We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
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HI STEVE 1 I am copying to this page a post I sent in response to Bruce’s Rod Steiger profile last month. It was one of my many posts in that period that didn’t seem to interest The Great Panjandrum and although unlike you I didn’t complain publicly about his neglect I noticed that he had responded to comments from other regulars about the Steiger page and therefore couldn’t help thinking of Lee J Cobb’s Johnny Friendly’s complaint in On the Waterfront when Terry Malloy defied him. “Pretty soon I’ll just be another guy around here!”
2 However “Everything comes to him who waits,” is an oft-repeated adage and when your Steiger video materialised I brightened considerably as it occurred to me that SOMEONE might at last see my September Steiger post. Nonetheless your video in its own right was well worth the wait because your presentation includes a glut of posters that I had not previously seen and to me are in their entirety worth a high 98% rating.
3 The very best overall were I thought End of Days, 13 West Street [Rod and Laddie – what a team!] Cry Terror, W C Fields and Me, Seven Thieves [one of my fave Steiger flicks] The Chosen, Jubal [co-starring my Glenn in what was a western reworking of Shakespeare’s Othello played in the film by Ernest Borgnine] Waterloo and most stunning those from The Harder They Fall and On the Waterfront all of which I definitely hadn’t seen before.
4 The still of the famous taxi scene from On the Waterfront wasn’t of course new to me but I always like looking at it and its exclusion would have been sacrilege. Other pleasing stills were those from Back from Eternity, Mars Attacks, Dr Zivago and the ones with Rod as those two notorious historical characters Capone and Nappy. You and WH agree on 4 of Rod’s 5 best with the Work Horse choosing in his 5 Lion of the Desert instead of your pick The Longest Day. Despite his disinterest in my own efforts in relation to the Steiger profiles I have to say I back his choice.
STEVE
Below is a copy of the post that I have just mentioned in my previous comments. On top of the matter reminding me of the Johnny Friendly quote from Waterfront I have also found myself humming what Frank sang to the cold-shouldered Bing in High Society (1956)
“I have heard that in this clan
You are called the forgotten man.”
September 27, 2017 at 6:04 am FROM BOB
1 Bruce’s paragraph about Rod’s private beef with Brando rings true because certainly Brando did get the reputation for carrying on in the kind of manner that Steiger describes. In a TV interview that I watched recently, filmed before Steiger’s death, Rod again complained about Marlon’s off-hand treatment of him during the making of On the Waterfront and in that interview Rod also criticised Elia Kazan the movie’s director for “co-operating with the Un-American Activities Committee” in the McCarthy era. Rod went on to say that if he had known about the latter he never would have worked with Kazan.
2 However in the same program the widely-respected Karl Malden who was of course another Waterfront key player cautioned people about believing everything that Steiger said. Malden elaborated by emphasising that whatever one thought of it Kazan’ “collaboration” with the Committee was well-known in the public domain at the time of Waterfront’s shooting so that in Karl’s opinion Rod was either lying about his own ignorance in the matter or else he had become isolated from reality.
3 There seems no doubt that Brando could be unreasonably difficult and contrary with some people and the way in which he allegedly treated Burt Reynolds is one example, but others like Jean Simmons and Jim Garner spoke glowingly of their experiences of Marlon as a person when filming Guys and Dolls/Desiree and Sayonara respectively. Even Glenn Ford who it was said quarrelled with MB on the Teahouse set paid tribute to Marlon’s on set professionalism in another interview that I saw recently. So I suppose that in fairness one would have had to at least heard Brando’s side of the Steiger story before coming to a conclusion.
Hey Bob….you are not the forgotten man…..I will be checking out your Steiger comment soon….frantically trying to catch up on yesterday’s comments before I go to work….but I have some free time today during work …..and it will be spent checking out the “forgotten” Rod comments.
1 It’;s always nice to have feedback from both you and Steve and anyone else who wants to say something as I often learn something from that feedback and some of Steve’s comments in particular are very witty which makes me laugh.
