AHC: Some of your favorite films premade into classics.

Blackfox5

Blade Runner (1949)
A Warner Brothers movie
Produced by Howard Hawks
Directed by James Whale

Rick Deckard - Humphrey Bogart
Roy Batty - Robert Mitchum
Rachel - Lauren Bacall
J.F. Sebastian - Elisha Cook, Jr.
Eldon Tyrell - Peter Lorre
Harry Bryant - Lionel Barrymore
Hannibal Chew - Keye Luke
Gaff - Kirk Douglas
Holden - William Holden
Leon Kowalski - Ward Bond
Taffey Lewis - Sidney Greenstreet
Pris - Dorothy Malone
Zhora - Rhonda Fleming

This cerebreal 1940's science fiction film is now considered a masterpiece mixing scientific themes and film noir, but was a flop during its original release by audiences expecting a more traditional thriller. Based on an idea by then unknown writer Philip K. Dick, director James Whale used all the techniques he learned making the Frankenstein movies to create future world recovering from an unknown disaster (commonly interpreted to be an atomic war). Humphrey Bogart plays his usual world weary Los Angeles detective investigating outlaw human robots (called replicants in the film) lead by Roy Batty (Mitchum) who are infiltrating human society.

Cast mainly by Warner Brother stars and character actors, emerging RKO stars Mitchum and Douglas were loaned primarily on them wanting to do a movie with Bogart. The final rootftop confrontation between Bogart and Mitchum is now considered by film critics as Bogart passing on his film noir leading man role to Mitchum. Future cultural critics believe the theme of replicants passing for humans is James Whale's commentary on homosexuals hiding in society.

The strength ot the performances and intelligence of the writing would cause future audiences to reevaluate the popularity of the film and inspire later science fiction films in the 1950s.
 

Blackfox5

The Departed (1932)
Warner Brothers
Produced by Hal Wallis
Directed by Michael Curtiz

Cast:
William "Billy" Costigan Jr. - James Cagney
Staff Sergeant Colin Sullivan - Pat O’Brien
Francis "Frank" Costello - Edward G Robinson
Staff Sergeant Sean Dignam - Clark Gable
Dr. Madolyn Madden – Bette Davis
Captain Oliver Charles Queenan – Paul Muni
Captain George Ellerby – Walter Huston

Pre-code 1932 film. Its portrayal of police corruption and infiltration by organized crime, and the underhanded methods needed to combat it helped contribute to the end of the Prohibition, prompted police reform, and pushed adoption of the Hays Code. James Cagney cemented his star status with his portrayal of undercover policeman Billy Costigan. Cagney’s real life friend Pat O’Brien plays his nemesis, Sullivan, a corrupt cop working for notorious gangster Costello (Robinson). O'Brien's clean cut looks and demeanor made him perfect for the role. Bette Davis has a key role as Sullivan's wife who falls in love with Cagney. The film is widely considered to be key in Cagney’s career from switching his roles from villains to heroes. The dramatic tension of the movie is considerably enlivened by the playful banter between distrusting police officers Gable (who was loaned by MGM for the role) and Huston.
 

Blackfox5

The Matrix (1971)
20th Century Fox
Produced by Richard D. Zanuck
Directed by William Friedkin

Cast:
Thomas Anderson/Neo – Charlton Heston
Morpheus – Sidney Poitier
Trinity – Faye Dunaway
Agent Smith – Yul Brynner
Cypher – Robert Duvall
Oracle – Esther Rolle

Inspired by the philosophical problem of ‘brains in a vat,” The Matrix is the middle of Charlton Heston’s classic science fiction trilogy between Planet of the Apes (1968) and Soylent Green (1973). The Matrix takes place in a future world where robots have taken over the Earth and trapped most of humanity in a strange electronic world. The film is most noted for its sudden change of setting. Just as audiences become used to the strange future world Bell Labs engineer Anderson (Heston) is living in – where videophones, computers, and personal radios are common – is revealed to be a fake reality, and Heston enters a dystopian world where the few remaining humans are either enslaved or hunted by machines.

