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.
STEVE
I got Dimitri’s surname wrong second time round in my previous post and for some reason Bruce’s correction button wasn’t available. Apologies.
Hey bob…….that “comment” widget is one of the widgets that disappeared in our annual March Meltdown…..but it is back….and….drumroll…….now you have an extra second to fix your errors….as the timer is now 6 seconds versus the previous 5 seconds.
HI BRUCE
Thanks for the explanation.
I was a bit disappointed otherwise though as I thought that the final sentence of the penultimate paragraph of my 9.49 am post yesterday would have enraged you into coming out fighting!
Hey Bob…I saw that Joel jab…..but I know….that deep down he is winning you over…….as I am sure you have now realized how awesome that book and Joel really are…..I am closing in on 300 pages of those 410 thespians…..slowly but surely…knocking them out. Good stuff as always.
Thanks for the feedback on my Dimitri posts and for the additional information. I have seen 8 out of the 11 movies that you list as having achieved 10 out of 10 ratings.
We’ve discussed how audiences don’t always concern themselves about who actually provides even the music/songs that they like in movies. However in my case there were two early exceptions, the first being Korngold as my father used to rave about him a lot, and the 2nd being Dimitri Tiomkin because he benefited from the spin-off publicity from the hit theme song for High Noon, which almost everybody seemed to be singing or humming in the early 1950s and his own association with it often being mentioned in those days.
He was responsible for all the music, played throughout the film,and Ned Washington wrote the lyrics to the theme song and they were awarded the joint Oscar for Best Music and Original song at the 1953 Academy Awards at which Tex Ritter sung the song live for the audience. Both Toimkin and Washington were of course established professionals unlike the almost scratch amateur music/songwriting team of Hirschhorn and Pasha.
Hope you are enjoying your weekend. Take care.
My pick of Posters 1-20 (1) The Men aka Battle Stripe [Even in his first movie the Great Mumbler gets top billing!] (2) 1st stunning one for The Thing (3) FL for Dial M for Murder (4) FL for Guns of Navarone (5) both for Giant (6) Lost Horizon (7) FL Strangers on a Train (8) FL Red River – possibly the first western I ever saw (9) Last Train from Gun Hill – a strong contender for my own fave all time western and (10) 2 stunners for Rio Bravo –
DINO “Is he as fast on the draw as I used to be?”
The DUKE “Sure wouldn’t like to live on the difference.” Classic stuff!
Super STILLS! My own pick of the feast are (1) The Young Land (2) is that young, sexy Brit Joan in Land of the Pharaohs? (3) Burt & Kirk relaxing on set. A true collector’s item – those were the days! (4) lobby card Fall of the Roman Empire (5) ensemble in Fall of Roman Empire (6) The Thing (7) Al Leach with I think Rita – have I got the right “broad” this time? (8) Rio Bravo (9) Strangers on a Train (10) The Duke and Monty – iconic casting! (11) Coop strutting his “A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do!” stuff (12) Liz and Dean and (13 Liz and Rock –
“In his heyday from the mid-1950s until the early 1960s Hudson had as good a run in the Quigley box office polls as probably ANYBODY has ever had over one sustained period. In fact he was so popular in those days that even dogs followed him about!” – 1970s movie historian.
Dimitri always seems to get a mention in Greatest Movie Music Composer polls with for example being ranked 10th, 11th, 19th and 21st in 4 different polls that I’ve seen in the past while. IMDB credits him with 17 awards and 29 nominations for his musical work on movies.
I think that there has been a really comprehensive run of visual stunners in Dimitri’s video and great though all of your other composer videos have been so far, this one marginally tops them in my opinion. Anyway my scores for it reach 98.5%.Top of the class stuff and here’s why.
Best POSTERS 40-21 in your Dimitri video. FL= Foreign Language. (1) A chip of the old block in The Young Land (2) the old block himself in Circus World (3) the Moon & Sixpence (4) Corsican Brothers (5) both for Land of the Pharaohs (6) FL for Night Passage (7) The Unforgiven [Burt very iconic] (8) FL for Chuck’s 55 Days (9) a really splendid one for The Duke’s “love child” The Alamo [I’m sure that there was a lot of patriotic hyperbole indulged in on the set of that one which was right up the street of my heroes Duke and Widmark!] (10) The Big Sky and (11) Duel in the Sun – 1st one.
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, comment, posts, generous rating, info, trivia and quote, much appreciated. Happy you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.
Tiomkin was a popular Hollywood composer, he also enjoyed adding theme songs to his movies, most famously ‘High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, O My Darlin)’, #25 on AFI’s 100 Greatest Movie Songs. Around 25 of his films included theme songs including – Gunfight at the OK Corral, The High and the Mighty and Town Without Pity (sung by Gene Pitney). I’m surprised there isn’t a CD collecting all of Tiomkins movie songs.
That is young sexy and wicked Joan Collins with Jack Hawkins in Land of the Pharaohs.
Not sure who Al Leach is but there is a still of Rita Hayworth with Cary Grant in there somewhere.
There are 11 films scoring 10 out of 10 in Dimitri’s filmography and the top 11 of the video too –
It’s a Wonderful Life
Red River
High Noon
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Rio Bravo
Strangers on a Train
Lost Horizon
Shadow of a Doubt
Only Angels Have Wings
You Can’t take it with you
Giant
By coincidence none of the 11 include the word ‘the’ anywhere in the title. How’s that for trivia? 🙂
Eight more films score 9 out of 10.
Btw the theme song ‘Rawhide’ was composed by Tiomkin too, with lyrics by Ned Washington. sung by Frankie Laine, the classic tv series starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood.
Had a dream we made Steve an index for all of his videos…..seems that would help him…..interesting. Shared Steve’s latest video on Steve’s UMR Page. Our thoughts shared on his page.
“Erich Wolfgang Korngold? Not sure if I have ever seen the name….but I have heard of almost every movie shown here. Seen #16 Of Human Bondage…Davis shines. #8 Private Lives of E & E….Davis and Flynn make a screen team…even if Davis did not want Flynn in the role. #6 Midsummer Night’s Dream…one of Cagney’s better roles. #4 King’s Row….future President shines int his one. Top 3 belongs to Errol Flynn movies…very cool. Obviously Robin Hood at #1 is the most famous of the movies…but I really enjoy #3 Captain Blood (made Flynn a star) and #2 The Sea Hawk….a fun underrated movie. So not a really stellar tally….but 7…or 35%. Voted up and shared at UltimateMovieRankings.com.. the home of the glitches…lol.”
Hi Bruce, Korngold seemed like a perfect fit for those Errol Flynn swashbucklers. I have Robin Hood on LP and CD, and Captain Blood was on a Korngold CD compilation along with The Sea Hawk and others, also in my collection. I’ve seen 7 too, Flora has seen 16 of the 20! Thanks for the comment, vote and share, always appreciated.