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You’re one of the only movie reactors to watch this classic Robin Williams films! I don’t know why. The Fisher King is an incredible movie, with one of Robin Williams greatest performance!! Props Henry… 👍
Henry, this is a non-fiction film. There were actually members of the joint chiefs of staff (e.g., Curtis LeMay) who tried to get the U.S. into a nuclear war with USSR.
Correct. There were quite a few high level big shots in the Pentagon in the early/ mid 60's who were 100% convinced that the U.S. could win a nuclear war with "exceptable losses."
Henry, the gripping feeling that one gets from watching this super-serious film gives you some idea of the everyday reality we had to deal with during the peak of the cold war. It was incredibly frightening.
Hitchcock's decision to include Karen Black and the equally oddball Bruce Dern in this film is a dead giveaway: Hitch decided to make his final film a "tongue-in-cheek" joke on the audience! ...and I think it's also a tribute to the surrealist Luis Bunuel who developed a reputation for playing tricks on (or subtly mocking) the audience.
Thanks for making this video. It's a film I'm not sure I would ever see b/c of poor reviews. But I'm starting to see this as a hidden gem. Here's why: The very sly humor in this film strongly reminds me of films by the surrealist Luis Bunuel, such as "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgoisie." Bunuel is very playful in his films, which are deeply (but humorously) subversive - - i.e., socially critical. If you liked Family Plot, you might enjoy watching "The Discreet Charm..."
Henry, did you know that the actress Karen Black has a cult following? She played some of the oddest and most eccentric roles, which is why so many love her work.
after watching your review of this movie- and my below remarks about Eli Wallach being such a fan actor, my mind goes to Carl Maldin(sp) who was also good in the same move "Babydoll"............then (I've had 6 beers now - so my mind wanders, and so I wish to impart my wandering to you Sir) - Carl Maldin (good actor - not as good as Eli, but good) - so I remember he was in Babydoll (both in it and in a great movie too) - then rememver Carl was in another great movie called "Patton" with George C Scott - who sometimes over acts, but in this movie (Patton) was PERFECT, where Carl Maldin played a supporting acting role. Patton - top movie - top10 pf all time, as was George Scott (in this movie he is top 10 of all time - but in other roles - as in the remake of 12 angry men - Lee Cobb topped him for sure - so Scott was great in Patton, but Lee Cobb was better in 12 angry men.) IMO the most consistantly great actor was Paul Newman - all natural, never over acting. The Hustler (great 60'ds movie about Pool) Cool Hand Luke check out both - and Newman is tops- as are both movies. BTW personal fav is Breaker Morant, with another great actor Edward Woodard (in The Wickerman also - good movie too)...............Breaker Morant - check it out. 2-cents.
BTW Eli Wallach was a top tier actor - RIP. to see more of his acting chops check out "Babydoll" a great 50's movie that has been forgotten sadly. ;-(. 2 cents.
Good movie - and thanks for replies to my posts in other movie reactions. this movie is good (once a time in tha west is much better BTW - Henry Fonda (who is always good) - plays a bad guy!!!!!!! ya - reject type casting, which he did and played an excellent "bad guy" - and the movie was better than the one you are reacting too (which is also of course good) - but the other is better thanks to Jason Bobards, who was always top tier, and Fonda. Charle's Bronson was well ok - he carried it. not a great actor like the other 2, but the movie was better per the script and so he carried his wieght. You've not seen either "Glory" nor "12 Years a Slave"? - or "once upon a time in the west".............if not you need to. have much to say about all of them, but will wait until you have watched them. BTW - I wish to thank you for replying to me a few weeks ago per my "zone of interest" post. there are many movies out there that have been forgotten for reasons I'll never understand - for they were/are worthy - make a social statement, but somehow are lost to cultural memory today. I wish to thank you for our open mindedness to discover some of those forgotten gems. peace to you Sir.
And now AI is creeping up from behind the human race. At what point will it also become part of the equation if it isn't already. This movie came out about 9-10 months after Dr Strangelove, both were in production at the same time if I remember. Both of them have utterly sobering endings.
“Three on a match” was a superstition which goes that if three soldiers lit their cigarettes from the same match, one of the three would be killed or that the man who was third on the match would be shot. Since then, it has been considered bad luck for three people to share a light from the same match.
