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O'Neill was in The Reincarnation of Peter Proud w / Michael Sarrazin who was in They Shoot Horses , Don't They ? w / Gig Young who was in Desk Set w / Spencer Tracy who was in Broken Lance w / Wagner NEXT - Eli Wallach

A bland title disguises this solidly-carpentered example of old-fashioned Hollywood entertainment , this film proves a largely successful hodgepodge of several disparate elements : a period piece , a romantic drama , a crime movie and a political thriller . Interestingly , though made by Fox , its protagonists - - Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck - - were both usually associated with other studios ; their on screen chemistry here is palpable and eventually led to marriage in a couple of years ' time . While a bit too young , Taylor is a dashing hero ( a Marine personally appointed by President McKinley to uncover the culprits behind an organized clean-up of numerous banks ) ; unsurprisingly , no sooner has he tracked them down ( led by smooth Brian Donlevy and thuggish Victor McLaglen ) that he falls for a chanteuse ( naturally , Stanwyck ) who has thrown her lot with the gang - - although , truth be told , singing is far from being the actress ' forte ! Similarly , apart from having to prove his worth to make it into their fold , he has to vie with McLaglen for Stanwyck's attentions ; by the way , the practical joker persona of the former reminded me a lot of Charley Chase in SONS OF THE DESERT ( 1933 ) which , incidentally , was likewise directed by William A . Seiter . Later on , Taylor is in two minds about involving Stanwyck in the impending bait and tries to offer his resignation to the President while eloping with the girl - - but the jealous rival disrupts his plans . The robbery gone awry , we find Donlevy dead and the other two in jail ; Taylor's hopes for McKinley's intervention - - having meanwhile learned the identity of the elusive and obviously prominent ' inside man ' - - are seemingly dashed when the President winds up assassinated himself ( a great plot twist , though the resulting eleventh-hour suspense feels contrived ) ! To get back to the film's jumble of styles , even if the vaudeville sequences are a matter of taste , the romantic triangle slows things up and it skimps somewhat on the thriller aspect , this emerges a handsome production indeed - - with the actors already mentioned ably supported by the likes of John Carradine ( who unaccountably disappears after just one scene ! ) , Douglas Fowley , Sig Rumann and , as two American Presidents , Sidney Blackmer ( the bubbly Theodore Roosevelt ) and Frank Conroy ( McKinley ) .

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Your comparing Jesus to Hitler ? And saying he's billions of tomes more evil then hitler ? Do you know anything about the Holocaust ? The Nazi's Final Solution merely brought a Ford-assembly-line style of efficiency to something the Christian Church had been doing to the Jews for centuries ( bear in mind I'm poised ready with a scythe aimed at your neck should you even attempt a ' No True Scotsman ' response ! ) . § " The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters . " §

Sometimes a really talented director can improve on his source material . This was true for Kubrick when he made 2001 and The Shining , and it was true for Darabont when he made The Green Mile and The Mist . I'm not sure I would go so far as to say that Lynch improved on Herbert's material , but his version of Dune is uniquely entertaining . I enjoy it immensely . Have you ever seen a Lynch film ? § " The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters . " §

Yeah , life is unfair , but it is what it is , but at the very least people should be entitled to opinions . I do prefer the original for what it was , so innovative at the time , such a great idea . But , I enjoyed the remake for what it was too . We still have six more minutes to play .

Ok cool . I would prefer MP4 if you can send it . That's if you can send it . Even if it's another file type , though , I can convert it , but it took like 2 hours to download and i don't wanna do that again ! On April 30th , the Nightmare returns .

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hahaha , karihsma and madhuri are NOT better than Manisha but yes , Manisha has made bad choices in the last years . Seeing that Amitabh is chasing the young skirts , he'd do fine with Priyanka . " If you're prematurely born , you rock ! "

Velez was in Stardust w / Wallace Ford who was in Warlock w / Widmark next : Gael García Bernal

I'm way older than 19 and way younger than 42 . . . and I loved it too ! Upside Down does not equal Downside Up

Haha , ok , sure . Well , please don't reply unless it's to the OP , this thread is getting ridiculous . We still have six more minutes to play .

I had long wanted to watch this romantic drama ( with a WWII setting ) and , now that I have , all I can say is that it's a veritable masterpiece of Russian cinema ! Soviet films are known for their overzealous propagandist approach but , thankfully , this one's free of such emphasis - with the interest firmly on the central tragic romance between a promising artist and a vivacious girl , doomed by the outbreak of war for which he gladly volunteers but from which he'll never return . The girl ( a remarkable performance from Tatyana Samojlova ) is also loved by the young man's cousin and , when she doesn't receive word from her boyfriend , gives in to the latter and marries him . He , however , is an aspiring concert pianist bitter about the war having curtailed his chances for success and , knowing too that the girl's still devoted to the soldier , begins to neglect her . Finally , word reaches the girl of her loved one's death but , by the end of the film , she has learnt to accept this as a sacrifice to their native country and is content to live with her memories of him . The film features some truly amazing camera-work which makes extremely judicious use of the screen space and , by frequently adopting tracking , tilted and high or low angle shots , renders great power to the unfolding emotional drama . Individual sequences are equally impressive - two in particular : the stunning scene , frenetically edited and sped-up to boot , in which the girl saves an abandoned boy from being trampled by a truck ; and the young man's premature demise in an unfortunate incident at the front , undoubtedly one of the best of its kind I've ever watched ( with the sun moving away from him , symbolizing the life that's seeping out of his body , as he imagines the wedding day he'll never have ! ) . Also notable , however , is the scene where the girl goes to look for her parents in her home that's been hopelessly devastated during an air raid ; as is her final violent capitulation to the concert pianist - which she tries to resist by repeatedly slapping him in the face - taking place during a later air raid and making particularly effective use of a set of billowing curtains ! Disappointingly , the R1 DVD of this outstanding film is a bare-bones affair ( the RusCiCo edition features a few supplements but , being an export , tends to be heavily overpriced and hard to track down to boot ! ) ; Criterion released it in conjunction with another war-themed Russian classic , BALLAD OF A SOLDIER ( 1959 ) - which my pal at the local DVD rental outlet has told me is forthcoming . . . The only other film I've watched from this director is the Arctic epic THE RED TENT ( 1969 ; albeit via the much-shorter U . S . - release version ! ) , a star-studded international production based on true events ; given the unmistakable artistic quality of THE CRANES ARE FLYING , I regret missing out now on his famous documentary I AM CUBA ( 1964 ) a number of times when I was in Hollywood late last year : apart from receiving a one-week theatrical run , it was shown more than once on TV accompanied by a feature-length " Making Of " ! !

If he did say this , my thought is that Freddy was manipulating her into thinking it was reality , when it was really a dream . Freddy wouldn't survive the circumstances in real life , so the only thing to guess is that Nancy never woke up after falling asleep on that bed . On April 30th , the Nightmare returns .

Here's a pretty cool read . http www rottentomatoes com m nightmare on elm street news 1879113 a _ nightmare _ on _ tims _ street _ day _ 1 Who else is gonna start watching all the films ? Starting tomorrow I will watch all 8 films , one each night . He was burned alive , and on April 30th , He returns .

