Category: film

OK when I seen the cover I was like this movie aint for me lol.
Actually if it wasn’t for the list prolly never woulda watched it, but since it has the Columbia Stamp. I had to give it a shot, so blindly I walked face first into this movie lol. For the better, this movie is classic. Really its mind blowing tis like travelling back in time with Marty McFly and the ‘Stand by me’ kids. Mind blowing. They even had the pie eating contest, the same vibes as their festivals back then, as shown in the 80’s as shown in actual 1955. A vagabond with sex appeal driving all the women wild then when he rejects the teacher all drunk ass she loses it on him. This is some wild passinate emotional movie with not much sense or reason but romantic and coming of age too, cept I think it would be aimed a little more at young women. I still enjoyed this movie just eharing how they talked and dressed, and the social things, faux pas’s. Yeh freakin wierd though lol, I mean how long ago this film compared to now. 69 years ago lol. I wonder if this year 2024 will ever be looked upon with remisnice or romanced like back then, I doubt it. Everyone gone zombiefied cell phone and the movies and shows suck lol. Maybe music has improved a bit, in terms of selection. But to go back then would be like the stone age, even business guy with his 12 inch TV luxury. The other guy Hal just beating up on cops. Business guy drinking and driving. I think after all that time though some things still relatable in this movie. Passion, romance, Having fun, dancing, awkward teenage years sibling parent disagreements, rivalry, miscommunications. The old people enjoying the young and putting things in perspective. Ah, good movie though, just actually surprised how good that was. Yeh both of the 55 films, very American and very caucasian. After watching some Memorial day stuff on TV some very USA things. Kinda feel for Hal being the run away bad boy, but he also makes some poor choices. Or to any guy thats had a girl pick someone else knows how, Hal’s buddy felt. Mind he was in a bit of a fit of jealous rage lol certainly wasnt going to get the grain job, specially not after stealing the car again. but just disapear to the next town. I dunno i’d watch that again actually. First Hal (William Holden) and Kim Novak picture. Cool time capsule.

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Damn the thing bout watching these movies, Millie is Strasberg passed away in 1999 weird seeing a young child, and the time has already passed so.
Hmm theres a Holden and Audrey Hepburn film. St Louis Walk of Fame, didnt even know that.
Wow Kim Novak Still alive thats amazing. Thats pretty cool Kim Novak Un-official fan club right here.

James Stewart Western, didnt know there was such a thing.
Good movie, kinda sad, little bit of action, lots of misunderstanding.
Nice ending.
Sure Vic coulda ended up better than his fate, had he told Mr Waggon the truth, although, not sure mr wagon woulda heard it.
Like that ending though, he gets shot, then pause like 6 seconds, and an arrow in the back lol.. Thats pretty hardcore for a movie from 1955 lol.
Anyways the mystery of the Repeating rifles.

So Im a James Stewart Fan, always liked his movies, his characters, Him on Johnny Carson. Last movie I seen on the Blog with him was Mr Deeds in Washington. This tim his name is Mr Lockhart, or Captain Lockhart so hes always got the aesthetic name. Nah as first western I seen in a while this was a good one.
Hes like That Waggon family makes no sense!

Brutal opening scene the one to start the drama, that kid Dave sure was a wild one too.
Just obssesed with fighting killing, sneaky, I dont know typical villain. I like the Mr Wagon Character, Strong, old changing, trying to leave his empire cause hes going blind, charges through all blind to a gun fight, Lockhart doesnt kill him. Its interesting cause, that same type of character point happened in the Fallout. The Good guy has a chance to finish off the bad guy, and decides not too, cause well youd lower yourself to the same level as the villain.
I like the New Mexico landscape, quite nice actually for a desert, rough terrain for those horses was impressed. Strong accompanying actors. Vic playing the role pretty good. Seemed like Mr Waggon was reading the lines a bit, but still turned out one of the better characters. Kinda sad to see him all blind at the half moon house, and they still looked after him. Yeh Believable James Stewart. The one scene, hes like the drunk jumps off a roof trying to stab him, 30 seconds later hes chilling at the wedding like nothing happened, that was weird. Another one was Mr Wagon, hes like mourning his son, 30 seconds later hes like oh theres a wagon we are missing, must be the rifles, lets go find the missing rifle shipment. Oh its over here. Yeh I guess the truth was unravelling, couldnt figure out if it was Dave or Vic that was the main culprit in the repeating rifle wagon apache affair but yeh typical fashion, he arrives like the starship enterprise and stays untiol all the bad is eradicated and moves on. So was a good movie, id watch that again, just for the scenery and action scenes, and stay for the plot. New Mexico like the way they show looks pretty unique place, makes for some cool cowboy movies. Looks hot and dusty and rocky. But still scenic and huge valleys and plateaus. Theres a book too, looks kinda interesting. It brands itself like revenge tale, but its more like blind justice, and shooting yourself in the foot kinda. I mean he does good deeds, but the antogonists just unravel and are their own undoing. Had the antagonists played it smart theyd really give ol Lockhart a rough time. Yup and end badly for the liar, the apache scene I mentioned lol. Shoulda thrown in a wilhem scream for my pleasure. That would be the scene.

