george c. scott poll

lol i watched day of the dolphin fairly recently.

it is.....something.

I saw Rage on tv when I was a kid and it freaked me out. Kind of surprised it never got remade -- it would make a zillion dollars.

Excellent! Bert Gordon in The Hustler would be on my short-list of favourite supporting performances ever, also greatest flesh and blood (i.e., non-monster) villains. So that gets my vote, even though he's great in Strangelove, which will surely win. It's been a long time since I watched Petulia, one of those films I should go back to for another look.

Phenomenal as Bert in The Hustler – much more compelling than Newman (a whole movie about Bert, please). I voted for The Hospital.

Terrific in Anatomy of a Murder too. He and Jimmy Stewart facing off in the courtroom is like the ultimate clash of acting styles.

Petulia eeeeeeeeezzzzeeeeeeeee! His best performance and quite possibly the greatest American feature-length film of the 1960s

There was a Take One poll once that covered the years '68 to '77--why that window, I don't know, and I don't know if it was all films or just American. Sarris had Petulia as his #1, and it finished third overall.

i started this because i was thinking 'jesus, this guy was fuckin great wasnt he'

theres a ton of stuff on here im curious about - i dont think the tv version of The Crucible is available in any format, but i included it because what the hell

day of the dolphin has an amazing poster

http://i.imgur.com/zIZRX.jpg

Ha! That IS amazing! Never seen it. I'm assuming it's a satire.

xxpost Sarris OTM as usual.

lol

How do you train a dolphin to kill unwittingly?

Hardcore (1979) - Jake VanDorn

i've heard this is pretty wild

Oh yeah Hardcore is great.

xxpost That would be: "He trained a dolphin to kill, unwittingly, the pres."

i can't believe that 'dolphin' thing, wth! this list is kind of amazing, mostly troy mcclure

i probably won't vote because i haven't seen very many of these, but i'd probably go for patton. so watchable, so instense.

*intense

day of the dolphin is on instant watch fyi ive been meaning to watch it for a while and havent

"Man, don't you know who I am? I'm Big Dick Blaque."

georgie looks like samuel beckett on that poster

Petulia is quite good.

paul sorvino!

buck henry!

shit i need to see this!

i probably won't vote because i haven't seen very many of these, but i'd probably go for patton. so watchable, so instense.

― goole, Monday, July 18, 2011 11:12 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Same. Patton is pretty great but I just haven't seen enough of the others.

it's between Patton and Hardcore but I love this guy whatever dreck he's in really.

also, the remake of Football in the Groin seems to be missing.

But yeah the Hustler is an amazing performance and one of my favorite movies so that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LzAEn3yZ4&feature=related

i think my favorite little moment in patton doesn't involve scott tho

there's a neat little piece of exposition, there the german general staff is watching an intelligence film put together about the american leadership, with the added little characterization that the intelligence officer has more respect for patton and (especially) bradley than his own superiors.

hardcore is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Toj8nkaPdtA

sold

honestly did not recognize george c. in that clip for a while!

Don't forget to like Big Dick Blaque on Facebook.

anybody who's never seen that made for TV version of 12 Angry Men needs to get on it btw, as well as George chewing the scenery you get James Gandolfini, Tony Danza, and in a surprise 90s twist the racist juror is a black guy.

lol

oh and Jack Lemmon is Henry Fonda

I can imagine Scott chewing on a curtain or table, maybe Danza's fingers if they're in the way.

Ha! That IS amazing! Never seen it. I'm assuming it's a satire.

xxpost Sarris OTM as usual.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, July 18, 2011 11:08 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

it's not satire. it's also not nearly as exciting as it sounds. probably more than half of it is gcs using baby talk to speak to a dolphin.

anybody who's never seen that made for TV version of 12 Angry Men needs to get on it btw, as well as George chewing the scenery you get James Gandolfini, Tony Danza, and in a surprise 90s twist the racist juror is a black guy.

― dave lool (Noodle Vague), Monday, July 18, 2011 11:22 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

OTM. It's almost as great as the production we did in my all-girls HS of 12 Angry Women. Almost. I was the old one btw.

is that on netflix

i am genuinely baffled by the praise for 'petulia.'

Petulia is an interesting period piece, but imo not a good movie. Patton is likely to take this in a walk, bcause it is a genuinely omgwtf bit of filmmaking. It sucks that Nixon was obsessed with it and probably watched it 50 times, but I refuse to let this tawdry fact put me off of GCS's juiciest role.

I am not going to 'buck' my natural inclination for Strangelove, but this guy was even great in crap, usually. Also, best Scrooge ever.

Have always meant to check out a few episodes of East Side/West Side, which co-starred Cicely Tyson.

also really funny in both halves of Movie Movie

Elvis Presley was apparently also obsessed with Patton, and spent his down time on Hollywood sets reciting George C. Scott's speeches word for word.

A pity that Nixon and he couldn't bond over this during their historic meeting.

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One of my fave actors! Seen a lot of these, potential toss up between They Might Be Giants and East Side/West Side

Have always meant to check out a few episodes of East Side/West Side, which co-starred Cicely Tyson.

Well worth checking out. If anything, go track down the episode where James Earl Jones plays a father whose child is killed by a rat.

Much better than Paul Newman here:

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

on the other hand he doesn't have to deliver Newman's terrible monologue.

He was almost always good, sometimes excellent, but at worst watchable. I can't help but go with good old Buck Turgidson.

