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From: vanover@bcsaic.boeing.com (Jann VanOver)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:25:10 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle

bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church) writes:
>cathys@ingres.com (Cathy Savino) writes:
>
>>I'm sorry about the sketchy details, but the one thing I do remember is 
>>that there 
>>where only 2 actors in the entire film, and Micheal Kane was one of them.
>
>Was the other one Christopher Reeves?
>
You're thinking of DeathTrap, which has been mentioned.  I think there
was a third person, Michael Caine's wife, in this also.

However, NOONE has mentioned Sleuth, which might have been what Cathy
was thinking of.  This one has JUST two actors, Michael Caine and --
Lawrence Olivier. 
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From: yahnke@macc.wisc.edu (Ross Yahnke)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Name this movie about a car salesman
Date: 26 Aug 92 17:39:18 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center

I saw this clip of a movie that I can't identify. First of all, I don't
think it's "Used Cars"

Tho, it seemed fairly recent, maybe the last 10 years, the clip was in B&W.
What I remember of it was a full body shot of an unkempt car salesman that
nobody in their right mind would buy a car from. There were some old junky
cars nearby and this guy was talking into the camera giving a ludicrously
cliched, rapid sales pitch. His speed of delivery and digressions were
pretty comical, (sort of like the Tom Waits song "Step Right Up").

That's about all I can remember, except that maybe it might have been some
Disney movie???

Thanks! - Ross
From: linley@babbage.seas.ucla.edu (Bruce Linley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: StarTrek IV mistake
Keywords: StarTrek picture
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:03:10 GMT
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles

> etc. in the future, I don't see any problem with keeping flat B&W pictures,
> any more than I would balk at the presence of paper-printed books or
> something similar. :)

Hey I balk at 8-track tapes, 8" floppy disks, casette drives, beta VCRs, and
300 bps modems.

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From: jxxl@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Woody Allen / Mia Farrow
Date: 25 Aug 92 22:56:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: huxley.5980
Reply-To: jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA

sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith) writes:

> Whatever the truth may be, I feel sorry for all the kids.

I don't. I hate kids.

John (not running for president)
From: abw@natchez.bu.edu (Al Wesolowsky)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best shots wanted
Date: 26 Aug 92 00:50:14 GMT
Organization: Boston University

In article <1992Aug25.231547.22171@rigel.econ.uga.edu> hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes) writes:
+In article <1992Aug25.033137.176068@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> dfk0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (David F. Keppel) writes:
+>   Hitchcock is "loaded" with some superb shots.
+
+In _Frenzy_, the camera moving backwards out of the apartment,
+down the stairs, and out of the building, all in silence, until
+we reach the street.  We *know* what's going to happen.

And that's just the last half of a fascinating shot. First, as I recall,
the camera follows the woman from the street, into the house, up the
stairs, around a corner on a landing, and into her flat (or at least to
the door). *Then* the camera 'backs up' as Wayne describes.

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From: hopkins@agora.rain.com (Scott Hopkins)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Cast of Dracula
Date: 31 Aug 92 06:02:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: agora.Btu3FG.Fu9
Organization: Open Communications Forum


	I was wondering if someone can post the cast of Bram Stoker's
Dracula, and if anybody knows, the characters they portray?  Does anyone
know how similiar it is going to be to the novel?

				-Casey Hopkins
			Sorry, if this is a FAQ!
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From: strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong)
Subject: Laurence de Monaghan
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:45:19 GMT

Does anyone know what happened to Laurence de Monaghan, the French
actress who played Claire in Claire's Knee?  

Thanks.
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From: tesmer@sleepy.bio.purdue.edu (John Tesmer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Yet another name this movie!!
Keywords: Older film; What the !@#$#! is it??
Date: 27 Aug 92 23:48:31 GMT
Followup-To: tesmer@pandora.bio.purdue.edu
Organization: Purdue University, Dept. of Biological Sciences

I recall when I was a child I watched a very intriguing (at
least for me at that age) science fiction film (on PBS??)
that was about a man who had dreams (I think that he was
hooked up to some machine) such that when he woke up, the world
had conformed to his dream.  For instance, I remember that
he dreamed that there was (somehow) less people on the planet
and viola! next morning the streets were almost deserted...and
on another night he dreamed of sleeping with a certain woman
and viola! he woke up and it was true.  As I remember, it was
a very long and dark film.  To summarize, I would like to see
it again, but alas, I know not the title (and whether its worth
my while!).

