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weirdlookindog · 10 months
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Chamber of Horrors (1940)
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citizenscreen · 10 months
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Leslie Banks, Fay Wray, and Joel McCrea in THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (1932), directed by Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack
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flammentanz · 1 year
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Happy Halloween!
Christopher Lee as Count Dracula in “Dracula” (1958) Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing in “The Brides of Dracula” (1960) Vincent Price as Prince Prospero in “The Masque of the Red Death” (1964) Boris Karloff as John Gray in “The Body Snatcher” (1945) Béla Lugosi as Dr. Richard Vollin in “The Raven” (1935) Leslie Banks as Count Zaroff in “The Most Dangerous Game” (1932)
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eclecticpjf · 25 days
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gatutor · 6 months
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Leslie Banks-Flora Robson "Inglaterra en llamas" (Fire over England) 1937, de William K. Howard.
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anhed-nia · 5 months
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BLOGTOBER 10/17/2023: THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (1932)
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I'm probably not supposed to say this, but I find this movie pretty silly. I'd never seen it before, even though it's one of the most referred-to titles alive. And I mean it's from Ernest Schoedsack who co-directed KING KONG, so what could go wrong? But I have to be honest, I'm not attracted to its boys' adventure vibrations; Joel McCrea is strutting around being the World's Most Awesomest Dude, with everybody including the villain slavering for his approval, and I'm just sitting there thinking, Can't some weasels come and rip this guys' flesh already?
I don't think my problem is just that, like everyone else, I know the twist and the ending already. I've seen lots of very old, very famous movies pretty late in life, and I treasure the discovery of how great and powerful they are despite being so familiar. THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME does face one specific contextual challenge, which is that this Blogtober season I also watched SVENGALI and DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1931), and to be blunt about it, Leslie Banks is nowhere near the class of Fredric March and John Barrymore in terms of crafting a charismatic, sexy, scary, physically impressive screen villain. Joel McCrea is perfectly bland as the movie's flawless hero, who doesn't so much learn an ironic lesson about his hunter's hubris as he proves that he can do anything he wants in any situation, especially when he's up against a bunch of swarthy foreigners who wish they could be him, so who really cares. Fay Wray flops around being completely helpless and witless, with this look on her face all the time
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while the music goes, "Duh nuh nuh nuh nuh NUH. Duh nuh nuh NUH NUH NUH! DUH NUH NUH NUH NUH NUH!!!" The jungle sets are admittedly beautiful and fun, but I have to deal with all these boring jerks if I want to enjoy them, so that's too bad.
What would have brightened this movie up for me is if it fulfilled on its consistent teasing that the evil Count Zaroff has a super fucked up trophy room with all the most dangerous games that he's murdered stuffed and mounted in it...but apparently whatever version of this once existed was so upsetting to test audiences that it basically survived only in the viewer's imagination. Here are some pretty concise notes on that, if you're interested. But obviously I don't have much of interest to say about this movie. I know it's a classic and all, but let's just say that if you've ever suspected that I'm here to toe the party line on all the great classics to try to sound smart and sophisticated, well, you'd be wrong!
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peterlorrefanpage · 2 years
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A relaxed moment on the set of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) with Leslie Banks, Peter Lorre, and Alfred Hitchcock.
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badmovieihave · 9 months
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Bad movie I have The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934
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ohfiddlefrancesdee · 1 year
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“Say you will hunt with me” — Scene from The Most Dangerous Game - 1932 - #JoelMcCrea #LeslieBanks
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byneddiedingo · 1 year
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Peter Lorre, Leslie Banks, and Nova Pilbeam in The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, 1934)
Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper, Hugh Wakefield, Nova Pilbeam, Pierre Fresnay, Cicely Oates, D.A. Clarke-Smith, George Curzon. Screenplay: Charles Bennett, D.B. Wyndham-Lewis, Edwin Greenwood, A.R. Rawlinson. Cinematography: Curt Courant. Art direction: Alfred Junge. Film editing: Hugh Stewart. Music: Arthur Benjamin.
The first version of The Man Who Knew Too Much  was Alfred Hitchcock’s breakthrough film, a critical and popular success that also established Peter Lorre as an international star. It was Lorre’s first English-language film. (He is said to have learned the role phonetically.) Lorre had made his reputation with M (Fritz Lang, 1931) in Germany, which he left in 1933 he had left because of the rise of the Nazis. His performance is perhaps the most memorable thing about The Man Who Knew Too Much, which sometimes feels slack and disjointed, as if Hitchcock hadn’t yet mastered the technique of seeing the film as a whole. Comparing it to his 1956 remake, Hitchcock told François Truffaut, “The first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional.” Lorre plays Abbott, the mastermind of a group of radicals who are plotting the assassination of the leader of a European country – the politics are the film’s MacGuffin, a vague motive that spurs the action. When Bob Lawrence (Leslie Banks) accidentally learns of the plot, his daughter (Nova Pilbeam) is kidnapped to prevent him from going to the police, but his wife (Edna Best) manages to foil the assassination by screaming when she spots the killer at the point in a concert at the Royal Albert Hall when a cymbal crash is supposed to cover the sound of the gun. Even so, there’s a lot of action left as Lawrence frantically tries to rescue his daughter while the police shoot it out with the bad guys. Banks and Best are a rather pallid couple – he’s given to “stiff upper lip, old girl” exhortations, and although she’s a champion sharpshooter who fires the shot that kills the assassin, she has little to do the rest of the time but dither and emit that crucial scream – so it’s no wonder that Lorre steals the film.
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cultfaction · 2 years
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Preview- The Most Dangerous Game (Masters of Cinema Bluray)
Preview- The Most Dangerous Game (Masters of Cinema Bluray)
Based upon the ever-popular short story by Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game remains a hugely influential masterpiece 90 years after its release. Big game hunter, Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrea), barely survives a shipwreck in shark infested waters and washes ashore on the private island of the sinister Count Zaroff (played with a delightful zeal by Leslie Banks). Zaroff fancies himself an…
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weirdlookindog · 8 months
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The Most Dangerous Game (1932) - Trade ad
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citizenscreen · 11 months
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Leslie Banks and Sylvia Sidney in rehearsal for the Ben Hecht play, ‘To Quito and Back’ in 1937.
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nk-salinger · 10 days
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Самая опасная игра / The most dangerous game - 1932
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letterboxd-loggd · 1 month
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The Fire Raisers (1934) Michael Powell
February 17th 2024
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