Ann Miller-Dub Taylor "Vive como quieras" (You can´t take it with you) 1938, de Frank Capra.
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THEM! | Episode 399
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THEM! | Episode 399
Jim dedicates this episode to the memory of his parents, Jim & Phyllis, who would have celebrated their 70th Wedding anniversary the day after this publishes. One of the most-loved “Big Bug” films of the 50’s is discussed here with 1954’s “THEM!,” starring James Whitmore, James Arness, Joan Weldon, Edmund Gwynn, Sandy Descher, Fess Parker, Onslow Stevens, Sean McClory, Leonard Nimoy, Dub Taylor, and Olin Howland. Directed by Gordon Douglas, this film set the tone for radiation-themed, big-big films to come. Join us or a very special episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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Dub Taylor - Lumière
Region: USA (California) / Style: Sound collage / Year: 1973
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Halliwell Hobbes, Spring Byington, Dub Taylor, Ann Miller, and Mischa Auer in You Can't Take It With You (Frank Capra, 1938)
Cast: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller, Spring Byington, Samuel S. Hinds, Donald Meek, H.B. Warner, Halliwell Hobbes, Dub Taylor, Mary Forbes, Lillian Yarbo, Eddie Anderson, Charles Lane, Harry Davenport. Screenplay: Robert Riskin, based on a play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. Cinematography: Joseph Walker. Art direction: Stephen Goosson. Film editing: Gene Havlick.
"Opening up" a stage play when it's adapted for the movies is standard practice, and even a necessary one when the play takes place on a single set the way George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's Pulitzer Prize-winning You Can't Take It With You does. But director Frank Capra and screenwriter Robert Riskin have done more than open up the play, they have eviscerated it, scooping out much of its wisecracking satire on bourgeois conformity and red-scare jitters to replace them with Capra's characteristic sentimental populism, some high-minded speeches about Americanism, and a rather mushy romance. It unaccountably won the best picture Oscar and Capra's third directing award, in a year when the nominees included Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion. Capra and Riskin load on a kind of superplot: an attempt by the villain, Anthony P. Kirby (Edward Arnold), to corner the munitions market by buying up the property surrounding his rival's factory. The property includes the home of Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore) and his family of Sycamores and Carmichaels, along with some others who turned up there at one time or another and just stayed on to pursue their various eccentric pastimes, which include making fireworks in the cellar. The goings-on in the household are enough to sustain the play, especially when Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur) brings home her boyfriend, Tony Kirby (James Stewart), and he invites his stuffy parents to come to dinner. (As in their play The Man Who Came to Dinner, the Kaufman-Hart formula punctures bourgeois stuffiness by putting the squares and the nonconformists into confining circumstances with one another.) The film puts more emphasis on the romance of Alice and Tony with scenes in which they are taught by a group of kids to dance the Big Apple and go to a high-toned restaurant where Alice is introduced to the Kirbys, resulting in some not very funny slapstick. Eventually, the Kirbys and the Vanderhof household wind up in jail and night court, where Capra musters his usual sentimental tribute to the people: As in Capra's 1934 Oscar-winner, It Happened One Night, in which a busload of the common folk join in singing "The Man on the Flying Trapeze," the inmates sharing the cell with Grandpa Vanderhof as well as the Kirbys père et fils join in a chorus or two of "Polly Wolly Doodle." (A cut to the other occupants of the cell reveals a throng of fresh-faced working men, not the thugs and drunks you'd expect to find.) And in the courtroom scene, Grandpa's neighbors gather to pay his fine, with even the judge tossing some money into the hat. All ends well, of course: Mr. Kirby decides not to buy the Vanderhof house after his defeated rival suffers a fatal heart attack. (The rival, Ramsey, is played by H.B. Warner, who as Jesus in Cecil B. DeMille's 1927 The King of Kings saved all of mankind with his death; here his death just saves Anthony P. Kirby's soul.) Kirby undergoes a wholly unconvincing change of heart, and we end with all of the Kirbys, Sycamores, Carmichaels, and hangers-on at the dinner table where Grandpa delivers a prayer of thanks. Capra never got cornier than this.
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L'eterna illusione: la fantasia di Frank Capra vince sul pragmatismo
James Stewart e Lionel Barrymore in una commedia del 1938 che fa ancora riflettere sulle cose belle della vita.
La famiglia Kirby vive avvantaggiando il lato qualitativo dell’esistenza. Il nonno ha raccolto nella grande casa più generazioni d’individui con il solo obbligo di perseguire i sogni. Dalla scrittrice al musicista, dal pittore al comico, tutti in casa Kirby non si arrendono…
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Who Dat? Dat EVIL! "Creature from Black Lake" reviewed! (Synapse / Blu-ray)
Who Dat? Dat EVIL! “Creature from Black Lake” reviewed! (Synapse / Blu-ray)
“Creature From Black Lake” on Blu-ray is Bigfoot’s Bestfriend
Two University of Chicago students interested in discovering the legendary creature bigfoot take a road trip down to Oil City, Louisiana where there have been multiple reports and sightings of a ape-like man wandering in the Bayou and even an attack on a local trapper, witness by the gruffy drunk, Joe Canton. Met with stern…
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You Can't Take It With You
You Can’t Take It With You
You Can’t Take It With You (1938) starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold, directed by Frank Capra
In You Can’t Take It With You, Lionel Barrymore is the eccentric patriarch of a clan of frustrated artists. 30 years ago, he retired from the rat race and use his fortune to encourage people to pursue their passions. At the center of his family is his granddaughter,…
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