Maybe perhaps the government was trying to use him as a tool
to stay in power, and it (of course) backfired on them...
From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Alien 3 - A Real Good Movie
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:49:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bu0HFA.5HF
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

kjellr@sofus.dhhalden.no (Kjell Are Refsvik) writes:

>Since the US westcoast release, I have been reading nothing but bad reviews
>and comments on this film. Personally I find it to be a excellent film with
>an "atmosphere" and some really nice shots as well (like when the
>"DoggyAlien" ran through the corridors. Stunning!

>It was a well worthy end to the best SF plot ever created. Too often we see
>sequels destroying the original. (StarWars etc)

I'm not going to touch *this* thread with a 10-foot pole.  :)


                                  --Steve Stelter
                                    sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: royg@netcom.com (Roy H. Gordon)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: sex in movies
Date: 29 Aug 92 01:03:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

A mild digression from the subject of this thread:

The notion of changing sexual mores was amusingly brought home again
last night while watching Stagecoach on late night tv.
The stagecoach has just arrived in town.  The driver
gets down and then says to the calvary officer's wife (a passenger in
the coach) something like:

	Would you like to get out?  You could stretch your legs, I mean,
	limbs.

Apparently it was somewhat indecent back then to refer to a woman's legs
as legs.  Don't ask me why.  (Does anyone know?)
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From: mcohen@vax.clarku.edu
Subject: Jurassic Park casting
Organization: Clark University
Date: 26 AUG 92 15:24:09 GMT

According to "something" I saw yesterday (I think it was CNN), production 
began this week on Jurassic Park.  The only two actors mentioned were Sir 
Richard Attenborough and Laura Dern.  And, of course, the dinosaurs that have 
been under construction for a while.  I forget where its filming, but it was 
someplace rather exotic.

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From: doog@travis.csd.harris.com (Doug Scofield)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Jon Jost on American Playhouse (was: Re: Hal Hartley's ...)
Date: 1 Sep 92 21:30:49 GMT

It happens nearly every time i stumble across AP on the local
PBS station. <flip> NBC <flip> FOX <flip> Roman columns swirling 
about in a well-composed (and long) shot, warm even lighting, 
nothing really but the images.  I kinda felt like my TV was one
of the columns that had broken free and was sliding around the
marble forest playing tag.  Whee!

This was part of a film "conceived, written, directed and edited"
by Jon Jost.  Who is this?  Why have i not heard more about him?
I know that Andrew notwithstanding South Florida is not an easy
place to find independent cinema, and i'm convinced the local PBS 
station shows these things accidentally, like whatever the mother 
ship happens to send down.  I was lucky enough to catch "Poison" 
in a theater, but that was ages ago.

AP has in my experience an excellent track record, and a directory
of programs would provide great fodder for an extended video hunt.
Is there one available?


doog
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From: patstew@oz.plymouth.edu (Pat Steward)
Subject: Re: sex in movies
Keywords: and violence, and kids
Reply-To: patstew@oz.plymouth.edu (Pat Steward)
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 20:37:02 GMT

In article <Aug.27.12.22.12.1992.24240@cadenza.rutgers.edu> masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) writes:
>
>Me too. I was in "Unforgiven" last week, and sat behind a couple who
>had brought in two small (<= 8 years old) girls. For those who haven't
>seen it, "Unforgiven" features scenes of rape, slashings, torture,

Rape?  Hmmm.... (sound of rewinding memory)  Nope, no rape.
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I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express senti-
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From: gorgeous@momth3.maths.monash.edu.au (C Dyt)
Subject: HELP The Great Race.
Organization: Monash University
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:54:42 GMT

I am desperately searching for a copy of Warner Brothers "The Great Race" starring Tony Curtis
and Jack Lemmon. It is to my knowledge not available on video in Australia.
If there is anybody out there with or knows where I could find a PALS VHS version (ie European
or Australian video) then please let me know.

Eternally grateful.

