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Post by Rob Allen on May 8, 2018 11:38:25 GMT -5
Saturday thanks to GritTv I watched a nice Film Noir Western starring Robert Mitchum, Robert Preston and Walter Brennan and Barbara Bel Geddes (mama Ewing from Dallas) in a great black and white classic. Is it just me or does Mitchum fit the western (and war) to a T?!? His quiet, gruff, broken down, grizzled face exudes a depth and emotion that you can almost feel coming from the screen. Preston as the slick and smooth cattle owner with a plan to get rich and swindle the army/government is wonderful. A really solid story and very stunning cinematography which helps it stand out from the rest of the average westerns of the time. Recommended watching if you ever have the opportunity! Sounds good! What's the title of the movie?
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Post by brutalis on May 8, 2018 13:40:59 GMT -5
OOPS! Forgot to put in the title: Blood on the Moon! From 1948.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 8, 2018 17:38:31 GMT -5
OOPS! Forgot to put in the title: Blood on the Moon! From 1948. Thanks! If a saw a new movie with that title, I'd assume it was a science-fiction murder mystery.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2018 14:13:18 GMT -5
Guns of Navarone It's had an all-star cast, and one of the best adventure films ever made -- one of my favorites and I've haven't seen this for a long time; maybe 12 to 18 years. The scene that had the most impact is when Miller (played by David Niven) explained to everyone that his explosive devices that he planning on using has been ruined by a traitor that came on scene and he figured out who that person is ... Anna. Miller carefully deduces that she was responsible for everything and felt that someone has to take the responsibility to have her shot -- and that's person is Anna -- she supposed to be brutally tortured by the NAZI's and her back was clean and unhurt. Anna here, played Gia Scala tried her best to explain but no luck to get out of it; and somebody has to take the responsibility of killing her and that's was the job that no one wants to do. Then Mallory ... played by Gregory Peck took out his pistol ... and then without hesitation ... Maria here played by Irene Papas took her gun and shot her; beaten Mallory and one of Mallory's men checked on Anna's condition and found her dead. They all left and that's scene one of the most powerful images in my mind that in wartime many men and women has to make the decisions of who lives and die and this adventure showcase that and then some. I consider this film is one of Peck's best movies and I felt that both David Niven and Anthony Quinn were good and gave solid performance and the performance of Anthony Quayle as Major Roy Franklin was enduring and respectable. It was on TCM this morning and I wanted to watch it so bad ... and glad that I did. The Trailer of this movie!
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2018 18:07:55 GMT -5
Watched Ruthless People for the 2nd time in a year -- always a laugh riot and one of my funniest films that I've liked so well.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 18, 2018 11:25:09 GMT -5
I've been kind of busy and not leaving comments about the movies I watch. And I'm not watching as many movies lately. However I did see one I thought I should take the time to mention because it's a rare Bela Lugosi movie and it was 58 minutes and SO WACKY! It was Postal Inspector (1936)! With Ricardo Cortez! Cortez was the first person to play Philip Marlowe onscreen in the first version of The Maltese Falcon in 1931. (This is the one where Dwight Frye plays the Elisha Cook Jr role.) I see him from time to time in old movies (like The Walking Dead with Boris Karloff) and he's always great. He plays the postal inspector! The movie is mostly a promotional film for the post office with lots of weird little subplots about all the things the post office does. Eventually a plot develops. A night club owner and his thugs rob the mails to get at $3 million in old paper currency that is being taken to the treasury for disposal. The robbery and the big finish take place in the last ten minutes. And there's been a flood! So the final chase involves motorboats rushing down city streets flooded with ten feet of water! Bela Lugosi is the sinister night club owner. I love the way he takes every role so seriously! (It was a pretty bad print. It looked like it was filmed through a transparent shower curtain and the film was transported in somebody's pockets after it was developed.) And Hattie McDaniel is in it! She's the maid of the singer at the night club. There's a scene where the singer is in the shower, practicing the song for her debut at Lugosi's night club, and Hattie is nearby and singing a few verses here and there. (You hear the song three times in the movie; it's like the REAL reason for the movie was to promote the song. And it's really dumb song.) It's not a must-see classic but it has more than enough amusing moments that I thoroughly enjoyed the 58 minutes that I put into it.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 18, 2018 14:16:48 GMT -5
@mechagodzilla, I've seen Guns of Navarone a couple of times, but to be honest, it's been a while, and I'd forgotten not only that there was a traitor, but also which character it was.