Some points on this film - Fritz Lang was the first director to circumvent the Hollywood production code which stated that a murderer had to be found guilty and executed or killed by some other means, Lang somehow persuaded them that having Chris remaining alive with perpetual guilt was a sufficient punishment. Kitty was seen wearing a transparent plastic raincoat, this was the film makers code for a prostitute which they were banned from saying by the Production code. This was one of the first films not to have any of the main characters being heroes or even having a good character. As well as the three lead characters appearing in both this movie and The Woman in the Window, Thomas Jackson also appeared in both movies and played a police inspector in both. Also Claude Mazard was Dellarowe This film was a loose remake of the 1932 Jean Renoir film La Chienne (The Bitch) and we know which character she was! The character of Chris would not have been allowed to hang himself as suicide was banned by the Production code.
I did not realize the "plastic raincoat" referred to a prostitute. Oh man, first the Production code says "a murderer must be executed or killed by some other means", then they say "he's not allowed to kill himself". So they expect him to slip on a bar of soap in the bathroom or something, I guess. Thanks for sharing these fun facts 😊
@@henryellow It's good to correspond with an enthusiastic film fan. The idea that a criminal had to be shown to get his just desserts was a part of the morality message - Crime does not pay. Suicide at the time was not only a crime but also a sin - against divine law, the worst sort of crime. It gets worse, up until around 1960 attempted suicides who tried but failed would be taken to hospital to recover after which they would be prosecuted and after being found guilty would be given a prison term.
"Next thing you'll be painting women without clothes." "I never saw a woman without any clothes." "I should hope not!" Fun Fact: One of Fritz Lang's personal favorites of his own films. Automobile Enthusiast Fact: The car Johnny (Dan Duryea) pulls up in is a 1935 Packard Super Eight Sport Phaeton. In 2022 these cars can fetch well into six figures at auction. The Rest Of The Story Fact: Twelve paintings done for the film by John Decker were sent to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City for exhibition in March of 1946. Edward G. Robinson's character talks lovingly about art and says he wishes he owned a Cezanne. In real life, Robinson was a great collector of fine art and was considered an expert. Product Placement Fact: Although the beer bottles do not have their labels completely visible, enough of a shape is seen to identify them as Schlitz. The brewery was founded in Milwaukee in 1849. The concept of product placement in the movies was still several decades away, so names were intentionally hidden at the time of this film so legal complications would be avoided.
I already told you that there was another movie with the same protagonists, which you would already know. In Spain we are more direct and we title it "Perversity".
Raymond Massey is our DA friend here. A notable Canadian actor with majestic bearing and equally majestic voice. I've always loved watching him, and can recommend him as "Abe Lincoln in Illinois"; as one of the bright spots in "The Fountainhead"; and in a small but vital role in "Stairway to Heaven". For an offbeat movie, he's a major presence in "Things to Come", which is where I first saw him.
I've really been looking forward to this reaction. It's my personal favorite Fritz Lang film and I actually love the paintings in this film. Not only are they fascinating to look at but they reflect shy Chris's inner world where he's not restricted by the life he has.
I'm so happy you've been introduced to the great Edward G. Robinson by these movies and not by the wonderful "Little Caesar" and other gangster movies, which were responsible for Robinson's popular image: he had range and great intelligence as an actor, and you get to see that first hand the way you're watching his work! There are a couple of movies where Robinson has fun with his gangster image: "Brother Orchid" (which was my intro to him as an actor) and "The Whole Town's Talking". And he plays yet another lovely character in "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes". I may have found this for you already, but here's a nice TCM short on Robinson: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w4ouaPw3dno.html
@@francoisevassy6614 Yes I have! With Agnes Moorhead as his wife, the deceptively rigid greatest wife in the world, and Margaret O'Brien sharing chemistry with Robinson. A favorite in the family!
Well, I was first introduced to Edward G. Robinson in "Double Indemnity". It's the first time you've sent this TCM short on Robinson, but I won't check it out just yet. I should watch more of his movies first, to better appreciate it 😉 I haven't watched any of those other movies you mentioned, but I'll make sure they get on my movies list. Thanks for your suggestions 😊
@@henryellow Yes, completely understand .... and now you have incentive (I hope!) to watch more of his great work. Warner Brothers, which was sort of the "gritty", down to earth counterpart to the more lavish MGM, gave us at least three great actors who started their climb to stardom by way of gangster movies: Robinson, James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. All of them found themselves in the ditch of typecasting as gangsters and all three of them found ways to show they were so much more.