Allan was A Woman Rebels w / Katharine Hepburn who was in Suddenly , Last Summer w / Elizabeth Taylor who was in Giant w / Mineo NEXT - - Norman Bartold

On the strength of my theatrical viewing of THE WOLFMAN ( 2010 ) , given that I am currently going through a " Euro-Cult " phase anyway , I opted to check out a handful of Gothic Horror efforts for the coming week . More by accident than design , I started things off with this one , involving as it does a man turning into a monster ( though the change , in this case , is self-imposed in the " Jekyll & Hyde " manner ) . Actually , apart from the latter ( much-abused ) tradition , the film was obviously inspired by one of the more influential horror classics of the era - - the sublime EYES WITHOUT A FACE ( 1959 ) . In fact , here we have yet another girl whose face gets scarred ( though the auto accident occurs so quickly that one can hardly even see what it was the driver had averted to end up off the road ! ) and cured ( if only for a little while , causing periodical resort to murder ) by an eminent but clearly deranged scientist ( who has no qualms about sacrificing a devoted assistant to the cause on realizing he has fallen for his patient ! ) . In spite ( or because ) of the poor-quality print I acquired , the Gothic atmosphere - - though , like EYES WITHOUT A FACE ( or , for that matter , a similar albeit vastly superior Italian offering i . e . I VAMPIRI [ 1956 ] ) , this actually retains a modern-day setting - - is quite nicely done ( with the laboratory scenes in particular exuding that recognizable Universal feel , even if the radioactive chamber in which the transformation occurs seems to derive more from the tele-portation machine of THE FLY [ 1958 ] ) and we even get the obligatory hulking dumb servant . The make-up , by the way , is reasonably hideous but as for convincing ( to say nothing of scary ) , that is another matter entirely : incidentally , I found it quite insensitive to suggest that radiation victims could go insane and embark on an apparently haphazard killing spree ! ; at one time , he even performs the gland extraction vital for his operations ( off-screen ) in a packed cinema and under the cops ' very nose ! For what it is worth , both the film's international and original titles are misleading - - the monster is clearly not a vampire but , then , the Italian moniker translates to SEDDOK , THE HEIR OF Satan ( though actually referred to by that name , it makes no sense and also seems to come out of nowhere ! ) . Unfortunately , the English dubbing is atrocious and so harshly recorded as to make the dialogue unintelligible at times ! ; all things considered , however , I found the film - - whose most recognizable cast members are Alberto Lupo's villain and heroic Sergio Fantoni - - to be a pleasant surprise ( especially in view of Leonard Maltin's unflattering BOMB rating ) . For the record , although the version I watched is 87 minutes long , apparently there are other prints in circulation running anywhere between 69 and 105 !

It is mediocre - and I really didn't much care for Angels & Demons - either the film or the book . There's a third book , about the Freemasons , but I feel so ambivalent about Dan Brown's work that I haven't made any effort to read it . § " The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters . " §

For me , it was The Dead Man . I was probably 10 or 11 when I saw it in syndication , and to me , decayed corpses and mummies were about the scariest things there were . I do not mean to criticize Night Gallery , since it's one of my favorite TV series , but most of the episodes were not very hard-hitting in the ' scare ' department . Many of its offering vacillated between humor and boredom ( humorous example : Hell's Bells ; boring example : The Academy ) . The Doll is creepy , but I don't know if I could call it scary . § " El sueño de la razón produce monstruos . " §

I endured them , somewhat disinterestedly , yeah . What of it ? Do you have an observation to make about them ? § " The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters . " §

Yeah , I think it might thought , I was just reading an interview where Bayer said that they would put a lot of specials in there , like the " dream map " . Here's the interview , although it is old , it still may be true . . . What will see on the DVD ? Any deleted scenes ? We got some stuff up our sleeve that ended up on the cutting room floor . So we got some surprises . The nightmare map ? Yeah , the nightmare map is probably on the cutting room floor . You'll see some stuff like that . 1 , 2 Guess who's coming for you .

I'd been looking forward to this one , in view of its time-travel / reincarnation theme ( released as part of a 10-movie set of minor Tyrone Power vehicles , I had opted to acquire it through ulterior sources - - though I may still get my hands on some of the other titles ) . Still , I was surprised by how well this implausible yet fascinating theme is handled here - - surely making for one of the star's most underrated ( and unusual ) efforts . Made in Britain , the film was based on John L . Balderston's romantic fantasy play " Berkeley Square " ( the literate adaptation here is by Ranald MacDougall ) - - already brought to the screen in 1933 under that name ( while the original title of this one is actually THE HOUSE IN THE SQUARE ) ; the first version is virtually impossible to see nowadays , though it did land Leslie Howard an Oscar nomination - - the ultimate irony , given that the transcendental narrative essentially bestows its protagonist with immortality , is that an untimely demise was in store for the leading man of both cinematic renditions ! Anyway , Power is an American scientist working in England ( the initial radiation experiment is intriguing but superfluous and misleading under the circumstances ) who lives in a house belonging to an ancestor of his and who conveniently looked just like him . Finding the latter's diary , he learns that he had been persecuted for his strange beliefs and practices and was eventually locked up in an insane asylum - - he becomes convinced that , by some quirk of nature , the two had actually exchanged places and , soon enough , he's hit by a bolt of lightning and wakes up in 1784 ! He meets the family of his forebear including the latter's future wife ( Beatrice Campbell ) ; thanks to letters which had been preserved and that he had read , Power's initially able to comfortably fill his shoes - - however , he then meets and falls for Ann Blyth , Campbell's sister and of whom he was unaware ! Soon , the hero begins to commit other gaffes by which he demonstrates to be perceptive of things that hadn't yet occurred or , at least , weren't common knowledge ( from the gift of a shawl for Campbell which Blyth hadn't even unpacked , the secret and subsequently famous portrait of a Duchess - - played by Kathleen Byron - - by the painter Gainsborough , delivering the lady's own obituary at a ball , not to mention ' feeding ' Dr . Johnson with some of his own celebrated epigrams [ ! ] , etc ) . This doesn't sit at all well with either Campbell ( who's unwilling to keep up her engagement to Power , not least because of his constant attentions for her sister ) or the vindictive Raymond Huntley ( Blyth's much older suitor ) . The hero , finding himself increasingly out-of-touch with the times , retires to a basement in a poor quarter of town to ' recreate ' future inventions such as the light bulb and the model of a steam-ship ; when these are discovered , they're branded the handiwork of a sorcerer by eminent scientist Felix Aylmer - - the place is destroyed there and then , while Power is on his way to perpetual confinement in Bedlam ! Other notable cast members are Dennis Price ( playing an amiable rake , as was his fashion during this time - - the relentless and rather effeminate pursuit of etiquette by the aristocrats , in fact , is just about the sole blemish on the picture ) and Michael Rennie ( as Power's pragmatic scientist associate in the modern-day sequences ) . Incidentally , the film utilizes moody black-and-white cinematography for these bookends - - while soft but attractive color is employed throughout the central ' fantasy ' section ; both are courtesy of Georges Perinal , a top French cameraman resident in Britain for over thirty years . Similarly , Power effectively tackles both facets of his character : the film , ultimately , can be read as both a morality play ( the hero's decision to tempt Fate which , as often happens , subsequently threatens to unbalance the order of the things ) and a celebration of that well-worn Surrealist concept - - l ' amour fou - - in his relationship with a radiant Blyth ( herself playing a dual role , the second as Rennie's sister who had cared for the Power's even more bewildered ancestor in his unseen tenure in the 20th century ) . Given my appreciation for THE HOUSE IN THE SQUARE ( the title I'm partial to myself ) , I'm all the more interested now in one day catching the original version . Finally , this was one of British director Baker ( a future horror regular ) ' s brief four-movie brush with Hollywood - - I'd already watched DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK ( 1952 ; which I also own ) and INFERNO ( 1953 ) , but not the minor noir NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP ( 1952 ) .

