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A former writer called this a B-movie, well it's actually not, it's the kind of movie that we made tons of in the 1930's, light entertainment with crooks slightly overdone, and therefor easy to point out. This movie would have been totally forgotten if it wasn't for the debut of Ingrid Bergman, and she is young and charming in this one. This kind of folksy commedies was very popular with the audiences at the time, but set wrath on critics who labeled this kind of movies Pilsner-movies (Pilsner was a non sparkling beer back then in the 1930s).

The alcoholic jokes in this movie dates back , like in USA they wanted the citizens to be sober once , and in Sweden we had something called the Mot-Book, that restricted any citizen to take out more than his or her ransion of alcohol per month.

Well everyone starts young!, for anyone now when Stellan is emerging as an international character actor, the "Bombi Bitt och jag" could be called in modern words a TV min-series. It was made in black-and-white, Swedish Television didn't went colour until around 1969-1970, and based on the popular stories (or Tall Tales) of Piraten-Nilsson. The character of Bombi Bitt (Stellan) is a kind of free spirit, that more or less follows his own rules, and also know the rules of the game when it matters, he can cheat in card-games, he knows all the odd characters, and turns it to his fortune. The "Jag" or "I" is an observer who is amazed and big-eyed about everything Bombi-Bitt do. Bombi-Bitt is a dream that the "Jag" character only in his dream wishes he was himself. The trouble is that the Bombi Bitt person excists and the "Jag" character is actually joining along in the adventures.

I have a hard time thinking this could actually interest All new Stellan fans.

Since this movie turned up on the Universal Monster Legacy Boxes, a movie that probably would have been forgotten forever suddenly turns up, It has a Wolf in the title and there is an old curse. Offcourse it's always fun to see a movie That I've never seen before (at least I think so), and after all it's just around an hour so, so it's not that bad.

I have a feeling that if this story was made in the 50's it would be on one of those early TV Theatric shows, that was popular in the 50s, it could even have worked in a 30 minutes Alfred Hitchcock serial,, or why not go a few steps longer and say it would have been an acceptable episode in Angela Lansbury's Murder She Wrote episodes.

Anyway She-Wolf is according to the old edition of The Universal Story "A Thriller that wanted to be a Chiller that turned out to be a Filler".

The movie is OK as a Filler! but offcouse has no place in a Monster Legacy Collection.

A few funny Notes: - Sara Haden who at the time was popular in the Andy Hardy serials at MGM,plays a very different persona.

• Joan Caulfield, still around apparing as late in 2006 in "Gray's Anatomy " - If the London fog was ever this thick and a madman was on the loose, the uniformed guys have to go 2 by 2, or in pairs, yet the highest police officer can say a line like "I stroll around the park too for awhile!" so Uniformed policemen has to go around in pairs, but a civilied clothed superior can walk around alone "just to take a stroll". HELLO HELLO! a mad person who even kills children, will only be antagonizing policemen if they walk in pairs, and never superior officers who walks alone, in the foggiest London parks???.

If you take a movie like this, not expecting much, and 60minutes flows buy fast.

I have a feeling this script for the movie should have gone through an experienced screen writer, so some roles could have been better etched out! Since this script is not bad, but should have needed a bath, and a few rewrites before it was made.

As it is it becomes too many Jewish caricatures, instead of characters one cares about! It's about a Video-game fanatic who wakes up in a hospital with the important hand missing, and then he tells his life story, culminating in a Seder Weekend.

Sunil Munchi,whom I never heard about before is a natural talent, and displays the right kind of panic in his role.

Kjell Bergqvist as his father, shows the right kind of explosivness in his role. As Oppressed and without wanting it being an Opresser himself.

Jan Malmsjö (Legendary Swedish Entertainer) Once married to Barrie Chase, Is as always misused! He is such a stage artist that he so easily becomes over the top, He plays the old patriarc of the family, that keeps carps in the bathtub just to make them correctly thick. I've seen him on stage in "La Cage aux Folles"! he totally comands a live audience!!

Iv'e read that this is supposed to be an absolutely overwrought misguided big budget movie! and a big flop at the time, .....hmmm nah 2/3 of this movie is actually very good! And I admit I have never read Ernest Hemingways tragic love story!

