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Post by azbob643 on Jun 6, 2024 10:38:12 GMT -5
Unforgiven is one of my favorites. Mine too. Great revisionist Western...wasn't a huge fan of the earlier romanticized Westerns. |
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Post by bomberhojoe on Jun 6, 2024 12:32:55 GMT -5
Unforgiven is one of my favorites. Mine too. Great revisionist Western...wasn't a huge fan of the earlier romanticized Westerns. Great movie with many good performances! Another really good actor, who is sometimes overlooked was Ernest Borgnine. Also quite versatile! He was excellent in "Marty" which had great dialog but no action. I don't think they could make a film like that today. |
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Post by Max on Jun 6, 2024 12:41:00 GMT -5
Fess Parker was in the movie "Them". Walt Disney was so Impressed with his performance in the movie that he decided that he would get the role of Davey Crockett! Yep, another well-known actor with a small role in that movie was Leonard Nimoy. The actor Max was referring to -- and a good catch to recall that he was in both "The Blob" and "Them", I would never have thought of it -- was Olin Howland. He was in hundreds of films in minor roles, including "Gone With The Wind" and "The Angel And The Badman" with John Wayne and "Paleface" with Bob Hope and "The Spirit Of St. Louis" with Jimmy Stewart and both the 1937 and 1954 versions of "A Star Is Born." "The Blob" was made less than a year before he died and was his last film. Also in "Them" was James Whitmore, sometimes referred to as "a poor man's Spencer Tracy," (and The Miracle-Gro pitchman in the 90s) and Edmund Gwenn, best know for being Kris Kringle in "Miracle On 34th Street" in 1947. In that same year he played a minister in the wonderful film "Life With Father" which starred William Powell, Irene Dunne, a teen-aged Elizabeth Taylor and a very young Martin Milner, later of "Route 66" and "Adam-12." That's right I forgot that Gwenn was also in "Them." That reminded me that Henry Travers who played the role of Dr. Cranley also played the role of the Guardian Angel in the movie "Its a Wonderful Life." |
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Post by azbob643 on Jun 6, 2024 12:41:15 GMT -5
Mine too. Great revisionist Western...wasn't a huge fan of the earlier romanticized Westerns. Great movie with many good performances! Another really good actor, who is sometimes overlooked was Ernest Borgnine. Also quite versatile! He was excellent in "Marty" which had great dialog but no action. I don't think they could make a film like that today. Agreed re Borgnine/Marty. Also Rod Steiger in "The Pawnbroker". Another more recent movie..."Smoke" with several of my favorites including William Hurt, Harvey Keitel & Forest Whitaker. |
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Post by Max on Jun 6, 2024 12:54:31 GMT -5
Unforgiven is one of my favorites. Mine too.
Hackman was also excellent in the movie "The Quick and the Dead" where he played the role of DiCaprio's character's father. Excellent cast in the movie, that also included Russell Crowe.
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Post by inger on Jun 6, 2024 16:07:09 GMT -5
Gene Hackman played the brutal “Little Bill” Daggett in Clint Eastwood’s “Unforgiven”, a role that brought him his second and last Oscar. The filmmaker too won an Oscar for his work as the director. While the character was ruthless, Hackman did an incredible job bringing his personality to life. While many villains usually accept the fact that they are indeed the bad guys, Daggett is not one of them. According to him, his actions, no matter how harsh, were necessary to keep the peace in Big Whiskey, Wyoming. He sees himself as a protector and does not shy away from using violence to uphold his laws. This is what Eastwood loved about Daggett. Describing the character to the American Film Institute, the filmmaker/actor stated, "He didn’t wear the usual costume of a bad guy; he was a sheriff who had noble ideas. He had this small town, and he ran it with a lot of strength…What I liked about the character is, he had dreams. He was building a house and he wanted to sit on the porch and smoke his pipe and watch the sunsets. He had dreams like everyone else does, and he didn’t see himself as a heavy, he didn’t see himself as a bad guy. He thought he was always doing this on the side of right." www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/he-wanted-to-sit-on-the-porch-and-smoke-his-pipe-clint-eastwood-s-comment-about-his-favorite-movie-villain-should-put-thanos-on-oscar-winner-s-list/ar-BB1nKy6J?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=d980882a3b024e3b874dab6b2512f0fd&ei=22 But me miscalculated. He never dreamed he could be beaten… |
