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| YancySkancy | Jan 5 2016, 08:04 PM Post #16 |
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Huh. Well, see him in Night and the City; you'll still find him annoying, but not monotone. As I said in my capsule, "Widmark is nothing short of electric in the kind of extreme performance that divides viewers (a couple of imdb comments dismiss him as 'annoying,' which is rather reductive, to say the least)." I dunno, I've always generally liked him: Panic in the Streets, Don't Bother to Knock, Pickup on South Street, Two Rode Together, The Bedford Incident, Madigan, etc. I also liked him in Slattery's Hurricane, but in my capsule for that one I wrote, "The cast is good (although if Widmark sang one more drunken verse of 'Home on the Range' I would've thrown the TV out the window)..." |
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| Mister Jiggy, Esq. | Jan 6 2016, 07:03 AM Post #17 |
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Count me in as another Widmark fan. Seen him in 32 films; but not Judgment in Nuremberg :o . Two other recos - both Westerns - The Last Wagon and Warlock. His oddest performance - Preminger's Saint Joan. |
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| Maxime G. | Jan 6 2016, 07:20 AM Post #18 |
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Widmark's performance in Panic in the Streets may be an antidote for people who find him grating (I usually like him a lot.). He's terrific and natural in it, especially in those great family / marital scenes. |
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| vornporn | Jan 6 2016, 07:27 AM Post #19 |
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A Ryan Seacrest type.
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#15 Posted Image Pursued (Raoul Walsh) 40 points vornporn #7 TBickle #9 Jiggy #11 Maxime #12 Guy #13 |
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| vornporn | Jan 6 2016, 08:22 AM Post #20 |
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A Ryan Seacrest type.
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#14 Posted Image Ride the Pink Horse (Robert Montgomery) 40 points Russ #4 Yancy #10 Aaron #12 Jiggy #17 vornporn #20 |
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| vornporn | Jan 6 2016, 09:17 AM Post #21 |
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A Ryan Seacrest type.
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#13 Posted Image Miracle on 34th St. (George Seaton) 41 points Dirt #4 Russ #6 Cassius #11 Guy #20 |
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| vornporn | Jan 6 2016, 09:19 AM Post #22 |
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A Ryan Seacrest type.
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Love that last screenshot. Makes it look like the film is about a fascist dystopia in which the land is ruled under the iron glove of Santa Claus. |
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| Mister Jiggy, Esq. | Jan 6 2016, 09:19 AM Post #23 |
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Photo makes it look like the film was directed by Leni Riefenstahl. Edit: Missed Jeff's last post. |
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| Aaron | Jan 6 2016, 09:20 AM Post #24 |
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That was my first reaction. Triumph of the Claus |
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| YancySkancy | Jan 6 2016, 09:36 AM Post #25 |
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Read all about it in the scholarly work "From Blitzen to Blitzkrieg: A History of the Clausreich." The most harrowing chapter is all about the horrors of Kringlenacht. |
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| YancySkancy | Jan 6 2016, 09:38 AM Post #26 |
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Here's the dialogue from this scene: Santa: My lead reindeer has a big red nose! Young man in crowd: How does he smell? Santa: Awful! |
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| vornporn | Jan 6 2016, 09:53 AM Post #27 |
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A Ryan Seacrest type.
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Someone really should make a film about a nefarious Claus who satiates the pliant masses with gobs of presents, all the while chuckling from his stronghold in the North Pole, where he plots taking over other holidays (he's already invaded & occupied November). |
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| Mister Jiggy, Esq. | Jan 6 2016, 10:56 AM Post #28 |
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Chock full o’Nuts is that heavenly coffee, Heavenly coffee, heavenly coffee. Chock full o’Nuts is that heavenly coffee, Better coffee Rockefeller’s money can’t buy. |
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| vornporn | Jan 6 2016, 11:19 AM Post #29 |
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A Ryan Seacrest type.
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#12 Posted Image Body and Soul (Robert Rossen) 41 points vornporn #5 Jiggy #5 TBickle #11 Guy #17 Yancy #19 |
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| vornporn | Jan 6 2016, 12:29 PM Post #30 |
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A Ryan Seacrest type.
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#11 Posted Image Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding) 44 points Yancy #4 Jiggy #12 TBickle #13 Maxime #13 Aaron #14 Cassius #15 Guy #19 |
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