The Michael Caine POLL (Pt. 1: 1964-1982)

Alfie over Get Carter, Man Who Wd Be King, Ipcress File, Sleuth.

TMWWBK over Dressed to Kill and Alfie. Christ, he's made so many movies.

Is Deathtrap have any camp charm? Chris Reeves looks slightly hot in those ribbed sweaters.

*Does

Shit! 'The Wrong Box' was on telly the other night and I missed it--didn't realise he was in it.

Too obvious, but I voted 'Get Carter'.

Shameful admission: I've never seen The Man Who Would Be King. I need to fix that pronto.

Too bad the poll was cut off before Educating Rita.

It'll kick off the next one.

srsly, Poll II will be Hannah & Quiet American & lotsa shit

actually couldn't stand Alfie or Sleuth, going with Man That Would Be King over Dressed To Kill

whatsat, guvnor? gaaaa-raaan!

anybody know why zee & co. (or X, Y and Zee) has never come out on DVD? Curious to see it.

I only know Kael's breathless review.

Voted Ipcress File for the most perfect point where Caine's persona melds with a decent fictional creation.

Play Dirty easily, another implosive masterpiece from De Toth. One can trace its over-before-it's-started feel in subsequent masterpieces such as Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia and Kitano's Brother.

I'd take Zulu and even Sleuth over Alfie. And I adored Deathtrap as a youngun. Must have been that kiss. Really need to take it in again.

Too bad the Preminger up there is one of his very few bad movies.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

The Man Who Would Be King

I'm gonna try to finally see it this weekend, provided I can find a video store around here that carries anything made before 2000.

Get Carter

You're big man but you're in bad shape. Wiv me, it's a full-time job, now be'ave yourself!

(That would be Get Carter)

But I am a fan of Harry Palmer stuff too

Oh wait I was talking about the Sly version. I guess the Caine one is okay. ;)

hahaaa

Yeah the Palmer stuff is good. Pulp's a nice film too. Sleuth, Zulu, Dressed to Kill, TMWBK, all quite worthy.

Shameful admission: I've never seen The Man Who Would Be King

Admission I don't know if I'm shameful about or not: I have never seen a single one of these films

You should be very ashamed.

I'm tamping down the shame with the knowledge that I have hardly seen any films at all in general, so no reason to feel bad about not having seen old ones with Michael Caine in them

"Who'd thought it would have been the bees? They used to be our friends!"

Zulu is playing soon at MoMA. Racist horseshit?

I don't know that it's exactly racist - it makes rather a play of organised Welsh grit being stronger than the vast hordes of less well drilled Zulus, and all the 'saluting fellow warriors' stuff at the end - hardly a spoiler I hope - is perhaps overdone.

More or less ignores the bigger and more significant Isandlwana - massive Imperial botch - as well.

I love it though. Could watch it over and over - Men of Harlech sequence never fails to stir me. Fantastic film.

The Man Who Would be King for me, too.

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Caine plays Jon Lansdale, a comic book artist who loses his hand, which in turn takes on a murderous life of its own.

Wanted to see this when I was 11.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/The_Hand_Poster.jpg

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Glad to see I wasn't the only person to vote for The Hand.

all the 'saluting fellow warriors' stuff at the end - hardly a spoiler I hope - is perhaps overdone

British Army regulars who fought them had a whale of a lot of respect for both the Zulu and the Sudanese. They knew when they'd been stood up to and given a hard fight. Similar respect to how West Point still studies the retreat of Young Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce tribe to the border of Canada.

My vote would have gone for Funeral In Berlin

I thought you hated Get Carter, Morbius?

Zulu inspired Afrika Bambaata to start up the Zulu Nation.

dunno where you got that idea. Maybe someone said it was the greatest film ever and I objected.

No votes for "Dressed to Kill"? For shame.

he's terrible in that

I disagree, but you probably think he's no good in Mona Lisa either.

no, anytime he broadens the Cockney I'm happy.

Peolpe, MICHAEL CAINE IS BRILLIANT IN EVERY MOVIE. The movies themselves may be flawed, but that's virtually NEVER his fault.

No way, homes. The Quiet American excepted, he's been dull or terrible for ten years now. I could hardly look at him in Little Voice or The Cider House Bores.

I liked him in Little Voice; generally aces lowlifes.

A pint of bitter...*snap*...in a thin glass!

Watching The Last Valley right now; he's speaking in a German accent. It's the 1640s, times are rough. His hair is good. I'm believing him. Florinda Balkan is in it & she's too beautiful for the time & place.

MICHAEL CAINE IS BRILLIANT IN EVERY MOVIE

KILLER BEES...ARE...COMING!!!

3 votes for the swarm is incredible. caine's performance is so outrageously OTT, i suppose he does "make" that camp classic

Yeah, forgot about "The Cider House Rules." He was shite in that.

Catching a little of Cider House on tv is what prompted the poll(s) in the first place, ha!

Blockbuster didn't have TMWWBK, but they did have Get Carter which I haven't seen in a long time so I rented it and will be hitting play any moment now.

okay was really not expecting the anti-abortion moments in Alfie... didn't even know abortion was ever outlawed in the UK, always thought of it as a peculiarly US-centric issue.

have you ever watched Vera Drake?

no. sounds vaguely familiar

just saw Zulu for the first time (digital theater showing), and damn it's well directed and looks great, but also a movie really at war with itself. Six years later it could've been fully anti-Brit.

Kinda funny that in his breakthrough role Caine was cast as a posh officer.

... didn't even know abortion was ever outlawed in the UK, always thought of it as a peculiarly US-centric issue.

Take a bow Roy Jenkins and the 2nd Wilson government - actually I think David Steel had something to with the legalization of abortion, made his reputation.

have you ever watched Vera Drake?

Or "10 Rillington Place"

I'd never seen The Italian Job before; the Noel Coward Royalist ganglord is the wackiest element. I'm glad it ended w/ a literal cliffhanger rather than bullyBrit laddishness.

Better than nearly all the post-Connery Bonds, even if too many cute Italian jokes.

Overplayed over here to the point where it grates a bit. I always enjoy Noel Coward's turn tho.

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memories of Newquay

So I turned my house upside down last night looking for where the hell my Ipcress File DVD has got to. After much head scratching, and Amazon order history browsing, turns out I never actually owned it.

I'm sure many will agree, this was a worthy revive.

Ste's Home for the Absent-Minded Michael Caine Fan

One helluva first sentence for a short story, Ste.

I could have sworn

Love the eyeglass frames this guy wore in The Ipcress File through The Italian Job. All-time.

My cocaine.