"The Dirty Dozen". Damn, what a cast. I remember seeing it when first released in 1966 and the audience - mainly families - was really into it. When Donald Sutherland reviewed the troops you couldn't hear all the dialog due to the eruption of laughter.
The applause at the end was tremendous. Don't get much of that anymore.
We deal in lead, friend.
Ringo, that's one of my favorite films. I'm going to watch that one tomorrow, so thanks for jogging my memory. Love those Warner Brothers contract players and Claude Akins. This was Jeff Chandler's last film.
Anyway, the last non western I watched was "Zulu"
There's a good gentleman.
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"The Towering Inferno" with McQueen, Holden, Newman, Vaughn and some great pyrotechnics.
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After a long time friend had suddenly died, we were in a funk that seemed insurmountable. I coerced my wife and another couple to see "The Three Stooges" and we laughed until tears ran. It may have been an emotional reaction to tragedy, but it was just what the doctor ordered.
Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard.
Had the pleasure of viewing "The Green Berets" on Blu Ray on optimal equipment. Stunning! Background details emerged, the sound was enveloping, and it was a totally engrossing two hours.
Some special effects lost their punch - the burning miniature heliocopter was unfortunately a Fisher-Price toy - but Duke was in great form for a guy his age.
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"Dream House" with Daniel Craig. More like a nightmare. Skip it.
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Watched "Rango" with my grandson. Should have been better.
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Hondo, I watched "The Descendants" last night and completely agree with you.
I expected lighter fare but got involved in the story.
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Finished my five movie Dirty Harry marathon with "The Dead Pool". I noticed that the actor who plays the first bank robber in "Dirty Harry" (Albert Popwell) plays different characters in four of the series. He's the guy who Harry wounds while munching on his hot dog and asks if he feels lucky.
Also picked up that a semi nude Suzanne Somers gets shot in the pool, of all places, in "Magnum Force" and that Jim Carrey, of all people, is in Dead Pool.
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Sat through the remake of "The Mechanic" all the time wishing that Charles Bronson were still alive. Why do a remake only to not top the original?
Cleared my head with a double feature of "Dirty Harry" and "Magnum Force".
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Couple of months ago WayneamoJim recommended the blu ray of "Tora, Tora, Tora", so I bought it from Amazon and finally had a chance to watch it last night. It was like a whole new movie! The studio did a fine job of remastering picture and sound.
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Had some extra time and ran "El Cid". Heston was perfect for epics like this. Too bad he didn't want to be in Duke's "The Alamo".
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The Blu Ray of "Battle of the Bulge". It looked great but some of the process rear projection shots were glaringly obvious. This version has the U.S. deleted scene of Bronson's captured major confronting Shaw about the massacre of American prisoners.
My father, who was wounded at St. Vith, hated this movie but would never elaborate.
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Ran a back to back double feature of extended versions - "Gods and Generals" and "Gettysburg". The wife is out of town, so I had a day to spend in the Civil War.
I just wish that they had more realistic make up in Gettysburg. Tom Berringer went through the whole campaign with a beaver's tail on his face that was supposed to pass as a beard.
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May2's selection of a Cary Grant movie reminded me of my favorite Grant story. Sometime in the late '60s, Time Magazine was preparing an article on Grant but lacked his date of birth. Accordingly, they sent Cary a telegram worded "How old Cary Grant?".
Grant responded "Old Cary Grant fine. How old Time Magazine?"
The last non western I watched was Kirk Douglas in "Spartacus". Sublime.
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"Conan the Barbarian" starring Arnold the Hungarian. Didn't care for the remake and had to cleanse my palate with the original. Much better than I remembered with a terrific music score.
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Had to watch the restored 1932 thriller "The Island of Lost Souls" with Charles Laughton and Bela Lugosi. Only 70 minutes long yet is totally involving. Some pre-code nasty stuff helps. "Are we not men?"
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Rented the BBC production of "Sharpe's Peril". I started reading the series and wanted to check out one of the movies. Love that Nock Volley gun wielded by Sergeant Harper.
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The director's edition of "Troy". Peter O'Toole is magnificent.
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"Seven Days in May", a '60s political thriller that seemed only outdated now by its technology. Burt and Kirk square off, Frederick March is the POTUS and Edmund O'Brien is great as a sodden senator.
Great lines by Rod Serling - "Do you know who Judas was?"
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