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367,686 | 2,707,735 | 52,002 | 7 | A gunman is one thing , Gant's another . | No Name on the Bullet is just such a great title for a Western ; it conjures up so many images of gun fights , shoot outs and showdowns . I enjoyed the film with one reservation - I just can't get used to the idea of Audie Murphy portraying a heel . For me , it just doesn't work , just as Roy Rogers wouldn't have wor... |
368,081 | 2,707,735 | 24,772 | 7 | You're an enemy to society and I've got to take you off the streets ! | Here's just a great example of gritty realism from forbidden Hollywood , set in the pre-Code era when film studios and other media venues pushed the boundaries of acceptable societal norms and good taste . Shock value is provided early if you're an attentive viewer , as in the opening scene when the film's principals d... |
367,775 | 2,707,735 | 50,085 | 7 | We cannot hope for disaster , we merely expect it . | I guess I owe the Turner Classic Movie channel a big thank you for it's New Year's Day hangover relief recipe , a full day of sci-fi programming that offered some great well known classics , along with ( for this viewer ) previously unheard of gems like this one - " The 27th Day " . It's premise immediately called to m... |
368,001 | 2,707,735 | 48,291 | 7 | I'm fresh out of faith , hope and charity , Reverend . | This may be the only movie you'll ever see where the ' Our Father ' and ' Hail Mary ' are recited in their entirety . Humphrey Bogart is the reluctant priest Father O'Shea , whose masquerade at first is tentatively welcomed by a small Chinese village , but who through a series of unforeseen events , winds up becoming t... |
368,577 | 2,707,735 | 23,326 | 7 | If walls could talk , they might tell a different story . | I have to say I'll always enjoy a Charles Laughton movie , but you have to admit , pictures from the early days of film almost always laid it right out there for the viewer as if one couldn't put two and two together . In this case , the murder of young Medland ( Ray Milland ) - it's OK for the viewer to be in on the l... |
368,448 | 2,707,735 | 38,494 | 7 | The truth is only arrived at by the painstaking process of eliminating the untrue . | I must say , this film had a clever plot and the solution to the mystery was dealt with following a logical succession of clues and deductions . This is only the third Sherlock Holmes film I've seen , but story wise it stands far superior to the Charlie Chan films of the same era that end with Chan's explanation of how... |
368,030 | 2,707,735 | 21,381 | 7 | Give ' em a quick flash girls , give ' em a quick flash . . . | Wow - James Cagney's first film role and he pulls it off like a veteran ! Though he's third billed behind Grant Withers and Evalyn Knapp , it's hard to argue that this isn't Cagney's vehicle all the way , demonstrating a commanding and comfortable presence on the big screen , even though he does go ' over the top ' a c... |
368,385 | 2,707,735 | 53,925 | 7 | You must leave this house now , It is not a healthy place to be . | What better way to spend a Halloween evening than engaged in a Vincent Price movie . I'm wondering how I missed this one back in the day when I became hooked as a Price fan with films like " House on Haunted Hill " , " The Bat " , and " The Fly " . Which might explain why I would have preferred seeing this one in black... |
367,855 | 2,707,735 | 36,824 | 7 | You make with the pencils , and we'll make with the shovels . | There should be no doubt that this film is a highly over simplified account of how the U . S . Navy Seabees came into existence . John Wayne portrays the hot headed owner of Donovan Construction Company , who offers his services to the government in building airfields and related support fortifications for the war effo... |
368,514 | 2,707,735 | 31,060 | 7 | Have you got a pencil , I left my typewriter in my other pants . | Future viewers of " At The Circus " be warned - " Lydia , Oh Lydia ( The Tattooed Lady ) " is one of those tunes that stays with you long after the movie is over . It happened the first time I watched this film , and it's happening right now as I write this review . That's not necessarily a bad thing , provided you don... |
367,701 | 2,707,735 | 42,286 | 7 | Maybe some day you will kill me or I will kill you ; we will not spit on each other . | I guess I've seen enough of Jimmy Stewart's ' normal citizen ' movies ( " It's A Wonderful Life " , " The Phladelphia Story " , " You Can't Take It With You " ) to make it seem unlikely that he could play a strong lead as a Western hero . But he made a number of them , and I have to say that his performance here is eve... |
368,130 | 2,707,735 | 42,324 | 7 | OK Coach , where's the field and who do we play ? | With some minor plot revisions , " Chain Lightning " would just about qualify as a remake of Humphrey Bogart's 1936 film , " China Clipper " . In both stories , Bogey's character is a former military pilot who takes on a civilian job as a test pilot for demanding bosses . Raymond Massey portrays the owner of the Willis... |