This movie actually have some of the most impressive co-ordinated battle scenes I've ever seen, that is not faked, cgi, or using back-projection. (LOng before The Longest Day 1962) (For some reason I've seen this movie in some War-movie boxes, and I agree it doesn't belong there, it's a wartime movie and not a war movie!) The hero is an ambulance driver so we are only in the outskirts of War, never in the battle-zones.

Rock Hudson is very good, and he was a new hot star at that time, and this was at the time when he was making tearjerkers with Jane Wyman, a few years before he was seducing Doris Day.

Jennifer Jones is very good too, she was married to producer David O Selznick, so she got many bad reviews just because of that at the time,and yes Love is a Many Splendoured Thing and Good Morning Miss Dove might have suited her better.

Vittorio de Sica!! The great neo-realist director! Bicyckle thief, Umberto D and Miracle in Milan just to mention a few, actually had a huge career as an actor too, for the role in this movie he was actually Oscar nominated!

Alberto Sordi! One of the great Italian comedians! In this film his talents is wasted as a dedicated and warmhearted priest.

Mercedes MacCambridge! has a thankless small role as a snouty nurse.

Oscar Homolka! an even more thankless role as a doctor who apparently reads everything opposite as what it is. When He says Everything is all right, someone is going to die!!

There is too very short scenes that has etched into my mind, and both have to do when they all have to go on the run. This takes place during Italian alpine war against Austria during WW1. 1. A very tired mother carriyng a child, gets a chance to sit down on a lorry small space, she falls asleep and as tired as she is, her baby slips away and falls of the lorry, and the mother is too tired to notice it. 2. Down in a ditch lays a dead mother and a baby still climbs to her dead mother trying to suck milk from her breasts. Those are very tough scence to watch.

Then comes the last 2/3 of the movie and our hero and heroine has fled to Switzerland, and for 30 minutes it becomes a tourist card movie for Switzerland (Though it apparently was Italian alps).

After seeing all the hell that war makes and people fleeing, one might think that such sights might have etched into the soul of a man, something that might not be too easy to brusk off. But not in this movie! Once they have fled to Switzerland, everything is suddenly happy and jouyous, and you wait for an Oompa Bumpa band with Yoddelers to appear behind any tree.

anyway the first 2/3 is very good!

Somehow this feels like it could have been a theatrical play, but isn't.

After 2 years the son who has been accused of killing his younger sister returns to his home. though 2 years has passed in a household with no children a Nanny is still there!!!, could be the Nanny is manipulative, and has become a sort of butler-nanny who fixes everything.

The Nanny could be the sweatest thing there ever was, after all she makes the sons favorite dishes. But the son only eats what the Nanny had made for his Daddy (The one she wan't to keep alive, since he pays her salary).

A few funny notes: Bette Davis wears very dark eyebrows, could it be she wanted to look like Joan Crawford. A few camera shots she actually looks like Joan Crawford.

At a dinner scene, the Fane father can't take it anymore, so what does he do, confront his family to search sollutions? or walk out of the apartment to go to his Club! Offcourse He walks out of the apartment and attends his club! (Very British). Offcourse the Father is under the spell of the Nanny, since he needs her to pack a bag for a 2 days diplomatic journey.

The Mother is also under the spell of the Nanny, who is more manipulated than the father, since she spends most of her days feeling sorry in bed (The mother is played by Wendy Craig and it took me some time before I came to thing were I've seen her before, British hospital serial The Royal where she is the stern but not heartless matron) Final notion: When you fill up a bathtub, look to see if there is only cockroaches there and not kids!!

This movie actually becomes better with each viewing.

The first time I thought it was a so-so 60's farce Though many scenes now might look old-time nonsense! This movie is actually directed by Mulligan who's next pic was To kill a Mockingbird!

Gina is so much better in comedies than she ever was in biblical Movies (and that horrible Solmon and Sheba).

Rock is Rock but on the light side! Even with a gray Rolls Royce.

After watching Kevin Spacey movie about Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee, This movie has sure become more interesting.

Walter Slezsak is for once not playing a nazi, as if Conrad Viet would have lived, as a matter of fact I've never seen Walter in a nice guy role as this before.

