What was the last movie you saw?

[Foxbat]

The Vampire Lovers (1970)
Based on Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, Kate O'Mara, Ingrid Pitt and Madeline Smith provide the heaving bosoms in this watchable but not quite reaching the level of fangtastic bloodsucker movie from Hammer and AIP.

 

[KGeo777]

I had a brief chat with Madeline Smith on a FB group -she said that AIP compelled Hammer into doing the nudity.

Well, since I dethawed from the horribly unpleasant and expensive furnace heat deprivation incident, I decided to watch a couple of movies featuring Patricia Crowley since I re-listened to a Lux Radio show of the War of the Worlds where she stars with Dana Andrews. I think they made better leads than those of the Pal movie. They sounded smarter and less hysterical. George Pal for some reason, made women characters seem like children. Cecil B DeMille did that too I think but it is very jarring in TWOTW. So I was curious to see her in something from the time and she didn't do a lot of movies compared to tv.
However she did appear in one film
HOLLYWOOD OR BUST 1956 --which so happens to be the last Martin and Lewis movie. I have never watched a Martin and Lewis movie before-and as this one started I had a feeling of dread and buyer's remorse. I am not into the humor of Jerry Lewis. It is pretty painful most of the time. However, as it progressed, there were some moments of amusement, mainly provided by Mr. Bascom, the Great Dane dog of the Lewis character. He pretty much steals the movie and Martin has a few funny interactions with him. There is also a Rain Man sub-plot where Martin discovers Lewis has seizures that makes him win at gambling. I don't want to watch another Martin and Lewis movie. Crowley has quite a resemblance to Emilia Clarke though.

I also discovered she appeared in a 1963 movie THE WHEELER DEALERS so I watched that as well. It has James Garner as a con man so it can't be bad can it? Yes. It's terrible. An awful comedy despite folks like Jim Backus and John Astin. Even James Doohan turns up as Garner's lawyer! It's just bad.

 

[Jeffbert]

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) I had seen this twice, but with a NOIR ALLEY presentation, I had to see it again. Muller said that the novel was published in 1933, and when the studio bought the rights, 1934, the Hayes Code was in force. Its 1st film versions were European, France & Italy.. I would like to see them, also.

Anyway, at 1946, postwar, baby boom, etc., things changed a bit. Muller cites this film as being what noir is all about. He noted that much of the novel's content had to be watered-down, but this was $2.5M at the box office, very popular, and the subject of many imitations.

Frank Chambers (John Garfield) is a drifter, who just happen upon a small café / gas station in California, owned by Nick Smith (Cecil Kellaway), a fat little man, who invites Chambers to work for him. Inside the place, Chambers sees a very young woman, he assumes is Smith's daughter. Cora (Lana Turner) is actually the fat little man's wife! Chambers is very attracted to her, & Smith is not only oblivious to that fact, but naïve. He even suggests they go to the beach together, while he stays at work!

Eventually, the two lovers conspire to do away with him. But, complications occur.

supporting cast/characters:
Arthur Keats (Hume Cronyn; same guy as the wicked Capt. of the guards in Brute Force!), here, the defense attorney. Kyle Sackett (Leon Ames) the District Attorney.

just under 2 hours, including Muller's intro & closing comments.

9/10

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

We watched Red One before Christmas. We enjoyed this one, it was a different take on a Christmas movie and it was much better than the other new Christmas movie we watched, Dear Santa.

Also rewatched Quantum of Solace. Not as good as Casino Royale in my opinion, but a decent movie. I'm trying to rewatch the Daniel Craig Bond movies, but now can't find Skyfall on my streaming services so will have to wait for it to become available on something.

 

[Jeffbert]

They Live (1988) A horror, but I found myself laughing at some scenes. There is a pirate TV station interfering with regular broadcasts. It's message is that things are not as they seem. Not much else can be understood, because the networks are doing their best to block such interference.

Nada (Roddy Piper) finds a box of sunglasses in a church that had been raided by the authorities. Only, these are not sun glasses, but filters that allow the wearers to see the world as it really is. magazine pages, billboards, etc., all have stark black on white messages, such as "buy things," "don't ask questions," but when not viewing through the lenses, appear as normal. However, the most disturbing sights are certain people, who are revealed to be extraterrestrials, no lips, huge eyes, very ugly.

Nada had just taken a job on a construction site, and become friends with Frank Armitage (Keith David) the other day, and he wants to share his discovery with him. But, Armitage wants nothing to do with it. He has a wife and two kids, and wants to remain as he is. He violently resists Nada's attempt to get him to try on the glasses. Eventually Nada persuades him, & both go out trying to figure-out what is really happening.

8/10

 

[Jeffbert]

Thicker Than Water (1935) a L&H short that I cannot recall seeing until now!

Stanley is freeloading at Ollie's apartment; Ollie's wife Daphne (Daphne Pollard) has had enough of it. Ollie is not the master of his home.

supporting cast/characters:

Mr. Finlayson (James Finlayson) works at the antiques store, and comes to the apartment seeking the monthly installment on the furniture.

Really funny! Wonderful to see a new (to me) L&H film!

9/10

 

[Jeffbert]

Lair of the White Worm (1988) Supernatural thriller, in which the wicked priestess Lady Sylvia Marsh (Amanda Donohoe) intends to sacrifice Eve Trent (Catherine Oxenberg) to the title creature. Lord James D'Ampton (Hugh Grant), a student of archeology is the hero.


