puzzle ( 1974 film )
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is one of the amazing pieces in the movie puzzle depicting the history of african americans, and it is worth seeing as such .
the title says it all as it is a puzzle about a man without a memory but everyone strangely enough seem to want him dead. senta berger is a fantastic lead who steals the film as his wife. an unintentional comedic fight scene and terrible dialogue doesn' t help the film .
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as the truck rams the car over the cliff and falls off in the final film, there is a low roar sound effect that the filmmaker included to emphasize the death of the truck. spielberg, who wanted the truck to seem
eagle - eyed viewers will catch the word “flammable” scrawled across the back of the truck, yet when it careens off the cliff at the end of the movie it doesn’t go boom. the studio wanted a big explosion, but the director wanted a slower demise for his film’s villain .
the snakerama gas station seen in the film also appears in spielberg' s 1979 world war ii comedy, 1941, with actress lucille benson again appearing as the proprietor. the two elderly people weaver tries to flag down in a car also appear as helpless motorists in close encounters of the third kind .
hi there johnny - yes i think overall i probably did enjoy it slightly more than you, but i too had a slight problem with mr. merenda, whom i describe as
bland and unappealing
in my review. yes, my copy of puzzle was a download ripped from the recent dvd release and it' s very good. there seems to be no rhyme or reason to why some titles, that one would consider lesser, have wonderful prints, and more celebrated examples struggle to be seen in anywhere near a decent presentation; especially frustrating for fans of popular european cycles where it seems more prevalent .
the prop recreators at chronicle collectibles have collaborated with universal studios to make the canisters as faithful to the original as possible. just like the prop used in the film, the vessel resembles an unassuming can of shaving cream from the outside. but screw off the bottom and you' ll find a secret compartment filled with vials the perfect size for storing prehistoric genetic material .
jurassic park (1993) is known for having some incredible props. the fake shaving cream can dennis nedry uses to smuggle dinosaur dna out of the cold storage unit may not be as iconic as the life - sized t. rex, but it still plays a colossal role in the film. now, io9 reports that an official replica of the prop can soon be yours .
i' d wanted to see this movie because i' d read a comment about a scene where slappy white, depressed after a sad showing for his song and dance routine at a local political rally, along with jackie
moms
mabley, walk home dejectedly and step on a poster of stepin fetchit (aka lincoln perry). it is indeed a sobering moment in the film .
spielberg got his start directing for tv at the age of 21, helming episodes of such shows as night gallery and marcus welby, m. d. but the aspiring filmmaker was desperately searching for a property he could turn into a feature film. it was spielberg' s secretary, nona tyson, who found matheson’s story in playboy and first sent it to her boss to potentially adapt into a movie .
“they said ‘okay, we’ll make it in black and white, but on color stock so that we can show it in peru, which just got color. and i said ‘no. no because you’ll screw me. you will say this and then, in order to save the company, you will risk a lawsuit and you will print everything in color. it’s gotta be on… black & white thick film. ”
tyson helped track down whether the movie rights to matheson’s story had been optioned, and eventually discovered that a teleplay was in development at abc and universal with producer george eckstein. spielberg took a meeting with eckstein, and brought a rough cut of his legendary 73 - minute series premiere episode of columbo, “murder by the book. ” eckstein was impressed, and gave spielberg the job to direct duel after a follow - up meeting where the filmmaker laid out how he envisioned the film from matheson’s screenplay in full .
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the body of a schoolgirl is found in a meadow. the murderer is never caught, and years later; a young man named stefano returns to the island and is reunited with his brother, the local priest .
a blind pianist tries to figure out who is responsible for a string of murders using a black cat with its claws dipped in curare .
luc merenda plays a man who as a result of a car crash is suffering from amnesia and is trying to learn about his past, then a menacing individual accuses him of betrayal and is lured into italy where he finds that he is married man, soon afterwards more pieces of his puzzling past begin to fall in place .
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twisty italian thriller with luc merenda and senta berger, aka
l' umo senza memoria .
