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The Bribe (1949)

Grade: B+

Synopsis: In Central America, a Federal agent (Robert Taylor) tracking smugglers falls for a woman (Ava Gardner) whose husband is a suspect.
The Bribe is a surprisingly good film-noir, thanks in large part to an all-round solid cast and a crackling good script.
Though Robert Taylor and Ava Gardner are clearly the leads, supporting players Vincent Price and especially Charles Laughton give such strong performances, the film almost feels like an ensemble piece. Taylor plays the lead with a good amount of charisma but a minimum of flash, and Gardner’s terrific as his blind spot. She’s attractive enough to lure you in, and tough enough to knock you over. Laughton is award-worthy as a smarmy, sweating, weasel, and Price brings his usual wolfen charm.
All the players benefit from the great script by Marguerite Roberts. While Taylor’s third-person narration is a bit clumsy, it’s a minor blemish. Ditto the workable plot. What really shines here is the dialog. It’s so good, you’d almost believe Raymond Chandler did some touch-up work. With lines like “Looks like everybody is wearing somebody else’s voice,” and “If I have to slap it out of you, I will!” The Bribe is immensely quotable.
Topping it all off are flashes of great direction from Robert Z. Leonard, the best of which comes during the film’s fireworks-laden finale.
All this adds up to a very good film. Sure, it’s got its flaws, but given the good performances, great dialog, and solid direction, those flaws are easy to overlook. Indeed, if you’re a fan of the film-noir genre, The Bribe may very well be one of the best films you’ve never seen.

 

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The Night of the Iguana - My Favorite Movies Journal
I left some information, immages, and video previews of The Night of the Iguana down below.
Summary of The Night of the Iguana:
In the sleepy village of Puerto Vallarta, the defrocked Reverend T. Laurence Shannon works as a tour guide. While leading a group of school teachers, he attracts the attention of their junior member Charlotte Goodall. To save money, he takes the group to a rundown hotel owned by his friend, Maxine Faulk. Once there, his interest shifts to Hannah Jelkes, a poor artist. But in the end it may be Maxine whom he stays on with.
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I really loved the movie The Night of the Iguana. I really enjoyed watching Richard Burton in this movie. I also think Ava Gardner was brilliant!

I think Richard Burton and Ava Gardner worked wonderful in The Night of the Iguana. The official supporting cast includes Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon, Skip Ward.

 

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boggling movie,Earthquake, featuring Charlton Heston is profoundly pleasing, with a supporting cast of distinguished stars, go Ava Gardner , will assuredly be worth while to go over and watch. remarkable & spectacular with the pace never slowing it truly keeps your attention, while not over exaggerating the plot.
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Charlton Heston has never ungratified. The character in Earthquake is not a far stretch from previous roles, yet it seems Charlton Heston has never been more fabulous then with this acting.
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The fabulous cast in this movie is astonishing: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Genevieve Bujold
Rightfully an award winning work with characters that you can powerfully relate to, the movie is pivotal to address the least. I will not forget to mention that Ava Gardner is overwhelming also! You will want to discover Charlton Heston in Earthquake today!
The disaster-movie trend of the early and mid-1970s was starting to wear out its welcome when Earthquake was released in 1974. It’s another one of those enjoyably mindless all-star marathons, and the title tells you all you need to know about the plot. Charlton Heston offers his trademark brand of macho courage as the citizens of Los Angeles brace for the Big One–an earthquake that rattles the city to its crumbling foundation. It’s got all the sophistication of a Love Boat episode, but the movie’s momentum scores high marks (at least on the Richter scale), and the Oscar-winning sound design and special visual effects are still impressive, especially when you consider that advanced computer-graphics effects were still two decades in the future. Genevieve Bujold adds a touch of class to the all-star ensemble, and of course, what self-respecting disaster flick would be complete without a role for George Kennedy? In more ways than one, this cheesy movie rocks! (If you want to re-create the movie’s original sound process known as “Sensurround,” you’ll just have to crank up the bass and subwoofer on your home theater system until plaster cracks and windows shatter!) –Jeff Shannon

 

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I adore sassy and clearly stunning Ava Gardner. She may have not made a huge mark on acting or movies, but she was one of the most gorgeous movie stars of all time. You must know I am very into 20s-50s Hollywood and all the stars that went along with the glamour of the time.

