Nehemiah Persoff as "Poppa", in white circus tights! See suicide plus divine retribution by polar bear!
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I watched this one to see Jack Hawkins wondering when his paycheck will clear the bank.Lucky Vassall wrote:I’ve always had a special fondness for “Land of the Pharaohs” (1955). Who could resist 22-year-old Joan Collins already playing a temptress. As the promotional material put it: “Her treachery stained every stone of the pyramids.”
I adore Matinee (1993) & John Goodman too, Lucky. I wish that TCM would show it around the anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October! It was really delightful to see monster movie veterans Robert Cornthwaite and William Schallert given funny stuff to do (instead of being subversively amusing as they had been throughout their careers). Cathy Moriarty was also great as the "nurse"/girlfriend. Here's the classic trailer for the "movie-within-a-movie" for Mant!:Lucky Vassall wrote:While not bad films, I’d also like to give a shout out to “Ed Wood” (1994) and “Matinee” (1993), two films that managed to have a lot of fun with the reputations of the two most notorious bad film makers without being mean. The first is well known, of course, and features one of the best casts ever assembled. If you’re not familiar with “Matinee,” John Goodman gives his usual delightful performance playing a character who bears more than a passing resemblance to William Castle
Well, a hoot or a bad movie i love--I missed the first half hour of The Thomas Wolfe Story Youngblood Hawke but the parts I saw made me laugh harder than I have in months. What a delight. I haven't seen so many toupees older but eager actors chomp and gulp down the scenery in one flick in quite some time. What fun it was to see this parade of tonsorial prostheses (I bet the hairdressing budget for the men must have rivaled the costume budget for the dames for this movie)--and I am not even mentioning Hayden Rorke & John Dehner's hairpieces:CineMaven wrote:In The TCM March 2014 Schedule Thread, ...“Youngblood Hawke” will be on TCM this Thursday afternoon. I wouldn’t label it a “BAD-MOVIE-YOU-LOVE.” I think it’s a hoot...in a good way. And there’s lots of good stuff in there which was discussed almost three years ago here. I put this in the glossy, though black 'n white, category of "THE BEST OF EVERYTHING" where we see a person's adventure here in the big bad city trying to make a success of it. I like how TCM’s description says Franciscus 'exercises a powerful spell over every woman he meets.' If you check it out, you’ll be the judge of that. They certainly gave him interesting actresses to work with. ( Genevieve Page and Suzanne Pleshette. ) I always thought he was a sincere actor. ( ...Yeah, and a cutie pie. )
Oh, I loved his Brooklyn garret, one flight up from Susan Pleshette's "hovel." His apt. and the Greenwich Village studio where Joan Crawford "suffered ' in Daisy Kenyon (1947) are two of my favorite humble homes, NYC style. Of course, the cozy image of Youngblood's aerie below--complete with compliant if permanently peevish mistress--also reminded me of the set design in the Al Pacino-Keanu Reeves bromance between Satan and his son, in The Devil's Advocate (1997)--now that was a Bad Movie I Loved (sort of).CineMaven wrote:The photo of Franciscus and Pleshette with the NYC skyline in the background was filmed on the Promenade over in Brooklyn Heights. ( He’s told an apartment there would cost $65.00 a month. ) Brooklyn Heights is one of Brooklyn’s toniest neighborhoods. Now...fifty years later, you couldn’t get a closet there for $65 bucks.
moirafinnie wrote:Well, a hoot or a bad movie i love--I missed the first half hour of The Thomas Wolfe Story Youngblood Hawke but the parts I saw made me laugh harder than I have in months. What a delight. I haven't seen so many toupees older but eager actors chomp and gulp down the scenery in one flick in quite some time. What fun it was to see this parade of tonsorial prostheses (I bet the hairdressing budget for the men must have rivaled the costume budget for the dames for this movie)--and I am not even mentioning Hayden Rorke & John Dehner's hairpieces...
f.) Couldn't anyone find Suzanne Pleshette a worthwhile role for her to play in a movie? EVER?
Two very good things about YH:
1.) Mary Astor looked great in her beautiful duds and (under)acted rings around everyone.
2.) New York City never looked more beautiful in the black and white location shots until Woody Allen's Manhattan years later!