100 Meme - Film # 50

Wednesday, August 28th, 2013 06:20 pm
debris4spike: (Hee!)
This set of films has contained those from Danny Kaye and Will Hay ... to finish off the set of 10 I am going to go to a film in the 60's ... the first of a set of films, still being made!  I have already mentioned one other in the set, but this one is just so mad it's brilliant - Have you guessed?

Yes - its Batman Maybe not quite as gothic as the more recent films - but a great film.

The archvillains of The United Underworld - The Catwoman, The Joker, The Riddler and The Penguin - combine forces to dispose of Batman and Robin as they launch their fantastic plot to control the entire world. From his submarine, Penguin and his cohorts hijack a yacht containing a superdehydrator, which can extract all moisture from humans and reduce them to particles of dust. The evildoers turn the 9 Security Council members in the United World Building into 9 vials of multicolored crystals! Batman and Robin track the villains in their Batboat and use Batcharge missles to force the sub to surface.



One of the best scenes ever - (including a scene from another Batman film as well ... the one you need to sse is the first half!)



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100 Meme - Film # 49

Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 07:49 am
debris4spike: (Gold Star)
Another of the bizarre films of Wiil Hay is Boys Will Be Boys
where he plays a teacher at a prison who applies to be Headmaster of a public school ... that turns out to be full of the sons of those he was teaching!

A classic sketch -



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100 Meme - Film # 48

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013 08:56 am
debris4spike: (Soldier - silhouette)
Another film of Will Hay that I do love is The Goose Steps Out ... although this is definately not "pc". Released in 1942, it is a film meant to cheer the English at the low-point of the war ...

A bumbling teacher (Will Hay) conveniently turns out to be the double of a German general. In the true spirit of wartime propoganda high jinks, he is flown into Germany to impersonate the general and cause chaos and hilarity in a Hitler Youth college (populated by the likes of Peter Ustinov, Charles Hawtrey and Barry Morse)

This is one of the scenes, where Will Hay is trying to steal a key from the General ... to listen to his strategy you have to know that most of the areas are County or River names ... eg ... Notts (Nottinghamshire), Lincs (Lincolnshire), Lancs (Lancashire), Kent, Bucks (Buckinghamshire), Beds (Bedfordshire) and Forth, Severn, Trent (rivers) ... and The Wash (an area on the East Anglia coast), Tyneside & Tees (Teeside) ... areas in the North of England. Not forgetting The Scots/Scotch ... a regular play on words over here of the drink & the country.




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debris4spike: (James - HPI - Hanged)
The last few films have been that of Danny Kaye, a comedic actor from America ... so for the others of this set of 10 I cross back to England and to a lesser know comic actor - Will Hay.

As a favourite trick for his friends, he would rapidly write seeming nonsense on a blackboard, look at it thoughtfully for a minute with a puzzled expression, then turn the blackboard upside down and there would be a perfectly written statement of some kind. And he could take someone's dictation, and repeat the trick!!

One of my favourite films of his is Ask a Policeman where he plays a poliman in Turnbottom Round, which prides itself as the village without crime; there has not been an arrest recorded by the local police for years. Unfortunately, this means that their boss decides to close the station. With their jobs on the line, the trio attempt to stage a crime of their own, only to inadvertently uncover a smuggling ring and a headless horseman...





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100 Meme - Film # 30

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012 10:41 am
debris4spike: (Cary Grant - :()
Certainly not a politically correct film, Once Upon a Honeymoon shows the rise of Nazi power before the war.

At the start of WWII, Katie O'Hara (Ginger Rogers), an American burlesque girl intent on social climbing, marries Austrian Baron Von Luber. Pat O'Toole (Cary Grant), an American radio reporter, sees this as a chance to investigate Von Luber, who is suspected of having Nazi ties. As country after country falls to the Nazis, O'Tool follows O'Hara across Europe. At first he is after a story, but he gradually falls in love with her. When she learns that her husband is indeed a Nazi, O'Hara fakes her death and runs off with O'Toole. In Paris, she is recruited to spy for the allies; he uses a radio broadcast to make Von Luber and the Nazis look like fools.

