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In article <43B9FCB0.AA547F48.RemoveThis@iFreedom.com>,
Your Pal Brian <thechases.RemoveThis@worldnet.att.net.die.spammers.die> wrote:
>Bill Coleman wrote:
>
>> Touch of Evil.

>Just about any Welles picture you care to name, except The Stranger.

The Stranger always struck me as an Edward G. Robinson film with
Welles just playing a smaller part.

>
>Vertigo
>Seconds

Seconds?? A search on IMDB turns up a lot of films with 'seconds'
in the title but no title of just 'seconds'

>Barry Lyndon
>Once Upon A Time In America

Both excellent.

Bill

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"Bill Vermillion" <bv DeleteThis @wjv.com> wrote in message news:Ist2so.1I1n@wjv.com...
> In article <43B9FCB0.AA547F48 DeleteThis @iFreedom.com>,
> Your Pal Brian <thechases DeleteThis @worldnet.att.net.die.spammers.die> wrote:
>>Bill Coleman wrote:
>>
>>> Touch of Evil.
>
>>Just about any Welles picture you care to name, except The Stranger.
>
> The Stranger always struck me as an Edward G. Robinson film with
> Welles just playing a smaller part.
>

It's a nice conventional picture, one of many competent actors could have
played the part instead of Welles, and probably done a better job. It's not
nearly as good a "hidden-evil-among-us" picture as Shadow of a Doubt. If
they had kept Wells's character's true nature a secret longer it might have
helped a bit.

Stott
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mikegebert RemoveThis @gmail.com wrote:
> >The Wizard of Oz wasn't a flop, it was just a really expensive film
> >that took a long time to break even.
>
> The Wizard of Oz, like Peter Jackson's King Kong seems to be becoming,
> was a flop not in the sense that people stayed away in droves, but that
> it underperformed relative to expectations (which had been set by the
> huge success of Snow White). TV made it an audience favorite, but that
> wasn't how MGM's accounting dept. looked at it circa 1942, I'm pretty
> sure. I expect that eventually it went into the black theatrically,
> given reissues at inflated prices in the 60s and 70s, but basically, at
> the time it was a relative flop, if not a disastrous, Parnell-type one.
>
> Incidentally, that suggests two other then-sorta-flops/reissue-hits:
> Bambi and Fantasia.

And all three were war films that depended upon, and did not enjoy,
widespread foreign release the first time out. OZ, if you don't count
GWTW, which MGM merely distributed, was the highest grossing MGM film
of the 39-40 season. American audiences embraced all three of these
films (OZ, BAMBI & FANTASIA) but it wasn't until they had their wide
european releases after the war that they made money.
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I forgot a flop that turned into a classic (I was shocked when I heard
it bombed when it first came out)...

One of my favorite musicals: "The Pirate."

Tom Moran
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In article <43C1E972.2D5FEA44 RemoveThis @iFreedom.com>,
Your Pal Brian <thechases RemoveThis @worldnet.att.net.die.spammers.die> wrote:
>Bill Vermillion wrote:
>
>> >Seconds

>> Seconds?? A search on IMDB turns up a lot of films with 'seconds'
>> in the title but no title of just 'seconds'

>It's a very creepy psychological thriller John Frankenheimer made
>in 1966, with Rock Hudson, John Randolph, Will Geer, and James
>Wong Howe on camera.

It's hard to go wrong with a Frankenheimer film. And Howe can you
go Wong with a DP like that :-) Looking up on
IMDB this was one of his hottest periods - and I don't recall any
Frankenheimer film I've ever disliked.

One of the best things he's ever done IMO was when he was directing
live TV. "The Comedian" with Mickey Rooney and Mel Torme is one of the
best things I've seen - and I just watched it a month or so ago
after taping during a PBS broadcast on the 25th anniversary of it's
release. Too bad Torme never had any other parts that were as
great as that.

And Frankenheimers last TV effort - Path To War - was also good.
The re-edited Reindeer Games was a big improvement of the original
release.

Thanks for clarifying the title. I have it on order right now.

Bill

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Be warned, this is a very devastating movie. If you're middle-aged, as I am,
it rings especially true. Having said that, however, it's also brilliant,
sad, and well worth watching.

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Bill Ferry


"Bill Vermillion" <bv.RemoveThis@wjv.com> wrote in message news:IsurnE.9qr@wjv.com...
> In article <43C1E972.2D5FEA44.RemoveThis@iFreedom.com>,
> Your Pal Brian <thechases.RemoveThis@worldnet.att.net.die.spammers.die> wrote:
> >Bill Vermillion wrote:
> >
> >> >Seconds
>
> >> Seconds?? A search on IMDB turns up a lot of films with 'seconds'
> >> in the title but no title of just 'seconds'
>
> >It's a very creepy psychological thriller John Frankenheimer made
> >in 1966, with Rock Hudson, John Randolph, Will Geer, and James
> >Wong Howe on camera.
>

> Thanks for clarifying the title. I have it on order right now.
>
> Bill
>
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In article <O7Ewf.21188$em5.21129@trnddc05>, William Ferry
<vze3v52e RemoveThis @verizon.net> wrote:

>Be warned, this is a very devastating movie. If you're
>middle-aged, as I am, it rings especially true. Having said that,
>however, it's also brilliant, sad, and well worth watching.

And in this day and age what defines middle-aged. Today's middle
age used to be yesterdays old-geezer :-)

I don't know how I missed it the first time around - unless it
didn't play here. Looking at the Frankenheimer chronology
I saw ever film of hist first run from Birdman thru Grand Prix.

And my favorites were Seven Days in May and Manchurian Candidate.
Just recently the late departed Trio TV network ran his
The Iceman Cometh - with Lee Marvin. The 60's gave us some of his
best films, but in interviews he said he always enjoyed directing
live TV more.

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>
>Yours for bigger and better silents,
>Bill Ferry
>
>
>"Bill Vermillion" <bv RemoveThis @wjv.com> wrote in message news:IsurnE.9qr@wjv.com...
>> In article <43C1E972.2D5FEA44 RemoveThis @iFreedom.com>,
>> Your Pal Brian <thechases RemoveThis @worldnet.att.net.die.spammers.die> wrote:
>> >Bill Vermillion wrote:
>> >
>> >> >Seconds
>>
>> >> Seconds?? A search on IMDB turns up a lot of films with 'seconds'
>> >> in the title but no title of just 'seconds'
>>
>> >It's a very creepy psychological thriller John Frankenheimer made
>> >in 1966, with Rock Hudson, John Randolph, Will Geer, and James
>> >Wong Howe on camera.
>>
>
>> Thanks for clarifying the title. I have it on order right now.
>>
>> Bill
>>
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>> Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
>
>


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