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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 2/2/07 7:05am Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1948 )
	My fave: Price's murder of Lady Agatha, the D'Ascoyne who has unadvisedly gone up in a balloon: "I shot an arrow into the air; She fell to earth in Berkeley Square." Price is pricelessly deadpan. And Joan Greenwood does have a peculiar, purring sort of voice. Saw her in something when she was an old woman, and she still had it.
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Erk Registered: Aug '01	Date Posted: 2/2/07 10:07am Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1948 )
	"Well, I don't agree. The USA produced great films prior to the 70's. (I might note that I am not an American). Whether they were better than the rest of the world, I couldn't say. My usual rule of thumb is that most countries have the same crap to genius ratio, which is about 95 to 5 per cent. " I would rank the Wchampion country of filmmaking from 1900-to now as follows 00 France 10 France 20 Germany 30 US 40 Italy 50 Japan 60 France 70 US 80 US 90 US 00 US I'm not really sure why I did this as don't support my point. Anyways I think the things that the 'classics' hollywood put out in the 40 were the worst of the classics they put out in all the 1900. All those films, big sleep, casablanca, sierra madre, citizen kane, etc. aren't very good. This goes for the UK? classic kind hearts and coronets to. Sure it's impressing to watch obiwan play his register but so is watching Eddie Murphy. Saw the 1932 version of Scarface yesterday, there you have good fun! -----signature----- "One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place." Mick Travis, If.... Blast. They've removed my icon. U S A ! U S A ! U S A !
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 2/2/07 12:23pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1948 )
	It's a bit off-topic for this thread, but that doesn't mean you can't start a thread of your own on the subject...
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 2/3/07 11:38am Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1948 )
	Next: "Gun Crazy" (1949) USA; 86 minutes; B & W; Languages: English Director: Joseph H. Lewis Producer: Frank King, Maurice King Screenplay: MacKinlay Kantor, Millard Kaufman (aka Dalton Trumbo) Photography: Russell Harlan Music: Victor Young Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dahl For a low-budget movie, this has some interesting talent attached; MacKinlay Kantor is the source of another movie on the list: "The Best Years of Our Lives" and Dalton Trumbo was a blacklisted screenwriter. Victor Young is a good composer. Though it's set in a rural area, it's a classic film noir adaptation of the (true) story of Bonnie & Clyde. (Literally dozens of movies start there). Bart Tare (Dahl) is a rootless marginal type with an obsession with guns. On discharge from the army, he meets Annie Laurie Starr, (Cummins) a sharpshooter in a travelling tent show (great scene). They become lovers and robbers. Cummins is quite obviously dominant in their relationship--it's a terrifying performance.
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General_Dodonna Registered: Feb '05	Date Posted: 2/3/07 9:42pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Gun Crazy" (1949 )
	While I don't agree with this guy about everything, especially the absolutely hysterical title of his book, it actually fits for Gun Crazy. Seriously, you really ought to see it before you die. It is far and away the best adaptation of the Bonnie and Clyde story (the Arthur Penn film is vastly inferior to this film), and one of the greatest of all Hollywood pictures. Dahl and Cummings never did better work, and Lewis never made a film as good (although his The Big Combo is still a masterpiece). -----signature----- "A film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand." - Christian Metz
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Erk Registered: Aug '01	Date Posted: 2/4/07 2:31am Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Gun Crazy" (1949 )
	"It's a bit off-topic for this thread, but that doesn't mean you can't start a thread of your own on the subject... " Nah, too much work... Gun Crazy is alright, though not as good as Bonnie and Clyde, it's one of the better films from the 40s. -----signature----- "One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place." Mick Travis, If.... Blast. They've removed my icon. U S A ! U S A ! U S A !
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 2/4/07 6:46pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Gun Crazy" (1949 )
	Next: "Adam's Rib" (1949) USA; 101 minutes; B & W; Languages: English Director: George Cukor Producer: Lawrence Weingarten Screenplay: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin Photography: George J. Folsey Music: Cole Porter, Miklos Rosza Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Tom Ewell, Judy Holliday, David Wayne, Jean Hagen According to the book, this movie was inspired by the true story of husband and wife team of lawyers, William and Dorothy Whitney, who represented Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Massey in their diovrce, divorced themselves, and married their respective clients (!) This movie doesn't go that far, but it's a classic battle-of-the-sexes comedy with a first-rate cast and equally first-rate comedy direction (check the first interrogation of Holliday by Hepburn).
