*sigh* I had the biggest crush on Jean-Paul Belmondo. Even saved pennies from my part time job to buy my father a Borsalino fedora. By the way, it made my father look quite dapper.
I remember Shakes - and Goldthwait is really underrated. The Florence Henderson cameo never fails to make me smile at the "blasphemy" of sexual Mrs. Brady. Headshot was a fantastic action movie.
"I'm not going out there! You've whipped these people into a frenzy!" I love Where The Buffalo Roam intensely! I saw it on cable shortly after its theatrical run and told all my friends about this great Bill Murray movie. Only one of my friends saw it, despite it being repeatedly shown on several cable networks. It was the first time I heard of Hunter S. Thompson, and it made me a fan of his writing, if not his lifestyle. Cheers Terry!
Shakes was great, I still remember the line that had me laughing so hard in it. "Jesus Mary and Joseph hanging off a cross for Christ sake GODDAMNNNNNNNIT SHIT!" The delivery just had me laughing while the line was still being said.
So glad you gave a shout out to Where the buffalo Roam. First saw that on free to air in the wee hours of the night back in the 80s. My brother & I have been known to do a reenactment of the scene where they pick up the hitchhiker in the desert on the odd evening when the wine is flowing. 😊
Peter Sellers played a somewhat nasty criminal, Pearly Gates, in 1963's "The Wrong Arm of the Law", I first saw it on TV as a kid in the 60's, and we wondered how Sellers could be so mean for such a funny guy. I think that's when I realized that acting is a craft that requires real work beyond learning dialog. We did see "Don't Let Go", and he scared me and my younger brother more than Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney ever did!
@terrytalksmovies indeed. I just remember wanting to pick up the book in my first day in the University of Illinois at Chicago book store in 1989 and still kicking myself over not grabbing it.
Remember reading in Rolling stone that Murray almost died during filming. In a drugy drunk up, Thompson tied Murray to a metal pool chair and tossed him into the hotel pool.
I had a commander in the US Army whose wife was a (quite committed) clown because she wanted to do something for children in the community. My last military experience back in the Global War on Terrorism ("GWOT") included a fine Marine NCO, who had an absolutely morbid fear of Clowns . . . where my Intel Sergeant Major was an active Shriners Clown back in the States . . . . Clowns cast a sort of long shadow, you do not expect.
"Where The Buffalo Roam" wasn't really a small movie in North America. Bill Murray broke out with "Meatballs" in 1979, which was a no budget film shot in Northern Ontario, not too far from where I live. "Meatballs" was surprisingly popular and had a fantastic profit ratio. Not unexpectedly, the studios were ready to spend some money on him for the next film. "Where The Buffalo Roam" was well promoted, with lots of print and TV ads. It didn't do great, just ok. "Caddyshack" came out three months later and Bill Murray was set after that. Oh, by the way, the word spione sounds more like spee-on.
The Man from Rio was very funny, I saw it on NBC Saturday Night at the Movies in the fall of 1971 (I did not see the end for some reason). I have recently been learning Brazilian Portuguese, since I work with some people from there. Sellers was apparently very unhappy while making this and brought the part home. He considered this "his attempt to be Rod Steiger."
I just watched a 1998 French film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, and Vanessa Paradis. It was charming and did a lot with a low budget. Damn, those guys were great! Just like with Toute Feu, Toute Flame, it's a wonderful father & daughter film, but with two fathers. I wish the later Indiana Jones films could have been this good with its characters. No matter how old Belmondo and Delon were they displayed a physical performance that's lacking in today's Hollywood. May they rest in peace!
lots of good recommendations , thank you! Love Bobcats voice and delivery...do you remember his guest stint on one of Andrew Denton's shows? gotta love a title like "Satan in High Heels"!! be a pity if Something Weird have gone totally digital though.
When I saw Bobcat do standup he had a heckler call him a moron. He broke character and politely said 'I'm an actor madam, this is a bit' before slipping back into squeaky Bobcat.
