Favorite Movies

[G3750]

George , good to be reminded of "Patton" and "2001: A Space Odyssey." Over the years, I've seen each of them 3x's and enjoyed them fully each time. I thought George C. Scott was spectacular = totally believable.

Scott was a tremendous actor. Patton's family (including his son) commented on how accurately he portrayed the famous general. Pretty good in The Hustler, too and in Dr. Strangelove as well.

Both of those films are on my list, BTW.

Others I really like:

The Verdict - Paul Newman gives an Oscar-worthy performance;

Absence of Malice - one of my all time favorites. Great cast, super story.

Road To Perdition - Hanks and Newman

Castaway

The Paper Chase

A League of Their Own - Hanks steals this one

I'm sure I'll think of more.

George

[MurphOnMillerAve]

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Just about all the Errol Flynn movies. Read his book "My Wicked, Wicked Ways", he was a dog and a P-hound but I liked his movies.



BobD

I just gotta ask, BobD, because I've heard any number of legends about him, what do you mean by the "p" in "P-hound"? And "dog"? You have me totally intrigued.
Murph

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I had difficulty with "Castaway," right from the start. His relationship with the soccerball was just too far fetched, for me, and I have a pretty healthy thirst for "suspending disbelief". It turned me off to the whole rest of the movie, for some darnreason. Murph

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

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Just about all the Errol Flynn movies. Read his book "My Wicked, Wicked Ways", he was a dog and a P-hound but I liked his movies.



BobD

I just gotta ask, BobD, because I've heard any number of legends about him, what do you mean by the "p" in "P-hound"? And "dog"? You have me totally intrigued.
Murph

Murphy, let's just say you'll have to read the book

BobD

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

I was looking something up and noticed Olivia De Havilland turned 100 this past July. She is often mentioned in Flynn's autobiography.

BobD

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Roger and George, I thank you for that information about the locations involved in the telling of "The Deer Hunter." I had thought, from visual impressions while I watched the movie, that Pennsylvania towns such as Clairton , Munhall, or possibly Aliquippa , and similar mill-towns may have been the venues for some of the shots, such as the wedding, where the wine gets spilled on the bride's dress.I thought the deer hunt itself took place in Ligoneer, PA.
?Murph?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

His relationship with the soccerball was just too far fetched....

Entirely too round. I'm pretty sure that a football or rugby ball would provide a far more satisfying relationship.......

[webenda]

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Just about all the Errol Flynn movies. Read his book "My Wicked, Wicked Ways", he was a dog and a P-hound but I liked his movies.



BobD

I just gotta ask, BobD, because I've heard any number of legends about him, what do you mean by the "p" in "P-hound"? And "dog"? You have me totally intrigued.
Murph

Murphy, let's just say you'll have to read the book

BobD

I think you know Murph. Maybe this article will confirm your suspicions:=> http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/201 ... m-festival

[MurphOnMillerAve]

His relationship with the soccerball was just too far fetched....

Entirely too round. I'm pretty sure that a football or rugby ball would provide a far more satisfying relationship.......

Oh dearlord. I'm getting such a picture into head.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I just gotta ask, BobD, because I've heard any number of legends about him, what do you mean by the "p" in "P-hound"? And "dog"? You have me totally intrigued.
Murph

Murphy, let's just say you'll have to read the book

BobD

I think you know Murph. Maybe this article will confirm your suspicions:=> http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/201 ... m-festival

Thanks, Wayne, but I went to the site and was commanded to "submit" my e-mail address, which I just don't feel like doing.
And you may be right that I do suspect certain letters follow that "p".

[rogruth]

Murph,

Try the letters that go before US steamship names.

[rogruth]

Murph,

I think Clairton was used on many of the businesses in Mingo.

I hope everybody realizes that the town is named Mingo Junction.
It is just south of Steubenville. The PRRs Panhandle section and
the C&P followed the Ohio River south to coal mines and both
interchanged at Mingo.The W&LE and the P&WV all went through
Mingo and there was a steel mill that went through several name
changes. It was a good, no, great train watching place. The only
street that got blocked by trains went into the mill.

[webenda]

Murphy, let's just say you'll have to read the book

BobD

I think you know Murph. Maybe this article will confirm your suspicions:=> http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/201 ... m-festival

Thanks, Wayne, but I went to the site and was commanded to "submit" my e-mail address, which I just don't feel like doing.
And you may be right that I do suspect certain letters follow that "p".

Never asked me for my email. I guess they like you. I feel so rejected.

Anyway, first paragraph in article reads, "Errol Flynn may have been one of the first film stars to learn “the public never forgets.” By the mid-40s, Flynn’s career as a matinee idol and swashbuckling film star had dimmed thanks to scandalous reports of alcoholism, womanizing, and the alleged sexual assault of two underage girls. (To think how he would have fared in today’s TMZ-monitored society!) Even his 1959 death was tinged with salaciousness, when he reportedly died in the arms of his teenage girlfriend, Beverly Aadland, a former chorus girl whom Flynn had allegedly begun dating when she was only 15."
by JULIE MILLER
SEPTEMBER 7, 2013
for Vanity Fair

[rogruth]

For some of us old f****, he was really one we really would have emulated but never had the guts to admit it.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

For some of us old f****, he was really one we really would have emulated but never had the guts to admit it.

I have to admit, though, that he was never a favorite of mine . The characters he played
seemed too goofy and self-absorbed, which I always took to be self-portraits, of a sort. Yet, I did thoroughly enjoy his Essex in the film about Queen Elizabeth, as interpreted by Bette Davis. His ego seemed to be a good match to hers.