WATCH ALONG: Murder by Death
Added 2024-11-03 20:35:07 +0000 UTC
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I haven't seen the remake yet. I'm kind of avoiding it.
Maria Torres
2024-11-06 00:01:52 +0000 UTCI second The Ladykillers. Infinitely better than the remake.
Steve Webster
2024-11-05 19:30:17 +0000 UTCElsa Lanchester was both Mary Shelley and the titular Bride in Bride Of Frankenstein in 1935, opposite Boris Karloff. And a very early role for James "That'll do, pig" Cromwell here.
Steve Webster
2024-11-05 19:26:54 +0000 UTCI've seen this film over a dozen times (including in the theater), but never got the 22 Twain joke until the last time I watched it. I love this movie.....waaaaay better than Clue.
crazyivan
2024-11-05 00:47:31 +0000 UTCFor the whistle that seemed to puzzle you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30DSfAA0brs From "To Have and Have Not": Bogie and Bacall. They met doing this picture and married shortly afterward (Falk does do a great Bogie impression, doesn't he?). "To Have and Have Not" is a cool movie. Recommend.
Maria Torres
2024-11-04 17:02:07 +0000 UTCOne more: Lionel Twain and "two two Twain" are all toy train references. Lionel Train was a famous toy train company. And the doorbell screams are recordings of Fay Wray screams from the original "King Kong" movie.
Maria Torres
2024-11-04 15:37:45 +0000 UTCMust stop as we start with my usual load of trivia: Every one of these characters is a parody of a famous detective from either books and/or movies: David Niven and Maggie Smith are a take off on Nick and Nora Charles and their doggie Asta (the doggie actor was famous, by the way, and you can see him again in "The Awful Truth"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4vjitQH-tU I believe you watched "The Pink Panther", in which case you have seen the classy David Niven and Peter Sellers together. James Coco plays a parody of Hercule Poirot and Elsa Lanchester alongside Estelle Winwood is one of Miss Marple, both characters by Agatha Christie. You saw Estelle Winwood as "hold me, touch me" in "The Producers. Peter Falk is doing a magnificent job of imitating Humphrey Bogart's Sam Spade from "Maltese Falcon". In fact, he did so well that his character appears again in "The Cheap Detective". Eileen Brennan plays his assistant, and she is an actress you must get to know. Peter Sellers is a take off on Charlie Chan and/or Mr. Moto, both brilliant Asian detectives never played by an Asian actor. The one, the only, the best, Alec Guinness is the butler and though you likely know him best as Obi Wan from "Star Wars", he was one of the most versatile actors who ever appeared in movies. He and Sellers are together in "The Lady Killers", which is worth a catch. Truman Capote, our master mind, was a writer, and an actor, tremendously notorious, tremendously eccentric, and ultimately tremendously tragic. He was childhood friends with Harper Lee who wrote "To Kill A Mockingbird". She assisted in his research for his book about a famous murder, "In Cold Blood". Nancy Walker, the maid, was a talented comic actress who turned up in many movies and tv shows during this period and was always great. The script is by Neil Simon, most famous for the play "The Odd Couple", which was made into a movie and then a terrific tv series. I'll stop now....
Maria Torres
2024-11-04 15:21:36 +0000 UTC