Chris Dyt.
Mathematics, Monash University
Melbourne
Victoria
Australia.
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Fright Night (was re: Dracula)
Date: 31 Aug 92 22:21:00 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

In article <1992Aug26.172648.746@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, leeper@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Mark R. Leeper) writes:
# As for what film is closest to the real vampire legends, the proper
# response is to ask which legends you mean.  Vampire legends show up
# in many cultures and as a result there just is no consistent set of
# lore to follow.  It didn't help that the Catholic Church
# intentionally corrupted vampire legends to drum up business.
# Originally vampires had nothing to do with Christianity and crosses,
# of course.  The original legends pre-dated Christianity.  The Church
# used the fear of vampires telling people that if they were good
# Christians and wore crosses, etc., they were safe from vampires.  And
# of course they were.  Also, why would vampires fear Christian symbols
# if Christianity wasn't THE ONE TRUE RELIGION.  So it was sort of
# proof of Christianity.  So crosses and holy water and hosts got
# incorporated into the legends.
# 
# 				Mark Leeper

It's unfortunate that the scene in Richard Matheson's _I Am Legend_
where he finds out that he needs a Star of David for the vampire
next door didn't make it into the 1962 version starring Vincent
Price.

It all makes sense, in a weird sort of way.
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From: citrin@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Wayne Citrin)
Subject: Re: Best shots wanted
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:39:50 GMT

In article <qPD0PB1w164w@fatcity.cts.com> kfree@fatcity.cts.com (Kenneth Freeman) writes:
> 
>What's especially great about the closing shot is that 
>the director didn't tell Joseph Cotton what was going to
>happen. The female lead walked past him, and he kept waiting
>to hear "Cut!" He actually threw his cigarette down in disgust.
>What other great shots were improvised, if any?
>

Certain memorable scenes in "Apocalypse Now" were improvised, including the 
scene where Martin Sheen puts his hand through a mirror.  Check out the
recent documentary "Hearts of Darkness" for more information.

Wayne

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From: braca2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (BRAY CHRISTOPHER)
Subject: Re: Best gin shots......
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 09:10:49 GMT

rcbi27@muvms3.bitnet (DBRUM) writes:

>Whichever one of those great spaghetti westerns where Clint Eastwood
>shoots the rope in two just as Eli Wallach is about to hang.

"The good the bad and the ugly.'
>-- 
>	"Were his solid black square paintings really,
>	as the artist claimed, simply neutral, abstract
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From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best shots wanted
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:32:51 GMT
Organization: Ohio University School of Art. Athens

In article <66618@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4476a@prism.gatech.EDU (Mike Alberghini) writes:
>
>     I would like some opinions of what people consider the best shots or
>sequences in movie history.  I don't care about the movie as a whole, just
>specifics.  Examples/Personal favorites:
>
>     -  The flight scenes in the fires in Always.
>     -  The air raid in Empire of the Sun.
>     -  The sniper attack in Full Metal Jacket
>     -  The tracking shot in the opening of Bonfire of the Vanities
>     -  The climax in the basement in The Silence of the Lambs

In 'Manhunter', when Will Graham says 'stop it!' twice and then runs into
the house. I thought that this was the most important scene of the movie.
This is when he resolves with himself that he is not just an agent or
(as he suspects) becoming a monster. It ties in with the line while he's
holding the blind victim that he's rescued. When she asks who he is he should
answer FBI. Instead, he says 'Will Graham'.



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From: sws8n@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Stefan William Sittig)
Subject: Re: What is the name of this movie?
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:56:14 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.125934.4198@europa.asd.contel.com> andy@rocky.gte.com (Andrew Busa) writes:
>Does anyone know the name of a movie that starred Danny Devito and Bette
>Midler in the 80's?
>
>Andy
>

 DO you mean RUTHLESS PEOPLE???

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From: sdt8s@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Steve Tilson)
Subject: Re: Paradox in T2
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:23:53 GMT

zarthac@camelot.bradley.edu  writes:
> This might have been discussed b4, but my roommate just came up with
> an interesting thought:

YES. It HAS been discussed b4.

> 
> Since in T2, when they destroyed the Hyperdyne systems, thus destoying
> SkyNet, they destroyed the world where john's father comes from, and
> since in the first movie, he said he was born after the war started,
> he doesn't exist anymore, he can't go back and make sarah pregnant...
> Therefore, he can't lead the resistance so the computer will be
> built...
> 
> Nice little paradox, eh?
A hint: if you want people on the Net to like you...DON'T
MENTION T2.
Just a hint.
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From: kfree@fatcity.cts.com (Kenneth Freeman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Dr. Strangelove question
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 21:22:24 PDT
Organization: Fat City Software, San Diego, California

00njhavert@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:

> 
> 	Okay, who played the Russian ambassador in "Dr. Strangelove",
> and what was he doing with that stopwatch type-thing at the end?
> 
> Nik

 
Taking covert photos.

