Reviews

How wonderful to see that this movie was made on site in New York City, not on some back lot in a studio. In this movie, you can feel the sense of the City, it is part of the movie itself.

I am so happy that this movie was not made in color, the black and white greyness of the story lends itself to the mood.

Ernest Borgnine shines as the lonely 30ish man, living with his widowed Italian mother, going to his day job as a butcher. Hanging out with his other lonely bachelor friends. "What do you want to do Marty?" "I don't know, what do you want to do?" Betsy Blair as Clara gives a believable performance as a lonely 30ish school teacher who is still living with her parents. She goes on a blind date to a dance with a cad who dumps her, and she stands there on the sidelines as a wallflower, which she is.

Marty asks her to dance, they strike up a conversation, he takes her to his home where she meets his mother, he takes her home by bus, he realizes how much he cares for her! He says he will call, but he does not.

Then the middle of the story with his mother being threatened by the fact that Marty might just marry some day and desert her, as her sister has been put out by her son and daughter in law. So much family angst here, but love triumphs! The part I love the most is when Marty calls Clara at the end of the movie. Clara's face just lights up like a Christmas tree when Marty calls her. Such fabulous acting! I was rooting for them. I hope they had a happy and long marriage, had kids whom Marty's mother embraced and made her happy in the last years of her life. One can only hope.

I would give this 100 stars if I could.

I am giving this movie a 10 rating only because Lash was my first crush when we got our first television in the early 1950s. I also watched Encore Westerns yesterday, the tribute to Lash showing six of his Marshal Cheyenne Davis movies filmed in 1947. At the end of the six hours, I was going bonkers. The music drove me crazy during the chase scenes, the same music in all six movies, thank goodness for the mute button. And Fuzzy St. John's antics wore thin. I just wanted to see Lash give some lovely damsels a few smooches, but no such luck.

However, what a cheap movie company this was! In almost all of the films I watched yesterday, there were the same exact scenes over and over, in each of the movies. In two of the movies, there was the same exact stagecoach chase with the same damsel in distress! Oh well, so what! I got to see my Lash in all his glory. My heart is still beating wildly. What a guy!

In the early hours of this morning, I couldn't sleep so I surfed the several HBO channels and there it was. One of my favorite movies. There was Pandora in all of her nutty glory. The scene in the Italian home where they were eating just made me nuts! Okay, Olympia Dukakis and Paul Sorvino were miscast, they were obviously as old as the two stars. But funny and adorable! The scene under the Brooklyn Bridge where they finally admitted, in all of their angst, that they loved each other. An autobiographical movie, obviously.

With regards to Renee Taylor, I have a copy of a book that she wrote several years ago "My Life On A Diet." The writing is just as wonderful as the writer, just a wonderful piece of comedy, just like her.

I would just like an explanation as to why this movie isn't available to the millions of fans of these wonderful people.

I watched Fur on one of the HBO channels last night. I am a huge fan of Diane Arbus and I was so looking forward to seeing this movie. It did not disappoint. I thought the chemistry between Kidman and Downey was fabulous. This was reminiscent of the TV series "Beauty and the Beast," the love between two creative people, irregardless of who was the Beauty and who was the Beast. And the "shaving scene" WOW! I'll never complain about shaving my legs again! Arbus was a creative genius, her photos will live forever. But she was also a tortured soul. The way she committed suicide still haunts me.

At first I thought, how could Nicole Kidman play the part of Diane Arbus. Arbus was a short waif of a woman, and Kidman is almost six feet tall. But Kidman "got the part" like she gets all of her other parts. She just immerses herself in the role, and is very believable.

Loved this movie. I want to see it again!

I first saw this movie on TCM, and I became enamored of this fabulous acting couple. I won't repeat the fabulous reviews of this film, but I hounded TCM to reschedule the movie, but alas. Then thanks to an amazon.com seller, I bought the video. I have watched it over and over. What fun to see Lunt running around in disguise and thinking he was putting something over on his wife. And Zasu Pitts as the maid, she's priceless!