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First time I ever seen a Anthony Mann picture, but some interesting things on his wiki about scenery.
Strategic Air Command seems kinda interesting.
Bunch of other movies seem interesting. Always neat finding a whole catalogue of things I knew nothing about.
The anti hero and his work with James Stewart.
I guess the real Laramie is in Wyoming with a big altitude, rail town education center.

Interesting first time seeing this film.
Follows ensign Keith, On the minesweeper rag tag ship the Caine. Ww2
Herman Wouk novel writer name came up, its been a long time since I heard that name, since my youth.
Um its a great movie, I was fascinated to learn about the Let the Fire Fall Yosemite. Just a cool place Ive gotta visit sometime next time im in the area, ill make a point to visit.
The boat doesnt get into too much action, but some of the behaviors displayed by the captain Queegs, (after old captain gone) Its funny cause Ensign messed up a pretty big order he signed off on. which the original captain, was pretty forgiving about considering it was his transfer papers, so ensign starts off right away on the bad foot.
The film goes on, the Captain starts jackin some guy up about his shirt and lets the boat run over its own tow line, thats when I was like yeh this guy is crazy, Hes like shut up and let me think, or shut up while im disciplining this guy about a shirt, meanwhile the boat is about to crash into itself lol. Yeh the strawberries, that was funny. Then the mutiny behaviors of the writer, ensign and second in command. Well they get into a typhoon, and the little miniature boat that sure was odd to see, lol, little miniature boat getting tossed about after seeing them on board the real ship so long. But whatever its a movie, I can get past the old special effects, it was a rough storm. The court martial was another part of the film, seems like the prosecution had it all figured out. Till Queegs went off on some tangent. What do I think, well the old Captain seen alot of action, and was obviously off his old rocker, if he was just deliberately trying to sink the shiop he wasnt.
And, well the prosecutor too said it himself, he asked for help, but still pretty poor leader based on some today standards, lots more could have gone wrong, they should have tried to correct it, after the tow line, before the marine beach landing or during. Fictional tale anyways but makes for a neat navy officer JAG type story. The final drink in the face lol, not sure why the writer was all switched up testimony during the trial, defense guy was like throws the drink in his face. I dunno cool movie, Humphrey plays the off his rocker type, not unlike the writer in that last movie I seen him in. Glad I dont have to deal with some boat full of crazies in a war lol. Makes for a neat fictional story, I mean truth is stranger than fiction, but this one lays it on pretty good, it feels real and well its like a bit like some of the other military navy court dramas of today, Im sure pulled some inspiration from this.
Classic movie, glad I got to experience the first time.

