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| Bill Anderson |
 Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 8:18 pm |
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Even though it's OT, I'll mention the HBO series "Carnivale." The
inhabitants of Babylon gave me the finest ghost-induced shivers I've
experienced in a long time. Poor Dora Mae.
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Bill Anderson
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| David Oberman |
| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 8:21 pm |
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Dave in Toronto <dmatthews03@sympatico.ca> wrote:
Quote: I remember one a few years ago about a haunted submarine - I forget
the title. Ring any bells?
"Below"
Creepy scenes of spectral figures in mirrors moving
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I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.
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TV Guide (Aug. 1997) |
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| Dave in Toronto |
| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:20 pm |
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On Jun 30, 9:21 pm, David Oberman <doberman@etc.> wrote:
Quote: Dave in Toronto <dmatthew...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
I remember one a few years ago about a haunted submarine - I forget
the title. Ring any bells?
"Below"
Creepy scenes of spectral figures in mirrors moving
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That's the one. Thanks. Yes, those scenes were spooky.
Dave in Toronto |
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| Dave in Toronto |
| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:52 pm |
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On Jun 30, 11:20 pm, Dave in Toronto <dmatthew...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
Quote: On Jun 30, 9:21 pm, David Oberman <doberman@etc.> wrote:
Dave in Toronto <dmatthew...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
I remember one a few years ago about a haunted submarine - I forget
the title. Ring any bells?
"Below"
Creepy scenes of spectral figures in mirrors moving
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That's the one. Thanks. Yes, those scenes were spooky.
Dave in Toronto
Which brings to mind "The Halfway House" with Mervyn and Glynis Johns
- guests to a Welsh hotel find that all the newspapers are two years
old and that their hosts are not reflected in the mirrors - A non
scary rather charming ghost movie.
Dave in Toronto |
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| Frank R.A.J. Maloney |
| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:33 pm |
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Dave in Toronto wrote:
Quote: On Jun 30, 11:20 pm, Dave in Toronto <dmatthew...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
On Jun 30, 9:21 pm, David Oberman <doberman@etc.> wrote:
Dave in Toronto <dmatthew...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
I remember one a few years ago about a haunted submarine - I forget
the title. Ring any bells?
"Below"
Creepy scenes of spectral figures in mirrors moving
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That's the one. Thanks. Yes, those scenes were spooky.
Dave in Toronto
Which brings to mind "The Halfway House" with Mervyn and Glynis Johns
- guests to a Welsh hotel find that all the newspapers are two years
old and that their hosts are not reflected in the mirrors - A non
scary rather charming ghost movie.
And there was _High Spirits_ (1988) with Peter O'Toole and Daryl Hannah
and a haunted Irish castle he wants to save by turning into a hotel --
neither scary nor charming. Just a mess all around.
I know it's already been mentioned but let me just say "_The
Frighteners_" to dispel the bad taste that other flick left in my mouth.
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Frank in Seattle
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Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
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| Guest |
| Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:37 am |
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On Jun 29, 8:17 pm, David Oberman <doberman@etc.> wrote:
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Isn't there an old Laurel & Hardy feature where Oliver gets blown up
or something & comes back to Earth as a mule? "Beau Hunks"? "Flying
Deuces"?
Yeah, that was the end of 'Flying Deuces' - they had a short 'The Live
Ghost', but it was just a drunk covered in whitewash.
I seem to remember a tv-movie about an airliner haunted by an
ephemeral Ernest Borgnine...
VMacek |
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| Dave in Toronto |
| Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:17 am |
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On Jul 1, 8:37 am, vmacek...@yahoo.com wrote:
Quote: On Jun 29, 8:17 pm, David Oberman <doberman@etc.> wrote:
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Isn't there an old Laurel & Hardy feature where Oliver gets blown up
or something & comes back to Earth as a mule? "Beau Hunks"? "Flying
Deuces"?
Yeah, that was the end of 'Flying Deuces' - they had a short 'The Live
Ghost', but it was just a drunk covered in whitewash.
I seem to remember a tv-movie about an airliner haunted by an
ephemeral Ernest Borgnine...
VMacek
There was also Abbott and Costello's "The Time of Their Lives" where
the boys come back as ghosts to put the record straight after being
branded as traitors during the revolutionary war.
