Another light movie month as I went on vacation. And then my cousin introduced me to Chuck (2007-2012).
- Annapolis Salute (1937) - Marsha Hunt, Van Heflin
- A Damsel in Distress (1937) - Fred Astaire & Joan Fontaine, George Burns & Gracie Allen
- Petticoat Larceny (1943) - Joan Carroll
- Four Jill’s in a Jeep (1943) - Carole Landis, Kay Francis
- The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) - Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Faye Emerson
- Merton of the Movies (1947) - Red Skelton & Virginia O'Brien, Gloria Grahame
- The Inside Story (1948) - Marsha Hunt
- The Man Who Cheated Himself (1951) - Lee J. Cobb & Jane Wyatt
- Dangerous When Wet (1953) - Esther Williams & Fernando Lamas, Jack Carson
- The Girl He Left Behind (1956) -Tab Hunter & Natalie Wood, James Garner
- Zero Hour! (1957) - Dana Andrews & Linda Darnell
- The Honeymoon Machine (1961) - Steve McQueen, Jim Hutton & Paula Prentiss, Dean Jagger
- The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962) - Jim Hutton & Paula Prentiss
- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Harrison Ford & Karen Allen
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) - Harrison Ford
- Thor (2011) - Chris Hemsworth & Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins
- Thor: The Dark World (2013) - Chris Hemsworth & Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston
- Thor: Ragnarok (2017) - Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Mark Ruffalo
Favorite Movie: The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950) had a bit of a slow start but an exciting finish. The on-location shooting really added to the atmosphere of the film and it was nice to see Lee J. Cobb in a leading man role instead of playing somebody's father. I also enjoyed the first Indiana Jones movie (I'd only seen the snake pit part before - I have also already seen the Holy Grail one) and the Thor Trilogy (I'm not really a comic book movie person. If Hollywood stopped making them I wouldn't be upset at all).
Full movie - not great quality though
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I visited my aunt on Long Island and while I was there I drove out to Montauk Lighthouse. On my way back I stopped by Gary Cooper's grave at Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Cemetery in Southampton. He was moved there from Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California when his wife remarried in 1974 and moved to New York. Here is the Find a Grave entry.
Here's the coordinates so you can see exactly where his grave is located within the cemetery.
I picked a couple flowers off his grave to press. Someone else had left a nickel on his grave so I left a dime. It seemed the most appropriate coin since he played characters affected by the Great Depression and one of the popular songs of the time was "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?"
I felt kind of weird taking a selfie but I was by myself and if I didn't take one was I even there??
I might put The Mask of Dimitrios over in the better than just okay list, but not by much. I get a kick out of the Marvel Universe, particularly the Thor movies, but I wouldn't go around telling anyone they "have got to see this".
ReplyDeleteI have a soft spot for The Horizontal Lieutenant because I saw it when I was a kid and developed a never-to-die crush on Jim Hutton. Seeing it years later I was surprised by its total lack of a sense of period. Sigh.
Yeah I’ve been wanting to see it for a couple years but wasn’t greatly impressed. Haha yeah, it definitely didn’t feel period correct! I became a Paula Prentiss fan after watching Where the Boys Are so anytime TCM shows one of her movies I watch it :)
DeleteI have never seen the ending to Dangerous When Wet , but I really want to!
ReplyDeleteThe end was the best part! I got unexpectedly teary eyed.
DeleteI watched The Horizontal Lieutenant and Four Jills in a Jeep and found them both underwhelming. The Honeymoon Machine is one I always enjoy and watched again recently. It has just recently dawned on me what a great actor Lee J Cobb is in his various films. I never watch a movie for him, but he always gives powerful performances.
ReplyDeleteOther movies I saw for the first time in July are Nevada Smith, The Great Escape, Never So Few, Martin Roumagnac. Ah, Wilderness, The Littlest Rebel, Party Girl, It Had to Be You and Greyfriar's Bobby. I loved Greyfriar's Bobby, it left me in tears. It Had to Be You is a Ginger Rogers film I had never heard of. She is good in it, I just have a hard time watching anything with Cornel Wilde!
I almost didn’t finish Four Jill’s. I watched it over several days. One cool thing was Landis wore her actual wedding dress in the film!
DeleteI always enjoy Cobb’s performances which is why I watched it. He’s very underrated.
The only one I’ve seen out of those you listed is The Littlest Rebel. I want to see that Ginger Rogers movie. Yeah, sometimes a certain actor can turn me away from a movie too.. :/
How neat you got to visit Gary Cooper's grave and leave him a dime! That was a neat idea for something to leave.
ReplyDeleteAlthough Thor is my favorite Avenger... I'm not a huge fan of his first two movies. But I love Ragnarok. Which is odd, cuz it's loud and zany and wacky, and I'm usually NOT a fan of loud, zany, and wacky. But it hits all the right buttons, story-wise, I guess.
I started watching Ragnarok on Netflix and really liked the first few minutes so I decided to start the trilogy from the beginning. I liked the first one but the second was a little confusing. I like how they replaced his friend with Zachary Levi like no one would notice lol
DeleteI can't believe that Coopers grave site is that small kind of sad.
ReplyDeleteIt did kind of feel like it could be just some random Gary Cooper. It was a very pretty cemetery though.
DeleteAfter reading one of your other posts, I watched the movie “The Dark Mirror” and I thought that it would have been more exciting if viewers also had to guess who the killer was. However, the film was really enjoyable. So, I am quite tempted to see “The Man Who Cheated Himself” during this weekend.
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