20,000 Leagues Under The Sea!
The Vikings!
Compulsion!
Fantastic Voyage!
Doctor Dolittle!
The Boston Strangler!
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Soylent Green!
Mr. Majestyk!
Conan The Destroyer!
Red Sonja!
and loads more! (including Mandingo. No comment.)
The man could direct a crowd-pleasing picture, dammit!
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― amateurist0, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link
plus, maureen stapleton didn't direct compulsion! what a great movie. orson welles and bradford dillman and dean stockwell tearing shit up!
and maureen stapleton didn't direct 20,000 leagues under the sea either! what a beautiful movie. kirk douglas is one nimble motherfucker in that flick.
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
That 'owned' word comes to mind.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is all about Mason as Nemo.
I remember being disturbed by seeing Bronson shoot up a huge consignment of melons in Mr. Majestyk, but I've never seen it ... or Compulsion, Boston Strangler, Mandingo etc. Hey, James Mason was in Mandingo too!
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Mandingo is at leeast a partly successful corrective to Gone with the Wind. The audience was too spooked to laugh much. Queasiest fight-to-the-death scene ever.
10 Rillington Place is pretty good until the last half-hour or so; it's a little overappreciated.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 25 February 2008 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I sincerely hope that with the release of Mandingo on DVD that some revisionism regarding its status as a 'so-bad-it's-good' camp classic will begin to take place... it was heartening to hear that nervous giggling die down after about 15 minutes when it became clear that the movie was no corny sex-and-slavery romp, was no easy candidate for Mystery Science Theater-type derision, but instead a serious and agonized attempt to grapple with a period in American history that it seemed was still too hot to handle. Director Richard Fleischer’s unadorned, direct style is the perfect approach to this material, and the result is a movie that gets under the skin of blacks and whites, in 1975 and in 2008, and lives there, coalescing into a depiction of our country’s subconscious, as likely as any depiction of its subject ever made to claim authenticity, genuine insight into the way things must have been.
http://sergioleoneifr.blogspot.com/2008/06/slifr-top-100-mandingo.html
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 5 June 2008 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
so he's the Douglas Sirk of racial politics?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 5 June 2008 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
didn't notice he died!
20,000 leagues is so great!
― s1ocki, Thursday, 5 June 2008 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
don't understand the first line of the first post. dude was totally a household name, and i'm not a movie buff by any stretch.
― darraghmac, Thursday, 5 June 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Not a household name to me--I thought this thread was gonna about one of those guys who made cartoons.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 5 June 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd like to have visited those households.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 5 June 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
(he was son of one of cartoon Fleischers)
as Leopold/Loeb movies go, Compulsion > Rope
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 1 December 2008 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw Mandingo last night -- oh man. Not sure I'll go as far as Kehr and Robin Wood in their enthusiasm.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
it's not great, but certainly a corrective to GWTW's odious worldview.
Ken Norton had one of the 20th century's most beautiful bodies.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Agreed.
It wasn't sensationalist, exactly, but the movie had me in knots anticipating the next eruption of violence.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Anybody rep for The Last Run, which is coming from Warner Archive? George C. Scott, hopped-up BMWs, Sven Nykvist, European locales...
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
Just enjoyed his appearance in Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff.
― Croupier (Superstar) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 January 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
you can sorta see why Fox was high on Joan Collins in The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. (?Glenda Farrell is a great long sigh as her mother.)
saw 20,000 Leagues on the big screen for i think the second time ever -- design/effects, Mason overpower seal antics.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 March 2014 02:07 (ten years ago) link
i watched 'the new centurions' recently -- george c scott & keach are both p good, plot prob tries to do too much, cover too large of a time period; is def v 'workmanlike' directing or w/e but i wouldnt say much of it really stands out
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 16 March 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
of the first preview screening of dr doolittle in minneapolis that did not go that great - "I'd be mystified if i came into the theatre and didn't know what the picture was and the first scene was a guy riding a giraffe."
