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FFA Movie Poll: 1955 - 1959 Countdown Monday is here! (2 Viewers)

Started watching Witness For The Prosecution last night. I was loving it for the first 30 minutes before I got too sleepy to continue. 

Laughton is awesome.

 
Andy Dufresne said:
Started watching Witness For The Prosecution last night. I was loving it for the first 30 minutes before I got too sleepy to continue. 

Laughton is awesome.
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I hate getting old. I used to be able to stay up until 3 or 4 AM no problem. Now, once about 12 or 1 comes, I am out on the couch. I think it took me 3 viewings to finish my last movie. 

 
Binky The Doormat said:
Yikes ...had to leave some epics on the floor.  

12 Angry Men   17

North By Northwest   17

Vertigo   17
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12 Angry Men is moving back up for me. It had fallen back in my memory but, since i posted about all the courtroom dramas i love from that era, i started to wonder why there were so many. I came to the conclusion that postwar America, on the cusp between McCarthyism & social justice, was asking itself who it was and what kind of force they were to be in this world - virtually the only time a nation has done that. Do we give, do we understand, do we reach out are a remarkable set of questions for a country that had just ####stomped the world to ask itself and pretty much the sole reason this Boomer had the high opinion of the human race he is now losing as quickly as fast-twitch muscle fiber to begin with. This movie jury asks those questions for the country and couples with Marty's neighborhood to complete the picture of the era.

In addition, 12 is an outgrowth of the real Golden Age of Television - the live television plays of Studio One, Playhouse 90, Kraft & Westinghouse Theaters which highlighted the anthology television era y'all know only from Twilight Zone & Hitchcock. I didn't understand most of it but i remember one that was just Peter Falk & Inger Stevens talking in the cab of a freight truck that made me want to make words for other people to say for the first time and gave us so much of the writing, acting, directing talent which took movies from the studios and made it everybody's. So it'll be top 5 for me, too.

 
wikkidpissah said:
12 Angry Men is moving back up for me. It had fallen back in my memory but, since i posted about all the courtroom dramas i love from that era, i started to wonder why there were so many. I came to the conclusion that postwar America, on the cusp between McCarthyism & social justice, was asking itself who it was and what kind of force they were to be in this world - virtually the only time a nation has done that. Do we give, do we understand, do we reach out are a remarkable set of questions for a country that had just ####stomped the world to ask itself and pretty much the sole reason this Boomer had the high opinion of the human race he is now losing as quickly as fast-twitch muscle fiber to begin with. This movie jury asks those questions for the country and couples with Marty's neighborhood to complete the picture of the era.

In addition, 12 is an outgrowth of the real Golden Age of Television - the live television plays of Studio One, Playhouse 90, Kraft & Westinghouse Theaters which highlighted the anthology television era y'all know only from Twilight Zone & Hitchcock. I didn't understand most of it but i remember one that was just Peter Falk & Inger Stevens talking in the cab of a freight truck that made me want to make words for other people to say for the first time and gave us so much of the writing, acting, directing talent which took movies from the studios and made it everybody's. So it'll be top 5 for me, too.
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Some of those courtroom dramas hold up really well. I remember some teacher showed 12 Angry Men in HS (90s) and the whole class was enthralled. Anatomy of a Murder might still be the best courtroom drama ever made. 

 
Ilov80s said:
Some of those courtroom dramas hold up really well. I remember some teacher showed 12 Angry Men in HS (90s) and the whole class was enthralled. Anatomy of a Murder might still be the best courtroom drama ever made. 
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Anatomy is on the docket.(heh heh) after I finish Witness.

 
I've tried to watch Anatomy of a Murder several times but never made it to the end.  It's been so long that I honestly can't remember what specifically I didn't like but I didn't bond with it enough to care about how it turned out.

 
Anatomy of a Murder is on TCM on 7/16.  Going to miss it a by a day.

...Started Rebel Without a Cause and Forbidden Planet.  Will see if I have time to finish, but found them both "meh" so far; don't expect either to be list worthy for me.  May prioritize finishing up "Les Diaboliques" instead, as I was enjoying that one more.  Also have Night of the Hunter sitting on my DVR.

 
Eephus said:
I've tried to watch Anatomy of a Murder several times but never made it to the end.  It's been so long that I honestly can't remember what specifically I didn't like but I didn't bond with it enough to care about how it turned out.
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Weird, I don't think I've ever seen a movie with James Stewart where he didn't immediately connect with me. He's just so damn likable. 

 
Just heard fondly mentioned a 1959 movie called Warlock with Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark and Anthony Quinn. Has a good rating and is on youtube. Anyone here know it?

 
The Man With No Name said:
Just heard fondly mentioned a 1959 movie called Warlock with Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark and Anthony Quinn. Has a good rating and is on youtube. Anyone here know it?
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Big fan.  It's definitely worth a watch if you like Westerns.  It has a psychological edginess to it that places it closer to your namesake's Spaghetti Westerns than the classic symbolic struggle between white hats and black hats.

ETA:  it's currently a 5 pointer on my shortlist.