Oh yes , now it sounds like the title of a Himesh Rehsmi film . ( \ _ _ / ) ( = ' . ' = ) ( " ) _ ( " )

I hear that . It's a shame the generation will settle for this . Like I said , remakes are okay , but I really want something new . That's why I liked Paranormal Activity . He was burned alive , and on April 30th , He returns .

' Blue Velvet ' & ' Speed ' ( but I do have some catching up to do where many of his movies are concerned ) . ( \ _ _ / ) ( = ' . ' = ) ( " ) _ ( " )

No , they were talking to me . They are , in my book , the textbook definition of a troll . We still have six more minutes to play .

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This is basically a neat reworking of IT HAPPENED AT THE WORLD’S FAIR ( 1963 ) by the same director , no less : Bill Bixby replaces Gary Lockwood as Elvis’ scoundrel sidekick ( and results in being quite amusing ) , Nancy Sinatra stands in for ( and easily upstages ) Joan O’Brien – Ol’ Blue Eyes’ daughter , a singing star in her own right , makes a better-than-usual match for The King – and , instead of one Asian child , we get six homeless kids and their ex-racer father , etc . Besides , the songs are also above-par and rockier than usual and even Sinatra gets her own " impromptu " number . The instances of crazy comedy – usually brought on by Elvis’ frustration with I . R . S . " agent " Sinatra’s doggedness – are also present here and anticipate the next , and last , Presley / Taurog collaboration , LIVE A LITTLE , LOVE A LITTLE ( 1968 ) ; among the highlights are Elvis punching through a hotel-room door and knocking out a passerby and then punching his racing rival in the hotel lobby who consequently slides on his back all the way into an empty elevator ! The racing-car scenes themselves are okay – a milieu with which Elvis was quite familiar , having already played similar roles ( or so I hear ) in both VIVA LAS VEGAS ( 1964 ) and SPINOUT ( 1966 ) .

Well she still looked hot but black , brown and red hair look way better on her . You're fired ! ! !

I read some reviews before going to see the movie & the critics said it was similar to FAME . I saw Fame when it was initially released in 1980 . I thought it had an outside chance for a Best Picture Nomination , but it was nominated in 4 categories & it did win best song for Irene Cara . I give it a . I like the premise ( acting school for teenagers ) . Everyone was excellent , I looked up most of the cast history in IMBd of course , a majority of them are acting on screen for the first time . Don Dixon is excellent as the washed-up , alcoholic composer & Daniel Letterle ( Vlad ) could be the next Brad Pitt . The dialogue is excellent , sensitive & adults should be able to relate to it as well as teenagers . Steven Sondheim make a good came . There is also an ' All About Eve " subplot which is hilarious . It will probably be nominated for Best Movie ( Musical / Comedy ) in the Golden Globe & also best ensemble acting by SAG ( Screen Actors Guild ) . The Oscar may give a nod to Don Dixon some astute observers once said the Academy loves alcoholics )

' Rest all are rumors . . . I mean , a desperate woman ( the desperation of those years ) will refuse Troy or Mr . and Mrs . Smith or Bond movie and go on to do The Last Legion or The Pink Panther or Spices movie ? ? ? ? . . . Also listed was Racing the Monsoon with Michael Douglas . . . whatever happened to it . ' LOL , so true ! ( \ _ _ / ) ( = ' . ' = ) ( " ) _ ( " )

Allen was in A Damsel in Distress w Joan Fontaine who was in Frenchman's Creek w Cecil Kellaway who was in Brother Orchid w Robinson next - Ethan Hawke

Henry Gibson was in Kiss Me , Stupid w / Kim Novak who was in PicnicWilliam Holden who was in The Proud and Profane w / Deborah Kerr who was in Young Bess w / Laughton Next - - Edward Asner

Thanks , I thought that scene layd out pretty well , I wanted Freddy to be creepy but fun at the same time . Also , was wondering what you thought about the next idea I might be puttnig in . . . Maybe keep the remaining part of the script investigating the dream world , which means a good amount of Freddy . I feel like no movie in the series really investigated the dream world . 1 , 2 Guess who's coming for you .

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Rip Torn was in Dodgeball : A True Underdog Story w Hank Azaria next - Billy Bob Thornton

One of two things can happen : a ) You can persuade her to abandon Mormonism to be with you , which will estrange her from her family , or b ) You can join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints , and make yourself worthy to the extent that you're granted a Temple recommend from a Mormon bishop . Your going into the Temple is necessary , not only to your salvation , but to hers . You must be sealed in a Mormon Temple Marriage Ceremony , for all eternity . Her fate will be linked with yours . Your failure to follow this path will bar her from heaven so long as she is with you , something she may resent , and her family certainly will . § " The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters . " §

Happy Birthday Della !

Why ? Why do you feel it requires any action on your part , much less urging the equivalent of community action ? Severing all ties precludes the possibility of further entertainment . § " The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters . " §

Asking is best , because everyone is so truthful , particularly about their sexuality . § " The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters . " §

Well , if I can't pick all , I would go with 3 . Although it was subpar to the other films , the finale , coming full tilt like it did , really had to push Sid to her limits . We still have six more minutes to play .

There's no good reason to believe the Ark ever existed , save perhaps as a Canaanite mobile shrine . which the Yahwists later found it necessary to destroy , like they did Nehushtan , another such cultic object . § " The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters . " §

I recall this film coming out , but have stayed away from it until now because I had assumed it was strictly a modernistic juvenile version of the vampire legend . As it turned out , the real heroes are resourceful , knowledgeable boys a ' la THE MONSTER SQUAD ( 1987 ) – which I did catch on VHS many years ago and now intend to revisit soon . The cast is certainly interesting : Kiefer Sutherland may have the showiest role ( as the lead vampire ) , but Jason Patric is also good as the confused new kid in town unwittingly initiated into the vampire cult . The ubiquitous two Coreys ( Haim and Feldman ) still exude the charm which made them a popular team around this time ; Barnard Hughes almost steals the show as the eccentric grandpa who eventually saves the day , and utters the film's great closing line ; Dianne Wiest and Edward Herrmann are less appealing in their roles as the adults . The vampire make-up is OK , and it was nice to see them hanging upside down in caves rather than lying around in coffins . The extended climactic fight may be excessively gory for a kiddie film , but ends the film on a satisfactory note . The reveal of nerdy Herrmann as the villain was not too convincing – nor is his clamoring for Wiest as his vampire bride ! ! – and the film would have been better off without them . I liked the in-jokes where movie posters / video box covers – including O LUCKY MAN ! ( 1973 ) – were incorporated into the film's production design ; also effective was the use of a children's ditty on the soundtrack – but that sax-playing muscleman / rock star act was beyond camp . By the way , executive producer Richard Donner was intended to direct but passed on the chores to Joel Schumacher who , all things considered , made a slick , hip and entertaining job of it .

