We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
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We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
“FLORA. I somehow missed your post here at the UMR, I must be going blind. Sorry to read you still have problems posting comments on youtube and my channel. ”That extract is from Steve’s post on 5 Jan at 5:29 pm on Cogerson.
My own view is that Flora is one of the great long-standing Trojans of both this site and Steve’s channel and thus in terms of ‘just deserts’ it seems unfortunate that she is not able to make her Lensman comments in her usual way.
I do not have Steve’s internet [or indeed other!] technical skills so I can offer her no advice and I therefore can only hope that the situation whatever its cause can be rectified for her in the near future so that she can resume posting about Steve’s videos via the particular medium where she has been traditionally comfortable.
In the meantime as the saying goes It’s an ill wind that blows NOBODY any good: I am always interested in knowing what Flora is thinking about movies and for now at least I am being made privy to more of it!
“At least we have Bruce’s forum to chat about this stuff.” Steve went on to say in 5 Jan post at 5.29pm on Cogerson. However, sadly I had almost forgotten that my own responses to Steve’s – for me absorbing – videos were on the Cogerson site and not on Steve’s own via u tube: it has been so long since anyone but Steve engaged in solid exchanges with me on THIS site about movies.
That appears sad because my own feeling is that a medium that does not reasonably-enthusiastically engage with comments from its viewers ultimately becomes bland and maybe even ‘soulless’.
It is indeed ironic that extensively across the pages of this site viewers are EVEN YET invited to “Leave a Reply”; though perhaps that invitation should no longer be pressed on the Cogerson viewer.
Anyway as things stand at the moment the experiences of Flora [in relation to her technical problems] and me are for different reasons failing to prove the validity of Galatians 6:7 of the King James version of The Bible: “Be not misled. God is not mocked. For whatever a man might sow, that also he will reap.”
Hi, Bob. Thanks for the words of encouragement. I do so enjoy Steve’s videos and am happy to communicate with him on any forum possible. Interestingly, I am able to click “like” on the videos as always. My new computer is a Lenovo. I haven’t had one from that company before. My last one was an HP. I switched because the others were more expensive.
HI FLORA
Thanks for the additional information on the subject. It’s always nice to hear from you.
STILLS/LOBBY CARDS
1/2 for Among the Living -pre-stardom Susan Hayward
2/2 for Rage in Manchester
3/ALL for Street of Chance
4/Crossroads
5/Moontide
6/ALL for Shanghai Gesture
7/Stranger on 3rd Floor
8/2 for Out of the fog
9/Both for Johnny Eager “T n T – Taylor n Turner = Dynamite!”
10/Both for I Wake up Screaming. Remade in 1953 as “Vicki” starring Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Elliot Reid.
11/2 with Ladd and Lake
12/Lake solo
13/ALL for A Woman’s Face -Crawford in her Great Heyday – and HOW great that was!
14/ALL for This Gun for Hire
15/2 for They Drive by Night. Bogie still a subordinate star to Raft. That would change – big time – the following year.
16/Suspicion: the Great Alfred talks to the Great Al on set- a rare collector’s item and capturing Bob’s “most interesting still” award!
POSTERS
1/1st one for Rage in Manchester
2/Crossroads
3/Moontide-part of Gabin’s failed attempt to break into Hollywood
4/1st one for Shanghai Gesture
5/2 for Out of the Fog
6/1st one for Johnny Eager
7/1st one for I Wake Up Screaming
8/The Glass Key
9/Foreign Language one for A Woman’s Face
10/1st one for They Drive by Night
11/Foreign Language one for Suspicion
12/ Foreign Language one for Stranger on 3rd Floor
13/1st and foreign one for This Gun for Hire – Philip Raven: one of the screen’s great villains. “Raven smiles at the end – he shouldn’t have.” -Reviewer.
14/ALL for High Sierra. Last movie in which Bogie ever got less than 1st billing
15/Foreign Language one for Maltese Falcon – “We gotta give the police somebody. I say let’s give em the Gunsel.”
16/Foreign language poster version for Rebecca. “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” Some film historians consider this the most-remembered opening line ever spoken in film. Some quotes spell it Mandalay. We on Cogerson, although we may seriously mislead in the co-star links columns, try to get everything-else as accurate as possible though.
Welcome to the New Year which has started with a good video subject which is also the focus of my own first post of 2022 and indeed my 1st post since I responded on Christmas Day to Steve’s message. In short we now have the first great video of 2022 AND the first great post; wow-what a combination!
