What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Shangas]

"Night at the Museum", starring Ben Stiller, Mickey Rooney and Dick Van Dyke.

Loved it very much!!

 

[PADDY]

North by Northwest...

Just saw it yesterday on the big screen at my loccal 1920's art deco cinema (they show old movies every so often). Wonderful stuff.

 

[Miss Golightly]

Magnificent Obsession (1954)

 

[KY Gentleman]

"Bad Day at Black Rock". This was a pretty good movie, I like Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan. The scene where Ernest Borgnine brags about being "half horse, half alligator" was especially good.

 

[Professor]

"The Garden of Eden"

This was the movie shown at Heritage Square on Saturday, really enjoyed it too!

The recently-founded Flicker Alley presents their first DVD release with The Garden of Eden, a charming but obscure silent comedy directed by Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front, Ocean's Eleven) and starring Corinne Griffith, a once-popular and now nearly-forgotten star of silent cinema.

She plays a would-be opera singer who winds up working in a burlesque house. But she gets a break when she goes on vacation with the company's costume designer, who turns out to be a baroness. And, of course, she falls in love with a cad who turns out to be a swell guy after all.

The Garden of Eden DVD looks amazingly good considering that it was transferred from a 16mm print. The disc includes reproductions of the original press book, as well as two wonderful silent shorts, the Christmas-y The Toy Shop and a funny trifling "documentary" looking at some of Hollywood's crazy architecture.

Starring: Corinne Griffith, Louise Dresser, Lowell Sherman, Maude George, Charles Ray, Edward Martindel, Freeman Wood, Hank Mann
Written by: Avery Hopwood, Hans Kraly, George Marion Jr., based on a play by Rudolf Bernnauer, Rudolph Oesterreicher

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[Wally_Hood]

THE UNHOLY THREE was on the other morning.

followed by FREAKS.

I have never seen The Unholy Three; how was it?

Freaks is truly unsettling: were these folks exploited by the film-makers? I guess I mean more than the circus sideshow did...

When I saw this on TCM many years ago, my eight year old son left the room, not because he was scared, but because of the insults and verbal cruelty directed towards the "freaks." He said it awfull the way they were treated and he couldn't stand it.

 

[DanielJones]

You remind me of a man...

This last weekend it was 'The Bachelor & the Bobby-Soxer', 'Love Crazy' & 'Coraline'.

Enjoyed all three very much.


Cheers!

Dan

 

[Antje]

Scarlett, again, but I love every time again

 

[JennyLou]

Hand Across The Table.

 

[JennyLou]

This last weekend it was 'The Bachelor & the Bobby-Soxer', 'Love Crazy' & 'Coraline'.

Enjoyed all three very much.


Cheers!

Dan

Ha, I love those two Myrna Loy films.

 

[DanielJones]

We also watched Wanted & Eagle Eye. Not the greatest films, very predictable, but entertaining nonetheless. Pure eye candy.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[High Pockets]

The combination of this thread and easy access to Amazon.com has cost me hundreds of dollars!!

 

[Feraud]

I have never seen The Unholy Three; how was it?

The storyline is a bit of a stretch but If you want to see Chaney doing a ventriloquist act or impersonating an old woman, the film is gold.

I recently watched Chaney in Outside the Law and Shadows.
Those were very good.

 

[KY Gentleman]

"The Searchers". I've been on a John Wayne kick lately. This is his best in my opinion.

 

[Wally_Hood]

The storyline is a bit of a stretch but If you want to see Chaney doing a ventriloquist act or impersonating an old woman, the film is gold.

I recently watched Chaney in Outside the Law and Shadows.
Those were very good.

Was Unholy Three a silent? Would that have Chaney performing as a ventriloquist without sound? Sort of like Edgar Bergin doing a ventriloquist act on the radio.

Where are you watching the Chaney films? Are they on dvd?

 

[Wally_Hood]

Watched Beau Geste with Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston. It was banned in France for not being an accurate depiction of Legion life.

Donald O'Connor at about age 12 stars as the young Beau. Susan Hayward in one of her first films is on hand to decorate the set.

Still, it's a great movie, with Brian Donlevy completely dominating as Sgt. Markoff.

 

[DanielJones]

Fashions of 1934 with William Powell & Bette Davis. A fun little romp of a film that was on TCM tonight. It's a shame it hasn't been released on DVD yet. Maybe a few e-mails to TCM could get it released on a TCM Classics collection of DVD's?
And, it's a musical to boot.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Miss Marie lloyd"

"A bio picture of Marie (pronounced Mah-ree ) Lloyd a turn of the century Music hall (Vaudeville) act, famous for her naughty lyrics, (My old man said follow the van) and racy private life

 

[Feraud]

Was Unholy Three a silent? Would that have Chaney performing as a ventriloquist without sound? Sort of like Edgar Bergin doing a ventriloquist act on the radio.

Where are you watching the Chaney films? Are they on dvd?

Unholy Three is a talkie. It was recently on TCM.
Netflix has some of his films too.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Unholy Three is a talkie. It was recently on TCM.
Netflix has some of his films too.

There's actually *two* versions of Unholy Three, both starring Chaney. The original was a silent, released in 1925, and the story was then remade from scratch as a talkie in 1930. The silent has a grittier, creepier feel about it, even though it isn't any sort of a horror picture.

I recently came across the novel both versions were based on, and it's a straight mystery thriller of the sort so common in the early twenties. Excellent choice of a vehicle for Chaney in either version.