Another comedy with a ghost twist - "Happy Ever After"- with David
Niven and Yvonne de Carlo. Niven plays a cad (Aptly named Jasper
O'Leary) who has inherits his dead uncle's Irish estate and has plans
that would change the villager's easy going life style so the
villagers, led by Barry Fitzgerald, decide that he has to go and the
time to do it is "O'Leary night" when the ghost of the first O'Leary
is said to walk the halls of the manor. A very young George Cole is
great as a simple minded villager.
Dave in Toronto. |
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| David Oberman |
| Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 11:34 am |
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Dave in Toronto <dmatthews03@sympatico.ca> wrote:
Quote: Another comedy with a ghost twist - "Happy Ever After"- with David
Niven and Yvonne de Carlo. Niven plays a cad (Aptly named Jasper
O'Leary) who has inherits his dead uncle's Irish estate and has plans
that would change the villager's easy going life style so the
villagers, led by Barry Fitzgerald, decide that he has to go and the
time to do it is "O'Leary night" when the ghost of the first O'Leary
is said to walk the halls of the manor. A very young George Cole is
great as a simple minded villager.
Now I'm reminded of another ghost story I probably never saw in its
entirety: Laughton in "The Canterville Ghost"
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Four shapeless shadows bright & beautiful
Draw that strange car of glory, reins of light
Check their unearthly speed; they stop & fold
Their wings of braided air:
The Daemon leaning from the ethereal car
Gazed on the slumbering maid.
-- Shelley |
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| Frank R.A.J. Maloney |
| Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 12:13 pm |
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David Oberman wrote:
Quote: Dave in Toronto <dmatthews03@sympatico.ca> wrote:
Another comedy with a ghost twist - "Happy Ever After"- with David
Niven and Yvonne de Carlo. Niven plays a cad (Aptly named Jasper
O'Leary) who has inherits his dead uncle's Irish estate and has plans
that would change the villager's easy going life style so the
villagers, led by Barry Fitzgerald, decide that he has to go and the
time to do it is "O'Leary night" when the ghost of the first O'Leary
is said to walk the halls of the manor. A very young George Cole is
great as a simple minded villager.
Now I'm reminded of another ghost story I probably never saw in its
entirety: Laughton in "The Canterville Ghost"
I mentioned it en passant upthread, but let me assure you that Laughton
is his usual marvel as the Ghost. Margaret O'Brien is totally charming,
too. The only problem with the film, and it's a biggie, is Robert Young,
as the American GI who has to break the family curse.
I simply do not like Robert Young. I didn't like him in "Father Knows
Best" or in "Marcus Welby, M.D." I didn't like him in _Lady Be Good_
(1941) or _Western Union_ (1941) or _Honolulu_ (1939) -- where he plays
a double role, fergawdssake -- or _Northwest Passage_ (1940).
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Frank in Seattle
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| Dave in Toronto |
| Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:28 pm |
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.. But I'm eagler awaiting
Quote: the release of "Springtime in the Rockies" from that Marquee Musicals
line from Fox.
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"Springtime in the Rockies" is a delight.
I've forgotten quite how, in a film set in the Canadian Rockies, they
segue into a Latin American finale but I guess you don't ask
embarrassing questions of a Betty Grable film.
I'm also pretty sure that actor Chief Many Treaties who plays an
Indian in the movie was playing under an assumed name. Wonder who he
really was?
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| Frank R.A.J. Maloney |
| Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:04 pm |
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Dave in Toronto wrote:
Quote: .. But I'm eagler awaiting
the release of "Springtime in the Rockies" from that Marquee Musicals
line from Fox.
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"Springtime in the Rockies" is a delight.
I've forgotten quite how, in a film set in the Canadian Rockies, they
segue into a Latin American finale but I guess you don't ask
embarrassing questions of a Betty Grable film.
They go back to New York to put on the new show, bankrolled by Carmen
Miranda's new boyfriend, Edward Everett Horton. Uh-huh, sure, I believe
that.
There's a lot to love in this film. One of its minor points of interest
is seeing a young, relatively svelte Jackie Gleason as "the
Commissioner", Payne's and Grable's agent.
