See Vera Cruz if you get the chance. This is one of the first cynical westerns where no one has completely pure motives, not even Gary Cooper. Critics at the time did not like this; that wasn't what they thought a western should be. To use one of lzcutter's favorite expressions, you can draw a line...

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wonder if Aldrich could be considered an auteur, lol.

ha!Hey if Jerry Lewis can, Aldrich is definitely up for consideration.

LOL, you're right. I don't agree with the French on Jerry, but we're on the same wavelength as far as UNDER CAPRICORN.

hesitations and stammers, the repetition of certain words that gave the illusion he was speaking naturally Like he's thinking the words for the very first time. Yep. I was watching FATHER OF THE BRIDE tonight, and Tracy's performance never fails to delight me. Now this may sound crazy, but at times...

Hey, Jackie!

"Listen...listen to the sea..."

"Getta outta here, Luke Standish, you smirkin' Judas!"




I wonder if Aldrich could be considered an auteur, lol.

king, I love that SISTER GEORGE story, ha! And once you see this movie, it's pretty much hard to forget, lol, is all I'll say. "Campy" is certainly the word when it comes to his female characters. One thing I've noticed about Aldrich is how he uses a lot of the same actors over and over, s...

:D Thanks, king, I'm honored! Still trying to get a "handle" on Aldrich, lol, and have always wondered when he suddenly "became" the director of kitschy qrotesquery with aging female gargoyles (I don't mean Kim of course, who looks ravishing in LYLAH). Did it maybe start with AUT...

There once was a GIRL FROM THE BRONX! (Still don't have a rhyme for that.) How wonderful to see you. I haven't been Bronxed in months! Hi, Mike! You are sweet, thank you. You don't really want to be Bronxed, do you, lol? Nothing rhymes with my borough except, what? Honks and bonks? (But that says i...

moira, LOL!!!

I see David Hasselhof as the Monster. (he makes the world so lousy, lol)

I'll try not to be such a stranger here!

Oh, thank you so much, Chris. Hail, hail to you and SSO!

moira, ah, at last the definitive compare/contrast on Milton and Ned! :lol: Masterful, I lurve it! We will never be confused again! Grazie! If the two of them were in a horror movie, Seltzer would be Dr. Frankenstein and Glass would be Igor, right? Isn't Milt the guy at the track in MARNIE, asking T...

I get a migraine thinking about this movie, and don't get me started on Coral Browne....(shiver)

It's probably all deeper than we know, and I'll bet the French think it's Aldrich's masterpiece.

Guten nacht!

Merci, SueSue! I have moira to thank for allowing me to come crawling back to Broadway, er, I mean to SSO, because I've been away so long and couldn't access the site anymore. :| (my feeble explanation for this apparent shameless desertion is that I tend to get overwhelmed by all our TCM-related ven...

kingrat, what is it about the name "Barney", given to Ernie Borgnine's characters in THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE and THE OSCAR, that particularly telegraphs "ruthless" and "sleazy" in these '60's camp-fests? :D I love and agree with everything in your LYLAH review, great ...

Ma cher moira, I'm very excited about November 30th, felicitations! Can't wait to see you and the Jean Gabin film. How brilliant it will all be!

Tracy had one of those acting tricks Tag Gallagher alludes to that I've always noticed -- hesitations and stammers, the repetition of certain words that gave the illusion he was speaking naturally and not just following the script. (Jimmy Stewart did this too, lol, but then it became almost a self-p...