WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
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I saw "Hell is a City" back in the summer and was very impressed with it. Often, old police movies fail to win me over, but this one was outstanding. It was really tough, and I found the ending very powerful.
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charliechaplinfan
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In Theaters
Coen's Bros remake of True Grit starring Jeff Bridges - I hope he's get an Oscar for best actor. He was incredible in this movie
He can't this year must be Colin Firth's year, I feel very strongly about that
I've given Hell is a City to my mother to watch, TV is awful and she's laid up,we don't have the same taste but she does like cop films and this is a good one.
It amused me that she watched The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit and absolutely loved it because it had Gregory Peck in it, didn't notice Jennifer Jones or Fredric March, only Gregory Peck. I watched the same movie a few months ago and I thought it was overlong and Peck didn't move me at all. Another example is that she finally watched it'sA Wonderful Life .............and hated it! How could she? Am I really related to her. We are very different still she's going to borrow more movies off me because they can't be any worse than what's on TV at the moment.
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JackFavell
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You and your mom are too funny, Alison!
I watched the beginning of Cavalcade, and thought what I saw was pretty good, ambitious for the time. I though Diana Wynyard obviously just came off the stage to do this movie...her reactions are way too big for the screen, almost laughable till you get used to her....she's never been a favorite with me though. Then I konked out just as the men went off to war...I think Clive Brook came back on leave once and that was the end for me...I'll try to watch the rest soon to compare with your review, Lynn. I LOVED Herbert Mundin - he was as natural as you would see someone act today, and very sympathetic, he really made the movie for me. It was fun seeing Una, and Merle Tottenham, Beryl Mercer and Tempe Piggott cackling it up, and gossiping like hens.
I watched the beginning of Cavalcade, and thought what I saw was pretty good, ambitious for the time. I though Diana Wynyard obviously just came off the stage to do this movie...her reactions are way too big for the screen, almost laughable till you get used to her....she's never been a favorite with me though. Then I konked out just as the men went off to war...I think Clive Brook came back on leave once and that was the end for me...I'll try to watch the rest soon to compare with your review, Lynn. I LOVED Herbert Mundin - he was as natural as you would see someone act today, and very sympathetic, he really made the movie for me. It was fun seeing Una, and Merle Tottenham, Beryl Mercer and Tempe Piggott cackling it up, and gossiping like hens.
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I haven't heard back from my mother yet, I'm going to dig out Cape Fear for her, she watched that the other night and did I know they'd changed it, instead of Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck she got 'that' Robert De Niro and some guy without any charisma.
Must remember no James Stewart, unless it's Vertigo, no Cary Grant, he thinks too much of himself. Clark Gable has false teeth, like her Dad. Oh, she likes a good murder, so Gaslight, but she doesn't like Boyer, too French, I Confess, no she doesn't like Montgomery Clift, he's too thin and ugly (does she know who he is?) John Wayne has bandy legs and a wig. Robert Redford's too short. Humphrey Bogart lisps. Marlon Brando mumbles and picks his nose. Fred Astaire has a wig on and Gene Kelly is too smug.
Remember this is only the men.
Paul Newman is acceptable, as is Clint Eastwood, Gregory Peck is lovely, Robert Mitchum too, James Mason is short but good. But her favorite and I've only one film with him in is Charles Bronson, the handsomest guy in the movies, followed by Jack Palance. When she announced that at the Christmas dinner table my father in law nearly choked on his pudding.
If you want me to do the women, just say.
Must remember no James Stewart, unless it's Vertigo, no Cary Grant, he thinks too much of himself. Clark Gable has false teeth, like her Dad. Oh, she likes a good murder, so Gaslight, but she doesn't like Boyer, too French, I Confess, no she doesn't like Montgomery Clift, he's too thin and ugly (does she know who he is?) John Wayne has bandy legs and a wig. Robert Redford's too short. Humphrey Bogart lisps. Marlon Brando mumbles and picks his nose. Fred Astaire has a wig on and Gene Kelly is too smug.
Remember this is only the men.
Paul Newman is acceptable, as is Clint Eastwood, Gregory Peck is lovely, Robert Mitchum too, James Mason is short but good. But her favorite and I've only one film with him in is Charles Bronson, the handsomest guy in the movies, followed by Jack Palance. When she announced that at the Christmas dinner table my father in law nearly choked on his pudding.
