Citizen Rules...Cinemaesque Chat-n-Review

Thanks! It worked! So simply & so easy, yet I NEVER would have figured it out on my own!

I did! At first I'm like he's familiar, then I realize I've seen him in Star Trek TOS...then I remember Harry Mudd. And there's another Star Trek TOS alumni, Nancy Kovak who's a blonde in the movie, but was a brunette in A Private Little War. She was Nona the witch woman who saved Captain Kirk's live with when he was bit by the poisonous giant white gorilla.

Good choices I didn't know who Daliah Lavi was until I seen The Silencers.

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You're welcome. It's easy to do, but hard to figure out until someone tells you where to find the link.



Good catch on Nancy Kovack.

That's not one of the better "Star Trek" episodes, so she doesn't stand out in other parts as much as Roger C. Carmel does.

BTW, I went to Dave & Busters yesterday, and they have a Star Trek game that pays off in Star Trek collector cards when you win. (They're similar to baseball cards, but with pictures of Star Trek characters.) They just changed to a new set of cards, and it's Star Trek villains, including Khan, Q, Trelane, the Talosian (from "The Cage"), the Borg Queen, Klingon Commander Kor, Gul Dukat (from DS9), and the Gorn. I was kind of upset that they didn't include a Harry Mudd card in the set, but I guess he's not really a villain. Hopefully he'll be included in a future set.

I don't doubt that. That's why I always say don't read books! They'll ruin the movie later Actually all joking aside, rarely do people read the book first then see the movie and love the movie as much as they did the book.

For me, Matt Helm were "4:30 Movies" and Deano was Matt Helm.
I never even knew he was a "real" fictional agent with his own series of novels before the Dean Martin movies until long after I saw the movies.

So, were the novels also cashing in on the James Bond craze? (Guess I'll have to look up when they came out and compare them to Ian Fleming's creation.)

The movies are idiotic, but they are funny and you wouldn't find better eye candy in a Bond flick, they have great music and they're just so sixties!

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The Donald Hamilton novels were serious spy crime fiction, more like LeCarre or Ludlum. I've never read a Flemming Bond novel, but the Matt Helm novels were nothing like either the Bond or Helm movies. I suspect that Cubby & Co. probably camped up the Bond movie scripts in comparison to the novels as well.

But I really like all the Bond movies, and I'd might enjoy the Helm films in a different way than from the novels. I'll have to go back and revisit one.

~Doc

Doc, do you like the newer Bond films? I use to love Bond films myself, but lost interest some time ago. I still Sean Connery and Roger Moore as Bond but haven't even seen the last Bond films made.

This sounds like fun, kind of like Taming of the Shrew....will be adding this one to my watchlist.

It's not nearly as good as Taming of the Shrew. It's more light and entertaining. A big plus is the actual scenery of Rome.

I've seen bits and pieces of this movie but never from beginning to the end, I'm going to have to change that...I remember LOVING Cyd Charisse's dance number during the opening credits and Stella Stevens is always worth watching...adding to watchlist.

I liked this movie a lot...I always considered it the third installment of Brendan Fraser's "Fish Out of Water" trilogy, after Encino Man and George of the Jungle. Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek are wonderful as his parents.

Yes, I like the newer ones too. Of course IMO, Sean Connery IS James Bond; the best by far. However Daniel Craig is a strong second place.

His first Bond --Casino Royale-- opened with the most exciting foot chase scene in memory. Craig brought a new athletic and brooding quality to Bond. And of course there's no campiness at all in the films in which he has starred.

I think you'd like some of them, but you really must see the opening sequence in Craig's Casino Royale.

I always look forward to the new one-- whomever it is.

~Doc

Ironically the last new installment in the Bond films that I seen was Casino Royale. It was also one of the last films I seen in a theater, if not they last one. I really liked, I liked the part about him being poisoned an his solution to that. Eva Green was one of the best Bond girls around.

Actually I prefer campy-ness in my spy films. That's why I like the Roger Moore films. And of course a big fan of the original Sean Connery.

I agree that Roger Moore was wonderful. Sort of the Jim Rockford of the James Bonds... He was unique.

Directors: Howard Hawks, William Wyler
Writers: Edna Ferber (novel), Jane Murfin (screenplay)
Stars: Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan
Genre: Drama

A greedy lumber-baron (Edward Arnold) is cutting down forest at an alarming rate and without replanting. He only cares about one thing power and money...OK that's two things. He falls in love with a good heartened saloon girl (Frances Farmer) but ditches her after their engagement, so that he can marry the daughter of the richest lumber man in the state. This way he becomes his partner. The problem is he loves the saloon girl and not his new wife. Years go by and he has a upstart son (Joel McCrea) who wants better longing practices.

Meanwhile dad falls in love with the very young daughter of the saloon girl who married his best friend (Walter Brennan) Wow! talk about a soap opera, but then again this is based on the book by the queen of epic-sprawling novels Edna Ferber. Who also wrote the novel Giant.

This movie had a troubled production. Samuel Goldwyn agreed to shoot the movie as written in Edna Ferber's 1935 novel. That novel harshly criticized modern logging practices that were denuding the land without reseeding the forest. The original director was Howard Hawks, who during Samuel Goldwyn's time in the hospital turned the movie into a love triangle. Goldwyn was so pissed that he fired Hawks and replaced him with William Wyler and they re-shot a third of the movie.

As it turned out the film got a face lift with lots of stock footage of logging operations that have to be seen to believe! Especially the giant old growth trees that slide down a water slide on a huge mountain side and then shoot into the water below. It's pretty cool and the logging stuff was my favorite part.


Original Goldwyn wanted Spencer Tracy to be loaned to them but MGM would have none of that. So instead we get an odd leading man in Edward Arnold, who mostly played character actors. It's kind of hard to see him in a romantic lead with the lovely Frances Farmer. I think a young Spencer Tracy would have been much better in the role.

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Director: Roy Baker
Writers: Walter Lord (book), Eric Ambler (screenplay)
Cast: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres
Genre: Biography, Drama, History


There's been well over a dozen films made about the Titanic...A Night To Remember is considered by many to be the best of the bunch. The story is based on actual transcripts from the hearings in 1912 about the sinking of the Titanic, as told by those who had survived. The film tells the story from the viewpoint of one of the souls who did survive, 2nd Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller aptly played by Kenneth More. Lightoller is our guide into a movie that plays out like a you-are-there documentary, that then gives us a deep insight into the tragedy.


After watching this and Titanic (1953) what struck me is how real A Night To Remember felt. It captured the initial confusion that resulted from most passengers on the ship not even knowing that they were sinking. And it brought home the sheer panic caused by utter desperation in the loading of the lifeboat scenes.

Another powerful aspect of the film was how by incorporating stock footage of other similar size ships, it seemed as if we saw Titanic being launched and sailing out of the harbor to it's destiny.

The interior sets are fantastic! I've seen many documentaries on the Titanic and the decor in the movie looked very much like the real thing.

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