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Speaking or Orson wells this is one of my favorites

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Any Phillip Marlowe movie rocks. Film Noir is the best

 

I saw that movie. I was not inspired. I didn't even realize it was a Philip Marlowe film so I carried nothing with me into the story except trying to understand it.
I guess I was too dumb. I didn't understand it. There was a commentary too of some sort, but it was about how Welles came to direct it and Tallullah to appear.
That was a tough era for films. They couldn't get as dirty as they wanted to be but threw off some of the tight ethics that made earlier films coherent and compact.

 

It wasnt. I just threw in Marlowe

 

That's a relief.

 

Wow! Never heard of that before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Harry_Lime



In truth, I would have preferred to see a sequel with Harry "escaping" Holly Martins's bullet through a bribe or some other scheme. After all they were the best of friends and if you were old like me you would know that the code was that you stuck up for your friends no matter what.

 

Speaking of harry here is another of my favorites

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The code of films back then required that the villain die or get arrested at the end, otherwise that could have gone on for years with Cotten tracking him down in Argentina with the NAZIs, Israel with the PLO and Cuba with the Castros, then finally catching him at Niagara Falls with help from Marilyn Monroe and the 3 Stooges!
Let's do that now!

 

Recall that they never actually produced Harry's body. That's why to me he never actually died and I wish someone had written a sequel.

 

A big Giallo fan here!

 

Black Narcissus is a must!
Stunning cinematography and three-strip technicolor.
Lots of psycho-sexual suspense.

http://criterioncollection.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html

 

You want classic movies? I got your classic Movies.Here's one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDflcfG7HK0

 

...One of the best Western's out there...This is a classic scene.
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Deal!


You partner with Marilyn Monroe.

I shall partner with Jayne Mansfield.



Moe to partner with Lorna Gray

Larry to partner with Mary Ainslee

Shemp to partner with Christine McIntyre

Curly to partner with Beatrice Curtis






After we solve this mystery we shall take over the world!

 

I can't say you're the best casting director but if you can finance the film I'll write the script, direct and play Larry.

 

I just got word that Judy Canova volunteered to write the script:







As for the producer, let's ask Doris Duke if she is willing to finance it.

If so, then we are off to take over the world!

 

I'm afraid I don't know those people. Canova was a sculptor who immortalized the Bonaparte sister. David Duke came in third in the 1992 Republican primaries and Patty Duke just died. Doris Day might want to do one more movie before she dies but she was never terribly rich.

 

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Judy Canova at her best.

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As for Doris, well she wasn't the most pleasant person anywhere and was rather hesitant to part with the money her wealthy tobacco producing daddy left her. But you use your charm and wit in order to con ... woops, to convince her that she should finance our honorable endeavor.

 

One of my very favorite classic films is 1939's Ninotchka! The trailer exclaims, "Garbo Laughs!" And laugh she does! Along with the great Greta Garbo the film stars Melvyn Douglas and Ina Clair. Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart and Alexander Granach add to the comedy rounding out the main cast as the three bumbling 'Russian Comrades' sent sell 'the Grand Duchesses jewels'.

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I'd dare say that this qualifies about now...

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But if that's not good enough...

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My favorite classic film of all time is The Grapes of Wrath. Famed film historian Leslie Halliwell called it "a poem of a film". He was right.

 

Why cant I find Beemans anymore? Or Clove or Blackjack for that matter?...

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My favorite political movies, with a shortened review from Rotten Tomatoes:

1. Children of Men (2006):

It's a gray place of desolation and terrorist bombs, Britain does soldier on - at a cost. Burned-out revolutionary Theo Faron (Clive Owen) is recruited by his ex-wife (Julianne Moore) to transport an illegal alien named Kee (Claire-Hope A(*)(*)(*)(*)ey) to the coast.

Violence, treachery and oppression await, along with another brilliant Michael Caine performance.
Children of Men is so boldly told, so thought out, so infused with the joy of filmmaking, that it's absolutely exhilarating.

