End Credits #8: Cinema's 2013 Lost Treasures Montage Part 2

Some of Cinema's 2013 Lost Treasures. The music by Mark McKenzie is from the film Durango.

Time Out - "The Groove Tube" Cooking Demo

An essential cooking demonstration for all master chefs from

The Groove Tube (1974)

End Credits #7: Cinema's 2013 Lost Treasures Montage Part 1

Some of Cinema's 2013 Lost Treasures. The music by Michael Kamen is from the film Open Range.

Capturing a Golden Moment #5: White Heat

In this series I'd like to present some exceptional scenes inspired by cinema's most gifted artists of yesteryear.

White Heat (1949)

Director: Raoul Walsh

Scene: "Prison Breakdown"

This little display of emotion demonstrates why James Cagney was such a great actor and commanding star. Creatively written by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. Superbly captured by director Walsh.  

White Heat is available on Blu-ray here:

White Heat [Blu-ray]

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Starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'brien, Margaret Wycherly

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It is also available on DVD here:

White Heat

$9.50

Starring Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'brien, Margaret Wycherly

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Sterling Silver Dialogue #9

Sterling Silver Dialogue From The Movies: 

Do you know where they're from?

"Hey, you ain't lookin' too good. The sight of blood bother you or somethin'?"

(reply) "Only my own."

"It's the stuff dreams are made of."

"Some men just don't like to be driven."  

(reply) "No, some men just don't like to be taken for a ride."

"How do you know that? How do you know my friends call me Domino?"  

(reply) "It's on the bracelet on your ankle."

(response) "So... what sharp little eyes you've got."   (reply)  "Wait 'til you get to my teeth."

(after leaving an Irrigation Therapy Room) "See you later...irrigator."

"You buy nice drinks, mister but you talk so much."

"Occasionally I always drink too much."

(first look at their new residence) "Well, the place looks lived in."

(reply) "Yeah, but by what?"

"Would you kill me, Rocky?"  (reply)  "Wouldn't you?"

"You drinkin' that stuff so early?"   (reply)  "Listen, doll girl, when you drink as much as I do, you gotta start early."

(to Nancy) "I wouldn't give a nickel for your husband's chances before that parole board with all this going on."

(to Rocky) "And I wouldn't give a nickel for your chances with those two apes running around looking for you."

(to Castro) "For you, I just wouldn't give a nickel."

"Look Johnny, you know me. You get in my way... I'll kill you."   (reply)  "You took the words right out of my mouth."

"I'm no Humphrey Bogart. He gets slugged and he's ready for action; I get slugged and I'm ready for pickling."

"Lili, a sizzler at the Fol-de-Rol. A figure like champagne and a heart like the cork."

"We have a saying in India..."  (reply) "Yes?"   (response) "Yes."  (reply)  "Well?"

(response) "Well what?"

"Who do you think you are?"  

(reply) "In India, we don't think who we are. We know who we are."

"You meshuga!"   (reply)  "I am not your sugar."

"Num Num" "Birdie Num Num"

Answers to Sterling Silver Dialogue #9 are here.

Hidden Gems #5

Hidden Gem #50: Wake in Fright a.k.a. Outback (1971, Australia/U.S.A.)

Director: Ted Kotcheff

A British bonded school teacher who dreams of life in the big city, receives the culture shock of a lifetime when a planned brief stopover in an Aussie mining town becomes a one way ticket to self-loathing hell and for us one of the most personally gripping horror stories ever witnessed.

Hidden Gem #49: Special Section a.k.a. Section spéciale (1975, France/Italy/West Germany)

Director: Costa-Gavras

Less melodramatic than the director's better known Missing (1982) and Music Box (1989), this straightforwardly powerful account of judicial corruption is based on a true story that took place in Nazi occupied France during World War II.

Hidden Gem #48: Black Rain a.k.a. Kuroi ame (1989, Japan)

Director: Shōhei Imamura

The devastating after effects of the Hiroshima bombing are handled in a subdued and subtle fashion in Imamura's most tragic and moving cinematic story. 

Hidden Gem #47: The Stranger a.k.a. Lo straniero (1967, Italy/France/Algeria)

Director: Luchino Visconti

Perfectly capturing the theme of existentialism is this provocative portrayal of a lost soul accused of murder in French occupied Algeria (based on the novel by Albert Camus).

