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Captain Tiger
Wilder's original idea
What a fun movie, Alan Parker & Paul Williams are geniuses
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Lindsay Marriott
Los Angeles and the Willard house
To all NG Newbies
What a film
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This is so well said. It's become fashionable to defecate on all the amazing achievements of Western civilization in order to retain your credibility with all the "intelligentsia" I'm sick and tired of the moral relativity being ascribed to the two sides of the Cold War. They were NOT morally relative! If East Germany had opened the border for one day, how many people would have gone East?! Yet somehow, I'm supposed to feel bad that the West did some not so nice things to insure that we won. Not gonna happen! The Soviet Union WAS the 'Evil Empire" millions upon millions killed, starved, disappeared, liquidated, etc. How in God's name can you draw a parallel between these two systems?! It's insanity at its best, brain damaged delirium at it's worst.
Improves grip, especially when you get nervous and sweaty palms.
This has been a veery interesting discussion of this classic film. Bravo!
I initially thought he asked for January 15th 1947, which isa the day the Black Dahlia was discovered murdered, in a vacant Los Angeles lot.
I loved them all tbh. Segal was a delight. A guy you loved to hate. Robards was a menacing Capone, Ralph Meeker was a perfect Bugs Moran, Mickey Reems as Rheinhold Schwimmer in a small part made you feel some pity for him, as he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, along with Bruce Dern. A really well done film, that has passed the test of time.
The narration is perfect IMO. The only part I didn't like was Peter Gusenberg's girlfriends narration. It didn't fit the rest of the film.
I LOVED this movie. It's very accurate, considering Hollywood's history of completely making things up in BioPics, and has a humanity about it. (I love the shot of Adam Hier scraping the butter from the plate, then putting it back in the icebox, and Bruce Dern's sad attempt to be left out of the police raid that seals his fate, & the suspicious landlady) It's little things like that, those that make the film just a bit more realistic. Next, these are really bad guys, not the charming, dashing gangsters of many other films. The Gusenberg's, Al Capone, and Bugs Moran were hardened criminals, and it showed. The narration is great, adding a lot of excellent information about the main characters, and their fates. Finally, the massacre scene is truly disturbing, even to this day. You really have to feel for John May, and Rheinhold Schwimmer, who really were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. In many ways, they lived desperate lives, and died because of it. Such a great movie, Corman did a hell of a job.
This!
Just watched the John Huston version of Man From the South, and I must say, it is a pale imitation of the Tales of the Unexpected version ( I have not seen the AHP version yet) Just didn't have the same panache.
Couldn't disagree more! Saw it last night for the first time expecting it to be truly awful, but it is great! When you realize that you had two certified geniuses in charge of the movie and the music, (Alan Parker & Paul Williams) you have something special. Such a fun movie with the BEST music. I can't believe I'm saying that, but it is fun, and it looks like the cast was having a ball.
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