morgan's creek the funniest, voted sullivan's travels cuz lake is so smashable
― s1ocki kong country (cankles), Tuesday, March 3, 2009 10:11 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^^^
― darf ich bitte mit Poppage spielen?!? (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 04:32 (eleven years ago) link
WEENIE KING
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, c'mon, the Weenie King! Palm Beach Story is the best.
― Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
I got a Sturges box for Christmas, and re-watched "Palm Beach Story" recently. I love how unsentimental Colbert is in the break-up scenes, and Vallee is pitch-perfect as John D. Hackensacker. Just about perfect.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
Jim Knipfel praises The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (I really liked it the one time I saw it):
http://chiseler.org/post/48926315855/harold-lloyds-last
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 April 2013 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
haven't watched any of these in a long time but the one that affected me most was 'christmas in july.' the final speech mentioned upthread still makes me choke up a bit.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 27 April 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
From Unfaithfully Yours:"Is there any insanity in his family?""I don't know but there's plenty in mine."
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 June 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
Glad I've finally made the mental genre adjustment and warmed up to that one.
― Orpheus in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 11:30 (ten years ago) link
crick! CRICK!
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
Sullivan's Travels never quite got to the level of the first scene again, although Lake killed it.
Lost its way quite a bit, and not only on one occasion.
Have Morgan Creek and Palm Beach Story ready to once I get a college break.
― recommend me a new bagman (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 02:16 (ten years ago) link
Sullivan's Travels doesn't stay in standard Romantic Comedy mode the whole way through, it is somewhat similar to Unfaithfully Yours in that regard, but this doesn't necessarily mean it is lesser than the other films.
― Kid Creole Meets Señor Coconut at a fIREHOSE Show (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 02:42 (ten years ago) link
I agree with darraghmac though -- it's my least favorite of the classics.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 02:45 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, mine too, truth be told, but I've watched the others so many times feel like it was time to give some love to that one. Also, I didn't fully get Unfaithfully Yours until last year.
― Kid Creole Meets Señor Coconut at a fIREHOSE Show (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 02:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i don't think that it was a failure to hold to a given genre that pulled me out of it though, and i wouldnt hold such a failure as a negative if the script kept a thread moving throughout the events. for all its snappy lines and good character turns (you'd not expect less anyway) it tacked on a beginning and an ending to a bit of a muddled middle imo.
― recommend me a new bagman (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 02:54 (ten years ago) link
tbh a lot of Depression and post-Depression films garble their politics. Check out My Man Godfrey or Easy Living.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 02:56 (ten years ago) link
you hafta appeal to eberbody!
also fuck you guys
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 02:59 (ten years ago) link
I need to watch it again. Trying to remember, is Al Bridge the heavy when Sullivan is on the chain gang? If so, a departure from his usual grumpy but ultimately amiable self in the other films.
― Kid Creole Meets Señor Coconut at a fIREHOSE Show (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 03:00 (ten years ago) link
But not from his prior roles as in Hopalong Cassidy films apparently. He's like another splinter member of The Wild Bunch.
― Kid Creole Meets Señor Coconut at a fIREHOSE Show (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 03:03 (ten years ago) link
In the forties, Bridge was part of Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in ten of the eleven American films that Sturges wrote and directed.[7] He is perhaps best remembered for his role as "The Mister", the chain-gang boss over Joel McCrea in Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels.[8][9]
― recommend me a new bagman (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend isn't that bad. Kind of Tashlin-like, if I remember correctly, at least in its brightness and zip and silliness, if not in its style of editing and use of blackout gags.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 03:06 (ten years ago) link
Thanks, darraghmac, but I already reconstructed that gone missing neurological pathway between posts, same way I recently had to remind myself of Julius Tannen's "talking picture" bit in Singin' in the Rain
― Kid Creole Meets Señor Coconut at a fIREHOSE Show (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 03:13 (ten years ago) link
Palm Beach the last night. Lovely.
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 04:26 (ten years ago) link
miracle last night. patchy greatness, didn't really ever get behind the two leads as the two leads (obv dad and sister are great great great).
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link
^heresy
They are obviously cartoonish, funhouse versions of the boy & girl next door, and Bracken freely admitted they were trying to upstage each other the entire film.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 03:49 (ten years ago) link
TRUDY KOCKENLOCKER
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 03:54 (ten years ago) link
^^^^^^^
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 04:02 (ten years ago) link
great McGinty
maybe the one that holds together best?
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Monday, 26 May 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
The Lady Eve.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 May 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
The Lady Eve seconded.
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Monday, 26 May 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
Positively the same opinion!
― Pentatonic's Rendezvous Band (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 May 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
Lemme aks you a hyperthermical question.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 May 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
Gimme a spoonful of milk, a raw pigeon's egg and four houseflies.
― Pentatonic's Rendezvous Band (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 May 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
OK its a clear top 3 with eve and it happened one night.
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 07:22 (nine years ago) link
ya I know I've watched a gang of talkies lately gimme a break
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 07:29 (nine years ago) link
i watched it happened one night again last summer, not having seen it since i was a teenaged capra fanatic (and not really getting it then, because it wasn't, y'know, idealistic and soppy), and it was just gangbusters.
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 08:04 (nine years ago) link
is that a good thing?!
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 08:15 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I watched It Happened One Night a couple of times in the last two years and it was still good, but I tried rewatching Mr. Deeds Goes to Town a few months ago and its politics made me retch.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 08:23 (nine years ago) link
gangbusters def a good thing!
reluctant to watch deeds again for the same reason, though i caught the last 90 mins of Its A Wonderful Life at xmas and was still destroyed by it.
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 08:34 (nine years ago) link
The Lady Eve under discussion at The Dissolve:
http://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/746-the-scorching-sensuality-and-style-of-the-lady-eve/
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 September 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
http://www.criterion.com/films/28103-the-palm-beach-story
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
http://www.criterionforum.org/caps/palmbeachblu00011.jpg
American...Sniper
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
Saw If I Were King (1938) as my only visit to the latest NYC Sturges series -- probably the most 'major' of his pre-directing writing jobs I'd never seen. It's real good! More high comedy than swashbuckler, Ronald Colman never wittier than as Francois Villon in an already oft-filmed story. (A Parisian peasant girl asks him as they share time in a dungeon, "An epitaph? What's that?" "Oh, usually something good about someone bad.") Pro direction by Frank (Mutiny on the Bounty) Lloyd. Basil Rathbone, cackling as Louis XI, reminded me weirdly of SCTV's Joe Flaherty.
It's a little like McGinty in 15th-century France, tho libertine virtue dominates corruption. Blotchy rendering on YT, don't watch that; otherwise hard to see cept on TCM i guess.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 April 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link
jealous
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 April 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
x2 :/
― bamcquern, Friday, 24 April 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
Missed the whole festival myself. Guess I will be handing in my Preston Sturges Fan Club Membership ID Card to Bruce G this Sunday at the FF Brunch.
― The Stan-Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 April 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
ask him when they'll show The French They Are a Funny Race aka Carnets du Major Thompson.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 April 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
Will do.
― The Stan-Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 April 2015 12:00 (nine years ago) link
I have your answer
― The Stan-Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 April 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
He showed it 1990, it is hard to get a hold of, it isn't very good.
― The Stan-Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 April 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
well i did know 2/3 of that
but thx
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 April 2015 02:30 (nine years ago) link