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I thank you for explaining where the second heist comes in. I had no idea why the second heist was portrayed as important. I love that you also noticed how silly the physics of Caine jumping from one spot to a lower spot is. The one question I have, that is driving me nuts is, who was the man with the umbrella at the gravesite right before the credits roll?
Best Actor 1963 over Dirk Bogarde who won a BAFTA for Starring in Joseph Losey s “The Servant”?? I agree it’s a brilliant performance by Anthony Newley ,but I’m not sure it’s on the same level as Dirk Bogarde s in The Servant.
I just finished the book last night and really liked it. Now I'm curious about the movie, though sounds like it is significantly different. There's a UK release on DVD.
Very good review. I love the 1940's movie with Tyrone Powers but I haven't seen the Murray one. I remember reading about his obsession to make the movie in the 80's. The story is very powerful and deserves to be re-made every 40 years!
Definitely Death Ship! This is what happens when someone asks you before you record whether it's the one with the cable cutting people in half. THAT one is Ghost Ship - this is most definitely DEATH SHIP!
It wasn't a Hammer film. It was produced by World Film Services and distributed by the Cinema International Corporation in the UK and Paramount elsewhere.
I didn't expect you to stop there. Dude. Not cool. Just dis one of my favorite movies and then not even say goodbye. Super Rude. XD I'm subscribed. Say more.
I was raised to believe that if can't say anything nice about something, then don't say anything at all. I saw "Unfrosted" and, thus, I have nothing to say at all.
I thought they overdid it with Dakin's personal characteristics - homosexual, mother fixation, sadist, etc - sometimes less is more in this regard. It's a very compelling performance though, even though Burton gets the diction wrong in the very last line of the movie. The heist scene is a classic.
I couldn’t get over how moronic it seemed that they were just taking photographs and not bothering to film anything. This lack of realism bugged me throughout the film. Joel recording a bit of audio or video even a phone would have sufficed. Couldn’t agree more about Jesse Plemons; he really does play psychopaths beautifully.
I think it leans into the classical idea of the photojournalist. Like with the specifics of the war, it's the overall tone and effect that feels more important.
This movie was not a "programmer" as such. It played as a first feature (which is as I saw it on its original theatrical release). The really quite notable actor Richard Carlson i the lead, who had quite a pedigree in 50's and 60's sf and horror films such as THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON and the Ray Bradbury co-written IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE. He was very much connected to the 3-D films of that era as the leas in the above noted 3-D films as well as THE MAZE. The screenwriter and director was, of course, Curt Siodmak who, along with many other things (such as author of the SF classic DONOVAN'S BRAIN) was the creator of THE WOLFMAN. Btw, the machine of the element's destruction is something called the DELTATRON, if anyone cares, a super high-energy generator. Nice to know you enjoyed it. It was one of 20 films selected as all-time great SF films in a large format book of the latter 70's or early 80's.
Thanks for this! I'm a huuuge Cushing fan and this one has been on my watch list for a while. Sadly, I am getting to the point now when I am running of Cushing films available for me to purchase on DVD/Blu-ray that are Region 2. As I am sure you are aware, a number of extraordinary British-made films are now only distributed by American companies. I do not have a Region 1 machine and I like to physically own the media I consume (I am an old soul). 😢
I think it might be Ferrari. I've liked a lot of his earlier films - in particular Manhunter, The Keep and Collateral - but I think this gets the balance of character and storytelling just right.
I've still yet to see the Barbie movie (I'm one of the few people who is left leaning politically who hasn't seen it) and I believe you made some really good points. From my experience one of the few criticisms made by others which is in good faith is the messaging is too obvious and does not tread new grounds, there themes that have existed for years and it does nothing new. Though the fact right leaning people had a tantrum over it is way funnier then it has any right to be, even if the theme is obvious they either don't get it or don't want to get it (and the fact it has made this much makes me so happy). I do think you were right in the sense that people don't mind being lectured to if what is being lectured is good and the product is good in general. I mean I love Doctor Who (or at least the classic series) and ever since it started, the shows progressive messaging has always been in your face, and I don't have a problem with that at all, if anything I'm for it.
Well, I think it was better if it replaced Emmannuelle. Kenneth William would be the Sultan, Joan would be the Countess, Suzanne Danielle plays Fatima etc. I can't count this as a Carry On Film. If they did a political film like Carry On Thatcher, cliched I know, it could work and bring back another main actor or two. I'm so surprised they never did a Doctor Who parody.
I like your gentle appreciation of Blue Hawaii, completely unfazed by rock critic orthodoxy that condemns all Elvis movies to the rubbish bin -- a waste of Elvis' time and talent. Yes, Blue Hawaii is light entertainment, but it's not difficult to see how the film employs light romantic comedy as a vehicle for otherwise weighty issues of race, class, and region, especially in 1961 when on the mainland the civil rights movement was raging. Screenwriter Hal Kanter, who also worked with Tennessee Williams, has clearly displaced the southern cotton plantation to a Hawaiian pineapple plantation and southern blacks to native Hawaiians. Angela Lansbury's southern belle Sarah Lee represents the white, segregated southern establishment that Elvis certainly was rebellious against, both in real life and in this and other of his movie roles. Elvis' brown-skinned, blue-eyed girlfriend Maile is a fitting embodiment of the movie's displacement from mainland to island for the purpose of both light entertainment and light social commentary that in Hollywood might not have survived in any other format.