Woo more Columbia films completed.
Gotta love this one, the Big Heat, difficult plot, took a while to understand what was happening.
Starts off with a suicide, a suicide with evidence tying some crime kingpins to be put away.
What does the widow do, she goes on the payroll to keep quiet. Besides her husband cop was cheating.
Enter Glenn Ford, well to do Homicide Detective, starts picking around too much, kingpins get annoyed.
Kill off the barfly girl that had a alternative story, kills off Banion’s wife, with a car bomb. They called it pre-prohibition crimes.
The Car bomb wasnt expecting that.
The Banion goes off the deep end.
Does some investigations, somehow attracts vinces girl Gloria.
She gets all impressed with his chivalry, then he hits her with cold lines, like Id probably choke on the drink (she offered him) and I wouldnt touch anything of vinces with a 10ft pole.
Anyways we start getting the gist that Lasagna, is a political empowered crim boss, Vince is his stooge, but Larry even more so, Larry got sloppy with some leads and folds like a cheap hand. Not before telling Vince, that Gloria was at Bannions hotel, Vince scalds her with some boiling coffee ruining her looks, Gloria starts to fall in love with Banion, but he refuses to talk about his wife. Finally Gloria goes over to the widows house and shoots her cold to get the story out. Waiting in the dark Gloria hits vince with a second pot of coffee in the face in this film. Bannion and vince have shoot out, and Glorias disfigured corpse on the living room floor..
Lol.
Bannion gets re-instated (he was fired as a cop for digging too much)
Good movie though lol, I enjoy Glenn Ford and Gloria on screen.
Even thought its liek not happy ending so much, its justice cold hard justice.
I like the Interactions with the general populace, hes beating people up, telling people to scram.
You got the ol army folk watching over the daughter after the cops shit the bed on the protection duty.
And right away they razzin’ each other with old war stories lol classic. Except this time its the original war story, anyways they all playing cards with their revolvers at the house lol.
So it was Gloria with Humphrey, and with Vince and she does not have luck with men, lol, and Glenn with Rita and his wife gets car-bombed lol, not much luck with women.
But they sure look cool on film acting it out. Glenn goes from gambler to policeman and he plays both roles well, and Gloria Actress to gangster gf/ barfly with a dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde face..
Anyways liked that movie, wasnt much comedy about it but I enjoyed watching it. Gotta love this era in Hollywood and the studio. Noticed one of the back drops was like a cardboard city, just looked cool. For Vince Penthouse. People with nothing else going on but drinking, smoking, and playing cards. Funny to see what the bars looked like. Honestly makes me want to have a drink and smoke with the cast as their always in the liquor cabinet, but more of a stylish affair.

First colour movie from the Columbia 100 year list.
Wow what a interesting movie.
So I know Dr Seuss, didn’t know there was movies like before the cat in the Hat.
Might have to check that out too, still haven’t seen it.
Super interesting to watch this and get transported to a kids/family show from 1953, kids back then musta thought ‘this is the shit!’
The bands, musical scenes, the weird sets. Like you know the painted on sets, that make the filming picture much larger or stranger than it is.
Dream sequences, and the real life post war America, any town USA with the big trees and the nuclear family. Kinda enjoy that for what it is. The dream sequences were crazy, was like a psychedelic ballet musical, whimsical, and songs that didnt really make too much sense, but singing for the joy of singing and dancing and so on.
Film kinda breaks tyhe 4th wall, talking directly to the audience. And, dreams, turning into realitly imagination, that innocent child spirit, pretending. Kinda like Mr Rogers. I like the Dungeon scene with the musical perfomance, seemed akin to Dr Seuss for me, just big crazy drawings of instruments and tools that make no sense. And also going down in the dungeon. The kids getting all their suitcases searched was weird, and biut of a post war vibe from the administration buttons, switches, the enforcement spot lights.
Overall a pretty cool movie for the first non black and white film, and not a drama or a romantic comedy just a kids family film, so that was cool.
Yeh neat to see that for the first time ever today.
Like I wrote to a friend wasnt no Mary Poppins but it was still good.
You know like comparing this to like a new disney flick its just so weird. Say something that kids might like, like Frozen, or like Beaty and the beast more my era, maybe Aladin, I musta seen Aladin 150 times, So if I had to watch 5000 fingers 150 times I might go insane, but yeh didnt really have VCR back then must have been more difficult to see something, youd have to go to the theatre. But same as Titanic people saw that movie half dozen times in theatre. Double VHS 2 Cassettes I remember. So VCR and VHS was pretty amazing for when I grew up. Only limited by time as the rewind button to how many times you could watch media.. I guess you could have reel to reel, but that doesnt seem as accessible. Although I do remember some reel to reel in school growing up .. lol. Glad I still have those memories, and not just a strictly digital memory bank. Thats what this film is memories and Nostlagia pop culture faded away, barely present in todays world. Dr Seuss is popular, but still its been a while since I though about it. Not liek a nmain feature, and presentation and a household name. You’d assume its a household name, but i’d wager like 1/5 people or more I know don’t know Dr Seuss.