The film caused a mild controversy at the time since it had several characters portrayed by black actors in leadership roles, and its complete absence of any racial issues among the human survivors. The movie’s religious theme is obvious, only heightened by the repeated conflict between Heston and Brynner from The Ten Commandments. Its use of traditional movie special effects to show the increasing ability of Heston’s character (now renamed Neo) to control the electronic environment most human minds are trapped in was considered innovative at the time.
 
The Kiat

The Kiat








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unclepatrick

unclepatrick

The Vulture said:
Aside from the small matter of Cary Grant being British.
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Never knew that Grant was English. Learn something new everyday,
Still not uncommon to change the nationality of Character. Example
Guns of Navanrone. Mallory was New Zealand in the Novel and from Canada in the Movie. Or Enemy Below, British Ship in Novel and American Ship in the Movie.
 
Stolengood

Stolengood

Banned
PHONE BOOTH (1967)

Starring:

Tony Curtis – Don Kestrell
Martin Balsam – Captain Frank Dooley
Julie Andrews – Faye Ramey
Eva Marie Saint – Judy Kestrell

Bruce Dern – Sergeant Powers
Robert Duvall – Lonnie (The Pimp)
Perry Lopez – Delivery Man
Harrison Ford – Fritz (Don's Assistant)

John Forsythe – The Voice

Director of Photography – Robert Burks, A.S.C.

Pictorial Designs – Albert Whitlock
Color by Technicolor

Film Editor – Carl Lerner
Assistant Director – James H. Brown
Associate Producer – Herbert Coleman

Selected Themes Composed by Bernard Herrmann
Music by Lalo Schifrin

Ms. Andrews and Ms. Saint’s Costumes Designed by Edith Head
Production Designed by Robert Boyle
Titles Designed by Saul Bass

Written by Larry Cohen & Ernest Lehman

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Released through Universal Pictures

Premiere: February 10, 1967 (New York)
Wide Release: April 6, 1967
 
unclepatrick

unclepatrick

Mission Impossible by Alfred Hitchcock 1957
Written by Anthony Shaffer and Peter Shaffer.
Act one
A Airforce Major is on a Train from LA when a international crisis threatens to goes nuclear. The Major attempt to get off the train but is unable as the crisis increases and the people on the train start to panic. Then he see a Atomic bomb hit LA.

Act two The Major and some of the survivors from the Train attempt to reach a isolated cabin that the major has set up. Or so he thinks. It turns out that the other are not random survivors but former special agents who work with Dan Brigg during World War Two and that there is no War, just effects that the agents have used to simulate a nuclear war. It turns out that the Major has hidden a number of nuclear bonbs and has the control system at the cabin. The agents must get to the cabin and get past the surcurity system. They have created a second cabin that looks the same and get the major there as other agents duplicate the shutdown procedure at the real cabin.

Act three, The Major realizes that he being con and that he not at the real cabin and he escape the agents. He rushes to the cabin where he find his supearior officer who has order him to steal the bombs and set up the control system. But while the major believe that the bombs where place in enemy cities, in reality the bombs are in the US. The Supieror officer is the real enemy and plans to take out the USA. Or is this just one more con.

Hitchcock does Atomic horror and con men. Last act does get a little confusing. Some critic complean one con too many. Still a fun film.
 
unclepatrick

unclepatrick

Blackfox5 said:
Blade Runner (1949)
A Warner Brothers movie
Produced by Howard Hawks
Directed by James Whale

Rick Deckard - Humphrey Bogart
Roy Batty - Robert Mitchum
Rachel - Lauren Bacall
J.F. Sebastian - Elisha Cook, Jr.
Eldon Tyrell - Peter Lorre
Harry Bryant - Lionel Barrymore
Hannibal Chew - Keye Luke
Gaff - Kirk Douglas
Holden - William Holden
Leon Kowalski - Ward Bond
Taffey Lewis - Sidney Greenstreet
Pris - Dorothy Malone
Zhora - Rhonda Fleming