A rather interesting film; thoroughly entertaining! 8/10

 

[Jeffbert]

Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) A bedridden woman whose only connection to the outside world is her telephone, hears a part of a murder plot when the lines are crossed, and becomes almost frantic trying to get help. But, the authorities can do nothing without evidence.

Leona Stevenson (Barbara Stanwyck) is the woman, and is married to Henry J. Stevenson (Burt Lancaster)

supporting cast/characters:
Dr. Philip Alexander (Wendell Corey), who reveals that Leona's paralysis is purely psychological, but rather late in the film. Her parents had coddled her, and this was the result. Morano (William Conrad); the villain; James Cotterell (Ed Begley); Sally Hunt Lord (Ann Richards).

8/10

 

[JunkMonkey]

56 - Adam Driver, spaceship pilot, crashes his ship on an uncharted planet populated by CGI dinosaurs and about to be hit by a bloody big asteroid. The only other survivor is a nine year old girl who, by movie motivating co-incidence, is the same age as his dead daughter. They take it turns to rescue each other from the usual - including, at one point, a throw things at the screen, Oh For F**ks Sake! pool of Hollywood movie quicksand - before getting to the escape pod on the other side of the valley. There they have a Boss Fight with some really BIG CGI dinosaurs before escaping Earth just in the nick of time. The asteroid was not only going to hit Earth just after they'd arrived but was going to hit EXACTLY where they were standing. What ARE the chances eh? One of those films that didn't really need making.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Lair of the White Worm (1988) Supernatural thriller, in which the wicked priestess Lady Sylvia Marsh (Amanda Donohoe) intends to sacrifice Eve Trent (Catherine Oxenberg) to the title creature. Lord James D'Ampton (Hugh Grant), a student of archeology is the hero.


A rather interesting film; thoroughly entertaining! 8/10

Entertaining! Entertaining?! I think we can do better than THAT! It is a staggeringly awfully brilliantly dreadful film. Worth the price of admission for the scene with Amanda Donohoe's... erm... codpiece alone. Not to mention the snake vampire policeman vs bagpiper fight.

 

[Guttersnipe]

Blackmail (1929): Alfred Hitchcock's first talkie. A woman meets an artist who attempts to violate her. She acts in self-defense but is blackmailed by a witness. This is a brilliant movie. I loved the shots. There is one particular scene that I thought was very good: The woman, after killing her would-be rapist, has a pseudohallucination of a neon sign in the form of a hand stabbing with a knife. I will never look at clown paintings the same way again.

 

[Jeffbert]

56 - Adam Driver, spaceship pilot, crashes his ship on an uncharted planet populated by CGI dinosaurs and about to be hit by a bloody big asteroid. The only other survivor is a nine year old girl who, by movie motivating co-incidence, is the same age as his dead daughter. They take it turns to rescue each other from the usual - including, at one point, a throw things at the screen, Oh For F**ks Sake! pool of Hollywood movie quicksand - before getting to the escape pod on the other side of the valley. There they have a Boss Fight with some really BIG CGI dinosaurs before escaping Earth just in the nick of time. The asteroid was not only going to hit Earth just after they'd arrived but was going to hit EXACTLY where they were standing. What ARE the chances eh? One of those films that didn't really need making.

Do you mean 65?

 

[KGeo777]

Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) A bedridden woman whose only connection to the outside world is her telephone, hears a part of a murder plot when the lines are crossed, and becomes almost frantic trying to get help. But, the authorities can do nothing without evidence.

Leona Stevenson (Barbara Stanwyck) is the woman, and is married to Henry J. Stevenson (Burt Lancaster)

supporting cast/characters:
Dr. Philip Alexander (Wendell Corey), who reveals that Leona's paralysis is purely psychological, but rather late in the film. Her parents had coddled her, and this was the result. Morano (William Conrad); the villain; James Cotterell (Ed Begley); Sally Hunt Lord (Ann Richards).

8/10

Based on the famous radio play with Agnes Moorehead.
Curious about how it translates to a movie. The radio play only has the woman and the telephone operator.

I really should see Lair of the White Worm--I remember when it came out. Keep overlooking it.




ATOM AGE VAMPIRE - 1960 -- Goofy melodramatic tale of a woman disfigured in a car crash and is helped by a scientist who decides to inject himself with something to turn him into the title character so he can be mistaken for an escaped gorilla.

 

[HareBrain]

Odd...

 

[Matteo]

56 - Adam Driver, spaceship pilot, crashes his ship on an uncharted planet populated by CGI dinosaurs and about to be hit by a bloody big asteroid. The only other survivor is a nine year old girl who, by movie motivating co-incidence, is the same age as his dead daughter. They take it turns to rescue each other from the usual - including, at one point, a throw things at the screen, Oh For F**ks Sake! pool of Hollywood movie quicksand - before getting to the escape pod on the other side of the valley. There they have a Boss Fight with some really BIG CGI dinosaurs before escaping Earth just in the nick of time. The asteroid was not only going to hit Earth just after they'd arrived but was going to hit EXACTLY where they were standing. What ARE the chances eh? One of those films that didn't really need making.

Unfortunately, I also saw that one a while ago...