Here are the movies Tele have seen lately:
More Than Just a Game 2007 directed by Junaid Ahmed.
Docu drama about the young people who was imprisoned to South African Robben Island, just because they were black, and kept their sanity playing football (soccer) and following FIFA rules to keep their minds sane!.
Not great but interesting.
Grease 2 1982 directed by Patricia Birch.
The first movie was based on a theatrical success with well known songs, how do one top that
Certainly not like this with new songs, with albums quickly falling into cheap bins at local malls.
Nice to see Eve Arden, Tab Hunter, Sid Caesar and Connie Stevens thought, and Michelle Pfeiffer survived this and that Charlie Chan movie and still became a star.
In a way this have a gender reversal, since it's the guy who needs toughening up for a girl.
Awful!
Melvin and Howard 1980 directed by Jonathan Demme.
A fantasy or tall tale about the bum who saved gazilionaire Howard Hughes after falling and being hurt and maybe got a cut on his will.
When critics scream in my ears that I
have to love this movie I do what I usually do, I didn't watch it.
More than 50 years later watching it it's actually a rather good movie, with a rather unlikable main character, but many other interesting parts.
Oscars went to Mary Steenburgen (deservedly) and Screenplay Bo Goldman, Jason Robards was also nominated.
Speaking of Oscars, former winner Gloria Grahame appears in a few scenes hardly uttering a word.
Forbidden aka
Proibito 1954/1955 directed by Mario Monicello and based on a novel by Grazia Deledda.
A new priest comes to town in a small Sardinian village where he once grew up, a village destroyed by family feuds, meeting an old sweetheart, but now he's a priest and can't have those feelings anymore. Instead trying to create peace between families, and that isn't easy....
Monicello was a really good craftsman director and many scenes ove that, like a prolonged family head duel on horseback with rifles scene.
Hard to find but worth a look.
Blowing Wild 1953 directed by Hugo Fregonese.
Inspired by the recent Barbara Stanwyck thread, and since I've never seen it before.
Down on their luck oil prospectors in un-named South American country, desperate for work, meets old pal who is now a oil millionaire, who helps them, one problem, old friends wife is an old flame of the prospector, who'll do anything to win him back.
It's pretty much a standard yarn made better by the actors, and some really good staged action scenes.
Rousing score by Dimitri Tiomkin, title tune sung by Frankie Laine "Ballad of Black Gold" and reappears occasionally during the movie, heard it many times but never got who that Marina who has to let him go, Marina was Barbara Stanwyck's character, and now I finally get the lyrics.
The Scarlet Claw 1944 directed by Roy William Neill and based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Thanks to the Sherlock Holmes thread here I finally understood what movie I've been trying to remember.
Sherlock Holmes goes Canada, invited by a corpse, to search for ghosts in a Quebec village where something is roaming the marches or swamps, gruesomely killing of people. Since Sherlock Holmes don't believe in ghosts, it must be something more human. Don't wan't to give away more.
One of the better it not the best of the Universal Sherlock Holmes movies, that creates a eerie and creepy atmosphere.
Been wondering though, are there marches and swamps in Quebec regions of Canada?
That was all for me, and thank you
mikef6, for taking care of this!