367,955 | 2,707,735 | 50,158 | 7 | This badge is a magic piece of metal son ! | This is one of the better ' B ' Westerns you're likely to come across , featuring Jim Davis in the role of a somewhat ambiguous outlaw who takes up a badge after he comes upon a dying marshal in Apache territory . Their brief conversation provides an ever present backdrop to the story , with constant references to a ma... |
367,798 | 2,707,735 | 34,578 | 7 | He's a good pilot , but he can't explain how he does it . | Throughout most of the story , Brian MacLean ( James Cagney ) flies by the seat of his pants , and at times it seems the movie does too . The film starts out about a handful of Canadian bush pilots attempting to learn the identity of a sneaky , job stealing rival , and ends up with the bunch of them joining the Royal C... |
367,575 | 2,707,735 | 29,080 | 7 | I dub thee Kid Galahad , and these my colors you shall wear into battle . | There isn't any room for feelings in this game is how promoter Nick Donati ( Edward G . Robinson ) approaches boxing as well as life in general . When he witnesses a young bellhop ( Wayne Morris ) deck a top rated heavyweight at a swank party , he sees a future champ , and a way to undermine rival promoter Turkey Mor... |
368,033 | 2,707,735 | 48,340 | 7 | Everybody's got a star to follow . | Consistently shown these days on AMC , I managed to catch " Man Without A Star " this morning . Without knowing anything about the story , one might think it had something to do about a lawman without a badge , but here the title is used figuratively , and makes sense when cowpoke Dempsey Rae ( Kirk Douglas ) teaches h... |
367,584 | 2,707,735 | 413,300 | 7 | You know , I guess one person CAN make a difference . . . | Unlike the first two Spider-Man films which I saw in theaters when they first came out , I sat this one out until last night to catch it on one of the cable channels . That decision was probably justified , as this one didn't feel like it had the heart of it's predecessors . Too many characters , too many sub-plots , t... |
368,063 | 2,707,735 | 34,586 | 7 | Man who fears death die a thousand times . | Lucy Manderley is the obvious suspect when two guests are seemingly murdered at Manderley Castle , located in the Mojave Desert . Her husband Paul is a mysterious recluse who stands to lose his $20 million dollar estate if it can be proved he is mentally unfit . Charlie Chan has a lot to piece together in this brisk my... |
368,125 | 2,707,735 | 44,533 | 7 | . . . and the lawyers are up in the dome right now waiting to explain the nature of their crime with facts , figures and falsehoods . One more ' F ' and they won't be drafted . | Deadline U . S . A is the story of a newspaper facing extinction , though it delves into a neat little crime story that graces page one prominently during it's final days . What's interesting is that the gangster drama doesn't involve Humphrey Bogart as a mobster or a law man ; he's the editor of ' The Day ' , a pape... |
367,896 | 2,707,735 | 66,599 | 7 | From what I hear , I'm gonna have to kill you . | Here's a neat little TV Western that gets interesting following a fairly standard set up . A new Marshal arrives in town just in time to confront a pair of rowdy brothers and winds up killing one in self defense . Then he hears about how he'll have to pay once big brother hits town along with all of his trail hands . T... |
368,055 | 2,707,735 | 36,705 | 7 | Commissioner , that was a strictly private murder , to which I was not invited . | On vacation from his government job and returning to Honolulu , Charlie Chan is compelled to investigate a murder case when Sergeant Matthews threatens to detain daughter Frances ( Frances Chan ) unless he helps . William Bonner is the victim , a psychic medium who is shot during a seance , but mysteriously , a gun or ... |
368,024 | 2,707,735 | 48,158 | 7 | Maybe he died from laughing at old jokes . | There's a great politically incorrect sign hanging in the Amato Club House that says - " Be American , Speak English " . That's one of the visual treats in " Hell On Frisco Bay " , a gritty gangster drama featuring one of the best , Edward G . Robinson as tough guy Victor Amato . There's also a lot of great dialog comp... |
368,555 | 2,707,735 | 81,755 | 7 | One of these days this rifle's gonna make my life . | It would make more sense to view this story as a TV mini-series the way it was originally produced than to do as I did , and catch it all in one sitting on Encore Westerns . For one , the picture is ponderously long at three and a half plus hours , and you have to be patient with the abrupt scene changes that were desi... |
367,691 | 2,707,735 | 31,149 | 7 | If you did do it , I'm all for you . That woman had at least one murder coming to her . | Charlie Chan in Reno offers a cleverly woven mystery in which the murder suspects are all revealed to have had some involvement with each other in the past . It helps when watching to keep a scorecard to keep track of events and relationships so the final revelation makes sense . Not only do we have a murder victim ,... |
368,241 | 2,707,735 | 26,778 | 7 | Don't wake him up , he's got insomnia , he's trying to sleep it off . | The Marx Brothers are at it again , this time with the New York opera scene as a backdrop , but when did high society ever stop their zaniness before ? Groucho's character is Otis B . Driftwood , conspiring to get the wealthy Mrs . Claypool ( Margaret Dumont , who else ? ) to contribute two hundred thousand dollars to ... |