One of the things (among many) that makes this movie so special is that Edward G. Robinson was a noted art collector and actually owned a Cezanne among other impressionist and pot-impressionist paintings. By the way, I understand that the G stands for his original last name of Goldenberg so please don't leave it out when referring to him.
I believe that's three on a match, and yes, it was considered to be bad luck, with the superstition stemming from WWI, as I understand: At night, in the trenches, and constantly in danger of attack, darkness was an ally. If you wanted a cigarette, and you left the match lit too long, the light would betray you to the enemy. Therefore, you put your match out asap, and did not offer it around to ... two other people, as that might give your location away and cost your life. And, to play with this idea further, there's a movie from this general time period called "Three on A Match", following the lives of three young women. One of them is played by Bette Davis before she hit stardom, and she plays one of the secondary young women.
I have went down the rabbit hole on this one before. Crimean war, Mexican religious superstitions, and even match companies trying to drive up sales lol. I have come to genuinely believe the origin derives from the Boer War. The inclusion of the German Mauser made Boer snipers especially feared. Which would explain how the phrase spread so early in WWI. But who knows.
@@melenatorr You won't thank me for this lol. It is apropos of nothing. Just my compulsion to overshare and add a comment to Henry's algorithm. But when I think of the Mauser, I think of the Boer war. When I think of them both, I think of this passage from the book, The Power of One. A young south African is wrestling with religion. He goes to various people, including his grandfather. "We sat on the steps of one of the rose terraces, my granpa tapping and tamping and lighting and staring squinty-eyed through the blue tobacco smoke over the rusty roof into the pale blue beyond. After a long time he said, “All I know about the Bible is that wherever it goes there’s trouble. The only time I ever heard of it being useful was when a stretcher bearer I was with at the battle of Dundee told me that he’d once gotten hit by a Mauser bullet in the heart, only he was carrying a Bible in his tunic pocket and the Bible saved his life. He told me that ever since he’d always carried a Bible into battle with him and he felt perfectly safe because God was in his breast pocket. We were out looking for a sergeant of the Worcesters and three troopers who were wounded while out on a reconnaissance and were said to be holed up in a dry donga. In truth, I think my partner felt perfectly safe because the Boer Mausers were estimated by the British artillery to be accurate to eight hundred yards and we were at least twelve hundred yards from enemy lines. Alas, nobody bothered to tell the Boers about the shortcomings of their brand-new German rifle, and a Mauser bullet hit him straight between the eyes.” He puffed at his pipe. “Which goes to prove, you can always depend on British Army information not to be accurate, the Boers to be deadly accurate, the Bible to be good for matters of the heart but hopeless for those of the head, and finally, that God is in nobody’s pocket.” He seemed very pleased with this neat summary, which nevertheless wasn’t a scrap of help to me." Apologies in advance.
So I guess this means that even though Stanley was able to life the curse and get Stanley yelnats #1 money and treasure box. But they never found trout’s money and treasure box.
The treasure that the Walker family has been seeking this whole time is that exact treasure chest. Kissin' Kate Barlow stole the chest from Stanley Yelnats I, and she buried it along with her other treasures (she put it all in that chest).
That is one of the best thrillers that I have ever seen, it moves at breakneck speed from the beginning and thruout. The first time I saw it I did not look away from the screen once, nor did my concentration waver until the very end, and also the surprise ending was a scene that made an already excellent film even better. However I knew that it would NOT end with him taking his own life for the simple reason that the Production code had expressly forbidden acts of suicide in films. When I saw the hand on the shoulder waking him up I thought that it was his friend the District Attorney had come to tell him that he knew everything.
Yes, the movie certainly is a tense one, starting from the point of murder. I did not know acts of suicide in films were forbidden back then, so I honestly thought that was the ending. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! 😊
@@henryellow Thank you. I'm pleased to see that you are reviewing and appreciating these classic films. There are plenty more to see and I hope you will continue enjoying them.
Fritz Lang wanted to do this movie because of the scene where he falls asleep in the chair and wakes up in the club. The cameral pulls in on him, and crew changes the set behind him. He is wearing a tearaway suit with the other suit underneath. Robinson remains in the chair while the transformation is accomplished, and the camera pulls back out to show us the new location.
That was a great scene. I was as confused as a person waking up from a dream, wondering what was happening 😂. The transformation was executed flawlessly.