Jeepers, I thought that was Brian George in the intro, not Peter Sellers. Brian George, a great character actor known (to me) as Raj's father on The Big Bang Theory, Dr. Bashir's father in Deep Space Nine, and my favorite character from Seinfeld, Babu Bhatt. His IMDB pages credits him in 323 productions!
you've now covered "Big Night" and also recently "Chef"...could there be a whole episode dedicated to food-based films? There's a surprising amount of them from all over the world, a sub-genre within other genres (thriller, comedy, romance, surrealist, horror, period drama)
Wasn't aware of Headshot, but if Iko's in it then you have my interest. Going to hunt that one out. Love Spione. Saw it for the first time on SBS back in the early 90s, now have it on blu (Eureka put it on on their Masters of Cinema label). Really must rewatch. I got a bunch of Something Weird DVDs (though not those particular ones), almost all of which I picked up at the late lamented Lawson's here in Sydney. Tons of imports among the second-hand DVDs. Amazing how much effort went into those discs compared to how little effort major studios sometimes made for their big films. Spook Who Sat by the Door has been on my to-find list for a while. It looks quite remarkable. Agreed about Smiles of a Summer Night being my favourite Bergman film. Amazing to think Seventh Seal would be his next film.
Grayson Hall also played a lesbian (although she may not realize it) in The Night of the Iguana and Dr. Julia Hoffman in the horror soap Dark Shadows. I've seen Where the Buffalo Roam , That Man from Rio (on your recommendation), Smiles of A Summer Night, Spione. Bergman has just a few comedies (The Devil's Eye and All These Women) but see The Magician which is a great film.
Peter Sellers is bloody terrifying in 'Don't Let Go'. I have encountered nutters like that a couple of times in my life, and his portrayal is a bit too close for comfort. Excellent video as always, and full of little gems I can remember seeing on TV, or my favourite fleapit (now gone, of course). Nice one. 👍👍👍
Interesting collection. Never Let Go is a rather wonderful little film, from a era of British cinema that I love - 'kitchen noir', I like to call it. I have always found Richard Todd an interesting actor - he was marketed as a leading man in his day, but never really fitted that bill. Peter Sellers certainly makes a compelling villain - although the commercial failure of this film was apparently what made him decide to give up on such roles. I suppose Quilty in Lolita is a villain, but you are always conscious of Sellers doing his thing, while in Never Let Go he is almost unrecognisable...
I think Richard Todd's lack of verticality didn't help his leading man status. Sellers ran for the money and prestige. His real skill wasn't comedy but drama.
Sometimes when I watch a youtube of "10 hidden gem sci fi movies" or some such, I usually know all of them. But your selection of hidden gems, I am not sure I knew any of them 🙂 Cool!
He was indeed. Every time you saw him, he was someone different - even in real life. His son made (or was in) an interesting documentary about his dad. Sad, but well worth a watch.
*sigh* I had the biggest crush on Jean-Paul Belmondo. Even saved pennies from my part time job to buy my father a Borsalino fedora. By the way, it made my father look quite dapper.
Fedoras always work. It's a law of nature.
I remember Shakes - and Goldthwait is really underrated. The Florence Henderson cameo never fails to make me smile at the "blasphemy" of sexual Mrs. Brady.
Headshot was a fantastic action movie.
Both are really enjoyable films. 😀
"I'm not going out there! You've whipped these people into a frenzy!" I love Where The Buffalo Roam intensely! I saw it on cable shortly after its theatrical run and told all my friends about this great Bill Murray movie. Only one of my friends saw it, despite it being repeatedly shown on several cable networks. It was the first time I heard of Hunter S. Thompson, and it made me a fan of his writing, if not his lifestyle. Cheers Terry!
Thanks, Dave. I love Thompson's political writing. He got to the guts of the industry of politics in a brave, transgressive way.
Shakes was great, I still remember the line that had me laughing so hard in it. "Jesus Mary and Joseph hanging off a cross for Christ sake GODDAMNNNNNNNIT SHIT!" The delivery just had me laughing while the line was still being said.
So many great comedians in that movie.
So glad you gave a shout out to Where the buffalo Roam. First saw that on free to air in the wee hours of the night back in the 80s. My brother & I have been known to do a reenactment of the scene where they pick up the hitchhiker in the desert on the odd evening when the wine is flowing. 😊
It's underrated and much weirder and better than Fear and Loathing.
