Watching The Petrified Forest
âCold Preyâ tonight
Waiting for that movie to be released theatrically or on DVD here
Clough has always intrigued me, quite a guy.
As far as I know he did wonderfull at Derby and Nottingham, while all went wrong at Leeds
Yes, looking forward to this movie
More a serious movie about the sport, I suppose, while Goal is stricktly family stuff
The wife and I fancied something arty tonight so settled down to a Bunuel classic; Exterminating Angel. A great film and almost seems like he made it as a special gift to all university film studies students in need of an essay topic.
Wait Until Dark (1967/Dir: Terence Young)
One of the few so called classics Iâve not seen before. Gorgeous Audrey Hepburn as blind woman who waits in her flat for her husband. Alan Arkin plays a psychopath who visits her to look after a doll filled with drugs ⌠The whole story is taken place in a flat and was adapted after a stageplay. Entertaining enough with some good moments and probably itâs Young best movie after Bond.
[quote=âPaco Roman, post:5125, topic:372â]Wait Until Dark (1967/Dir: Terence Young)
One of the few so called classics Iâve not seen before. Gorgeous Audrey Hepburn as blind woman who waits in her flat for her husband. Alan Arkin plays a psychopath who visits her to look after a doll filled with drugs ⌠The whole story is taken place in a flat and was adapted after a stageplay. Entertaining enough with some good moments and probably itâs Young best movie after Bond.[/quote]I really like this, Arkin was great in it also.
âWait Until Darkâ is a very good film.
CLEOPATRA JONES (1973)
Lightweight but fun Blaxploitation flick. Tamara Dobson is statuesque and stunning as Special Agent Cleopatra Jones. Sheâs out to rid the streets of heroin all the while showing us she can handle anything from a Mac-10 to a dirt bike, not to mention she drives a supercool '73 Corvette. When Cleo goes to Turkey to blow up poppy fields, cutting 'em off at the source, drug kingpin âMommyâ gets a bit miffed. âMommyâ, played by Shelley Winters, uses a cop on her payrole to raid a rehab house run by Cleoâs boyfriend. Thereby ensuring Cleo will come back to LA where âMommyâsâ gang can try to take her out.
Fun Factor - 6.5/10
[quote=âSpaghetti Monkey, post:5128, topic:372â]CLEOPATRA JONES (1973)[/quote]Good film, the sequel is even more fun but not so much a blaxpo.
Yeah, with Stella Stevens as the villainess, i think i need to track this down sometime. 
FIST OF FURY - Donnie Yen version.
Also found Cleopatra to be a quite enjoyable film.
Just going to start The House Where Evil Dwells.
[quote=âYodlaf Peterson, post:5131, topic:372â]FIST OF FURY - Donnie Yen version.[/quote]I turned it off it was shit, the fights looked ok but they were cranked up, iâm gonna watch LEGENDS OF LUST instead.
Best way sometimesâŚmove on to the next one.
When was this one done, Yod?
I knew about the Jet Li version (FIST OF LEGEND), but I guess the Yen version slipped under my radar.
Sounds like I didnât miss much, though.
[quote=âscherpschutter, post:5084, topic:372â][size=12pt]DallâArdenne allâinferno/The Dirty Heroes (1967, A. Margheriti)[/size] tonight
An Italian war movie (macaroni combat) set in Holland and Belgium[/quote]
Watched it a bit later than expected
The Italian film means: From the Ardennnes to Hell, but thereâs absolutely no signs of the Ardennes, so unlike I said, the film is only set in Holland.
Average macaroni combat, some good scenes, some bad scenes, most of them only so so
What makes this film so special, is that it plays like a Zapata western. No, Iâm not joking
Two Americans, escaped from a POW camp, join the Dutch underground for a very daring plan: they want to enter the German headquarters to get the diamonds back the Germans stole from Dutch bankers and businessmen. Theyâre helped by, believe it or not, a jewish girl who, under a false identity, is married to the commander of the occupying German forces in Holland. Of course the Americans want to keep the diamonds for themselves, but they belong to the Dutch people, who need them to build up their country after the war.
As usual in these movies, the casting is quite bizarre, with Italian Aldolfo Celi (Thunderball) as the leader of the Dutch resistence (they all look like, and are even called partisans, a word never used to refer to the Dutch resistence), and French actor Michel Constantin playing an American of German descent.
Frederick Stafford is quite good in the âFranco Nero partâ, the cynical thief (his knickname is Sesame) who learns that some things in life are more valuable than diamonds, but some other actors (John Ireland in particular) apparently just took the money and ran. Anthony Dawson (the man with the tattood playing cards on his chest from Death Rides a Horse) is almost ridiculous as an over-ambitious American colonel who must attack the German ranks (just to divert the German command!) while the Dutch underground and the Americans do their job.
Not a great movie, but it wasnât boring
A re-viewing of THE WILD BUNCH and my first viewing of STONE COLD are planned for today.
âStone Coldâ is good entertainment.
Its a rip-off of the cult classic âStoneâ.
Anthony Dawson in an Anthony Dawson film.
Scherp, what do you think of Verhoevenâs Black Book?