Brenda de Banzie has a small role too, I remember her in Man who knew too much" 1956 Hitchcock, aqnd olde English farce about shoemaker Hobson's choice

This movie was directed by the great Henry Hathaway, one of the un-sung giants of American cinema.

First of all I am a big fan of one of the greatest female clowns that ever lived, so it was nice to see Lucille in a role as a hard-boiled secretary of a Private Detective (played by the forgotten Mark Stevens), she has snappy lines and shows heart! Makes me wonder what could have happened if Lucille and Hitchcock ever met.

The story is about a Private Detective getting a few hints from his past, some of the hints is genuine and some of the hints has something to do about another blackmail that our hero has nothing to do about. But get's involved with anyway.

There is a blackmail story involved too, so suave Clifton Webb character gets in involved too.

Early USA Television star William Bendix of Life of Riley's, plays a payed a hit-man.

My trouble with this movie is that I have 20-30 albums with the real Johnny Cash so I know what he sounded like and how he looked like. On the other hand I have no clue what June Carter looked like, or how she sounded. (Except for a few duets with Johnny).

The first scenes when the camera flies over the walls of Folsom Prison, and the famous boom-chicka-boom sounds grows louder and louder , and then goes inside the walls of Folsom, where prisoners clap hands and stamp feet, is one of the most powerful openings I'v seen in a movie recently.

Then follows the usual story of childhood sorrows (Remenicent of other biography movies like "Ray" about Ray Charles), younghood backdrafts, a usual tour of Duty, to early success via Sam Philips Sun Studios, early marriage with kids, touring and drugs. Missbehavior, drunk or pills and a collapse on stage. What makes this work is the acting of Witherspoon, far beyond her Valley Girl image. From a country music hillbilly sidekick or an early version of stand-up comedy, to a caring friend and later wife.

Phoenix doesn't look like Johnny Cash at all, but yet he makes a great role about a man named Johnny Cash, he might have learned the manners and how to sing, and Phoenix does a great job, no doubt about that, and sings well in his way, but since I have Cd's Lp's with the real Johnny Cash, something is missing. On the other hand I think the producers made a correct choice to use (or pay) an A-actor, instead of searching for a lookalike, and maybe find a look-alike in the c-actor, d-actor or even z-actor divisions, that might have looked like Johnny spot image, but with no talent.

This was apparently from Hitchcocks low period between Notorious 1946 and Strangers on a Train in 1951, that Rope has offcourse later become a classic, while Paradine Case and Under Capricorn haven't. While it's certainly not one of Hithcocks best, it have a few scenes that is just wonderful, and characters. The Laziest Gal in Town, Marlene Dietrich does what she does best, singing a torch song, but she's very good as the spoilt superstar. (She made another movie in Britain with James Stewart and Glynis Johns in 1951) Jane Wyman reminded me of Margaret Lockwood in The Lady Vanishes, as the lady in distress who for no reason actually want's to solve a crime. OK she was somehow involved by heart to Richard Todd. Richard Todd was the man on the run, seen him in a few Disney movies of the 50s so I guess he was the star for a while (He was in a movie with Bette Davis where she played Queen Elizabeth) Michael Wilding played the Police representative, meeting Jane coincidentaly in a bar, or not.... But 3 other names makes this delicious too! Alastair Sim, Dame Sibyl Thorndike and Joyce Grenfell.

The day before I watched this movie on DVD I watched "The Wrong Arm of the Law" on TV with the real Peter Sellers, and it came upon me that I had totally forgotten what a great comedian he once was, before The Pink Panther made him an international star. The Original Ladykillers, The Smallest Show on Earth, I'm all Right Jack, Two Way Stretch, Only Two Can Play comes to mind.

And as a teen back then I thought he was the funniest man on the planet.

I've only seen The Magic Christian in his low period in the late 1960s and early 1970s flops.

Would anyone be upset if someone told the real story dissected into slices of the lives of Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Spencer Tracy, John Ford, Joan Crawford, Bob Hope, Susan Hayward or Bing Crosby???

Peter Sellers couldn't possible have been that funny man I love on the screen, even in private life. Britt has very openly told how life with Peter was like very openly on Swedish TV, long before he died.