The Guardsman has also put me in touch with their biographies, what wonderful lives they led. They were Broadway stars, Lunt and Fontanne, they have a Broadway theater named for them.

And 77 years later, the Guardsman still brings laughs to us. Thank goodness for them!

I have watched this movie several times on cable, and I just really love the entire concept of the haunted house, the widowed father with two adorable kids, Catherine Bell as the so-called witch. She is so beautiful and so believable. Maybe it is schmaltzy but I really just love watching a wholesome program where the "good guys" win.

The scenes from Halloween were exceptionally wonderful, you could see the two main characters falling in love.

And the Mayor's wife getting her comeuppance, the actress playing the Mayor's wife was really great, I loved her. A good feel good movie!

I heard that there is a sequel in the works, and I really hope so. This is a true wholesome family movie and I look forward to it!

I saw The Haunting when it came out in 1963. My younger brother Bill and I went to the movie together, and I sat there with my hands over my eyes most of the movie. No special effects back in 1963, all of the sounds and sights were in one's mind. The scene in the movie when Julie Harris and Clare Bloom were in the bedroom and the "booms" were coming down the hall. Goosebumps, I still have goosebumps from that scene. The book by the genius Shirley Jackson was just as scary and the movie is true to the book. And what did my brother Bill do after we got home and went to bed. He thought he was so cute, he started banging on all the doors in the house! And it is very interesting to see that the exterior shots of "Hill House" were filmed at the Ellington Park Hotel, in Stratford-Upon-Avon in England. I wondered whether or not the exterior scenes of Hill House were real, until I saw it was filmed at the Hotel. So Hill House does exist! A great movie, and the DVD is perfect!

Fabulous actors, beautiful scenery, stark reality. I won't elaborate on all of the other reviewers' comments because you get the picture! However, the movie isn't for the squeamish. Reality is slaughtering pigs and other livestock in order to survive. I also have Elinore Randall Stewart's homestead book. I read it several years ago, I have to reread it, since I just watched the newly-released, remastered DVD of the movie.

I tried to buy the video for several years, finally bought it used from a video store that went out of business. But Yippee! The DVD is now for sale, I purchased it on amazon.com. Not cheap, but well worth it to me. This is a movie I will be watching until the end of my days!

I just loved this movie, it was so much fun. I have loved Francesca Annis since I saw her in a TV series on PBS about the life of Edward the Eighth, I think that's the number. She is so beautiful and talented, she just grabs your attention. "Deadly Summer" is a kind of a road tour, two British couples with their children rent a summer house in France. Some of the scenes made me very uncomfortable, particularly the abusive husband. I am not going to spoil my comments about this movie, but when brow beat your chubby wife, when you constantly denigrate her, when you treat her like a loser, then you are going to get it!

It's about their dysfunctional lives. I won't post a spoiler, but the ending is very satisfying. I love the the folk song, "Erie Canal, Low Bridge, Everybody Down." Got it?

I am watching this movie right now on TCM. Filmed gloriously in black and white. But as I have read in another thread about this movie, Warren William shines in his role as Philippe D'Artagnan. Warren William, in my humble opinion, was the heart throb of the 1930s and 40s. So handsome and his voice like honey. Okay, I'm being dramatic here, but I have watched so many of his movies on TCM and I am so enamored of him. One of the greatest actors of his time, it is amazing to me that he is so unknown today. In my opinion, he ranks up there with the greatest actors of his time, along with Gary Cooper, Bogart and the like. This movie is a treasure. And so is Warren William!

I watched the Wreck of the Mary Deare last night on TCM. I agree with the other reviewers, for the most part. However, I just love Gary Cooper, and it was quite obvious that he was not well when he made this movie. He looked sick and it seemed that he was just walking through his part. He died from prostate cancer a few years after this movie was released.

I remember the Oscar show when Gary Cooper got an honorable Oscar award and Jimmy Stewart accepted for him. Stewart was very emotional when he accepted the award on behalf of Cooper, so it was quite obvious that Cooper was seriously ill. And he was! With regard to Charlton Heston, he always gave a strong performance. And to watch him in the Michael Moore documentary, "Bowling at Columbine," was a sad sight to see! A lot of great actors and actresses in this movie, a lot of them gone.