I find her incredibly sexy and cute too . ( \ _ _ / ) ( = ' . ' = ) ( " ) _ ( " )

Yeah , they all should be watched , but only the two listed by espojay are very good . The others fall into the same stereotypical plots , and can become very boring . However , it's worth a watch , at least once . 1 , 2 Guess who's coming for you .

Such a shame it ended so early . It had so much potential . I am a diehard fan , and I love absolutely every episode . It hurt so much to see the show fall , and the finale broke my heart . Too many good shows bite the dust because the majority of the dumbed down masses enjoy watching reality tv , and what's wrong with celebrities lives . It's truly a shame . Why are you screaming ? I haven't even cut you yet .

LIV TYLER was in The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring w Ian Holm who was in Oh What a Lovely War w Laurence Olivier who was in Lady Caroline Lamb w Chamberlain next - Chris Rock

I recall this being released , but I had missed out on it back then ; consequently , I'd been looking forward to catching up with it ever since - - in view of the subject matter and the distinctive vocal involvement of horror icon Vincent Price in the role of the fiendish Professor Rattigan ( it's ironic , then , that when I finally watched it , his voice was dubbed in Italian ! ) . Anyway , while it was generally engaging and mercifully involved only a handful of songs , I was somewhat let down by it : being only 74 minutes long , the plot was too slight - - and obvious - - to generate the requisite suspense ( still , the way it integrated the kidnapping of a toymaker with Rattigan's intended takeover of the British monarchy was cleverly done ) . While the classic Disney animation style is seldom in evidence ( the visuals being flat overall when they should have been stylized ) , the studio's penchant for anthropomorphized characters is well up to par . Basil and Dr . Dawson are close enough , at least , to Hollywood's typical conception of Conan Doyle's creations ( with the sleuthing rodent using logical ingenuity when cornered by his arch-nemesis and even adopting eccentric disguise during his investigation ) . However , much of the proceedings are stolen by Basil's amiable hound and Rattigan's absent-minded bat ; the climax involving Big Ben , then , proves to be satisfactorily exciting .

This independently-produced British army comedy is chiefly notable now as Peter Sellers ' film debut and for being the only starring screen vehicle for comic radio performers The Goons ( of which Sellers himself was a member ) . Actually , it wasn't as bad as I had anticipated - - given the unenthusiastic reviews online ( chiefly because it's said that their material has been heavily diluted in the transition ) ; still , it's not helped by the dated TV-style technique on display . Curiously enough , the laughs come mostly from the characterization of a scruffy , absent-minded Professor played by Michael Bentine - - the least-known and shortest-lived member of the group ! Of the other three , Harry Secombe is the nominal lead - - but his character doesn't have a distinct personality ( at least in this incarnation ) ; Spike Milligan is a private whose dopey countenance and voice seems to have been inspired by Goofy , the canine star of Walt Disney cartoons ! ; Peter Sellers , surely the Goon with the most prominent subsequent career ( I've just acquired a number of his work from the 1960s and 1970s ) , is reasonably impressive - - if basically playing it straight - - as an elderly Major . The plot has to do with a secret gas formula devised by Bentine , which is coveted by enemy agents who infiltrate the camp ( looking out for him is a female member of M . I . 5 passing herself off as Sellers ' daughter ) ; Secombe , then , is the everyman hero who unwittingly finds himself ' drafted ' . Unfortunately , most of the second half ( the film runs for a mere 71 minutes ) is taken up by a putting-on-a-show routine showcasing a number of resistible song-and-dance performers - - though the busy climax , at least , shows three of The Goons all dressed in similar outfits to confuse the villains ( a gag probably lifted from The Crazy Gang's THE FROZEN LIMITS [ 1939 ] , which I've recently watched ) . . . while Sellers , somewhat irrelevantly , does a couple of impersonations on stage ( a great talent he possessed and which he would constantly fall back on for the rest of his career ) .

Greta Garbo was in Anna Christie w / Marie Dressler was in Tugboat Annie w / Maureen O'Sullivan was in The Thin Man w / Powell NEXT - Faye Dunaway

Watched out of necessity rather than choice ( due to limitations inherent in my DVD recorder's system ) , I really did not expect to be bowled over by this one - - not least because I had been underwhelmed by the subsequent collaboration between director Mulligan and leading man Steve McQueen , BABY THE RAIN MUST FALL ( 1965 ) , earlier this year - - but I was . That said , I knew of its reputation as one of the best showcases for both McQueen and co-star Natalie Wood ( she even received an Oscar nod for her work here ) - - and I certainly agree , going so far as to say that they were probably never better . In essence , this is MARTY ( 1955 ) for a younger and more reckless generation ( though the protagonists , in this case , are anything but " dogs " ) - - demonstrating the same feeling for the place ( New York ) and a particular section of its people ( Italian immigrants ) . The narrative ( accompanied by a lovely , yet sturdy , Elmer Bernstein score ) basically resolves itself in a series of extended scenes set in domestic , working or urban environments - - with the most unusual being the opening sequence at a ballroom-cum-employment agency where musician McQueen hustles his way to the odd engagement and , later , when he and Wood hide from her overprotective brothers inside his family's dilapidated dwelling ( where Jack Jones is even briefly heard crooning the film's title tune ) . In this respect , plaudits must go to Arnold Schulman's exceptional Oscar-nominated script : it is no coincidence that his name atypically precedes even that of the supporting cast ! Incidentally , while I included the film among my " Drama " viewing ( involving , after all , the attempt to abort an unwanted pregnancy borne of a one-night stand ) , it features almost as much comedy - - that , being just as well-observed , adds another layer to the intended realism . Wood's relationship with her possessive family is especially entertaining but also her efforts to dodge , and later withstand , gawky admirer Tom Bosley ( in an impressive debut ) - - whose equivalent in McQueen's life is played by Edie Adams : the former , in fact , has no qualms about taking ' new ' girlfriend Wood to her flat while she is away at work ! Also , though the latter stages descend into repetitive confrontations between the stars , this does eventually pay off in a hilarious finale - - with McQueen deciding to conform to Wood's idealized view of love ( even if it means embarrassing himself in public ) rather than lose her . In conclusion , I had tried to get hold of this one back in January to be included in my planned retrospective to commemorate the recently deceased Mulligan : while that attempt did not pan out at the time , I happened again upon it just this week , obviously managing now to acquire a copy of the film ; for the record , I still have a couple more of the director's efforts to check out ( both also delayed for some reason from that initial tribute ) i . e . THE GREAT IMPOSTOR ( 1961 ) and BLOODBROTHERS ( 1978 ) .