368,333 | 2,707,735 | 56,016 | 7 | Where does it say on the paper that we are Apaches ? | I'm just about through the fourth season of " The Rifleman " on the Encore Western Channel , and I'm really starting to appreciate the work of Chuck Connors . So as I call up the TV cable listings yesterday , it's only about a minute to go before the movie " Geronimo " is set to play on Turner Classics . With no hesita... |
367,684 | 2,707,735 | 31,147 | 7 | Scorpio I believe , is the unfortunate symbol of death . | Charlie Chan at Treasure Island is at the top of many Chan fan lists as their favorite ; it certainly deserves that distinction . Even when the film gets creepy it's fun , as in the séance scene at the home of Dr . Zodiac . Charlie Chan's friend Paul Essex is an apparent suicide aboard a San Francisco bound plane fli... |
367,792 | 2,707,735 | 36,653 | 7 | I think he should find you irresistible , Mademoiselle . | John Carradine is on record as stating " Bluebeard " was his favorite film role out of well over two hundred movie appearances . Truthfully , I was surprised by the rather intriguing tale coming out of this Publishers Releasing film , rising a few notches above it's humble Poverty Row origins . The film opens with a wo... |
367,809 | 2,707,735 | 68,611 | 7 | That man must be a sexual maniac ! | As with most of Alfred Hitchcock's films , I find myself in a quandary regarding just how significant this film ought to be considered . Back in 1999 , " Frenzy " was voted eighth among Hitch's best films by a panel of top directors , surpassing even " Rear Window " and " Strangers On A Train " which didn't make the To... |
368,212 | 2,707,735 | 34,742 | 7 | You may serve the soup course now Pappy ! | The " Flying Tigers " gets off the ground early as Commander Jim Gordon ( John Wayne ) leads his blue group fighters into exciting aerial battle against the Japanese . The film takes a look at an American band of mercenary fliers defending China just prior to our entry into World War II . For historical perspective , t... |
368,520 | 2,707,735 | 56,059 | 7 | By the way , how you doing with the Big Bwana ? | The first time I saw " Hatari " was on a Boy Scout excursion to New York City during it's original release year of 1962 . I had no idea at the time who John Wayne was , let alone any of the supporting players in the movie , but I did like wild animals . What young kid doesn't ? Since then of course , the Duke has moved... |
368,529 | 2,707,735 | 28,955 | 7 | You're right , you're always right . . . that's what's wrong with you . | Pat O'Brien portrays the title character , a strictly by the book rookie patrolman in New York's 7th Precinct , in this formulaic story that will have you experience a range of emotions , as does O'Malley before it's all over . " I just love to watch him pull out that manual " - so says newspaper reporter Pinky Holden ... |
368,420 | 2,707,735 | 68,657 | 7 | Don't worry ma'am , I only kill nice people . | There's a great DVD set put out by St . Clair Vision that offers nine films , appropriately titled " Spaghetti Westerns " , and fairly oozing garlic oil and marinara . If you're only familiar with the Clint Eastwood ' Man With No Name ' films , you'll be intrigued and entertained by the offerings here , among them " Th... |
368,486 | 2,707,735 | 110,413 | 7 | I like these calm little moments before the storm . | This film held my interest for exactly one hour . It was about at that point that Gary Oldman's character was revealed to be a cop , and then the head scratching began . I mean , really , did he and his goons have to take out Mathilda's whole family over a drug deal gone bad ? And when Stansfield ( Oldman ) is question... |
367,633 | 2,707,735 | 48,570 | 7 | Lots of fellas live and die without ever having to find out how much of a man they are . | If you've seen Jimmy Cagney in a few of his famous gangster roles , his appearance in a Western might be enough to make you scratch your head . I had that reaction the first time , when I caught him as a ' good ' bad guy in " The Oklahoma Kid " , opposite another actor you might peg the same way - Humphrey Bogart . Tha... |
367,960 | 2,707,735 | 51,758 | 7 | A tramp , but smart ! | There's something about the use of words that always makes me stop and think , and that's precisely what happened as I read the opening sequence attributed to newspaper reporter Edward S . Montgomery . The story of Barbara Graham was presented as ' factual ' , which to me implied right out of the gate that it might not... |
367,581 | 2,707,735 | 51,756 | 7 | You celebrating be kind to humans week ? | It's always cool to run across a picture as absurdly titled as " I Married a Monster From Outer Space " , and even better when the picture turns out to be a whole lot better than the expectation it created . This wouldn't necessarily be everyone's cup of tea , but for schlock sci-fi movie fans of the era , this one has... |
367,963 | 2,707,735 | 49,844 | 7 | Some things you can never pay for . | I'm not sure that " These Wilder Years " is the best title that this film could have come up with ; Cagney's reputation as a movie gangster might have hinted at something a bit more daring . However the picture features a well thought out story line and engages the viewer right from the start with Steve Bradford's ( Ca... |
