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he’s in the discussion for best actor of all time
His Island of Lost Souls is still the best iteration of The Island of Dr Moreau. A genuinely good movie.
What are you planning to check out?
Tomorrow night includes “It Happened on Fifth Avenue.” Underrated Christmas flick.
Well since you are a Grant guy, The Bishops Wife should be the top slot. It Happened on 5th is a TCM cult hit. Christmas in Connecticut is great as well. Wikkid was totally right on that.
Blast of Silence is fantastic...I know you didn't like The Killer but I am sure this movie was an influence on it.
Well that looks fantastic
No Thin Man marathon on TCM this year?
It does look like need fairly well stocked. TCM has some Robert Mitchum on tonight, and was taking a look at the recommendations.
Yep - I got this too after requesting it from the wife. I've already thumbed through it and planning to have some Noir Bar nights this year. You definitely need a fairly well stocked bar to make the cocktails - just FYI.
@Don Quixote
Both are on Prime now. I’ve seen Blue Gardenia and I agree it’s not Frtiz Lang’s best by any stretch but solid if you like noirs. I’ll have to add Crime of Passion to my watchlist.
Both of those movies have been on my watchlist for awhile, just have never had the chance to come across then. Seconds especially sounds outstanding.
I don't know kind of sounds like you might be a Cagney fan if you like his gangster movies and Yankee Doodle Dandy. Have you ever seen Strawberry Blonde?
Gotcha. I am on the side of I'd watch anything with Cagney though most of it has been gangster movies since that was his speciality. Strawberry Blonde was probably the first time I saw him outside of that role and I thought his persona still worked. Ofc he is also great in Yankee Doodle Dandy.
There is a new movie coming out about the Nuremberg trials starring Russell Crowe. Obviously it won't be as good as the Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster movie but I am sort of curious. It's called Nuremberg and has a good cast and crew behind it.
I'll be on the look out for that one. Just so many stars in the old one. Judy Garland,Marlene Dietrich, Richard Widmark. Even has Captain Kirk and Colonel Klink.
Absolutely and Montgomery Clift is incredible in his brief appearance. He was in terrible mental and physical health but that just adds to the performance. It might be the most impactful of the whole movie for me. Now I want to rewatch it again.
i do this too!
i am watching Eagle now from doing this , leaves in 9 days
Yeah comes off very gimmicky to me, not a fan at all and I'm a sucker for Marlowe. The Dark Passage is a little better because it doesn't go on for quite so long but still the worst of the 4 Bogey-Bacalls.
That is an insanely great line-up of movies. I have seen all those 1925 movies there and talk about a hard choice. I think the 3 that make the most sense are Ben-Hur, The Big Prade ir The Gold Rush. Any of those is very deserving. Ben-Hur is every bit as big and audacious as the Heston version. The chariot scene is incredible but I can't help but hold the fact they probably killed a 100 horses in the making of this against the movie. Plus, it's not as relevant to it's time as The Gold Rush (dealing poverty, hunger, etc during the Great Depression) and The Big Parade (reckoning with the human cost to our young men in WW1). Ultimately, I think I give the nod to The Big Parade. It's either the 1st or 2nd highest grossing silent movie of all time. A total phenomon that set the stand and blueprint for war movies that still exists today. Photoplay gave it their best picture award which Wikipedia says was the original movie award that mattered. The Gold Rush is more enjoyable and a better watch to our modern tastes IMO but at the time, The Big Parade was the movie of the year.
It's definitely a Western.
Oh yeah definitely a western. I just meant I didn’t know which thread to post it in. It’s also definitely an old movie too. And for me it was recently watched. I’ll check out the history on Brand. I don’t know anything about him other than he’s always interesting when he pops up in things.
