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05-06-2015, 02:22 PM
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@TimeformUSfigs
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The Killing
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05-06-2015, 02:36 PM
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Didn't Tom mastermind a similar plot at Finger Lakes in the mid '80s?   
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05-06-2015, 02:46 PM
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I remember seeing that flick, at the movies, when I was 11yrs old....
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05-06-2015, 03:04 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
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Now I have to watch this one tonight! 
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05-06-2015, 03:42 PM
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Thanks FanDan for posting the trailer along with CJ for providing the link and heads up.
This is possibly one of the best movies ever made during Hollywood's film noir era. Don't miss it !
A few times here on PA OT-General there have been pro wrestling references.
One of the movie's co-conspirators is Kola Kwariani, who was a pro wrestler most famous for discovering and bringing to the USA the great 1950s superstar, Antonio (Argentina) Rocca, who easily became the biggest draw in the mat game at the time. Kola Kwariani was Rocca's manager in addition to being a world-class chess player.
In The Killing, Sterling Hayden's character recruits Kwariani into the scheme in the Chess and Checker Club in Manhattan. This was a real life chess club for serious chess enthusiasts. Kwariani's character is to start a brawl in the racetrack's bar to create a diversion at the time of the robbery.
In one of life's sad ironies, Kola Kwariani was murdered one night in front of the C & C Club in 1980.
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05-06-2015, 03:51 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
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I remember Tony's manager from the old Friday Night Wrestling!
Didn't know it was this guy. Cool.
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05-06-2015, 04:05 PM
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Thanks, cj. Some how overlooked that one when I scanned the movies "at bat" on TCM last weekend.
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05-09-2015, 08:13 PM
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Thanks cj for posting that.
I recorded it the other evening and watched it today.
It was quite enjoyable.
Certainly it brought back memories of the old ticket wickets with different windows for every price of bet, the horses pulling the starting gate and I had forgotten that, the fedoras, the sleazy motels that were considered quite okay in those days, and the packed crowds at the track on race day.
Thank you.
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05-28-2015, 07:14 PM
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No Kubrick?
Hi cj,
Bumping this thread because I was surprised to find it here, but also, as a big Kubrick fan, surprised no mention of him. Although a bomb at the box office, this is the film that put the 27-year-old Kubrick on the Hollywood map - it had many notable admirers at the time, among them, Orson Welles, who called it the work of a 'young giant' - and Kirk Douglas, who agreed to star in Kubrick's next project, 'Paths of Glory' - and many today, including Quentin Tarantino, who admits he ripped off much of the film in making 'Reservoir Dogs' which echoes its non-linear structure.
I had the pleasure of meeting the movie's composer, Jerry Fried, through his son, some years back. Like Vince Edwards, he was a friend of Kubrick's and grew up with him in the same Bronx neighborhood, and presented a far less forbidding picture of the director than that usually associated with him.
Thanks for posting this.
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05-28-2015, 10:17 PM
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Just another Facist
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Too bad he soiled his career going out on "Eyes Wide Shut"
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05-29-2015, 08:25 AM
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Too bad he soiled his career going out on "Eyes Wide Shut"
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What did you not like about it?
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05-29-2015, 08:41 AM
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Just another Facist
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What did you not like about it?
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It was stupid...... can I just say that? 
It was a vehicle to show Nicole naked. That was it...........
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05-29-2015, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by JustRalph
Too bad he soiled his career going out on "Eyes Wide Shut"
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Ditto that. One of the worst movies ever. Basically an x-rated movie with a D plot (as compared to an F plot).
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05-29-2015, 12:22 PM
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Well, it's a movie dealing with sexuality but it seems neither could get past the sex.
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05-29-2015, 01:02 PM
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It was stupid...... can I just say that?
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It wasn't that stupid, IMO. I've seen stupider movies...where I didn't even get to see Nicole naked.
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