2 However provided the profiles/stats and videos keep coming I’ll not complain too much as indeed when I think you’re exceptionally busy/diverted I try to cut back on my comments that might interest you directly. Anyway if I may again paraphrase Charles Bickford’s comment to Chuck in The Big Country “Iv’e been forgotten and left on my own before. I can take it!”
3 The taxi is virtually at my door so as I told Steve I’m off on to his native land Jerusalem. It’s called that by some folk because there are some Englishmen who like to believe that when Christ departed from us for the last time one of his final miracles was to take part of the Holy Land and recast in in what is now England. Modes bunch the Limeys aren’t they!? Actually my late brother who of course was not English but was religious also believed that.
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountain green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?
And did the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among those dark satanic mills?
4 Will catch up with you all when I return. Meanwhile have a good weekend.
Hey Bob. First of all, I hope you have a great weekend getaway. I feel we have been doing a much better job of keeping up with the comments. The amount of work that has been done on this website in the last 6 weeks is truly remarkable…..especially when you know it is just me and WoC, and that we bought have full time jobs. Comment reactions, watching movies and doing reviews at Letterboxd.com have suffered the most. Actually Letterboxd has suffered the most…as I am about 30 movies behind and have only done one review since September 3rd. WoC is actually working on moving my reviews from Letterboxd to the UMR movie pages. There are over 2500 reviews currently there. Once again enjoy your leisure time…and know I will find and comment on your Steiger comment before you get back.
Hi Bob, thanks for the generous rating, review, info, trivia, comment, comparison, observation, post search and archive retrieval.
Happy the visual presentation met with your approval.
Someone should tell Bruce that not all his pages are indexed, I could but my posts aren’t always visible in the colonies. Steiger’s page is a no show on index, we know it exists thanks to our resident quotemaster general. 🙂
Nice to know the chief and I are reasonably close, chart-wise.
Five of Steiger’s films scored 10 out of 10 from my top secret sources – The Pawnbroker, The Longest Day, On the Waterfront, Doctor Zhivago and In the Heat of the Night. Five scored 9 including Oklahoma and The Harder They Fall.
Topping the bill at IMDB is Lion of the Desert, yep a higher rating than the aforementioned movies, the same site that rates Shawshank Redemption higher than The Godfather and Enter the Dragon. People power in action!!
HI STEVE
1 The usual excellent feedback from you consolidating the information provided in a fine video and much appreciated by me. Yes I too noticed that the Steiger page wasn’t indexed by Bruce but I was painfully aware it was there because as said I had vainly offered him comments on it.
2 Regarding your suggestion that someone draw the omission to the Great Panjandrum’s attention you might appreciate from what I have been saying it would be pointless if I were to be that someone because WH pays attention to little of what I say these days and acts on even less.
3 I keep a record of which posts get a reply and which don’t as I don’t want to be repeating things that nobody’s interested in and whereas your response record is 100% in relation to my comments on your videos The Great One has replied to only 1 in 3 of the posts that I have directed to him since June this year. Just a few examples of posts ignored are Michael Keaton, Eleanor Parker, George Sanders [also not indexed by the way] and more recently Helen Mirren – sorry My English friend, Dame Helen Mirren.
4 Even my supreme self-sacrifice in telling him that he was crediting in the stats summary on the Mumbles page too many 100 million dollar + grossers to Mr M fell on deaf ears. Possibly his guilty subconscious is holding him back from reducing the figure as if Superman Returns was on his page as it should be he would then have the 17 that he quotes. Anyway possibly your best bet therefore is for one of the ladies like W o C or M-s Breen Robison to take him to task as he would more likely heed them.
5 Anyway I bid you now a good weekend because you will not hear from me again until nextTuesday as I’m away on a mini-break. I’ll not be going too far this time though and in fact will be staying in the birthplace of Brexit itself [England]. Look forward to catching up when I get back when I’ve no doubt there will be one or two more videos to brighten my return.
Enjoy your mini-break Bob and thanks again for the entertaining comments and various ‘aliases’.
I’m surprised he missed some of your posts too. I thought I was the only one! I don’t expect him to reply to every post, especially when it’s banter between the regulars but at least the posts praising his pages and efforts should have some sort of acknowledgement. Just sayin’. 🙂
1 Thanks for your good wishes for my short vacation. Perhaps you and I as mere mortals expect too much from the Gods and a 1 in 3 response from any of them is to be deemed a reasonable acknowledgement from a busy God.
