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peter or is it alex adam and see what he s up to who can she trust and how can she keep all those names straight her life becomes a case of keep your friends close and your enemies closer as the crooks and peter alex adam whatever his name is moves into reggie s small hotel where comedy suspense murder and paranoid gallows humor also set up light housekeeping the criterion dvd features a great and witty commentary track by donen and stone charade is the movie that made me a fan of both donen and screenwriter peter stone in fact i actually saw charade long before i ever saw any of donen s classic musicals he has fun with charade s hitchcockian aspects such as the clever corpse eye view shot involving a morgue drawer every other line of stone s screenplay is sparklingly quotable and cary grant and audrey hepburn are among my favorite screen couples it s a pity they didn t have more opportunities to team up onscreen together during their long careers my family and i have always loved the wry way that grant then 59 and hepburn then 34 kidded the age difference between them that was more or less grant s idea according to donen and stone on the superb criterion collection dvd s delightful anecdote rich commentary track grant was concerned that it would be unseemly for a man his age to be chasing a beautiful woman so much younger than him so he convinced the filmmakers to make hepburn s character the romantic aggressor personally i found this gambit to be quite charming and it makes sense for reggie s trusting romantic impulsive personality will reggie and peter alex adam live happily and frivolously ever after in fact audrey hepburn had the most remarkable knack for being glamorous yet approachable she was one of the most endearing glamour pusses in movie history james coburn george kennedy and walter matthau are in top form in their early pre oscar screen roles both hepburn and paris look their sophisticated best here let s face it audrey was born to wear givenchy charade s driving opening theme is my favorite piece of henry mancini music the pink panther theme comes a very close second in fact the whole score reflects the film s many moods perfectly without giving too much away i love the clever macguffin too those who aren t as into philately as my stepdad may have a new respect for stamp collecting after watching charade one of the nice things about the film is it does a good job of using its setting as part of the plot many films could take place in any city they don t take advantage of any landmarks there s no sense that the people around them are in any way representative of the city they re in but charade weaves its way in and out of paris perfectly they ride the bateaux parisiens the floating restaurant on the seine and the climax takes place around the palais royal here s an interesting page that details the locations of the film 20 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday june 11 2015 the sharks vs the rats team bartilucci s summer movies post this post is for the beach party blogathon hosted by speakeasy and silver screenings from june 8th 12th 2015 dori s pick jaws 1975 we re gonna need a bigger post in case you haven t heard fathom events is bringing jaws back to theaters for two days only more info at www fathomevents com event jaws jaws was the blockbuster hit of 1975 indeed the first of what we call a blockbuster being the first film to break 100 million dollars seems a paltry sum today now a film is practically considered a dismal failure if it doesn t break a hundred million of all the people that became household names as a result of the film the biggest have to be sharks themselves it made shark attacks guaranteed ratings for the nightly news and put the discovery channel on the map when some clever dick decided to give them a week of programming every year a week some look forward to the way a kid looks forward to christmas i remember the first time our family went to see steven spielberg s thriller at the time i was the youngest kid in our family as well as the shyest though nobody ever believes me i guess i talk a good game d i was at orchard beach in the bronx where we lived at the time i was nervous as all get out but my mom said don t worry little one we ll help you even my older brother peter was smiling and saying you ll be fine he was a lifeguard that summer what a year to pick huh so mom and our parents and friends were both scared silly yet nursed guilty hopes that hoped we kids might find a great white shark in the long island sound jaws also gave me my first crush on rumpled and vulnerable richard dreyfuss as oceanographer matt hooper he d go on to win an oscar for the goodbye girl and entertain in plenty of films including house favorite what about bob roy scheider came a close second in the crush race with an equally stellar career in thrillers like last embrace and still of the night as well as wacko outings like naked lunch if this shark doesn t leave me alone i m gonna give poop deck a whole new meaning murray hamilton a character actor known for having rotc in no time for sergeants and the moody frankenheimer classic seconds played the mayor of amity island and if he didn t take that anchor emblazoned blazer home with him i ll lose all respect for him actress lorraine gary may have had a sweet deal as being the bosses at wife of universal but i found her to be endearing as ellen brody fun fin fact in peter benchley s grandson of better than us humorist robert benchley original novel on which the film is based hooper and ellen brody were secret lovers and ended up dead just as well that they dropped that would have made it hard to like him the film starts off with a bang and many whimpers from the audience with poor swimmer chrissie susan backlinie doing out for a quick dip and becoming the first boating accident victim at least that s what mayor vaughn insists it was what with only a few days before the july 4th holiday he doesn t want to scare the island s main source of income away with news of a shark attack the poster for jaws may be the single most parodied image in the history of film fun fin fact backlinie would return four years later not for jaws 2 thank god but for spielberg s foray into comedy 1941 to play a similar young lady who decides to go for a swim but with decidedly different results sheriff brody scheider a former city cop who hates the water suspects that may not be the case what with all the bite marks and all but goes with the mayor because hey what are the odds that it ll oh yeah so it happens again a kid gets et and when his mom puts a bounty on the shark there s a feeding frenzy for it which is what we writers call irony brody calls in oceanographer matt hooper dreyfuss to give a second opinion on chrissie s autopsy he does vociferously and it is summarily ignored by the mayor who happily invites the tourists to the beach because what are the odds that three oh yeah they hire grizzled shark fisherman captain quint robert shaw to bring in the monster and it s here that the film spends most of its time indeed when he was offered the job director steven spielberg said the shark hunt was his favorite part of the story and planned to make it the dramatic center of the film with the help of editor verna fields the balance between humor and shock was perfected case in point the famous and allegedly ad libbed line we re gonna need a bigger boat was