 

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Director John Frankenheimer and Paramount Pictures delivered Seven Days in May to Cold War movie audiences in 1964. Burt Lancaster stars as a wayward American general, with Kirk Douglas as a Marine colonel and Fredric March as the President.
Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II's Seven Days in May Novel

Seven Days in May is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II. Knebel, who committed suicide in 1993 following a long battle with cancer, also authored several other political novels, including Night of Camp David (1965) and Dark Horse (1972).
Rod Serling Writes Seven Days in May

Rod Serling penned Seven Days in May for Seven Arts Productions and Joel Productions. John Frankenheimer (Birdman of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate) directed. Jerry Goldsmith created the dramatic music score.
Seven Days in May Cast

Burt Lancaster (General James Mattoon Scott), Kirk Douglas (Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey), Fredric March (President Jordan Lyman) and Ava Gardner (Eleanor Holbrook) head the star-studded cast. Other players include Edmond O'Brien (Senator Raymond Clark), Martin Balsam (Paul Girard), Andrew Duggan (Colonel William "Mutt" Henderson), Hugh Marlowe (Harold McPherson) and Whit Bissell (Senator Frederick Prentice).
Other familiar faces include George Macready, Tyler McVey, Richard Anderson, Victor Buono, John Houseman and Leonard Nimoy.
Budget, Filming Locations

Budgeted at $2.2 million, Seven Days in May was shot at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. Actual filming locations included Paris, France; Imperial County, California; and Washington, D.C.
Unable to secure permission to film at the Pentagon, the producers resorted to subterfuge. With a secreted camera rolling from a station wagon, they had Kirk Douglas stroll up the Pentagon steps in full Marine Corps colonel's uniform. The guards proved none the wiser, saluting "Colonel Douglas" who in turn returned the honor as per his prior training as a Navy officer in World War II.
Another unlicensed scene took place in San Diego, where John Frankenheimer filmed Martin Balsam as he was ferried out to the USS Kitty Hawk.
Seven Days in May Movie

President Jordan Lyman's nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union meets stiff opposition from certain elements in the United States military. Especially aggrieved is Air Force General James Scott, who with his military and civilian supporters plots to overthrow the democratically-elected American government.
Learning of the planned coup d'etat is Colonel "Jiggs" Casey, who works for General Scott on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Casey alerts the President of General Scott's treachery, with a deadly political cat and mouse game taking place as Lyman and his allies try to rein in the plotters.
Release, Reviews

Seven Days in May premiered in Washington, D.C., on February 12, 1964.
"The performances are excellent down the line, under the taut and penetrating guidance of John Frankenheimer." crowed Variety.
Film Analysis

Golden Age television veterans Rod Serling and John Frankenheimer teamed up to bring movie fans one of the best Cold War films ever -- the aptly named Seven Days in May. This 1964 political thriller is just that, a stunning, literate, bravely-acted production that had audiences on the edge of their seats less than three months following the Kennedy assassination.
Burt Lancaster rates all four stars as the renegade JCS chairman, with Kirk Douglas more than his equal as the Marine colonel with a constitutional conscience. Fredric March is presidential and sultry Eva Gardner delivers a grand performance as General Scott's former mistress.
Special kudos go to Edmond O'Brien as a southern senator with a terminal affection for bourbon, who journeys down to Texas on the President's behalf.
Seven Days in May DVD, Awards

• Seven Days in May is available on a special edition DVD (Warner, 2000)
• Seven Days in May Academy Award nominations: Best Supporting Actor (Edmond O'Brien), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration B/W (Cary Odell, Edward G. Boyle)

"The bet is that there are members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who are involved in treason. We know who they are, we know the essence of the plan," White House aide Martin Balsam confronts vice-admiral John Houseman.
And the race is on...



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One of the most poignant songs in the musical "Showboat" is sung by the mixed-race character Julie after she has been dismissed from the theater and abandoned by her husband. In a cheap music hall, she drunkenly sings about her affection for someone not very special--a replacement lover whose manly ardor for her somehow redeems and lionizes him--or so the lyrics attempt to convince us.

"Along Came Bill" is a powerful song in any context. A comparison between Ava Gardner's performance and Audra Mcdonald's rendition, however, reveals a surprising revelation. Gardner was no strong singer and was about as Caucasian as a person can get; the producers of "Showboat" were so distressed by her weak voice that they even dubbed her song in the final version of the film. For her part, Audra Mcdonald is one of the most talented actresses and lauded singers currently working in American theater. Years ago, I had the privilege of seeing her perform live in "Carousel" and "Ragtime" and she was fantastic. It came as a surprise to me, then, that when I caught a video of Gardner performing "Along Came Bill" in her own voice, it completely eclipsed Mcdonald's witty, nuanced performance of the song.