Next time, could you either just tease the plot twists, or at least put up a SPOILER warning?
Thanks, my friend.
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Post by brutalis on May 18, 2018 15:03:50 GMT -5
Guns of Navarone Just picked this up about 2 weeks ago from Wal-Mart on DVD for $5 along with The Eagle has Landed for $7.50. What a steal! Great movies. Like @mechagodzilla I haven't seen this one in quite a while so really looking forward to making a day of it watching both movies in a few weeks.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2018 15:47:47 GMT -5
@mechagodzilla, I've seen Guns of Navarone a couple of times, but to be honest, it's been a while, and I'd forgotten not only that there was a traitor, but also which character it was. Next time, could you either just tease the plot twists, or at least put up a SPOILER warning? Thanks, my friend. To be brutally honest here -- I'm not a fan of Spoilers at all. But, my mind is set against using Spoilers and all that. I rather tell the movie as it is. Sorry. I hope you understand how I feel about it. Respectfully Submitted, Mecha.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 19, 2018 0:03:44 GMT -5
The movie (Guns of Navarone) changed gender of a couple of characters, to the two women. Miller was also supposed to be an American. Richard Harris is in an early film role as the Australian (!!!) bomber squadron leader, seen at the beginning.
Director J Lee Thompson made his Hollywood rep, here, and would go on to direct Taras Balba and Kings of the Sun (with Yul Brynner), the original Cape Fear, MacKenna's Gold, Conquest of and Battle for the Planet of the Apes, the excellent crime thriller St Ives (one of Charles Bronson's better films) as well as some of Bronson's not so great films and the King Solomon's Mines remake, with Richard Chamberlain.
St Ives is one to catch. Bronson is a crime reporter, who ends up hired by a criminal mastermind to help him retrieve diaries that detail plans for past and future crimes. Cast includes John Houseman, Maximilian Schell, Jacqueline Bisset, and Harry Gardino.
The sequel, Force 10 From Navarone isn't a classic; but, I enjoy it (mostly for Robert Shaw and Edward Fox). Harrison Ford is pretty wooden in it. Fairly exciting action film, if nothing else.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2018 9:59:55 GMT -5
The movie (Guns of Navarone) changed gender of a couple of characters, to the two women. Miller was also supposed to be an American. Richard Harris is in an early film role as the Australian (!!!) bomber squadron leader, seen at the beginning. Director J Lee Thompson made his Hollywood rep, here, and would go on to direct Taras Balba and Kings of the Sun (with Yul Brynner), the original Cape Fear, MacKenna's Gold, Conquest of and Battle for the Planet of the Apes, the excellent crime thriller St Ives (one of Charles Bronson's better films) as well as some of Bronson's not so great films and the King Solomon's Mines remake, with Richard Chamberlain. St Ives is one to catch. Bronson is a crime reporter, who ends up hired by a criminal mastermind to help him retrieve diaries that detail plans for past and future crimes. Cast includes John Houseman, Maximilian Schell, Jacqueline Bisset, and Harry Gardino. The sequel, Force 10 From Navarone isn't a classic; but, I enjoy it (mostly for Robert Shaw and Edward Fox). Harrison Ford is pretty wooden in it. Fairly exciting action film, if nothing else. I agree with your views on Force 10 From Navarone ... it's interesting to see Richard Kiel and Barbara Bach in that movie as well ... a year from Roger Moore's Spy Who Loved Me Film in 1977.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2018 6:51:25 GMT -5
Watched on TCM ... Operation Crossbow and Twelve O'Clock (still running) High and enjoyed them very much. I slept in the afternoon and early evening so that I can watch these films without using my DVR. I haven't seen these movies for a very long time. Both are excellent.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 26, 2018 19:39:38 GMT -5
