DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doctor-Zhivago-film ^ | 1965 film released | Director- David Lean; Producer- Carlo Ponti; Writer-Robert Bolt

[Fiji Hill]

I saw “Dr. Zhivago” at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood on August 31, 1966. It even came with a printed program like the ones issued at concerts and stage plays. The film helped to strengthen my conservative outlook in its illustration of the horrors of Communism.

[Glad2bnuts]

It is in the top 10 for sure.

[dfwgator]

I liked Omar in "Top Secret!"



"You dropped your fake dog poop."

"What fake dog poop?"

[Glad2bnuts]

My Fathers elders fled to Canada, then the US. They described themselves as “White Russians”. I never put it together until now, they were loyalists to the Czar.

[Fiji Hill]

Some of my favorite movies:

1. "The Girl Can't Help It" (1956)--a theatrical agent down on his luck teams up with a has-been Prohibition-era gangster in an attempt to cash in on the new rock and roll music craze

2. "Hollywood Revue of 1929"--no plot, but a series of musical production numbers and skits

3. "Big Jim McClain"--John Wayne, playing an investigator for the House Committee on Un-American Activities chases Red spies through Hawaii

4. "Pig Skin Parade" (1936)--A bureaucrat in Yale University's athletic department is told to send an invitation to the University of Texas to play Yale in a charity football game, but he mistakenly sends it to a small college, Texas State College--which accepts! This was Judy Garland's first--and in my opinion best--film, and it was filmed at my alma mater Occidental College.

5. "The Big Broadcast of 1938"--This movie musical is about two ocean liners that race each other across the Atlantic Ocean.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I see his loving confrontation with his half-brother. He reminded me of Freddy Mercury in his talent.

Rod Steiger was good in that flick. .

[dfwgator]

If only negotiating with Putin could be this simple:

Austin Millbarge: [selects a Trivial Pursuit card] Comrade, okay, what Little Richard song was the title of a 1950s movie starring Jayne Mansfield?
Russian Rocket Crew #1: Guud Golly, Miss Molly?
Russian Rocket Crew #2: Great Balls of Fire?
Austin Millbarge: Wrong! It was “The Girl Can’t Help It.”
Emmett Fitz-Hume: Sorry! You lose.
Karen Boyer: Eastern Europe?
Emmett Fitz-Hume: Eastern Europe.

[Chode]

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[SaveFerris]

GL-G20s

That thing can strip the paint off
your house and give your family
a permanent orange afro

(DOCTOR ZHIVAGO)

Just wait until they find out there’s no gold in Fort Knox 😜

[dandiegirl]

It was on TODAY on TMC. Always one of my favorites because of the haunting, beautiful music and the gorgeous scenery of that ice house. I had no idea what it was all about when I saw it as a child, but it has always been one of my favorites.

[dandiegirl]

I agree that he was a light weight. He was weak. Tonya and her parents were much stronger people.

[x]

Pasternak was overwhelmed by the revolution himself and stumbled his way through those terrible times the way most of us would. He was a poet, rather than a novelist, so he was interested in specific moments of beauty more than anything else. That may account for some of the defects in the novel and in Yuri Zhivago’s character.

[lizma2]

Bkmk

[TheConservator]

Both Dr. Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia are among my favorite movies. Also, Patton, Casablanca, the Godfather, the Searchers. Also, I could name at least a couple of dozen others about which I would unhesitatingly say “Definitely worth watching.”

Many movies are drech. But not all!

[xp38]

Comrade Kaprugina:

There was living space for 13 families in this one house.

The perfect envious Communist

[umbagi]

Yes. I’ve watched both many times. They never get old.

[yldstrk]

Zhivago was a spoiled rotten brat with no moral compass who caused suffering to those who loved him. He loved nobody.

[yldstrk]

My Fathers elders fled to Canada, then the US. They described themselves as “White Russians”. I never put it together until now, they were loyalists to the Czar.
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My grandmother, her sister and their mother left for China, along with a bunch of other Russians. They passed their utter hatred for Communists on to us.

[linMcHlp]

Clinton-Obama-Biden:

“My task was to organize defeat, so as to hasten the onset of revolution.”