I remember watching that on TCM a while back, nothing like a good classic movie before heading to bed. Definitely recommend this one too :yeah:

I remember my dad relling me about that film http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/9501/liarrv1ed9.gif

My lasting memory was the anger I felt when a sailor got stabbed off a Japanese pilot (I think) when he rescued him.

hmm, my favourite film has to be Withnail & I. I'don't really know why I like it so much but i can watch it over and over again and not get bored of it :D
"We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here and we want them now!"

What impressed me was Cary Grant's line about that incident. He talks about Americans giving their kids roller skates for their fifth birthday, and a Japanese kid gets a knife, and grows up knowing how to use it. The reason we're fighting this war isn't just to protect our own kids, but to guarantee that the next generation of Japanese kids are given roller skates too.

And this was made in 1943.

Sorry Steve, it was so long ago that I watched it I can only remember the stabbing :oops:

As I said, I watched it just a few days ago. Before that all I remembered was that they went to Tokyo.:rotfl2:

Anyway, the movies I put in and watch more than any others are The Thee Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, directed by Richard Lester and starring Michael York as D'Artagnan, Oliver Reed as Athos, Richard Chamberlain as Aramis and Frank Finlay as Porthos, with Christoper Lee as Rochefort, Raquel Welch as Constance, Faye Dunaway as Milady de Winter, Simon Ward as the Duke of Buckingham, Jean-Pierre Cassel as Louis XII, Geraldine Chaplain as Anne of Austria and Charleton Heston Richelieu.

Bad: Porthos is described in the book as a giant, and Finlay is the shortes actor in the movie. But he struts around like a giant, which is very funny.

The humor is British rather than French, which draws complaints from purists, of which I am one.

Good: While I have a few minor nitpicks, these two movies together are more faithful to the best-selling novel of all time than any other I have seen. And I've seen a lot.

They are thoroughly enjoyable. I usually put in the first one just to watch the first fifteen minutes, up to the fight in the convent. That is so close to the book that it's almost word-for-word. The problem is that by that point I'm hooked, and three hours is gone from my day. That said, my biggest complaint is that they aren't longer.

You left out Roy Kinnear and Spike Milligan....not major parts I know, but good supporting character roles.

I must confess to enjoying the later release (Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Tim Curry et al) almost as much.

Speaking of classics particularly Gregory Peck classics, I don;t think you can go past GP as Horatio Hornblower.

Some great model making and SFX for the time it was made.

Ewww! I hate that movie, partly because they threw out the whole book and wrote their own story, and partly because Curry mugged his way through the role of one of the most frighteningly intimidating characters in liturature. Heston really captures the spirit, especially in his 'spy' scene with Christopher Lee. The only one who compares is Vincent Price in the Gene Kelly version.

Sorry, I just can't stomach that one at all.:nope:

Even though they combined three novels into one fairly short movie, I agree. They did a masterful job.

Speaking of Peck, Frau K already mentioned To Kill A Mockingbird, but don't forget Moby Dick.:rock:

Some amazing model work there, too.

HH and MB - both awesome.

Actually Peck gave so many great performances that it's hard to remember them all.

Gentleman's Agreement, The Big Country (one of only a handful of westerns I've voluntarily sat through more than once), Roman Holiday, The Guns of Navarone, Captain Newman, M.D., Cape Fear...

One of my guilty pleasures is watching him in The Boys From Brazil. Especially since he's one performer I've always admired as an actor AND a human being... not that he hadn't played morally ambivalent or even downright unlikeable characters before, but Mengele? The very idea was mind-boggling.

:yep: The movie was pretty mediocre, but Peck and Olivier gave their usual outstanding performances and made it worth watching. Once.

And it didn't hurt to have James Mason, Denholm Elliott, and Rosemary Harris, and...Anne Meara? A young Bruno Ganz? Good thing I looked at IMDB. I may have to watch it again just for the cast.


Ewww! Somebody's talking about a remake. Talk only so far.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0841010/

It's funny I never really worked out why James Mason was always cast as a nazi baddie either. He was very good at it but if you knew his background it was the antithises of a nazi being a conchie during WWII and brought up in 'Uddersfield.

I thought Mason was great as Rommel in The Desert Fox.

Didn't know about this thread.

Recent movies ive watched:

Valhalla Rising - Good, slow at times but worth a look.

Kick-ass. Why was this R18? Apart from the swearing ive seen R16 movies worse than this. Kick ass was okay if your looking for some laughs.

Cargo - German made movie: about humans now living on massive space stations where earth is just a memory, there is rumors of Rhea a earth like planet. Laura Portmann wants to get to Rhea but money is needed so she takes on a job in a cargo ship a 4 yr journey. The crew members spend the most time of the fully automated flight in deep sleep while, in 8 months shifts, always one person stays awake to monitor the space ship. :o

I enjoyed this movie apart from the last 15min it kinda dies. Still okay for space freaks.

IP Man 2 - If your seen the first one your like the 2nd as well. IP man is a Chinese movie about the treatment from the Japanese during world war 2, IP man has to fight Japanese Karate champs to stay alive type of thing. IP2 carries on after the war.

Still not seen that. I'm a massive fan of the Ioan Gruffud ones though, he plays a good Hornblower.