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by Swithin
Today, 8:44 am
Forum: Games and Trivia
Topic: What actor/actress comes to mind?
Replies: 2795
Views: 149712

Re: What actor/actress comes to mind?

Frank Orth

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by Swithin
Yesterday, 9:05 pm
Forum: Games and Trivia
Topic: What actor/actress comes to mind?
Replies: 2795
Views: 149712

Re: What actor/actress comes to mind?

W.C. Fields (as The Great McGonigle in The Old Fashioned Way)

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by Swithin
Yesterday, 8:54 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project
Replies: 188
Views: 9309

Re: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project

Ten Favorites from 1948 The Big Clock Call Northside 777 Fort Apache Hamlet I Remember Mama The Naked City Scott of the Antarctic Spring in Park Lane (The most popular British movie of 1948, and an absolute joy.) State of the Union The Winslow Boy Special mention: The Creeper : for scaring the hell...
by Swithin
Yesterday, 1:25 pm
Forum: Games and Trivia
Topic: First Film that comes to mind...
Replies: 2964
Views: 160642

Re: First Film that comes to mind...

Klondike Annie (1936)

Next: Charisma
by Swithin
April 25th, 2024, 4:08 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project
Replies: 188
Views: 9309

Re: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project

Favorites of 1920-1923

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Indian Tomb
2 parts: Part I: The Mission of the Yogi; Part II: The Tiger of Bengal (German: Die Sendung des Yoghi; Der Tiger von Eschnapur). (One of my favorite silent films.)
Nosferatu
Orphans of the Storm
Salome
Way Down East
by Swithin
April 24th, 2024, 11:14 am
Forum: The People of Film
Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Replies: 2558
Views: 129428

Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES

TCM has been showing All Mine To Give every Christmas for years. Beautiful, touching film.i always try to watch whenever it's shown.Watched again last night, that makes at least 5 times. Rex Thompson who plays Robbie, played Tyrone Power's son in The Eddy Duchin Story a year before All Mine To Give...
by Swithin
April 22nd, 2024, 10:54 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 3363
Views: 180848

Re: I Just Watched...

:D Who else enjoyed the cheapjack Monogram WWII propaganda "thriller" I ESCAPED FROM THE GESTAPO? Dean Jagger (when he still had hair, but it was probably a rug) plays a forger unwittingly involved with a drab bunch of B-movie Nazi saboteurs in hard g "Los Angle-eez" headed by J...
by Swithin
April 22nd, 2024, 8:36 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project
Replies: 188
Views: 9309

Re: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project

A few favorites 2005 Brokeback Mountain Good Night and Good Luck Match Point Mrs. Henderson Presents Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont The New World 2016 Love & Friendship Manchester by the Sea (The Lobster would be on my list, but I hated the ending.) 2021 Belfast Benediction Coda The Dig Everybod...
by Swithin
April 22nd, 2024, 7:02 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project
Replies: 188
Views: 9309

Re: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project

1971 Favorites, in alphabetical order. Most of the big American movies were not among my favorites that year. The Blood on Satan’s Claw A Clockwork Orange Death in Venice The Devils Fiddler on the Roof Harold and Maude The Hospital Joe Hill The Sorrow and the Pity Sunday Bloody Sunday Worth mentioni...
by Swithin
April 21st, 2024, 9:35 am
Forum: Games and Trivia
Topic: First Film that comes to mind...
Replies: 2964
Views: 160642

Re: First Film that comes to mind...

The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948)

Next: Asian river
by Swithin
April 20th, 2024, 7:43 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project
Replies: 188
Views: 9309

Re: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project

Ten 1963 favorites in alphabetical order: 8 1/2 Billy Liar The Birds Blood Feast Carry On Cabby From Russia with Love Irma la Douce The Silence Tom Jones The Ugly American Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Special mention: Island of Love for Betty Bruce in her follow-up role to Tessie Tura. Quotes of t...
by Swithin
April 18th, 2024, 9:42 pm
Forum: Action and Adventure
Topic: Monkey Man and the Evolution of Dev Patel
Replies: 4
Views: 567

Re: Monkey Man and the Evolution of Dev Patel

Great review but TMI in my view. I doubt I would want to watch it, it's spoiled. It's rare that I pick on Swithin, he is worlds above me. And I am always intent on knowing as little as possible about a film, tabula rasa for me, if possible (rare). I may not know what's going on early, with some dif...
by Swithin
April 18th, 2024, 8:28 pm
Forum: Action and Adventure
Topic: Monkey Man and the Evolution of Dev Patel
Replies: 4
Views: 567

Monkey Man and the Evolution of Dev Patel

I saw Monkey Man this week. Although I had read a bit about it, I wasn't quite prepared for the violence. The level of blood and gore in the film would even impress Fuad Ramses! But it's more in the line of Bruce Lee. The film has been called a "gory coming out party for Patel." A skinny I...
by Swithin
April 18th, 2024, 4:53 pm
Forum: The People of Film
Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Replies: 2558
Views: 129428

Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES

That reminds me of a review I read about Jude Law's performance in the movie Wilde. Jude Law had been in a play (which I saw) called Les Parents Terribles , by Jean Cocteau, in which he has a nude scene. He then appeared nude in Wilde. In a review in the Spectator , the critic wrote (playing on a fa...
by Swithin
April 18th, 2024, 2:36 pm
Forum: The People of Film
Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Replies: 2558
Views: 129428

Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES

Indeed! Hubba hubba . . . He had a lovely nude scene in Entertaining Mr. Sloane, which I saw many years ago at the Cherry Lane Theatre. https://www.chisholm-poster.com/large/CL70851.jpg Maxwell Caufield must have enjoyed removing his clothes. On the DVD set for Dynasty II: The Colbys, he admitted i...