 
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Ilov80s said:
We’ve discussed the best scenes in previous threads. Any thoughts for 54-59? 
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Good grief, man.  Narrowing down the full movies were tough enough.  ;)

Some great and/iconic ones  that popped into my head:

2 of my favorite movie openings with Touch of Evil and Vertigo.  

Cropduster in NxNW

Marilyn on the grate in Seven Year Itch

I always remember the ending of Some Like it Hot.  "well, nobody's perfect"

 
Ilov80s said:
We’ve discussed the best scenes in previous threads. Any thoughts for 54-59? 
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So many good ones.  Some good tracking shots come to mind: Touch of Evil’s opening and Paths of Glory in the trenches. Hard to pick one from Paths of Glory itself though — I could also be persuaded by Douglas’s courtroom speech or the song at the end.

Also some cultural touchstones with Marilyn in Seven Year Itch’s subway grate, “nobody’s perfect”, the end of River Kwai, and Lady and the Tramp eating spaghetti.

 
Don Quixote said:
So many good ones.  Some good tracking shots come to mind: Touch of Evil’s opening and Paths of Glory in the trenches. Hard to pick one from Paths of Glory itself though — I could also be persuaded by Douglas’s courtroom speech or the song at the end.

Also some cultural touchstones with Marilyn in Seven Year Itch’s subway grate, “nobody’s perfect”, the end of River Kwai, and Lady and the Tramp eating spaghetti.
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I had trouble with Paths of Glory and 12 Angry Men, as the whole movies just ran through my head.  I do like the calls on the trench tracking shot and the courtroom speech though.  

 
Also I would consider the arrow shootout in Throne of Blood. The heist scene in Rififi might be even better though.

 
The heist in Rififi is 25 minutes long which kind of pushes the limits of a scene.

I'll throw out the railroad compartment scene in Some Like It Hot, the drag race in Rebel Without a Cause and the big reveal at the end of Witness for the Prosecution.

My weirdo nomination is this scene from "Written on the Wind" where Dorothy Malone dances the mambo as her father dies.

 
Don Quixote said:
So many good ones.  Some good tracking shots come to mind: Touch of Evil’s opening and Paths of Glory in the trenches. Hard to pick one from Paths of Glory itself though — I could also be persuaded by Douglas’s courtroom speech or the song at the end.

Also some cultural touchstones with Marilyn in Seven Year Itch’s subway grate, “nobody’s perfect”, the end of River Kwai, and Lady and the Tramp eating spaghetti.
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top.

Marty's "whada youse feel like doin'?" speech, the Vitajex commercial from Face, Mt Rushmore, Oklahoma dream sequence, both the spinning wheel & arrows scenes from Throne, ALL of Lee Remick's flirting come to mind

 
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1. Marty 30 pts (wikkid pts 23)

2. North By Northwest 25 pts

3. Throne of Blood 24 pts

4. Face in the Crowd 18 pts

5. 12 Angry Men 16 pts

6. 400 Blows 15 pts

7. Anatomy of a Murder 12 pts

8. Rififi 11 pts

9. Touch of Evil 10 pts

10. Seventh Seal 9 pts

(11-20: all 3 pts, all 9 wikkid points)

11. Moby ****

12. Bridge On the River Kwai

13. Bell, Book & Candle

14. Paths of Glory

15. South Pacific

16. The Great Man

17. Ol' Yeller

18. Vertigo

19. Pather Panchali

20. Mister Roberts
 
Ilov80s said:
Haven’t seen that one. I need to binge some Kurosawa. Why is it a holy #### for you?
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It seemed so modern. I guess people have just been doing stuff that blows my mind for a long time before I was born. I think I'd place it more in the early '60s for our culture, to be honest, but that's just a feel that gets lost between cultures. I'm no relativist, but it seems like Ikiru (stomach cancer, public park, IIRC) seems like an American movie that would be made in the '60s rather than the '50s, though it was black and white.  

I don't know. It just seems the year is early for its subject matter.  

 
rockaction said:
It seemed so modern. I guess people have just been doing stuff that blows my mind for a long time before I was born. I think I'd place it more in the early '60s for our culture, to be honest, but that's just a feel that gets lost between cultures. I'm no relativist, but it seems like Ikiru (stomach cancer, public park, IIRC) seems like an American movie that would be made in the '60s rather than the '50s, though it was black and white.  

I don't know. It just seems the year is early for its subject matter.  
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Nice. How many AK films have you seen? Embarrassingly I’m at 3: 7S, Rashomon and my favorite- Throne of Blood. I’m going to see Hidden Fortress on the big screen in 2 weeks. I really need to treat him like I did Hitch a few years ago and just binge them. Kurosawa might have the best eye in film. Or John Ford.