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superb giallo from duccio tessari starring senta berger, luc merenda, umberto orsini & anita strindberg. in london a man is being treated for amnesia, having woken up in a clinic following a car accident. when the man is attacked by a stranger who accuses him of being a double - crosser it emerges that nothing is what it appears to be. soon the man is trying to uncover the truth about his identity while trying to stay alive .
eight months after having been involved in a car accident and waking up in a clinic, a young brit still hasn’t been able to regain his memory. a passport on his possession claims he’s peter smith but a man named philip shows up at his psychiatrist’s office telling him his name is ted walden .
flawed giallo without any suspense about a man who lost his memory after a car accident. too bad because senta berger and umberto orsini are good actors. already forgotten .
and i believe a dummy loses it' s head and it floats off away from the body in one of the more hilarious dummy deaths .
that' s right nigel! - george literally loses his head! many thanks mike, glad you enjoyed the write up. i' m giving some serious thought to the gastaldi piece, but it might be more of a chore than a pleasure !
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dirty son of a double - crosser .
when a sniper' s bullet kills his attacker the man flees the country with airline tickets provided by a wife he never knew he had. arriving home, his wife calls him a
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steve reagan presents a prologue on symbolism, then barbara introduces marc, who has a task neither easy nor difficult. he walks the streets of chicago with a bouncing ball animation on willie nelson' s
stay all night
, (stay a little longer). he then finds a metal ball under a box of mcdonald' s. meanwhile, a man in a tuxedo top and tails and bell - bottom jeans starts a tape of mozart' s 40th symphony, and pretends to conduct it from a bridge over highway 240. then marc is covered in silver cloth and christmas lights .
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a comedy in which mably is a mother who is going all out against baltimore politicians. she takes matters in her own hands when corrupt politics pushes her too far .
though it' s billed as a comedy, amazing grace contains very little in the way of laughs - i counted approximately zero .
perry, the first black superstar in hollywood, is regarded nowadays with more disdain than praise for his repeated although personally lucrative portrayal of what many would consider a horribly demeaning silver screen stereotype of african americans. that moment mabley and white - - a 70s version of the old stepin fetchit character with his song and dance routine - - step on the poster is a kind of acknowledgment that african americans, having been politicized in the all - embracing revolution that was the decade of the 60s, must move forward to create a new image. that new image is embodied in welton j. waters, the character played by moses gunn, who goes on in the movie to become the first african american mayor of baltimore. it is indeed a new dawning, not just for waters, but especially for all the younger up - and - coming generation of african americans represented most potently by the students of morgan state university who rally to support waters' s mayoral bid .
but what i did not expect, and what may have been the most powerful moment on second viewing once i knew what was happening, is that lincoln perry himself makes an early cameo appearance playing a face - in - the - crowd, very much not stepin fetchit member of mabley' s extended family. that, in a movie where it is acknowledged that the old stepin fetchit stereotype must be left behind in the past, is a moment even more stunning than the scene where mabley and white actually step on his poster .
basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him. riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you. …
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john boorman ’s “zardoz” is a genuinely quirky movie, a trip into a future that seems ruled by perpetually stoned set decorators. it’s set in an ireland of 2293 that looks exactly like the ireland of today, until you get inside the vortex. and then suddenly everything is shimmering gowns and futuristic throne rooms and beautiful young people who glide around at an endless debutante ball .
these are the immortals. they will never die. they cannot. every time they try to, their bodies are relentlessly restored by the all - knowing mystical computer mind that runs the vortex. there’s a catch, though: they can’t die but they can grow old, and for infractions, they’re sentenced to age a few years. if they don’t watch themselves, they might wind up as immortal seniles. outside the vortex, a barbaric civilization survives. slaves till the land and gather the crops, ruled over by sadistic masters who sometimes gallop around killing off the surplus population. one of the barbarians is zed, played by sean connery as a cross between tarzan and prince valiant. but one day, zed (like lord greystoke, come to think of it) finds a child’s alphabet book. he teaches himself to read and then fanatically devours the contents of whole libraries (like thomas wolfe, come to think of it). eventually he comes upon the wizard of oz and, in a moment of blinding insight, sees through the whole joke of his world’s social structure .