367,788 | 2,707,735 | 51,744 | 7 | Remember the fun we had when you poisoned me ? | Though Vincent Price had a long and varied career , most horror film fans will know him by a trio of movies from the late 1950's - " The Bat " ( 1959 ) , " The Fly " ( 1958 ) , and this one - " The House on Haunted Hill " . When I first saw this film shortly after it's original release , it gave me the heebie jeebies f... |
367,722 | 2,707,735 | 421,238 | 7 | I want you to kill your brother . | Here's an Australian Western steeped deeply in marinara and done in the tradition of the sleaziest of the spaghetti genre . It's a gritty , violent , and truth be told , fly infested film that sears your viewing pleasure in a visceral display of blood and guts that will leave you as squeamish as it's victims . It even ... |
368,344 | 2,707,735 | 34,428 | 7 | I never discussed being a traitor with a man , you'll find it easier if you don't think about that part of it . | The original theatrical trailer to " Across the Pacific " offers Sydney Greenstreet introducing the story as an even more astonishing tale to tell than " The Maltese Falcon " . He should know , he was there for both , reuniting with fellow co-stars Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor in a tale of espionage and intrigue tout... |
367,632 | 2,707,735 | 56,085 | 7 | That's why I like this country , there's always greener grass over the hill . | Filmed as a generation spanning epic , the movie is essentially a series of vignettes loosely held together by the presence of Debbie Reynolds ' character , Lily Prescott . Starting out on the first leg of a journey that takes the Prescott family West via the Erie Canal , the picture tells the story of how it might hav... |
368,386 | 2,707,735 | 114,622 | 7 | Nobody dies till I tell ' em to die . | I've probably seen James Caan more often as a villain than a hero , and the villain role suits him just fine . He goes from bad to evil to maniacal in the course of the story here , with a twist in the picture that comes out of nowhere that attempts to explain his hatred of the half breed Hudson Santeek ( Christopher L... |
367,600 | 2,707,735 | 34,370 | 7 | What this turkey needs is some big shot in the arm . . . | The original theatrical trailer for " The Wagons Roll at Night " compares it favorably to Humphrey Bogart's prior two releases , " They Drive By Night " and " High Sierra " ; in it , Bogie finds himself in a non traditional role as the hard driving owner of " Coaster's Combined Circus and Carnival " . His character is ... |
367,777 | 2,707,735 | 38,777 | 7 | I'll meet you half way , bring the frucci and leave the gucci here . | I'm not a connoisseur of the Marx Brothers films , and therefore take delight in reading some of the reviews from other posters for this and other movies of theirs on this site . What I can say is that I enjoy their pictures , and " A Night in Casablanca " is no exception . With such a title , I might have expected mor... |
367,929 | 2,707,735 | 38,762 | 7 | Wide awake wide open Tombstone , get anything you want there . | I've seen enough John Ford Westerns to recognize Monument Valley by now , so the opening scene of the movie is quite interesting until Old Man Clanton ( Walter Brennan ) states to Wyatt Earp ( Henry Fonda ) that Tombstone lies just over the ridge . Though Utah's Monument Valley borders northern Arizona , Tombstone is a... |
367,949 | 2,707,735 | 38,764 | 7 | You're kinda quick on the Trigger , son . | My Pal Trigger is a showcase for " The Smartest Horse in the Movies " as Roy Rogers ' horse was frequently billed . If any fault is to be found with the film , it's probably that there are too many stories going on ; there are enough subplots to support another two or three movies . Central to the movie though , is R... |
367,868 | 2,707,735 | 30,775 | 7 | There's no one more stubborn in the defense of morality than a reformed sinner . | The opening music sounds like it could be from a jungle flick , though a title card calls attention to Old West parallels for fish pirates on the Alaskan frontier in the early 1900's . Prior to finding this film in a second hand shop , I had never heard of it , and to maintain the suspense , I didn't read the video sle... |
367,908 | 2,707,735 | 84,296 | 7 | He's not a lad brother , he's a man . | Midway through the film Mrs . Bailey confronts Harrison ( Kirk Douglas ) with the story of his wife , in love with two men and deciding to marry the first one to make his fortune . Harrison staked it all on gamble and won . His brother Spur - " He went looking for gold " . Each character in their own way finds gold in ... |
368,395 | 2,707,735 | 56,172 | 7 | The man who gives victory in battle is prized over every other man . | With it's epic sweep and stunning visuals , " Lawrence of Arabia " has earned it's position among the greatest films of all time . That's a subjective fact I can live with , but at the risk of offending some of the more eloquent supporters on this site , there wasn't a lot that I could warm up to in this movie . More t... |