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 2/5/07 7:39pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Adam's Rib" (1949 ) - Date Edited: 2/5/07 7:42pm (2 edits total) Edited By: Zaz
	Next: "Whiskey Galore" (1949) aka "Tight Little Island" UK; 82 minutes; B & W; Languages: English/Gaelic Director: Alexander Mackendrick Producer: Michael Balcon Screenplay: Angus MacPhail and Compton MacKenzie from the latter's novel Photography: Gerald Gibs Music: Ernest Irving Cast: Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Wylie Watson A cargo of whiskey bound for America is wrecked on a Scottish island and disappears. An English Home Guard captain shows up looking for the cargo... Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, who also directed two other Ealing comedies: "The Man in the White Suit" and "The Ladykillers" and then went to America for the hellaciously nasty "The Sweet Smell of Success" I have trying to get a copy of this film for years; no luck, and I haven't seen it.
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General_Dodonna Registered: Feb '05	Date Posted: 2/5/07 8:12pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Whiskey Galore" (1949 )
	I help run a cinema here in Chicago and when we showed this one last summer it really packed 'em in. A delightful film in its own quirky, British way (as are all the Ealing comedies). It's marvelous stuff. -----signature----- "A film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand." - Christian Metz
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 2/5/07 8:14pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Whiskey Galore" (1949 )
	Adam's Rib is a hoot; David Wayne is a riot as the smarmy neighbor across the hall. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 2/5/07 8:18pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Whiskey Galore" (1949 )
	If memory serves, Angus MacPhail worked on several of Hitchcock's films.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 2/6/07 7:45pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Whiskey Galore" (1949 )
	Next: "White Heat" (1949) USA; 114 minutes; B & W; Languages: English Director: Raoul Walsh Producer: Louis F. Edelman Screenplay: Virginia Kellogg, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts Photography: Sidney Hickox Music: Max Steiner Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly, Steve Cochran Very possibly Cagney's best movie, and even more likely his best performance as Cody Jarrett, the psychopathic mama's boy, and head of a gangster gang. Such is Cagney's lunatic vitality, we root for him, and not the virtuous hero. Virginia Mayo (Cody's sluttish wife): "Why don't you take all the money for yourself, Cody?" Cody (giving her a look of the utmost disdain): "You're cute." Cagney is fearless; he sits on Wycherly's lap (she plays his mother), and the scene in jail when he gets traumatic news is justly famous. Don't miss it.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 2/7/07 9:35pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc."White Heat" (1949 ) - Date Edited: 2/7/07 9:37pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Zaz
	Next: "The Reckless Moment" (1949) USA; 82 minutes; B & W; Languages: English Director: Max Ophuls Producer: Walter Wanger Screenplay: Mel Dinelli, Henry Garfield Photography: Burnett Guffey Music: Hans J. Salter Cast: Jason Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks I managed to see two other of Max Ophuls American films: "Letter From An Unknown Woman", which made this list, and the wonderfully perverse "Caught", which didn't. But never this one, though I have looked for it a lot. According to the book, this film switchs the usual femme fatale to an homme fatale, played by James Mason as an Irish lowlife blackmailer. Or does it? I'd still love to see it.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 2/8/07 5:52pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Discussing: "The Reckless Moment" (1949 ) - Date Edited: 2/9/07 8:43am (1 edits total) Edited By: Zaz
	Next: "The Third Man" (1949) UK; 104 minutes; B & W; Languages: English/German Director: Carol Reed Producer: Hugh Perceval, Carol Reed Screenplay: Graham Greene, Alexander Korda Photography: Robert Krasker Music: Anton Karas, Henry Love Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Orson Welles The book describes it as: "outstanding mix of political thriller, weird romance, gothic mystery, and black and white agony." It's the American Innocent (Cotten) abroad in postwar Berlin (EDIT: my mistake, Vienna) of shortages and corruption. He meets the lumious Valli and the cynical Howard while looking for his old friend, Welles, who is not what he seems....
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yankee8255 Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 2/9/07 3:56am Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc: "The Third Man" (1949 )
	Postwar Vienna, Zaz. And the movie is brilliant, everyone hsould run out and watch it, right now.
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