Recent Movie Viewings

[Scott]

See a few more films the past couple days.

HIGH SIERRA (1941) - Humphrey Bogart starts in this film as a gangster who's sprung early from his prison sentance and robs a resort for the boss who freed him. Great Bogart film. Every moment is good filmmaking and is more interesting than most films of today. My other favorites of Bogarts are CASABLANCA, THE TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE, MALTESE FALCON, AFRICAN QUEEN, DARK PASSAGE, and CAINE MUTINY. I might have to go on a Bogart marathon to see all his films.

DUEL AT DIABLO (1966) - James Garner and Sydney Poitier star in this Western that isn't that great, but it's not bad either. They were trying to tell some kind of story that just isn't very strong. Great subject, but poor execution. I was expecting more.

KIT CARSON (1940) - Good film that isn't  historically acurate. Even the landscape isn't correct. They show a map of them in Wyoming, Northern Utah, and Northern Neveda, but the film appears to be filmed in Monument Valley.

[mr. henry]

HIGH SIERRA sounds cool.  unfortunately, netflix doesn't have it and the video stores in my small town are slim pickings.

BTW, when you run out of westerns to see, what genre will you dive into next?

[Deej]

Scott, High Sierra is also one of my favorites. It generally is rated as a lesser film than Casablanca or The Maltese Falcon, but in my opinion it's just as good. I think the Roy Earle character is on of Bogart's most human, and I get a little misty at the end...yup, I'm a puss. A Bogart film that I recently saw for the first time is Across The Pacific. IT was kind of a Maltese Falcon-Casablanca hybrid, with Mary Astor and Sidney Greenstreet both in the cast. Bogart plays a soldier out to foil the evil Japanese. Good action and great dialogue. And if you want to see Bogart give the Japanese a rest and go after those nasty Germans, check out  All Through The Night, in which gangster Bogart smashes a German spy ring....because the killed the guy who makes his favorite cheesecake!

Duel At Diablo is pretty week, a shame because I'm a huge fan of both James Garner and Sidney Poitier, I think this one is famous because it's supposedly the first Sidney Poitier film in which race wasn't an issue.

[Scott]

Hey Deej your back. Did you go over seas ? Welcome back. Have you seen BANDOLERO. I like this one a lot. Great film. SCALPHUNTERS is also a good Westerns. Thanks Deej , I'll keep a look out for ACROSS THE PACIFIC and ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT.

Mr. Henry, I'm not sure about what I'll watch after I finish the Westerns on this list. I have many Sci-Fi/Horror films to watch that only Netflix has. They have about  70 films that I would like to see. Distributed by IMAGE and SOMETHING WEIRD VIDEO. Those Jean Rollin films sound like fun. Would love to see some of them.  I figure that it will take me 3-4 for months to see the 25 Westerns available at my local Hollywood Video store and I have a few films below that don't really fall into eithier list that I would like to see. It I strike it rich I would purchase European Sci-Fi/Horror, Masked Mexican Wrestler Movies, Mexican Horror, some others that I won't mention here. Actually I have about 50 films that I can rent from local stores and Encore Channel(s) and FLIX  channels have been suppling me with more than enough films that aren't available on DVD or VHS. Making a list helps me get a better idea of what I haven't checked out.

Birth of a Nation
The Long Ships
Johnny Got His Gun
Old Gringo
Yojimbo
Kugemesha
Gangs of New York
Hurcules Films

[Deej]

Thanks for the welcome Scott, yes I went over but I decided to call it quits after about three months, just got back home Friday. Right after I wrote the respose to your topic, I went out to my local video store and picked up another WWII era Bogart flick, Passage To Marsailles. I haven't watched it yet but It's bound to be good, I'll let you know. I also picked up Casablanca for about the third time and an old thriller called Gaslight which I haven't seen, but my girlfriend says it's pretty spooky.

Just curious Scott, how did you form your westerns to watch list?



Post Edited (08-02-03 22:33)

[BoyScoutKevin]

Duel at Diablo
I seemed to have enjoyed this one more. If only because Bill Travers was in it. With his wife, Virginia McKenna, together and singularly, they made up one of the great acting duos in British films. If one enjoys humor, especially British humor, then check out their "The Smallest Show on Earth." Along with Margaret Rutherford and Peter Sellers and some other people, it is just hysterical. One of the funniest films I have ever seen.

Across the Pacific
W/ Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, and Sidney Greenstreet and director John Huston, it seems to be a reunion of some of the people who made "The Maltese Falcon." But, the most notable feature, at least to me,  is it seems to star every Asian actor who was in Hollywood at that time, including Victor Sen Young, Richard Loo, Keye Luke, and Philip Ahn.

Kit Carson
W/ Jon Hall, Dana Andrews, and Ward Bond. Saw it as a child, then saw it later as an adult. I knew I had seen it before, because I remembered the Indian attack on the wagon train. The only scene I remembered from that first time. Agreed, it is not historically correct, but, it is more historically correct, then a B-movie I saw on the same subject. At least in this one, they got the soldiers into the correct uniforms. In the B-movie, they had them in Civil War uniforms, and the Civil War hand not occurred yet.

Scalphunters
Seen that one as well. Most notable feature to me, Dabney Coleman, of all people, is in it.

Enjoy all the films.