 
Ilov80s said:
Nice. How many AK films have you seen? Embarrassingly I’m at 3: 7S, Rashomon and my favorite- Throne of Blood. I’m going to see Hidden Fortress on the big screen in 2 weeks. I really need to treat him like I did Hitch a few years ago and just binge them. Kurosawa might have the best eye in film. Or John Ford.
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I've seen Rashomon and Ikiru and that's it, and only because it was on the television a day I happened to be around. I haven't hunted down Kurosawa. I've never seen Seven Samurai. To your point -- I don't feel embarrassed about film; it's no longer my medium of taste expectation. I just can't see two hours of sitting in one place anymore. I'm often looking towards popular music to provide my entertainment. 

But I did love film at one point in my life, so I can converse a bit. That's all. 

 
30    ---    Some Like It Hot

25    ---    Rififi
20    ---    Paths of Glory
20    ---    Bad Day At Black Rock
10    ---    The Tarnished Angels
10    ---    North By Northwest
10    ---    The Ladykillers
10    ---    Rio Bravo
10    ---    The Red Balloon
5    ---    The Night of the Hunter
5    ---    Vertigo
5    ---    Witness For the Prosecution
5    ---    Touch of Evil
5    ---    Mon Oncle
5    ---    Warlock
5    ---    The FBI Story
5    ---    The 400 Blows
5    ---    Odds Against Tomorrow
5    ---    The Searchers
5    ---    A Face in the Crowd
 
Eephus said:
30    ---    Some Like It Hot

25    ---    Rififi
20    ---    Paths of Glory
20    ---    Bad Day At Black Rock
10    ---    The Tarnished Angels
10    ---    North By Northwest
10    ---    The Ladykillers
10    ---    Rio Bravo
10    ---    The Red Balloon
5    ---    The Night of the Hunter
5    ---    Vertigo
5    ---    Witness For the Prosecution
5    ---    Touch of Evil
5    ---    Mon Oncle
5    ---    Warlock
5    ---    The FBI Story
5    ---    The 400 Blows
5    ---    Odds Against Tomorrow
5    ---    The Searchers
5    ---    A Face in the Crowd
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Glad the Balloon got some notice - i had to leave my beloved Shaggy Dog (kids) & Diabolique (Fr.) on the bench, so i certainly had no room for a French kids movie even though, as the first foreign language movie (i was raised to speak enough French to see it w/o subtitles in Quebec) i ever watched, it made quite an impression on me.

 
wikkidpissah said:
Glad the Balloon got some notice - i had to leave my beloved Shaggy Dog (kids) & Diabolique (Fr.) on the bench, so i certainly had no room for a French kids movie even though, as the first foreign language movie (i was raised to speak enough French to see it w/o subtitles in Quebec) i ever watched, it made quite an impression on me.
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Lady and The Tramp stayed on my list for a long time ...finally got cut.  

 
Work has gotten in the way of me watching some that were on my list for this weekend, so I'll call it....

Bridge on the River Kwai  30

Paths of Glory  30

Some Like It Hot  30

12 Angry Men  24

Touch of Evil (Director's Cut)  13

The Ladykillers  12

I'm All Right Jack  12

Vertigo  11

North by Northwest  9

The Killing  7

The Mouse That Roared  5

The Searchers  5

The Man Who Knew Too Much  4

The Seven Year Itch  4

Gigi  2

Lady and the Tramp  2
 
12 Angry Men - 30
Some Like It Hot - 30 

Bad Day At Black Rock - 14
To Catch A Thief- 14
The Trouble With Harry- 14
Invasion of the Body Snatchers- 14
The Killing- 14
The Man Who Never Was- 14
A Face In The Crowd - 14
Paths of Glory - 14
Witness For The Prosecution- 14
Vertigo- 14

 
Man, plenty of time was given but I did not watch enough of the movies on these lists to be able to contribute intelligently. 

Therefore, I bow out with Vertigo by my side as the best movie I might ever see.  

 
Also, sorry to put everybody through this.  Don't worry, in two days we can start talking about some REAL classic movies like Revenge of the Nerds and Police Academy.  

 
Damn that was hard to narrow down.  Not enough points to go around, and like usual I felt very strongly about the top few.  What my list ended up being:

30pts:  12 Angry Men, Vertigo, Paths of Glory, Some Like it Hot

15pts:  The Killing

10pts:  North By Northwest, Touch of Evil, Throne of Blood, Marty, The 400 Blows

5pts:  Night of the Hunter, Rififi, A Face in the Crowd

 
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Looks like we will have 15 lists when krista submits hers.  

Currently there are only 15 movies above the usual 50pt threshold, so it could be a shorter countdown.  I will see how krista's list or any other last submissions effect that and go from there.  

Also, there are a couple close races with 1st and 2nd being separated by only 2pts, and 3rd and 4th only by 1pt.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
Looks like we will have 15 lists when krista submits hers.  

Currently there are only 15 movies above the usual 50pt threshold, so it could be a shorter countdown.  I will see how krista's list or any other last submissions effect that and go from there.  

Also, there are a couple close races with 1st and 2nd being separated by only 2pts, and 3rd and 4th only by 1pt.  
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I just watched Marty (loved it) and am now on A Face in the Crowd.  Once I finish that in a couple of hours I'll have my list.

 
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