367,904 | 2,707,735 | 61,846 | 7 | A kill and carry partner . . . , you kill ' em , I carry ' em . | In the opening scene , the eye patch wearing desperado named Hawkeye has a smooth forehead , but when he follows Johnny into the pueblo , he's shown with a scar over his patched eye . That's just one of the many continuity lapses in this edgy ' spaghetti ' Western , but rather than detract from the picture , it adds a ... |
367,975 | 2,707,735 | 48,584 | 7 | I don't like any Indians , I like half breeds less . | John Payne's character spouts all the native Indian racist and anti-feminist diatribes he can muster in this wild west actioner taking place on a pack train to Santa Fe . Kirby Randolph ( Payne ) and his partner Sam ( Slim Pickens ) look to redeem themselves from a prior scouting job that ended in disaster for settlers... |
367,912 | 2,707,735 | 376,994 | 7 | Welcome to the Brotherhood . | You expect intense action with the X-Men franchise and this one delivers as well . For my money though , the film is all over itself trying to be the greatest action adventure of all time , especially in the second half . I'd have preferred a bit more character development replacing some of the fight scenes , but hey ,... |
367,626 | 2,707,735 | 48,604 | 7 | You only learned to count to seven so you could keep track of us . | Here's another of those ' Million Dollar Movies ' that I would watch when it was shown every night for a week back when I was a kid growing up in the Fifties . Of course then , the only way to see it was in black and white , so to catch it in color today for the first time was a nice treat . For a kid , I guess you cou... |
368,090 | 2,707,735 | 46,414 | 7 | I just like to know who's making friends with my friends . | Bogey himself called it a mess , but it's a delightful mess that doesn't spoil things by making it's characters go for outright comedy . The humor is in the cleverly written and subtly delivered lines , often catching up with you in the next scene and suggesting you hit the rewind button . The Alpha Video DVD I picked ... |
367,628 | 2,707,735 | 51,899 | 7 | There's a point where you either grow up and become a human being or you rot , like that bunch . | Once you've established " High Noon " as one of your favorite movie Westerns , it's a bit difficult to expect Gary Cooper to match performances against his portrayal of Marshal Will Kane . " Man Of The West " came only six years after " High Noon " , but Cooper seems much older , and his actions seem indecisive in the ... |
367,624 | 2,707,735 | 51,876 | 7 | The Masked Man has brought justice to our land again ! | The Lone Ranger was one of my childhood heroes , and I never missed a chance to catch his adventures on Saturday morning re-runs during the mid 1950's . Somehow however , this film got by me until I had a chance to catch it today courtesy of my local library . I was struck by a number of elements during the story , as ... |
367,883 | 2,707,735 | 27,113 | 7 | He who filters your good name steals trash . | I'm always learning something new when I research a film on the IMDb , like how this Laurel and Hardy short was a sequel of sorts to " Them Thar Hills " . So now I'll have to search that one out to round out the experience . When I watch anything with Stan and Ollie in it today , I have to marvel at just what a pair of... |
368,159 | 2,707,735 | 61,789 | 7 | What we want is more humane killers . | I'm sure I missed a lot of the nuance of this film because of the language barrier - it was in English , without subtitles . I picked it up in a dollar bargain bin almost a year ago because John Lennon's picture was on the video sleeve . Though others on this board state that he stole the show , I came away with the im... |
368,569 | 2,707,735 | 61,770 | 7 | Try not to puke , you may have to lie in it a long time . | His adopted white name was John Russell , the Apaches called him Ishkanay . If you didn't know either , he was simply ' Hombre ' , the Man . I was startled to see Paul Newman's first appearance in the film , he definitely could pass for an Indian . His character is a man of few words , though when he speaks it counts f... |
367,698 | 2,707,735 | 35,211 | 8 | I'm telling you , that was a mighty wallop . | I'm not much of a major league baseball fan , due in part to the nonsensical gobs of money thrown at professional athletes today , but I don't think you have to be a sports fan to appreciate the tale of Lou Gehrig - " The Pride of the Yankees " . Gehrig's story took place at a time when guys would play ball just for th... |
368,069 | 2,707,735 | 88,011 | 8 | I've never been anybody's best time before . | If I'm cruising the cable channels and this film is playing it's usually a given that I'll pick it up midstream and stay for the rest of the ride . " Romancing The Stone " has just the right mix of action , adventure and comedy to make it one of the most watchable and entertaining films ever . The first real hook in th... |
368,332 | 2,707,735 | 56,406 | 8 | You think when you put clothes on an ape you can make him a dancing partner . | Say how cool was it to see Muhammad Ali , still known as Cassius Clay , in a full blown close up knocking out Mountain Rivera ( Anthony Quinn ) in the opening fight sequence ? Could the film makers have been any more prophetic about the future of ' The Greatest ' only a couple years before Clay became World Champ for r... |