Does anyone feel like PD wouldn't be capable of makoing a sequel to their remakes ? I loved the remake , but could they come back and improve on it , and incorporate all the things , like characters , from the first one ? On April 30th , the Nightmare returns .

The circumstances are not the same . . . you will have to watch thru to the 3rd season . § " The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters . " §

One does not need to be a militant atheist to make the observation that the Bible endorses slavery , and offers guidelines for its practice . No less a Christian than Peter J Gomes ( http en wikipedia org wiki Peter J Gomes makes the case . In fact , that's where I first read the argument , its scriptural justification , and its history , in Gomes's book , The Good Book . http www amazon com Good Book Reading Bible Heart dp 0380723239 A review : http tinyurl com 2azw5xt § " The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters . " §

While their short-lived marriage was long gone , this is the fourth of five Roger Vadim / Brigitte Bardot collaborations and only the second I've watched myself . After opening in a light comedy vein , this rather scrappy film turns into an unappetizingly ponderous melodrama on the lines of LA DOLCE VITA ( 1960 ) , complete with a risibly " beat " orgy sequence and a surfeit of pretentious chat ; nevertheless , the whole is somewhat redeemed by the attractive Italian locations in its second half and the nice musical score throughout . For what it's worth , it tells of a bourgeois girl ( Bardot ) - - shortly to be married to an unassuming young man - - travelling from Paris to Dijon to hear the will of her late aunt , who accidentally stumbles on the suicide attempt of a bohemian , pulp-thriller-loving misanthrope ( Robert Hossein ) who , upon recovering , literally turns her life upside down . The cast is completed by James Robertson Justice ( as Hossein's sculptor friend ) , Macha Meril ( as Robertson's tramp companion ) and , in one sequence , Michel Serrault as a notary . In the end , the original title of THE WARRIOR'S REST sounds far more interesting that what's on offer here and the fact that I was misinformed about the film's running time - - I thought it was a good 22 minutes shorter ! - - did not help to earn it much affection from my end . But , then , the sight of Bardot in her prime ( and , Vadim being Vadim , in various stages of undress as well ) is always welcome . . .

There are five Warner shorts featuring Inki , of which this one is the first . One has to be of a certain age to recall seeing the cartoon , because it is now ( justly ) considered to be racially insensitive . ( I myself haven't seen it since the early 70's . ) The decision to vault such cartoons is unfortunate , because they're quite entertaining , and are essential examples of cultural mores of the time . Even if one cannot find the entertainment merit in these cartoons , they still serve as examples of past attitudes , and to forget these is to take progress for granted . Warner should release these , with whatever explanations and disclaimers deemed necessary . This short can be seen on YouTube . The Little Lion Hunter ( 1939 ) http www imdb com title tt0031579 Inki and the Lion ( 1941 ) http www imdb com title tt0033756 Inki and the Minah Bird ( 1943 ) http www imdb com title tt0036041 Inki at the Circus ( 1947 ) http www imdb com title tt0039493 Caveman Inki ( 1950 ) http www imdb com title tt0042322 § " The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters . " §

Co-producer Vincent Cassel gave his handsome star Vincent Cassel ( son of the late international star Jean-Pierre ) a chance to essay the colorful character role of the repulsive gardener Joseph . Watching him mugging about in a scruffy-haired , ugly-toothed make-up provides most of the fun that is to be had from this peculiar but largely disagreeable diabolical French horror flick ; there is little I hate more than the sight of young people waving their arms around in that silly ' hip-hop ' fashion and , unfortunately , there is a lot of that going on in the first half of the film . . . but I must say that watching Cassel's baffled reaction to it was very amusing ! Anyhow , three youngsters ( each of a distinct race and creed ) get in trouble during a Christmas Eve on the town until a beautiful girl ( Roxane Mesquida of 2001's FAT GIRL fame ) they meet in a disco invites them to spend the night at her farm on the outskirts ; there they meet Joseph , his equally unattractive and very pregnant wife , a mentally-challenged relative , the town slut and several of her lusty pretenders . While there is not much gore to be had during the 94-minute running-time , the film-makers decided to substitute that with some disgusting visuals instead : a free-for-all nude swim in the hot waters of a cave ; Joseph licking his pregnant's wife tummy ; the latter breaking water in the corridor at the climax ; an all-important eye-gouging and , worst of all , a completely irrelevant flashback to one of the youngster's one-night stand with ( again ) an unattractive girl in a tent where her private regions are represented as a table replete with unappetizing food ! The events depicted in the film could well be a nightmare being experienced by that same unlucky youngster after being beaten up at the discotheque . . . or the would-be Satanic rituals revolving around the birth of Cassel's child might really be happening - - but , frankly , one never cares enough about any of the characters to spend much time afterwards on sorting it all out . For what it is worth , Cassel's real-life wife Monica Bellucci appears briefly as a female vampire in the black-and-white film-within-a-film being shown on TV at one point !

This five-part ( or six , if you count the bookends ) horror anthology is on the same lines as the earlier ( and much classier ) efforts of British horror specialists Amicus and looks forward to TV's TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE ( 1984-88 ) , AMAZING STORIES ( 1985-87 ) and TALES FROM THE CRYPT ( 1989-96 ) series . The first two stories here - featuring Ed Harris and Viveca Lindfors in one and screenwriter Stephen King ( mugging mercilessly ) in the other are rather lame , but the rest are quite nicely done : the third episode with Leslie Nielsen and Ted Danson gives the nascent white-haired comic a chance to be sarcastically sadistic and arrogantly defiant to the suitably ironic end ; the fourth story is arguably the best and features a good cast as it tells of henpecked college professor Hal Holbrook who takes Fritz Weaver's incredible discovery of a prehistoric killer ape in the college basement as an opportunity to dispose of his loudmouthed , alcoholic wife Adrienne Barbeau ! ; the last segment , then , is basically a one-man tour-de-force by veteran character actor E . G . Marshall as an egomaniacal billionaire who has his state-of-the-art apartment unceremoniously invaded by his pet hate , bugs ! This being a George A . Romero / Stephen King / Tom Savini collaboration , it can hardly fail to feature fashionable gore and elaborate make-up effects - the marauding corpse of Lindfors ' father still after his cake ; King's transformation into a plant-thing after coming in contact with a meteorite ; the sea-weed infested corpses of Danson and his drowned companion as they visit Nielsen at his house ; the prehistoric ape and the bloody mayhem it leaves in its wake ; and , most gruesomely perhaps , Marshall's chest bursting and , for no good reason , what seem like thousands of bugs creep out ! Also the film pays tribute to its comic book origins by employing visual embellishments typical of such media and which only adds to the fun . Romero seems to have liked the whole anthology format as he not only wrote CREEPSHOW 2 ( 1987 ) but would soon team up with Dario Argento for their Edgar Allan Poe two-parter , TWO EVIL EYES ( 1989 ; also featuring Barbeau and Marshall ) , which I've yet to watch myself . . .