Final Scene of Day of the Dolphin, so, uh, spoiler alert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Mx_c3duF0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KmJZs5I4r8

dont sleep on the rescuers down under yall

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no real surprises here, yes?

Mr. President (TV series) (1987–1988) - President Samuel Arthur Tresch

this was so weird

as lurid as hardcoreis, its really really fun imo. obv, the gag for a lot of it is gawk @ scott's character, fish out of water, etc but it's really played naturally (as much as possible) & 2 drive the plot. that whole scene where he poses as the casting director is classic as hell

these are good nuggets from imdb -

George C. Scott and director Paul Schrader did not get along, so much so that at one point Scott refused to come out of his trailer and threatened to quit the film. Scott only agreed to come out after forcing Schrader to promise that he would never direct again (obviously, Schrader went back on his promise).

Paul Schrader originally had Scott's character discover that his daughter was been killed in a totally unrelated car crash, at which point he simply goes back home. He changed it to Scott finding her against his better judgment.

was been killed

i liked Petulia. hadnt known going in that the DP was Nic Roeg. flash forwards! i feel like i need to watch it again, actually, maybe after a few months.

it was amazing to me the # of locations/set-ups --srsly like a seasons worth of arrested development. a lot, maybe most, that dont repeat. must've taken forever! there was a short making-of on the dvd but id be interested to know a lot more info

The Hospital feels very much like Network in miniature--Chayefsky really had a thing about black radicals, didn't he? I liked it just about as much, meaning not a great deal. The atmospherics are good, and it would make a good double-bill with Frederic Wiseman's Hospital from a year earlier. (Where Chayefsky got the idea? There were other hospital films around too--Such Good Friends, The Doctors, etc.) Scott looks exactly like his character ought to look, but this is probably where he begins to cross the line into self-caricature (assuming he's good in Patton, which I haven't seen for ages). His big diatribe when he's in his office with Diana Rigg is too much by half. It's good that she points out to him that he's in love with the sound of his own voice, but she means the character, and it's better directed at the actor. (The scene made me think of Jack Lemmon's don't-sell-me-America monologue in Save the Tiger.) The rest of the time, he grimaces a lot while summarizing plot points: "You mean to tell me..." As always, enjoyed spotting various character actors.

Chayefsky really had a thing about black radicals, didn't he?

and youth, and women... he was a vile man.

A familiar New York intellectual except he wasn't invited to the Trilling, McCarthy, Mailer, Kazin, etc parties.

p cool tcm showed a 'portrait of an actor' on him which was filmed while he was on the set of 'the last run', they compare him to bogart several times which….idk

its here -- 156 views !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxnnPYhHNeE

Have always meant to check out a few episodes of East Side/West Side, which co-starred Cicely Tyson.

Well worth checking out. If anything, go track down the episode where James Earl Jones plays a father whose child is killed by a rat.

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interesting! yea I am reading the bk 'david Susskind: a televised life' & this is discussed somewhat in depth. ep is called "Who Do You Kill?" im a have to check it out

so the Quad in NYC is showing The Savage Is Loose, best described as Scott's "self-distributed incest movie." Alec Baldwin will be discussing it afterward with George's son Campbell!

http://www.cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/9328-WE-WANT-OUR-DVD!-THE-SAVAGE-IS-LOOSE-1974-STARRING-GEORGE-C.-SCOTT-AND-TRISH-VAN-DEVERE.html

i'd never heard of the savage is loose before - it sounds utterly deranged

In 1902, John (Scott), his much younger wife Maida (Scott's real-life wife, Trish Van Devere) and their infant son David (played by both Lee Montgomery and John David Carson) are the only survivors of a ship that crashes into the rocky beach of an uncharted island during a violent storm. By 1912, David, now a seemingly happy 12-year-old boy, begins to enter puberty. By the time he is 17, David is consumed by lust for his mother, which drives a wedge between him and his father to the point where they hunt each other down for the affections of the only woman on the island.

and the tagline was 'no woman is an island... forever' which is memorably awful

have you seen it before, morbs?

no, i remember local TV ads for it in '74, but for some reason didn't ask Dad to take me.

really doesn't seem like family entertainment, that's for sure

desert island dicks

incest-fantasy island

swiss family fuckin'-son

to steal a later Woody Allen title, Oedipus Wrecks

nice

I'm going tonight to The Savage Is Loose, I'll be v curious to gauge its batshittery AND to hear Baldwin's approach in interviewing Campbell Scott.

https://quadcinema.com/film/the-savage-is-loose/

p sure I have seen it, don't recall it being too great

I expect few in attendance are expecting it to be great. If I need to see it once, might as well be in a theater as it's 2.35:1 ratio.

V Canby in '74:

A heavily portentous line spoken early in the film by the son (played as an adolescent by Lee H. Montgomery) points the way: "Mother, when I grow up, can we get married?"

Trouble erupts 10 years later when the son, now played by John David Carlson, has started to court his mother in earnest. He leaves orchids by her coconut-shell soup bowl and asks pointed questions on the order of: "Who was Cain's wife?" When Mom and Dad make love, he likes to peek.

Says Mom to Dad in the semi-privacy of their bamboo-walled bedroom: "We've got a lusting male with no outlet." That is, no *satisfactory* outlet. Mom has found that the boy has constructed a curious substitute woman, apparently out of the all-purpose coconut shells, in a jungle hideaway.