367,810 | 2,707,735 | 56,412 | 8 | . . . the Lord's bounty may not be for sale , but the devil's is , if you can pay the price . | What a cool name for a Western , it conjures up an image of gallant men rising above mediocrity and standing for justice and order in a lawless land . You actually get a sense of that with the magnificent sweep of the picture's cinematography through rugged patches of mountain and timber rimmed lakes . It's further def... |
368,400 | 2,707,735 | 47,849 | 8 | . . . only just seems to me there aren't many towns like this in America , but one town like it is enough . | It's a little over an hour into the film before the viewer has a pretty good idea of what's going on , and it wraps up in a total of eighty one minutes ! I'm going to have to file this one under best films I'd never heard of , although by the looks of things on this board , maybe it's just me . On first viewing , the s... |
367,986 | 2,707,735 | 248,667 | 8 | I ain't got to be what nobody else want me to be , and I ain't afraid to be what I want to be . . . | My youth and young adulthood coincided with Muhammad Ali's rise to the Heavyweight Championship , and I followed his bouts whenever they were shown on TV . Thankfully it was a time before routine fifty dollar pay per view cable events . However even though Ali's name had become a household word , I didn't know a lot ab... |
367,595 | 2,707,735 | 281,686 | 8 | Never , but never f . . . with the King ! | It would be easy to dismiss " Bubba Ho-Tep " as a lewd and crude piece of sensationalistic movie making , especially if you don't get beyond the opening scene . But if you stay with it , it will challenge your perceptions of the King of Rock and Roll , as an aging Elvis Presley reflects on his life , with all it's woul... |
367,630 | 2,707,735 | 893,382 | 8 | He might catch on fire . | Early in the picture , there's the greatest exchange between director Martin Scorsese and one of his engineers . Talking about the precautions needed with the stage lighting and how hot it might get : Scorsese - " You mean like flames ? " Engineer - " He ( referring to Mick Jagger ) might catch on fire " . Scorsese - "... |
367,867 | 2,707,735 | 32,599 | 8 | Shall I put some rum in the coffee , it's a nasty day . | One would be hard pressed to point out a bigger con man in film than Cary Grant's character in " His Girl Friday " , but pitted as he is against Rosalind Russell , I'd say he's more than met his match . In fact , as a newspaper reporter , Hildy Johnson shows her own seamy side as she leads convicted killer Earl William... |
368,311 | 2,707,735 | 33,149 | 8 | Whew , I hope I never have another five minutes like that again . | George Raft and Humphrey Bogart portray Joe and Paul Fabrini , trying to get ahead in pre-War California as long haul drivers , one might call them a couple of brother truckers . The film is difficult to categorize , other than being another of Warner Brothers ' social commentaries , offering the gritty side of a tough... |
367,911 | 2,707,735 | 466,909 | 8 | My son is dead , I don't know who's son I'm raising . | Mea culpa . I may be one of the few people on the planet who hasn't seen the original film , though that won't remain the case for long . Because the comparisons are inevitable , I'll have to make mine in reverse order , but for now I'll have to say that " The Omen " succeeds as a patently scary film , and decidedly su... |
368,456 | 2,707,735 | 41,959 | 8 | I don't want another murder in this case , and you were born to be murdered . . . | Had I gone into the film cold , I would have thought it came from Hitchcock , employing elements from that director's bag of cinematic tricks . You've got the spiral staircase motif initially seen way back in 1929's " Blackmail " and later given more profound treatment in 1958's " Vertigo " . There's also the amusement... |
367,677 | 2,707,735 | 47,720 | 8 | My name's Cheyenne Bodie . | When " Cheyenne " debuted on / 1955 , " The Lone Ranger " had already been running for six seasons and had two more to go . Warner Brothers , specifically Jack Warner , tapped Clint Walker to be it's first TV Western hero , and raised the bar a considerable notch over the series made famous by Clayton Moore ( and John ... |
367,844 | 2,707,735 | 821,638 | 8 | Then we will have a fight . | I'll have to admit that I tried reading Dee Brown's " Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee " on two separate occasions , the last time quite recently , and I found it to be VERY dry . Perhaps that was only in the early going , but I wasn't able to complete it both times . As for the film , I came across it quite by accident a... |
367,772 | 2,707,735 | 21,814 | 8 | To die , to be really dead , that must be glorious . | One of the definitive films of the early horror genre , " Dracula " still maintains it's classic appeal . From his first words muttered on screen - " I am Dracula . . . I bid you welcome " - Bela Lugosi sets the brooding , menacing tone that pervades throughout the film , heightened by each sinister close up as he meas... |
