#alexander knox

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The Psychopath | Freddie Francis | 1966

Dolls of death

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The Sea Wolf (1941) Michael Curtiz

September 6th 2023

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Julie Doing “Stuff” with Famous People (23rd post)

Director Busby Berkeley shows Julie the ropes on the set of THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL above.

On his last film, Julie and Shelley Winters get guidance from director, John Berry who sets up a scene in HE RAN ALL THE WAY.

Eleanor Parker and Julie are comfy on the floor absorbed in the comic pages in a scene for PRIDE OF THE MARINES.

Priscilla Lane spoon feeds Julie in a promotional photo for DUST BE MY DESTINY.

And the two pose for PHOTOPLAY magazine with a smoldering kiss!

The photo caption for this pixelated pic reads: “Who says Harpo won't talk? John Garfield had a grand chat with the elfin-faced comic.”

From a magazine feature: “Inhibitions fall down and go boom: John Garfield and (actress) Kay Aldridge were prettily for their picture against the deck tennis net aboard the S.S. America when…

…the net suddenly broke and Mr. Garfield and Miss Aldridge hit the deck. They tried to get up again and missed connections, all which made for a lot of fun for Fink.” (Not sure who Fink is!)

Julie chats with With Photoplay magazine writer, Maxine Arnold.

Julie clowns with his wife, Robbe and actors, Richard Conte and Alexander Knox. I read somewhere Julie helped Conte early in his career.

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Alexander Knox-Betta St. John "Alias John Preston" 1955, de David MacDonald.

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I wish we can get all previous skins from each season without a rotation. I really want that Lady Grey CAR SMG skin,

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"The Damned" (1962) - Joseph Losey

Films I've watched in 2022 (179/210)

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ALEXANDER KNOX as HUMPHREY VAN WEYDEN in THE SEA WOLF (1941)

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The cast of The Hidden Truth (Rediffusion, 1964).

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Vicki Vale and Batman’s Pal, Alex Knox the Gotham Gazette’s finest (and only) reporters

Look, you want the clean, inoffensive (and may I add, LexCorp-funded) propaganda the Arkham City Tribune pumps out, or do you want real news?

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The Psychopath | Freddie Francis | 1966

Alexander Knox, Margaret Johnston

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Alexander Knox and Janet Leigh in

The Vikings (1958) Director: Richard Fleischer

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Accident (1967) Joseph Losey

September 3rd 2022

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Geraldine Fitzgerald and Alexander Knox in Wilson (Henry King, 1944) Cast: Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Ruth Nelson Henry Cabot Lodge: Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Coburn, Vincent Price, William Eythe, Sidney Blackmer, Charles Halton, Thurston Hall, Marcel Dalio. Screenplay: Lamar Trotti. Cinematography: Leon Shamroy. Art direction: James Basevi, Wiard Ihnen. Film editing: Barbara McLean. Music: Alfred Newman. Wilson was a famous flop, its failure magnified by the angry disappointment of its producer, Darryl F. Zanuck, who thought that a film about the man who was president during World War I would be just the ticket during World War II. Still seething about it when he accepted the best picture Oscar for Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan, 1947) three years later, Zanuck grumbled, "I should have got this for Wilson." One problem was that audiences were not particularly enthusiastic about sitting through a history lesson in mid-wartime, but another was that Woodrow Wilson was not one of our more charismatic presidents. He was nominated by a deadlocked Democratic convention and elected because the Republicans were split between William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" candidacy. Wilson was an intellectual, a college history professor who became president of Princeton University, and never mastered the technique of selling his lofty ideas about world peace to the electorate. Though Wilson is chock full of biopic clichés, including wall-to-wall patriotic music, and it's about an hour too long, it's not as boring as it is cracked up to be. It has moments of real energy, particularly in its depiction of the political conventions and their high-flown oratory, and the introduction of newsreel footage brings it back to reality. It's also opulently produced, with some spectacular interiors and some vivid (not to say lurid) Technicolor. Alexander Knox does what he can to warm up a man who was probably rather chilly in real life.

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W A T C H I N G

TRIVIA:

English Gothic Punk band, 'The Damned' took their name from this film.

I got the special edition Bluray from Powerhouse/Indicator films. I saw it about 10 years ago from a DVD collection I borrowed from the library. It was HAMMER FILMS but suspense films not they're usual horror.

It was a strangely stark and striking film even with film standards and ethics of the day. I would even compare it to an early 60s precursor to A Clockwork Orange, but with creepy children.

This is also the final "creepy kids" themed film for this Halloween's movie marathon, but not the end of the marathon itself.

Previously I watched Children of the Damned, Village of the Damned, and John Carpenter's Children of the Damned remake. (P.s. They have no connection to this film)

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Alexander Knox-Geraldine Fitzgerald "Wilson" 1944, de Henry King.