zed has himself smuggled aboard the giant floating head of zardoz, which rules hinterlands, and finds himself inside the vortex. here he is an object of great interest, because the immortals, you see, having lost the ability to die have also lost the drive to procreate and are doomed to an eternity of detumescence. zed labors with no such difficulty .
the movie is an exercise in self - indulgence (if often an interesting one) by boorman, who more or less had carte blanche to do a personal project after his immensely successful “ deliverance. ” boorman seems fascinated by stories which are disconnected from the ordinary realist assumptions of most movies; his leo the last (1970) gave us marcello mastroianni as the last of the big - time decadents, living in a mansion at the end of a deserted street in an eerie london .
boorman puts a lot of heavy concepts into “zardoz”, but seems uncertain whether he takes them seriously himself. there are sight gags (the attempt to turn on connery with futuristic pornography provides the best), there are group seances that seem lifted bodily from pajama parties, there is no end of special visual effects (every optical printer in england must have been busy for weeks), and at the end there’s a combination shoot - out and mercy - killing spree that is at once ridiculous, depraved and low camp .
every once in a while, a movie like that comes along; a movie you’ve got to see so that you, too, can be in the dark about it. in the movie’s own terms, this much can be said for sure: it may not make you an apathetic, but it will certainly age you by two hours .
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by the mid - ‘70s, black and white cinema was an endangered species. nevertheless, brooks felt strongly about replicating the feel of universal’s classic frankenstein films by going colorless. however, not everybody shared his vision. columbia studios’ brass thought the style was unmarketable and, as brooks explains in this delightful interview (skip to 47: 40), used some slippery tactics in an attempt to get their way :
thankfully, brooks prevailed, though 20th century fox wound up taking charge of the project .
like alfred hitchcock, brooks usually gave himself a part in his own films, from blazing saddles ’ loopy governor to the wine - selling rabbi of robin hood: men in tights. these characters regularly broke the fourth wall and “winked” at the audience, something wilder felt would clash with young frankenstein ’s tone. so, as a condition of his taking on the lead role, wilder made brooks agree to remain off - camera .
as frederick frankenstein (wilder) takes his first ride to the family castle, the distant wolf cry which startles him is a sound brooks actually vocalized himself .
en route to romania, our protagonist catches a train to new york, whereupon he hears an american couple bickering. in the very next scene, frederick (now on a transylvania - bound locomotive) witnesses a european pair having an identical, word - for - word exchange in german
“walk this way! ” marty feldman’s igor instructs his master, who proceeds to copy the hunchback’s shuffling gait. aerosmith frontman steven tyler found this line hilarious and repurposed it as the title of a track about high school lovers .
as frederick readies his monster, he sends igor to fetch a very special brain which rests in a jar labeled “hans delbruck: scientist and saint”. the actual hans delbrück (1848 - 1929) was an accomplished military historian whose son, max, won a nobel prize for his work with viruses .
taking his feature - length tribute to the next level, brooks included much of the faux lab equipment used in that earlier picture .
garr made several appearances on the sonny and cher comedy hour and used cher' s german wig - stylist as a model for ditzy lab assistant inga’s heavy accent .
the two had already collaborated in 1968’s the producers, and while casting young frankenstein, brooks offered mars the role of grumpy inspector kemp, but not before pitching an eccentric wardrobe gimmick that ultimately wound up on - screen .
“he [ said ], ” mars later reminisced, “‘let me ask you this… if you’re wearing an eye patch and you’ve got a monocle on top of the eye patch, is that too much? ’ i said ‘of course not. ’ he said ‘good, you’re hired! ’”
according to the movie’s blu - ray commentary, hackman—who’d been thrice nominated for an academy award (and won one in 1971) —learned about young frankenstein through his frequent tennis partner wilder and requested a role. ultimately, ‘harold’—the lonely blind character he briefly portrayed—sparked one of the most memorable sequences in comedic history .
during their hysterical encounter, sightless harold winds up accidentally dumping a bowlful of hot soup onto the poor creature’s lap. fortunately, boyle’s protective gear kept him from having to method act his way through the ordeal .
