is the the one he says, "Let me Splain sum-tun to you boy..."?
Posted on 02/09/2014 8:34:22 PM PST by Doc Savage
I was watching 'The Detective'(1968 - Frank Sinatra / Lee Remick) tonight. Around 20 minutes in Sinatra is having a flashback to the moment he met his wife, Lee Remick. (Remick was 'smoking hot' by the way!)
As Remick walks up the steps of a NYC museum Sinatra walks right by her and is stunned. Just as the scene opens you can see two young men and an attractive girl in the immediate background. The man to the right is in a tan raincoat. It's Leonard Nimoy!? I'd swear it's him being used as an extra. He simply disappears off screen.
Doesn't seem possible though since Nimoy's TV career began much earlier. I find it hard to believe he would have agreed to appear as an extra. There's no mention of it in his filmography. Anyway, if you ever happen to see the film check it out. The cast is a literal who's who of Hollywood from that era.
Interesting...is the movie any good? You said it has a good cast, but...that doesn’t always make a good movie, as we know.
I would like to check it out...
A an aside from the website IMDB:
” (February 5, 2014) (Nimoy) Announced that he is suffering from a lung disease known as Chronic Obstruction Pulmonary Disease, one month after he was seen in a wheelchair in New York.”
were Miss Remick alive today, I’d leave Mrs Llevrok for her.
She was right up there with Grace Kelley, IMHO
is the the one he says, "Let me Splain sum-tun to you boy..."?
I was thinking of watching every movie ever made in chronological order. English speaking movies, of course. I don't think I'll live long enough to see all the foreign movies too.
I was wondering if there was a list of every single movie ever made out on the Internet. I would start with the first one ("Horse in Motion" from 1878) and work my way forward.
Eventually I hope to see them all!
I once looked up all of the films made in the US in the year I was born. Succeeding in just watching those movies would have been a significant accomplishment.
Probably impossible and not a good idea.
But it’s intriguing and a selective chronological viewing might be feasible.
The sequel to The Detective was Roderick Thorp’s book called Nothing Lasts Forever. In the book, Joe Leland finds himself in a high-rise office tower battling terrorists.
Frank Sinatra did not want to do the sequel.
Instead, the sequel was done in 1988 with Bruce Willis, and a few of the names were changed (but not all).
It was called Die Hard. It did pretty well.
“I was thinking of watching every movie ever made....”
LOL, this is like the old Robert Klein (if old movies to you are before 1980 you probably don’t remember him) routine about a TV sales pitch:
WE GIVE YOU EVERY RECORD EVER MADE!! ROCK MUSIC! CLASSICAL MUSIC! WE BRING THE TRUCK TO YOUR HOUSE!! LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE RECORDS!!!!
I don't think I'll live long enough to see them all. Especially if I have to go to work every day.
I saw that movie once on TV (not all the way through) I thought it was interesting in that it included a lot of themes and topics that would continue to be part of detective movies and TV shows for quite a while.
I agree about the movie The Detective. I did like it though.
But see post 10.
The sequel I mention, Nothing Lasts Forever, is available on Kindle and I’m reading it for the second time. Definitely worth a look.
It's because Spock has to have sex once every seven years or he goes crazy. Remember that Star Trek episode?
When I just filtered on the year of my birth I got close to 9,000 movies. But when I filtered on 'Feature Films', movies made in the US and in English, the list was whittled down to 201.
That's still a lot for just one year, but there are a lot of turkeys on that list.
If I had filtered for movies that had a rating over 7 I'm sure I would have a reasonable number of films to watch.
If you don't filter on 'Feature Film' you get hundreds of TV episodes added to your list.
The real question to ask is not whether that is Spock, but whether it is the Spock from our past or the Spock from our future?
Got it. Thanks! Looks like I’m closer to 200 feature films in my birth year as well. That makes a lot more sense.
Maybe it is Evil Spock. Was he wearing a Van Dyke?
I, on the other hand, just like to watch the few that really hit me at a pre-teen, including "The Searchers", "Bridge on the River Kwai", and a few others that might percolate up from the memory banks eventually.
Growing up in the 50's with the quality of movies then was quite different. After 1960, I just do not remember any earth shaking movie experiences. Kubrick stuff of course, and a few other, but not like what was produced in the 50's.
I suppose it helped having a younger more visually open viewer to be impressed back then?
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