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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We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
I have seen just one of the movies included in Steve’s 2000s video: Open Range. I thought it OK but was surprised at Costner receiving just 2nd billing. HE was a megastar of blockbuster hits such as Bull Lensman and Dances with Work Horses whereas I have always considered Bobby Duvall a supporting player.
The TV productions that Steve has covered in his recent videos are largely unfamiliar to me so either the ones that mean nothing to me have not been shown over here or I did not notice their release. From my perspective the 15 films with the best POSTER (S) entries are:
1/Two for Bandidas
2/2 for American Outlaws
3/ALL for Zorro
4/1st one for The Alamo
5/1st one for Dust
6/Shanghai Noon
7/2nd one for The Missing
8/1st one for Johnson County War
9/1st one for Comanche Moon
10/Foreign Language version for Good, Bad, Weird -aka Bob, Steve and Joel
11/1st one for The Proposition
12/1st one for Three Burials
13/ BOTH for Jesse James
14/2 for 3.10 to Yuma
15/No Country for Archibald Alec Leach
Bob, Bruce, Flora and anyone else popping in, here’s an interesting page of colorized police mugshots of famous people including Sinatra, Elvis, Cher, McQueen, Fonda, Pacino, Dillinger and Alphonse Capone, enjoy! 🙂
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10164525/Hollywood-stars-iconic-figures-pictured-newly-colorized-mugshots.html
HI STEVE: Thanks for sharing those mugshots. They were especially interesting in view of their youth at the time of their taking; I wouldn’t have recognised Pacino for example. “He was known as Little Al back then because of his lack of inches; after The Godfather he became Big Al!!” old schoolfriend of Pacino’s reminisce. My other comments are as follows:
1/Ironic McQueen being in them as historians have observed that many of Steve’s films revolved round him “escaping” in one form/from some venue or another: The Getaway/The Great Escape/Papillon/Nevada Smith/The Thomas Crown Affair etc.
2/activist Rosa Parks was named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 greatest people of the 20th Century along with the likes of JFK/Princess Diana/Mother Teresa and film stars Sinatra/Brando/Monroe and Chaplin.
3/Most Republicans and probably some Democrats would have kept Jane Fonda behind bars and thrown away the key as they fel that she was too sympathetic towards the Viet Cong during the Vietnam was so they nicknamed her “Hanoi Jane” and father Henry was embarrassed by the issue.
Whatever they did back then -or were supposed to have done – the legendary entertainers/movie stars would probably have gotten away with it when they became famous.
For example if I remember correctly in the 1950s Golden Holden [alleged being drunk] then at the height of his fame killed somebody in Sweden in a traffic accident and was charged with manslaughter but as the case was being heard in the courts he was in mid-air flying back home to the States.
“Now if I were the queen of all the world
I would go in chains just to see you free
Of the ropes that bind you
And the role you play
And the pride that hooks you
While the big ones get away.”
[Sung by Buffy Sainte Marie Canadian singer and political activist]
Thanks for the link, Steve. This is interesting
When I saw the opening STILL in this Video I thought Steve was given us a belated Halloween treat and when I saw the remaining ones I thought I had accidentally strayed into one of his Sci-fi videos! Anyway my pick of the STILLS is:
1/Set for Wild, Wild West – Wow!
2/2 for Bad Girls-look a pretty tame bunch to me, but Wow once more!
3/Lighting Jack
4/City Slickers 2 – store in the Comedy Section
5/Last Outlaw
6/2 for Wild Bill
7/ALL for Young Guns 2
8/Sabre River
9/Last of the Dogmen
10/The set for Geronimo
11/ALL for Quigley-always thought this was a comedy.
12/ALL for Wyatt Earp-its box office disappointment was a harbinger of the decline in Costner’s top-star career.
13/2 for Maverick
14/ALL for City Slickers [ONE] – same filing instructions as for No 4 above
15/ALL for The Quick and the Dead
16/2 for Lone Star
17/ALL for Tombstone
18/ALL for Last of the Mancunians
19/2 for Posse – wow!
20/Tremendous montage for Unforgiven
BEST POSTERS STEVE’s 1990s VIDEO
1/Lightning Jack
2/Posse
3/Tall Tale
4/2 for Last Outlaw
5/Desperate Trail
6/2 for Wild Bill
7/Sabre River
8/Streets of Laredo
9/1st one for Geronimo
10/2 for Lonesome Dove
11/Ride with The Devil
12/2 for Quigley
13/Dead Man
14/Back to Future 3
15/Last of the Mancunians
16/1st one for Lone Star
17/Classy foreign language one for Tombstone
18/2 for Dances with Work Horses
19/Unforgiven
20/Quick and the Dead-Sharon Stone in her brief heyday at the top.
