The Battle of Algiers
The Professionals
Svalt
Persona
La Caza
Au Hasard Balthazar
Nevada Smith
Alfie
Closely Watched Trains
Batman. Just kidding. Was The Sand Pebbles in 1966? I'll go check on that.
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Is Paris Burning?
Batman
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Fahrenheit 451
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Blow-Up
The Sand Pebbles
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
A Man and a Woman
El Dorado
Masculin Fรฉminin
Persona
My favorite
A Man for All Seasons
El Dorado was filmed in '66, but, released in '67.
shareLooks like you're right. Fair enough.
It's Wayne and Mitchum so I'll allow it. ;)
Don't go burstin' my bubble son!
It's all there in "El." Very instinctive motion picture. He tells Asner off at the start then backs his horse out, no stunt double, he did it. He backed that horse out of there so Asner wouldn't shoot him in the back. Wayne at his final zenith. A lot of summer oaters thereafter...until Eastwood's mentor-Don Siegel straightened him out [The Shootist] so that the old man would enter his house justified.
He gets his "honorary" Oscar for "Grit" - but, it borders on the clownish, on the sappy, on the comedy. & the Oscar is compelled. He then proceeds to fork over a lot on the two cop pictures, their names I will not repeat here. Him in that fuckin' Pontiac with the decal spread all over the hood. I want to cry every time I see it.
But, fate intervenes at the end. Thank God. He came this||close to going out less than quality. Instead, he goes out-every chamber filled---heeled to the teeth---then says farewell to Bogart's widow---heads on down. It's his birthday.
An out of order Direct Hit for god. Any time---any body lodges "El" Cubby comes a runnin'. I stand for that Paramount production opening every single time. I cock back on the Lazy Boy lever---launch stock straight.
Culburn, eyes welled, at attention.
Wayne should have won for The Searchers in 1956. Wasn't even nominated. They gave the Oscar to Yul Brynner for the horrendous musical The King and I. Musicals are not real movies imo.
shareYep, the final scene there at the door, Olive Carey talks about it in that one Wayne biography. I had the damn book and sold it on Amazon---I know, I know. It's a touching recall of that scene by her. He was looking directly at her when he crossed his one hand to grip his opposite forearm as Carey Sr. had done many, many times.
shareI agree Wayne should have won an Oscar way before he did.
Musicals are most certainly "real" movies.
I don't like all of them but some are excellent.
Including The King and I!
Yeah, towards the end Wayne was scrapin by for sure.
Failing health and the slow death of the Western.
The Shootist came at the perfect time for him.
Too bad Jimmy Stewart didn't follow suit and end on that one.
Yep. Remember he'd even done that aspirin (Dotrin?) commercial, realized the error---gave back the fee. That is, god, that's scrapin'.
Even the print advertisements for "The Shootist" were top shelf. They depicted him in a classic pose, but, like nothing we'd ever seen before. He was younger, different, majestic.
The verbiage word-for-word:::
He's got to face a gunfight
once more
to live up to his legend
once more
TO WIN
JUST ONE MORE TIME
I do remember him doing a commercial but didn't know about the rest.
He was even doing TV shows with cameos.
At least he never did the Love Boat!
This gives me an idea for a new thread.
El Dorado, it's also my top Western.
Dracula, Prince of Darkness
Carry On Screaming
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
El Dorado, it's also my top Western.
๐ Thanks pal, You can tell they are all having a great time making this, every line is delivered with a grin. Must have been a great set to be on. The Duke, Mitchum and Caan all talking bollocks over a few liquid refreshments. Wish I was there. ๐๐บ๐น๐ธ
shareYep. Caan & the girl (Michelle Carey) are an adorable couple. She's ready for him & Caan lets her lead (character & actor).
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Mitchum's brother as the bartender who tries to bush whack Robert in the bar. It's super great. They don't pounce on the brother thing. They just run the scene. Class all-the-way.
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The movie has a great running length. Everything is accounted for. The rancher played by R.G. Armstrong ain't right, but, he doesn't have to be perfect here. They don't rehab him. They just leave him be in the grievous errors he's made.
It's pretty much flawless apart from that scene with Caan under the horses, it's looks terrible with the bad editing.
shareloved Barbara Shelley in Dracula
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