Yeah , I would put Nightmare over TCM , although that's probably bias becuase I'm a hige Nightmare fan , but , whatever . I also enjoyed Halloween as well . On April 30th , the Nightmare returns .

Many of us were originally drawn to discussions / arguments surrounding The Passion of the Christ . We formed something of a community there , but three years ago , the admins created the Philosophy / Religion board and forcibly relocated us . § " The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters . " §

Earnest , well-mounted but essentially dreary epic about the real-life involvement of an American Jew in the post-war struggle for Israel's independence - - thus sharing its theme with EXODUS ( 1960 ) , and clearly aiming ( but failing ) for a " Marcus Of Israel " feel ! Kirk Douglas stars as Mickey Marcus - - perhaps chosen due to the character's similarities to another historical figure forced by circumstances into leadership , Spartacus , whom Douglas had portrayed in 1960 . He's supported by an eclectic cast which includes Angie Dickinson as his neglected ( ! ) wife , Senta Berger as the Israeli girl he falls for , Topol as an ill-tempered Arab sheik , Luther Adler as a local politician , a plethora of reliable British character actors - - and even guest appearances by Frank Sinatra ( which doesn't amount to much ) , a glum Yul Brynner as a fellow freedom fighter , and John Wayne as a U . S . General whom Douglas initially falls foul of but the two eventually end up respecting one another ( still , seeing Wayne at the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp is about as incongruous as his stint playing the Roman Centurion at Christ's crucifixion in THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD [ 1965 ] ! ) . Despite a sharp script and good individual sequences , the film is compromised by its necessity to be both a spectacle and a message picture ( the WWII flashbacks , for instance , are unnecessary and merely render the film overlong ) ; unsurprisingly , it works best during the action highlights ( complemented by a typically fine Elmer Bernstein score ) . Apparently , the events have been partially fictionalized - - I wonder whether these embellishments concerned the romantic complications and the Hollywood-style ironic ending . For the record , Shavelson had started out as a scriptwriter ( and later director ) of Bob Hope and Danny Kaye vehicles ; this was his most serious effort - - a brave try , but not quite the ' giant ' film he clearly intended . . .

yea unfortunately . Its the studios way of making us go to the theater to see the trailers , so they get more money . Thanks for the post , btw . The brains keeps working for up to 7 minutes after the body dies . I still have 4 minutes with you .

Primitive but fairly engaging Charlie Chan mystery , the first surviving film featuring Warner Oland as the genial Oriental detective : its major draws are the Hawaiian backdrop , the murder investigation centering around Hollywood elite and the interesting cast ( including Bela Lugosi as a phony mystic , Dwight Frye as an impulsive butler named Jessup , and a pre-stardom Robert Young forming half of the bland romantic interest ) . Some of its greatest pleasure , then , derives from the interaction between Oland and Lugosi - - but also the former's relentless amiable mocking of his earnest but dim-witted assistant . The surprising denouement is not entirely plausible ( though seemingly anticipating Hitchcock's STAGE FRIGHT [ 1950 ] ) - - with a revelation concerning Lugosi's true identity , and where the presence of a second murderer is ultimately established . By the way , the film's title - - as explained by Chan - - is a metaphor for death when it arrives unexpectedly . P . S . As was the case recently with HORROR ISLAND ( 1941 ) , my second attempt at watching THE BLACK CAMEL proved more successful than the first - - where the playback had frozen completely three-quarters of the way in . . . and left me curious about the eventual solution of the case !

Yes , it's people like you who popularize trashy movies . " Who the hell are you to tell me how I should feel anyway ? " And who the hell are you to tell me how I should feel ? " Who the hell are you to tell me that my perception is not good and yours is " Didn't you just admit to liking trash ?

Hayden was in The Asphalt Jungle w / Marilyn Monroe Monroe was in / Some Like It Hot w / Jack Lemmon Lemmon was in Days of Wine and Roses w / Remick NEXT : Susan Hampshire

Okay , stealing aside ( I didn't ) , I never said anything about your criticism , did I ? I posted it here to have it critiqued , and understand that not everyone will like it . Which is fine . I was just pissed that you accused me of stealing your scene , which now two other people have said that it didn't look like I stole it from you . And I am on the verge of working with someone else on a joint slasher type screenplay , completely original . We still have six more minutes to play .

Sally Kirkland was in The Way We Were w / Barbra Streisand who Funny Girl w / Walter Pidgeon who was in Quo Vadis w / Deborah Kerr who was in The King and I w / Moreno NEXT - - Robert Downey Jr

LOL , elanor , my dislike for Kareena should make my liking for any other actress makes you wary ? I think you are more wary because of my discussions with Raniji . But with Raniji , it's a different situations as we end up moving in circles ( and that's what tires me ) but I accept our different opinions . I just express my opinions but that doesn't mean I am forcing it on the other person . " a tulawin "

Start with Betty White Connecting actors with actors , appearing in same film , through films in release or tv films

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I didn't think Glen looked to old . He was burned alive , and on April 30th , He returns .

This is the fifth documentary I’m watching whose subject is my all-time favorite film-maker , Luis Bunuel ; it is also the earliest of them and quite possibly the most endearing . It mostly features the great Spaniard himself responding self-deprecatingly in heavily-accented but fluent French to the sometimes obtuse observations of a young interviewer ; Bunuel was a notoriously no-nonsense interviewee who was diffident of the various interpretations critics were all too eager to put forward on his multi-layered films . The informal interview was conducted on the streets of Bunuel’s adopted home of Mexico and , at one point , a two-shot of them is disturbed by the off-screen braying of a passing donkey , at which the director immediately quips , " You’d better insert a shot of the donkey here or else the audience will think we’re making that noise ! " Another amusing element found in this piece is that occasionally Bunuel’s modest replies are completely contradicted in the accompanying footage featuring his close friend ( and eminent French film historian ) Georges Sadoul . For example , the latter claims that Bunuel kept his French wife Jeanne hidden away whenever the Surrealists met at his house in the late 1920s or that the Spanish painter Goya is a clear influence on the director’s visual style . . . but Bunuel will have none of that pigeon-holing ! This documentary – included on the Criterion DVD of VIRIDIANA ( 1961 ) in a slightly abridged form which , I assume , jettisons the inclusion of scenes from Bunuel’s films because of rights issues – is also significant for explaining the director’s apparent " grouchiness " which stemmed from the fact that , as a direct result of his increasing deafness , he willfully withdrew from socializing . Furthermore , Bunuel’s passion for guns ( of which he owned 90 even though he loathed the killing of animals ! ) and gunpowder is briefly touched upon ; Sadoul’s anecdote of Bunuel’s own preparation of a would-be harmless bullet intended for himself that subsequently exploded is the comic highlight of this priceless documentary which is accompanied on the soundtrack by the pounding Calandan Good Friday drumbeats that featured so hauntingly in L’ AGE D’ OR ( 1930 ) .

Exactly , the main thing that came to my mind was some PG-13 movie that claims it's " Unrated " , although the " Unrated " parts wouldn't have even warranted an R rating . Then again , some movies do really have scenes that couldn't be in theaters . The Exorcist comes to mind . 1 , 2 Guess who's coming for you .

