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Obscure Old Movie Favourites

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Friday, January 29, 2010 12:44 PM

TRAVELER


Where did everybody go?


Just thought of another film I have not seen in years.

"Quicksand" with Mickey Rooney.

Mickey wanted to break away from those Andy Hardy films.


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Friday, January 29, 2010 2:45 PM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by traveler:
Where did everybody go?




I think I scared everyone away with my poster art barrage.

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Friday, January 29, 2010 2:48 PM

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Friday, January 29, 2010 3:10 PM

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Friday, January 29, 2010 3:15 PM

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Friday, January 29, 2010 3:19 PM

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Friday, January 29, 2010 7:32 PM

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Friday, January 29, 2010 7:37 PM

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Friday, January 29, 2010 7:47 PM

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Friday, January 29, 2010 8:02 PM

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Saturday, January 30, 2010 9:51 AM

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Oppyh, did not want you to feel lonely.


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Saturday, January 30, 2010 9:58 AM

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The Bedford Incident

I used these two in another thread, but they apply here as well.


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Saturday, January 30, 2010 10:09 AM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by traveler:


Oppyh, did not want you to feel lonely.




Thanks Traveler. Obscure films always brighten my day

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Saturday, January 30, 2010 10:33 AM

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I also enjoy seeing these titles that I forgotten over the years. So many films and not enough time to view them.


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Saturday, January 30, 2010 10:47 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Oppyh, did not want you to feel lonely.
Traveler




That artwork's gotta be Saul Bass. Love his style.

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

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Saturday, January 30, 2010 2:09 PM

MACBAKER


Blake Edwards' S.O.B.



Not as successful as the Pink Panther series or "10", but brilliant none the less. It is famous for being the first movie to show Julie Andrews topless, but also Rosanna Arquette! It is also the great William Holden's last film! Last but not least, it is probably Robert Preston's best role, as physician to the stars, Dr. Finegarten.

Preston had the best lines:

Polly Reed: You're gonna let that SHYSTER on set?
Dr. Irving Finegarten: I could sue you for calling me that, Polly! A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a QUACK!

Dr. Irving Finegarten: Come to think of it, why should I give you a vitamin shot? I'm the one with the hangover. B-12, B-Complex, Crude Liver, and a generous jolt of adrenal cortex. Chased by a Bloody Mary. L'chaim! Now Lila, in order to inject this properly I have to expose my gluteus maximus.
Lila: Want me to do it for ya?
Dr. Irving Finegarten: Are you perchance a nurse?
Lila: No, but I used to be a junkie.
Dr. Irving Finegarten: Would it endanger your amateur standing if I asked you to use a sterilized needle?
Lila: You're the doctor.
Dr. Irving Finegarten: Oh, that's the nicest thing anyone's said to me all week.

Dr. Irving Finegarten: If he starts to levitate, don't panic; it's just a side-effect.

Dr. Irving Finegarten: Is Batman a transvestite? Who knows?

I'd given some thought to movin' off the edge -- not an ideal location -- thinkin' a place in the middle.

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Sunday, January 31, 2010 8:35 AM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.


Quote:

Originally posted by SimonWho:
How about the original Bedazzled, with Pete and Dud? Do ignore the recent remake with Liz Hurley though that probably went without saying.


I love the original, can't stand the remake even with Hurley looking beautifully devilish.

Another very obscure one, also with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (although in lesser roles) is Richard Lester's "The Bed Sitting Room" from 1969. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064074/

It co-starred Sir Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Spike Milligan, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe, Marty Feldman (in his first film role) and Dandy Nichols as Mrs. Ethel Shroake, Queen of England several years after a nuclear war devastated the country.

It's not available on Region 1 DVD, don't think it ever has been, and if it ever came out on VHS I haven't been able to find information about it. I burned it to DVD-R a few years ago when it was on Turner Classic Movies. I've mentioned it on various forums over the past ten years and I think only two other people knew what I was talking about.