367,743 | 2,707,735 | 37,101 | 8 | Hold on to your chair , don't step on no snakes , I got an idea . | Watching " Murder , My Sweet " , one thing is certain - do not divert your attention for a single minute or you'll be hopelessly lost . Fortunately I read a few reviews on this forum prior to tuning in , so was prepared to stay focused , along with pen and paper to keep notes . I usually do that anyway , but sometimes ... |
367,593 | 2,707,735 | 33,226 | 8 | Too bad you and I had to be on opposite sides of the fence in this , I think we might have been friends . | By December 1864 the Confederate Army was on it's last legs , literally and figuratively ; " Virginia City " explores a final attempt to finance the Southern cause via a bold plan by the Confederacy to smuggle five million dollars in gold from Virginia City , Nevada back to Richmond , Virginia . Captain Vance Irby ( Ra... |
368,238 | 2,707,735 | 28,358 | 8 | If we don't end war , war will end us . | The message of a world on the brink of war is disregarded by the masses ; the mythical city of Everytown in 1940 represents England in general , but it could just as well stand for any nation of the world . When war finally does arrive , it's ravages continue not for another five years , but until 1966 at which time Ev... |
368,487 | 2,707,735 | 28,367 | 8 | Where you start has nothing ' to do with where you finish . | Here's a true diamond in the rough - consider all the John Wayne westerns made for Lone Star Pictures from 1933 to 1935 and not one of them matches " Three Godfathers " for story quality , character development and the strength of it's acting . Each of the outlaws who earn ' godfather ' status by virtue of their roles ... |
368,180 | 2,707,735 | 52,311 | 8 | Just because he speaks a little guilty that don't make him innocent , you know ? | I've only seen a few of Orson Welles ' pictures , the ones that count presumably - " Citizen Kane " and " The Stranger " . Without question , his presence in " Touch of Evil " earns him my esteem as one of the all time great actors . His presence literally fills the screen every time he appears , in part due to his con... |
368,251 | 2,707,735 | 32,285 | 8 | From now on , I'm going after the two things I've always wanted most , good taste and refinement . | Defying classification , " Brother Orchid " contains elements of film noir , gangster movies , and comedy , and showcases Edward G . Robinson as a mobster who quits the rackets because his tastes have outgrown them . It's a premise that walks a tightrope throughout the picture , and has Little John Sarto ( Robinson ) a... |
367,990 | 2,707,735 | 418,689 | 8 | They may have fought for their country , but they died for their friends . | With the end credits rolling I was saying to myself ' the movie is over already ? ' That doesn't happen very often with a two hour plus movie , so to prolong the experience I found myself taking in the stills of the actual flag raising along with combat photos and even Richard Nixon's face popping up for the dedication... |
367,585 | 2,707,735 | 105,435 | 8 | One cannot trust anybody these days . | I'm always up for a good caper movie , and this is one of the better ones . It doesn't get overworked with such intricacy and tension that trying to keep up with it would prove unsatisfying . Instead , this one puts together a nice blend of mystery , suspense , intrigue and humor , and does it with a capable cast and c... |
367,796 | 2,707,735 | 63,442 | 8 | You know what they say , human see , human do . | I can't say for sure why it took so long to get around to watching this film , I was around for it's original theatrical release in 1968 . Perhaps it was for what some modern day viewers would consider cheesy special effects and men in monkey suits . But you know , the movie tosses around a host of thought provoking co... |
367,834 | 2,707,735 | 23,590 | 8 | Would you stop remindin ' me of heaven when I'm so close to the other place . | Critic Leonard Maltin describes " Three On A Match " as a " hard hitting example of forbidden Hollywood " . That it is , no happy endings here , as this depression era film follows the rise and fall of childhood friends who get caught up in the seamy underworld of booze , drugs and gambling , ultimately trading places ... |
368,265 | 2,707,735 | 32,326 | 8 | Truth like oil , will in time rise to surface . | Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise is at the top of many fans favorite lists , as it is mine . Sidney Toler once again portrays the Oriental Detective , assisted by Victor Sen Yung as Number # 2 Son Jimmy . Layne Tom Jr . also appears as numerically challenged Number # 7 Son Willie ; he had made prior appearances as Number... |
368,466 | 2,707,735 | 70,242 | 8 | ' Scuse me while I kiss the sky . | The channel surfing gods must have been watching over me last night , as I came across this documentary on VH1 Classics under their ' RockDocs ' format . As I tuned in , Hendrix was into his amazing " Wild Thing " version from 1967's Monterey Pop Festival and it had me hooked for the entire run . Jimi Hendrix was alway... |