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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Film with the fe/malest cast
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:36:48 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

charlie@uk.tele.nokia.fi (Charlie Brown) writes:

|A (doubtless nonPC) tangent to the `film with the fewest actors'
|question, is which films have the most predominantly male or female
|casts. Obviously any one wo/man films are kinda unbeatable, but what
|about films with reasonably large casts ? 

Go back to the 30s and check out THE WOMEN, a four-star movie adapted
from Clare Booth's play of the same name.  A large cast, set not in a
prison or other strange environment but in mainstream (well, no, but
New York high) society.  Not a man in the cast.

	/JBL
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From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Subject: Re: WOODY ALLEN MOVIES
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:23:12 GMT

In article <5979@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil> jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke) writes:
>garrem@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Olsen Garretson) writes:
>
>> Also, his next movie, MANHATTEN MURDER MYSTERY, begins shooting in two weeks.
>> It was slated to star Mia Farrow, but [surprise] she was replaced-- by Diane
>> Keaton.
>
>Soon-Yi didn't get the part!?
>
>John

I believe she got the part, but not in his movie.

GMS
From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:46:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbnewse.1992Sep3.164625.13255
Organization: AT&T

In article <9yH7PB2w164w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> dascoser.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu writes:
>I was just trying to think about which film had the least number of 
>actors. The smallest I could thing of is Breakfast Club which only has 
>(I'm going by charters description here)
>
>The Brain
>The Jock
>The Princess
>The Basket Case
>The Criminal
>The Principal
>The Janitor
>The Brain's mother (only appears in the begining)
>The Brain's Sister (only says one word)
>The Jock's Father (Only appears in the begining)
>The Princess's Father (only appears in the begining)
>The Basket Case's Parent (No lines)
>
>
>A total of twelve actors in all, five of which aren't seen again after 
>the first few minutes of the film and have minimal to no lines.
>Can anyone think of a film with less (Nature films, cartoons, 
>documentarys and film of that sort don't count.

My Dinner With Andre
Old Man and the Sea

GMS
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From: lyle@chainsaw.ecn.purdue.edu (Lyle Youngblood)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:05:34 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network


    I used to work for the local theatres, so I saw a LOT of free movies.
Only three times did I get up and leave, even though I wasn't paying for
the flick: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles; Russkies; and Career 
Opprotunities. Russkies was just plain dumb, and the other two I
considered insulting to my intelligence.
                                     Lyle

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From: sullivana@gtephx.UUCP (Anne Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Films with no females
Summary: Film with no men
Organization: AG Communication Systems, Phoenix, Arizona
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:56:39 GMT

In article <jyc.715220992@Leland>, jyc@leo.Stanford.EDU (Jon Corelis) writes:
> 
>    Turn about being fair play, are there any films (that is, commercial,
> feature-length films) with no men in them? 

_The Women_ written(?) by Clare Booth Luce.  I believe there was a 
remake of it later (no idea if it was the same title).  The original
was made in the 30s, I think.  

Anne Sullivan

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From: dsc@gemini.tmc.edu (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 W191 x3892)
Subject: Re: Aliens 3 and stuff
Organization: NASA GSFC CDP VLBI
Distribution: rec
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:47:39 GMT

In article <92240.114812U38956@uicvm.uic.edu> U38956@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
>I agree that Alien 3 was pretty raunchy.  As a movie by itself (had there
>have been no Alien and Aliens) it would have been OK.  But as a sequel?
>
>The thing that got me the most is that in the future year of 2470 or whatever
>year it was, we have all this high technology--so high we can travel through
>the voids of space and hypersleep, etc--yet we are still SO DUMB that
>we still where glasses (you'd think someone could've found a REAL corrective
>measure for this age-old problem) AND we still use the friggin' english
>system of measurement rather than SI!  (At the end, they say that they would
>pour so many TONS of liquid metal on the alien).  You'd think someone
>in the future would have realized that it's much easier to use a system
>based on 10 then one based on 32.2!  I bet the Alien was using the SI system!
>

Just to pick a nit, the English system is(was) not 'based on 32.2.'  No 
common unit in the English system is equal to 32.2 sub units.  Rather like
criticizing SI for being based on 2.9979E8, right?

>(Hey, Aliens don't where glasses either!  Hmmmmm.......)
>

For that matter, don't you think the English language will have changed as 
much in the next 500 years or so as it has in the last?  Hmm, perhps the
dialog (and the units as well) are TRANSLATED into current usage to make it
understandable to contemporary audiences.

By this day and age, though, I agree that American audiences should be able 
to handle SI units.

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