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Sunday, January 31, 2010 8:59 AM

CHRISISALL




Creepy.


The laughing Chrisisall

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Sunday, January 31, 2010 12:44 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)








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Sunday, January 31, 2010 1:52 PM

CHRISISALL




I LOVE this movie!


The laughing Chrisisall

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Sunday, January 31, 2010 3:09 PM

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Like the smile on George's face as puts the rope around Coop's neck.


"The Hanging Tree"

Cast:
Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, George C. Scott, and Karl Malden.

I believe the DVD just became available. I found it at "marquee-video.com".


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Sunday, January 31, 2010 3:17 PM

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"Man of the West"

Cast:
Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb, and John Dehner.


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Monday, February 1, 2010 1:46 AM

FILLYGIRL

Operative: "Its worse than you know..." Mal: "It usually is."


Guys, do you know a film called "Jake Speed"....?
Its my brothers fav and I kinda liked it to. You boys got some real obscure ones there and some well known ones too. I never saw that one called "Yor", is it at least a "B" film?


Chaplain of the 76th Independant Battalion


Do not bother dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!


...it's worse than you know...Operative
...it usually is.....Mal

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Monday, February 1, 2010 8:00 AM

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Just watched this one on THIS network.
Have not seen it in years.


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Friday, February 5, 2010 5:13 PM

TRAVELER


Okay. Lets go to Europe.


The Main character is a four year old girl. She is in every scene. She won the best actress award at the Venice Film Festival.


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Friday, February 5, 2010 5:49 PM

CHRISISALL


Let's go to China for my pick of the best movie (non-genre) ever made:


The laughing Chrisisall

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Friday, February 5, 2010 5:59 PM

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This takes place in China, but is more a mixed bag of British, United States, and Japan.


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Friday, February 5, 2010 6:15 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.


Quote:

Originally posted by traveler:


This takes place in China, but is more a mixed bag of British, United States, and Japan.


Spielberg's best film to date.



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Friday, February 5, 2010 6:18 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.


Let's go to Brazil.


This is one of the most disturbing movies I have ever seen. The title role was played by a thirteen year old who in real life had been a street criminal in Sao Paulo. He did one other film after this then went back to a life of crime and was killed in a shootout with police at the age of 19.



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Friday, February 5, 2010 6:24 PM

CHRISISALL


I prefer art to be separated from reality in that way .

See The Road Home everyone. Really.


The serious Chrisisall

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Friday, February 5, 2010 8:15 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by ecgordon:
Let's go to Brazil.


This is one of the most disturbing movies I have ever seen. The title role was played by a thirteen year old who in real life had been a street criminal in Sao Paulo. He did one other film after this then went back to a life of crime and was killed in a shootout with police at the age of 19.





They did a lot of that with The Wire, too. They used real gang members for quite a few of the roles, and the guy who played the old deacon (Cutty's mentor) was said to have been the biggest heroin dealer in Bal'more at one time.

Then there's Felicia Pearson, who played the hit-man (hit-WOMAN, I mean) Snoop on the show.

Quote:

Pearson was born to two incarcerated drug addicts and raised in an East Baltimore foster home. Born premature and weighing only three pounds, she was not expected to live. She was so small she was fed with an eyedropper until she could be fed normally.
Instead of attending school, Pearson worked as a drug dealer. At the age of 14, she was convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a girl named Okia Toomer and sentenced to eight years at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup, Maryland.[1] Pearson said her life turned around at the age of 18 when Arnold Loney, a local drug dealer who looked out for her and sent her money in prison, was shot and killed. It was he who had given her the nickname "Snoop" because she reminded him of Charlie Brown's beagle Snoopy in the comic strip Peanuts. While in prison, she earned her GED and was released in 2000. She landed a local job fabricating car bumpers, she says, but was fired after only two weeks when her employer learned she had a prison record.



Where they could, they tried to keep it real.