Are they going to repeat it ? § " The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters . " §

Fate works in mysterious ways . It's really and eye opener . We still have six more minutes to play .

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Have a good one .

Hamilton was in All the Fine Young Cannibals w / Natalie Wood who was in The Star w / Bette Davis was in Death on the Nile w / Lansbury NEXT : Donald O'Connor

The important thing to remember when watching ' The Prisoner ' remake is that it is not the same as the original . One will enjoy it better , bearing that in mind . § " The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters . " §

it's not certain if he is on steroids Yes it is . It doesn't even take a specialist to figure that out . " There is nothing attractive in looking wrinkly and being bald . " Oh ok , so looking plastic and pumped is absolutely beautiful . " A person getting silicon boobs and being anorexic is horrible to me . " Why ? That's not wrinkly or bald . " I didn't state it as a fact that your favorite movies are trash . " Of course you did but i don't give a damn because you just proved how stupid you are in another thread : Saying Katrina Kaif is better than Manisha Koirala is saying Lindsey Lohan or Paris Hilton is better than Cate Blanchett or Naomi Watts . Lol , there's nothing to discuss with someone who thinks like that . Deranged ! " being anorexic isn't a choice . . . it's a psychological / mental illness " True but it starts with the choice of wanting to become thin . " who cares if he's on steroids , gets hair transplants and face lifts ? he's UGLY as hell . " So true !

Robert Young was in That Forsyte Woman w Janet Leigh who was inTouch of Evil Orson Welles who was in The Long Hot Summer w Franciosa Next - Lindsay Hollister

Lange was in All That Jazz w Roy Scheider who wasin The French Connection w Gene Hackman who was in Marooned w Gregory Peck who was in The Omen w Bille Whitelaw who was Leo the Last w Marcello Mastroianni next - Ving Rhames

Generally hilarious comedy , though not exactly a spoof on the " Invisible Man " series and , in fact , totally unrelated to the first two Universal films or the ones which followed it . A superb cast throws itself gleefully into the madcap proceedings , with Charlie Ruggles as the accident-prone butler and Oscar Homolka's homesick gangster coming off best . John Barrymore was one of the best actors of his generation and , while at this stage in his career he was mainly reduced to B-movie roles , he was never less than commanding and his comedic skills ( as displayed so brilliantly in Howard Hawks ' TWENTIETH CENTURY [ 1934 ] ) are , quite simply , a joy to behold .

ewwwwwwwwwwwwww ! anil kapoor looks like an old hag with a facelift . . hehe , no offense , i think she has the looks and chemistry that allows her to make a great pair with almost every actor . " If you're prematurely born , you rock ! "

Victor Jory and De Havilland were in Dodge City next - Holly Hunter

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This film was shown once on local TV in the early 1980s ( but I was too young to watch it ) and then fell completely off the radar in the interim ; however , thanks to the God-sent overhaul that TCM UK has finally decided to give its long-decaying schedule of endlessly-repeated titles , I was able to finally catch up with it after some 25 odd years ! Not because the film has any kind of reputation per se but its credentials are certainly impeccable and European History has always been one of my favorite subjects in school ( and one in which I excelled in ) . The story of Sweden's Queen Christina had already been dealt with magnificently by Rouben Mamoulian in his eponymous 1933 film which had provided Greta Garbo with arguably her greatest role ; this being made a good 40 permissive years later , the independent-minded Protestant monarch ( Liv Ullmann ) renounces her faith and throne to sneak into the Vatican and pour out her lesbian longings for a childhood friend onto a Roman Catholic Cardinal ( Peter Finch ) engaged to investigate her well-documented wanton ways and her newly-professed piety ! The two stars , reunited a year after Ross Hunter's maligned 1973 musical version of LOST HORIZION , are practically the whole show here despite being surrounded by opulent sets and a cast of thespian notables : Cyril Cusack ( as Christina's guardian ) , Graham Crowden ( as a fellow Cardinal ) , Edward Underdown and Kathleen Byron ( as , respectively , Christina's chivalrous father and embittered mother ) and diminutive Michael Dunn ( in his last film as Christina's enigmatic servant ) . Celebrated cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth shoots the opening abdication scenes in moody candlelight , bathes the film in mist during Christina's childhood reminiscences and lends it a sunny look during her liberated passages ; Nino Rota's music score is also appropriately sensitive or soaring according to the film's moods . Incidentally , another failed historical / religious charade featuring Liv Ullmann I would like to see is Michael Anderson's POPE JOAN ( 1972 ) . . . who knows if TCM UK will likewise surprise me and provide the opportunity to catch up with it in the not-too-distant future ?

I've watched relatively few of director Edwards ' non-PINK PANTHER films ; among the ones I own that I've yet to catch up with are DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES ( 1962 ) , WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE WAR , DADDY ? ( 1966 ) and S . O . B . ( 1981 ) . This one proved among Edwards ' most successful films ( though the curt , with-it title emerges to be rather meaningless ) , drawing attention to itself for treating a serious subject such as mid-life crisis in semi-comedic vein - - though , ultimately , it's nowhere near as incisive or cinematically deft as Luis Bunuel's THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE ( 1977 ) wherein , likewise , a well-respected man continuously humiliates himself in his reckless pursuit of a much younger girl ( s ) - - and , besides , results in being unbalanced somewhat by the slapstick passages . Edwards wrote the script for 10 himself : among the more notable dialogue stretches involve an argument between leads Dudey Moore and Julie Andrews ( the director's real-life wife ) regarding the definition of the ostensibly disparaging term " broad " , and another later on between Moore and Bo Derek - - his character's ' object of desire ' - - with respect to the girl's casual attitude towards sex . Even if she doesn't really feature in it till the last third , Derek became a sex symbol thanks to 10 ; that said , her contribution ( mixing disarming naivete with effortless sensuality , like an updated version of Marilyn Monroe ) is undeniably one of the film's trump cards and , on account of this , I might even have to rent the two notorious vehicles her actor / director husband concocted for her in the early 1980s . Andrews does well enough by her relatively colorless role ( which , naturally , sees her as a singing star ) . Moore's part had originally been accepted by George Segal , but he left the project for some reason ; later , it was offered to Edwards ' former muse Peter Sellers who turned it down but , reportedly , did feature in a cameo - - which scene , however , didn't make the final cut ! Moore , whose career up to this point had been sporadic ( with BEDAZZLED [ 1967 ] , which I've just watched , as his only notable starring vehicle ) suddenly found himself much in demand after his scene-stealing cameo in FOUL PLAY ( 1978 ) . This would eventually lead to his most famous role , ARTHUR ( 1981 ; for which he received an Oscar nomination and one he reprised for a less successful sequel 7 years later ) , another collaboration with Edwards - - MICKEY + MAUDE ( 1984 ) - - and the remake of Preston Sturges ' classic UNFAITHFULLY YOURS ( 1984 ) . Despite the ample nudity ( removed or concealed for network showings of the film ) allowed by the current permissiveness in censorship - - and which is even referenced in the very final scene - - 10 remains an old-fashioned entertainment at heart : not only is Moore's character a musician ( as the star was in real life , after all ) who has a ( thankfully non-stereotyped ) gay songwriting partner in veteran Robert Webber - - but this is also evident in the conservative i . e . tasteful choice of exponents for the soundtrack ( original music and songs by Edwards stalwart Henry Mancini , who gave the film its only Oscar nods , and such standard classical pieces as Ravel's " Bolero " ) . Commendably , the writer-director also gives space here to the minor characters - - notably when the scene shifts to Mexico , such as the sympathetic bartender played by Brian Dennehy and the woman with whom Moore has a clumsy fling ( Dee Wallace ) . With this in mind , the film's single greatest laugh-out-loud moment comes fairly early on in the picture and has to do with the senile servant of the priest who celebrated Derek's marriage to future FLASH GORDON , Sam J . Jones ( when he's visited by Moore in an attempt to learn more about her ) .

