I Just Watched...

[Allhallowsday]

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A lot of Americans don't know that a Carousel song was adopted by an English football (soccer) club (Liverpool FC) and the fans sing it in unison. The song? You'll Never Walk Alone...

And recording of such is included on PINK FLOYD's album Meddle ...

[Detective Jim McLeod]

Journey Into Fear (1975) Youtube-4/10

An American engineer (Sam Waterston) doing a job in Turkey finds his life in danger.

A slow paced disappointing thriller with a good cast. I saw it for Vincent Price but it also has Zero Mostel, Yvette Mimieux, Shelley Winters, Stanley Holloway, Ian McShane and two former Bond villains in Joseph Wiseman (Dr. No) and Donald Pleasence (You Only Live Twice). Most are wasted but Price has a great death scene, almost worth seeing for that but not quite.

[Allhallowsday]

Maybe the best episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents starring CLAUDE RAINS ...The Death of Riabouchinska

[Bronxgirl48]

THE SERPENT OF THE NILE (1953)



Starring RHONDA FLEMING WILLIAM LUNDIGAN RAYMOND BURR MICHAEL ANSARA ...and JULIE NEWMAR !!! When Julie was brought into the "throne room" (she has no lines) painted GOLD ...I recognized her right away! As described in WONG FOO - truly statuesque!!!

WILLIAM CASTLE directed... (uh-oh) and it is LOW RENT. Deepo cheapo. REEL GAH - BAJ. Can't wait to see it again (with long term planning).

Did they show this on Rhonda Fleming Day? If so I missed it, darn! William Castle! Was Rhonda Cleopatra?

[Allhallowsday]

...THE SERPENT OF THE NILE (1953)


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Did they show this on Rhonda Fleming Day? If so I missed it, darn! William Castle! Was Rhonda Cleopatra?

Yes. Late, in the wee hours, sheer luck. It was so spectacularly B with good acting from the male leads, implausible and dead-scripted as it is, and RHONDA was featured in one off the rack Halloween costume Cleopatra after another. Spectookular! A treasure trove of Bad.

[laffite]

Father of My Children (2009) After watching I read the Netflix blurb. The first line is the Mother of all Spoilers. A crucial scene is given away, a scene that does not appear until halfway through the movie. An unconscionable reveal, totally unacceptable to any reasonable person. Luckily I did not read it first, the scene turned out to be one of the most jarring WTF scenes I have ever seen but it in a good sense. I had to put on pause to collect myself. Nothing sensational, in fact just the opposite, that's the beauty of it. The whole movie is like that. A family drama fraught with those elements hat make the genre so compelling. But in this case, a bit differently rendered. Any more detail than that is to say too much. IMO. Spoiler alerts are ignored for the most part anyway.

In the same vein (not in content but in form) is Celine (1992), not about the singer nor the 20th Century French author, rather about a young woman who is being treated by a nurse after suffering multiple traumas in a relative short time span. Conventional relaxation exercises and subsequent meditation help stave off suicidal tendencies and go far beyond the usual benefits, going where all meditators yearn to go while seeming to be out of reach from our Celine. These events are rendered in a way that would make Hollywood wince. Such a great opportunity to sensationalize, to really grab the audience. Not so here, to see the opposite of that is a breath of fresh air.

Both films seem to be intent on simple storytelling, bringing the extraordinary down to the mundane but not in a self-conscious way. There is nothing "experimental" by this. Just simple understatement that strives not for immediate effect but comes scintillatingly as afterthought.

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[Bronxgirl48]

...THE SERPENT OF THE NILE (1953)


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Did they show this on Rhonda Fleming Day? If so I missed it, darn! William Castle! Was Rhonda Cleopatra?

Yes. Late, in the wee hours, sheer luck. It was so spectacularly B with good acting from the male leads, implausible and dead-scripted as it is, and RHONDA was featured in one off the rack Halloween costume Cleopatra after another. Spectookular! A treasure trove of Bad.

Oh my gosh, allhallowsday, you make it sound positively irresistible! I'm crazy for the schlock! Drat, they'll never show this again I fear....

[scsu1975]

...THE SERPENT OF THE NILE (1953)


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Did they show this on Rhonda Fleming Day? If so I missed it, darn! William Castle! Was Rhonda Cleopatra?

Yes. Late, in the wee hours, sheer luck. It was so spectacularly B with good acting from the male leads, implausible and dead-scripted as it is, and RHONDA was featured in one off the rack Halloween costume Cleopatra after another. Spectookular! A treasure trove of Bad.

Oh my gosh, allhallowsday, you make it sound positively irresistible! I'm crazy for the schlock! Drat, they'll never show this again I fear....

You can watch it on YouTube.

[Allhallowsday]

...THE SERPENT OF THE NILE (1953)



Oh my gosh, allhallowsday, you make it sound positively irresistible! I'm crazy for the schlock! Drat, they'll never show this again I fear....

The best bad movie I've looked at maybe this year.
If you have a sweet-tooth for crap, it ranks... switch the "s"...pun intended!

[Belle]

"Count Five and Die", B&W, 1957 starring Jeffrey Hunter and Nigel Patrick.

The quality isn't very good and it didn't look Cinemascope to me; the aspect ratio was obviously squeezed for TV. It's a good film about WW2 and the Normandy landings - based on true events - with more twists than a small intestine!!

[Allhallowsday]

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1940) One of Hollywood's greatest achievements.

[Bronxgirl48]

Yes. Late, in the wee hours, sheer luck. It was so spectacularly B with good acting from the male leads, implausible and dead-scripted as it is, and RHONDA was featured in one off the rack Halloween costume Cleopatra after another. Spectookular! A treasure trove of Bad.

Oh my gosh, allhallowsday, you make it sound positively irresistible! I'm crazy for the schlock! Drat, they'll never show this again I fear....

You can watch it on YouTube.

Really? Oh my gosh, THANKS RICH!!!

[Bronxgirl48]

...THE SERPENT OF THE NILE (1953)



Oh my gosh, allhallowsday, you make it sound positively irresistible! I'm crazy for the schlock! Drat, they'll never show this again I fear....

The best bad movie I've looked at maybe this year.
If you have a sweet-tooth for crap, it ranks... switch the "s"...pun intended!

LOL I'm guessing William Lundigan is Antony and Raymond Burr plays the asp.

(thanks to Rich I will check it out on YouTube!)

[Allhallowsday]

...LOL I'm guessing William Lundigan is Antony and Raymond Burr plays the asp...

Nope. Wah-rong. I don't know exactly who LUNDIGAN is supposed to be, but RAYMOND BURR plays Marc Antony...
I had to watch that.

[Belle]

"Address Unknown", Director William Cameron Menzies, Cinematography Rudolph Mate starring Paul Lukas, Mady Christians. Excellent restoration.

Quite a gruelling film about Germany when Hitler came to power and the Jews. Made in 1944 no doubt as a propaganda vehicle. Recommended.