McDonald approaches the ballad almost as if it were a monologue, savoring the irony and humor in the lyrics. At times, her voice soars with unexpected power, but most of the time, the performance is surprisingly understated--melodious, thoughtful, and earthy. It's a beautiful rendition of the song--a unique interpretation. Helen Morgan, the original Julie, seems positively artificial and old-fashioned compared to this performance; it's as if McDonald is a young woman pouring her life story out to the audience, and Morgan is an aging prima donna who savors every trill with expert if restrained and artificial dexterity.

But then, there is Gardner's performance. Her Julie is a devastatingly beautiful ruin, a sensual alcoholic abandoned by every man who ever had faith in her. There is something resigned, slinky, and melancholy about the performance that almost defies description. As she sings about settling for someone less than an ideal, you come to realize that she is in fact not singing about anyone at all. She is a woman who has known real love and lost it--"Along Came Bill" is an ode to loneliness. Gardner's voice is small, but smooth and sensual--there was surely no reason to dub her in the final film. Her song carries the message that whatever the lyrics may promise us, the love of an anonymous stranger may well be sensual and comforting, but there is something hollow in it--something missing.

Listening to McDonald sing, you realize that one can be happy by pragmatically settling for less than an ideal lover; listening to Gardner sing, you feel as if she might even be lucky to have a man like Bill--her voice is that of a woman who has no one, not even a mediocrity she can redeem by trying the best she can. It is a powerful interpretation of the song--right up there with Monroe's "I'm Through With Love" and Garland's "Over the Rainbow," in its own understated way.

 

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In Your Face

Actresses Ava Gardner (left) and Halle Berry (below right) are challenging Angelina Jolie (bottom right) for the title of the world’s most beautiful woman.
That’s the showdown set up by readers participating in two “In Your Face” surveys.
In the first one, 37 percent of readers said “Yes” to the question, “Is Angelina Jolie the world’s most beautiful woman?” while 63 percent said “No.”
In a follow-up survey, Halle Berry was the top vote-getter, closely followed by Ava Gardner. The survey question was “If not Angelina Jolie, who is the most beautiful woman?”

Here’s the final survey in the series:

In that second “If not Angelina” survey, Halle Berry has so far received 18 percent of the votes, while Ava Gardner won 15 percent. Grace Kelly earned 10 percent, but no one else reached double digits.

 

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There is hope, there has to be hope"

This movie is an unconventional Cold War thriller from the late 1950s. "On The Beach" takes place in the aftermath of nuclear war and follows the exploits of the USS Sawfish submarine and its crew, as they race to find a safe haven from the global radiation cloud which is sweeping over the globe. The movie is based on the book of the same name, written by Nevil Shute. The movie stars the silverscreen heavies Greogry Peck (as Captain Dwight Lionel Towers), Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, and Ava Gardner.

The movie is a drama, and not an action film. For those expecting any classic submarine battles or things that blow up, you may be sadly dissapointed. Much of the movie is set against the background of sunny Australia, the last area on earth yet to be consumed by the fallout and this movie is not you're classic post apocalyptic drama.

Anthony Perkins and his acting wife Donna Anderson give solid dramatic performances, showing their disturbed nature as they come to grips with what has happened and their own fate. Indeed, Their is alot of tension created the romantic duo. Fred Astaire, Gregory Peck , and Ava Gardner all show different aspirations in the face of the coming apocalyptic storm, and make for some multi-dimensional character development.

Many of the principle actors make you feel for the end of humanity. Unfortunately, they are set against the background of an oddly chipper australian continent. Indeed, Perkins and his wife struggle with their own mortality against the stage of a bunch of bathing beach beauties and boy scouts singing waltzing matilda. While I will not give away the ending of the film, humanity seems to face the disaster without much of a fight. Some more post apolyptic atmosphere would have complimented the dramatic feelings of dread the main characters experience.

The movie is heavy on the romance, and has some very touching scenes between Peck and Gardner which seem to be timeless despite the fact the movie was made in the fifties.

Overall a solid amount of tension, and interesting character development. Could have been made better with a complimented atmosphere.

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