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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Under the direction of Gordon Douglas, who gave us Gildersleeve on Broadway, Zombies on Broadway, as well as Viva Knievel!, it was Between Midnight and Dawn, 1950's proto-buddy movie of two radio patrol police officers who fall for the same police chief's assistant. Billing order is Mark...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Scattering aphorisms right and left, Hawaii's own Detective Chan solves another murder mystery, in 1944's The Chinese Cat, helmed by Phil Rosen, who delivered several productions in the series. Chan is pressed into service by the daughter of a murdered man whose death remains unsolved by local...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
"And I can tell you thinking about race in 1949 was NOT a thing audiences were inclined to do." You went right to the heart of it; well put, sir.- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Two years after his last filmed case, Lt. Chan of the Honolulu Police shows up in Washington, DC, working for the Secret Service, chronicled in 1944's Charlie Chan in the Secret Service. Returning to the screen via Monogram Pictures, with considerably less budgeting, Sidney Toler takes over as...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
He was also the creator of the Mr. Moto detective character, was he not?- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Are You Reading
The Mysterious Benedict Society, by Trenton Lee Stewart. It's supposed to be young adult fiction, I guess, but I enjoyed it a great deal. Wordplay and riddles are used throughout the story. The basic plot is that four children, ages 10, 10, 11, and indeterminate, are recruited by a quirky yet...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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Hats and Drinks - A Match Made in Heaven
"Bunnahabhain" looks like something from a Danny Kaye patter song...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: Hats
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What Did You Drink Last Night?
With extended family watching Top Gun: Maverick, it was French 75s for the ladies and Boston Sidecars for the gents.- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Connoisseur
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) dir. David Lean, with Peter O'Toole as the titular hero, and Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, Jack Hawkins, Claude Rains, and many more. Viewed on the 2012 blu-ray restoration version. Epically epic. At 3 hours-plus it takes a commitment on the viewer's...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Catching up with the Shellhammer Palais du Cinema- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow ( 2004), conceived, directed, and driven by the vision of Kerry Conran. If you're on this board and on this thread, it's better than even money you know about this loving homage to pulp fiction, comic...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
After an extended hiatus we return to the watching of the Charlie Chan series in release order. I have most of the titles on dvd, and the few that aren't on the shelf are available via Amazon (there appears to be a youtube channel with the entire catalog posted; it bears further investigation)...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) with Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Alan Hale, Sr., who played Littlejohn in both the 1922 version and this one, and Eugene Pallette as Friar Tuck. This was a story so big and bold that it took two directors to bring it to the...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Spot-on review, FF. Mildred Pierce is one of my all-time favorite films. The characters almost border on parody, but then the whole story is but a few steps away from being over the top. With James M. Cain providing source material, and Curtiz at the helm we can't stop watching to see just how...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
BTW, going back to your post about Miss Marple as portrayed my Joan Hickson, we are working through the Hickson episodes. Her characterization is less, ah, "perky" than the Geraldine McEwan performances, a little more poker-faced perhaps. Still very good story-telling-- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Great Escape (1963) directed by John Sturges, with Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, and a host of others. If you've seen it, you know Sturges doesn't waste a single frame of screen time telling the story. If you haven't seen it, Attenborough organizes and inspires the...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Unintentionally, it was The Hedy Lamar Film Festival, featuring two movies chosen at random that starred Lamarr. Dishonored Lady (1947) presents Hedy as a successful art director rapidly engulfed by a nervous breakdown. On a therapist's advice, she walks away from the pressures of high finance...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Have you had the chance to read the book by Kipling? Laboring under the idea that it was one of the literary notables that "I should read," I was completely taken in by the story, the characters, and the writing. It was my fault, thinking the tale would be something out of Uncle Neddy's...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
"The movie and book are both good, but the movie gets the nod." Well-put. As avid fans of the Powell-Loy film series, the Missus and I decided to read the book. I read it aloud of an evening, and we both found it talky, with a grip-load of people, places, and things to keep track of. My mantra...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
It's 1936 and Samuel Goldwyn presents us with the screen adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel Come and Get It. Quite frankly, when I saw the poster art on Prime, with Edward Arnold prominent, I thought it might be a wartime musical morale booster, or a variation on screwball comedies. But, no, it's...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Some time back I raved about Stray Dog, as a story and as a view of post-war Japan dealing with the vast changes of war, surrender, and a national rebuilding. Shimura is excellent as the "thoughtful, smart but tired detective"; the humanity that Kurosawa shows us in Shimura's home life is a...- Julian Shellhammer
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