367,993 | 2,707,735 | 32,904 | 8 | So I'm to be examined , undressed and generally humiliated at fifteen cents a copy , and you , you're loving it . | It's easy to accept Hepburn as the goddess queen socialite Tracy Lord since the part was written as a Broadway play with her in mind . Wisely investing in the story rights with playwright Philip Barry granted her virtual certainty to be cast in the film version when MGM purchased the rights . The film was shot with alm... |
367,973 | 2,707,735 | 26,393 | 8 | It's the big daddy of G-Men pictures ! | My summary quote comes from David Brian for the 1949 re-release introduction to the story , a way for the film to pay tribute to the rise of the FBI to a position of force and respect . Though technically fictional , the picture has some basis in actual events that helped shape the direction of the Bureau . Enough poin... |
367,890 | 2,707,735 | 47,878 | 8 | How come a nice guy like you is a cop ? | Though the title doesn't say anything , this film from 1955 is about as stylishly noir as they come , featuring Cornel Wilde as a police lieutenant with an obsession to put away a mob boss with a name as bland as he himself is vicious - Mr . Brown . Brown is chillingly portrayed by Richard Conte , and commands the cent... |
368,442 | 2,707,735 | 32,976 | 8 | I am Mrs . de Winter now . | Alfred Hitchcock's first American film won him his only Best Picture Oscar , but in learning about the movie , it's almost surprising that the picture was ever made at all . After producer David Selznick shelled out fifty thousand dollars for the screen rights to the Daphne Du Maurier novel , he hired on Hitchcock to d... |
368,414 | 2,707,735 | 89,767 | 8 | The Lord certainly does work in mysterious ways . | With the Western genre dating back to the beginning of film making , it's not difficult to find movies that repeatedly make use of the same themes and ideas . One could make a case , I suppose , that " Pale Rider " was a remake of the Alan Ladd classic " Shane " , and with some stretch you could also find similarities ... |
367,917 | 2,707,735 | 41,610 | 8 | I wouldn't know a gold mine if I fell into one . | I rather enjoyed the description of the Superstition Mountain area of Arizona in the film's opening narrative as ' Satan's Private Art Gallery ' . The picture itself seemed to offer a preview of hell's future citizens with it's gripping story of the Lost Dutchman Mine , discovered by Jacob Walz in the 1880's at the end... |
368,567 | 2,707,735 | 32,484 | 8 | . . . don't tune me out , hang on a while , this is a big story . . . | What's interesting for me in watching " Foreign Correspondent " is trying to imagine how American audiences of the time might have felt while on the doorstep of World War II with Europe about to blow up . In this country for only a short time , director Hitchcock's set pieces recreate the cities of London and Amsterdam... |
367,988 | 2,707,735 | 385,004 | 8 | I'd like to be the wind for once . | It's curious to me how many viewers on this forum berate " House of Flying Daggers " for not being more like " Hero " . Perhaps it's because if director Yimou Zhang had that intention , he would have made " Hero " a second time . Instead he opted for a tragic love story , set amid eye popping interior set pieces and st... |
368,317 | 2,707,735 | 399,146 | 8 | You been this other guy almost as long as you been yourself . | A History of Violence isn't an easy film to watch , and without a major suspension of belief , is even harder to accept . Nevertheless , the film delivers at a gut level , and allows the viewer to empathize with a mild mannered middle class family man pushed to the limits of psychological endurance . Viggo Mortensen'... |
368,035 | 2,707,735 | 43,503 | 8 | If you're smart you can be a hero , if you're dumb you can be dead . | You won't hear " The Enforcer " mentioned when it comes to Humphrey Bogart's body of famous work , but it's a very watchable mystery that pulls you in early , and keeps you interested with each new revelation . Bogie's character is Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson , who along with police pal Frank Nelson ( R... |
367,673 | 2,707,735 | 454,848 | 8 | We never leave until the job is done . | As an action adventure , Spike Lee's " Inside Man " delivers the goods with a mysterious bank heist that has more at it's center than meets the eye . You realize there's something a bit different about Clive Owen's character Dalton , allowing hostages to go free at points in the film when it serves his unique purpose .... |
368,417 | 2,707,735 | 107,290 | 8 | The point is , you are alive when they start to eat you . | As a fan of ' B ' grade sci-fi and horror films of the 1930's through the ' 50's , I always get a kick out of the scientific rationale offered behind some new experiment or discovery . In " Jurassic Park " , dinosaurs have left behind their blueprints as preserved DNA strands in the blood of prehistoric mosquitoes trap... |
368,142 | 2,707,735 | 56,869 | 8 | I hardly think a few birds are going to bring about the end of the world . | Before and since " The Birds " , you've had all manner of creatures to make their impact in horror films . The brilliance of Alfred Hitchcock is that he doesn't go for the obvious - the great white shark , the rampaging gorilla , or the Jurassic dinosaur . What could be more welcome than a few songbirds to brighten up ... |
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