@SpudMuffin

On my service I have to use a keyboard to locate whether or not I have this movie. Moon didn't work so well because there were 44 pages of movies with moon in the title so I was forced to use Sam Rockwell and this helped immensely - I have it :)

@SpudMuffin

I just hope I get around to it - the David Bowie connection intrigues...

@Wiseacre

His love story about his stomping grounds? I think so.

@ThePatientAnarchist

You said so much with so few words. Wasn't this penned by Michener (at least he had something to do with it?)

@rinkydinkydoink Based on the musical by Rogers & Hammerstein which was based on stories by James Michener. Also thanks :)

@rinkydinkydoink Sam Jaffe who even when he was young ,he was old....Capra said he would only make the film if Colman agreed to be in it.

Graham Green was not impressed..but he had to flee the country after his infamous Shirley Temple comments

@bookerdana

LOL about Jaffe.

@rinkydinkydoink I have never seen him as a young man::House on Haunted Hill

@ninalanyon

I like the bare essentials style of Brit movies of the 1950s.

@rinkydinkydoink I think that very often financial constraints make for better products, better work.

My original field was physics and when financial constraints come up I always think of what P. M. S. Blackett said in the 1930s at Cambridge: "We have run out of money, now we will have to think."

@ninalanyon @ninalanyon

Perfect!

@PerfectionOfTheHeart

Hadn't heard of SI - so I looked into it: Scorsese and a stellar cast :)

@rinkydinkydoink A must watch, for sure.

@Nobody

I know the basic story - how the American code-breakers changed the course of the battle of the pacific?

@rinkydinkydoink Watch the original. It's an all star cast. Very exciting!

@Lugwho

The one I have is 229 minutes and 19 seconds... I wonder what's missing...

@rinkydinkydoink I've always remembered it as being 4.5 hours, but it looks like the 229 minute version was the originsl release. It was an independent cinema so maybe they somehow got the 269 minute version, but no way of knowing now. I'm not sure I'd remembet if anything was missing if I watched it again.

@Lugwho

I watched the first 100 minutes or so again last night. I like movies that are stories within a story within a story.

@OlderSometimesWiser

YOU are a romantic. Not a skeptic at all.

@OlderSometimesWiser Fargo is one of the best movies ever!

@HowtoDestroyAngels It was great. Am actually planning to watch Blood Simple, the first feature film made by the Coen brothers in 1984. Starring a young Frances McDormand.

@MoveAlong

I forgot which Bond girl was in this movie - going to google it now...


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@Nimbus

The kid eating the treat on the top of the stairs that was meant as a bribe - I mean, a gift - for the top-heavy girl was a favorite moment LOL

@rinkydinkydoink I know :)
There are many classic scenes in this first class film.

@Nimbus

You got that right - - it's one of those films that you must see at least once a year.

@HowtoDestroyAngels

Another Oscar-winning or nominated movie I've not yet seen :(

@rinkydinkydoink Excellent film.

@Gusman

Have you compared the two? I've seen neither so I have no favorite.

@rinkydinkydoink The original 1957 was better. As is usually the case. I have seen both.
I named the 2007 one as it might be more readily available for viewing.

@Gusman

Agreed - this is prob why some movies will never be re-made. I've not seen the newer Born Yesterday but I can't imagine it outdid the original.

@Nunlover

Stop it!

🤭

@rinkydinkydoink you asked 😉

@Nunlover An American classic. And yeah, I actually have seen it!

@tobynshorty

Where?

@rinkydinkydoink mountains of Western North Carolina

@MrBlueGuy

This. Looks. Interesting.

@Mamapolo2016

Oh man... another movie or mini-series I've not seen. Going by the reviews it def looks like a winner.
Even more astonishing, I never knew the title referred to the name of a place - fictional though it may be.

@rinkydinkydoink The book is better, but the miniseries is a close second.

Lonesome Dove is the minuscule town where it all started.

@BiasForAction

One of Woody's best. No doubt about it.

@BabyLonia

Quite a diverse grouping :D

Mr Gordon Brown, our high school music teacher, was a tenor saxophonist and still occasionally played gigs as an extra horn for big bands like Count Basie when they visited our area in southern Ontario. The whole class went to see West Side Story at a much larger venue (I forgot where - this was decades ago - Mr Brown was in the pit) but I remember him telling us the drummer was hired in Toronto because none from our area could possibly have handled the complexities of the WSS arrangements.

@rinkydinkydoink West Side Story is a masterpiece