This cerebreal 1940's science fiction film is now considered a masterpiece mixing scientific themes and film noir, but was a flop during its original release by audiences expecting a more traditional thriller. Based on an idea by then unknown writer Philip K. Dick, director James Whale used all the techniques he learned making the Frankenstein movies to create future world recovering from an unknown disaster (commonly interpreted to be an atomic war). Humphrey Bogart plays his usual world weary Los Angeles detective investigating outlaw human robots (called replicants in the film) lead by Roy Batty (Mitchum) who are infiltrating human society.

Cast mainly by Warner Brother stars and character actors, emerging RKO stars Mitchum and Douglas were loaned primarily on them wanting to do a movie with Bogart. The final rootftop confrontation between Bogart and Mitchum is now considered by film critics as Bogart passing on his film noir leading man role to Mitchum. Future cultural critics believe the theme of replicants passing for humans is James Whale's commentary on homosexuals hiding in society.

The strength ot the performances and intelligence of the writing would cause future audiences to reevaluate the popularity of the film and inspire later science fiction films in the 1950s.
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Love the casting
 
unclepatrick

unclepatrick

Blackfox5 said:
Blade Runner (1949)
A Warner Brothers movie
Produced by Howard Hawks
Directed by James Whale

Rick Deckard - Humphrey Bogart
Roy Batty - Robert Mitchum
Rachel - Lauren Bacall
J.F. Sebastian - Elisha Cook, Jr.
Eldon Tyrell - Peter Lorre
Harry Bryant - Lionel Barrymore
Hannibal Chew - Keye Luke
Gaff - Kirk Douglas
Holden - William Holden
Leon Kowalski - Ward Bond
Taffey Lewis - Sidney Greenstreet
Pris - Dorothy Malone
Zhora - Rhonda Fleming

This cerebreal 1940's science fiction film is now considered a masterpiece mixing scientific themes and film noir, but was a flop during its original release by audiences expecting a more traditional thriller. Based on an idea by then unknown writer Philip K. Dick, director James Whale used all the techniques he learned making the Frankenstein movies to create future world recovering from an unknown disaster (commonly interpreted to be an atomic war). Humphrey Bogart plays his usual world weary Los Angeles detective investigating outlaw human robots (called replicants in the film) lead by Roy Batty (Mitchum) who are infiltrating human society.

Cast mainly by Warner Brother stars and character actors, emerging RKO stars Mitchum and Douglas were loaned primarily on them wanting to do a movie with Bogart. The final rootftop confrontation between Bogart and Mitchum is now considered by film critics as Bogart passing on his film noir leading man role to Mitchum. Future cultural critics believe the theme of replicants passing for humans is James Whale's commentary on homosexuals hiding in society.

The strength ot the performances and intelligence of the writing would cause future audiences to reevaluate the popularity of the film and inspire later science fiction films in the 1950s.
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Found this page that has the cover of the paperback novel.
http://www.postercollective.com/2012/06/14/scifi-favorites-get-pulp-cover-makeovers/
 
unclepatrick

unclepatrick

Disney Mysterious Island

Mysterious Island 1954
Directed by RIchard Fleischer
based on the Novel by Jules Verne
Script by Ray Bradbury
Produce by Walt Disney

Starting
James Mason as Captain Nemo
Charlton Heston as Captain Cyrus Harding
Agnes Moorehead as Lady Mary Fairchild
Glenn Ford as Gideon Spillit
Fess Parker as Seargent Pencroft
James Dean as Herbert Brown
Anne Francis as Elena Fairchild
Harry Belafronte as Corporal Neb Hugent

Creature effect by Willis O Brian and Ray Harryhausen
Music by Bernard Hermann

Disney follow the sucess of 20,000 League Under the Sea 1954 with the Mysterious Island Jules Vernes sequal to the book. They still had the sets, custumes and props from the first film and so reuse them to make this film.
Since Disney decided that a strait adaption of the book would not be exciting enough, he decide to have Nemo working on solving the world food shortage by creating giant animals. He hired Willis O Brian who did the effect for King Kong. However because of time limits, O Brian brought in Ray Harryhausen.
 

