Movie Marathon Suggestion #1 - Clue, Murder by Death, And Then There Were None

So, it's the holidays.
Normally, I don't watch much tv and definitely not many movies but I had some extra time on my hands and ended up watching one or two of my fave movies.

Yeah, I rarely watch new ones cause my favorites are so much fun.

Anyhoo, I started thinking about movies that go together and decided to put up a few movie marathon suggestions. (Yep, I apparently have nothing better to do)

Why do I think these movies go together?

Because in all of these films, there are a group of people who mysteriously come together at some creepy house and suddenly folks start dying.
(...and what do we learn from this? If you're invited for a weekend at a creepy house and you don't know why, heck, even if you do know why ....DON'T GO!!)

All three movies are mysteries. The first two are comedies and the last is a drama. You may have guessed that I really like mysteries, yep, and I definitely prefer comedies.

Movie #1
Clue  a 1985 Comedy/Mystery about Six guests who are invited to a strange house and must cooperate to solve a murder mystery. Loosely, based on the game Clue.

This guy put together a youtube vid called Clue the Movie in 5.5 Minutes. I must say he did a good job. My only complaint is the horrible background music he added. Very annoying.
 

 Movie #2
Murder by Death

 a 1976 Comedy/Mystery written by Niel Simon about Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks who are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.
I loved this one because of the parody of some of my favorite detectives....Sam Spade, Nick Charles, Miss Marple, Hercule Piorot and okay the last guy confuses me. Not sure if he's supposed to be Charlie Chan or what???












Movie #3
And Then There Were None, a 1945 movie, based on a novel by Agatha Christie, about a group of ten people who are invited to an isolated island, only to be killed one-by-one.

Omg! Here's the whole flippin' movie!


Hope you decide to watch a few of these. They're lots of fun! Tootles!

A Relationship???

“A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.”

 

Woody Allen from "Annie Hall"

12 Angry Men

Just watched, for the first time, the movie Twelve Angry Men, the black and white version produced in 1957.
Wow, that was really good. I love the old movies. Especially the black and white ones.
This movie was full of stars....Henry Fonda (who produced it), Jack Klugman (my man Quincy), Lee J. Cobb, E. G. Marshall, Martin Balsam, Jack Warden, John Fiedler, Edward Binns, Joseph Sweeney, Ed Begley, George Voskovec and Robert Webber.

For those of you who may not have seen the movie, it's basically about:

A jury made up of 12 men as they deliberate the guilt or innocence of a defendant on the basis of reasonable doubt. The story begins after the closing arguments have been presented to the judge. The question they are deciding is whether the defendant, a teenage boy from a city slum, murdered his father. The jury is further instructed that a guilty verdict will be accompanied by a mandatory death sentence.
The plot of the film revolves around their difficulty in reaching a unanimous verdict, mainly due to several of the jurors' personal prejudices.

(this info came from Wikipedia)

Anyhoo, I highly recommend this movie which, BTW, you can find on Youtube, of course.

Here's the movie trailer:

Holiday Movie Moment!

Oooo! Ooooo!
Yesterday's showing of A Christmas Carol made me think of my other fave holiday movies.
Here's a Marvelous Musical Moment (don't you just love alliteration) from "A Muppet Christmas Carol".

One More Sleep 'Til Christmas

Yea!!!

One of my favorite Christmas movies is on tonight!
The 1938 version of A Christmas Carol !
I just love the black and white version.
For some reason is just says Christmas to me.







Here's part 1 of another holiday favorite... Mr. Magoo's A Christmas Carol

Cary Grant as James Bond???

I love Cary Grant!
I had no idea that he had been considered for the part of James Bond.
Wow!
I mean, I can not at this point think of anyone as being the James Bond except for Sean Connery but I bet Cary would have been smooooooooth!

I especially loved him in:
The Philadelphia Story (1940 my favorite!)
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
An Affair to Remember (1957)

So check out his Bond like scenes from various movies.

I just watched....

Just finished watching Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? AGAIN!!!
I'm not sure how many times I have seen this movie but I always love it.
It has 3 of my fave actors in it Katherine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier and Spencer Tracy.

This is about 30 or 40 minutes into the movie.
I especially like the scene with the Poitier and Tracy (it starts about 4min38seconds into the vid. The vid is 10min and 48 seconds long.



In The Heat of the Night
I love this one too. This is one of my fave scenes.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and other Paul Newman Films I Like

I am not or was not necessarily a big Paul Newman fan but there are a few films that he did that I have always loved.
The first is one of my all time favorite movies...."Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"....Love it!!!
I can (and have) watch(ed) that movie over and over again.

I also love the scene in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" when Paul rides around on the bike.
And Paul Newman and Robert Redford in "The Sting"....fabulous!

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof


Cliff Scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid


Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head, bike scene from Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid


The Sting


Random Clips from Paul Newman Movies

Lauren Bacall

I have always loved Bogart and Bacall movies.
Mostly I like Lauren Bacall. She is just so much fun to watch.
And that Look...what can you say.
Anyhoo....after looking at some youtubes clips of her movies, I thought I would put up a little blog about her and my fave Bogart and Bacall movies.

Below I have some basic Lauren Bacall statistics.
After that I have clips from To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep and a vid of clips from various movies.
Enjoy!!

Lauren Bacall
Born: Betty Joan Perske in the Bronx, New York, 16 September 1924.

Education: Attended Julia Richman High School; American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York.

Family: Married 1) the actor Humphrey Bogart, 1945 (died 1957), children: Stephen Humphrey and Leslie Howard; 2) the actor Jason Robards, 1961 (divorced 1973), son: Sam Prideaux.

Career: Began modeling, also theater-related odd jobs, early 1940s;
made New York stage debut as walk-on in Johnny Two-by-Four, 1942;
appeared on Harper's Bazaar cover and attracted attention of director Howard Hawks; signed personal contract with Hawks who changed her name to Lauren Bacall, 1943;
made film debut in Hawks's To Have and Have Not with Humphrey Bogart, 1944;
contract sold to Warners, mid-1940s;
protested against HUAC in Washington with Bogart and other celebrities, 1947;
fined and suspended by Warners for failing to accept roles, late 1940s;
had first Broadway starring role in Goodbye Charlie, 1959;
accepted periodic film roles while making highly successful Broadway appearances, from 1960s.

Awards: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Golden Globe,
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Screen Actors Guild Award, for The Mirror Has Two Faces, 1996.





Films as Actress (that I personally care about):
1944 To Have and Have Not (Hawks) (as Marie Browning)





1946 The Big Sleep (Hawks) (as Vivian Sternwood Rutledge)






1947 The Dark Passage (Daves) (as Irene Jansen)

1948 Key Largo (Huston) (as Nora Temple)