xpost so not only is it the greatest film ever® it's also the biggest narrowly averted train wreck!
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:33 (eleven years ago) link
the thought of grant in 'vertigo' is genuinely unsettling.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:33 (eleven years ago) link
i am really glad it wasn't Cary Grant in Vertigo because i need to love him
― horseshoe, Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
Hitchcock was miffed at Vertigo's lukewarm box office, tried to blame Stewart's age -- we know this, right?
So is Madeleine's escape from the McKittrick Hotel a ghostly enigma, or is Grandma Walton ("Oh, Mr Detective?") in on Elster's plot?
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
Because Cary Grant was so much younger. Or younger at all in the first place.
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
well, there's the irony.
and you've all seen the "censorship" ending? talk about a third nipple...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imbLXT2K--M
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:41 (eleven years ago) link
kinda glad that scene exists because i always wanted to know what happened to midge!
glad it wasn't in the actual movie, of course, because the actual ending is jesus christ wtf just happened here oh god no.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
holy crap, why did they do that?
also midge deserved better
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
well the idea was the audience has to know that Gavin Elster is punished.
No one is thinking about Gavin Elster in the last 5 minutes.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
lol true. but even then, it's pretty lame - they're going to extradite him from the south of France? come on!
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
also I like the interp that Scottie jumps to his death right after the fadeout.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:49 (eleven years ago) link
I like the interpretation that the nun blows him away.
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
well, then it mighta made ke1th u's list
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
I kid, but The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein was sooooo bad
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
That's very weird--I'd never seen that. (I was thinking it was some user-generated parody at first, concocted from DVD extra footage, and that something preposterous was going to be spliced in.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
but yeah, i mean, it could be because that original ending to me is absolutely all-time undefeatable, but the alternate ending is just ugh
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, Hitch really stuck the landing with Vertigo.
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
but still Hitchcock put in a joke with the radio guy: students "pshing a cow up the steps"... just like Judy!
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
pUshing
pshaw-ing Judy ... maybe Cary Grant should've been cast after all
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 August 2012 04:12 (eleven years ago) link
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― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Thursday, 2 August 2012 09:38 (eleven years ago) link
My first argument with Morbs was when he shook his head after I called Cary Grant the greatest actor of the 20th century.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 August 2012 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
My first argument with Morbs
should be a thread
i like this movie more when i'm not watching it. the colors sure are pretty tho.
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 2 August 2012 12:45 (eleven years ago) link
i like this movie more when i'm not watching it
Actually kinda sorta think this might be true of me too. In that sense, it's the counterpart to Rear Window, which is at its most awesome when you're actually watching it.
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 August 2012 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
And you're later thinking, Grace Kelly is so hot for this guy?
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 August 2012 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
No, more that Thelma Ritter works magic with her fingers.
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 August 2012 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
and she can twirl a snifter
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 August 2012 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
Cary Grant was not versatile enough to be the greatest actor of the 20th century. He was brilliant at what he could do.
Favorite non-Vertigo performance of Henry Jones, who plays the droopy-dog coroner? I'd have to go with either the town drunk in 3:10 to Yuma or Cloris Leachman's father-in-law on "Phyllis" (also set in SF btw).
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 August 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
I'll go with the gimmicky early-70s made-for-TV movie where he played a mailman delivering three critical letters to various people...no idea what the title was.
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 August 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070304/fullcredits
He's also in The Girl Can't Help It, Dick Tracy, and Butch Cassidy.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 August 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
That's it! Lyle Waggoner and Ken Berry--that's bringing out the early-'70s heavy artillery.
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 August 2012 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
Carol Burnett musta been on hiatus
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 August 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
you're not versatile enough!
― horseshoe, Thursday, 2 August 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
http://trueclassics.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/devlin-notorious.jpg
who needs versatile anyway
― horseshoe, Thursday, 2 August 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
Hedda Hopper, apparently.
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 August 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
Fri, Sep-21; see also Sep-256:00pm @ Gene Siskel Film Center Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, 129m) NOTE: "Vertigo will be screened in a rare original IB Technicolor release print. If you have only seen one of the recent restorations, or seen the film on DVD or other video, you haven't really seen it. The sound in the most recent restoration was badly redone, and this is a film that especially depends on the 'look' of IB Technicolor. "
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 August 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
Sounds like the same print showed last weekend in NYC.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 August 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
Did you see it?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 August 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
nope, not this time. I've seen various incarnations of the movie at least 8-10x.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 August 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
also have visited the Mission Dolores graveyard, Scottie's house, Fort Point, etc.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 August 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
(not the "fall" mission -- there is no tower)
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― Like Monk Never Happened (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 August 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't seen it since I was 19, when I wished it had been called Midge. Will plan to catch that Siskel screening in Swpt.
― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Thursday, 2 August 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
Versatility is overrated. A spork is versatile.
― LISTEN TO THIS BRAD (Nicole), Thursday, 2 August 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
a spork compares poorly with James Fuckin' Cagney.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 August 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://trueclassics.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/devlin-notorious.jpgwho needs versatile anyway― horseshoe, Thursday, August 2, 2012 7:34 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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i watched this movie w a girlfriend, who was brilliant and thoughtful and impeccably progressive and also high, and we got to the part (like ten minutes in only!) where ingrid bergman gets really mad, because cary grant abruptly got a cop to leave them alone after ingrid bergman was acting all insouciant and bad-girl about driving drunk, and because she now realizes that cary grant is some kind of cop himself and that the power dynamic is not what she thought, which in her drunken state causes her to Become Hysterical when cary grant insists on driving her home, and cary grant first karate-chops ingrid bergman's steering hand and then wrestles with her a bit and then hits her so hard she goes limp, and my gf turned to me in total rapt stoned melodramatic involvement and said with complete earnestness "movies used to be so exciting!"
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Friday, 3 August 2012 07:13 (eleven years ago) link
lots of exciting stuff going on there obv but cary grant not irrelevant
anyway it is my favorite movie that isn't the third man
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Friday, 3 August 2012 07:14 (eleven years ago) link
and Claude Rains.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 August 2012 11:00 (eleven years ago) link
ingrid bergman is also the dreamiest in that movie. they are the dreamiest dreamboats ever to dream.
― horseshoe, Saturday, 4 August 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
louis calhern!
― balls, Saturday, 4 August 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link