Peter Sellers played a somewhat nasty criminal, Pearly Gates, in 1963's "The Wrong Arm of the Law", I first saw it on TV as a kid in the 60's, and we wondered how Sellers could be so mean for such a funny guy. I think that's when I realized that acting is a craft that requires real work beyond learning dialog.
We did see "Don't Let Go", and he scared me and my younger brother more than Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney ever did!
Lionel Meadows in Never Let Go is a really plausible sociopath. Smart and ruthless. You can clearly see why he's leading the gang.
Where the Buffalo Roam! I also remember this one, especially with Bill Murray in his prime after Stripes. I need to watch and READ The Spook.
All of them are worth checking out.
@terrytalksmovies indeed. I just remember wanting to pick up the book in my first day in the University of Illinois at Chicago book store in 1989 and still kicking myself over not grabbing it.
Remember reading in Rolling stone that Murray almost died during filming. In a drugy drunk up, Thompson tied Murray to a metal pool chair and tossed him into the hotel pool.
I can understand the urge to do that.
I had a commander in the US Army whose wife was a (quite committed) clown because she wanted to do something for children in the community.
My last military experience back in the Global War on Terrorism ("GWOT") included a fine Marine NCO, who had an absolutely morbid fear of Clowns . . . where my Intel Sergeant Major was an active Shriners Clown back in the States . . . .
Clowns cast a sort of long shadow, you do not expect.
Clowns may be scary but Batman is scarier. A billionaire who punches out poor people instead of addressing economic disadvantage...
"Where The Buffalo Roam" wasn't really a small movie in North America. Bill Murray broke out with "Meatballs" in 1979, which was a no budget film shot in Northern Ontario, not too far from where I live. "Meatballs" was surprisingly popular and had a fantastic profit ratio. Not unexpectedly, the studios were ready to spend some money on him for the next film. "Where The Buffalo Roam" was well promoted, with lots of print and TV ads. It didn't do great, just ok. "Caddyshack" came out three months later and Bill Murray was set after that.
Oh, by the way, the word spione sounds more like spee-on.
Thanks for the pronunciation correction. Being self-educated has its downsides. 😀
The Man from Rio was very funny, I saw it on NBC Saturday Night at the Movies in the fall of 1971 (I did not see the end for some reason).
I have recently been learning Brazilian Portuguese, since I work with some people from there.
Sellers was apparently very unhappy while making this and brought the part home. He considered this "his attempt to be Rod Steiger."
Sellers wasn't the best judge of his own work.
I just watched a 1998 French film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, and Vanessa Paradis. It was charming and did a lot with a low budget. Damn, those guys were great! Just like with Toute Feu, Toute Flame, it's a wonderful father & daughter film, but with two fathers. I wish the later Indiana Jones films could have been this good with its characters. No matter how old Belmondo and Delon were they displayed a physical performance that's lacking in today's Hollywood. May they rest in peace!
Belmondo does a stunt in The Burglars which is insane and insanely dangerous. It involves a dump truck filled with rocks.
@@terrytalksmovies I watched the trailer. No insurance company would sign off on that stunt today in Hollywood.
lots of good recommendations , thank you! Love Bobcats voice and delivery...do you remember his guest stint on one of Andrew Denton's shows? gotta love a title like "Satan in High Heels"!! be a pity if Something Weird have gone totally digital though.
When I saw Bobcat do standup he had a heckler call him a moron. He broke character and politely said 'I'm an actor madam, this is a bit' before slipping back into squeaky Bobcat.
I highly recommend NEVER LET GO - top-notch performance from Sellers, and nothing like anything he did before or after.
Yep. A brilliant piece of acting that needs to be better known.
Jeepers, I thought that was Brian George in the intro, not Peter Sellers.
Brian George, a great character actor known (to me) as Raj's father on The Big Bang Theory, Dr. Bashir's father in Deep Space Nine, and my favorite character from Seinfeld, Babu Bhatt.
His IMDB pages credits him in 323 productions!
Sellers was a great character actor. The road not taken. 😀
you've now covered "Big Night" and also recently "Chef"...could there be a whole episode dedicated to food-based films? There's a surprising amount of them from all over the world, a sub-genre within other genres (thriller, comedy, romance, surrealist, horror, period drama)
That would be very niche, so I'll think about it... while eating something healthy.
