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).

"Frank R.A.J. Maloney" <frajm@blarg.net> wrote:

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).

I don't like Robert Young either. What a bland actor & a bland
personality. If there's an old movie I want to see but I hear it has
Robert Young in it (or Bob Cummings is another one I dislike), I
typically just avoid the movie.

"Frank R.A.J. Maloney" <f...@blarg.net> wrote:

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).

I don't like Robert Young either. What a bland actor & a bland
personality. If there's an old movie I want to see but I hear it has
Robert Young in it (or Bob Cummings is another one I dislike), I
typically just avoid the movie.

____

I generally agree with you about Cummings, btw. However, I will allow
that he's more than acceptable in _Three Smart Girls Grow Up_ (1939) and
_Moon Over Miami_ (1941).

the release of "Springtime in the Rockies" from that Marquee Musicals
line from Fox.

____

.. But I'm eagler awaiting
the release of "Springtime in the Rockies" from that Marquee Musicals
line from Fox.

____


"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?

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:42:39 +0200, MYNAME@xs4all.nlSPAMSHIT (Martin
Koolhoven) wrote:


I'm missing The Devil's Backbone

The trouble with that movie is that it's a realistic ghost movie.

Ghosts and magic work for allegory - compare this to _Pan's
Labyrinth_. But this was too close to believing in them.

"Springtime in the Rockies" is a delight.

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."

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.

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.

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.)

--
Bill Anderson

I am the Mighty Favog

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?

Waldo Lydecker <ferrante276-waldolydecker@yahoo.com> wrote:

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?

In "The Shuttered Room," Gig Young & Carol Lynley drove in a
convertible through the countryside to the old mill house, where the
crazy old Flora Robson lived. But I don't remember the shovel scene.



Thanks! I will check it out.

____
"He was a-whetting his bowie on
his boot -- so I let it pass."

-- Twain, The Whittier Birthday Speech

On Jun 30, 9:20 am, Bill Anderson <billanderson...@yahoo.com> wrote:

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.

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 a ghost.)

I think the whole town of Spectre would qualify.