If you want me to do the women, just say.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself - Charlie Chaplin
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feaito
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Your mum is hilarious Alison. Thanks for sharing these tidbits with us..I guess she doesn't like "pretty" guys....so that leaves Bob Taylor and Ty Power completely out! What does she think of Lee Marvin?
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Bet she'd love getting a set of "The Nearly Complete Filmography of Timothy Carey"!
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She is funny. She does like Hitchcock movies, only ones she hasn't watched which is difficult to figure out because she never remembers a name of a film so you have to guess from an inaccurate plot line.
The description of It's A Wonderful Life was a movie with snow and Gary Cooper, that didn't help any only when we got down to the nitty gritty of the plot did I realise that it was It's A Wonderful Life. Well no she didn't like it and can't stand Gary Cooper, sorry make that James Stewart.
I could see her liking Lee Marvin. She likes Robbie Coltrane, thinks he's very sexy. And Columbo only she can't solve any of the mysteries because she always misses the beginnig that shows you how it happened.
She watched The Odd Couple and liked that, so Jack Lemmon is a good choice but not The Apartment because she doesn't like Shirley Maclaine and not Avanti because she wouldn't want to see him nude, neither did I for that matter.
She likes Jack Nicholson, thinks he's sexy and a good actor, can't say I'm with her there on finding him sexy.
I'll have to dig out some more movies, I'm thinking Duel in the Sun, Under Capricorn, I Confess, The Heiress, Gaslight, Cape Fear and The Wrong Man for starters.
The description of It's A Wonderful Life was a movie with snow and Gary Cooper, that didn't help any only when we got down to the nitty gritty of the plot did I realise that it was It's A Wonderful Life. Well no she didn't like it and can't stand Gary Cooper, sorry make that James Stewart.
I could see her liking Lee Marvin. She likes Robbie Coltrane, thinks he's very sexy. And Columbo only she can't solve any of the mysteries because she always misses the beginnig that shows you how it happened.
She watched The Odd Couple and liked that, so Jack Lemmon is a good choice but not The Apartment because she doesn't like Shirley Maclaine and not Avanti because she wouldn't want to see him nude, neither did I for that matter.
She likes Jack Nicholson, thinks he's sexy and a good actor, can't say I'm with her there on finding him sexy.
I'll have to dig out some more movies, I'm thinking Duel in the Sun, Under Capricorn, I Confess, The Heiress, Gaslight, Cape Fear and The Wrong Man for starters.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself - Charlie Chaplin
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The movies I've watched today were all a type of courtroom drama.
The first The Winslow Boy starring Robert Donat and Margaret Leighton was a lovely drama about a young boy who got thrown out of naval school for a crime he said he didn't commit. He has no right of appeal, his father incensed and a trfile stubborn takes things to the top, the absolute top, his case gets heard in the House of Commons to get the right to challenge that Admiralty ie the crown. The barrister who takes on the job is played superbly by Robert Donat, the sister of the accused, no fan of the barrister is ultimately won around when she discovers the sacrifice he has made. I'd never noticed it before, perhaps it's in the voice, I could hear Colin Firth in his tones. Robert Donat is an actor who is consistently good in everything I've seen him in. Even if winning the Oscar made Clark Gable lose for Rhett Butler.
Ivy Joan Fontaine is a duplicitious wife, pretending to love both her husband and lover but abandoning the lover when a better man comes along in the form of Herbert Marshall, he's attracted to her but won't act because she is married so she plots her husbands murder and frames her ex lover. Joan's never looked lovely and it's so hard to believe her as a bad woman, she's played so many sweeties, I found her fascinating.
The Wrong Man a true story from Alfred Hitchcock, starring Henry Fonda, Vera Miles and Anthony Quayle. Henry Fonda is a man accused of armed robeery and wrongly identified by numerous people. Hitchcock and Fonda build the man's absolute desperation and humiliation as he's crowded in with common criminals and sent to jail. Lovely scenes filmed in the Stork Club and out and about in New York city, I find the lesser Hitchcock's as fascinating as the more well known ones.
The first The Winslow Boy starring Robert Donat and Margaret Leighton was a lovely drama about a young boy who got thrown out of naval school for a crime he said he didn't commit. He has no right of appeal, his father incensed and a trfile stubborn takes things to the top, the absolute top, his case gets heard in the House of Commons to get the right to challenge that Admiralty ie the crown. The barrister who takes on the job is played superbly by Robert Donat, the sister of the accused, no fan of the barrister is ultimately won around when she discovers the sacrifice he has made. I'd never noticed it before, perhaps it's in the voice, I could hear Colin Firth in his tones. Robert Donat is an actor who is consistently good in everything I've seen him in. Even if winning the Oscar made Clark Gable lose for Rhett Butler.