“for every joke that worked, there were three that fell flat, ” says brooks, who whittled young frankenstein down to its current runtime after observing several mixed reactions from test audiences. this cut material included a clip in which frederick’s relatives listen to a recorded will left by his great grandfather beauvort von frankenstein whose message starts skipping and nonchalantly repeats the phrase “up yours! ”
in addition, the “puttin’ on the ritz” number was nearly axed as well. brooks reportedly felt that having dr. frankenstein and his monster tap dance to an old irving berlin song seemed “too crazy. ” hearing this, wilder—who though it brilliant—snapped and came “close to rage and tears” before brooks unexpectedly changed his tune. “i wanted to see how hard you' d fight for it, ” said the director, “and i knew if you fought hard enough, it was right... you did, so it' s in. ”
according to cloris leachman, “he killed every take [ with his laughter ] and nothing was done about it! ” shots would frequently have to be repeated as many as fifteen times before wilder could finally summon a straight face .
but, to be fair, he certainly wasn’t the only one who couldn' t always keep it together .
young frankenstein sees marty feldman’s comic genius on full display, which was often more than his castmates could handle. for example, the scene where frederick’s fiancée elizabeth (madeline kahn) greets him at the castle generated a lengthy gag reel because feldman—whose character starts ravenously gnawing on her mink scarf—kept everyone in stitches with his manic over - acting .
“it’s good to be the king! ” before this pivotal year, the funnyman’s earlier efforts— the producers and the twelve chairs (1970) —netted mixed reviews and had lackluster box office performances. but after turning out these back - to - back hits at breakneck speed, brooks’ reputation as one of hollywood’s greatest comedic directors was secured .
after getting eliminated from abc’s dancing with the stars, brooks offered the 82 - year - old actress a chance to take a second stab at playing frau blücher for his on - stage young frankenstein musical, but the show’s run ended before her schedule freed up .
knowing his star dreamed of one day sitting in the director’s chair, brooks made a point to give him as many pointers as possible before shooting concluded. wilder reminisced, “mel would say, ‘do you know the trouble i’m in because i didn’t shoot that close - up? don’t do that. ’ i would say, ‘to whom are you talking? ’ ‘you, when you’re directing. ’”
the final product will be an even more accurate representation of the screen version than the images above, with a less stretch - out label and a skinnier can like those barbasol was selling in the early 1990s. in the movie, the gadget dispenses actual shaving cream and has a cold interior to mimic the cryo chamber at jurassic park. this prop lacks both features, which will probably make it easier for collectors to maintain .
the replica prop will available to preorder from chronicle collectibles later this summer and will reportedly cost around $ 200. it doesn' t contain any real dinosaur embryos, which, as anyone who' s seen jurassic park knows, is probably for the best .
a steven spielberg movie, made in the 1970s, about an unstoppable force and the regular american guy trying to stop it—no, we’re not talking about jaws. in 1971, the legendary director was just a twenty - something directing tv shows and looking to break out with his first movie gig. he eventually found it in the tv movie duel, about an anonymous truck driver stalking a hapless businessman driving around the lonely canyon roads of california .
duel, which is filled with thrills and road rage, was the precursor to jaws and effectively launched spielberg’s career. here are some things you might not know about the golden globe - nominated thriller .
author and screenwriter richard matheson based his original novella, which first appeared in the april 1971 issue of playboy, on an actual road rage incident. matheson had played a round of golf on november 22, 1963, the same day president john f. kennedy was assassinated. on his car ride home, and in a daze after receiving the terrible news, he was ruthlessly tailgated by a truck driver .
matheson initially pitched the idea to tv producers but, after it was rejected numerous times, he decided to put his real - life incident into prose form. in order to gather details of the open road, matheson set out from his home in ventura, california with a voice recorder in hand and simply described what he saw. those descriptions of the desolate landscape ended up in the novella .