About this movie: This is a very well made movie, recreating many scenes from Sellers movies very exact, Casino Royale the only exception I found that didn't look anything like the real movie itself. Geoffrey Rush as Peter Sellers was too old as the young Goon Show Sellers, but spookely like Sellers of the 70s.

No! As much as I loved Peter Sellers, I was not offended with this version of his life. it doesn't destroy all that movies I love with Peter.

And why not! anyway.... I was just surfing around the IMDb when I suddenly hitted this movie, and I thought I have seen this after reading the plot, and looking .... and yes Martin Balsam was in the movie! I wonder if this is one of those pilots that never made it into a serial and was sold as a TV-movie instead. My memories of this movie is very vague and I cannot remember who the murderer was. I remember my parents thought this was a very Agatha Christie-like mystery, and that my parents thought it was very nice that the detective or the one who solves this murder case was a woman, who was neither young and neither beautiful and neither voluptuous, and that that was very unusual for USA at that time (Murder she Wrote came later) Since this move is from 1975 it must have been around 1977-1978 Swedish television showed it. As was usual with Detective and police serials in the 70's and 80's this one ended with a lame joke or two.

Not a plot is given not even a review! How interesting, I've never done a first before. This made-for-TV movie was made in 1984, so it must been around 1985-1986 I must have seen it. (Swedish TV have always been late). I cannot give any spoilers away, since I cannot remember how it ended. I remember it as a very well made TV-movie, nothing spectacular, but with a good storyline. As I remember: Weld and Coyote meet, fall in love, move together, she trusts him, one day he is gone, with all money, he's disappeared into thin air. She is depressed, but slowly builds up a way how to make a revenge, on her way to revenge she crosses path with Keith Carradine, who s a brother of one of Coyotes victims, so both Keith and Weld joins in cracking Coyote. Weld playing a victim was a bit unusual. How they succeeded has totally slipped my mind. There was one very strong scene that I still remember: Long after Weld was swindled, she one day see Coyote walking in the different direction, she looks at him, he just casts a quick glance, as if she was anybody, because he might have swindled so many he doesn't recognize any of his older victims.

This felt like if you haven't read the book, you are not invited to understand this movie! This portrays the north north Swedes as the drunkest people in the world, and they might challenge that with the north north people in Finland. This movie is far away from other Swedish movie like My Life as a Dog, Slingshot, As It is in Heaven and even MasDevils. Scenes comes and goes, most of them are bizarre, grotesque, sick, non-relevant and makes no sense to the rest of the story, since most threads is left in the air anyway. Björn Kjellman speaks Skånska as if he was educated at Jan Malmsjö School of fake Skånska academy, and many actors speak as if they forgot what movie they are in and wanders in and out of dialect. Any Åsa-Nisse or Janne Vängman movie when he says "Tjo Flöjt", or Three Stooges, or even Teen-agers from Outer Space has a better story thread than this awful mess.

Avoid this movie!!! This is not what it sounds like! It's not a warm and funny or bittersweet coming of age movie!

I put the x in the spoiler, just to be on the safe side. Since I live in Sweden this part of Australian History is totally unknown to me, and the only other Australian gangster I've seen before was Chopper, and that was a movie I didn't like at all, though that one was very well acted. This movie "Dirty Deeds" I had never even heard of, and I found it in the bins that costs 2 for 99SKR (approx 9:90USD), and I chosed it mainly for the cover-photo of the DVD + four reliable names. Others have already told what this movie is about (the storyline) so I will not go into that. There is blood, very much blood indeed in this movie, but in this movie it's part of the story and loads of people being killed, but it's part of this movies storyline, so that didn't disturb me at all. After all they are very unpleasant people. I liked this movie very much, because it tells a story straight, but has many absurd and even farcical vignettes, and it moves along at a very pleasant speed. All the actors don't act, they ARE and BREATH the characters they play. Brian Brown (I don't know why, but he always reminds me of Michael Caine), Toni Collette (far from her About a Boy role), John Goodman (has he ever been bad, even in bad movies?) and Sam Neill (Absolutely perfect as the matter-of-fact but easy-to-bribe police) + the rest of the cast of for me unknowns.