I saw this movie on television and I was so happy when the video came out. Could there be a more beautiful cast and such beautiful songs! Ava Gardner personifies Venus with her beautiful face and body. No body stockings there, her beautiful body is there to be seen! Eddie Hatch is a windows dresser in a department store, kisses the statue of Venus who is on display, who comes to life and spends several hours with Eddie until Zeus calls her home at midnight. Made me cry, Venus didn't want to go home to be a goddess, she wanted to be a mere mortal! And the beautiful songs -- "Don't Look Now But My Heart is Showing" -- a beautiful waltz, which is sung by the cast in Central Park. And "Speak Low When You Speak Love" -- how divine! So, Ava comes back as "Venus Jones" who will be working at the department store, after all the Cinderella stories come true! Lots and lots of tears.

I love this movie. Why isn't this on DVD yet? Don't get it!

I watched I Take This Woman this morning on TMC. I am going to comment on the movie and the year it was filmed.

The year was 1940, and this country had just entered WW II. The mood in the country was somber and thousands of young men had just gone off to war. Many movies were made at this time to be up-lifting and romantic. Escapism movies, not realistic! I thought the chemistry between Tracy and Lamarr was fantastic! Was Tracy any more handsome, that expressive face of his. Lamarr was so beautiful, it almost hurt to look at her. I know it was kind of a rookie story, doctor saves the heroine on a boat from Yucatan back to the states. She has been scorned by her married lover. She tries to throw herself overboard. He saves her. How romantic is that! She gets a job in a clinic he works at in a poor neighborhood, and the story continues with a satisfying ending.

The only downer I have with this movie is "Sambo" the clinic janitor. Typical Hollywood stuff at that time about Blacks, that they should act like total morons. I felt very uncomfortable watching this movie with Sambo in the few scenes he was in the movie. Why was Hollywood projecting the image that all Blacks were nothing but nannies and janitors I am very offended by this, but then, so many movies of the time had this theme. That scene when Sambo was eating a piece of wedding cake was criminal! Anyway, a feast for the eyes, except for the Sambo stuff.

The movie starts out "Once Upon A Time." It was several years ago when it was the first time I saw this masterpiece. I don't even remember where I first saw it on TV, I believe it was on PBS. I first bought it on videotape for $30.00 and almost wore out the tape. Then I bought the DVD version, which had the interviews and the locations from the movie.

The exquisite scenes when Beauty first meets the Beast, her compassion for him and the ultimate realization that good overwhelms evil. How would you expect a fairy tale to end -- only the good and pure survive!

Coctau was a genius. He filmed this movie after WWII when film supplies in France were almost nonexistent. His scenes had such purity -- the bed sheets flapping in the wind when Beauty goes back to her family, her love for her father. And her acceptance of her sisters' malevolence.

I have read that several reviewers were upset that the Beast turned into the Prince. I, for one, missed the Beast when he died. However, this is only a fairy tale and fairy tales are meant to uplift and to tell a moral. And the fact that the Prince and Beauty were transported to a better place, well, sometimes I wish that for all of us.

How happy I am that I, in my lifetime, was able to have the wonderful experience of this incredible and wondrous movie.

I absolute loved this movie. I own the video and I am going to buy the new DVD. There are a number of funny scenes from the movie, i.e., when Loretta is at the airport watching her fiancé's plane take off and she is talking to an elderly woman who was jilted by her fiancé. Also the scene in the restaurant where the professor's young lover throws water in his face, and the scene in the bakery where Loretta meets her fiancé's brother. Also the dinner where the elderly grandfather feeds his dogs the dinner Loretta's mother has prepared. An update on the house where Loretta's family lived and where the movie's exteriors were shot -- the home was recently (in the past three months) put on the market for $3.5 million. A picture of the end unit town home accompanied the article. It looks just like it did in the movie.