Actually, have not honestly seen it, but David Chase has, and Barry Levinson has so I feel that I have, too.(as Levinson goes, so goes my nation) God, I'm a Gen X stereotype, aren't I? I am deeply shamed.
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The Public Enemy is the one where he smushes a grapefruit in Jean Harlow's face.
Not Jean Harlow. He doesn't meet her till after that scene. The woman he smooshes with the grapefruit has a hair color found in nature.
The Public Enemy is the one where he smushes a grapefruit in Jean Harlow's face.
Mae Clark.
I have, of course, seen that clip. And heard that she got hurt doing that.
Angels With Dirty Faces is still my favorite Cagney, though.
I'll have to see that one. And now I'll have to check out Public Enemy, too. Love Cagney.
I have, of course, seen that clip. And heard that she got hurt doing that.
Yeah. A number of the great takes caught on film have a story behind them. Karen Allen didn't know beforehand she'd have a snake dropped around her neck in the first Indiana Jones, for instance.
Just watched The Fog (the original) in widescreen on the big shiny TV. So much I'd never seen before, since I didn't see it in the theater!
But the two things I noticed this time were both things I should've caught sometime in the last 20 years of watching this movie:
- The missing fishing trawler "headed south from Whateley, around Arkham Reef"
- Hal Holbrook, as Father Malone, has an Irish surname, is addressed as "Father," wears a black cassock with a white tab at the collar, and in all ways appears to be a Catholic priest. The journal he finds in the church is the "Journal of Father Patrick Malone," his grandfather.
His. grand. fa. ther.
You know, maybe they did Catholicism differently in California in the 70s, but there's a reason you never hear of parishes being handed down father to son.
Well, I guess Ms. Clark thought JC was gonna "rub a grapefruit in her face" and fake it, right? But he didn't. He rubbed a grapefruit in her face. A bunch of times. Her nose bled terribly.
Raq, it's not unheard of for adult men, who've been widowed and had children, to chose to go into the church. Unusual, but allowable if they convince authorities that their vocation is real and sincere.
(There are also a small number of former Anglican married priests who were allowed to convert and keep officiating.)
It could also be the case that Grandpa Malone left the priesthood and then got married, had kids, et cetera.
::waves hands frantically::