Movie Classic Films — Let's Discuss

[Asgardian]

Not many people have heard of A Yank in Australia let alone seen it.

It needs to be taken with a grain of salt, they push the boundaries with stuff that would never pass the American production code and it is all put down to Aussieisms.

Don't expect Casablanca or even The Gorilla Man and you'll be satisfied with the movie.

 

[Asgardian]

Watched Charles Laughton haming it up in The Private Life of Henry VIII.

Everyone knows the story, Alexander Korda does a good job directing his take on history.

 

[King Elvis]

Am I the only one who thought 'The Graduate' was a big bucket of shit?

 

[Asgardian]

Am I the only one who thought 'The Graduate' was a big bucket of shit?

I doubt that, however there would not be many of you on that island.

 

[Asgardian]

Watched 2 old classics tonight

The Mystery of the Marie Celeste made in 1935 with Bela Lugosi.

This is one of the very few Hammer films made in the 1930's, it's about murder & mystery at sea and is one of Bela's better non Dracula roles.

Also watched Lloyd's of London made in 1936 with a stellar cast & directed by Henry King. It's about the early growth of the famous insurance house, not entirely factual, but still a very good movie with plenty of sea drama.

Two very good 1930's movies well worth the effort of finding them.

 

[Dan Moody]

Watched 2 old classics tonight

The Mystery of the Marie Celeste made in 1935 with Bela Lugosi.

This is one of the very few Hammer films made in the 1930's, it's about murder & mystery at sea and is one of Bela's better non Dracula roles.

Also watched Lloyd's of London made in 1936 with a stellar cast & directed by Henry King. It's about the early growth of the famous insurance house, not entirely factual, but still a very good movie with plenty of sea drama.

Two very good 1930's movies well worth the effort of finding them.

Have always wanted to see that film.
I honestly had no idea that Hammer existed in the 30's, I've only ever known them for their 50's and 60's horror films.

 

[Asgardian]

Have always wanted to see that film.
I honestly had no idea that Hammer existed in the 30's, I've only ever known them for their 50's and 60's horror films.

The Mystery of the Marie Celeste is pretty easy to pick up on DVD, especially if you look using the alternative name, "Phantom Ship"

I don't know about the quality, but the DVD offered on Amazon UK is a shortened version of the movie, which is disappointing.

 

[CURVE]

Watched Fritz Lang's 'M' over the weekend. What an amazing film, one of the most suspenceful and tension filled films I've ever seen. A Film-Noir masterpiece a decade before the genre really began.

 

[Asgardian]

Even more amazing is what Peter Lorre was reduced to later in his career after seeing the heights he scaled in classics like "M"

Top notch film ...

 

[Asgardian]

Watched a couple of unknown movies from 1942 tonight.

Spy Ship is about some spies in USA passing on information to Nazi subs. The female spy is supposed to be based on a real life spy who was charged as being an unregistered German agent.

Salute John Citizen is even rarer. It's about a family surviving the Blitz in WW2 England and doing what they have to for their country.

 

[Asgardian]

Got a few gems on order

Uncanny Tales (1919)
The Ghost Of Rashmon Hall (1947)
The Gamma People (1956)
Sterne aka Stars (1959)
The Unearthly Stranger (1964)
The Psychopath (1966)
The Terrornauts (1967)

The Psychopath is a biography of Bigfooty's very own sekaj ...

 

[Dan Moody]

Got a few gems on order

Uncanny Tales (1919)
The Ghost Of Rashmon Hall (1947)
The Gamma People (1956)
Sterne aka Stars (1959)
The Unearthly Stranger (1964)
The Psychopath (1966)
The Terrornauts (1967)

The Psychopath is a biography of Bigfooty's very own sekaj ...

who is in Uncanny Tales and what company was it made by?

 

[Asgardian]

who is in Uncanny Tales and what company was it made by?

Unheimliche Geschichten (1919)

Stars Conrad Veidt, Anita Berber, Reinhold Schünzel, Hugo Döblin, Paul Morgan, Georg John

Paul Morgan died at Buchenwald.

Made by the directors own production company, Richard-Oswald-Produktion.

The DVD I've been able to get includes the 1932 remake by the same director.