2 They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder and I can always find comfort during my mini break by saying to myself “Well maybe Steve will slightly miss me even if Our Lord and Master doesn’t.” –
And Son of Islam it may be
That thou shalt learn at journey’s end
Who walks they garden eve on eve,
And bows his head,
And call thee friend.
Hey Steve
1. Luckily this comment was not invisible in the colonies.
2. I just indexed Mr. Steiger and Mr. Sanders.
3. Good to see our ratings are close…….it always brings a smile to me…when you get things correct….granted it does not happen too much….lol.
4. I will comment and share your Rod video later today.
5. Gotta love “People power in action”!
Good stuff.
Hey Bob…..sorry I missed some comments on Rod Steiger…..I will have to go back and catch up on them…..if memory serves correctly….that was in the middle of the massive dynamic update….which time for comments was very limited. Good review on Steve’s latest video. I will be checking out that video shortly and posting it on Steve’s video page.
Hey Bob….when you agree with me I see your comment…..like the part of your comment that says you are with me when it comes to picking Lion of the Desert over The Longest Day….lol.
Hey Steve….well once again…you have beaten me to the punch…..been getting requests for a Jeffrey Hunter page for awhile…..but you got his video done before my page….kudos to you. I also enjoyed that you gave Hunter a Pike shout out. Surprised The Last Hurrah scored so highly…..that is one forgotten Spencer Tracy/John Ford movie. Good stuff.
HI STEVE 1 Jeffrey Hunter was one of Fox’s stable of young contract players in the early 1950s along with the likes of Robert Wagner, Debra Paget and Fox’s own 50s sex queen MM.
Jeff actually made his screen debut in the 1950 Julius Caesar but film historians have commented that that particular version is nowadays most remembered for having the young Chuck as Mark Antony. Like Jeff Chandler Hunter sadly died prematurely of an accident and both were the same age at the time of death, 42.
2 My picks of the generally excellent posters are Red Skies of Montana and The Frogmen both top-starring the Richard who is jointly idolised by M-s Breen Robison and me, The Great Locomotive Chase, Hell to Eternity, No Man is an Island, A Kiss before Dying, 7 Seven Cities of Gold and way, way out on its own in my opinion the foreign language one from The Searchers with The Duke at his most iconic. Kiss before Dying is one of my favourite Jeffrey Hunter flicks,
3 In this one we again have the normal quantity of stills and my own favourites are (1) the raunchy one of Jeffrey with Debra Paget In Princess of the Nile (2) with Robert Wagner in White Feather (3) with Anne Francis in Brainstorm (4) the marvellous colour solo of Jeff in King of Kings (5) with The Duke in The Searchers. This has certainly been my week with precious photos from you of both The Duke and Mr Mumbles! I liked eff opening funny quote about The Duke and the bullets Overall very satisfying pictorial of Jeffrey which I rate at 96.5%.
4 “To me Jeffrey was the acme of young American manhood and he had an all-encompassing type of magnetism.” [Norma Jeane Mortenson]
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, rating, info, trivia and quote, it is appreciated.
Glad you liked the pictorial presentation.
I knew Jeffrey Hunter mostly as the blonde blue-eyed Jesus in King of Kings and as Captain Christopher Pike in the original series of Star Trek. His character was played by Bruce Greenwood in the rebooted Trek movies.
Two of his films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – The Longest Day and The Searchers, and two scored 9 – The Last Hurrah and King of Kings.
The Searchers was no.1 at IMDB with a score of 8, even Citizen Kane only managed 8.4 at IMDB, harsh crowd. 🙂
Casablanca fared better with 8.6 at IMDB and The Godfather is no.2 on their Top 250 with 9.2 , The Shawshank Redemption ruling the roost with 9.3. I liked Shawshank, good film, but I always thought it extremely overrated, ditto The Dark Knight.
