I've never seen THE STRANGERS IN 7A. Trying to wrap my head around Andy Griffith and Ida Lupino as a couple. Thanks guys for all your ONE IS A LONELY NUMBER input. It did look like a tv movie of the era -- I forgot to state that. As for Spike Lee during the FACE IN A CROWD intro, he oddly repeated ...

Yeah, a plastic surgery bargain. Even factoring in inflation! Aggie probably waited till he turned around and bopped him on the head with his trumpet (or whatever it was) to stun him then shot him when he was down. Sounds like her style. No, no explanation was given how Agnes accomplished that. Esp...

Well Andy got out of trouble in Strangers 7A. The bank robbers who took over an apartment in his building were killed or captured. It seems Ida forgave Andy for picking up the young lady. It didn't mean that much as Andy never got past first base. All's well that ends well. There was one funny scene...

Yea, the supporting actors make the film. Note this was the best role for Clifton Young as the blackmailer. Warner signed him but he didn't get much work (he does have an uncredited role as a bum at the start of Treasures of the Sierra Madre). What a smarmy character! Also note worried actor is the...

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Next: A murderer who gets away with it.

Hibi wrote: ↑May 7th, 2024, 4:26 pm
Too hard to spell. Should've stuck with Smith. Yeah, Agnes didn't exactly sound desperate.

Smith isn't bad unless some wise guy cop grows suspicious. Lee is nice and simple.

Yeah, she sounded the way she sounded throughout the movie--snippy and sarcastic.

I saw OIALN when it was on TCM a year or so ago. It had a bit of a look of a TV movie, not that that's a major problem. Very emblematic of the early 1970s. Didn't white knight Markham turn out to be married? So maybe Janet Leigh had a point, at least to some degree. I'm watching The Strangers in 7A ...

Hibi wrote: ↑May 7th, 2024, 8:41 am
I, too, think it was an accident. She still had options left.

She was just too full of herself to commit suicide in my opinion.

The only problem with the name Linnell is you've got to figure out
how many n's and l's are going to be in it and stick to that number.

I like Dark Passage even though there are some implausibilities in the movie. Nicely done with a good cast of supporting actors--the cabby who doesn't know where to go for a good time but does know where to go for quickie plastic surgery, the rundown doctor who apparently knows his business. I would...

HoldenIsHere wrote: ↑May 6th, 2024, 2:30 pm
Yes, a less articulate Lonesome Rhodes with the physical presence of Jabba The Hut.

I wouldn't trust either one of them, but a fictional character is harmless.

Fedya wrote: ↑May 6th, 2024, 6:52 am
Wait until you see Fritz Lang's low-budget version, Secret Beyond the Door.

I've seen it a couple of times, though not recently. From what I remember the
Redgrave character makes Maxim de Winter seem totally normal. Replicas of
murder rooms. Red flag anyone. Get the hell out of there lady.

I hadn't seen Rebecca in a long time until it was on TCM a while back. It's a rather silly though fairly enjoyable as entertaining fluff. And suave George Sanders chowing down on a chicken leg. Both the leading men of Rebecca and Marnie are kind of jackasses. Larry goes to pieces at the least little...

Coincidentally, Return to Mayberry the 1986 TV movie was on METV this afternoon. IIRC it was a big hit when first shown. Not much of a plot, but it was fun to see the characters as they are almost 20 years later. I remember Andy in a few TV movies where he was a real mean s.o.b. and he was quite con...