Avatar was good. It’s a later movie. Constantine was too. It’s not about a Roman Emperor, but it was good! Ofc I love all Robert Ludlum-based movies.
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That’s it, you only see Robert Montgomery when he looks in the mirror. I don’t remember the punched in the face part, I’ll have to watch it again, I’ve not seen the film for a while.
So I already said that “Double Indemnity” is my favorite film ever.
My second favorite film ever is “Les Diaboliques” made in 1955 by Henri-Georges Clouzot, he made “Wages of Fear” also. “Les Diaboliques” features his wife Vera Clouzot and fantastic performances from Simone Signoret and Paul Meurisse (who looks a bit like Jack Webb)
Again the full film is on YouTube, with English Subtitles, click on the Subtitles/Closed Caption icon:
I love this film so much, like “Double Indemnity” I think it’s pretty much perfect.
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What’s that one about the French prison camp? That was good!
Something like butterfly.
Papillion, yeah. That’s a serious movie.
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Another film I love is “The Spiral Staircase” made in 1946, such an atmospheric film with a brilliant performance from Ethel Barrymore as the bed-ridden Mrs. Warren trying to warn her live-in companion the mute Dorothy McGuire about the danger and doom she feels is within the old mansion.
Again the full film on YouTube:
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Steve McQueen is in that film.
I don’t need none of that. I have family bibles back to the 17th century.
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Thanks! I forgot about that film! The original with Steve McQueen! I need to alter my list to include that one!
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It’s a great movie. Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.
High point of both of their careers. Both roles played awesomely!
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I really need to watch DI again. It’s been a very long time since I watched that film. It is mentioned on many TOP lists.
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My favourite part of that film is Papillon’s time with the natives and he gives the chief his tattoo. Such a magical part of the movie.
Exactly what movie is that from?
It has Tuko , and Lee Van Cleef and all that?
The Good The Bad and The Ugly?
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Bah! I has that one. Was hoping something else.
I like “Hang 'em high” , too.
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Fist Full of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More
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Yes you do need to watch it again! It’s a complete work of cinematic art, everything about it is perfect, the casting, the acting, the production, the camera work, the script (Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler) and the direction.
It was based on a novella written by James M. Cain (also wrote “The Postman Always Rings Twice” again turned into a brilliant 1946 film, I am not fond of the remake though) I have not read Cain’s novella though, but Wilder and Chandler made some changes to his original story.
Cain’s original novella was partly based on a real life case from 1928, that of Ruth Snyder who was executed for the murder of her husband, a controversial picture of Snyder in the electric chair mid-execution was published on the front page of The New York Daily News, it was taken via secret camera by one of their reporters.
Snyder had started an affair with a corset salesman who she convinced to murder her husband (in the film “Double Indemnity” Stanwyck is obviously Snyder and MacMurray as Walter Neff is not a corset salesman but an insurance salesman and she convinces him to murder her husband which is made to look like a freak accident and she would then claim the insurance on Accident Double Indemnity)
Ruth Snyder, 1928, photographed mid-execution by Tom Howard of The New York Daily News, appeared on the next days front page and caused a lot of controversy:
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I’m sure it has to be “The Good The Bad and The Ugly” Eli Wallach is Tuco.
He was in the other films too.
I remember seeing this picture and reading about this case when I was a kid. I found it to be very disturbing.
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Oh heck, yes he was D’oh, I forgot.