knitwit45 wrote: Are there any particular actors or directors, whose name alone will prompt you to watch a movie?

Greta Garbo. Jean Harlow. Barbara Stanwyck. Dirk Bogarde.

As for directors: Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Joseph H. Lewis, Jacques Tourneur.

Speaking of Red Dust – I loved Mary Astor in that movie. Jean Harlow had the plum role, but Astor still gave a memorable performance. Mary Astor gets a lot of criticism for her role in The Maltese Falcon , although personally I thought her performance was great, as long as you don’t have the expecta...

MissGoddess wrote:Of Jean's pre-codes, I actually prefer Red Dust.Miss G

Red Dust is fantastic. And unlike Red Headed Woman, she gets to play a character who is both a Bad Girl and a very sympathetic and likeable character.

Dewey1960 wrote:Yeah, Baby Face.

I think I'd go for Red Headed Woman, purely because it has a more uncompromising ending.

They're two of my favourite ever performances. I just don't think I could decide which one I prefer!

<i>The Mysterious Lady</i> is one of the three movies in the TCM Garbo silent movie package that is also included in the Garbo Signature Collection. Made in 1928, <i>The Mysterious Lady</i> is a combination spy thriller and romance. And it’s a fabulous film! The story concerns an Austrian officer in...

moirafinnie wrote: Unfortunately, doom, me lad, this MGM production doesn't seem to be readily available here in the states on vhs/dvd.

It would be nice to see more B-movies released in boxed sets.

moirafinnie wrote:
Unfortunately, doom, me lad, this MGM production doesn't seem to be readily available here in the states on vhs/dvd. .

It was shown here on cable. On TCM I think.

A brief description of <i>Cry of the Hunted</i>, made in 1953, might lead you to expect a film along the lines of <i>The Fugitive</i>, with an obsessed cop hunting down a desperate escaped convict. In fact this movie is nothing like that. It’s more of a journey into a personal heart of darkness for ...

Number 17 is a 1932 thriller that is generally regarded as one of Hitchcock’s worst films. Having watched it I don’t really understand why it has such a poor reputation. It has some rough spots, and some of the acting is quite poor, but it has quite a bit going for it as well. I can’t help wonderin...

Much as I love FALCON (its one of my favorite films ever), its primary (and possibly only) weakness is the score; the music is often bright and overly orchestrated when it should be moody and dark, rendering the film somewhat less than it could have been with respect to its standing as classic noir...

We sometimes overlook the very important part that music plays in movies. Atmosphere is all-important, and music can play a critical role in establishing atmosphere. So, who are your favourite composers of film music? What classic movies use music most effectively? Are there any examples of movies t...

benwhowell wrote:Nicolas Roeg did the cinematography for a brilliant '60's science fiction film-Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451."

I actually loved that movie. I hated it the first time I saw it, but after seeing it a few times I think Truffaut was absolutely right in the way he approached it.

So what do you think of Loretta Young? I'm really only familar with her very early films, such as Employees' Entrance (with that delightful cad Warren William) and Midnight Mary. Most recently I saw her in DeMille's The Crusades. Do you think she was any good as an actress?

Lisbeth Movin is extraordinary in Day of Wrath. A great, great movie.