ADDITIONAL POINTS
1/Good to see Sam Elliot in a top-billed lead role [Desperate Trail]
2/Day-Lewis’ riveting performance as Hawkeye in Last of the Mancunians shows how wooden Randolph Scott was in that role back in 1936 much as I have always enjoyed Randy’s westerns.
3/I have seen just 5 of the 30 movies that Steve has selected: Wyatt Earp/Maverick/Lone Star/Day-Lewis’ Last of the Mancunians and Last of the Dogmen because of my Barbara.
4/Good also to se my Barbara Hershey in 2 entries – Last of the Dogmen and Lonesome Dove.
HI STEVE: As I forecast I watched the Halloween horror movie Sorority Row last night – for about 2 minutes! and no wonder as IMDB gives it just a 52% rating. It does even worse with the Work Horse’s 39% rating but then he’s a hard marker.
It was anyway full of those, to me irritating, teenage actresses whose vocal style seems to be to gabble in piercing falsetto all the time. Oh how I longed for the quiet incoherent delivery of the King of Mumbles!
Historically, made in 2009 it was interesting though for being one of the last films of Carrie Fisher. She was a bit frumpish in it but at 53 had facially still retained some of those lovely sexy features that made her so appealing in her Princess Leah days from which that movie was obviously a big comedown.
“Ah youth, Dorian! If I could get back my youth, I’d do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.” From Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.
All figures adjusted for inflation, Sorority Row earned a worldwide gross of just $45 million but its production budget was only $15 million so it could have made a modest profit in terms of rentals and it was a solid hit in England where it reached No 4 at the box office – and that of course is what counts! but does it tell us something?
Anyway on to the ‘big picture’: in Part 2 is my pick of the POSTERS in your excellent westerns video which I rate 98%.
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, info and brief Sorority Row review, it is appreciated. Glad you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.
I don’t think I’ve seen Sorority Row, I might have and simply forgot about it. I’ve seen so many new horror films in the past couple of decades. Few of them memorable. [Bob grins]
More TV westerns are cropping up and the so called ‘Modern Western’, there are also ‘Neo-Westerns’ coming up on the horizon. [Bob rolls his eyes]
Two decades left and it’s back to the past.
Three films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Dances With Wolves, Unforgiven and Lone Star. Two films scored 9 – Back to the Future III and Last of the Mohicans.
My Video Top 5 –
Unforgiven 8.8
Dances With Wolves 8.5
The Last of the Mohicans 8.3
Tombstone 8.1
Lone Star 8.1
The UMR Critics Top 5 –
Unforgiven 9.2
The Last of the Mohicans 8.5
Lone Star 8.5
Dances With Wolves 8.1
Tombstone 8.0
“In the early 1980s, Francis Ford Coppola got the script to Unforgiven and met with John Malkovich to offer him the role of William Munny. Malkovich recalled, “The offer was not very serious, thank God! I say that for myself and the poor public, and for Clint, absolutely! I would have been a total, total failure. Total! Who would’ve wanted to see that? I wouldn’t! I would’ve just been acting-schmacting. There are some things you can only have with a kind of mythic figure which Clint is.” Malkovich worked with Clint Eastwood on In the Line of Fire (1993) and Changeling (2008).
When English Bob departs, cursing at the town, he speaks with a rough, lower-class cockney accent, confirming that Bob’s refined, upper-crust persona was fake. In a 1992 interview Richard Harris revealed, “I read the script and I said to Clint Eastwood, ‘You know, it would be great if I could play this man as a very sort of upper-class fake, and at the end of the picture–when he gets the hell beaten out of him–maybe all of that drops, and you see behind it all he’s really sort of a low life’. And Clint said, ‘Yes, great! Go for it!’.”
According to Clint Eastwood in a 2000 interview, Gene Hackman was very concerned about how they were going to show the violence in the movie, concerned about rising gun violence in American cities. Eastwood assured Hackman that the movie wouldn’t glorify gun violence.
The final screen credit reads, “Dedicated to Sergio and Don”, referring to Clint Eastwood’s mentors, Sergio Leone and Don Siegel.” [IMDB Trivia]
HI STEVE:
Thanks for the feedback and the wonderfully-detailed additional trivia.
On several afternoons over the past month or so I have been watching with my grandson aged 15 TV reruns of Clint’s Dirty Harry series and GS of Bob has enjoyed them very much.
To think the last time I watched that many movies with him on a trot was whe he was a young boy in the 6-10 years range and I would take him to see the Ice Age franchise and other computer-animated comedies in the cinemas.
Anyway it’s coincidental that you should mention In the Line of Fire as I have that one recorded for GS of BOB and I to watch next followed By Cruise’s 1993 The Firm. In the Line of Fire has long been one of my fave thrillers of all time.
GS of Bob and I seem to like many of the same kinds of movies and as he is oblivious to who Ladd was I will this time escape taunts about Laddie from a family member!!