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This song and dungeon master is memorable from the film.

Not much to write watched the whole of season 12 recently.
I’d say it was really good probably the better adult comedy shows of this era.
Best Jokes, Best Cameos, best belly laughter.
Theyre not chintzy on the jokes, its all a big joke lol.
Its too bad laughing at Larry most of the time, but I think hes a grown up comedian that knows what he’s toing, certainly makes a fine TV show.
Just the most hilarious awkward comedy, and heavy juxtapositions, and oxymorons exageree to the max. People don’t act like they do in the TV show, but when its exaggerated and done for a comedy sure turns out funny.
People always taking things out of context.
I thought the cameos were great, Conan, Lori Loughlin, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Buscemi… some nice flashback scenes, but more suble than last episodes of Seinfeld, and the ending was fantastic, With Jerry there.
Actually it made me pretty sad it was over, felt like the end of an era, and historic, and just that you know those laughs will never be new again.
That being said, thankfull for all the entertainment and laughter throughout the years. Long running show. Sad to see Richard Lewis pass shortly after the taping was over. And, glad to see him again in those few scenes. There was outpouring of love on social media after his death was announced. JB Smoothe and Larry though kill it together, just funny duo, don;t even think they planned it out going so great. Thats a funny match and interactions. Plus Larry, manager, and Suzie, thats another funny ass quartet. I liked Vince Vaughnn come in, after Super Dave was gone. Nah the whole show, is an homage to comedy, comedians, getting all the cameos everyone together in a free for all. Makes me think of Ben Stiller and David Scwhimmer Michael J Fox. You couldnt ask for a better show as a audience. Rich people problems and completely un relatable to most people like always dining out, and the country club and LA dinner parties etc, but the jokes were really simple and still funny af. Plus the characters don’t change too much, meaning you could completely destroy their relationship amongst themselves for one scene, and the next scene start from scratch with no old beef. Yeh emotional ending cause im sad its over, but Im glad it was around for so long and so well done and wasn’t chintzy at all with jokes, the show just kept on giving and getting better and better, wilder and wilder, till it was a meme, and its hard to distinguish the real life and show, cause on the show he goes and acts a fool on judge Judy, and other day time shows, then in real life he goes to strangle Elmo live on a daytime show. lol. I thought that was pretty funny, and Im a sesame street fan, I mean yea as a kid i mighta been traumatized, but as an adult that was a hilarious scene, I mean compared to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock or the actual taboos and nastiness that goes around in the world. Nice to just escape turn it on and know you’re going to laugh . Im not sure what else to say, but been watching Seinfeld for years, and its nice to have a newer show as a continuation in sorts, plus HBO swearing more crudeness cmon.
Probably one of my favourite shows lately, like Fallout doesnt even compare, different style, but its just whole tiers away. Not sure theres anywhere as much replay value, but who know maybe Im wrong. Should keep it to rthe positives, but yea I know what I like. I watch movies from the 30s-50s so its rare im super committed to new medias.

