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Kirk Douglas - 100 years old today! |
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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! The only films I remember Olivia being in were Gone with the Wnd and The Heiress. |
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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. |
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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! |
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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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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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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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Many great films my favourite is The Light at the Edge of the World.
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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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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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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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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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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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Great, great star. Happy birthday, Kirk.
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Beeb's print of Out of the Past is poor - Both picture and sound.
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Beeb's print of Out of the Past is poor - Both picture and sound.
You can purchase it from Amazon for as little as £6.80.
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Got the DVD. Apparently the blu-ray is to die for: Quote:
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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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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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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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. http://www.tasteofcinema.com/wp-cont...Ivers-1946.jpg |
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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 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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Beeb's print of Out of the Past is poor - Both picture and sound.
Not sure who owns the negatives of RKO films. |
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Still from Kirk's debut film with the wonderful Barbara Stanwyck
http://www.tasteofcinema.com/wp-cont...Ivers-1946.jpg You can see the complete film on YouTube.
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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.
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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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Rhonda Fleming, who plays the good girl in Out of the Past is still with us at 93.
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