So loosely based on history, but still with a great selection of comedy. In this clip he fills her in on her husband's plans.



100 Meme - Film # 30

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012 10:41 am
debris4spike: (Cary Grant - :()
Certainly not a politically correct film, Once Upon a Honeymoon shows the rise of Nazi power before the war.

At the start of WWII, Katie O'Hara (Ginger Rogers), an American burlesque girl intent on social climbing, marries Austrian Baron Von Luber. Pat O'Toole (Cary Grant), an American radio reporter, sees this as a chance to investigate Von Luber, who is suspected of having Nazi ties. As country after country falls to the Nazis, O'Tool follows O'Hara across Europe. At first he is after a story, but he gradually falls in love with her. When she learns that her husband is indeed a Nazi, O'Hara fakes her death and runs off with O'Toole. In Paris, she is recruited to spy for the allies; he uses a radio broadcast to make Von Luber and the Nazis look like fools.

So loosely based on history, but still with a great selection of comedy. In this clip he fills her in on her husband's plans.



100 Meme - Film # 28

Wednesday, August 29th, 2012 05:34 pm
debris4spike: (Cary Grant - Embarrassed for you)
Mr Lucky is another Cary Grant film that is more unusual, but one I love. He plays a gambler who plans to swindle money from a charity program, but starts to have second thoughts when he falls for a rich society girl.

Watching him learn to knit is a scene that has to be seen -





100 Meme - Film # 28

Wednesday, August 29th, 2012 05:34 pm
debris4spike: (Cary Grant - Embarrassed for you)
Mr Lucky is another Cary Grant film that is more unusual, but one I love. He plays a gambler who plans to swindle money from a charity program, but starts to have second thoughts when he falls for a rich society girl.

Watching him learn to knit is a scene that has to be seen -





debris4spike: (Cary Grant - shenaninans)
Yet another brilliant Cary Grant film is Bachelor Knight

Teenaged Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates. He counters Susan's comic false sophistication by even more comic put-on teenage mannerisms, with a slapstick climax.

Cary Grant is the playboy, Shirley Temple the teenager, and Myrna Loy as her sister. Great film, cast ... and supporting cast.




debris4spike: (Cary Grant - shenaninans)
Yet another brilliant Cary Grant film is Bachelor Knight

Teenaged Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates. He counters Susan's comic false sophistication by even more comic put-on teenage mannerisms, with a slapstick climax.

Cary Grant is the playboy, Shirley Temple the teenager, and Myrna Loy as her sister. Great film, cast ... and supporting cast.




100 Meme - Film # 25

Wednesday, August 8th, 2012 02:55 pm
debris4spike: (Cary Grant - shenaninans)
Let's go back to an earlier Cary Grant, again teamed with Katheryn Hepburn ... and to Holiday a film made in 1938 and which allows him to show off some of his acrobatic skills ... including a back flip.


That clip is actually the story in 3 1/2 minutes!

He falls in love with a girl from a rich family. His unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life is met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister (Katheryn) and long suffering brother.



100 Meme - Film # 25

Wednesday, August 8th, 2012 02:55 pm
debris4spike: (Cary Grant - shenaninans)
Let's go back to an earlier Cary Grant, again teamed with Katheryn Hepburn ... and to Holiday a film made in 1938 and which allows him to show off some of his acrobatic skills ... including a back flip.


That clip is actually the story in 3 1/2 minutes!

He falls in love with a girl from a rich family. His unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life is met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister (Katheryn) and long suffering brother.



100 Meme - Film # 23

Thursday, August 2nd, 2012 08:36 am
debris4spike: (Cary Grant - shenaninans)
f you want to see how a younger Cary Grant became a star then don't miss this film (not his first blockbuster, but the one that made my list of 10!) - Bringing Up Baby is a great story that pairs him with Katherine Hepburn.

