Archive for June, 2007
Bad
Drama| 1 Comment »The Bad and The Beautiful was a constant on the screen at Movie Place. I could watch it over and over. It is up there in number of repeated viewings with Sweet Smell Of Success Some of you know how I feel about Sweet Smell Of Success. It was […]
Above
True Story| No Comments »“Tell me Colonel Tibbets, how do you feel?” asks a reporter. � “How do you think I feel” is the terse and incredulous response from Colonel Paul Tibbets (Robert Taylor). Colonel Tibbets has just come back from one of history’s most famous flights, and events, ever.� Colonel Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola […]
Three
Bogart| 1 Comment »This is one of my favorite pre code pictures and was a constant in the Movie Place viewing schedule. It’s got everything a pre code picture should have – sex (pre-marital, illicit and adulterous), violence and drug abuse. The production code would have forbidden all that good stuff. As movies […]
His
Mitchum| No Comments »This is one of the best films that Howard Hughes tried to ruin.� The principal photography was completed but Mr. Hughes kept asking for more scenes to be shot. Scenes of Robert Mitchum getting beaten up in various stages of shirtlessness and scenes of Jane Russell heaving her bosom in various stages of costume […]
Big
Drama| No Comments »This was yet another
Movie Place
favorite.� We all loved Jack Palance and Ida Lupino.� I mean who doesn’t.� We all loved the tawdry nature of the story and some of you might remember “tawdry” was a favorite genre at
Movie Place
.� We also loved Clifford Odets and movies about
Hollywood.� […]