HI STEVE 1 I am copying to this page a post I sent in response to Bruce’s Rod Steiger profile last month. It was one of my many posts in that period that didn’t seem to interest The Great Panjandrum and although unlike you I didn’t complain publicly about his neglect I noticed that he had responded to comments from other regulars about the Steiger page and therefore couldn’t help thinking of Lee J Cobb’s Johnny Friendly’s complaint in On the Waterfront when Terry Malloy defied him. “Pretty soon I’ll just be another guy around here!”
2 However “Everything comes to him who waits,” is an oft-repeated adage and when your Steiger video materialised I brightened considerably as it occurred to me that SOMEONE might at last see my September Steiger post. Nonetheless your video in its own right was well worth the wait because your presentation includes a glut of posters that I had not previously seen and to me are in their entirety worth a high 98% rating.
3 The very best overall were I thought End of Days, 13 West Street [Rod and Laddie – what a team!] Cry Terror, W C Fields and Me, Seven Thieves [one of my fave Steiger flicks] The Chosen, Jubal [co-starring my Glenn in what was a western reworking of Shakespeare’s Othello played in the film by Ernest Borgnine] Waterloo and most stunning those from The Harder They Fall and On the Waterfront all of which I definitely hadn’t seen before.
4 The still of the famous taxi scene from On the Waterfront wasn’t of course new to me but I always like looking at it and its exclusion would have been sacrilege. Other pleasing stills were those from Back from Eternity, Mars Attacks, Dr Zivago and the ones with Rod as those two notorious historical characters Capone and Nappy. You and WH agree on 4 of Rod’s 5 best with the Work Horse choosing in his 5 Lion of the Desert instead of your pick The Longest Day. Despite his disinterest in my own efforts in relation to the Steiger profiles I have to say I back his choice.
STEVE
Below is a copy of the post that I have just mentioned in my previous comments. On top of the matter reminding me of the Johnny Friendly quote from Waterfront I have also found myself humming what Frank sang to the cold-shouldered Bing in High Society (1956)
“I have heard that in this clan
You are called the forgotten man.”
September 27, 2017 at 6:04 am FROM BOB
1 Bruce’s paragraph about Rod’s private beef with Brando rings true because certainly Brando did get the reputation for carrying on in the kind of manner that Steiger describes. In a TV interview that I watched recently, filmed before Steiger’s death, Rod again complained about Marlon’s off-hand treatment of him during the making of On the Waterfront and in that interview Rod also criticised Elia Kazan the movie’s director for “co-operating with the Un-American Activities Committee” in the McCarthy era. Rod went on to say that if he had known about the latter he never would have worked with Kazan.
2 However in the same program the widely-respected Karl Malden who was of course another Waterfront key player cautioned people about believing everything that Steiger said. Malden elaborated by emphasising that whatever one thought of it Kazan’ “collaboration” with the Committee was well-known in the public domain at the time of Waterfront’s shooting so that in Karl’s opinion Rod was either lying about his own ignorance in the matter or else he had become isolated from reality.
3 There seems no doubt that Brando could be unreasonably difficult and contrary with some people and the way in which he allegedly treated Burt Reynolds is one example, but others like Jean Simmons and Jim Garner spoke glowingly of their experiences of Marlon as a person when filming Guys and Dolls/Desiree and Sayonara respectively. Even Glenn Ford who it was said quarrelled with MB on the Teahouse set paid tribute to Marlon’s on set professionalism in another interview that I saw recently. So I suppose that in fairness one would have had to at least heard Brando’s side of the Steiger story before coming to a conclusion.
Hey Bob….you are not the forgotten man…..I will be checking out your Steiger comment soon….frantically trying to catch up on yesterday’s comments before I go to work….but I have some free time today during work …..and it will be spent checking out the “forgotten” Rod comments.
HI BRUCE
1 It’;s always nice to have feedback from both you and Steve and anyone else who wants to say something as I often learn something from that feedback and some of Steve’s comments in particular are very witty which makes me laugh.
2 However provided the profiles/stats and videos keep coming I’ll not complain too much as indeed when I think you’re exceptionally busy/diverted I try to cut back on my comments that might interest you directly. Anyway if I may again paraphrase Charles Bickford’s comment to Chuck in The Big Country “Iv’e been forgotten and left on my own before. I can take it!”
