BTW, JULIE does a much better job in the cockpit than the driver's seat.Allhallowsday wrote: ↑July 23rd, 2023, 3:14 pmProtracted as in tedious.jimimac71 wrote: ↑July 23rd, 2023, 2:02 pmIf you mean too long by "protracted," ...Allhallowsday wrote: ↑July 23rd, 2023, 1:41 pm JULIE (1956) Eck. We are inflicted with DORIS DAY's angst from the git-go. LOUIS JORDAN is a CREEP within seconds.
I would describe the movie JULIE as protracted. I did not love it.
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Hibi wrote: ↑July 24th, 2023, 8:52 amThey could've done without the overheated narration. I think she says "strangely disturbing" twice in the film! The only place where it helped was explaining the apt in S.F. but they could've had her explain that in dialog. Still, the film is very entertaining and moves along at a brisk pace. I can't see Anne Francis pulling it off (Eddie mentioned it was originally intended for her) She just didn't have the star power.Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑July 23rd, 2023, 2:30 pm I'm a Doris Day fan but JULIE is awful. Poor Doris, so ill-served by all her husbands (in real life). Those lovely Carmel settings just do not jibe with the hokey Victorian "had I but known" genre of women terrorized by a homicidal spouse. Day's voiceovers do not help. "I felt strangely disturbed" No kidding. Then of course there is the incongruity of those final infamous airplane scenes. "Lift the left wing higher, honey"
Actually I couldn't wait for it to be over, lol. There was, however, one creepy part where Doris picks up her phone and hears a concerto or some other Jourdan piano piece playing -- there should have been more MIDNIGHT LACE-type scenes like that. As it is I must say I was, well, kinda bored. Agree about Anne Francis. (but I must give a heads-up to Anne in an unexpectedly artful performance as Dick Powell's bitchy girlfriend in SUSAN SLEPT HERE)
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark and that would be 1961's REPTILICUS where a prehistoric puppet menaces wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen and places their Tivoli Gardens in dire jeopardy. In the "better" (ha!) European version that occasionally airs, American audiences are treated to an interesting segment with custodian Dirch Passer (sort of a Danish Jerry Lewis) who warbles the bizarrely catchy folk tune 'Tilicus to a group of mesmerized children. Dirch and the kids gambol around the countryside as if the monster were nothing more than a fairy-tale beastie waiting to say hello with candy-colored dragon breath.
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There's a YouTube video with Dirch Passer singing his infamous 'Tilicus but I am having the devil of a time uploading it.
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Didn't mean to imply Anne couldn't have handled the part. She was a good actress, she just wasn't leading lady material (as far as carrying a film on her name alone). Doris could.Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑July 27th, 2023, 11:36 pmHibi wrote: ↑July 24th, 2023, 8:52 amThey could've done without the overheated narration. I think she says "strangely disturbing" twice in the film! The only place where it helped was explaining the apt in S.F. but they could've had her explain that in dialog. Still, the film is very entertaining and moves along at a brisk pace. I can't see Anne Francis pulling it off (Eddie mentioned it was originally intended for her) She just didn't have the star power.Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑July 23rd, 2023, 2:30 pm I'm a Doris Day fan but JULIE is awful. Poor Doris, so ill-served by all her husbands (in real life). Those lovely Carmel settings just do not jibe with the hokey Victorian "had I but known" genre of women terrorized by a homicidal spouse. Day's voiceovers do not help. "I felt strangely disturbed" No kidding. Then of course there is the incongruity of those final infamous airplane scenes. "Lift the left wing higher, honey"
Actually I couldn't wait for it to be over, lol. There was, however, one creepy part where Doris picks up her phone and hears a concerto or some other Jourdan piano piece playing -- there should have been more MIDNIGHT LACE-type scenes like that. As it is I must say I was, well, kinda bored. Agree about Anne Francis. (but I must give a heads-up to Anne in an unexpectedly artful performance as Dick Powell's bitchy girlfriend in SUSAN SLEPT HERE)
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Oh I know, Hibi! It's just that whenever I see Anne Francis' name anywhere I feel compelled to mention her in SUSAN SLEPT HERE to everybody, lol.