Richter10

Dressed to Kill (1952)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Dr. Roberta Elliott: Joan Crawford
Liz Blake: Eve Marie Saint
Kate Miller: Lauren Bacall
Peter Miller: Paul Newman
Lt. Marino: Dick Powell
“The Trenchcoat Woman”: Geraldine Fitzgerald

This shocker by the master of suspense starts with stressed-out housewife Kate Miller (Lauren Bacall) consulting psychiatrist Dr. Elliott (Joan Crawford), discussing the problems with the relationship with her second hubsand. Later in the she meets a mysterious stranger in the museum (the now-famous Museum Chase sequence), going with him to his apartment. After leaving him, Kate Miller is killed with a razor by a mysterious tall blonde woman, with a black trenchcoat and sunglasses. The only witness is a lounge singer, Liz Blake (played by Eve Marie Saint), who now is hunted by both Lt. Marino (Dick Powell) and the killer. Saint's character only choice is discover the identity of the killer with the help of Peter, Kate's genius son. The chases and twists leads to a final confrontation with the killer leading to a final and shocking twist.

The acting was very well-received by the critics and the public, in special Eve Marie Saint as the seductive and tough, but kind-hearted chanteuse Liz Blake, Paul Newman as the intelligent and shy Peter Miller, and Geraldine Fitzgerald as the chilling and implacable Trenchcoat Woman, as the iconic character become known by the audience.

Although a big success of public, it received several criticism due the on-screen violent showed in the elevator scene, and also by the implication of attraction between Bacall and Crawford's characters and the possible relationship between Saint and Newman's characters.
 
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Richter10

unclepatrick said:
Mysterious Island 1954
Directed by RIchard Fleischer
based on the Novel by Jules Verne
Script by Ray Bradbury
Produce by Walt Disney

Starting
James Mason as Captain Nemo
Charlton Heston as Captain Cyrus Harding
Agnes Moorehead as Lady Mary Fairchild
Glenn Ford as Gideon Spillit
Fess Parker as Seargent Pencroft
James Dean as Herbert Brown
Anne Francis as Elena Fairchild
Harry Belafronte as Corporal Neb Hugent

Creature effect by Willis O Brian and Ray Harryhausen
Music by Bernard Hermann

Disney follow the sucess of 20,000 League Under the Sea 1954 with the Mysterious Island Jules Vernes sequal to the book. They still had the sets, custumes and props from the first film and so reuse them to make this film.
Since Disney decided that a strait adaption of the book would not be exciting enough, he decide to have Nemo working on solving the world food shortage by creating giant animals. He hired Willis O Brian who did the effect for King Kong. However because of time limits, O Brian brought in Ray Harryhausen.
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This one looked really interesting. And the addition of the giant animals as a food source was weirdly fiting :)
 

BlondieBC

Banned
Devolved said:
Mel Gibson was approached to play the role in the 1980's. Imagine the British hating (before he became famous for his views on Jews) Gibson running around in a tuxedo and saying "I do this for queen and country":eek:.
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Imagine the press when he then does Brave Heart.
 
unclepatrick

unclepatrick

Alien 1958

(blame Richter10 for my posting this. He talk me into it)
Alien !958
Directed by Edward L Cahn
Produce by Robert Kent
Written by Jerome Bixby

Ray Corrigan as the Aliein
Ann Dorran as Lambert the Nostromo navigator
Dabb Greer as Ash Ship Science Officer/Android
Kim Spaulding as Kane the Executive officer
Paul Langton as Parker ship engineer
Marshall Thomson as Dallas Captain of the Nostromo
Robert Brice as Brett Engineering Crewman
Shirley Patterson as Ripley Warrent Officer on the Nostromo
 
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