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Wilful Peggy (1910)
a pleasure
Mary Pickford is wonderful in this!
Yes! Enjoyed it very much.
Stagecoach (1966)
A Joy to Watch Once More and Revisit Old Friends
Agree with a comment about another Edition of Stagecoach.....that with Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings etc. DON'T COMPARE this with the John Wayne movie....
Just enjoy it on its own. Alex Cord is cool, Ann Margaret beautiful, Red Buttons and Bing Crosby fun..... I still use Red's lines "la la la la la la etc............." Keenan Wynn is great as usual....
Even at that...let's compare a little..... This movie is IN COLOR....and it has great credit art by Norman Rockwell.... I bought the book....don't remember reading it..... maybe it is good..... BUT the book had the portraits of the main characters by Rockwell and the Stagecoach, as does the movie. Very cool. Jerry Goldsmith's music is quite nice and the song Stagecoach to Cheyenne (Pockriss and Vance) and the twangy jews harp..... memorable!
Also...Remember, this is just on the verge of the Revolution....when the movies went akilter....the antihero came on etc. This is in the last tier of basic Nice Pleasant movies, when you knew who the good guys were and who the baddies were.... 1966. Italian spaghetti westerns were just being made this year, too.
The good writing from the first movie ....the basic plot is still here and it holds together.... This group of people have to or need to go to Cheyenne, even though it could mean attack from Indians. Danger.
Slim Pickens is Great as Buck, the Coach Driver and Van Heflin, the co-star of Shane, is fun to see in a western once more,too..... Enjoy!
Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)
One of my favorites!
From the get go this is wonderful...oh, sure, male chauvinist piggish perhaps, pre-revolution of the late sixties early seventies.....yet, the women are running a hotel/lodge on a lake and a fishing tournament -- Back to the start.....wonderful Henry Mancini music, very cute when some of the fishing escapades of Rock Hudson take place.
It includes Abercrombie and Fitch ... the store before it was Everywhere... and when it had fishing equipment and a sports department. Rock has to try out the new camping stuff and this adds to the fun.
There is drug use (alcohol and sleeping pills) and plenty of smoking, which are no-no's or get a special rating now -- but, no bad language was necessary for plenty of laughs and cute situations, wonderfully presented. Howard Hawks directed (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Sergeant York, Bringing Up Baby etc. etc. etc.).... this very pleasant comedy.
Great character actors abound.... John McGiver, Roscoe Karns, and Norman Alden among many. Worth watching again and again.
The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951)
Early career of a great, Tony Curtis.
I love this movie. Why do I like it so much? It is from the 50's when I was a little kid. Tony Curtis is in the movie....as an Arabian. (My friends like to comment on Tony's accent in Brooklynese in a role where it doesn't sound right... I don't notice.) He,(and Burt Lancaster, I think of together) was athletic, heroic and his youthful movies show a special promise, spirit that will pervade all of his movies. Piper Laurie is so thin and flexible.....she's awesome. Another Tony Curtis movie like this one is The Black Shield of Falworth. I recall seeing a Robin Hood sort of movie with Tony when I was young, perhaps that is partly why I like Tony and this movie. (What movie was it? I don't know. Maybe it wasn't Tony.) When he was older, a writer friend of my mother's met Tony and raved about how good looking he was and how nice. In the same vein as this movie, I also think of Burt's The Crimson Pirate.