Wasn't aware of Headshot, but if Iko's in it then you have my interest. Going to hunt that one out.
Love Spione. Saw it for the first time on SBS back in the early 90s, now have it on blu (Eureka put it on on their Masters of Cinema label). Really must rewatch.
I got a bunch of Something Weird DVDs (though not those particular ones), almost all of which I picked up at the late lamented Lawson's here in Sydney. Tons of imports among the second-hand DVDs. Amazing how much effort went into those discs compared to how little effort major studios sometimes made for their big films.
Spook Who Sat by the Door has been on my to-find list for a while. It looks quite remarkable.
Agreed about Smiles of a Summer Night being my favourite Bergman film. Amazing to think Seventh Seal would be his next film.
Bergman was such a chameleon director.
Grayson Hall also played a lesbian (although she may not realize it) in The Night of the Iguana and Dr. Julia Hoffman in the horror soap Dark Shadows. I've seen Where the Buffalo Roam , That Man from Rio (on your recommendation), Smiles of A Summer Night, Spione. Bergman has just a few comedies (The Devil's Eye and All These Women) but see The Magician which is a great film.
I do have to dive deeper into Bergman.
Peter Sellers is bloody terrifying in 'Don't Let Go'. I have encountered nutters like that a couple of times in my life, and his portrayal is a bit too close for comfort.
Excellent video as always, and full of little gems I can remember seeing on TV, or my favourite fleapit (now gone, of course).
Nice one. 👍👍👍
Thanks, Brian. Yeah, Lionel Meadows is a plausible psycho. They're still around, alright.
I have most of the pre heart attack Peter Sellers movies (1964) and they are all excellent and varied. He really could have been so much more.
Yep. Even his role in Being There was just a toned-down Stan Laurel pastiche.
Terry: I’m surprised that “Amazon Women on the Moon” didn’t make your list of mad farces (you would find on 1980’s VHS).
I have over 3000 movies. Can't put them all in one video. 😉
@@terrytalksmovies i think you've already given some attention to "Amazon Women on the Moon" in other episodes.
Terry really came up with an eclectic bunch. Excellently presented as well!
Thanks! I enjoyed the range of genres I found for the video.
Thank you for these lists of by passed films. All of those look worth hunting for!
My pleasure, James. 🙂
Minnie Driver was a solid actress who could do about anything.
She still is. 😀
I saw, That Man From Rio, when I was in my French film period. I loved the film.
What's not to love? Total fun from start to finish.
Interesting collection. Never Let Go is a rather wonderful little film, from a era of British cinema that I love - 'kitchen noir', I like to call it. I have always found Richard Todd an interesting actor - he was marketed as a leading man in his day, but never really fitted that bill.
Peter Sellers certainly makes a compelling villain - although the commercial failure of this film was apparently what made him decide to give up on such roles. I suppose Quilty in Lolita is a villain, but you are always conscious of Sellers doing his thing, while in Never Let Go he is almost unrecognisable...
I think Richard Todd's lack of verticality didn't help his leading man status.
Sellers ran for the money and prestige. His real skill wasn't comedy but drama.
@@terrytalksmovies It certainly made him a more interesting leading man - a sort of cross between Alan Ladd and Kenneth Connor 🙂
Sometimes when I watch a youtube of "10 hidden gem sci fi movies" or some such, I usually know all of them. But your selection of hidden gems, I am not sure I knew any of them 🙂 Cool!
Happy to bamboozle you! 😀
I am definitely going to hunt down "Big Night" - love me a foodie film.
You won't regret it. When the bros make a timpano, it will make you salivate.
Wow! All gems,
Thanks!
Never let go is on UA-cam, I'm going to watch it now 👍
Go for it. You won't regret it.
Look at you titling for the algorithms. ;-)
I try to tweak them without going clickbait lying. It's an art and I have several web sites where I can test titles. 😉😀
For me Peter Sellers was the greatest character actor of all time.
He was rock solid but he pissed away his talent on a lot of crap, including the brownface rubbish.
He was indeed. Every time you saw him, he was someone different - even in real life.
His son made (or was in) an interesting documentary about his dad. Sad, but well worth a watch.