Watched on TCM ... Operation Crossbow and Twelve O'Clock (still running) High and enjoyed them very much. I slept in the afternoon and early evening so that I can watch these films without using my DVR. I haven't seen these movies for a very long time. Both are excellent. Operation Crossbow is one you don't hear much about, when classic movies are discussed. It is one of the lesser known war movies of its day, with Sophia Loren as the biggest name, and George Peppard in the lead. Good espionage thriller/wartime action film, though, with an exciting climax and some good tension before. Twelve O'Clock High is a masterpiece and one of the best films about leadership you will ever find. The flight scenes are first rate and all of the actors, especially Dean Jagger and Gregory Peck, really give it their all. A great one that isn't as well known in the US as in the UK is the Dam Busters, with Richard Todd, based on the bombing raid on the dams in the Ruhr and Eder Valleys. Richard Todd is Wing Commander Guy Gibson, who led the raid and Michael redgrave is Barnes Wallis, the engineer and scientist who developed the "bouncing bomb" used by the RAF, which skipped along the surface of the water,to exploe at the base of the dam. It's an excellent film that details the scientific and engineering efforts that created the bombs, the training of the air crews to carry out the raid, and the mission itself. The attack on the dam is one of the templates used (right down to dialogue) for the Death Star trench attack, in the original Star Wars. Actor Richard Todd was a veteran, though he was a paratrooper, not a pilot. He was part of the Pegasus Bridge glider assault, at Normandy, and later played his commanding officer, Maj. John Howard, in The Longest Day. Todd was part of the reinforcement drop, that met up with Howard's assault unit, which carried out the coup de maine at the bridge.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2018 20:09:53 GMT -5
Watched on TCM ... Operation Crossbow and Twelve O'Clock (still running) High and enjoyed them very much. I slept in the afternoon and early evening so that I can watch these films without using my DVR. I haven't seen these movies for a very long time. Both are excellent. Operation Crossbow is one you don't hear much about, when classic movies are discussed. It is one of the lesser known war movies of its day, with Sophia Loren as the biggest name, and George Peppard in the lead. Good espionage thriller/wartime action film, though, with an exciting climax and some good tension before. Twelve O'Clock High is a masterpiece and one of the best films about leadership you will ever find. The flight scenes are first rate and all of the actors, especially Dean Jagger and Gregory Peck, really give it their all. A great one that isn't as well known in the US as in the UK is the Dam Busters, with Richard Todd, based on the bombing raid on the dams in the Ruhr and Eder Valleys. Richard Todd is Wing Commander Guy Gibson, who led the raid and Michael redgrave is Barnes Wallis, the engineer and scientist who developed the "bouncing bomb" used by the RAF, which skipped along the surface of the water,to exploe at the base of the dam. It's an excellent film that details the scientific and engineering efforts that created the bombs, the training of the air crews to carry out the raid, and the mission itself. The attack on the dam is one of the templates used (right down to dialogue) for the Death Star trench attack, in the original Star Wars. Actor Richard Todd was a veteran, though he was a paratrooper, not a pilot. He was part of the Pegasus Bridge glider assault, at Normandy, and later played his commanding officer, Maj. John Howard, in The Longest Day. Todd was part of the reinforcement drop, that met up with Howard's assault unit, which carried out the coup de maine at the bridge. I'm a huge Dam Busters Film fan ... Loved that film very much indeed.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2018 9:20:18 GMT -5
I was watching The Wrecking Crew last night (last of the Dean Martin's Matt Helm Movies) and in the opening credits it's listed Bruce Lee as the Karate Instructor. I was stunned to learned this by accident.
Here's the You Tube working with Sharon Tate and Dean Martin ... and Nancy Kwan as Yu-Rang.
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