The Columbia list continues!
What an odd movie.
Focuses around a ditzy blonde, and a thug steel junk guy in Washington DC.
I guess he there to get some congressman deals.
Shes there as the silent business partner, signing stuff.
She embarrasses the thug guy with the congressman and their high class gatherings so he hires professor type to teach her the ropes about DC and educate her into not being such a low class person with no conversation or manners. Anyways time goes on Professor teaches her all these things about government and founding fathers, art, music, literature. Then she has a revalation shes working for the wrong person. Anyways, in short order they turn it around on the thug, through various scenes. Couldn’t tell if it was a comedy, more of a drama, coming of age for the young lady. Knowledge is power sort of thing. So lead lady was great, she won bunch of awards for this film. Um the thug guy, can’t remember the characters name, just a hilarious actor. Theyre the type to scream at each other, and yell out WHAT!? Its very hick trashy lol. But he plays the character so great. Just a boisterous fellow that thinks everyone can be bought. He’s like Whaaat ! Eating on a mutton chop and wipes the food off his face. Just the conversations and interactions the 2 characters are hilarious, like playing cards, and she insults him, and he loses his top, always mean muggin and yellin and why I oughta back hands. And, they stop arguing for the maid, and get right back to it when she leaves. The thug guy is Broderick Crawford, hes the same as the Willie Stark in all the King’s men. So its funny to see him as a (sorta) well to-do politician turned corrupt, to a full blown white collar criminal thug lol. He’s just not impressed with anything, hes like who asked ya!? All crazy eyed. So a very crass character but he plays it so well, its hard not to admire the acting. Lead actress Judy Holliday, shes so funny with her lines. Its like every dialogue is unique. She has a really unique voice too was kind of difficult to make out what she was saying seemed like a thick vintage New York accent. I personally don’t hear dialect like that too often. Anyways maybe Im wrong but not like a English English, an American English. Anwyays shes an adorable character, always upset about trivial things, like when Proffesor calls her 30 she loses it. Or she like dances around what she means, Im not totally sure about this character, leaves alot to the imagination, and not really sure what shes thinking or will say next. Round character.Delightful aswell. She comes off crass but shares some stories about her dad and ethics, etc, grows a bit. So yeh Judy Holliday and Broderick steal the show, I would enjoy watching more of either of their films. As for this one I’d probably watch again, just to see how wild Broderick gets, and how funny the interactions like the card game were, just how he talks to people is so off the wall. You just don’t see that nowadays in real or in media. Maybe like a memory sequence of someones old dad or something. Anyways film was entertaining, been happy watching these sequentially too. Its like a history of film. And, I like Columbia make good movies. Everytime I watch a Columbia film, I have expectations it will be above average film. Or bring something new to the table, and the last few Ive watched no different. Not super comedies, but they have their moments.

Woo new decade in Columbia Films.
Didn’t get this one free had to buy it.
This movie was awesome, Humphrey Bogart is such a crazy character, hes a loose cannon lol.
Its almost funny if it wasn’t so tragic.
I mean just his character in the Film Dix Steele, what a name.
Hes a troubles Hollywood writer, with a small clique. He beats up his friends, hes got a side to him thats completely crazy,k and beats up people on the streets and in cafes. Hes one of the grab a woman by the arms type. Naturally Laurel is a Hollywood actress shes very beautiful, out of work but very classy and suave. So shes somewhat attracted to Dix Steele, lol just feel wrong typing that. Anyways theres a murder. The whole movie youre wondering if it was Dix or not, all his friends are like yeah Dix is totally psycho lol, so youre like hmmm I wonder.. Anyways the movie focuses around his troubled writing, and finally gets his muse Laurel, but Laurel sees the insane part of Dix so shes like yeah no this can’t go on, but she lets it go on, the stress from the murder charges, and well Dix decides wants to get married, but finds out the deception so he flies off the handle again. And, just at the end when everyone is battered and broken and broken hearted they get the call that this other dude no one has heard of ‘kessle’ had done it. So in shorter words the movie is fantastic, its like a modern day shakespeare heavy film noir.Just happiness for a few moments, then non stop tragedy, you wish you could shake some sense into these crazy characters and tell them what youve seen as the audience, but the characters won’t listen, and are too driven by passionate emotions lol. Its a very cool movie stylish, elegant. Dix Ptsd going up beating people up at the parties, is strange, you don’t see a guy like Humphrey being too violent, but boy you don’t want to say the wrong thing to him, cause once he flies off the handle he’s really gone. Laurel is super stunning for a lady from the 50’s shes very elegant and pretty and her voice is nice. Shes sexy too, just in her mannerisms and the things that she says. Its a old fashioned chauvinist style with the woman secretary breakfast maker, arm candy. But yeh she does manage to break his heart from being scared half to death lol. Chuckles, anyways didnt know they made movies liek this just the anti-thesis love story. Everything that could possibly go wrong. But you can’t look away.
I really enjoyed this one would definitely watch again or show a friend. This is the movie to watch by yourself on valentines. Plus they make Humphrey look like such a sadistic psycho, with the eye filters, its like a borderline horror lol. I don’t know awesome movie, something completely different.
I feel sad they didnt give the ending everyone wanted, only a real twisted writer would do something like that like a big joke, but its well received.