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Post by azbob643 on Jun 6, 2024 16:13:50 GMT -5
Gene Hackman played the brutal “Little Bill” Daggett in Clint Eastwood’s “Unforgiven”, a role that brought him his second and last Oscar. The filmmaker too won an Oscar for his work as the director. While the character was ruthless, Hackman did an incredible job bringing his personality to life. While many villains usually accept the fact that they are indeed the bad guys, Daggett is not one of them. According to him, his actions, no matter how harsh, were necessary to keep the peace in Big Whiskey, Wyoming. He sees himself as a protector and does not shy away from using violence to uphold his laws. This is what Eastwood loved about Daggett. Describing the character to the American Film Institute, the filmmaker/actor stated, "He didn’t wear the usual costume of a bad guy; he was a sheriff who had noble ideas. He had this small town, and he ran it with a lot of strength…What I liked about the character is, he had dreams. He was building a house and he wanted to sit on the porch and smoke his pipe and watch the sunsets. He had dreams like everyone else does, and he didn’t see himself as a heavy, he didn’t see himself as a bad guy. He thought he was always doing this on the side of right." www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/he-wanted-to-sit-on-the-porch-and-smoke-his-pipe-clint-eastwood-s-comment-about-his-favorite-movie-villain-should-put-thanos-on-oscar-winner-s-list/ar-BB1nKy6J?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=d980882a3b024e3b874dab6b2512f0fd&ei=22 But me miscalculated. He never dreamed he could be beaten… "We all have it comin' kid...deserves got nuthin' to do with it..." |
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Post by bomberhojoe on Jun 6, 2024 21:10:05 GMT -5
Unforgiven is one of my favorites. Mine too.
Hackman was also excellent in the movie "The Quick and the Dead" where he played the role of DiCaprio's character's father. Excellent cast in the movie, that also included Russell Crowe.
"The Quick and the Dead" was very entertaining. Hackman is a rare actor who excels playing either good or bad characters. |
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Post by Max on Jun 7, 2024 13:16:30 GMT -5
Mine too.
Hackman was also excellent in the movie "The Quick and the Dead" where he played the role of DiCaprio's character's father. Excellent cast in the movie, that also included Russell Crowe.
"The Quick and the Dead" was very entertaining. Hackman is a rare actor who excels playing either good or bad characters. Did you see the movie "Geronimo: An American Legend." |
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Post by bomberhojoe on Jun 7, 2024 21:01:29 GMT -5
"The Quick and the Dead" was very entertaining. Hackman is a rare actor who excels playing either good or bad characters. Did you see the movie "Geronimo: An American Legend." No, but it's on my Hackman watch list. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 4, 2024 11:28:34 GMT -5
Classic actress Eva Marie Saint turns 100 today. Probably best known for "On The Waterfront" and "North By Northwest," two great films. OTW was her film debut in 1954 when she was 30 years old.
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Post by inger on Jul 4, 2024 11:55:39 GMT -5
Classic actress Eva Marie Saint turns 100 today. Probably best known for "On The Waterfront" and "North By Northwest," two great films. OTW was her film debut in 1954 when she was 30 years old. If she had played MLB she’d be #2 on the oldest living player list. I wonder where she stands on the actor/actress list?… |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 4, 2024 12:01:48 GMT -5
Classic actress Eva Marie Saint turns 100 today. Probably best known for "On The Waterfront" and "North By Northwest," two great films. OTW was her film debut in 1954 when she was 30 years old. If she had played MLB she’d be #2 on the oldest living player list. I wonder where she stands on the actor/actress list?… Among actors anybody ever heard of, she's the oldest. June Lockhart and Lee Grant are right behind at 99. Dick Van Dyke is 98. |
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Post by Cult of Ken Clay on Jul 4, 2024 18:37:03 GMT -5
Finally watched Straight Time (1978) the other night. An underrated little movie.
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Post by bigjeep on Jul 4, 2024 21:28:53 GMT -5
Just watched Castles 1959 "The Tingler" with Vincent Price! Theaters had buzzers in the seats and people pulling peoples legs when the "tingler" got in the theater! They don't get crazier then this movie!   |
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