This may be the newest dance craze where you're from, but I don't think it's gonna catch on around here.
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Thanks, erthomp143. I guess I wasn't paying enough attention at that point in the movie. Maybe I was painting my toenails or something.
Now it makes perfect sense. It seems that superstitions such as those were pretty common with "hill" or "backwoods" people years ago - and in some cases probably still are.
So now I need to read the book for this movie AND for Red River! -
Hey, can you play "Smoke on the Water"?
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Duke: You can't blame the dog, 'cause there ain't no dog here. And I just changed her diaper. So lay off the cheap beer!
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Yes, I really liked the scene with Granny Becky getting her vision. It was beautifully shot and very touching. And it does make sense that his aunt kind of poisoned him against his father. As we learn after Pete gets his gift of speech back (a parallel to Granny Becky?), the aunt was the real curse.
Thanks for the recommendation on the book. I've meant to look for it.
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I'm way more than a day late and a dollar short here, but just thought I'd mention that I understand how Hollywood was in those days and movies sometimes just don't come out quite the way we'd like them to (even today).
Reminds me a bit of the end of Red River. Joanne Dru gives the boys a good talking to and suddenly a raving madman maniac is best friends with his surrogate son again.It's a bit of a blight on an otherwise perfect (or nearly perfect) film.
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Thanks, everyone.
Ethan, I got that Duke felt it was abandonment, but I guess I didn't think that seemed sufficient to warrant wanting to kill his dad, though at some level I can obvioulsy understand his hurt and anger. Anyway, I was wondering if I had missed something else.
Yes, I remember when he explained why he wasn't there for Sarah's passing. It was while Duke was just coming out of his fog, and Betty Field & Harry Carey are talking about him while silhouetted against his canopy or whatever.
That was the one scene in the movie, btw, that didn't seem quite right to me. It seemed a little rushed and kind of cheesy the way it all came out right there and Duke just happened to wake up and hear it. Oh well. -
Hey y'all...
Just finished watching this over the weekend. I'd never seen it before and thought it was pretty enjoyable. I liked Harry Carey and Beulah Bondi was really good, too.
I'm a little confused as to why Duke's character needed to kill his old man. I may have missed or forgotten something, as I only had time to watch the movie in bits & pieces. They thought Harry Carey (as Duke's dad) brought a curse upon the family because he wasn't there when Duke's mom died?
It was fun watching Duke engaged in fisticuffs with Ward Bond. Not quite a fight of epic proportions like Duke & Victor McLaglen, but still a couple of heavyweights going at it. I'll bet they had a good laugh over it offscreen.
Duke was his usual self. I loved the scene where he comes home and senses that something's amiss (when he discovers that they've sold his mother's land). I also like the relationship he had with the mute cousin. The scene of Pete trying to catch dust motes in the sunlight was really beautifully shot.
I know Henry Hathaway isn't as well known as Ford or Hawks, but he did a lot of Duke's films and they're all pretty solid, IMO. -
I'm looking now.
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Look, Ollie... over yonder 'cross that ridge with the weeping willow. A pair of golden arches. Saddle up!
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Yes, DakotaSurfer, they do get involved in politics. Wouldn't it be nice sometimes if they would just leave well enough alone?
I speak from personal experience when I suggest that it's best to try not to get too worked up about off-screen lives of actors. I've been guilty of idealizing people I admire in the past and have wound up being very disappointed in what I find out about them when I learn more. Then I found myself enjoying that person's contributions less. I've learned to separate that which I appreciate about the person from who that person might have been when he or she wasn't on camera. But naturally you're free to feel however you choose. :regular_smile:
I'm a little disappointed to hear that Jimmy Stewart may have been less than gracious and generous as an actor. But even if it's true, it doesn't diminish how danged good he was, and how much I like to watch him. Now if I found out that he tore the wings off of butterflies to be mean, or plucked whiskers from kittens, or boiled babies, I might have to stop watching. -
I've heard a lot about the Irish temperament, and while I would have no cause to deny any of Maureen O'Hara's statements about Jimmy Stewart, I think we should take them with a grain of salt. Who knows how it happened? Ultimately, who really cares? The off-screen lives of actors don't really belong to us, anyway. We can only lay claim to what we see on-screen and how we respond to it.
I love Jimmy Stewart. He could act in anything and acted pretty much everyone else off the screen. I do have to admit that sometimes he could be a little hammy and chomp on a little scenery while he was acting, and some scenes in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance come to mind when I mention this...
