Last Movie You Watched

[Karl Henning]

I've heard of that modification, as well.

[Cato]

Clifton Webb received an Academy Award nomination for his role of genius-at-large Lynn Belvedere:

Sitting Pretty



Great lines, and the plot has more to do with the idea of a gossipy, willing-to-believe-the-worst suburban neighborhood than with genius vs. children skits.  At times it was a melancholy experience watching this: quite a different world c. 70 years ago, even given that the movie is obviously not a documentary!    

[Drasko]

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[Karl Henning]

Clifton Webb received an Academy Award nomination for his role of genius-at-large Lynn Belvedere:

Sitting Pretty

Sort of the sunny twin to his Waldo Lydecker in Laura 

[Cato]

Sort of the sunny twin to his Waldo Lydecker in Laura 

Yes, much sunnier!    Mrs. Cato wants to watch it again later this week, a real rarity when that happens!

[Bogey]

Good to know!  I remember liking the trailer, though I've let this drop off my radar . . . .

Thread Duty:

Strange to say, last night I watched for the first time:  Twelve Angry Men

Something of a misnomer, as the narrative hinges on the fact that the architect on the jury keeps his head, and insists on focusing on the actual facts (rather than what most of the others are happy to take for "facts") and pressing for the consideration of reasonable doubt.

I think Jack Klugman's and E.G. Marshall's jurors, too, fail to become actually angry;  but Nine Angry Men wouldn't quite do for a title, would it?

Love this one.  The acting is first rate all around and the concept is genius.  Ethan enjoyed this one as well, Karl.

[Karl Henning]

Love this one.  The acting is first rate all around and the concept is genius.  Ethan enjoyed this one as well, Karl.

Splendid!

No idea why it took me so long.  Like Titanic, one knows both where the story begins, and what the ending will be;  unlike T., I knew to expect excellent writing and engaging drama throughout 

One benefit from my only seeing it now is, recognizing a few of the cast from their work on The Twilight Zone, e.g.

[Cato]

We caught this yesterday at the "dollar movies" (actually a dollar and a half each):



The plot is stolen from a Twilight Zone episode (Long Live Walter Jameson from Season I with Kevin McCarthy), except in this movie it is a woman who is deathless.  Mrs. Cato disliked the ironically disinterested voice-over narration with a pseudo-scientific explanation for the main character's condition.*  She also found the romantic lead unpersuasive and unattractive.   The plot depends on two big coincidences, the  last coincidence predictable and contrived.

Harrison Ford, however, steals the movie in the last third, aided by Kathy Baker.

*A critic (I no longer recall the name) had a rule against voice-over narration in movies, calling it a crutch for a weakness in cinematic technique.

[rockerreds]

Life Is Sweet,with director commentary.

[Karl Henning]

[...]

Harrison Ford, however, steals the movie in the last third, aided by Kathy Baker.

*A critic (I no longer recall the name) had a rule against voice-over narration in movies, calling it a crutch for a weakness in cinematic technique.

These combine neatly in the "happy ending" which the studio imposed upon the theatrical release of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, for which they brought Harrison Ford back to loop voice-over for leftover footage from The Shining, the helicopter view of driving through the mountains . . . .

Separately, I have placed a hold on a BPL copy of Sitting Pretty!

[Bogey]

Splendid!

No idea why it took me so long.  Like Titanic, one knows both where the story begins, and what the ending will be;  unlike T., I knew to expect excellent writing and engaging drama throughout 

One benefit from my only seeing it now is, recognizing a few of the cast from their work on The Twilight Zone, e.g.

I would have to do some digging, but I wonder that when it came out in the theaters if the audience were as wowed by how many "character actors" they saw up on the screen like we do watching it now. 

On another note, I am pretty picky with the Henry Fonda films I enjoy.  He just never netted me in like Bogey, Grant, or Cagney.

[Karl Henning]

I would have to do some digging, but I wonder that when it came out in the theaters if the audience were as wowed by how many "character actors" they saw up on the screen like we do watching it now. 

On another note, I am pretty picky with the Henry Fonda films I enjoy.  He just never netted me in like Bogey, Grant, or Cagney.

Parenthetically . . . I wonder who the actor is, who is the voice-less, deer-in-the-headlights defendant whom we see when the camera pans from the courtroom (after the Judge's final instructions) to the Jury Pit.

[Bogey]

Parenthetically . . . I wonder who the actor is, who is the voice-less, deer-in-the-headlights defendant whom we see when the camera pans from the courtroom (after the Judge's final instructions) to the Jury Pit.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0767847/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t16

Well, there you have this uncredited actors credentials.

A mystery for sure

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?709975-12-angry-men-Did-John-Savoca-ever-act-again

[Bogey]

If I recall, and IMDB seems to agree, none of the jurors ever had their name mentioned.  Correct?

Time for a rewatch of this one.

[Karl Henning]

If I recall, and IMDB seems to agree, none of the jurors ever had their name mentioned.  Correct?

Time for a rewatch of this one.

I don't know how this may veer from the stage play, but Fonda and the eldest juror exchange last names on the court steps afterwards.

[Bogey]

I don't know how this may veer from the stage play, but Fonda and the eldest juror exchange last names on the court steps afterwards.

Nice!

[NikF]

If I recall, and IMDB seems to agree, none of the jurors ever had their name mentioned.  Correct?

Time for a rewatch of this one.

"What's your name?"
"Davis (Davies?)"
"Mine's McCardle. Well, so long!"

[Jaakko Keskinen]

I think only Fonda movie I've seen is Once upon a time in the west, so the fact that he plays the bad guy didn't come to me as shocking as it was probably intended to be. Still a great movie, though...

[Fëanor]

Missing (1982) ~ Dir: Costa-Gavras; starring: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, John Shea

Henry Kissinger: "America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests."

This flick is about the disappearance of Charles Horman, an American in Chile during the Augusto Pinochet's coup d'état in 1973.  The movie contended that the USA was complicit in the coup d'état and that Horman was secretly executed by Chilean army with the tacit agreement of the CIA on account of information he stumbled upon licking USA operatives to the Chilean command prior to the coup.  These allegations were later confirmed by released government documents.

[Bogey]

Fun trivia question
Which # juror did Fonda play?