3 The taxi is virtually at my door so as I told Steve I’m off on to his native land Jerusalem. It’s called that by some folk because there are some Englishmen who like to believe that when Christ departed from us for the last time one of his final miracles was to take part of the Holy Land and recast in in what is now England. Modes bunch the Limeys aren’t they!? Actually my late brother who of course was not English but was religious also believed that.
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountain green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?
And did the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among those dark satanic mills?
4 Will catch up with you all when I return. Meanwhile have a good weekend.
Hey Bob. First of all, I hope you have a great weekend getaway. I feel we have been doing a much better job of keeping up with the comments. The amount of work that has been done on this website in the last 6 weeks is truly remarkable…..especially when you know it is just me and WoC, and that we bought have full time jobs. Comment reactions, watching movies and doing reviews at Letterboxd.com have suffered the most. Actually Letterboxd has suffered the most…as I am about 30 movies behind and have only done one review since September 3rd. WoC is actually working on moving my reviews from Letterboxd to the UMR movie pages. There are over 2500 reviews currently there. Once again enjoy your leisure time…and know I will find and comment on your Steiger comment before you get back.
Hi Bob, thanks for the generous rating, review, info, trivia, comment, comparison, observation, post search and archive retrieval.
Happy the visual presentation met with your approval.
Someone should tell Bruce that not all his pages are indexed, I could but my posts aren’t always visible in the colonies. Steiger’s page is a no show on index, we know it exists thanks to our resident quotemaster general. 🙂
Nice to know the chief and I are reasonably close, chart-wise.
Five of Steiger’s films scored 10 out of 10 from my top secret sources – The Pawnbroker, The Longest Day, On the Waterfront, Doctor Zhivago and In the Heat of the Night. Five scored 9 including Oklahoma and The Harder They Fall.
Topping the bill at IMDB is Lion of the Desert, yep a higher rating than the aforementioned movies, the same site that rates Shawshank Redemption higher than The Godfather and Enter the Dragon. People power in action!!
HI STEVE
1 The usual excellent feedback from you consolidating the information provided in a fine video and much appreciated by me. Yes I too noticed that the Steiger page wasn’t indexed by Bruce but I was painfully aware it was there because as said I had vainly offered him comments on it.
2 Regarding your suggestion that someone draw the omission to the Great Panjandrum’s attention you might appreciate from what I have been saying it would be pointless if I were to be that someone because WH pays attention to little of what I say these days and acts on even less.
3 I keep a record of which posts get a reply and which don’t as I don’t want to be repeating things that nobody’s interested in and whereas your response record is 100% in relation to my comments on your videos The Great One has replied to only 1 in 3 of the posts that I have directed to him since June this year. Just a few examples of posts ignored are Michael Keaton, Eleanor Parker, George Sanders [also not indexed by the way] and more recently Helen Mirren – sorry My English friend, Dame Helen Mirren.
4 Even my supreme self-sacrifice in telling him that he was crediting in the stats summary on the Mumbles page too many 100 million dollar + grossers to Mr M fell on deaf ears. Possibly his guilty subconscious is holding him back from reducing the figure as if Superman Returns was on his page as it should be he would then have the 17 that he quotes. Anyway possibly your best bet therefore is for one of the ladies like W o C or M-s Breen Robison to take him to task as he would more likely heed them.
5 Anyway I bid you now a good weekend because you will not hear from me again until nextTuesday as I’m away on a mini-break. I’ll not be going too far this time though and in fact will be staying in the birthplace of Brexit itself [England]. Look forward to catching up when I get back when I’ve no doubt there will be one or two more videos to brighten my return.
Enjoy your mini-break Bob and thanks again for the entertaining comments and various ‘aliases’.
I’m surprised he missed some of your posts too. I thought I was the only one! I don’t expect him to reply to every post, especially when it’s banter between the regulars but at least the posts praising his pages and efforts should have some sort of acknowledgement. Just sayin’. 🙂
HI STEVE
1 Thanks for your good wishes for my short vacation. Perhaps you and I as mere mortals expect too much from the Gods and a 1 in 3 response from any of them is to be deemed a reasonable acknowledgement from a busy God.