 

[Asgardian]

Also got a few more coming

Ostatni etap (aka The Last Stage) (1948)
The Juggler (1953)
Hachikô monogatari (aka Hachi-ko) (1987)

If you are a dog lover you must see Hachi-ko

I guarantee the tears will flow

 

[Asgardian]

Watched We Dive at Dawn (1943) which is one of my favourite WW2 submarine war movies, starring John Mills & Eric Portman

Also watched The Juggler (1953) with Kirk Douglas as a tormented concentration camp survivor newly arrived in the new land of Israel.

 

[Asgardian]

Watched a couple of interesting 1930's films last night

The World Gone Mad made in 1933 with Pat O'Brien as a reporter chasing down the crooks.

Rendezvous made in 1935 with William Powell looking for spies and secret code books

Both worth the effort searching out.

 

[childeric]

Watched a couple of interesting 1930's films last night

The World Gone Mad made in 1933 with Pat O'Brien as a reporter chasing down the crooks.

Rendezvous made in 1935 with William Powell looking for spies and secret code books

Both worth the effort searching out.

Another unusual 30s movie worth checking out is Blood Money (1933)

It was made in pre-Production Code days and revolves around a bail-bondsman anti-hero inhabiting a seedy world of corrupt cops, judges etc.

 

[Asgardian]

I haven't seen Blood Money, it does look interesting

I talk mainly about movies I have in my collection, hence I know they are available if anyone wants to buy it.

 

[Dan Moody]

I haven't seen Blood Money, it does look interesting

I talk mainly about movies I have in my collection, hence I know they are available if anyone wants to buy it.

Have you ever seen Northwest Passage?
One of my favourite films of all time.

 

[Asgardian]

Have you ever seen Northwest Passage?
One of my favourite films of all time.

Yes, I have Northwest Passage in my collection.

IMO it's a period piece that doesn't hold up all that well. As a piece of cinema it's a Saturday afternoon matinee substitute for one of the many serials but with better production values.

I'm harsh in my views about Northwest Passage, but I always expect so much more whenever Spencer Tracy is in the cast.

 

[Asgardian]

Just got in They Drive by Night (1938), not to be confused with the 1940 Raft, Bogart, Lupino & Sheridan movie of the same name.

It's a really good tight murder drama of a bloke on the run who believes he'll be convicted of committing a murder the day he got out of jail.

Directed by Arthur B. Woods who was a combat casualty in WW2 & featured Ernest Thesiger

 

[Asgardian]

Watched a movie tonight that before seeing it for sale, I had never heard of it, Under Age (1941)

Talk about an exploitation film.

It's about girls from the wrong side of the street being picked up by a shady business operation to work a scam luring travelling men to certain roadside establishments where they can be taken for loads of dough & whatever else they may have with them.

The unsaid, barely implied idea of the girls turning tricks is so far in the background you just know it was done purposely.



I'll do a write up tomorrow of a "lost film", Code of Honor (1930)

 

[Asgardian]

Code of Honor, made in 1930, regarded by IMDB as a lost movie, is no longer lost



In reality it's another poverty row type quickie early talking movie that tries to cash in on the fame of silent star Mahlon Hamilton.

Hamilton is a gambler on the run from a sheriff & his posse, but seeing that the sheriff is almost too fat for his horse & the posse is dumber than a footy umpire, he has no trouble escaping.

He finds his way to a ranch under threat from a big land grab. The rancher has the required attractive daughter plus a weak son who loses the ranch gambling, so the gambler get's into a game to win back the ranch.

The love interest is played by Doris Hill, whose main claim to fame is a part in "His Glorious Night", famous for its role in the demise of silent star, John Gilbert. Inspiration for Singin' in the Rain.

 

[Asgardian]

Watched a really impressive morality / prison movie tonight, The Big Guy (1939)

It starred America's Boy, Jackie Cooper, and the always reliable Victor McLaglen.

McLaglen is a prison guard captain wannabe warden who is taken hostage by a couple of criminals, Cooper is taken by them under gunpoint to drive the get away vehicle, which eventually crashes killing the crims, knocking out Cooper leaving McLaglen awake to see the huge amount of stolen loot up for grabs, so he takes it, figuring it will never tied up with him.

Trouble is Cooper is blamed for a motorbike copper's death who was killed in the pursuit of the crims, McLaglen is the only one who can clear his name, but if he does so the money will come to light.

I wont go on, but if you want to find a really good movie from the 1930's that you've never heard of, get a hold of this one.

 

[placebo]

Just thought I'd pop in to say I enjoy your work Asgardian and even though I don't post in this thread often, I thoroughly enjoy reading your posts and your huge knowledge of cinema.