I happen to be a big fan of all the Capra films, but I can appreciate that we all have different tastes around here. Those who didn't like some of the "Capra-corn" films might like Lost Horizon. It's got a different mood and feel from all the lovely (but schmaltzy) Mr. Smith/George Bailey/You Can't Take It with You type of stuff. -
Great interview.
I like what they have to say about Duke as a regular person and as a dad. I found the comments about him having to go out to dinner all the time and be a lot of fun particularly interesting. That kind of thing might sound glamorous, but we forget that it really is work. A lot of times I'll bet he would rather have been at home with his family.
And I'm sorry to be such a girl here, but Ethan Wayne is kind of a stud. Patrick is awfully cute, too, though a little out of my wheelhouse in terms of his age.For 67, he's a freaking Adonis. They both bear some resemblance to their father - Patrick moreso than Ethan. It's so strange to think that Ethan's only got a baker's dozen on me in terms of his age, but his father would be 100 years old if he were still alive.
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I would also find it surprising. I've never heard anything negative about Jimmy Stewart - not even one word. I haven't spent a lot of time studying him, but you get ideas about people from seeing them on screen, and when those ideas are largely borne out by what you hear over the years you sort of form a pretty solid opinion of a person. I thought everyone liked him.
Of course, it's hard to tell what you mean by Jimmy Stewart not being inspiring to her. Please clarify, and give us some facts, if you can. :smile: -
I love The Andy Griffith Show. Don Knotts and Andy Griffith were terrific together and the show had real humor without ever being mean-spirited or too smart for its own good. Aunt Bee was great, too - and Ronny Howard belongs to that exclusive club of child actors who grew up to be successful, and who were also good actors and never annoying despite being cute and precocious (like Dean Stockwell or Brandon de Wilde). It ranks right up there for me with I Love Lucy, Leave it to Beaver, and The Honeymooners for old b&w classics.
I think one of my favorite episodes is the one where Andy has a butler from England. I also have fond memories of the one in which Barney insists on getting Andy a girlfriend and invites every woman in Mayberry over to Andy's house without his knowledge so that he can sort through them and identify keepers. Barney was always meddling but meant well. I liked all of them, though - at least until they started airing them in color.
I have to admit that as different as the shows were, I also loved Mr. Furley on Three's Company. -
Hi datagrant:
As Tbone has indicated, I wouldn't waste my time asking her about the secret whisper. It'd be so lovely to know, but she's been asked many many times and sworn up and down just as many times that she's taking it to the grave. It was something special between she and Duke & Pappy Ford and she feels it's the only thing left in the entire film that really belongs to her and her alone. I kind of like it that way myself and would be somewhat disappointed if she ever spilled the beans - even as a part of me is terribly curious.
Being of the feminine and somewhat romantic persuasion, I'd want to ask her about her favorite & least favorite cinematic kisses. Those kinds of stories can be fun to hear. Clark Gable, one of the all-time great sex symbols, supposedly had horribly bad breath. Kathryn Grayson said that kissing Frank Sinatra was like kissing a monkey. The two kisses Maureen shares with Duke in The Quiet Man are some of my all-time favorites. I like DakotaSurfer's question as well.
You might also ask her what her most treasured memory is from all her years in film.
But you must be a pro and therefore have some good ideas of your own! -
Geez, Mary Kate, how do you expect me to sleep in that? It doesn't have a mattress!
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Duke: I keep tellin' ya I don't want to play Go Fish! It's Slapjack or nothin'!
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Duke: Yes, ma'am... can you tell me where I might find a good salon around here? I'm headin for the beach and I need a wax job for my new thong Speedo.
(ugh - sorry)
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Ah, Stumpy... how great is it that you know about the release of The 3 Ms on DVD (finally)? It's certainly a fun movie, and one of GK's few non-musical films that's a joy to watch and allows him to use his charm. He modeled himself after Douglas Fairbanks in his role as d'Artagnan. It reminds me somewhat of Scaramouche, another fun MGM film from the same time with swashbuckling in it. Stewart Granger is so good in that kind of role.
I'm glad that you don't see dancing as sissified. A lot of girls would give anything to be able to dance with the two golden era greats.
Yes, Gene was a lefty, but as you point out, he didn't make a huge deal out of it, along with the other great actors you bring up. He was too smart, and knew better than to alienate at least half of the movie-going public. He did get involved with the HUAC/Joe McCarthy stuff, but at the time, almost everyone in Hollywood did.
As the famous last line of Some Like It Hot goes, "nobody's perfect."