These films are great for illustrating "Strong films need vicious, hate-able bad guys" and Robert Ryan and Lee Marvin are SO GOOD at being totally vicious bad-guys. For whatever else these films have going for them - and there are a large number of solid performances in both - I think the ...

Hardware? Ugly? His name isn't Victor von something-or-other, is it? He didn't, like, wait for a storm to raise your hospital bed up into some storm?!! Jeepers - and this weekend it sounds like there's going to be more falls in store. I was hoping we'd keep all of that here in Texas, but someone ope...

I did get a good copy of this, if anyone needs one. I would have glossed right over it except for a very wise tip, so I lucked into this one.

I'm looking forward to these because I've never seen them AND for Laughton's inclusion as well. I have a hard time believing the name "Cary Grant" can't find a purchasing audience, along with about 100 other names.

MichJ, I'm with you. When Wendy writes "NOT!" about Popeye and you've clearly pointed out what we all see - tattoos on arms that fire cannons, or we see become animated dynamos - how can ANY WOMAN who claims to love big, strong arms NOT love Popeye?!! Boy - some women-! There's just no ple...

I don't care for this film, but this thread's writing is THE reason I'll be watching it again soon. They've got it playing at a film-festival weekend, and a chance to see this on the big screen is too much to pass up - now that these comments have me stoked.

MrsL, exactly. The WHY is what I'm curious about. Why do I find some musicals either disinteresting (almost offending, pushing me a way, ewww, no, yuck!) while others are just fine, and another set pulls me into their orbit. Your Horror Movie comment is parallel to mine - THEM has such terrible mons...

A series I don't re-watch often but think of it a lot - FOYLE'S WAR - about a police detective in WWII. He occasionally gets into Nazis and spies, but dealing with murderers who use the war to help cover their tracks. Heists, too.

I think the Dragonwyck-as-horror is exactly why I rail against so many corporate rightsholders - they're warehouses, not holders. Not keepers. We see so many misguided labeling efforts from them, probably spending weeks of 'committee time' instead of just an hour and a half of WATCHING the film! Jee...

I certainly think Turturro's argument is interesting when he proposes "Almost everyone has done this at some point..." At the same time, filming commonly-accomplished tasks would put us into everyone's bathroom a time or two a day. Yeah. Realistic. But desirable? Is that the goal of film? ...

Christine, thanks for this tip. We got onto AMAZON FR and ordered the larger sets of the Gaumont disks, plus we found a new Gene Tierney collection with a couple of (SADLY - ANGRILY) "unique in Europe" films. Grrr. This is the price we pay for not traveling for 2-3 months in Europe every y...

Have you discovered what elements you use (even subconsciously) to 'suspend belief'? This is part of my "Donating a positive emotion" to a film. It's as if by walking in, sitting down in front of the screen, I've just clicked off certain critical analytic switches in my peabrain, and almos...

Musicals might be the litmus test for me. I have a long-standing prejudice against them, so finding ones that I like is a numeric oddity and, now, I'm finding large numbers in a certain era. It makes me wonder about the Why's and Why Not's. Why are these early versions so enjoyable to my palate? How...

I love the 3rd-from-the-top photo about "much obliged", the way he cocks one eyebrown oh-so-slightly. Just perfectly. His expressiveness is dead-on.

Christine, you'd mentioned other Gaumont films or better qualities. Are you seeing a lot of those being made available in Europe? (I haven't even checked - I can get onto AMAZON.FR and found out, but I was just curious if you're seeing more of those being placed onto DVDs. I hope so. I might not col...