Quote: I'm also pretty sure that actor Chief Many Treaties who plays an
Indian in the movie was playing under an assumed name. Wonder who he
really was?
I can only remember two "Indians" with lines in the film. The IMDb shows
three in the cast Iron Eyes Cody and his brother J.W. Cody, the sons of
Italian immigrants, and Many Treaties, a Blackfoot born William Malcolm
Hazlett. The two are waiters and they have a rather embarrassing
exchange after Harry James plays along the lines "The Harry James really
sends me."
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| David Oberman |
| Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:01 pm |
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Dave in Toronto wrote:
Quote: "Springtime in the Rockies" is a delight.
Remember Charlotte Greenwood's solo dance in the spotlight in the
nightclub? I think of all her ugly-duckling dances (where she hoofs
her hoofs sideways above her head like a clicky doll), the one in
"Springtime" is the funniest & best.
Here's Charlotte doing her thing in "The Gang's All Here":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5KMxRwV1QQ
When she dances, her whole face smiles from start to finish. She was
great.
Frank wrote:
Quote: I can only remember two "Indians" with lines in the film. The IMDb shows
three in the cast Iron Eyes Cody and his brother J.W. Cody, the sons of
Italian immigrants, and Many Treaties, a Blackfoot born William Malcolm
Hazlett. The two are waiters and they have a rather embarrassing
exchange after Harry James plays along the lines "The Harry James really
sends me."
The Harry James band does "I Had the Craziest Dream," which is pretty
magical & evocative in the film, with its plaintive muted trumpet. I
think there's a vocalist in that number, too, but I can't remember.
Had Harry & Betty married yet at this point?
For some reason, "Springtime" doesn't have that wildly vibrant
Technicolor that most of the other Grable Fox musicals do (like "Moon
Over Miami" & "Down Argentine Way"). The color palette seems paler &
the lighting darker. In a way, I wish it had that jump-out-at-you
color of the others -- the turquoise Lake Louise makes a perfect
camera subject.
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Four shapeless shadows bright & beautiful
Draw that strange car of glory, reins of light
Check their unearthly speed; they stop & fold
Their wings of braided air:
The Daemon leaning from the ethereal car
Gazed on the slumbering maid.
-- Shelley |
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| Jared |
| Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 11:14 pm |
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On Jul 1, 1:20 pm, Dave in Toronto <dmatthew...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
Quote: On Jun 30, 9:21 pm, David Oberman <doberman@etc.> wrote:
"Below"
Creepy scenes of spectral figures in mirrors moving
That's the one. Thanks. Yes, those scenes were spooky.
Indeed, and a couple in a similar vein, "Deathwatch" and "The Bunker".
Any recent list of spooky ghost movies would be largely Asian. Some
of my favourites...
Tale of Two Sisters
Dark Water
Ring
Ju-on: The Grudge
A little known Aussie film I love is very much an exercise in
atmosphere: "Lost Things", and on the subject of atmosphere, the run
down location of Waverley Hills Sanitorium deserves a better film than
"Death Tunnel". |
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| Okierazorbacker |
| Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:22 pm |
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On Jun 30, 9:20 am, Bill Anderson <billanderson...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote: Okierazorbacker wrote:
There are some great ones like "Rebecca" that have a ghostly air to
them, but here are a few not mentioned that have actual ghostly
presence...and not including any zombiemoviesw/o ghosts:
Places In the Heart
I think your interpretation of the end must be very different from mine.
It's been awhile since I watched it, but I remember being strongly
impressed by the number of dead characters who show up for communion.
Maybe this is meant to represent heaven? Unsure.
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Big Fish
Maybe this one too.
I saw no ghosts in either movie. (I remember a story about a werewolf
in Big Fish, but I recall no story about aghost.)
I think the whole town of Spectre would qualify.
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Bill Anderson
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| Waldo Lydecker |
| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:53 pm |
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There was a horror film I saw as a young child in the 60's. I cannot
remember the name of it to save my life. All I can remember about the
movie is that either a man or woman or both were riding in a
convertible out in the countryside, possibly near a cliff and ended up
at some castle or brick mansion. The only other part I can recall is
some man lifting up a shovel and driving it down either into someone
or into a wooden casket. Something like that. Ring a bell with anyone?
Thanks,
Waldo |
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