True Crime Movies

[sdreid]

Thanks for that information Kensei.

That could be inappropriate as I think the comedy about that guy who the woman let die stuck in the front of her car in her garage was. I recently watched Dahmer vs. Gacy and you could say the same about that although it's so removed from reality and not very good so your main concern is when it will end. There were some protests about the black comedy The Young Poisoner's Handbook I believe. The problem there is it's such a great movie. I think one reviewer said, you'll hate yourself for loving it.

[kensei]

Not sure if this quite qualifies as a "true crime" movie, but the film "30 Minutes or Less" is just about to come out telling the story of a pizza delivery guy fitted with a time bomb and forced to commit a bank robbery. This is directly reminiscent of a case in Pennsylvania in 2003 when a man named Brian Wells died in an explosion in those very same circumstances. This movie is not a telling of that story. In fact, it is a comedy. Can anyone say, "Inappropriate?"!!!

[sdreid]

Just watched this on the box, had forgotten all about this first pairing of Sherlock Holmes vs. JTR.

Unless I forgot something, I believe A Study in Terror was the first color JtR film.

[jason_c]

Memories of Murder.


Its a Korean movie based on a real life case. A fantastic film.

Im not one for subtitles normally but this film I stayed with and would recommend it to anyone.

[sdreid]

Sadly, the actress Anna Massey died last Saturday. She appeared in many productions including, noted on this thread, Frenzy and The Man From the Pru where she played the murder victim Julia Wallace. Anna was also the daughter of famous actor Raymond Massey who was born in Canada and later became an American citizen. Rest in peace Anna.

[sdreid]

It's been a long time, maybe 25 years, since I've seen that one Bob but I do remember it was good entertainment. As I recall, it had a solution similar to some other Ripper films. Judy Dench is still sexy to us old guys.

[Bob Hinton]

A Study in Terror

Just watched this on the box, had forgotten all about this first pairing of Sherlock Holmes vs. JTR. Fantastic cast though, nice to see a very young Judy Dench.

This must be the cleanest Whitechapel and most glamorous girls depicted. Even the urchins looked clean and well fed!

[sdreid]

Only the last two were in color.

[sdreid]

Yes Jeff, I saw that on VHS many years ago and it is a very good film although they updated it in time a bit. I guess 1940s vintage cars are hard to come by.

Too my knowledge, there are four films that were based on Fernandez and Beck:

Lonely Heart Bandits (1950) US
The Honeymoon Killers (1969) US
Profundo carmesi (1996) MX
Lonely Hearts (2006) US

I have only seen the second and the last and recommend both.

[Mayerling]

The New York Times reported today that the diretor of THE HONEYMOON KILLERS, Leonard Kastle, died. He was an opera composer who worked in television, and he decided to take the direction of the film (which he was producing) over from two previous director (one, who proved too expensive, was Martin Scorsese). The critics always raved that the film was excellent, but it made little money in the U.S., but did well in Europe. On it's re-release in 1992, to art film houses, it did better. Kastle never made any other movie, although he had film scripts for eight pictures. However, he was not upset, quipping that after he made THE HONEYMOON KILLERS he never made a bad film.

[sdreid]

The two disc version is the Special Edition or something of the sort.

[The Bounder]

Zodiac is an immense film, the two disc version with nearly three hours of extras is truly classic!

[sdreid]

Spoiler Alert

Like Palance and unlike Novello, Montgomery is a guilty lodger.

[sdreid]

Yes, he did a credible job in The Lodger as I recall. I should listen to it again since I have it on CD.

As far as I know, Robert and Elizabeth are the only father daughter team to play JtR and Lizzie Borden.

[Mayerling]

Montgomery was a discovery. He'd been playing comic playboys and cads, and then did that great breakout part of "Danny" in NIGHT MUST FALL in 1937. A few years later he did a psychotic in RAGE IN HEAVEN (a film where the good guy is George Sanders of all people). Was he any good as "the Lodger." Up to Laird Cregar's or Jack Palance's or even Ivor Norvello's performances?

Jeff