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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Too Late for Tears (1949) with Lizabeth Scott, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, and amiable Don Defore, dir. Byron (Robinson Crusoe on Mars) Haskins. I have posted on this a long time ago, but the Missus and I introduced this gritty noir to the relatives, and they were stunned by how rotten Scott's...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,643
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Returning from brief break in FL posting, here are some random notes about the most recent movies enjoyed by The Missus and myself. The Falcon in San Francisco (1945) directed by Joseph H. (Gun Crazy) Lewis, featuring Tom Conway as the titular free-lance sleuth, Edward (Timothy the circus...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,628
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
As Chairman Kaga might say, "If my memory serves me..." , does the film end with a young man semi-addressing the camera with an emotional speech about how other people need to wake up to the needs of the underprivileged?- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,627
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Making up for a short hiatus, here's the recent viewing experiences at stately Shellhammer Palais du Old Movies- Murder Ahoy (1964) with Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple, solving mysteries on a sailing vessel; which doesn't sail but stays anchored in a bay somewhere. Rutherford is in fine...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,617
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Man of the People (1937) with Joseph Calleia, Florence Rice, and Thomas Mitchell. Calleia grows up in a tough part of NYC, then later in life becomes an attorney in private practice. Mitchell heads up the local corrupt politics, for whom Calleia foregoes his noble legal aspirations, and takes to...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,605
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Spanning the spectrum from A to M, a hasty recap of film-watching at stately Shellhammer Manor- The Asphalt Jungle (1950) directed and co-screen play by John Huston, with towering Sterling Hayden as a small-time "hooligan," Louis Calhern as a self-assured, urbane lawyer with criminals as his...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,596
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Crime School (1938) with Humphrey Bogart as an upright deputy commissioner for the state's reform school department, and the Dead End Kids as tough and slangy victims of urban poverty. Most of their home lives are wrecks of alcoholism, crime, and unemployment. Sent to reform school, we meet a...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,592
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
A brief account of recent viewings at the Grand Ol' Shellhammer Bijou- Rocky Mountain - Errol Flynn leads a band of Confederate soldiers towards California with the aim of setting up a second front for the South. Their rendezvous is somewhere in Nevada. During their wait, there is a capture of...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,591
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
FF, have you read the novel? It was the subject of one of our read-alouds some years back.- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,587
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Caine Mutiny (1954) with Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson, and Fred MacMurray, under the direction of Edward Dmytryk. Bogart's Captain Queeg suffers from sort of "Napoleon complex", sometimes a martinet, sometimes a by-the-book commander. From time to time he experiences an...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,580
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Foyle's War was a favorite of the Missus and me. Michael Kitchen underplays the character even as he is pulling together the clues. The pacing might seem slow, but the story-telling keeps us engaged.- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #18,649
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
A brief recapitulation of movie-viewing, here at stately Shellhammer Manor- Two for Breakfast, Barbra Stanwyck and Herbert Marshall in 1 hour and 7 minutes of sort of a screwball comedy from 1937. Marshall is the nominal head of a steamship company, Stanwyck a competing millionaire who sets her...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,571
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The ongoing House of Shellhammer Film Fest and Continual Soiree has traversed the movie spectrum of late- One Minute to Zero (1952) directed by Tay Garnett, with Robert Mitchum, Ann Blyth, William Talman, Charles McGraw, and Alvin (Miracle on 34th Street) Greenman. An RKO production overseen by...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,566
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Did someone already post about The Lost Moment ? If they did, I beg your indulgence. From 1947, director Martin Gabel presents Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, John Archer and Eduardo Ciannelli in a difficult-to-explain story about an American publisher who wants to obtain a set...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,556
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Yesterday, it was Ma and Pa Kettle (1949), with Majorie Main and Percy Kilbride in the title roles. Fun fluff. The first in their own series, which saw the release of a new entry about once a year. Sometime last week it was The Killers (1946) starring Burt Lancaster (in his film debut), Ava...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,552
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Three Came Home, produced in 1949 from a 1947 book, but released in 1950. Starring Claudette Colbert as the American wife of English husband Patric Knowles, who are working and living in pre-WW2 north Borneo, then a British colony. The Japanese invade and most of the film deals with the...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,550
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Also in the mix was an occasional family movie night dedicated to The Lord of the Rings trilogy. We watched the Extended Super Extra Jumbo Mega Ultimate Edition, which takes serious commitment. Just finished the last one, and it was decided to move on to The Hobbit, with which I have...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,542
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Last Friday it was The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) with top-billed Sydney Greenstreet, along with Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre, and a great deal of familiar faces. Taken from a Eric Ambler story, we follow Lorre as a Dutch writer who tracks down the life and crimes of Dimitrios...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Cobweb (1955) with Vincent Minelli directing Richard Widmark, Laura Bacall, Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish, Charles Boyer, and introducing John Kerr. Deliver the story in Cinemascope and Technicolor, and one would expect a smash blockbuster sensation, would one not? Unhappily, no. Widmark and...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,535
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
Is listening to audiobooks and then posting in the "Reading" thread okay? On a recent road trip the Missus and I listened to two Agatha Christie books, The Man in the Brown Suit, and The Mystery of the Blue Train. The former was excellently read by Amelia Fox, the latter also excellently read by...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #9,199
- Forum: The Reading Room
