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Post by hieronymous on Aug 19, 2024 18:09:48 GMT -5
Hi, new guy here.
Apologies in advance. I don’t mean to hijack this thread, and I don’t know if this is even an appropriate forum, but I thought I’d just jump in here and put my question forward, ‘cause I don’t seem to have any luck finding what I’m looking for.
What am I looking for? I’m trying to identify an old B&W movie I saw on TV as a kid. I can only remember one particular scene, but it has stuck with me forever. So, I’m looking for a forum or perhaps even be put in touch with an individual, who is sufficiently knowledgeable about old movies (primarily from the 40’s and 50’s) and, after providing as detailed a description as I can, might be able to help me identify the film.
Again, I apologize for butting in here, but I don’t know where else to start.
Thank you.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 19, 2024 18:13:04 GMT -5
Hi, new guy here. Apologies in advance. I don’t mean to hijack this thread, and I don’t know if this is even an appropriate forum, but I thought I’d just jump in here and put my question forward, ‘cause I don’t seem to have any luck finding what I’m looking for. What am I looking for? I’m trying to identify an old B&W movie I saw on TV as a kid. I can only remember one particular scene, but it has stuck with me forever. So, I’m looking for a forum or perhaps even be put in touch with an individual, who is sufficiently knowledgeable about old movies (primarily from the 40’s and 50’s) and, after providing as detailed a description as I can, might be able to help me identify the film. Again, I apologize for butting in here, but I don’t know where else to start. Thank you. We have a few people here who are quite knowledgeable about black-and-white movies from the 1940s and 1950s. And I’m pretty sure we’ve done that before, where somebody describes the scene or the basic plot, and somebody identifies it. I think it’s perfectly OK for you to do that here.
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Post by Confessor on Aug 19, 2024 19:01:08 GMT -5
I think it’s perfectly OK for you to do that here. I agree. Go ahead with posting your description and any other relevant clues, hieronymous.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 19, 2024 20:22:43 GMT -5
Hi, new guy here. Apologies in advance. I don’t mean to hijack this thread, and I don’t know if this is even an appropriate forum, but I thought I’d just jump in here and put my question forward, ‘cause I don’t seem to have any luck finding what I’m looking for. What am I looking for? I’m trying to identify an old B&W movie I saw on TV as a kid. I can only remember one particular scene, but it has stuck with me forever. So, I’m looking for a forum or perhaps even be put in touch with an individual, who is sufficiently knowledgeable about old movies (primarily from the 40’s and 50’s) and, after providing as detailed a description as I can, might be able to help me identify the film. Again, I apologize for butting in here, but I don’t know where else to start. Thank you. Go ahead and post the details and we will see what we can come up with........ or we can just start listing random movie titles from that era. Might take a little longer, though.
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Post by berkley on Sept 4, 2024 0:17:42 GMT -5
Tonight I watched There Goes the Bride a 1932 British comedy starring Jessie Matthews, a performer I've only become aware of quite recently but apparently she was one of the biggest box-office attractions in British films throughout the 1930s. This is the second movie of hers I've seen - the other one was Evergreen (1933), based on a stage play in which she had also starred. From what I can gather, she was primarily a dancer by her earliest training but also became a very accomplished singer and actress in the musical farces that were her main specialty.
I've been watching a lot of 1930s stuff the last couple of years and there's a special charm to many of these films that is different to other eras - a kind of liveliness and spontaneity that was lost, perhaps unavoidably so, later on. The performers just throw themselves into whatever they're doing with no fear of overacting or whatever. This comes out especially of course in musical comedies which by their very nature make no claims to be realistic. But even within that specific genre, the musicals of the 30s and early 40s have something that's missing for me from most of the more polished and large-scale productions of the 50s, even some of the most acclaimed of them. Matthews exemplifies that special charm to me and I plan to see as many of her other films as I can find.
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 10, 2024 8:08:42 GMT -5
A friend of mine claims that Rocky III was the first film to have “III” after its title.
I’ll take his word for it, but I’d like to try and confirm that. Hmmm…
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 10, 2024 10:28:25 GMT -5
A friend of mine claims that Rocky III was the first film to have “III” after its title. I’ll take his word for it, but I’d like to try and confirm that. Hmmm… Generally speaking, sequels were usually given a new, if connective title, until the Rocky series and other films of the 80s, when the numbering convention came into vogue. The old studio system had a bit more creativity than corporate Hollywood.
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 10, 2024 10:38:06 GMT -5
A friend of mine claims that Rocky III was the first film to have “III” after its title. I’ll take his word for it, but I’d like to try and confirm that. Hmmm… Generally speaking, sequels were usually given a new, if connective title, until the Rocky series and other films of the 80s, when the numbering convention came into vogue. The old studio system had a bit more creativity than corporate Hollywood. Agreed. I love some of the old titles. I must admit, though, I wish the Airport film series had been a bit more imaginative than simply using the year of the release (or the year it was set). I mean, “Airport: The Art Heist” might have been better than Airport ‘77.
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Post by tartanphantom on Sept 10, 2024 10:53:00 GMT -5
Generally speaking, sequels were usually given a new, if connective title, until the Rocky series and other films of the 80s, when the numbering convention came into vogue. The old studio system had a bit more creativity than corporate Hollywood. Agreed. I love some of the old titles. I must admit, though, I wish the Airport film series had been a bit more imaginative than simply using the year of the release (or the year it was set). I mean, “Airport: The Art Heist” might have been better than Airport ‘77.
Perhaps the best sequel title under the current numeric system, Breakin' 2, Electric Boogaloo.
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Post by Confessor on Sept 10, 2024 10:55:31 GMT -5
Perhaps the best sequel title under the current numeric system, Breakin' 2, Electric Boogaloo. I always liked the title of Teen Wolf Too back in the day. I thought that was kinda clever.
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 10, 2024 11:01:39 GMT -5
A fun one is House II: The Second Story. As a kid, I thought it was odd. I mean, it’s redundant. Surely any sequel is a second story? But then I read an interview with someone who worked on the film, and he talked about how “The Second Story” was a play on the word “storey”.
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Post by Confessor on Sept 10, 2024 11:03:13 GMT -5
A fun one is House II: The Second Story. As a kid, I thought it was odd. I mean, it’s redundant. Surely any sequel is a second story? But then I read an interview with someone who worked on the film, and he talked about how “The Second Story” was a play on the word “storey”. Yeah, good call: that is a clever one.
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 10, 2024 11:03:28 GMT -5
Perhaps the best sequel title under the current numeric system, Breakin' 2, Electric Boogaloo. I always liked the title of Teen Wolf Too back in the day. I thought that was kinda clever. The intro to "Deathstalker II" where the villain casually name drops the title ("I'll have my revenge and Deathstalker too") has always been amazing to me
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 10, 2024 11:10:18 GMT -5
Return of the Living Dead II is a bit problematic (or was). In the pre-internet age, I presumed that Return of the Living Dead was a sequel to something even though it isn’t, but Return of the Living Dead II just added to my confusion. It makes me smile when I think about how there was a world before IMDb when Halliwell’s Film Guide (or film book of your choice) was the only way to get information on what you had watched.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 10, 2024 11:17:26 GMT -5
A fun one is House II: The Second Story. As a kid, I thought it was odd. I mean, it’s redundant. Surely any sequel is a second story? But then I read an interview with someone who worked on the film, and he talked about how “The Second Story” was a play on the word “storey”. Keep in mind that storey is almost never used in the U.S.
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