THE RAVEN
I wanted to start a thread on this, because it's one of my favorite films of the 1930s and I've noticed a tendency for it to get pummeled a lot lately. I think it's become the most Underrated 1930s...
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Rick wrote:I don't know the answer to that. Also having done no research, I know that Ralph Bellamy's character in THE MAN WHO LIVED TWICE is a criminal who has plastic surgery.I think that movie was...
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That's it, MP, thanks. The only O'Brien thing I could think of from that time period was TWO OF A KIND, and I knew that wasn't it.
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Interesting. Well, so far THE RAVEN dates as the earliest gangster plastic surgery film.
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dinost wrote:Interesting. Well, so far THE RAVEN dates as the earliest gangster plastic surgery film.Well... "Yes" and "No." Vollin specifically tells Bateman that it isn't plastic surgery but, that...
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I agree BOG. It's just like how I'm sure most of us refer to the 'electrical machine' Henry uses to speak to Elizabeth in BOF as a telephone!
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I love the megalomania, the sadism and grandiose, theatrical insanity of Dr. Vollin, it's one of the few films that really gets into the ecstasy of extreme cruelty without being shy about it. I have...
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I think the one scene in RAVEN that really stands out for me is when Bateman explains to Dr. Vollin the reason why he was on the run from the law for what he had done to the bank clerk who wouldn't...
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The Batman of Gotham wrote:Bateman Test Make-up.- GJSWhat stands out for me is that in this test photo Bateman's immobile eye does not appear as waxen - and thus more realistic - as it does in the...
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The gangster movie LET 'EM HAVE IT (1935) has a great, almost shocking ending that involves a crook who expected his face to be changed, and a plastic surgeon. Alex Gordon kinda stole it when he wrote...
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TomWeaver999 wrote:The gangster movie LET 'EM HAVE IT (1935) has a great, almost shocking ending that involves a crook who expected his face to be changed, and a plastic surgeon. Alex Gordon kinda...
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starhawk60 wrote:I think the one scene in RAVEN that really stands out for me is when Bateman explains to Dr. Vollin the reason why he was on the run from the law for what he had done to the bank...
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I love I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG but agree with you on Allen's pathetic switching of names at the last minute. Hell, after all the preparation and such the character went through in making his...
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. . . And of course the "true" story of Robert Burns was made into the telefilm THE MAN WHO BROKE 1,000 CHAINS, with Val Kilmer playing the unlucky fugitive Burns.
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Mora wrote:. . . And of course the "true" story of Robert Burns was made into the telefilm THE MAN WHO BROKE 1,000 CHAINS, with Val Kilmer playing the unlucky fugitive Burns.Which I love because it...
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. . . And Kilmer ain't half bad also.Definitely a good film. BTW: The story goes that Jack Warner was barred from the state of Georgia for many years following the release of the Muni film. Might be...
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