Recommend an older, more obscure movie.. (actress, watched, Harrison Ford, Rex)
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Thanks to everyone for making so many good recommendations. A lot of these I'd never heard of, but I will check out now.
I concur Mr. Humble...this is a great thread! I have found so many almost forgotten good movies from here...it expanded my classic movie collection. I thank you for starting this thread and many thanks to you all as well!
Let's keep the excellent recommendation coming...can't have enough. LOL!!!
Reminds me of "Lost Weekend" which got a Best Actor Oscar for Ray Milland.
Very good representation of an alcoholic but not a happy movie.
Along the same venue "Days of Wine & Roses" with Jack Lemon & Lee Remick
as two alcoholics - not a good mixture, even in real life. I forgot who produced it
but rumor was he did not want an unhappy ending. However, his courtesan told him to
leave the ending the way it was and he took her advice.
I concur Mr. Humble...this is a great thread! I have found so many almost forgotten good movies from here...it expanded my classic movie collection. I thank you for starting this thread and many thanks to you all as well!
Let's keep the excellent recommendation coming...can't have enough. LOL!!!
Well thanks, and you're very welcome. Just tell me if I post something that is not obscure enough; it is, as others have pointed out sometimes hard to tell.
For instance this one, which is rarely on, but stars two mega stars as well as an almost teenage Anne (The Graduate) Bancroft as the hotel chanteuse.
And the same could be said of this one probably, which also stars Monroe, and screen legend Joseph Cotten. Monroe to me, like Stewart and Hanks and Travolta, is best when playing a heavy. Could be that even with all her stardom and idiosyncrasies she remains, at least to me, a lost little girl. Watching her play a character with bad intent is a nice contrast.
Reminds me of "Lost Weekend" which got a Best Actor Oscar for Ray Milland.
Very good representation of an alcoholic but not a happy movie.
Along the same venue "Days of Wine & Roses" with Jack Lemon & Lee Remick
as two alcoholics - not a good mixture, even in real life. I forgot who produced it
but rumor was he did not want an unhappy ending. However, his courtesan told him to
leave the ending the way it was and he took her advice.
Two great ones. Lemmon is one of my favorites, so versatile he was. And what is it about Lee Remick that she keeps showing up on this thread? The one she did with Jimmy Stewart, George C. Scott and Ben Gazzara, featured an actual judge in the part of well, the judge.. Directed by Otto Preminger, even his trailers were original..
Well thanks, and you're very welcome. Just tell me if I post something that is not obscure enough; it is, as others have pointed out sometimes hard to tell.
For instance this one, which is rarely on, but stars two mega stars as well as an almost teenage Anne (The Graduate) Bancroft as the hotel chanteuse.
And the same could be said of this one probably, which also stars Monroe, and screen legend Joseph Cotten. Monroe to me, like Stewart and Hanks and Travolta, is best when playing a heavy. Could be that even with all her stardom and idiosyncrasies she remains, at least to me, a lost little girl. Watching her play a character with bad intent is a nice contrast.
I checked both of these out and guess what? the first rated 100% and the second 80% with tomatometer...not bad, I say!!! downloading it right now.
Huh, you're speaking in a tongue of which I am not familiarized. No, but I can read between the lines. "Tomatometer", I guess is an online rating site for old movies? You're downloading which one? Glad I could help make your evening a little more enjoyable.
Huh, you're speaking in a tongue of which I am not familiarized. No, but I can read between the lines. "Tomatometer", I guess is an online rating site for old movies? You're downloading which one? Glad I could help make your evening a little more enjoyable.
What!!! you've never heard of "rotten tomatoes.com" ??? you must check it out.
Their rating is not as highly reliable as one would think...but, I use their tomatometer as an indicator..then click other film reviews (regarding a particular movie in mind) for comparison. So far, that's how I stumble onto "real" good ones worth watching over and over again. I'm downloading both!
Two great ones. Lemmon is one of my favorites, so versatile he was. And what is it about Lee Remick that she keeps showing up on this thread? The one she did with Jimmy Stewart, George C. Scott and Ben Gazzara, featured an actual judge in the part of well, the judge.. Directed by Otto Preminger, even his trailers were original..
Lee Remick was one of those talented, underrated actresses who was nevre (fortunately) exploited, even when she played sexy characters or was marketed that way.
I love her performance in Anatomy of a Murder as the femme fatale that looks like the girl next door, although, as a modern woman, I find some of the conventions of the era laughable--like when her character is commenting to Jimmy Stewart's character about how she dresses; the inference is that it's "scandalous," and she's wearing a form-fitting sweater and capri pants. IDK, I didn't look closely but *gasp* maybe she wasn't wearing a bra Ya gotta love the 50's. I guess it's no surprise that I like all of the Pre-Code stuff
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downloading it right now.
you must check it out. 
Ya gotta love the 50's. I guess it's no surprise that I like all of the Pre-Code stuff 
