Favorite Films (lists up to participating site members)

[Robert]

I didn't think I'd like Casablanca - who wants to see a film that's all about geometry? - but I enjoyed it. Here's looking at Euclid.

[Steadmund Brand]

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

another great list... Have to add Double Indemnity...he is just so great in it!!!

Also, not a movie, but there is a great episode of the old radio show Suspense , The Man Who Wanted to be Edward G. Robinson, where Robinson plays a man who goes to see Edward G Robinson films and wants to be him…won’t give anything away but it’s a good listen!! fun stuff

Steadmund Brand

[Mayerling]

I didn't think I'd like Casablanca - who wants to see a film that's all about geometry? - but I enjoyed it. Here's looking at Euclid.

Good one Robert!

Jeff

[Mayerling]

another great list... Have to add Double Indemnity...he is just so great in it!!!

Also, not a movie, but there is a great episode of the old radio show Suspense , The Man Who Wanted to be Edward G. Robinson, where Robinson plays a man who goes to see Edward G Robinson films and wants to be him…won’t give anything away but it’s a good listen!! fun stuff

Steadmund Brand

I'd have a few others to add

A Slight Case of Murder
The Sea Wolf
The Red House
The Night Has A Thousand Eyes (possibly my favorite Robinson film)

That radio show reminds me of a guest star appearance on the Jack Benny television show by Peter Lorre, who (apparently) has either murdered or restrained Jack somehow and takes over doing a Benny monologue for the audience. It was a howl.

Jeff

[Robert]

I seem to remember watching "Woman In The Window" and enjoying it - until the ending.

[RockySullivan]

I like Dark Passage too (though the persona and acting of Agnes Moorehead steals it), but I have to ask - why do you have this low opinion of Casablanca?

the more watch casablanca the less i like it. first off peter lorre dies right away and it's just so corny its like a musical. it's just so overrated cheesy. I much prefer the big sleep of the popular ones. but to each their own

[Bridewell]

Which one.

Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder.

[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.

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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

[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]

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

[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.