Woohoo 2 decades of Columbia greats finished with this movie.
Ive been having a blast watching all these actually.
Even though Im not USA American, and I couldnt get all the movies for 100$, Even though Columbia doesnt care about me, I still care about Columbia lol. The Stooges and these movies are a great entertainment to me. And despite the studios I know that people in film make em to get paid, but also entertain others of all races shapes and sizes. This movie All the Kings Men, never heard of it at all, I mean the title evokes a type of movie. Starts off with a well to do farmer citizen, gets a law degree, gets first taste of power, then drunk off power, and infecting everyone around him in a powerful whirlwind with death and murder, suicide. The acting wasn’t that hot, but it also wasn’t a conventional film, it was more shot like a documentary, with narrator. Its fictional but passed off as a news real reality. Any State USA. Capital and just generic places. The characters go from farmer types to gritty political insiders, reporters, old Governor Family, and that encapsulated world. So it was a neat movie to watch full of characters and actors Ive never heard of, and not the fancy film parts of LA, more like the dusty backroads of small towns and mobs and police and just maybe a bit of a pre back to the future vibe, pre soda shops and hot rods. Fun seeing unknown to me actors doing their things makes for a neat experience in cinema, compared to when you recognize a few actors, anyways and the story was really good the ups and downs of running for Governor, and going from family man, to some kind of human drunk abomination, some of those scenes game me the chuckles. It was a little hard to believe, but still in a good way, I enjoyed it. It was really a tragedy with no way out lol, I guess im a bit of a sadist and found humour in that ahaha, yeh anyways. Ok favorite actor was the King and his men I guess, Willy, hes the Governor, Sadie the raspy campaign secretary, The reporter, good guy following the lead in a story, eventually has to make a moral; decision, Sugar, the muscle errand boy. Willy was good at giving speeches, was actually fun to hear him rant and yell about whatever. Big burly drunk type with a angry voice good yeller. Sadie was a good yeller too, lol she said some crass things for a lady actress lol so she was definitely believable character, the other innocents, were soft and not as crass or rugged, hicks like he said. Man of the hicks. Funny in retrospect the dirt roads, and the hospitals was really eye opening to the politics styles back then and comparing to now. I wonder if its because most people have enough to not hang out in mobs and rallies, or if they are just distracted or if the government is doing a better of a job then in this fictional story. I can tell ya with no cell phones and whisky being liek the only thing to do, besides toil in the field, participating in a mob sounds kinda fun. If they all had Xboxes and air conditioning guaranteed no one would have patience to spend a free day on a politician ahaha, or many the craft is so rinsed none of those tricks or deception works anymore, every trick in the book rinsed and repeated.
Anyways cool movie for me to watch, was nothing like MR Smith in Washington, although I thought it might be sort of similar. Yeh just more of a drama from the time I think, and a story people would enjoy, it was kind of a thriller too. Little different than any other movie Ive seen. Just a unique story and its way of telling it.
Good movie would watch again.

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John Ireland, the Reporter was Canadian born in Vancouver, He was the first person from Vancouver to be nominated for Academy Award.
Grown up in New York though.
Based on a southern Governor in real life never heard of. Based off a book.
Culturally significant film. Love those.
Good movie.

Ok so watched this again, nearly 1 whole year since last time.
This was before I was doing the Columbia movie list.
So this was my First Rita Hayworth film, not ‘Gilda.’

Anyways what can I say I love this movie, I love how Welles tells the story.
Its a dark mystery story but its fun.
He says some really cold lines.

I like the movie cuts, sets and scenes, the close ups the crazy scenes, the walks in the park.
Its definitely a little more odd than some other films, you get some close ups and grimaces.
Don’t really know whats going on till the end.
Tragedy in a way, crime courtroom drama, I like the Having an edge line, and the sharks in a frenzy at their own blood.
Having seen it twice I would still see it again someday.
I just like Welles voice and acting.
Hes all love stricken by Rita lol.
And shes married just its similar to ‘Gilda’ but not quite.
Shes good in the movie too goes from innocent to murderer, speaks Chinese, The San Francisco set.