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Post by artraveler on Jun 25, 2020 8:48:34 GMT -8
Pictured below is some of her best work in the film. I think you spelled that wrong. Isn't it breast works? |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 25, 2020 9:17:36 GMT -8
LMAO. Rimshot. Now....where did I put my rimshot videos? . . .
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Post by timothylane on Jun 25, 2020 10:58:40 GMT -8
When the Army of Northern Virginia entered Maryland during the Gettysburg campaign, some Unionist woman confronted them with small flags in some form covering her breasts. One soldier in Hood's division warned her that Hood's troops were good at storming breastworks with the enemy colors on them.
All I know of Son of Ali Baba is that Tony Curtis was in it and uttered a famous line usually attributed to The Black Shield of Falworth. I probably know him best from Operation Petticoat (which is at least partly based on some actual incidents according to wikipedia). Piper Laurie I know mainly from Carrie (a movie with a real grabber of an ending, quite literally).
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Post by artraveler on Jun 25, 2020 11:07:19 GMT -8
When the Army of Northern Virginia When Lee was moving towards Gettysburg Col Freemantel of the Coldstream guards was with the ANV as Hood's Texans marched by. Freemantle was shocked that some of the men had no shoes, and their pants were worn out in the seat with butts showing. Lee remarked to Freemantle that the enemy never sees the backside of the Texans. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 2, 2020 8:03:26 GMT -8
This one you gotta see just to make sure I wasn’t dreaming something this stupid. Gun Crazy makes me wonder how and why some people get the money to make a movie. This is a cheap version of Bonnie-and-Clyde but with good cinematography. Given the original title, “Deadly is the Female,” this is supposed to be some vague Bonnie-and-Clyde meets Adam-and-Even drama. A good man is tempted to do evil by a bored, dissatisfied, and thrill-seeking chick. But the Clyde in this film is such a bleedin’ idiot, it’s hard to blame Bonnie for his troubles. And I’m torn between calling the characters and acting “stupid and bland” and admitting that this is just how some real people would act. Whatever the case may be, even in their criminal behavior, their is zero charisma in either character, although Bonnie is a little spooky in her wickedness. However, this movie is bad enough to be good. Grab a beer and watch it with a friend. You’ll have a lot of laughs. For more laughs, read some of the reviews at IMDB. One of them is titled, “One of the greatest films of all time.” Like I said, maybe this is a good portrayal of the hoi polloi. And if you’re one of the hoi polloi, you just don’t know it. Fish swimming in a fishbowl, and all that. Still, it was (mostly) watchable, if only for the laugh-out-loud idiocy of it all. Even stranger was 1961’s Wild Thing about a girl who is raped, wanders around mostly in a daze, leaves home, gets her own rundown apartment next to Jean Stapleton (the “bad” Edith, for sure), goes to work at Woolworth's, tries to kill herself, is rescued by some weird guy from jumping off the bridge, goes home with the weird guy, gets locked into the weird guy’s basement apartment as his would-be toy, eventually escapes from the weird-guy’s apartment, goes out for a bite and a walk, and then comes back to the weird guy’s apartment and marries him. The end. Ooops. There may have been a couple spoilers in the above. But this is a movie you couldn’t spoil. And all I kept thinking through this was, “Isn’t that Lee Remick?” No, it’s Carroll Baker. You decide:   Someone suggested Stockholm Syndrome explains her behavior. But that clearly isn’t the point the movie was trying to make. In fact, I doubt the movie knew what point it was trying to make. I suspect it was one of those drug-induced productions where it all seemed to make sense at the time.
Oh, Edith. Stifle yourself.
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Post by timothylane on Aug 2, 2020 8:16:53 GMT -8
Of course, this would be the opposite of Bonnie and Clyde. She was attracted him for his adventurous if criminal life. It would be more like MacBeth and Lady MacBeth, but worse. There have been couples who went on crime sprees, and it's possible that the woman pushing the man has happened, though I wonder if the man would have been so reluctant. (I'm basing this on the IMDB summary.)
