19 thoughts on “George Sanders Movies”

1. 1 HI STEVE On 19 Sep September last year I lodged a post [see below] in response to Bruce’s then-new Sanders page but nobody seemed interested in it. That though is probably understandable as we were once more honoured with the observations of Joel, and even I might regard as inconsequential anything somebody else had to say if pearls of wisdom from the pen of The Great Man were dripping down onto centre stage.

   NB: In 1956 The Great Man of the movie of that title is an entertainments celebrity admired by the public in the way that Joel seems to be on this site. When The Great Man dies in a car accident my Gorgeous George’s uncle in real life Jose Ferrer, the Network’s popular reporter on the air, is assigned to prepare a tribute to The Great Man. However as he digs beneath the surface he finds a phoney who was a massive charlatan “Everybody loved The Great Man except those who hated his guts,” is the tagline on the posters [see Wikipedia]

   2 Anyway your video gives me the opportunity to write once again about George Sanders. POSTERS. My favourites are Confessions of a Nazi Spy, The Strange Woman, Solomon and Sheba, Death of a Scoundrel, Moonfleet, Witness to Murder, While the City Sleeps, The Black Swan, Samson and Delilah, The Moon and Sixpence, Village of the Damned and Rebecca
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   3 STILLS (1) George and Lucille Ball (2) Samson and Delilah, with Mature an iconic standout because of his size (3) Sanders with Ty and Mo O’Hara (4) The Picture of Dorian Gray (5) Rebecca (6) All about Eve and (7) Shot in the Dark. Was it cost-cutting that made them produce black and white stills for a coloured movie in those days?

   4 You and Bruce agree on 4 of the Top 5 for Review. He chooses Jungle Book for the 5th whereas you have Shot in the Dark. There your taste coincides with mine but as Shere Khan has become such a legendary movie figure we must equally respect WH’s choice I like the opening quote from George and for me your presentation is easily worth 96.5%.

   5 I see that Dan in his 16 Sep post below thinks that Sanders, instead of a heart attack, may have killed Ty Power. Dan’s sources would have been useful to have had around in the days when the whole of America was in suspense about who shot J R Ewing in TV’s Dallas!

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   1. Hi Bob, thanks for the review, rating, info, trivia and comparison, it is appreciated.

      Happy you enjoyed the posters and stills.

      George Sanders accidentally ran Tyrone Powers thru with a fake movie sword during their fight? naah if it was anything of that sort the hospital and doctors would have mentioned it. A worried studio paying for a fake death certificate? Doubtful. Powers was too famous.

      Bob, I’ve noticed Hedy Lamarr is billed before Victor Mature for Samson and Delilah on all the posters, eh what’s that all about? Was she more famous than Vic? Is the movie titled Delilah & Samson? Was Gina billed over Yul in Solomon and Sheba? I know Hedy was a big sex symbol of the 1940s but she was hardly a respected actress, maybe the studio thought she was the main attraction? What does our billing expert think of these shenanigans?

      Sanders has 5 films scoring 10 out of 10 from my sources – The Jungle Book, A Shot in the Dark, Foreign Correspondent, Rebecca and All About Eve.

      Five films scored 9 including Dorian Gray and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

      All About Eve tops all the charts including Bruce’s critics chart. Rebecca tops the UMR chart. I own them both on DVD but if I had to pick one of the two it would be Rebecca, Hitchcock’s only Best Picture winner.

      Btw Hitch had another movie nominated for Best Picture that year, Foreign Correspondent. What an impressive start for his transition to Hollywood.

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2. Added Steve’s George Sanders You Tube Video to the channel.

   My comment there.

   “This man had a lot of movies. Of the 40 you listed…I have seen 14 of the 40….but he has a lot more movies. Favorites include #7 Dorian Gray….great supporting role #10 The Lodger….looks great in black and white #11 The Black Swan….fun fun movie…..and a movie Pirates of the Caribbean borrowed heavily from. And #13….Ivanhoe….another fun movie. I agree his best movies are All About Eve and Rebecca….and they are classics…..but I do not want to re-watch those great movies too often. Voted up and shared at UMR.”

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   1. Jolly good show! That’s pretty decent of you old chap, cheers. (as Sanders might say)

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      1. Hey Steve…no problem…just added your latest videos as well.

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3. 1 George Henry Sanders played leading roles [including The Saint] as well as supporting parts in his career but the only flicks in which I personally have seen him as the main star are Black Jack [aka Captain Black Jack] The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Moon and Sixpence and Death of a Scoundrel. He hated Black Jack himself [and indeed temporarily walked out on the filming of it until coaxed back] but the other 3 along with Rebecca, The Black Swan, Shot in the Dark and most especially Fritz Lang’s 1956 While the City Sleeps are my own favourite Sanders films.

   2 Literary historians opine that Sanders’ character the much-quoted Lord Henry Wotton in Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray was actually based on Wilde himself.

   3 Observers also claim that painter Charles Strickland whom George played in the 1942 film of Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence was based on the real-life Paul Gaugin for his portrayal of whom Tony Quinn earned a best supporting actor Oscar in the 1956 Lust for Life in which Kirk Douglas played van Gogh, a performance which attracted the scorn of Kirk’s pal The Duke. [How am I doing Dan?]

   4 Many among today’s audiences are possibly not too familiar with George Sanders’ PHYSICAL screen presence but George’s wonderful VOICE may have earned movie immortality via the predatory Shere Khan in the 1967 Jungle Book – no mumbling there Stevie !! Anyway this page provides a most welcome stats profile of the career of a unique performer in Hollywood’s classic era. Vote up as Steve would say.

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4. Hi
   Sanders was another one of them great character actors who enhanced so many movies, especially All About Eve as the venomous Addison Dewitt. Apparently Davis was furious that he got the Oscar and she didn’t and just hissed at him instead of speaking and his reply was “Sour grapes Betty dear?”
   He probably was at his best playing villains, he just had that look about him. He really enhanced the part of Shere Khan in the Jungle Book. It was so sad that he tragically killed himself. But he left a wonderful legacy of work.

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5. George Sanders, good actor, great voice.

   I’ve seen 24 of the 63 films listed, favorites include – Rebecca, Foreign Correspondent, All About Eve, Solomon and Delilah, Samson and Sheba, In Search of the Castaways, Ivanhoe, The Black Swan, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, A Shot in the Dark (my favorite Pink Panther movie) and The Jungle Book.

   Good to see Rebecca doing well on the charts, it’s an old favorite of mine and the only Hitchcock film to win an Oscar for Best Picture.

   One of my favorite voices in an animated film, Sanders as Shere Khan, perfecto. A lot better than Idris Elba in the recent CG movie version, could barely make out what he was saying. Benedict Cumberbatch was excellent as the voice of Smaug in the Hobbit films.

   Another top job Bruce. Vote Up!

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