Lorna wrote: ↑May 13th, 2024, 2:39 pm
I would watch PERRY MASON a lot more consistently if there was a viewing option WITHOUT SO MANY ADS.
it's on FREEVEE with ads and PARMOUNT + (unedited, I think) but with ads and some kind of weird religious-legal-family channel/Christmas movie outlet via HULU with SO. MANY. ADS.
I mute them or I wander off and when I get back to the episode, like 14 different plot points have unfolded.
Damned if some eps of PERRY MASON are not BAROQUE in their plotting
That's Great American Family. It's crazy how many ads they have during murder She Wrote as well.
It isn't just the ads, its the kind of ads. When MyPillow guy comes on or the Lume Lady I head for the remote! I miss having picture in picture. When I switched cable companies I lost that.
I've seen The Intruder two or three times over the years, though not recently.
I think it nails the atmosphere of a poor small southern town in the early 60s pretty
well. It's a rather disheartening place, right down to Shatner's shabby hotel room.
And Kirk is believable as the manipulative conman and horndog. This is one time
when the low budget works well.
Yeah, on PM Held went into the bar and ordered a glass of milk knowing it would
draw attention. I think Sean McClory played the tough guy who lost to Herd arm
wrestling. He was in a number of PM episodes
Andree wrote: ↑May 13th, 2024, 4:13 pm
I've seen The Intruder two or three times over the years, though not recently.
I think it nails the atmosphere of a poor small southern town in the early 60s pretty
well. It's a rather disheartening place, right down to Shatner's shabby hotel room.
And Kirk is believable as the manipulative conman and horndog. This is one time
when the low budget works well.
Yeah, on PM Held went into the bar and ordered a glass of milk knowing it would
draw attention. I think Sean McClory played the tough guy who lost to Herd arm
wrestling. He was in a number of PM episodes
kingrat wrote: ↑May 12th, 2024, 11:33 am
Speaking of Dracula: the first ten minutes of Kevin Spacey's performance as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh are available on YouTube. This is simply some of the best acting I have ever seen.
I think I get the Dracula reference, but as for the acting in THE ICEMAN COMETH clip I thought it was just Spacey's usual stuff.
He always seems to be acting to me.
There's a Jack Lemmon quality to performance.
Jack Lemmon is another person who always seems to be acting.
We just watched "The Case of the Wandering Widow" on Perry Mason, featuring Casey Adams/Max Showalter. It is so not a spoiler that his character turns out to be slimy and gets bumped off. Agatha Christie fans will note a resemblance in set-up to ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE, although this episode takes a different turn.
Dean Haren, who plays a prisoner, looks like a cousin of Tommy Lee Jones. Imdb notes that Haren was on Perry Mason four times, and his wife June Dayton was on five times. Coleen Gray plays Mason's client.
Ralph Clanton, also seen on this episode, might be remembered by some as the tycoon Jasper Delaney on Somerset.
Stumbled upon TOO SCARED TO SCREAM, a cheesy urban slasher film of the early '80's. Unfortunately (or not) I missed the first half. What I saw was an aging Maureen O'Sullivan, mute and in a wheelchair as Shakespeare-spouting doorman Ian McShane's dear "Mother", and Mike Conners as a frustrated police lieutenant ("Dammit, where the hell is the s.o.b.??") trying to catch an elusive serial killer.
Honestly the only frightening thing about this is Sully Boyar in bathing trunks.
Our vulnerable furry cousins, so ugly they're cute. A vet and his wife are saving many of them in Liberia who have been orphaned (due to poaching) or mistreated as chained-up "pets". This couple is very dedicated -- a few of the young chimps sleep with them as a bonding experience to lessen the trauma caused by loss of their mothers.
ONCE SHE FINISHES THE INTRO, THIS REALLY DOES GET INTERESTING, ESPECIALLY WHEN SHE GOES IN TO HOW CERTAIN COSTUME STYLES IN THE FILM REFLECT HOW SOME OF THE CHARACTERS ARE "STUCK" IN THE TIME PERIOD OF THEIR GLORY DAYS.
