Favorite or most seen film

mikeos · External Since: Jun 08, 2009 Posts: 6

william wrote:
> On Sep 24, 11:00 am, TT <n....TakeThisOut@email.org> wrote:
>> mikeos wrote:
>>> Probably On the Waterfront,

> Have you seen Edge of the City?

Yes, excellent dark drama, also known as "A Man Is Ten Feet Tall"

Anim8rFSK · External Since: Feb 25, 2007 Posts: 1138

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william <wlahearn.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sep 22, 10:21 am, forn....RemoveThis@webtv.net (S D) wrote:
> > possibly I Am A Fugitive for me , seen about ten times, still strong
> > with Muni's anguish palpable
>
> The original King Kong and the original The Thing. They played forever
> on New York TV when I was a kid and I watched both as many times as I
> could. I've probably seen both near 100 times and re-watched The Thing
> recently. I still love those flicks and still watch them.

Got Mom to watch THE THING ('51, natch) a few days ago. It took a *lot*
of coaxing, but she enjoyed it tremendously.

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Anim8rFSK · External Since: Feb 25, 2007 Posts: 1138

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Hatari! and The Great Race are probably way up there too.

The Thing (From Another World)

The Creature From The Black Lagoon

(If you want to count 'part of' then all the Universal Monster movies
they used to show on Saturday morning TV)

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moviePig · External Since: Aug 08, 2005 Posts: 1701

On Sep 27, 3:26 pm, Anim8rFSK <ANIM8R... RemoveThis @cox.net> wrote:
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> william <wlahe... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sep 22, 10:21 am, forn... RemoveThis @webtv.net (S D) wrote:
> > > possibly I Am A Fugitive for me , seen about ten times, still strong
> > > with Muni's anguish palpable
>
> > The original King Kong and the original The Thing. They played forever
> > on New York TV when I was a kid and I watched both as many times as I
> > could. I've probably seen both near 100 times and re-watched The Thing
> > recently. I still love those flicks and still watch them.
>
> Got Mom to watch THE THING ('51, natch) a few days ago. It took a *lot*
> of coaxing, but she enjoyed it tremendously.

And, you know, today's typical CGI would just *destroy* that movie.
(No, cool f/x didn't destroy the remake, but that was a different
movie... i.e., not a haunted-igloo version of HIS GIRL FRIDAY...)

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David Oberman · External Since: Jan 08, 2009 Posts: 117

Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk DeleteThis @cox.net> wrote:

>(If you want to count 'part of' then all the Universal Monster movies
>they used to show on Saturday morning TV)

Do you remember "Captive Wild Woman" with Evelyn Ankers?

gerry · External Since: Apr 23, 2007 Posts: 18

Lady Killer (1933) with James Cagney, Mae Clarke and Margaret
Lindsay. Director Roy Del Ruth at his peak. Clips from the scenes
involving Cagney as a movie extra are still used to show how Hollywood
then made movies, such as using spray guns to apply makeup on the
bodies of a line of white extras to make them look like Indians
(redskins).

Ben Markson, one of the scriptwriters of Lady Killer, had come to
Hollywood two years earlier attached to a Broadway play he co-wrote
that became the movie Is My Face Red, an RKO production. The
Depression was on and Markson stayed in Hollywood, shifting over to
Warner Bros., where he was busy as a beaver in 1933, getting writing
credits on 6 movies that year.

One line of in Lady Killer sticks out, as Douglas Dumbrille, playing a
crook teamed with Cagney, tells Myra (Mae Clarke), Cagney's girlfriend
"things are plenty hot in New York, I just jumped my bail and beat it
out here by plane," to Los Angeles. Too bad there is no way to know
if Ben Markson wrote that line of script.

Lawrence Chalmers · External Since: Apr 24, 2005 Posts: 72

Black Orpheus (should be seen in original porteguese version) If you
see it w/english dubbing, chances are you'll not
enjoy the movie. Its dramatic, colorful romantic, suspenseful,
heartwarming and the music is, of course, sensational.
After nearly fifty times, it still grabs me.
But then that's about twice a year apart...

The Giant Brain · External Since: Aug 19, 2009 Posts: 25

"Lawrence Chalmers" <lawnch DeleteThis @webtv.net> wrote in message
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> Black Orpheus (should be seen in original porteguese version) If you
> see it w/english dubbing, chances are you'll not
> enjoy the movie. Its dramatic, colorful romantic, suspenseful,
> heartwarming and the music is, of course, sensational.
> After nearly fifty times, it still grabs me.
> But then that's about twice a year apart...

But I don't speak Portuguese...

Lawrence Chalmers · External Since: Apr 24, 2005 Posts: 72

Then select 'english' subtitles and put some of your brain to work....