tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post7907145537677861565..comments2024-03-18T19:40:11.383-04:00Comments on Poseidon's Underworld: Hell, "The Conquer"-ing Hero Comes...Poseidon3http://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-15707683522805015512011-10-20T08:29:03.804-04:002011-10-20T08:29:03.804-04:00MOS, I just DVR-ed Legend of the Lost on one of my...MOS, I just DVR-ed Legend of the Lost on one of my high-def, widescreen channels! I look forward to watching it for the first time sometime soon. That Genhis Khan film you mention has a terrible reputation, but I actually enjoyed it (and featured one still from it in my recent bathtub post.) I have a fondness for mid-'60s cinema, though, that not everyone shares.Poseidon3https://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-24130609918233252522011-10-13T22:27:06.536-04:002011-10-13T22:27:06.536-04:00Great post on one of my favourite guilty pleasures...Great post on one of my favourite guilty pleasures. Another Wayne movie I love is the 1957 "Legend of the Lost" a Sahara western with young Sophia Loren, just starting her hollywood films, Sophia at 23 squares up to the Duke nicely and ace cameraman Jack Cardiff makes the desert look marvellous. Wayne is still in western mode here as Rosanno Brazzi searches for treasure with Sophia as the girl between them, abd Henry Hathaway keeps it moving nicely, I love it.<br /><br />Just as idiotic is the 1965 version of the Genghis Khan story "Genghis Khan" with of all people Omar Sharif as Khan, Stephen Boyd as his enemy Jamuga, one of his last good roles, and the very 60s Francoise Dorleac (Catherine Deneuve's sister who was killed in a car crash at age 25 in 1967) as the tartar princess Bortai. The amusing cast includes Robert Morley and James Mason hamming it up as orientals, Eli Wallach, Telly Savalas, Yvonne Mitchell and others, its a rather tatty epic coming at the end of that epic era, but worth seeking out.Michael O'Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17820802843771524920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-63439379632899141102011-10-12T16:41:15.722-04:002011-10-12T16:41:15.722-04:00Have never seen the movie but still enjoyed this p...Have never seen the movie but still enjoyed this post immensely, as The Conqueror has such an awesomely bad reputation. Always love how you describe the connections between actors and what happened to them in later life. Thanks for all of your hard work!Topazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15514508159702613771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-83659182643188798042011-10-12T09:10:44.802-04:002011-10-12T09:10:44.802-04:00LOL! I told my Dad about this post. Him being a tr...LOL! I told my Dad about this post. Him being a true Duke fan shocked me when he agreed that this was Duke's worst movie, except perhaps McLintock! Although he did like O'Hara's performance.sladest38https://www.blogger.com/profile/00773325096503191761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-67111121807094754382011-10-07T21:12:15.712-04:002011-10-07T21:12:15.712-04:00OOps, my bad. Debbie Reynolds was not Tony Curtis...OOps, my bad. Debbie Reynolds was not Tony Curtis' ex-wife. I don't know where that came from, although she was married to the similarly dark-haired Eddie Fisher until the lovely Liz came along. My punishment: ten lashes with Susan Hayward's pointy bra. Mea culpa!Ima June Pullethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17323298147048526193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-91157733196259863562011-10-07T12:22:03.963-04:002011-10-07T12:22:03.963-04:00This, to me, was just a truly awful movie; not eve...This, to me, was just a truly awful movie; not even in that "fun" awful way. Even if it was an Academy Award winner it would never justify the tragic results that making it caused.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-66648841545086495702011-10-07T09:36:45.035-04:002011-10-07T09:36:45.035-04:00I think I enjoy a lot of his films because there i...I think I enjoy a lot of his films because there is usually a solid story and firm direction, plus there's very often a cute male costar (Jeff Hunter, Ricky Nelson, Patrick Wayne, etc..) Also, in his films with some leading ladies (Maureen O'Hara especially comes to mind) there's a neat dynamic and strong chemistry. But, yes, there isn't usually a great deal of variety within his own performance! Those "star personas," though, were what made legends out of people versus the chameleon-like (or otherwise forgettable) actor turns we see more of today.Poseidon3https://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-59990884131734908222011-10-06T16:38:30.923-04:002011-10-06T16:38:30.923-04:00Great post! I was never a big fan of the Duke, ma...Great post! I was never a big fan of the Duke, mainly because he seemed to be playing himself in every film. However, not too long ago I caught him in "Stagecoach" on TCM and was impressed with how genuine he came off in that film.<br /><br />This post on the perils of miscasting made me think of Tony Curtis and the line that he supposedly said in one of his first films "The Black Shield of Falworth" (although he later said it came from his ex-wife Debbie Reynolds in a t.v. interview): "Yonder stands da castle of my foddah." <br /><br />From Wikipedia: "Curtis has denied ever saying that line, but he did actually say a similar line in the movie Son of Ali Baba, released in 1952, that reads, "This is the palace of my father, and yonder lies the Valley of the Sun", and he did deliver it in a markedly New York accent."Ima June Pullethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17323298147048526193noreply@blogger.com