While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard "Baby." Add to that the stunning actor Asta called George in the film ... and truly steals the show at times, especially when he and Baby are playing.

Photobucket

The trailer -



Meeting Baby -




100 Meme - Film # 23

Thursday, August 2nd, 2012 08:36 am
debris4spike: (Cary Grant - shenaninans)
f you want to see how a younger Cary Grant became a star then don't miss this film (not his first blockbuster, but the one that made my list of 10!) - Bringing Up Baby is a great story that pairs him with Katherine Hepburn.

While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard "Baby." Add to that the stunning actor Asta called George in the film ... and truly steals the show at times, especially when he and Baby are playing.

Photobucket

The trailer -



Meeting Baby -




100 Meme - Film # 22

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 02:58 pm
debris4spike: (Cary Grant - shenaninans)
Well I like Cary Grant, and I like War films, so here is one of his later films - Operation Peticoat sees an US Sub that is in the Pacific when WWII started .... it is sunk, but this is the story of how it is raised, revived and travels home .... rescuing some nurses on route.

The trailer -



Typically seeing how the nurses and silaors have to learn to "live" together -



100 Meme - Film # 22

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 02:58 pm
debris4spike: (Cary Grant - shenaninans)
Well I like Cary Grant, and I like War films, so here is one of his later films - Operation Peticoat sees an US Sub that is in the Pacific when WWII started .... it is sunk, but this is the story of how it is raised, revived and travels home .... rescuing some nurses on route.

The trailer -



Typically seeing how the nurses and silaors have to learn to "live" together -



debris4spike: (Cary Grant - gagged)
I said I would do my next set of 10 films starring Cary Grant. It has been hard to narrow down to 10 ... but whichever ones make the list, the first has to be   Arsenic & Old Lace. If you have never seen it - why not? It is totally brilliant, and hugely funny. Cary Grant has 2 aunts who he loves .... they just happen to be murderers. Add in a mad brother ... and a psychotic brother ... this is one truly happy family (of course it helps that the film starts with him marrying the vicar's daughter!)

One of the many great scenes (that sums up the main underlying story line) -



The trailer -



PS - my icon comes from the film, btw!

debris4spike: (Cary Grant - gagged)
I said I would do my next set of 10 films starring Cary Grant. It has been hard to narrow down to 10 ... but whichever ones make the list, the first has to be   Arsenic & Old Lace. If you have never seen it - why not? It is totally brilliant, and hugely funny. Cary Grant has 2 aunts who he loves .... they just happen to be murderers. Add in a mad brother ... and a psychotic brother ... this is one truly happy family (of course it helps that the film starts with him marrying the vicar's daughter!)

One of the many great scenes (that sums up the main underlying story line) -



The trailer -



PS - my icon comes from the film, btw!

100 Meme - Film #20

Thursday, July 12th, 2012 09:45 am
debris4spike: (Cary Grant - shenaninans)
5th Avenue Girl must come under my "obscure" catagory of films.

Rich industrialist Walter Connolly feels unwanted by his wife and children so he hires unemployed Ginger Rogers to pose as his mistress. But, of course, he has a playboy son, who has to run the business in his fathers absense. The bit of training pigeons, helped by a psychiatrist is a true weird, but classic scene!

This video has stills from the film, set to a Mantovani version of "Be My Love" ... although the song is a bit full on, the stills take you through the film.



100 Meme - Film #20

Thursday, July 12th, 2012 09:45 am
debris4spike: (Cary Grant - shenaninans)
5th Avenue Girl must come under my "obscure" catagory of films.

Rich industrialist Walter Connolly feels unwanted by his wife and children so he hires unemployed Ginger Rogers to pose as his mistress. But, of course, he has a playboy son, who has to run the business in his fathers absense. The bit of training pigeons, helped by a psychiatrist is a true weird, but classic scene!

This video has stills from the film, set to a Mantovani version of "Be My Love" ... although the song is a bit full on, the stills take you through the film.



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