Can we today even imagine that there was a time when there wasn't at least one pizza-place within a few blocks? Apparently in Australia in 1969, and that part makes a very funny thread along in this movie. There is a very funny scene where they have found a restaurant in Sydney where they knew what a pizza is, but the slices are as thick as a birthday-cake.

Another funny scene was when Bryan Brown, gets a hotel in the outbacks, and how quick the owner empties it when he sees how well he will be payed.

All I can say is that I'm lucky I found this movie, just by chance.

Since I like musicals I have no trouble when people suddenly begins to sing and dance. Musicals is it's own genré, so that part is OK with me. Up until the Music of the Night number has been sung it's a 10 pointer. I liked the behind the scenes sort of organized chaos scenes. After the "Music of the night" number, the movie slipped, I cannot pinpoint exactly what, but something focused out, it went down to 6 IMDb stars. There is a swordfight that looked very theatrical, but apparently was'nt in the theatre versions (Errol Flynn vs Basil Rathbone! Where are you????) GCI or CGI or whatever it's called, a scene on the roof, the snowflakes is made via computer, and it it's snowing and the air is cold, why don't they breath out smoke when they talk!!!! In old old films I think it's part of the charm of seeing old films, but in a new film, with all the smart boring guys on all Double-DVD versions showing how good they are in fron't of a PC...... By the way on the double DVD, Lloyd webber was sooo happy to finally record in fron't of a huge 110personel orchestra, after listening to the record of the "Original London Cast" album it doesn't sound like it was a B-orchestra that time. I've never seen the scene version! But in the first act I think the "Bella Donna" number was a supior highlight to see, on the record it sounds stiff and flat, somehow reminiscent of old Vienna Operettas, or Light Operas on the film. In the end! would I suggest you to be happy with a DVD or CD version of this film......hmmmmmmmmm no the first 1 hour and 20 minutes of this film is so good, I would suggest the DVD. My neighbours wouldn't like it, but you who live in your own houses and can afford cinema sounds, there is some organ music, maybe some old theatrical Organ or maybe some old Wurlitzer, I think that would sound very "WOW"!

The Brits can do those kinda movies that sounds and look simple with a certain ease! This is not a laugh out loud movie. It was nice to see Helen Mirren playing light! and she's very good! and very liberal in her role! (pity they never showed the mentioned Vodka tasting at W1) Also nice to see John Alderton!!! When I was a kid I remember him from a TV-serial called "Yes Sir". Offcourse this is not a movie masterpiece movie! but it's a great one if you wanna see something light with loads of classy actors! and offcourse actresses. The very short Docu on DVD gave some insight on the real girls. or women!!And offcourse those who search nudes of Uma Thurman and Gina Lollobrigida, or Angelina Jollé or Diana Dors, look somewhere else!!!!

Unlike other big insect movies of the 50s, this is not a stupid movie, and a big plus is it's not using any lousy back projection either.

The acting is low-key, and tense, but never over the top.

On The DVD one can get a short glance that the ants was either Pneumatic or hydromatic handled.

Offcourse there are a few standards of the era, A screaming woman when she sees big ants, and men thinking more rational and shoots at antennas.

"Them" was in colour on the titles on the DVD, was it the same back when it was new in cinemas? It was fun to see James Arness before he became Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke" The James Whitmore character, who was a local police in New Mexico, how came he got involved in Los Angeles sours sequences? And did he die?

After listening to a CD of old recordings with the Django talked about in the movie of old Pathé recordings, I must say that the soundtrack is better than the movie in itself. The movie flounders too much, it was said, and I agree. As always with Woody Allen his ideas are better than the execution. The Soundtrack sounds like a genuine pearl to own. Sean Penn!! well never liked him myself, but here he acted so good I actually forgot it was him! The half-moon scene was very funny! And he picked on the guitar very well as if he was actually playing it. Uma Thurman turn up late in a Marlene Dietrich like outfit. And she plays marvelous. So the verdic is (LOL): Buy the CD! If you like jazz a la Hot Quintet of Paris!

Only the absolute sourest cannot find anything delightful in this movie! It's not a perfect movie, and it's not a masterpiece! For sure! It has a story that could be putc together on the back of razor-blade package, But that doesn't matter because it has so much positive energy! My main objections is a few bad made back-projections, and steretypical chineneses.

