Well, nobody's perfect!

I recently watched Some Like It Hot in memory of the late great Tony Curtis.It is about him and Jack Lemon who play two musicians trying to escape a group of gangsters. So they dress as women and join an all female band. One of members of band is Marylin Monroe who both men are trying get while also trying to keep there Disguise.Then when they are seen by the gangsters the real fun begins. This is a great comedy. One of my top ten favorites. Curtis will be missed.

The Americans are fools. I offered my services, they refused. So did the East. Now they can both pay for their mistake.

I recently finished reading the book Dr.No, so I decided to watch the movie. It is the first movie in the Bond franchise and it stars Sean Connery who In my opinion is the best of the 6 Bonds. A fellow agent and his secretary have been murdered in Kingston,Jamaica and Bond is sent to investigate. What he uncovers after surviving several attempts on his life is a plot to destroy the U.S. space program by Dr. No. On top is Joseph Wiseman as Dr. No. Below him is Jack Lord as Felix Leiter and Sean Connery as James Bond. On the right is Ursula Andres as Honeychile  Ryder. and on the bottom are the three bind mice, portrayed by Eric Coverly, Charles Edghill and
Henry Lopez.

A drunk kid and a crazy old man.

War Wagon has to be one of my favorite westerns with John Wanye and Kirk Douglas as they steal gold from Good old Bruce Cabot the head of Pierce mining co . Bruce Cabot is the only actor to have battled James Bond,The Duke and King Kong. Cabot and Wanye were also good friends so Cabot starred in most of Wanye's westerns from The Comancheros to McLintock to Chisum and also Big Jake.  It also has a great score by Dimitri Tiomkin. Hear is the original trailer.

I give ya warning, you step foot in Blanco Canyon once more and this country goin' to run red with blood until there ain't one of us left!

I haven't seen The Big Country in a long time. And I'd have to say I enjoyed it very much.The  first thing I like about this film is it's dramatic musical score by Jeromre Moross which was nominated for an Oscar but lost to The old man and the sea by Dimirti Tiomkin.  It also has many great actors who perform brilliantly such as Gregory Peck,Charlton Heston,Jean Simmons,Carroll Baker,Charles Bickford and Burl Ives for which he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor which he well deserved. This was one of the few times the Academy used it's head. The Big Country is a timeless  classic and a must see for all movie lovers.

My 'fellow man' is about to hang me!

Breakheart Pass was another movie I watched where the book had been written by Alistair MacLean. It is about a train loaded with troops that is heading for the garrison at the Fort Humboldt Army outpost where are supposedly suffering from a bad illness. Some of passenger's on the train include a police officer and his prisoner, John Deakin played by Charles Bronson. The Governor of the territory Governor Fairchild (AKA) Richard Crenna (AKA) Col. Trautman. Many bad things happen on the train such as death of  the Reverend who along with Deakin are really undercover agents trying to stop a conspiracy between The governor the police officer  a group of Indians and some outlaws at the fort. It has great action and suspense all thanks to MacLean. Let us not forget the score performed by the great Jerry Goldsmith.

Do me a favor, will you? Next time you have one of these things, keep it an all-British operation.

I watched the war classic Where Eagles Dare which is one of the top war films of all time. It was first a book and screenplay by author Alistair MacLean who also wrote other war books such The  Guns of Navarone and  Force Ten from Navarone  both of which were made in to movies. The plot is about 6 British spies  one of which is played by Richard Burton and an American ranger Lieutenant Morris Schaffer played by Clint Eastwood. Their mission is to rescue an American who has been captured and might tell all he knows about Overload.  He is located high in the Alps in a heavily guarded castle called  Schloß Adler. But what is not known is that there are enemy spies and traitors in the group.  As the movie goes on you find out many more shockers.The music to the movie is also really good because it was composed by Ron Goodwin who had already composed the theme from the war classic 633 Squadron. He would  also compose Battle of Britain the next year in 69. These are  three  of my favorite war themes. For everything Eagles you should check out this site.://www.whereeaglesdare.com/index.php

Aw they're giving me goose pimples on top of my goose pimples.

I watched the 1940 comedy/horror film  The Mummy's Hand where two archaeologists discover an old vase in a market in Cairo which then leads them on a trip to find  an old tomb out in the desert. then strange things began to happen such as all the workers getting scared and running away. Then two of the men are found dead and they soon find out that a mummy controlled by an evil high priest are trying to make sure they don't leave. This is probably were Charles Lamont got the Idea for Abbot and Costello Meet the mummy which came out 15 years later in 1955.  Cowboy star Tom Tyler was a good mummy in this film but he would soon be replaced by Lon  Chaney Jr. I  still want to see the original Mummy. Luckily there is no Brandon Fraizer which is really really good because the new mummy movies were not that good.

All right, you proved your point. You broke into my vault. Congratulations, you're a dead man.

I watched Oceans 11 on TBS. It was the remake of the 1960 rat pack version. This version has every star you can think of from Brad Pitt to Goerge Clooney to Matt Damon also Don Cheadle,Carl Reiner,Julia Roberts and Bernie Mac Casy Affleck. They are all except Julia Roberts involved in a plan to rob the Bellagio, The Mirage, and the MGM Grand casinos in Las Vegas which are all owned by Terry Benedict(Andy Garcia). After many twists and turns and funny lines provided by Cheadle they finally get the money and Clooney goes back to prison for violating his parole. A few months later Clooney is released from jail and after he Brad and his wife Julia Roberts get away you see two of Benedict's men from the casino following them implying that there will Probably be a squeal which there was 2 of.

Arthur Menke Curtis. Salute to the 3. To the editor.To the director and To the actor.

This has been a sad week for movie fans.  we lost not one not two but three greats of film A great editor a great director and a great actor. The first blow came on  the 27th when Sally Menke was found dead. Menke is most well known for being the editor of every one of Quentin Tarantino's movies.She will be missed. Then on the 28th Arthur Penn best known as the director of Bonnie and Clyde died at the age of 88. The death scene in Bonnie and went to influence many other directors such as Sam Peckinpah's western classic the wild bunch. The third and most shocking death was the death of acting great Tony Curtis on the 30th.  Curtis has starred in many classic films such as Sweet Smell of Success and Some like it hot which is one of the top five comedies of all time in my opinion. He will be never be forgotten. The really awful thing is that none of them not even Curtis ever won an Oscar for there work. Top left Pulp Fiction John Travolta and Samuel Jackson , top right Bonnie and Clyde Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty bottom right Sweet Smell of Success Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. This has already been a really sad year for me with the death's of actors Dennis Hopper and Peter Graves.