Actually as we have come to expect from Steve the high quality of this latest video is so even virtually throughout that the fine-tuning of my selection of the top entries has been a very difficult exercise for me despite the relative brevity of the presentation.
However that is usually the case with Steve’s offerings and in Parts 2 and 3 are listed the posters/stills which on balance have given me personally the VERY greatest pleasure – to the tune of 98.5%. And it was good to see Ladd and Lake in the video’s cover poster.
Hi Bob, happy new year! Covid mutating into something harmless? I hope so.
Thanks for the review, generous rating, info and quotes, always appreciated.
Happy you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.
Someone on my channel requested a film noir video series and here it is. I’m more of a westerns fan but I do enjoy the occasional noir. Doing it year by year instead of by decade gives me a chance to showcase poster art and stills from lesser known films.
Three films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Rebecca, The Letter and
The Maltese Falcon.
My Video Top 5 –
The Maltese Falcon 9.25
Rebecca 9.25
The Letter 8.3
High Sierra 7.8
Suspicion 7.8
The UMR Critics Top 5 –
The Maltese Falcon 8.9
Rebecca 8.7
Suspicion 8.6
High Sierra 8.5
The Letter 8.4
Trivia
The Maltese Falcon was John Huston’s directorial debut. “The stuff that dreams are made of” Bogart’s famous line was voted as the #14 movie quote by the American Film Institute. The line is paraphrased from William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”: “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, / And our little life is rounded with a sleep.” As a joke, Walter Huston kept fumbling his walk-on cameo so his son John Huston had to do a lot of different takes. Warner Bros. briefly considered casting Edward G. Robinson as Sam Spade. Three of the Falcon statuettes still exist and are conservatively valued at over $1 million each. This makes them some of the most valuable film props ever made; indeed, each is now worth more than three times what the film cost to make.
Next video on monday.
HI STEVE: Happy New Year and thanks for your comprehensive reply. Interesting trivia about the 3 Falcon statuettes.
I discovered almost too late when submitting my initial posts to you that in them I had kept referring to the New Year as 1922 instead of 2022.
My automatic pilot had possibly been influenced by several recent references in the political press to de Pfeffel’s famous 99-year-old 1922 Committee [aka Conservative Party Private Members’ Committee].
Steve- In cannot any longer reply to your videos on Youtube. I have posted my answer to you below the first part of Bob’s comments. Hopefully you can find it
For some reason, since I got a new computer, I cannot comment on Youtube at all, even in response to another comment. Hopefully, Steve will see this comment here. From now on, I will be responding to Steve’s videos on UMR as Bob does. Here is my comment I tried to post:
Film Noir is my favourite genre. I have seen 16 of these. Favourites are The Maltese Falcon, Rebecca, The Letter, High Sierra, Suspicion, This Gun For Hire, They Drive By Night, A Woman’s Face, The Glass Key, I Wake Up Screaming, Johnny Eager, Out of the Fog, Stranger on the Third Floor, and Rage in Heaven. I have also seen Blues in the Night and Crossroads.
Favourite posters and stills are from The Maltese Falcon, Rebecca, The letter, High Sierra, Suspicion, This Gun For Hire, The Glass Key, I Wake Up Screaming, Johnny Eager, out of the Fog, Stranger on the Third Floor, Crossroads and Rage in Heaven.
Hi Flora, and happy new year!
I somehow missed your post here at the UMR, I must be going blind. Sorry to read you still have problems posting comments on youtube and my channel.
Maybe your computer’s browser security levels are too high? I dunno. Are you using Firefox? Chrome?
Your favorite genre? Whoa! I think you’ll enjoy this series than. Already an impressive tally – 16 out of 20. I thought I’d seen 6 but missed Suspicion so make that 7. Rebecca, Suspicion, The Maltese Falcon, High Sierra, This Gun for Hire, They Drive by Night and The Glass Key. All favorites.
Thanks as usual for commenting, much appreciated. Glad you liked the posters and stills. At least we have Bruce’s forum to chat about this stuff. 🙂
Hey, Steve. I use Microsoft Edge. Interesting theory you said in the email reply about your videos being not for children and my maybe having a child lock. Then again my security might be high. I am not very tech savvy and the neighbour who used to figure these things out for me moved away. I am indeed glad that we can still chat about your videos on Bruce’s site.