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Old 09-12-2016, 16:20
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How wonderful Kirk is still going strong, even at 100! There can't have been many Hollywood stars that have reached that age.

Olivia de Havilland is the only other one i can think of, who is still with us. And Zsa Zsa Gabor will turn 100 in February!
I didn't know until recently that Olivia's sister was Joan Fontaine ( she died 3 years ago)

The only films I remember Olivia being in were Gone with the Wnd and The Heiress.
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Old 09-12-2016, 16:36
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I didn't know until recently that Olivia's sister was Joan Fontaine ( she died 3 years ago)

The only films I remember Olivia being in were Gone with the Wnd and The Heiress.
To Each His Own, the film that won Olivia her first Oscar is well worth seeing, as is My Cousin Rachel, and another Oscar Nominated performance, The Snake Pit.
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Old 09-12-2016, 16:40
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Great film.

I liked a lot of his films - The Bad and the Beautiful - Paths of Glory - Ace in the Hole- Spartacus - A Letter to Four wives??

Happy Birthday Kirk!
It was going to be four wives, but Joe Mankiewicz cut one out of his final screenplay, so the finished film was A Letter to Three Wives. I should have mentioned that in my recommendations, it is one of my all time favourite films.
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Old 09-12-2016, 18:00
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Paths of Glory is my favourite Douglas movie, and one of my favourite movies of all time.
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Old 09-12-2016, 21:17
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Out of the Past is on BBC2 tomorrow morning at 8.25.....AM! Do your eyeballs a favour and watch it.

Lust for Life on the same channel at 1.30pm.
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Old 09-12-2016, 21:24
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One of the greats!

What a career he has had!

Love his performance in Champion especially, and much respect for his contribution to ending the Hollywood Blacklist.
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Old 09-12-2016, 21:37
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Many great films my favourite is The Light at the Edge of the World.
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Old 09-12-2016, 21:51
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Out of the Past is on BBC2 tomorrow morning at 8.25.....AM! Do your eyeballs a favour and watch it.

Lust for Life on the same channel at 1.30pm.
But look for 'Build My Gallows High'...
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Old 09-12-2016, 22:08
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Out of the Past is by FAR the better title and it is the original.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...tofthepast.jpg
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Old 09-12-2016, 22:57
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Anybody seen a Lust for life with him starring as a famous painter

I thought that film was great. And was he nominated for that performance
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Old 09-12-2016, 23:25
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Anybody seen a Lust for life with him starring as a famous painter

I thought that film was great. And was he nominated for that performance
Lust for Life was his third and last Oscar Nomination. His first was for Champion in 1950, and his second for The Bad and the Beautiful, he deserved to win, but lost to the more popular Gary Cooper for his performance in High Noon.
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Old 09-12-2016, 23:58
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Unorthodox good looks. Something you don't see much of these days.

To me, he'll always be Spartacus and I'll cry every time I see the final scene.
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Old 10-12-2016, 08:28
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Great, great star. Happy birthday, Kirk.
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Old 10-12-2016, 08:41
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Beeb's print of Out of the Past is poor - Both picture and sound.
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Old 10-12-2016, 08:46
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Beeb's print of Out of the Past is poor - Both picture and sound.
How disappointing, they often show digitally enhanced new prints.

You can purchase it from Amazon for as little as £6.80.
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Old 10-12-2016, 08:50
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Got the DVD. Apparently the blu-ray is to die for:

Anyone who had any doubts about the use of the Blu-ray format when it comes to old black and white films can put all those doubts away. Having just viewed Warner's new Blu-ray of Jacques Tourneur's "Out of the Past"(1947) I'm still overwhelmed by the absolute pristine video of this classic film noir now a part of Warner's Archive Collection. For those who might be concerned, this is "not" a DVD-R as are most of the titles in the WAC. Warner's has started to release some of it's classic films on Blu-ray through it's Archive Collection which have been previously released on standard DVD. That includes "Out of the Past" which was one of the five films in Volume One of it's "Film Noir Classics Collection" from ten years ago. But the difference between that DVD and this new Blu-ray is simply stunning. According to published reports, Warner's gave "Out of the Past" a very high bitrate (34.57) for this transfer and needless to say the results are astounding. It's simply beautiful. I don't know if the restoration team at Warner's had the original negative to work with but it sure looks like it. The cinematography by Nicholas Musuraca is not only enhanced on Blu-ray but probably hasn't looked this good since it's original theatrical run.
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Old 10-12-2016, 11:00
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Just to show you how old Kirk is, my grandfather was also born in 1916, but he died 22 years ago, of old age natural causes.
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Old 10-12-2016, 11:17
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Just to show you how old Kirk is, my grandfather was also born in 1916, but he died 22 years ago, of old age natural causes.
WOW! that is a year younger than me, and oddly enough the older I get the less I think about dying, which I guess is the best way to look at it with 80 just five months away.
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Old 10-12-2016, 11:46
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Congratulations to Kirk who celebrates his Centenary today.

He made his debut 70 years ago as Barbara Stanwycks weakling husband in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.

He is probably known best as Spartacus, but my favourite of all his films is as the ruthless director in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). This also starred Lana Turner giving an Oscar worthy performance.
Still from Kirk's debut film with the wonderful Barbara Stanwyck

http://www.tasteofcinema.com/wp-cont...Ivers-1946.jpg
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Old 10-12-2016, 13:49
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Out of the Past is by FAR the better title and it is the original.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...tofthepast.jpg
Build my Gallows High is the title of the original novel, and a line from the film.

Out of the Past is a fairly nondescript title.

I'm happy the UK changed it.

And it's one of the great Film Noirs. Fabulous cast, snappy dialogue, plot twists galore.
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Old 10-12-2016, 13:51
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Beeb's print of Out of the Past is poor - Both picture and sound.
A lot of their RKO titles look like old transfers with murky pictures and sound. No excuse for that these days.

Not sure who owns the negatives of RKO films.
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Old 10-12-2016, 13:57
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Still from Kirk's debut film with the wonderful Barbara Stanwyck

http://www.tasteofcinema.com/wp-cont...Ivers-1946.jpg
It was a very impressive screen debut, and they are wonderful in their scenes together.

You can see the complete film on YouTube.
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Old 10-12-2016, 13:59
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This is fantastic news, I mean for anyone to make a century so congrats to Kirk and the only other longevities I'm aware of are Geoffrey Bayldon and the magnificent Tony Bennett who is now in his mid-nineties.
Tony Bennett is 90 and 5 actors Tony Britton,Geoffrey Chater,Robert Fyfe.Bernard Hepton and Peter Sallis are 90 plus
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Old 10-12-2016, 14:14
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Rhonda Fleming, who plays the good girl in Out of the Past is still with us at 93.
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Old 10-12-2016, 15:02
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Rhonda Fleming, who plays the good girl in Out of the Past is still with us at 93.
think she was in Gunfight At The OK Corral too.Dick Van Dyke and June Whitfield both turn 91 this year
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