KIRK DOUGLAS

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HE'S SPARTACUS!
"20,000 Leagues..." comes pretty close though... "This food isn't fit to eat!"

he doesn't act much in Spartacus, just looks stoic.

I'm partial to Paths of Glory, but it's pretty atypical and subdued for him. Out of the Past, Ace in the Hole, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Big Sky (v underrated Hawks) all choice.

I gotta rep for Lonely Are the Brave, but The Big Sky it is

I haven't seen much of his work...voted for Paths of Glory. That tribute from his son that runs on TCM all the time always makes me think "hmm, need to check that out."

I still need to see The Vikings, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Lonely Are the Brave.

Lonely Are the Brave is Douglas' favorite

I didn't notice the [POLL closes: January 10] when I first saw this thread and my first thought was "oh noes, it's the RIP thread".

otm about Lonely Are The Brave.

A surprisingly poignant Van Gogh, but in the end I was stuck between Champion and Out of the Past; went with the latter, because only Setsuko Hara has wrung so much nuance from a smile.

haven't seen Champion and Detective Story in ages. Remember the latter: "I'd give my soul to take out my brain, hold it under the faucet and wash away the dirty pictures you put there tonight!"

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Oh I didn't see this thread. I would have voted Out of the Past.

That's what I voted for. I like the way he is the taciturn tough guy and let's his sidekick do most of the jawing.

Like this bit of dialogue

Guys. Guys.

The circus is OVER.

'the bad and the beautiful' was terrific

I still haven't seen Lonely Are the Brave

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/kirk-douglas-10-best-big-screen-roles-330271

Must admit I thought this was an RIP revive.

Wow, 1 hr 33 interview, will have to make some time for this.

97 today. Dalton Trumbo wd've been 109.

http://moviemorlocks.com/2013/12/09/happy-birthday-dalton-trumbo-and-kirk-douglas-revisiting-the-blacklist/

Lonely Are the Brave shows in Brooklyn tonight, 35mm

Well, the first 45 minutes are pretty good. This is not one of KD's 10-12 best.

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99 on Dec 9

i love 20k leagues but i would have voted out of the past (the above is from a midnight rewatch). my favorite noir villain i think. always smiling, except for submomentary expressions of impatience or hate. his smallness also used well:

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very funny when mitchum points out that rather than blackmailing him douglas' accountant could just turn him in for a government reward-- douglas w genuine delight: "ah, you're up on these things!"

100 today!

Yowza! HB Kirk.

Yep. Not dreaded yet.

Damn spelling correktor!

Deaded.

Oh nm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2UyqUfe5SY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkjTGCrLvAU

links for the day

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/kirk-douglas-100

My favorite of his is "The Murder of Jean Spangler"...check it out!

Kirk Douglii:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izy2ittIe7A&index=1&list=FLARC9wh7vnw7f319pVLJj7A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izy2ittIe7A

Richard M. Nixon ‏@dick_nixon 19 Nov 2015

I forget that Kirk Douglas is still alive. You know what he did to Natalie Wood?

i was counting on Frederik B for that

in a belated Kirkfest, i will soon be rewatching Champion and The Bad and the Beautiful, and Young Man w/ a Horn for the first time

kirk douglas, celebrating his 102nd birthday, attributes his longevity to his continued faith in the islamic state of iraq and the levant

— DougExeter (@DougExeter) December 9, 2018

103! the simulation is kirk's dream i think.

was telling one of my students about him the other day, in the process of telling them to see paths of glory. 'made in 1957, guess when the lead actor died!'

the most amazing part of the kirk douglas longevity saga is that his wife is also still alive, at 100

Had to take a screenshot of this.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/kirk.jpg

best perfs imho w/out thinking much about it

1. PATHS OF GLORY
2. ACE IN THE HOLE
3. THE BIG SKY
4. OUT OF THE PAST
5. DETECTIVE STORY
6. CHAMPION
7. LONELY ARE THE BRAVE
8. SEVEN DAYS IN MAY
9. IN HARM'S WAY
10. THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

He makes a great patsy in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.