If you love science-fiction - real science-fiction, not science-fiction as outer space Western or recycled myth or slimy creature-feature - this is your film. It's the best of its kind since Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys, with which it shares urgent, thrumming life, a pure zeal for exploring what's possible in a strange world so fully imagined. It would be a mistake, though, to consign this to the science-fiction ghetto, so here goes: If you love film, this is your film.

From a longer review by matt.soergel@jacksonville.com.


2. Sunshine (2007):

To assist in building credence in this narrative suggestion, Boyle refers to some of the finest science fiction films of our time for influence – notably, Kubrick’s “2001: A Spacey Odyssey,” Tarkovsky’s “Solaris” and Scott’s “Alien,” all of which permeate from the movie’s distinctive sense of style and pacing. Like those directors, he seems to find more resonance in the quiet reverberation of images rather than lofty or explosive action, which enriches the quality of this story.

The voice of the Icarus’ computer does a good job of channeling the nonchalant forwardness of Hal 9000 without directly ripping it off, even though its knowledge of the rules and boundaries of its reality are sometimes alarmingly insightful.

Actions are not staged so traditionally that they emerge as clichés, and more formulaic approaches are done with such distinctive energy that the movie warrants their usage. By the end, there is no doubt that what we have seen is any less than an effective representation of this bleak and solemn human reality, and that is clearly enough for it to hold a resounding power over our blistered imaginations.

from a longer review by DAVID KEYES


3. Brubaker (1980):

Based on an infamous real-life case in 1960s Arkansas, Brubaker sends Robert Redford's Henry Brubaker undercover as an inmate to expose the brutality and corruption that have turned Wakefield prison farm into a cruel gulag. After witnessing first-hand the corruption, he reveals himself to the administrators as the new warden there to scoop out the rot. The revelation places Redford's tough reformer squarely against the deeply entrenched and powerful good-old-boy network that lines pockets at the expense of prisoners' humanity.

Brubaker cuts into its subject with bold, broad strokes, but as prison dramas go this unsubtle vivisection is one of the greats. The cast includes Morgan Freeman, M. Emmet Walsh, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Wilford Brimley, David Keith, and Murray Hamilton.

The director of record was Rosenberg, and the screenplay by W.D. Richter and Arthur A. Ross was up for an Oscar.

from a longer review byMark Bourne


4. Back to the Future (1985):

Director Bob Zemeckis ("Romancing the Stone") and his screenwriting partner, Bob Gale, have inverted elements of "It's a Wonderful Life," "The Time Machine," 1950's sitcoms, and the Oedipus complex. The result is pure nutty fun.

Libyan nationalists involved in the theft of plutonium. Only they don't sell plutonium in 1955, where gasoline is 19 cents a gallon and it's still possible to get your windshield cleaned and oil checked without asking.

Back to the Future amusingly explores that old science- fiction saw: If you could travel back in time, could you alter the outcome of events? What other changes would you risk making? In "It's a Wonderful Life," Jimmy Stewart got a chance to see what would happen if he'd never been born, the complex chain of circumstances that would overtake his family and friends.

Marty McFly, on the other hand, is placed in a situation where he apparently has to meddle to make sure to make sure that he will be born.

The answers are hip and clever, and if they trade heavily on a mind-boggling series of coincidences, that's part of the joke.

Zemeckis and Gale, the gifted satirists who collaborated on "Used Cars," have cannily chosen the time periods in "Back to the Future," which are funny as much for their similarities (political and materalistic) as their contrasts (music, fashions, language).

Though he takes enough time to establish emotionally satisfying relationships between Marty, his young parents, and Doc Brown, Zemeckis employs the kind of precision pacing and state-of-the-arts special effects that characterize Spielberg's better efforts as a producer.

From a longer review by Lou Lumenick

 

She walked away from the movies and worked as a cook for a church

 

I remember her very well - she had a troubled life (through self created problems) but did rebound with TV appearances even though her movie career was over. She even got a medical degree of some kind while in her 50s or 60s. That was an awesome accomplishment.