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Off-Topic Discussion / Over-Exposed (1956)

« on: December 05, 2022, 11:33:35 PM »

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049587/

Over-Exposed (1956)

Sexy blonde dance club girl learns the photography trade and moves to New York in pursuit of a new career. (IMDB)

    Cleo Moore as Lily Krenshka / Lila Crane
    Raymond Greenleaf as Max West
    Richard Crenna as Russ Bassett
    Jack Albertson as Les Bauer
    Isobel Elsom as Mrs. Grange
    Dayton Lummis as Horace Sutherland
    James O'Rear as Roy Carver


Eddie Muller's intro https://youtu.be/f1d6Ab3994E

Eddie Muller's outro https://youtu.be/vLdIOlwI45k

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Off-Topic Discussion / The Mob (1951)

« on: December 05, 2022, 11:18:51 PM »

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043812/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

The Mob (1951)

An undecover cop poses as a longshoremen to uncover gangsters on the waterfront.



    Broderick Crawford as Johnny Damico
    Betty Buehler as Mary Kiernan
    Richard Kiley as Thomas "Tom" Clancy
    Otto Hulett as Police Lt. Banks
    Matt Crowley as Smoothie
    Neville Brand as Gunner
    Ernest Borgnine as Joe Castro
    Walter Klavun as Police Sgt. Bennion
    Frank DeKova as Culio
    Lynn Baggett as Peggy, Tom Clancy's wife
    Jean Alexander as Doris, Clancy's sister
    Ralph Dumke as Police Commissioner
    John Marley as Tony
    Charles Bronson as Jack, a Longshoreman (uncredited)
    Jay Adler as Russell, the Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
    Emile Meyer as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
    Duke Watson as Radford (uncredited)
    Carleton Young as District Attorney (uncredited)


Eddie Muller's intro https://youtu.be/ltbeCficug4

Eddie Muller's outro https://youtu.be/78zWdn14kAY

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Off-Topic Discussion / High Tide (1947)

« on: December 05, 2022, 11:08:16 PM »

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039439/

High Tide (1947)

A newspaper editor hires a hires a former employee-turned-private-investigator to protect him from a gang boss he has been investigating.

    Lee Tracy as Hugh Fresney
    Don Castle as Tim 'T.M.' Slade
    Julie Bishop as Julie Vaughn
    Anabel Shaw as Dana Jones
    Douglas Walton as Clinton Vaughn
    Regis Toomey as Inspector O'Haffey
    Francis Ford as Pop Garrow
    Anthony Warde as Nick Dyke
    Argentina Brunetti as Mrs. Cresser
    Wilson Wood as Cleve Collins
    George Ryland as Doctor at Shooting Scene


Eddie Muller's outro https://youtu.be/r2GP1f9a2u4

Eddie Muller's intro https://youtu.be/FVRVX_TTWsk

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Off-Topic Discussion / The Guilty (1947)

« on: December 05, 2022, 10:43:39 PM »

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039439/

The Guilty (1947)

Two guys sharing an apartment meet twin girls (both Bonita Granville). One's sweet, the other a major piece of bad news. The nice one is murdered and her boyfriend is accused of the crime. The wrong man/wrong victim plot strikes again. (IMDB)

    Bonita Granville as Estelle Mitchell/Linda Mitchell
    Don Castle as Mike Carr
    Regis Toomey as Detective Heller
    John Litel as Alex Tremholt
    Wally Cassell as Johnny Dixon
    Thomas E. Jackson as Tim McGinnis
    Netta Packer as Mrs. Mitchell

Eddie Muller's intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2f4RwT5QKQ

Eddie Muller's outro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZIKjeidg2Y

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Off-Topic Discussion / The Killer Is Loose (1956)

« on: November 30, 2022, 12:55:10 AM »

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049405/

The Killer Is Loose (1956)


An unhinged, deceptively mild-mannered bank robber escapes prison, seeking revenge on the cop who accidentally killed his wife during a gun battle. (IMDB)

cast (wikipedia)
    Joseph Cotten as Det. Sam Wagner
    Rhonda Fleming as Lila Wagner
    Wendell Corey as Leon 'Foggy' Poole
    Alan Hale Jr. as Denny, Detective (as Alan Hale)
    Michael Pate as Det. Chris Gillespie
    John Larch as Otto Flanders
    Dee J. Thompson as Grace Flanders
    John Beradino as Mac, Plainclothes Cop
    Virginia Christine as Mary Gillespie
    Paul Bryar as Greg Boyd




Eddie Muller's intro https://youtu.be/v-NYMm6MdO8

Eddie Muller's outro https://youtu.be/iN0Xha_aQLw

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Sergio Leone News / BOOK: Sergio Leone - Cinema as Political Fable

« on: October 08, 2022, 05:56:05 PM »

https://academic.oup.com/book/32153

https://www.amazon.com/Sergio-Leone-Cinema-Political-Fable/dp/019094269X

I don?t recall this ever being mentioned here

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Off-Topic Discussion / Bruce Willis

« on: April 03, 2022, 10:27:25 AM »

Bruce Willis Stepping Away From Acting Following Aphasia Diagnosis

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/bruce-willis-retiring-acting-apashia-1235219017/

Sad to hear this. This condition sounds like hell.