Wow ! The telekinetic one sounds like something new for Indian cinema . ' Am also interested in this action-thriller . Are you showing them to producers , directors or both ? All the best : ) . ( \ _ _ / ) ( = ' . ' = ) ( " ) _ ( " )

This is considered a classic of Italian comedy – one of many anthologies satirizing their way of life while showcasing the versatile talents of particular stars ( in this case , Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi ) ; director Risi would himself later make the similarly episodic I COMPLESSI ( 1965 ) , SESSOMATTO ( 1973 ) and this film’s own sequel , I NUOVI MOSTRI ( 1977 ) – which , quite surprisingly , was a Best Foreign Language Academy Award nominee the following year . As with most films of its type , quality varies throughout the 20 ( ! ) episodes – some of these are so short that they’re over before having even begun , while others work their way to a punchline which can be seen coming a mile off ; however , a fair number of them are genuinely inspired and side-splitting to boot ( the general tone throughout , as befits the title , is one of irreverence ) . A few episodes include other name performers – such as Michele Mercier and Lando Buzzanca – but it’s Gassman and Tognazzi’s show all the way ( the two appear either separately or as a team ) . Armando Trovajoli’s upbeat score ( which is mixed with a handful of current hit songs ) is the perfect accompaniment to this entertaining and well-made compilation . My favorite episodes are the following : the opening one – in which scoundrel Tognazzi’s schooling of his nerd-ish son ( real-life offspring Ricky , later an actor and director in his own right ) works all too well , to his own personal detriment ; another where a gang of ' thugs’ including Gassman kidnap an old lady ( apparently for the nth time ) . . . as it transpires not for ransom purposes but , rather , so that she can perform a dangerous and humiliating stunt involving a wheelchair-bound woman being thrown into a pool in a film whose director is Gassman himself ( in another role ) ! ; also , a courtroom drama in which simple-minded Tognazzi’s voluntary testimony is turned against him by the underhanded tactics of the defense counsel ( a flamboyant Gassman ) ; the most famous episode , then , is the concluding one with the stars as a couple of boxers way past their prime who decide to try their luck at the game one last time ( with Gassman in the ring and Tognazzi as his manager ) – we last see them flying a kite on the beach , Gassman having taken such a severe beating that he is reduced to a vegetable ! Other notable skits include the titular episode where a murderer is captured by a couple of cops – except that these are so ugly that one wonders who The Monster actually is ! ; one involving a soldier ( Tognazzi ) who meekly presents his deceased sister’s diary to a newspaper , ostensibly the one she was most sympathetic to herself . . . except that it eventually transpires that he was merely interested in how much he could make out of the salacious memoirs and that he naturally would let them go only to the highest bidder ! ; yet another deals with Gassman , living in the slums with a plethora of kids and relatives , cursing his rotten luck – and , yet , has no qualms about spending his measly pay on soccer matches every Sunday ( where he contrives to forget all his misery and lets rip with enthusiasm for the game ) ! Two ( minor ) episodes , then , play with issues of gender and sexual orientation : in one Gassman even appears in drag as a female literary critic ( who awards the " Book Of The Month " prize to none other than her own protégé , a novice author ! ) , and in another Tognazzi and Gassman play beach studs who discover they have greater affection for each other than their possible ' preys’ !

Shelley Long was in The Money Pit w Maureen Stapleton who was in Airport w George Kennedy who was in The Dirty Dozen w Ernest Borgnine who was in Bad Day at Black rock W Tracy Next - - Jerry Stiller

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JACK HOAR was in To Live and Die in L . A w Willem Dafoe who was in Mississippi Burning w Gene Hackman who was in The Poseidon Adventure w Arthur O'Connell who was in Operation Mad Ball w Lemmon next - Samantha Shelton

I recently made a binge of DVD purchases , and among these were 6 Mondo Macabro releases I had been eyeing for some time . This is the first one I checked out , and it's a stunner - for several reasons ! I had never heard of the film before its DVD announcement - but now I feel that it's been seriously neglected and , hopefully , Mondo Macabro's wonderful " Special Edition " can give this title a new lease of life . Inspired by the same events which were eventually treated directly in Peter Jackson's HEAVENLY CREATURES ( 1994 ) , the film is a perverse little item with rampant anti-Catholicism at its fore and which , unsurprisingly , was banned when it emerged ; with this in mind , I love the way Mondo Macabro ended their description of it on the back cover : " It's a film that should be viewed only by those with very open minds " ! Concerning two teenage girls ' rebellion against their repressed upbringing by making a Satanic pact , in which they dedicate their lives to committing evil , it reminded me of other notorious " Chick Flicks " from the same era such as ALUCARDA ( 1975 ) and TO BE TWENTY ( 1978 ) . The film doesn't have much of a plot and is deliberately paced , but it's held firmly together by the deliciously malevolent performances of the two leads ( and particularly the untrained Jeanne Goupil , from whose viewpoint the events are related , and who subsequently hitched up with first-time director and former actor Seria ! ) . It seems to me that the reason the film is so obscure is that , when new , it was ahead of its time but , even now , it would be almost impossible to make ( despite the ostensibly graphic nature of French cinema today ) - featuring any number of shocking and potentially offensive images , which I won't spoil here for the uninitiated ! Still , I have to mention the disturbing double rape inflicted - or , rather , invited - upon Catherine Wagener ( though playing under-aged , the actress was actually 19 at the time ) and the incredible finale , set inside a crowded school auditorium , which is sparked { sic } by the two girls ' recital on stage of a strange poem by Baudelaire . The simple yet haunting music - performed on the organ or as a cantata - is highly effective , and the DVD extras ( featuring , among others , separate interviews with Seria and Goupil ) complement the film very nicely indeed .

ok , you're obviously a karishma fan so i will try my best not to make her look evil . it wasn't only manisha and raveena with whom karishma had problems with . there were many other actresses like preity zinta , mahima chaudhry , rambha and every other actress who didn't come from a film background . i'm sure govinda has a different opinion of karishma today . by the way , urmila was always the first choice for pinjar . engaged to Schmelie , seduced by AnitaPuff again TakeCareHaveFun

What would you really recognize Stamp from at any rate ? Superman II ? § " The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters . " §

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