2 They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder and I can always find comfort during my mini break by saying to myself “Well maybe Steve will slightly miss me even if Our Lord and Master doesn’t.” –
And Son of Islam it may be
That thou shalt learn at journey’s end
Who walks they garden eve on eve,
And bows his head,
And call thee friend.
Hey Steve
1. Luckily this comment was not invisible in the colonies.
2. I just indexed Mr. Steiger and Mr. Sanders.
3. Good to see our ratings are close…….it always brings a smile to me…when you get things correct….granted it does not happen too much….lol.
4. I will comment and share your Rod video later today.
5. Gotta love “People power in action”!
Good stuff.
Hey Bob…..sorry I missed some comments on Rod Steiger…..I will have to go back and catch up on them…..if memory serves correctly….that was in the middle of the massive dynamic update….which time for comments was very limited. Good review on Steve’s latest video. I will be checking out that video shortly and posting it on Steve’s video page.
Hey Bob….when you agree with me I see your comment…..like the part of your comment that says you are with me when it comes to picking Lion of the Desert over The Longest Day….lol.
Steve’s latest has been added to his You Tube page….this time it is Mr. George C. Scott.
Steve’s Jeffrey Hunter video has been added to the page as well as we have added his Ann Sheridan video to our Sheridan page…good videos…Mr. Lensman.
Hey Steve….well once again…you have beaten me to the punch…..been getting requests for a Jeffrey Hunter page for awhile…..but you got his video done before my page….kudos to you. I also enjoyed that you gave Hunter a Pike shout out. Surprised The Last Hurrah scored so highly…..that is one forgotten Spencer Tracy/John Ford movie. Good stuff.
HI STEVE 1 Jeffrey Hunter was one of Fox’s stable of young contract players in the early 1950s along with the likes of Robert Wagner, Debra Paget and Fox’s own 50s sex queen MM.
Jeff actually made his screen debut in the 1950 Julius Caesar but film historians have commented that that particular version is nowadays most remembered for having the young Chuck as Mark Antony. Like Jeff Chandler Hunter sadly died prematurely of an accident and both were the same age at the time of death, 42.
2 My picks of the generally excellent posters are Red Skies of Montana and The Frogmen both top-starring the Richard who is jointly idolised by M-s Breen Robison and me, The Great Locomotive Chase, Hell to Eternity, No Man is an Island, A Kiss before Dying, 7 Seven Cities of Gold and way, way out on its own in my opinion the foreign language one from The Searchers with The Duke at his most iconic. Kiss before Dying is one of my favourite Jeffrey Hunter flicks,
3 In this one we again have the normal quantity of stills and my own favourites are (1) the raunchy one of Jeffrey with Debra Paget In Princess of the Nile (2) with Robert Wagner in White Feather (3) with Anne Francis in Brainstorm (4) the marvellous colour solo of Jeff in King of Kings (5) with The Duke in The Searchers. This has certainly been my week with precious photos from you of both The Duke and Mr Mumbles! I liked eff opening funny quote about The Duke and the bullets Overall very satisfying pictorial of Jeffrey which I rate at 96.5%.
4 “To me Jeffrey was the acme of young American manhood and he had an all-encompassing type of magnetism.” [Norma Jeane Mortenson]
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, rating, info, trivia and quote, it is appreciated.
Glad you liked the pictorial presentation.
I knew Jeffrey Hunter mostly as the blonde blue-eyed Jesus in King of Kings and as Captain Christopher Pike in the original series of Star Trek. His character was played by Bruce Greenwood in the rebooted Trek movies.
Two of his films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – The Longest Day and The Searchers, and two scored 9 – The Last Hurrah and King of Kings.
The Searchers was no.1 at IMDB with a score of 8, even Citizen Kane only managed 8.4 at IMDB, harsh crowd. 🙂
Casablanca fared better with 8.6 at IMDB and The Godfather is no.2 on their Top 250 with 9.2 , The Shawshank Redemption ruling the roost with 9.3. I liked Shawshank, good film, but I always thought it extremely overrated, ditto The Dark Knight.