2. it was steven spielberg’s secretary who discovered richard matheson' s story .
to read, and she said,' don' t look at the girls, read the short story. it is right up your alley,' ”
. “she had a real intuition about me, and not since my own mom had anybody really had my number. she really understood my tastes, and my ambition, and my fear, my anxiety about wanting to do everything by thursday morning. ”
3. dennis weaver’s work with orson welles got him the lead in duel .
weaver drove more than 2000 miles while shooting his scenes, and did many of the stunts himself, including the dangerous phone booth scene at the
snakerama
gas station in a single take .
of working with the rookie director, the veteran weaver later said, “i gave him the benefit of the doubt. i said, ‘there’s no reason for me to judge him because of his age. let’s see what he does. ’ and he did extremely well... i really think it’s one of the most creative jobs he’s ever done. ”
matheson' s script stated that the villainous, unnamed truck driver would never be seen besides the insert shots of his arms and boots. (weirdly enough, matheson’s novella actually names the driver: “keller, ” matheson’s own spin on the word killer. )
since the truck itself is the movie’s main antagonist, spielberg chose to cast it like he would any other actor: an in - person audition. the filmmaker auditioned seven different styles of semi - trucks on the universal backlot, finally settling on a 1955 peterbilt 281 because he felt that the split windshield, rounded lights, and elongated hood represented the menacing features of the truck’s “face. ”
for mann’s car, spielberg chose the relatively small red plymouth valiant to stand out in size and color from the enormous truck and the earth tones of the california landscape .
5. careful planning and low - budget camera trickery helped capture the high - speed chases .
spielberg was given just $ 400, 000 and 10 days to shoot duel, but the schedule ballooned into a full 13 days to shoot the entire movie after the rookie director fell behind. to save time in shooting the high - speed chases on location in california' s soledad canyon, spielberg strategically set up multiple cameras along a single stretch of road to capture the shots needed for multiple scenes in one take. he had the camera turned 180 degrees and the cars driven in the opposite direction to get multiple shots for additional scenes .
instead of creating individual storyboards, spielberg mapped out the entire path of mann and the truck driver on a mural of drafting paper with notes about each plot point peppering the sheet .
to capture the truck and the car at seemingly high speeds, spielberg shot each at low angles. to create those harrowing shots, spielberg borrowed the specially - made camera car from the 1968 steve mcqueen thriller bullitt, which could lower the camera to only 6 inches off the ground .
spielberg also enlisted 50 - year stunt veteran carey loftin as his stunt coordinator. loftin, who played the driver, also designed the legendary car chase sequences in vanishing point, bullitt, and the french connection .
spielberg only had one take to pull off the climactic cliff crash because the initial shoot only had a single truck at their disposal. (a backup truck was built during reshoots in case the engine of the main truck stopped working. the backup truck is
loftin rigged the truck with a dead clutch so the 18 - wheeler could drive without anyone behind the wheel. spielberg filmed the crash with seven cameras from multiple angles to be able to use some editing tricks to stretch out the scene .
with filmmaker edgar wright, spielberg explained, “ [ producer ] george eckstein told me after the network saw it, ‘well, we’re going back to the desert, they want to push the truck off the cliff again and blow it up again.' i told george why that was such a terrible idea. i’d worked so hard to give the truck a long and painful death and i thought that’s what the audience wanted out of the resolution. i said, ‘if the network does force you to blow the truck up again, you get another director to do it because i’m not going to do it.' george fought for me, and for himself because he agreed with me. ”
the movie debuted on november 13, 1971 as abc’s movie of the week, and proved to be so successful that spielberg was given the opportunity to shoot additional footage (the school bus scene and the railroad crossing scene) to be able to release it in theaters at feature length .
10. spielberg has revisited duel more than once—and people have stolen from him, too .
duel was something of lucky charm once spielberg’s career began to take off, and he’d continually reference parts of the movie in subsequent films.
l’uomo senza memoria ( internationally released as puzzle and man without a memory ) is a 1974 italian giallo film directed by duccio tessari . it was written by ernesto gastaldi . la stampa defined the film as " full of ideas and with a strong storyline " . 
l’uomo senza memoria (internationally released as puzzle and man without a memory) is a 1974 italian giallo film directed by duccio tessari. it was written by ernesto gastaldi. la stampa defined the film as " full of ideas and with a strong storyline ".
l’uomo senza memoria (internationally released as puzzle and man without a memory) is a 1974 italian giallo film directed by duccio tessari. it was written by ernesto gastaldi. la stampa defined the film as " full of ideas and with a strong storyline ".