Favorite Films (lists up to participating site members)

[GUT]

Max Smart, as played by Don Adams, was one of my favorite TV characters when I was a youngster.

G'day Dunny

mine too then my son discovered him first as the voice of Inspector Gadget then as Max.

[Mayerling]

On a more familiar thread note, we just passed the 226th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille - "Bastille Day" in France, their 4th of July. So here is a list of movies dealing with the French Revolution that I can think of (we will omit Napoleon, as he takes center stage after 1795).

1) Marie Antoinette (1938)
2) Marie Antoinette (more recent film)
3) Black Magic (Orson Welles as Cagliostro, supposedly about the "Affair of the Diamond Necklace")
4) Du Barry was a Lady (the Cole Porter musical, severely cut in terms of score to "Do I Love You Do I?" and "Friendship", with a cast of Red Skelton - in the role Bert Lahr played of Louis/King Louis XV; Lucille Ball - in the role played by Ethel Merman on Broadway as "DuBarry"; Gene Kelly (as Ball's love interest); Douglas Dumbrille (the nightclub owner in the modern part, and a sinister courtier in the 18th Century part); Rags Ragland (as Louis's assistant in the modern story, and as the Dauphin in the 18th Century story); and as the mentalist / "Cagliostro" - Zero Mostel in an early role)
5), Nuit de Varennes (a French film about the events leading to the attempted escape of the royal family and their recapture)
6) Danton (with Gerald Depardieu as the orator statesman)
7) Marat/DeSade - Glenda Jackson (as the asylum inmate playing Charlotte Corday)
8) Scaramouche (1925 - with Lewis Stone in title role)
9) Scaramouche (1952) - Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Nina Foch, Mel Ferrer, and Lewis Stone now in a supporting part. Has one of the greatest filmed sword duels in movies.
10) The New Moon (1940) - the revolution spread to colonies (Jeannette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, George Zucco).
11) Voltaire (1934) - George Arliss as the writer, social critic; Reginald Owen as Louis XV. Deals (in some way) with Voltaire's attempts to reform the Old Regime, and with the "Calas Case", a major international scandal about the execution of a Huguenot father and the impoverishment of his wife and children for the murder of his son - the son had committed suicide, but Voltaire had to prove it).
12) DuBarry (1934) - Dolores Del Rio as the French courtesan, lover of Louis XV, and her final days as court leader.
13) The Black Book (1949) - Richard Basehart as Maximilien Robespierre, with Bob Cumming, and Arnold Moss as Robespierre's successful enemy (his only one!) the future French Interior Minister Fouche. About the events leading to Thermidor.
14. A Tale of Two Cities (1935) - Colman, Wood, Rathbone, Edna Mae Oliver - I think this is the best version of the Dickens' classic about the "Reign of Terror"
15. A Tale of Two Cities (1958) - Dirk Bogard - the alternative.

There are others, but this is a good start.

Jeff

[Mayerling]

I hope you feel better soon, Jeff. Good luck with everything.

Thanks Rosella. I appreciate your wishes and regards.

Jeff

[Mayerling]

Get well soon, Jeff!

Thanks Robert. Best wishes to you.

Jeff

[Mayerling]

Good luck mate, be thinking of you.

G'Day GUT,

Thanks mate for your wishes. I had hoped to ask about your family connection to Jonson, but that will have to wait.

Jeff

[Rosella]

I hope you feel better soon, Jeff. Good luck with everything.

[Robert]

Get well soon, Jeff!

[GUT]

Thank you.

I am putting a personal message here for all. I have been having increasing problems with my right leg and side all week, and am heading for the New York Hospital in Queens (formerly Booth Memorial) today. The reason I am putting this here is that this thread has a lot of readers and can be seen by many. I hope to be back soon, in a better condition.

Good luck to you all.

Jeff

Good luck mate, be thinking of you.

[Mayerling]

Vice squad is the one your thinking of. Barbary coast is ok too but I prefer frisco kid...both from 35 I believe the later with cagney

Thank you.

I am putting a personal message here for all. I have been having increasing problems with my right leg and side all week, and am heading for the New York Hospital in Queens (formerly Booth Memorial) today. The reason I am putting this here is that this thread has a lot of readers and can be seen by many. I hope to be back soon, in a better condition.

Good luck to you all.

Jeff

[RockySullivan]

Vice squad is the one your thinking of. Barbary coast is ok too but I prefer frisco kid...both from 35 I believe the later with cagney

[Mayerling]

The hatchet man is a ******* awesome movie! someone on here recco'd "Outside the Law". This movie is incredible. whoever did thank you so much! The widow from chicago is badass too!

Some of the films he did in the early to mid 1950s are quite good. He did one with Paulette Goddard about a small city police captain's 24 hours on his job (Goddard is the owner of an "escort" service), and his problems with several different crimes and matters. The film reunited him with Porter Hall, who had been "the man from Medford, Oregon" in "Double Indemnity - here he was an unwilling murder witness, who was determined to get released and sent home, and whom Robinson keeps finding reasons to rearrest until he cooperates.

Jeff

[Pcdunn]

Yes. But saw both versions and the stage play.

Mel is a comic genius, right from the start. Maxwell Smart was a brillian creation.

Max Smart, as played by Don Adams, was one of my favorite TV characters when I was a youngster.

[RockySullivan]

The hatchet man is a ******* awesome movie! someone on here recco'd "Outside the Law". This movie is incredible. whoever did thank you so much! The widow from chicago is badass too!

[GUT]

Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder.

Yes. But saw both versions and the stage play.

Mel is a comic genius, right from the start. Maxwell Smart was a brillian creation.

[Bridewell]

Favorite edward g robinson movies:

Little Caesar
Smart money
Dark hazard
Black Tuesday
Bullets or ballots
Little giant
Larceny inc
Manpower
Two seconds
I am the law

So many more

I'd add Soylent Green.