re: Movies That No One Else Seems To Know

Run Ronnie Run

Independent Aussie movies are usually pretty darn good.

Rabbit Proof Fence
The Water Diviner
Gallipoli

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a movie to watch stoned

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Horst Bucholz was introduced in the Magnificent Seven and expected to do big things. His role as her new husband was one of his last roles in Hollywood for a variety of reasons, including various issues forcing him out of West Side Story and Lawrence Of Arabia.

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I had never heard of him being connected to WSS (which at one point was offered to Elvis, but that's another story, West Side or not), so I did a little reading and didn't get much detail. TBH, I think HB's connection to WSS is overblown. He barely spoke English on the M7 set, and learned his lines phonetically. I find it really, really difficult to believe that PITA Jerome Robbins or no-nonsense helmsman Robert Wise would have wanted that, in addition to the accent issue.

Also, by this time HB had gotten a rep as an on-set troublemaker, stemming from his attempts to upstage Jimmy Cagney (can you imagine trying to upstage Jimmy Cagney?!) on One Two Three. It got so bad Cagney warned Billy Wilder that if HB did not get in line, Cagney (an ex-boxer) was going to "knock him on his arse".

Maybe the Mirisch Bros were considering signing him to a contract (as they did with George Chakiris) and floated the idea of him for WSS. But I doubt if it went much further than that.

3 that I will stop and watch whenever I can find them, but never see them on are:

Hollywood Knights
Gung Ho
Night Shift
Johnny Dangerously

I'm a Michael Keaton comedy fan.

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And then there was “1-2-3”, which was a farce about the border crossings in Berlin, which had the Berlin Wall go up between filming and release. A Coca-Cola executive who has spent years overseas with his family is under heavy pressure to return to the US from West Germany. At the same time, a top executive in the company sends his daughter (18-ish) to stay with him. it turns out she has been crossing the border into East Germany, met herself a boy, got married in secret, and is pregnant. Now he has to think of a way to fix this mess.

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You’ll be pleased to know that, at age 6, my elder daughter took our DVD of this film to our church daycare’s “Movie Day”. They got as far as Horscht Bucholz saying “To hell with Frank Sinatra” before they stopped it and put in something more kid-friendly. My daughter was pissed.

My two entries:



Q Planes (released in US as Clouds Over Europe) - this 1938 British film is a combination spy film/comedy that I discovered on Amazon Prime (its in the public domain so its also on YouTube). Starring two legends of the British theatre, Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson, long before they became Knights of the Realm, as well as Valerie Hobson (Bride of Frankenstein). Richardson’s character is a real hoot - I wish they had done a series of movies with him. The plot involves experimental planes and saboteurs, and dry British wit abounds.



Hotel de Love - Australian rom-com from 1996, about a pair of fraternal twin brothers who fell in love with the same girl as teenagers, only to encounter her a decade later in the Fantasuites-type resort hotel where one of the brothers works. Complicating things is, she’s there for her impending wedding. Its a typical mid-90s implausible farce, but with some nice twists along the way - and it helps that the girl is the radiant Saffron Burrows (Mozart in the Jungle).

A Spinal Tap-like Mockumentary of the rap group N.W.H. The H stands for hats. The W for with.
You can figure out the N.

And CB4 isn't even a pimple on the arse of FOABH so I don't want to hear about it.

That one is a load of fun.

Damn movie starts out with said heir’s father, totally out of his fricking gourd, managing to kill himself and the communist butler praising the death of yet another worthless individual.

Drop dead fred