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Oh, so THAT explains why I had heard 'Yes, Giorgio' 's original working title was...wait for it...kingrat wrote: ↑August 1st, 2023, 10:23 pmIt was said that originally the film was supposed to include a rear-view nude scene for Pavarotti. Fortunately we were spared that.CinemaInternational wrote: ↑July 23rd, 2023, 6:01 pm I found another one last night, 1982's Yes Giorgio, the vehicle for Pavarotti. It got scorched earth reviews, its corny as all get out, and it is a plot that probably passed its sell by date around 1940 (when the studios largely, except for the later Mario Lanza, stopped making all those operatic musicals), but its also cute, likable,and I could not resist some fine operatic performances.
(...'Moon Over Milano')
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BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1970) It's as wonderfully wretched as you've heard...
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She was in that???? Didn't know! I've never watched the movie.Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑August 1st, 2023, 10:31 am Oh I know, Hibi! It's just that whenever I see Anne Francis' name anywhere I feel compelled to mention her in SUSAN SLEPT HERE to everybody, lol.
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kingrat wrote: ↑August 1st, 2023, 10:23 pmIt was said that originally the film was supposed to include a rear-view nude scene for Pavarotti. Fortunately we were spared that.CinemaInternational wrote: ↑July 23rd, 2023, 6:01 pm I found another one last night, 1982's Yes Giorgio, the vehicle for Pavarotti. It got scorched earth reviews, its corny as all get out, and it is a plot that probably passed its sell by date around 1940 (when the studios largely, except for the later Mario Lanza, stopped making all those operatic musicals), but its also cute, likable,and I could not resist some fine operatic performances.
Actually, I thought the film should have gone the whole hog to 1940 fantasy: Pavarotti has been lying about having a wife, just to fend off his admirers, and he and the nice doctor (Kathryn Harrold) get married at the end.
Fun fact: in sequence, Kathryn Harrold, Kathleen Turner, and Kim Zimmer played the same role on The Doctors.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!! That shot would've packed theaters!!! LMREO!
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Hibi wrote: ↑August 7th, 2023, 4:02 pmShe was in that???? Didn't know! I've never watched the movie.Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑August 1st, 2023, 10:31 am Oh I know, Hibi! It's just that whenever I see Anne Francis' name anywhere I feel compelled to mention her in SUSAN SLEPT HERE to everybody, lol.
Yep and she's terrific! I could kick myself for not alerting everyone to the film as I forgot it was part of the Debbie Reynolds SUTS line-up a few days ago. Sorry about that. SUSAN SLEPT HERE is one of my favorite '50's Christmas movies. I love Dick Powell's Hollywood apartment.
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According to QVC "Christmas is right around the corner" lol so we should expect SUSAN SLEPT HERE to air sometime in December as it sometimes does in between the more usual holiday movie suspects.
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Thankfully we were spared Pavorotti's rear, but we were not lucky enough to avoid Dennis Franz's a dozen years later on NYPD Blue. I'mstill a bit emotionally scarred over that one.kingrat wrote: ↑August 1st, 2023, 10:23 pmIt was said that originally the film was supposed to include a rear-view nude scene for Pavarotti. Fortunately we were spared that.CinemaInternational wrote: ↑July 23rd, 2023, 6:01 pm I found another one last night, 1982's Yes Giorgio, the vehicle for Pavarotti. It got scorched earth reviews, its corny as all get out, and it is a plot that probably passed its sell by date around 1940 (when the studios largely, except for the later Mario Lanza, stopped making all those operatic musicals), but its also cute, likable,and I could not resist some fine operatic performances.
Actually, I thought the film should have gone the whole hog to 1940 fantasy: Pavarotti has been lying about having a wife, just to fend off his admirers, and he and the nice doctor (Kathryn Harrold) get married at the end.
Fun fact: in sequence, Kathryn Harrold, Kathleen Turner, and Kim Zimmer played the same role on The Doctors.