Oh, and Mello, the police captain? That's the actual former detective that the character of John Munch was based on (Richard Belzer plays the role, in "Homicide: Life On The Street" and in "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"). His real name is Jay Landesman. But there's another guy playing the role of Jay Landesman in the show. :)

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

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Saturday, February 6, 2010 7:34 AM

OPPYH


Oooohhh, it's the weekend. Time for more favorite horror, and fantasy obscurities:




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Saturday, February 6, 2010 7:38 AM

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Saturday, February 6, 2010 7:44 AM

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Saturday, February 6, 2010 7:48 AM

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Saturday, February 6, 2010 7:53 AM

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Saturday, February 6, 2010 9:28 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Anybody for UHF? Michael Richards in his best role, Fran Drescher, Weird Al.


Quote:

Originally posted by traveler:
Okay. Lets go to Europe.


The Main character is a four year old girl. She is in every scene. She won the best actress award at the Venice Film Festival.


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Traveler


Same year as A Little Princess. The 2 best actresses of the year were Leisel Matthews and Ponette. Neither were nominated in the U.S.

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Saturday, June 26, 2010 1:12 PM

OPPYH









I'm popping some popcorn. film starts at 8:00.

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70's TV FOREVER

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Saturday, June 26, 2010 3:52 PM

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JongsStraw you are correct Sir, High Road to China. I remember that at the theater but it was Magnum. Sorry can't watch him unless he is in Hawaii. Years later late night on tv I said man what a very good movie. Chrisisall hasn't realized his age he is no longer old but ancient. Mid seventies movies are still gritty like the 7ups.

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Saturday, June 26, 2010 4:17 PM

CHRISISALL


Not so old, but "Legend Of Zorro" is SO unappreciated! Directed by Martin Campbell, edited by Stuart Baird, music by James Horner... as one dude 'round these parts once said, "It's the best Batman movie ever made."



The laughing Chrisisall


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Saturday, June 26, 2010 4:34 PM

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"It's Alive! It's Alive!



"Mysterians" in ToHo-Scope


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Saturday, June 26, 2010 6:07 PM

CHRISISALL


Mysterians.
Welcome to my twelve year old world.


The laughing Chrisisall


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Saturday, June 26, 2010 6:33 PM

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The Italians were not to be out done by the Japanese.



I remember seeing this film before they edited out some of the space battle for the video release. It hurts the film to have that battle scene chopped up. But Claude Rains hams it up. His outrageous character makes the whole film worth watching.


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Saturday, June 26, 2010 9:29 PM

ANOTHERSKY


Quote:

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This takes place in China, but is more a mixed bag of British, United States, and Japan.


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Traveler




I wouldn't exactly call this a forgotten old movie, but it's great, is in my personal top 5 and it's the one I recommend to everyone who says Spielberg can't help his happy endings.


Edit: and so far, not even Haley Joel Osment tops Christian Bale at 12. Least annoying child actor ever.

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Going for a ride.

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Sunday, June 27, 2010 10:08 AM

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Or "LeMans", with Steve McQueen. Great racing, horrible plot. :(

Or *no* plot. I read they made it up as they went. BUT, gee are ate racing footage.
As far as race cars go though, I like THX1138.



The plot is the race itself. And the stars are the machines and the drivers nerve combined with tactics used in endurance racing. The film footage is a great example of camera placement.


I've been obsessed with that movie since I was 8 years old.
When I found it on DVD, I wore out my tabletop player because I ran it on 'Loop' for about 2 weeks straight!
It's just the pure racing experience — no other movie has put me "in the action" like that one did.
Also, the minimized dialogue maximizes the re-watchability for me. Even the best dialogue gets tiresome after a while, but this is the only movie I know of that's so totally devoid of it. (Well, there's Koyaanisqatsi...)





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Sunday, June 27, 2010 10:28 AM

CLJOHNSTON108


Oh, and an old TV movie I love, which I found on DVD just one time about 9 years ago...



My favorite helicopter movie ever!

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