Willis was one of my favorite actors as a teen. I probably saw the first three Die Hard films a total of fifty times.

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Off-Topic Discussion / 2022 awards season (for 2021 movies)

« on: January 10, 2022, 12:35:47 AM »

will there be one?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/quiet-awards-season-hollywood-uneasy-154319545.html

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Off-Topic Discussion / The Dark Past (1948)

« on: November 12, 2021, 03:16:46 AM »

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040270/

The Dark Past (1948)


William Holden plays a bad guy who escapes prison and, along with his gang, takes hostage a few people including a shrink, Lee J. Cobb.

Holden has some psychological problems, which Cobb tries to cure while he is being held hostage

I agree with Eddie Muller: everything is done well except the crappy script

Eddie Muller's intro  https://youtu.be/7JEiqjr4Oyc

Eddie Muller's outro  https://youtu.be/TWVKiPdSj7o

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Off-Topic Discussion / Cloudburst (1951)

« on: September 12, 2021, 12:16:17 AM »

Cloudburst (1951)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043418/

A Canadian World War II veteran working for the British Foreign Office scours England for the killer who murdered his wife.

    Robert Preston as John Graham
    Elizabeth Sellars as Carol Graham
    Colin Tapley as Inspector Davis
    Sheila Burrell as Lorna Dawson
    Harold Lang as Mickie Fraser / Kid Python
    Mary Germaine as Peggy Reece
    George Woodbridge as Sergeant Ritchie
    Lyn Evans as Chuck Peters
    Thomas Heathcote as Jackie
    Edith Sharpe as Mrs. Reece
    Daphne Anderson as Kate
    Edward Lexy as Cardew
    James Mills as Thompson
    Noel Howlett as Johnson
    Martin Boddey as Desk Sergeant

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Off-Topic Discussion / Los Tallos Amargos [The Bitter Stems] (1956) Argentine Noir

« on: August 10, 2021, 10:15:04 PM »

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143920/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Los Tallos Amargos [The Bitter Stems] (1956)

This showed on Noir Alley recently. The Film Foundation restored the movie and it'll be released soon on BRD


Eddie Muller's intro  https://youtu.be/fxZ7w80xIBA

Eddie Muller's outro  https://youtu.be/8J01lMB8L1U

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Off-Topic Discussion / Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

« on: July 20, 2021, 01:10:11 AM »

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Eddie Muller's intro  https://youtu.be/NRoUstFYtMM

Eddie Muller's outro  https://youtu.be/WebijqBTOgs

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Off-Topic Discussion / Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)

« on: July 20, 2021, 01:04:27 AM »

Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)

Cold War movie about Soviets trying to steal nuclear secrets from American nuclear lab.

With Louis Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, Louise Allbritton, Raymond Burr.

Decent movie with a terrible narration.

Eddie Muller's intro  https://youtu.be/3QUxx3ZR3pg

Eddie Muller's outro  https://youtu.be/dedsZgx089Q

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Off-Topic Discussion / The Brothers Rico (1957)

« on: July 16, 2021, 04:54:25 PM »

previous discussion here http://www.fistful-of-leone.com/forums/index.php?topic=1822.msg144662#msg144662

IMO this is a crappy movie. And Conte is not as good as usual

Eddie Muller's intro https://youtu.be/xAwznu7SvbM

Eddie Muller's outro  https://youtu.be/w-XHnkgGtZA

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General Discussion / nice piece on Frayling

« on: May 30, 2021, 01:02:31 PM »

I just discovered this 2013 interview/article on Frayling

"Like many popular artists, Leone also wanted to be regarded as a serious artist, and passionately craved the respect of intellectuals. Enter the white knight. In the English-speaking world at least, no one has done more than Christopher Frayling to make Sergio Leone a name to drop in cinephile circles."


https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/how-west-was-won-1036.html


Among the interesting revelations: Frayling's manuscript for STDWD was double as long as what was publishd. And he says "I think that by the end of this year I'm finally going to be Leoned out ... unless some publisher is willing to do the 'Director's Cut' of the biography." (Thankfully, Frayling was not "Leoned out" - he did subsequently publish the OUATITW book  )