Ivy Joan Fontaine is a duplicitious wife, pretending to love both her husband and lover but abandoning the lover when a better man comes along in the form of Herbert Marshall, he's attracted to her but won't act because she is married so she plots her husbands murder and frames her ex lover. Joan's never looked lovely and it's so hard to believe her as a bad woman, she's played so many sweeties, I found her fascinating.
The Wrong Man a true story from Alfred Hitchcock, starring Henry Fonda, Vera Miles and Anthony Quayle. Henry Fonda is a man accused of armed robeery and wrongly identified by numerous people. Hitchcock and Fonda build the man's absolute desperation and humiliation as he's crowded in with common criminals and sent to jail. Lovely scenes filmed in the Stork Club and out and about in New York city, I find the lesser Hitchcock's as fascinating as the more well known ones.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself - Charlie Chaplin
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feaito
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Ivy is very enjoyable drama...Have you seen "The Lost Moment" Ali?
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Alison, tell us about the women your mum doesn't like...or does, either is going to be hilarious..
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JackFavell
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Your mum is a riot - she should get together with Bronxgirl's mum. Hilarious!
I totally see a connection between Donat and Firth.... I like them both so much!
I totally see a connection between Donat and Firth.... I like them both so much!
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Not yet but I will.feaito wrote:Ivy is very enjoyable drama...Have you seen "The Lost Moment" Ali?
Mum likes Bette Davis, period. Dad hates Bette Davis. Dad loves James Cagney, Mum hates James Cagney more tha any other actor that's ever been born. She's like to give him a big slap in the chops. I like James Cagney, I'm cool about Bette Davis,I take after Dad.
She doesn't like Elizabeth Taylor, can't stand Marilyn Monroe, thinks Audrey Hepburn is awful, Katharine Hepburn is affected, Ingrid Bergman's OK, Kim Novak likes women (not politically correct and something I never knew) Ava Gardner married Frank Sinatra, say no more, Judy Garland is awful but she's OK in A Star is Born but James Mason is better. Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich are too manly both in voice and appearance. Joan Crawford will never do, she's also manly. Jennifer Jones is also pretty awful.
I can't win.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself - Charlie Chaplin
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My goodness! Are there any other female stars she likes - Susan Hayward maybe? Vanessa Redgrave? I think those are the only two NOT mentioned. Hee hee!
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Yesterday I saw Robert Z. Leonard's "B.F.'s Daughter" (1948) retitled in UK as "Polly Fulton", which is based upon a J.P. Marquand novel and I have no doubt that it's not a very good film at all and I was left with mixed feelings after watching it. The film could have been great, but it surely needed a different director to tackle the task and a better script perhaps? I'm no expert... First of all I felt that Barbara Stanwyck (who is an absolute favorite of mine) was too old for the role of Polly -and lacked her usual punch and authority- and so was Van Heflin- nothwithstanding their talents as actors.
Another thing that annoyed me is that the film is supposedly set in 1932 (when it begins) but the costumes and settings are not faitfhful to that year's fashions and mores. Richard Hart (looking a lot like a young Laurence Olivier) plays Stanwyck's fiancé and he's good and gives a fine performance. Charles Coburn is very good (IMO) as self-made industrialist B.F. Fulton; Margaret Lindsay -loved her here, although she was also old for her role- with her husky voice and attractiveness won me and Keenan Wynn as the cynical Ainsley was rightly repellent.
Maybe there were also some censorship problems (due to the subject of the clashing socialist ideals of Van Heflin's character with the conservative-right wing ideas of Coburn et al), but this is a flawed picture with a great cast.
Another thing that annoyed me is that the film is supposedly set in 1932 (when it begins) but the costumes and settings are not faitfhful to that year's fashions and mores. Richard Hart (looking a lot like a young Laurence Olivier) plays Stanwyck's fiancé and he's good and gives a fine performance. Charles Coburn is very good (IMO) as self-made industrialist B.F. Fulton; Margaret Lindsay -loved her here, although she was also old for her role- with her husky voice and attractiveness won me and Keenan Wynn as the cynical Ainsley was rightly repellent.
Maybe there were also some censorship problems (due to the subject of the clashing socialist ideals of Van Heflin's character with the conservative-right wing ideas of Coburn et al), but this is a flawed picture with a great cast.