Is it just me, or does Merlin's hood (from The Adventures of Sir Lancelot) the same as Merlin's hood (from Knights of the Round Table '53)?

They do look very similar, plus it wasn't uncommon to reuse assets. And the movie was filmed in England, maybe they left some costumes behind?

The Adventures of Lancelot cap was nicked from unwillingadventurer btw

Knights of the Round Table 1953

First MGM film to be shot in CinemaScope.

Robert Taylor was never comfortable filming these types of movies. He often referred to them as "iron jockstrap" movies and actually preferred doing westerns.

Knights of the Round Table was the second in an unofficial trilogy. The other two movies were Ivanhoe and The Adventures of Quentin Durward. The three movies were made by producer Pandro S. Berman and director Richard Thorpe. Robert Taylor starred in all three movies.

Bad movie I have The Mummy 1959

Films Watched in 2023:

36. Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960) - Dir. Cyril Frankel

Quo Vadis, 1950, Is Playing on TCM on March 17 (USA)

The epic Quo Vadis, 1950 is playing on Turner Classic Movies on Friday, March 17 at 7:30 a.m.  If you haven’t seen this, you’ve missed something truly special. The 1st century Roman Empire, the fire of Rome, early Christianity, martyrdom…this historical content was dealt with in many films before and after 1951. Yet, it is LeRoy’s Quo Vadis most viewers associate with the infamous period of…

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Your hosts are incredibly excited for the next highly anticipated horror from Hammer Film Productions... it's THE MUMMY (1959) from director Terence Fisher, writer Jimmy Sangster, and starring Peter Cushing, Christoper Lee and George Pastell!

Will these legends of horror continue with their winning streak, or will the mummy's curse of tepid horror strike again?

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 33:35; Discussion 46:48; Ranking 1:13:36

AUDREY HEPBURN + letters In a letter to Lillian Gish, 1959 In a letter to  Felix Aylmer, 1960 In a letter to George Cukor, undated

Jean Simmons and Dirk Bogarde in So Long at the Fair (Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher, 1950)

Cast: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Honor Blackman, Felix Aylmer, Cathleen Nesbitt, Betty Warren, Marcel Poncin, Austin Trevor, André Morell, Zena Marshall, Eugene Deckers. Screenplay: Hugh Mills, Anthony Thorne, based on a novel by Thorne. Cinematography: Reginald H. Wyer. Art direction: Cedric Dawe, George Provis. Film editing: Gordon Hales. Music: Benjamin Frankel. 

They might have called it The Gentleman Vanishes. Jean Simmons and David Tomlinson play Vicky and Johnny Barton, sister and brother, whose travels around Europe take them to Paris for the 1889 Paris Exposition, the event that saw the opening of the Eiffel Tower. After seeing a bit of the city on their first night there, Vicky retires to her hotel room while Johnny, feeling tired, stays downstairs to have a nightcap. In the morning, Johnny has vanished. Not only that, the room where he was staying has vanished too. The hotel staff denies that he was ever there, and moreover asserts that the room where he was staying, No. 19, has never existed: The only room 19 is a bathroom. The manager of the hotel, Mme. Hervé (Cathleen Nesbitt), whom we saw check the Bartons in the night before, insists that only Vicky checked in and shows her the registry that only she signed. And so begins Vicky's harrowing attempt not only to find her brother but also to prove that she's not insane. So Long at the Fair is a mostly engaging variation on the gaslighting theme that evokes the similar, though less complex, disappearance of Miss Froy in Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 The Lady Vanishes, though it's not in the same league as Hitchcock's classic. This version is a little too complicated for its own good: It's hard to ignore the many implausibilities of the scheme that's revealed at the end, and the accidental death of a witness who might have prematurely exposed the scheme feels like a contrivance to keep the plot going. But there's still enough fun in trying to figure things out, and the performances are good. Simmons gives full expression to both Vicky's bewilderment and her determination as she deals with uncomprehending authorities, and Dirk Bogarde is handsomely dashing as the expatriate artist who comes to her aid. 

§ 3.382. Mujer sin pasado (Ronald Neame, 1964)

Tiene un formato clásico, tanto en la forma como en el fondo, en una cinta muy británica. Tanto en el lugar de desarrollo de la historia como en el tratamiento del espacio físico en el que se desarrolla: las casas, los coches, la ropa y el atrezo.

Es estimulante en el desarrollo, suave en las formas y con un cierto mensaje. Difícil de rodar y de plantear: pocos personajes, un espacio muy cerrado, una niña adolescente (las películas de niños no suelen gustarme) y un pasado que lucha por salir a la luz y, a la vez, por permanecer escondido, porque su revelación supondrá, sin más, la terminación del misterio y el empleo.

Me encanta Kerr, tiene un donaire y una apostura clásica, una sensualidad pausada y una feminidad rotunda.

La película tiene un propósito educativo en el sentido más amplio de la palabra. La niña es, verdaderamente, odiosa, insoportable, repulsiva, repugnante.

Solo son seis actores los que intervienen: Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Edith Evans, Felix Aylmer y Elizabeth Sellars.

Me ha gustado mucho, es suave, tierna pero dura a la vez, interesante.

The Wicked Lady (1945) Leslie Arliss

February 22nd 2022

The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)

Director - Richard Williams, Cinematography - John Leatherbarrow

"Who needs a genie, when a tack will do the trick?"

Films watched (1930s): Bank Holiday (Gainsborough, 1938); written by Rodney Ackland & Roger Burford; dir. Carol Reed. Starring, John Lodge, Margaret Lockwood, Linden Travers, Hugh Williams & Rene Ray.

“Everybody’s coming back.  The holiday’s over.”

QuoVadis, 1951, Is Showing on TCM on February 11 (USA)

The epic Quo Vadis, 1951 is playing on Turner Classic Movies on Saturday, February 11 at 5:00 p.m. If you haven’t seen this, you’ve missed something truly special. The 1st century Roman Empire, the fire of Rome, early Christianity, martyrdom…this historical content was dealt with in many films before and after 1951. Yet, it is LeRoy’s Quo Vadis most viewers associate with the infamous period of…

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