If you hadn;t guessed, I've switched from EVIL UNDER THE SUN to watching DEATH ON THE NILE on loop.
I've seen this film 154 times.
SPOILERS
i was reading PAULINE KAEL'S review and she makes a point that JOHN GUILLERMAN'S direction is more workmanlike and perfunctory than ARTISTIC or THOUGHT-OUT, and I can see that, because while it has a lot going for it, there are certain TOUCHES OF FLAIR that I WISH HAD BEEN ADDED to the film to really make it POP...
SUCH AS:
THE DUBBING OF LOIS CHILES, it's obvious they did it, and I've learned to low key love it, but I wish for certain lines, such as "NOW, BARNSTABLE" and "YOUR VULGAR DRIBBLE" that they had brought in MERCEDES MACAMBRIDGE to do her EXORCIST VOICE. Think about it, I think it could Have worked.
THE "HYPOTHETICAL MURDER" SCENARIOS- as much as I love PETER USTINOV as POIROT, he is kind of a dick in this movie, really casting accusations right off the bat, even in some cases where it really doesn't make sense (BETTE DAVIS happened to steal the gun then happened to steal the pearls than happened to shoot LOIS CHILES? I mean, maybe in the name of good acting- THAT would have been a more believable motive, but you're on weak ground HERCULE) SO, IF YOU'RE GOING TO DO THAT, and have (with each accusation) a FANTASY SEQUENCE where the character gets to act out having killed LOIS CHILES- i say let all the actors REALLY GO FOR IT AND HAM IT UP. In particular, give ANGELA LANSBURY a three-and-a-half minute sequence where she stumbles into the saloon and tries numerous times to put the gun into her purse, ultimately shooting off her pinkie toe by accident.
JON FINCH'S CHARACTER HAS NO REASON TO BE IN THIS MOVIE- IN THE BOOK his character is secretly an ENGLISH LORD, I really don't know why they couldn't have taken two minutes of SCREEN TIME to tack that on to the movie, also OLIVIA HUSSEY deserved a scene where she really mourned her mother's death in a more realistic manner. they could have totally worked the reveal that the commie guy is really a BRITISH LORD then.
MOVIE NEEDS MORE ANGELA LANSBURY. nothing to add really, except it would be kinda funny if- before she falls to the floor in her last scene, she calmly declares "I MAY HAVE BEEN SHOT"
THE COBRA IN POIROT'S CABIN doesn't really make sense if you think about it, also a boat with that many r=ich people wouldve had a NIGHT WATCHMAN and SECURITY, but you know, that's more me thinking out loud.
get OSKAR WERNER for the JACK WARDEN part, nothing against JACK, but I mean, get a genuine GERMAN.
I hate the scenes with IS JOHAR as the MANAGER, god they never fail tyo make me wince "that certainly takes the camel's hump" indeed.
IT'S also interesting to view the film now that I know that EVERY SINGLE SHOT ON THE BOAT that takes place in the nighttime was done ON A SOUNDSTAGE IN ENGLAND!
**SHOOTING AT NIGHT on location on THE NILE would've required LIGHTS that would have ATTRACTED A BAJILLION MOTHS AND INSECTS
kingrat wrote: ↑May 13th, 2024, 6:56 pm
We just watched "The Case of the Wandering Widow" on Perry Mason, featuring Casey Adams/Max Showalter. It is so not a spoiler that his character turns out to be slimy and gets bumped off. Agatha Christie fans will note a resemblance in set-up to ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE, although this episode takes a different turn.
Dean Haren, who plays a prisoner, looks like a cousin of Tommy Lee Jones. Imdb notes that Haren was on Perry Mason four times, and his wife June Dayton was on five times. Coleen Gray plays Mason's client.
Ralph Clanton, also seen on this episode, might be remembered by some as the tycoon Jasper Delaney on Somerset.
