Favorite Films (lists up to participating site members)

[Robert]

The Scarlet Claw (Rathbone)
Dial M For Murder
The Jungle Book (Disney)
Tora! Tora! Tora!

[sdreid]

From another thread, my top 10 true crime inspired films with year and case:

10-Lonely Hearts(2006)Murders by Fernandez and Beck
9-In Cold Blood(1967)Clutter family massacre
8-Murderous Maids(2000)Murders by the Papin sisters
7-Let Him Have It(1991)Bentley and Craig Case
6-Borderland(2007)Matamoros cult murders
5-The Man From the Pru(1989)Unsolved Julia Wallace murder
4-True Confessions(1981)Unsolved Black Dahlia murder
3-10 Rillington Place(1971)Serial murders of John Christie
2-The Young Poisoner's Handbook(1994)Serial murders of Graham Young
1-White Mischief(1988)Unsolved murder of the Lord of Errol

[sdreid]

My top 5 motorsports movies:

5-Grand Prix(1966)
4-Buck Privates Come Home(1947)
3-Le Mans(1971)
2-The World's Fastest Indian(2005)
1-Rush(2013)

[lynn cates]

espresso

Hello Steadman. Thanks.

That's right about the Mel Brooks movie.

Actually, you have to understand the monster's (Karloff) affection for the hermit (Heggie) to understand his later love for Ygor (Lugosi).

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

I will.

Hello Robert. Do you recognise Donnie Dunagin from "Tower of London" as well?

(I'll give a hint if needed.)

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

Ernest Thesiger

Hello Jeff. Agree about Thesiger.

In what movie and role did he appear with Sim?

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

Greer and Bissell

Hello All. One thing I can say about "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is that it was, if I recall properly, the only movie in which Dabbs Greer and Whit Bissell appeared together.

Two great character actors.

Cheers.
LC

[Robert]

Hi Lynn

Yes, hint please.

[Mayerling]

Ghoulish Christmas with Ernest and others

Hello Jeff. Agree about Thesiger.

In what movie and role did he appear with Sim?

Cheers.
LC

Almost caught me on that question, LC. Ernest was the thieving undertaker who is one of the robbers of items belonging to the late Ebenever Scrooge, in the film "Scrooge" (1951). Also the dealer in stolen goods was Miles Malleson. In terms of horror films Malleson was the figure in "Dead of Night" who only had room for one in varioius vehicles.

Jeff

[Paddy Goose]

Random Harvest

Yes Robert, the part where she gets the job as his secretary you get a hopeful feeling. And sure enough ...

Paddy

[Abby Normal]

Scifi:

Star wars
Star wars. The revenge of the Sith
Blade runner. The ending where he's a replicant
This island earth
Rollerball
2001 a space odyssey
The fifth element
Alien
Dune (yes I know, but I love it)
Brazil
12 monkeys
The blob
Minority report
The omega man
Silent running
Tron
Mars attacks!
The matrix
Serenity
Sunshine
The Perpetual Void
The thing (Kurt russel)

[Abby Normal]

Horror/monster/thriller:

King kong
Bram stokers Dracula
From hell
The invisible man
American werewolf in London
Videodrome
Jaws
Angel heart
Bride of Frankenstein
Nosferatu
Gothic
The creature from the black lagoon
Santa vs satan
The blackest day
Godzilla(the first one)

[Mayerling]

On my listing for Guinness films I forgot two good ones:

The Horses Mouth
The Captain's Paradise

Dickens Movies:

David Copperfield (Fields - Bartholemew - Rathbone version of 1935)
A Tale of Two Cities (Colman version -1935)
A Christmas Carol (Owens - Lockhart - Carroll version)
Great Expectations (David Lean's)
Oliver Twist (David Lean's)
Nicholas Nickleby (Cedric Hardwicke - Bernard Miles version)
Scrooge (Sim - Johns - Hordern version)
Pickwick Papers (Hayter - Patrick version)
A Tale of Two Cities (Bogarde version)
Oliver (Ron Moody version//Leslie Brancusi's great score)
Scrooge (Finney - Warner - Guinness - More version)
Quilp (So far only version of "The Old Curiosity Shop" as a film)
Little Dorritt (Two part long version - Alec Guinness)

Thackeray Movies:

Becky Sharp (Dir: Rouben Mamoulian//Miriam Hopkins, Alan Mowbray)
Barry Lyndon (Dir: Stanley Kubrick//Ryan O'Neill)
Vanity Fair

[For a man who wrote about ten novels it's amazing how few ever were filmed. Was there any version of "Pendennis" or "Henry Esmond" as a movie that anyone ever hear of, or "The Newcomes"?]

Bronte Movies:

Jane Eyre (Fontane - Welles version)
Wuthering Heights (Oberon - Olivier - Niven version)
Devotion (Special Case: Hollywood film biography of the Bronte sisters - thank God it mentions Anne and their brother - starred Olivia de Haviland as Charlotte, and Ida Lupino as Emily. Arthur Kennedy was the brother. Sidney Greenstreet was amusing as Thackeray - warning Charlotte from getting to know that riffraff Dickens.)

[Although there were television versions, "Villette", "Shirley", "Agnes Gray" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" never were turned into films.]

Elliot/Evans-Cross Movies:

Romola (silent - The Gish Sisters, William Powell)
The Mill on the Floss (James Mason - ineptly rewritten, but the only film version).

[Television version of "Silas Marner" with Ben Kingsley, and I believe of "Middlemarch", but not commercial films.]

Austen films:

Pride and Prejudice (Garson - Olivier version)
Clueless (Modernization of "Emma")

Scott films:

Ivanhoe (Taylor - Taylor - Fontane - Sanders version)
Quentin Durward (Taylor version)

Hardy films:

Tess
Far From The Madding Crowd

Conrad films:

Lord Jim
Sabotage ("The Secret Agent" modernized by Hitchcock - good but lost Conrad's sense of irony)
Victory (March - Hardwicke version)
An Outcast of the Islands (Trevor Howard - Morley - Hiller - Richardson; probably the best filming of a Conrad novel as it is)
Apocalypse Now (Modern version of "Heart of Darkness")
The Rover (silent film; Ronald Colman)
The Secret Sharer (half of a two story movie - this had James Mason in it)
The Secret Agent

[Regretfully they never made one of Conrad's early novels, "The End of the Tether" into a film. I always thought it had potential.]

Wells films:

The Invisible Man
The Island of Lost Souls ("The Island of Dr. Moreau")
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Lancaster version)
The War of the Worlds
The History of Mr. Polly (John Mills)
Kipps (Redgrave)
Half a Sixpence
The Man Who Could Perform Miracles

Bennett films:

The Card (a.k.a. The Promoter) (Guinness - Glynnis Johns)
Buried Alive (Lillian Gish - Roland Young)
Holy Matrimony (Gracie Fields - Monty Wooley - Laird Cregar)

I am refraining from doing Arthur Conan-Doyle films or Robert Louis Stevenson films - it would take far too long for both.

[Mayerling]

Just remembered the Bronte brother was BRAMWELL Bronte. He was still played by Arthur Kennedy in "Devotion".

[lynn cates]

enterprising

Hello Robert, Jeff. Yes, he was the "enterprising" undertaker.

Cheers.
LC