant Watch. It's only 90 minutes, it's also on the 1001 Movies list and I probably should have seen it a long time ago.
So I've watched about half of it and it's sporadically funny, but much of the time I'm finding it a bit of a chore. I did laugh out loud when the cigarette clerk and the video store clerk were bragging about who gets the dumbest questions from customers. The guy saying "OOOO! NAVY SEALS!" cracked me up.
Clerks is better than "The Widening Gyre." I'll give it that.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2017 19:35:59 GMT -5
The Green SlimeThe Screenplay of this Movie was written by Bill Finger who co-created Batman with Bob Kane did a great job maintaining a fast pace of this great sci-fi movie that came out in 1968. I haven't seen this movie over 20 years and I was delightfully entertained by the action, the drama, and the tension of this movie came about. It was duly noted that this movie is very retro, showcases beautiful women as nurses and the Doctor is no other than that Bond Girl Luciana Paluzzi in Thunderball. Main Stars in this Movie along with all the beautiful women on board this Space Station in a celebration of destroying that asteroid that threatened Earth. Both Robert Horton & Richard Jaeckel both Commanders of this mission to destroy the Monsters that invaded the Space Station and they had to blow it and get everyone out of there as quickly as possible and I just amazed how well it made and the Director a Japanese Man by the name of Kinji Fukasaku did a good job of keeping the pace up. Anyway, this is an exciting Movie to watch and I've enjoyed very much today.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 12, 2017 0:20:26 GMT -5
Playing this week at Cine Kabbible:
2 new DVD releases- Jason Bourne and Deepwater Horizon
Min And Bill (1930) Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery The Miami Story (1954) Barry Sullivan Murder He Says (1945) Fred MacMurray The Master Race (1944) George Coulouris The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996) Robert Duvall The Merry Widow (1952) Lana Turner Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) Tyrone Power, Alice Faye My Name Is Nobody (1973) Henry Fonda, Terence Hill This Boy's Life (1993) Robert DeNiro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio The Madwoman Of Chaillot (1969) Katherine Hepburn Mask (1985) Cher, Eric Stoltz, Sam Elliot Roadhouse (1989) Patrick Swayze One-Eyed Jacks (1961) Marlon Brando What's Love Got To Do With It? (1993) Angela Bassett, Lawrence Fishburne
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