John Dall was also the Richard Loeb type in Rope, with Farley Granger playing the Nathan Leopold type.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 2, 2020 8:33:20 GMT -8
Well, it’s love at first crack-of-the-gun. He meets her as an Annie Oakley-like carnival act. She’s a good shooter but he was better and wins a prize as an audience contestant. John Dall (as Clyde) is like a Disney leading man after all character and personality had been drained out of him. Think of him as Dean Jones without an ounce of charisma and lots and lots of stupidity. When both Clyde and Bonnie are in their Howdy Doody uniforms, it’s hilarious, probably unintentionally so. And then this creeping thought will begin to overtake you (as drama morphs to bad comedy): Am I John Dall and just don’t know it? Woo. That’s deep. But then, she is, if the lighting is just right, kinda hot:   I found that latter photo on 25 Good Reasons to Watch Olde Movies. Hard to argue with that. Anyone else grow up with a thing for Julie Adams in Creature from the Black Lagoon? The movie opens showing how much little Clyde was obsessed with guns (he breaks into a store to get one and is sent away to reform school) but otherwise was pretty normal. In fact, the movie would have been better off staying in the flashback. It was more interesting and believable. And the flashback was weird if only because it had about zero to do with the rest of the movie. The young Clyde was played by Mickey Little. And if you try to Google his name, all you tend to get is Mickey Mouse. That may be appr0priate in this case, although only in regards to the movie. The kid did a good job in his role. |
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Post by timothylane on Aug 2, 2020 9:28:02 GMT -8
If you want a good movie about a gunwoman, you can try the original version of The Man Who Knew Too Much (the remake with Doris Day and Jimmy Stewart is better overall, but in the original the wife is a target shooter whose skill plays a major role) and, of course, Annie Get Your Gun. Calamity Jane works, too, except that the title character (played by Doris Day) is rather unbelievable at times. On the other hand, at least you find out why part of "Secret Love" suggests hoofbeats.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 2, 2020 12:56:39 GMT -8
The 1953 version of Calamity Jane with Doris Day might be worth finding. I admit, it sounds too much like "screwball comedy" to me.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 3, 2020 7:20:00 GMT -8
I tried watching the 1924 silent film, The Hands of Orlac. After 30 minutes, I couldn’t stay with it. It was just taking forever to get going. And once the main shtick was established, I looked up and saw that there was still an hour to go. But it has a very nice soundtrack, mostly spooky violins. That basic shtick comes right out of Young Frankenstein: A famous piano player is in an accident. His hands are damaged beyond normal repair. The wife tells the doc, “Do anything. His hands are his life.” So the doc goes to the hand depository and grabs the hands of Abby Normal, a recently-executed criminal. He sews them on Orlac and you can’t even see a seam. When Orlac finds out that those aren’t his own hands, he’s horrified. And that’s about where I left it. Whether he starts strangling people in between piano concerts or not, I don’t know. But the synopsis at IMDB does say that the hands “have a will of their own.” So I guess the rest of the movies writes itself. The only betting odds are regarding: 1) Does he kill his wife?; 2) Does he cut off his hands?; 3) Does he do a rendition of Puttin' on the Ritz? This is dark and gothic “German Expressionism.” Okie doke. As one reviewer wrote, if they had cut this to 60 minutes, they might have had something. Silent films are often that way. The are slow-paced and the extreme over-acting that was the style can get a bit tiring. But then it was the medium that invented the b-movie. There are plenty (or at least some) A-list silent films that are a pleasure to watch. I used to enjoy watching one from time to time on one of the Turner channels on Sunday night way back when. One commenter notes: With these films, you’re supposed to be captivated by the “mood” not the story. Or the story is the mood. Whatever. There was a sequel called “The Feet of Orlac.”  |
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Post by timothylane on Aug 3, 2020 7:55:36 GMT -8
A lot of people, including me, remember the Abby Normal scene. One blogger uses Abby Normal as his tag and Marty Feldman as his avatar.
There are apparently a number of movies using the hands trick, in which new hands (or in one case that I saw the last part of, new skin to repair the hands) turn murderous. It's a safe bet that happened in the movie, and if you've seen that once you don't need to see it again. I'm not sure if it's even necessary to see it once, for that matter.
Music in silent films can be interesting, that being the only sound and thus very important. At the Holmes-Doyle symposium in Dayton a few decades back, they played what they thought was the oldest extant Holmes film, a version of "The Copper Beeches" that dated back to (I think) 1912. The music for that one was a version of Gounod's "The Funeral March of the Marionette", which many of us found amusing. I wonder if Alfred Hitchcock ever saw it.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 3, 2020 8:39:11 GMT -8
Yeah. That was pretty much my thought. You can get an idea of the soundtrack and watch the whole movie here at DailyMotion. I can’t find Hans Delbrück in the credits. And, strangely, in the credits, the cast is billed by their last names only. More “German Expressionism” no doubt. Apparently the real Hans Delbrück was an accomplished military historian whose son, Max, won a Nobel Prize for his works on . . . (wait for it) . . . viruses.
This movie is not to be confused with the American Expressionism film, The Hans of Delbrück.
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Post by timothylane on Aug 3, 2020 9:21:38 GMT -8
Hans Delbruck wrote a 4-volume study of military history that I picked up years ago (which of course was left behind in the house like 99% of our library). I rather liked it.
Interestingly enough, when I looked up the movie on wikipedia and checked their examples of other movies with the same theme (hands out of control), it didn't include the one I saw part of. For one thing, in that case the person receiving the hands (or the skin, more likely) was a woman. This particular version has been remade twice, and there were a few others listed.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 3, 2020 13:11:38 GMT -8
Best swap movie: The Man with Two Brains. That's certainly a screwball comedy. Or maybe it's a quirky comedy. But Kathleen Turner makes that movie what it is. Parts of it are, of course, too-silly-by-half. But true to even comedies, if you have a good villain that papers-over a lot.
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Post by timothylane on Aug 3, 2020 14:00:15 GMT -8
Well, I can certainly think of one big advantage to including Kathleen Turner in a movie, though Lynda may disagree with me.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 4, 2020 7:31:53 GMT -8
I forget. Is Gibbnonymous not a Kathleen Turner fan?
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