This was actually at the time the biggest money-maker ever for Universal! at the time! Producer was Ross Hunter, who once returned Universal from a B-movie studio to a big-time studio.

Director George Roy Hill, Though he had made the wonderful "World of Henry Orient"! Julie Andrews! What a voice! Still this was long before her flops Star and Darling Lili Mary Taylor Moore! fresh from Dick van Dyke, and just on the spree to become one of the biggest stars of TV in the 70s.

Carrol Channing!!! One of the few times this legend of Broadway ever did a film! Though Rasperries!! shouts sounds very old fashioned.

James Fox!! A britt, even making a Harold Lloyd parody. A pity he never cared, later turning up us stiff upper lips britts.

John Gavin! Actually making a parody of his stiff persona! With a pipe and all! Beatrice Lillie! One of the too seldom seen comedy actresses! All in all! This movie might be a too long, but it's never boring!

This is the kind of movies I wish was much much better!A sort of free remake of "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines!" But filled with loads of humour, but that feals old fashioned by now, and awful back-projection that might have been OK back then, but is certainly awful nowdays. In the same time it could be one of the most accessible movies with britt comics Moore and Cook! One of the few films with Fleur Forsythe, or dark eyed Susan Hempshire.

The song that old Jimmy Durante sings in the end (was this his last?) is better than the whole movie in itself!

Tony Curtis, Susan Hampshire, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Gert Frobe, Terry-Thomas, Eric Porter, Jack Hawkins and french comic Bourvil! What a Cast!!!! Pity the movie isn't better!

This movie is very hard to place, is it comedy? is it farce? is it melodarma? or is it a nut's nice nightmare turned good? If Albert Finney, Ewan McGregor and Jessica Lange wasn't such good actors as they are this movie would have tipped off very early! That Tim Burton can fill the screen with loads of interesting things, everybody knows by now. (boring Batman wasn't my cup of tea) This movie was such an enormous joy to watch, that a few flaws is excused.

And don't forget! the city of Spectre!!!! It would be wrong to say this is a laugh-fest, it's not, but it certainly a movie where the smile is on most of the time.

It didn't feel like a movie, and was thankfully short (under 90minutes), it felt more like a commercial of possibilties in computer graphics: Most of the special effects are great, to be sure. But that cerainly don't a great or even a good movie make. Not saying it's absolutely worthless viewing, since it's possible to see what are the possibilities in CGI or GCI, or what ever it's called.

As I read somewhere, "You can't fix it in the cutting room", a bad story and non-directed actors, can't be fixed in the cutting room or even with the most magnificent special effects! Things can be improved in the cutting room if they have a real director and material to work from.

However they thought this could be sold in USA is anyones idea, since USA is the crooks.

And isn't it sooo typical of low budget stories, they have to create an imaginative country south of Mexico??

Well Well I gace it 2! Just because of the special effects, the rest is absolute trash!

I'm just like the pupils in this movie! I know nothing about Hard rock, Heavy Metal, or Led Zepelin! But still! This is as good as a "feel good" movie can ever be! Can Jack Black ever top this? One of the few movies that I wish was 15 minutes longer. And those kids! They are marvelous! not like the typical kids in movies (With huge crocodile tears). Snow White and the seven Dwarfs, modernized. Jack Black was throwned out into the world because a rock band thought he was too wild. Snow White Was throwned out of a castle because she was too beautiful, by an evil stepmother (or a boring ego tripped band leader, or a step-mother using witchcraft). Jack Black found new faith and hope and energy in all those pupils (Snow White found the same in the seven dwarfs)

Many of our younger friends thinks that the elder (over 30) gives their kinda movies bad votes! So when I now had the chance to see this movie I will try look at this with a fresh look! With all the twists and turns of the story it could have been much more funny if they had made more of the Boston Episode. The blind buses episode! As it is it just end with a finger! (As it is it shows that it's OK to steal a buss from disabled!) Could have been made much much better. One guy smokes Maurijahna! and it's cool! and that rocks the movie in the downwards direction. There is a talking dog!!! that doesn't reason with the rest of the movie! But the story in itself about a guy wanna travel faster than US. mail is still a good story!!!!