Rule of 3 says one more celebrity rapist has to die soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eV6vRLDj_s

is there a credible source for the natalie wood allegation? the only one i can find came from an anonymous blogger in 2012:

https://gawker.com/5893793/did-robert-downey-jr-really-just-accuse-kirk-douglas-of-a-brutal-rape

not so far that ive seen

aiui the incident is fairly well-documented in the Suzanne Finstad bio with corroboration from several sources

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1470142.stm

The older actor isn’t named but Douglas’s name has kept coming up in the last few years, feels like an open secret - looking on twitter today it seems wood’s sister talked about it on a podcast recently and said she would reveal the name of the rapist once he had died. I’m sure there were lots of still-living actors of the period she could have been referring to other than the guy everyone says it is tho

🎶 kirk douglas, check it and see / he passed away he was 103 🎶

— blaine capatch (@blainecapatch) February 5, 2020

There are many things that can and will be said about Kirk Douglas and I am here right now to say that I really enjoy his running-of-the-oars scene in Richard Fleischer's The Vikings (1958). https://t.co/B6FFeHwu1L

— 𝕮𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕲𝖊𝖙 𝕸𝖊, 𝕮𝖔𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖘 (@NickPinkerton) February 5, 2020

I enjoyed his blog posts at the huffington post back when he was 101.

Pretty horrified to read about these natalie wood allegations. Not sure if it’s more than a rumor though.

roundup

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6815-kirk-douglas-the-fighter

I saw The Bad and the Beautiful on Criterion Channel for the first time since the Poppy Bush years. Jeez, is it garish – Sirk without the irony (and of course co-starring Lana Turner). Douglas is a compelling force; every other performance is awful.

Oscar winner Gloria Grahame! (v small role)

watched 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with my son yesterday, that was fun (horrific treatment of sea turtles and african-americans standing in for south asian cannibals notwithstanding)

ppl going on about the Natalie Wood rape allegation seem to be unaware of the extent to which she was explicitly pimped out by her mother...? Like, I imagine she was abused by quite a number of Hollywood men at the time, and there are rumors about a lot of them (Sinatra, etc.)

also another vote for Out of the Past, he is great in that, playing against type too

The moment in Out of the Past where he realizes how much he’s been played for a fool and the mask slips is incredible.

is he really THAT much against type in OotP? It's fairly early in his career (second or third film?) for one thing...

It's not so much type, Shakey, as OTTP's getting made during the embryonic period of his career. He still hadn't found a persona yet.

Oscar winner Gloria Grahame! (v small role)

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius),

Among the worst cornpone accents ever heard. No idea why she won when the Academy coulda rewarded her for Crossfire or nominated her for In a Lonely Place, The Big Heat, Sudden Fear, Human Desire, etc.

Because Oscar!

I remember the promos for this TV movie -- titled Mousey in the US -- from when I was a kid ('74). I figured no one would ever bring it up if I didn't; imagine Kirk as your biology teacher. With Jean Seberg, Dean Wormer and Bessie Love!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgOkDfwZ1Qc

he was in an amazing number of good movies and good in a number of not-amazing movies

I like the Douglas/Lancaster battle of giant uniformed egos in Seven Days in May

he's also well suited to amp up the dread and paranoia in The Fury, one of the better big-budget horror films of the 70s

Less commented on but highly watchable: In Harm's Way.

in which his character takes a horrifying, unexpected turn...

looking on twitter today it seems wood’s sister talked about it on a podcast recently and said she would reveal the name of the rapist once he had died.

podcast was from 2018

Michael Douglas claims father Kirk used last words to back Mike Bloomberg https://t.co/WyVtsOodio pic.twitter.com/c3FRmgeqml

— Page Six (@PageSix) February 11, 2020

that's nice