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 02:08 (nine years ago) link
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, October 4, 2011 3:02 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
should be far better; backstory/wiki is compelling tho
Production history[edit]John Huston was the original director for The Last Run. However, Huston and Scott, who previously worked together on the 1966 film The Bible: In the Beginning, had fights on the set. Huston walked off the production and he was hastily replaced by Richard Fleischer.[2] Scott also had fights with French actress Tina Aumont, who was originally cast as the killer’s girlfriend. She also quit the film and was replaced by Trish Van Devere, an American actress. Scott and Van Devere fell in love during the production. However, Scott was married at the time to Colleen Dewhurst, who was also in the film. Dewhurst and Scott divorced after the production concluded, and the actor married Van Devere (who became his third wife).[1]
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 24 January 2016 03:38 (eight years ago) link
there are also few things in life less uncomfortable imo than watching neil dimond in blackface in the jazz singer remake
http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Singer-Robert-Davi/dp/B00COH89G4/ref=sr_1_5?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1453606089&sr=1-5&refinements=p_lbr_directors_browse-bin%3ARichard+Fleischer
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 24 January 2016 03:39 (eight years ago) link
oh you kid
Jerry Lewis did wear blackface in his late '50s TV version, i think
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 24 January 2016 08:57 (eight years ago) link
james mason imo was born wholly to deliver the urgent purr "you'll be fighting at close quarters with the most tenacious of all sea beasts"
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 24 January 2016 15:46 (eight years ago) link
for sure
i will refrain from any Mandingo quotes
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 24 January 2016 15:52 (eight years ago) link
Check out this very good, if disguised, James Mason imitation here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8f_XCH3zmM
― YOLO Versus Powerball on the Moneygoround, Part One (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 January 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
During a talk I attended at my university last week, the speaker made the claim that Mandingo > Django Unchained. Should I just watch the damn thing already?
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Sunday, 24 January 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link
But one of them is Larry Olivier's "Am I Jewish enough for you" rabbi in the same picture, oy!
― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 January 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link
blu of The Vikings! ive never seen the whole thing
http://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/the-vikings
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 March 2016 19:48 (eight years ago) link
I made it through The Vikings, which is certainly great to look at (Jack Cardiff) and alternatively funny and exhausting to listen to. Ernie Borgnine certainly didn't hold back (GALES OF DRUNKEN LAUGHTER).
Kirk is a queasy antihero (his rapist father's son), and Tony Curtis is a slave named Erik, so Terry Jones was watching closely.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 April 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link
I only know that scene where Kirk walks on the oars.
― Together Again Or (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 April 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
The Narrow Margin showed up on TCM recently. Wondering if it’s time to rewatch
― Together Again Or (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 April 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
is The Boston Strangler worth checking out?
― flappy bird, Sunday, 26 April 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
Tony Curtis's most scenery-chewing performance from what I remember. Actually that's all I remember, as the rest of the film has slipped from memory. This thread bump reminds me I must rewatch Red Sonja some time.
― archangel's thunderpants (Matt #2), Sunday, 26 April 2020 21:58 (three years ago) link
Trapped (1949) is not a lost masterpiece, but it was plenty diverting last year at Noir City DC. Lloyd Bridges looked extraordinarily like he does in Airplane! ("Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit cooperating with the Feds"?).
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Sunday, 26 April 2020 22:14 (three years ago) link
The Boston Strangler is also noteworthy for its use of split screen technique, which was trendy at the time - you also see it in such films as Grand Prix and The Thomas Crown Affair from that period.
― Josefa, Sunday, 26 April 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
I remember being terrified by the trailer for that. Seems like there were some mysterious visuals with maybe some kind of voiceover maybe not and then finally a shot of Tony in some kind of creepy burglar getup holding up his hands as if ready to strangle, iirc.
― Together Again Or (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 April 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link