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Take the Money and Run 1969
I’m all laughed out from this movie when I was a kid. The narration provides much of the humor, pre Airplane straight line readings. Janet Margolin had a very pretty face (kind of nice that she returned as one of the ex-wives in Annie Hall). “Do you find sex dirty? Only if you are doing it right!” “You robbed a bank? No, I didn’t, if I did everything would be great!” A police chase with the robbers being towed. Gun…
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King Kong 1976
This is the 3 hour TV cut of the movie. A few actual new parts that were nice to see, but unfortunately most of the added length is extending scenes, which reuses reaction shots multiple times, and in at least one case using a different shot/take that the character of Jack just spoke 10 seconds before (Dwan sitting on the grate over Kong’s pen on the supertanker). I now realize how well edited the theatrical version is compared to this.…
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Dog Eat Dog! 1964
What a mess of a movie. Character interaction did not make any sense. It was not good bad, just very odd. Cameron and Jayne were dubbed like the rest of cast.
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1980
From the same writer as Louis Jourdan‘s BBC Count Dracula 1977. I really enjoyed this retelling, but it is not pleasant. Plays up on the status of the rich and the surrounding poverty. Hyde’s evil is the direct violence he inflicts upon lower status persons including children. Jekyll’s fiancé reaction to Hyde was wonderfully spot on, to me at least.
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