Hidden Gem #46: Smog (1962, Italy)

Director: Franco Rossi

Like 1972's The Outside Man (See: Top 10 Guilty Treasures), this is a unique and absorbing outsider's view of life in Los Angeles, only instead of the French suspenseful intrigue, we have this charming and quirky Italian perspective. 

Hidden Gem #45: Cry Danger (1951, U.S.A.)

Director: Robert Parrish

This terrific little L.A. noir with Dick Powell at his cynical best has great heavies, sleazy locations, shady dames and wicked dialogue to burn - plus even Powell's best friend who sprung him from prison on a phoney alibi thinks he's guilty. (More here).

Hidden Gem #44: Ocean Men: Extreme Dive (2001, Germany)

Director: Bob Talbot

A fascinating, totally unique documentary that looks at two extreme athletes who challenge each other not only in how long they can hold their breaths but in the authenticity of the chosen methods to do so, with the director's amazing underwater photography beautifully scored by composer Cliff Eidelman.

(Out of 5 Treasure Chests)

Hidden Gem #43: Four Nights of a Dreamer a.k.a. Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (1971, France)

Director: Robert Bresson

A chance encounter in Paris between a painter and a possible suicide victim turns to dreamy, unrequited love in still another jewel from the great french director, this one rare and practically unknown.

Hidden Gem #42: Black Tuesday (1954, U.S.A.)

Director: Hugo Fregonese

This brutally vicious prison escape thriller is one of the best of its type and contains a riveting performance by Edward G. Robinson, matched every step of the way by an equally brilliant (and surprisingly intense) turn from Peter Graves as a fellow convict, both of whom are about to be executed. 

Hidden Gem #41: Le Crabe Tambour (1977, France)

Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer

A highly engrossing and intelligent film that combines adventure with historical drama and a strong sense of mystery surrounding the heroics of a former French war hero once betrayed, and now sought out, by a dying ship's captain.

A.G.

Hidden Gems #6 is here.

Capturing a Golden Moment #4: The Fastest Gun Alive

In this series I'd like to present some exceptional scenes inspired by cinema's most gifted artists of yesteryear.

The Fastest Gun Alive (1956) 

Director: Russell Rouse

Scene: "The Dance"

Another amazing showcase from the unstoppable Russ Tamblyn. From the young Bart Tare in Gun Crazy (1950) to Riff in West Side Story (1961) to Son of a Gunfighter in Django Unchained (2012), he's still going strong.

The Fastest Gun Alive is available On Demand from The Warner Archive Collection here:

Fastest Gun Alive

$19.98

Starring Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford, Russ Tamblyn, Allyn Joslyn

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Sterling Silver Dialogue #8

Sterling Silver Dialogue From The Movies: 

Do you know where they're from?

"You know, once, off the hump of Brazil I saw the ocean so darkened with blood it was black and the sun faintin' away over the lip of the sky. We'd put in at Fortaleza, and a few of us had lines out for a bit of idle fishing. It was me had the first strike. A shark it was. Then there was another, and another shark again, 'till all about, the sea was made of sharks and more sharks still, and no water at all. My shark had torn himself from the hook, and the scent, or maybe the stain it was, and him bleeding his life away, drove the rest of them mad. Then the beasts took to eating each other. In their frenzy... they ate at themselves. You could feel the lust of murder like a wind stinging your eyes, and you could smell the death, reeking up out of the sea. I never saw anything worse... until this little picnic tonight. And you know, there wasn't one of them sharks in the whole crazy pack that survived."

"The only way to stay out of trouble is to grow old, so I guess I'll concentrate on that."

"'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough."

"You see Mr. Gitts, most people never have to face the fact... the right time and the right place, they're capable of... ANYTHING."  

"Well, I was curious. So many important people in one place..."  (reply)  "The rats usually desert a sinking ship. In my case, they appear to be flocking on board."

"Have you no human consideration?"  (reply)  "Show me a human, and I might have."

"And there's a message from the bartender. Does Miss Channing know she ordered domestic gin by mistake?"  (reply)  "The only thing I ordered by mistake is the guests. They're domestic, too, and they don't care what they drink as long as it burns!" 

"I'm afraid Mr. DeWitt would find me boring before too long."  (reply)  "You won't bore him honey, you won't even get a chance to talk."

"How about calling it a night?"  (reply)  "And you, pose as a playwright? A situation pregnant with possibilities and all you can think of is everybody go to sleep."

"I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, like a salted peanut." 

"Why not read my column to pass the time? The minutes will fly like hours." 

Answers to Sterling Silver Dialogue #8 are here.