originally lost under the screams of the audience after the preceding shot of ol brucie popping up to dine on chum they added space to brody s reaction and increased the volume so it wouldn t be missed spielberg had moments of doubt during the filming but i doubt he ever really thought of doing this the shoot of the film is legendary it went twice again over the budgeted shooting schedule of 50 days and the mechanical shark almost never worked spawning the title of two separate documentaries about the film but as happens at great moments in history things going wrong often bring great inspiration with the shark barely functioning the plan changed to barely showing the shark save for a tactfully photographed fin and that iconic theme by john williams the source of all our fear barely made an appearance until we board quint s ship the orca it s been said that star wars changed film and the film industry forever changing the mindset to the goal of the summer movie and the slow replacement of character driven films with action and thrillers but i maintain that move started here with jaws while still very much a character film which roger ebert pointed out in his review it got the ball rolling for wide releases and bigger budgets the film was originally to open in as many as 900 theaters a staggering number for the day but after a screening universal honcho lew wasserman ordered the number of screen be reduced not because he doubted the film just the opposite he saw the film running all summer and wanted to make it a destination event reducing the number of theaters meant people would have to drive a bit to see it quite the change in tactics from what we see today where they d run the film on the side of a bark if they thought they could sell a few more tickets vinnie s pick he is our ideel the undeniable charm of eric von zipper you can tell the quality of a hero by the caliber of the foes he attracts and loveable teenagers a highly elastic term in holywood annette funicello and frankie avalon had the perfect foil in their classic run of beach movies the ultimate tough guy the lord of all he surveys the great eric von zipper undisputed leader of the rats the roughest motorcycle gang on the beach played with comic virtuosity by harvey lembeck zipper was a note perfect parody of marlon brando s character from the wild one indeed in beach blanket bingo zipper says his favorite actor is marlo brandon harvey and his gang so permeated the national zeitgeist that to this day there s no major city that isn t rumored to have a street gang called the rats responsible for most of the havoc and chaos the police are tasked to combat the rats and their fearless leader were largely ineffectual befitting the fun harmless nature of the films harvey was a master of slapstick and physical comedy peppering his performance with odd gestures and moves to order the rats around punctuated by well placed sound effects eric and the rats almost outlived the beach party films themselves they last appeared in the ghost in the invisible bikini with almost a completely different cast the rats served as the connecting tissue to the rest of the series eric and annette funicello has unnamed cameos in the frankie avalon vehicle dr goldfoot and the bikini machine which was a very interesting production lembeck appeared on a very special episode of popular dance series shindig titled the wild weird world of dr goldfoot designed as publicity for the film harvey played the role of hugo played by jack mullaney in the film according to star vincent price goldfoot was to have been a horror musical in the style of rocky horror which would come along decades later the shindig special featured many of those songs that never got used for the film performed by lembeck and price harvey lembeck was an established and successful character actor including a long run on sgt bilko the phil silvers show he took the role of harry shapiro he created in stalag 17 on broadway and carried it to the billy wilder classic movie playing against william frawley robert strauss as animal why me why me alla time harvey was an early proponent of improvisational comedy when he was asked by jack kosslyn of the mercury theater to take over their actors workshop he agreed but used it to teach comedy instead of drama starting with scripted pieces he used improv as a tool to sharpen the wit of the students as he realized there weren t nearly enough scripts to practice with the comedy workshop that bears his name is still going strong run by his kids director michael lembeck and actress helaine best known from her run on welcome back kotter the alumni of the school is a staggering list from robin williams to brian cranston from sharon stone to kim cattrall for some time the school had space at paramount studios and the producers of their tv shows would regularly visit the classes to see who harvey was working with garry marshall often picked the best of harvey s students including his own sister penny marshall and al molinaro to star in his shows by the time producer james nicholson approached harvey lembeck to be in their first beach party film creatively titled beach party he had already amassed a successful acting career so what inspired him to take on the role according to his son michael lembeck a successful director in his own right it was to help students in his classes he would populate the rats and its female auxiliary the mice with his students the films were as michael put it the silliest thing he ever did but it provided a place to showcase his kids he treated his students like family said michael something that carries through to michael s work today i ll have my cast over for dinner while we re working eric falls victim again to the himalayan time suspension technique the beach party story has never gone out of style and the role of the tough guy ruling the beach a la eric and the rats remains just as vital while it didn t take place on the beach early seasons of happy days featured street gang the demons led by their zipper analogue bag zombrowski ten years after the last beach party film harvey s daughter helaine got her first professional job on the krofft supershow which also featured her brother michael as the lead singer of kaptain kool and the kongs in a show called magic mongo about some teenagers spending all their time on the beach with their genie played by lennie weinrib the role of the beach tough ace was filled by bart braverman just a couple years before his run on vegas another ten and change years after that frankie and annette reunited for back to the beach featuring many of the original cast harvey had passed on by then but the spirit of the von zipper clan was carried on by zed and his gang an 80 s punk re interpretation of the rats his last name was never given but if he wasn t the son of eric and puss the muscular blonde in the mice played by alberta nelson i ll eat my second favorite hat his sway has reached outside of film well there s a brazlian surf rock band erick von zipper named after him and vonzipper com sells quality sunglasses and goggles for the discriminating beach and snow bum 22 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels harvery lembeck jaws steven spielberg summer movies thrillers tuesday april 28 2015 a night at the opera here comes sanity clause this post is for the fabulous films of the 30s blogathon hosted by cmba from april 27 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