I had never heard of it until I happened to catch it on one of the movie channels. It’s pretty decent.
A lot of good ones listed here including some of my favorites.
For some reason I’m reminded of two James Coburn movies that don’t seem to have much contemporary presence:
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
and
Harry in Your Pocket (1973)
And, as I do every Christmas season, I recently re-watched “The Cheaters” (1945) my favorite obscure holiday film.
The documentary “Best Boy” is available on Netflix. So is the sequel, “Best Man”, which is mostly the story about him being Bar Mitzvah’ed. He didn’t understand what it meant, but knew it was something people do when they become grownups. There is also a third movie called “Best Sister” but AFAIK it’s not on streaming or DVD.
Speaking of Coburn…“The Last of Sheila” is a nice obscurish film.
One of my favorites, as I’ve noted before. It certainly deserves to be better known than it is. It’s the illegitimate half-brother of Sleuth. Both involve egotistical and somewhat sadistic games-players who invite people over for some very personal games. Both were inspired by Stephen Sondheim and his affection for games. (I’ve heard the first movie of Sleuth was actually filmed partly in Sondheim’s apartment. Don’t know if it’s true). Sondheim himself wrote the script for TLoS, in collaboration with Anthony Perkins (!!!)*. The film features a number of mysteries-within-mysteries, an all-star cast (besides Coburn, there’s James Mason, Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, and Raquel Welch) , and the mystery “plays fair”, giving you all the clues needed, but still with a wicked twist, and the solution really does develop naturally from the setup, without invoking odd coincidences and the like.
I know this one’s been on VHS and DVD, because I’ve got them. But it shows up on TV all too rarely.
*One Doper suggested that Perkins hoped to appear in the film, which could explain his input to the script. But he wasn’t in the film.
There are lost people as well as lost movies.
David Janssen was mostly known for television work, starring in The Fugitive and Harry O, one of my favorites. But after Harry O, he appeared in Two-Minute Warning, Warhead, Golden Rendezvous, Covert Action, and* Inchon*. I’ve never seen any and the only one I’ve heard of is Inchon, because of its status as a legendary bomb.
I watched the end of “Two Minute Warning” the other day for the Heston yumminess.
Very interesting film and premise. A sniper with no agenda decides to let loose on a football game, Heston shoots him, Heston yells at him, sniper dies. Roll credits.
As for lost actors. Definitely. I’d say almost all actors from back in the day are ‘lost’
When’s the last time you saw Dyan Cannon, Charles Grodin, Warren Beatty, James Brolin, Richard Benjamin, Monte Markham, John Saxon, Clu Gulager…
I’d say Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep are the oldest actors you still see in high profile films. Arguably Redford.
Clu Gulager appeared recently in Feast and its two sequels. In fact, I think he’s the only one to appear in all three. His son John directed all three.
Great movie. I really need to see it again. And it is available on Amazon, plentifully so. I like it better than Sleuth myself.
Damn - Stephen Sondheim’s Crossword Puzzle book is not available.
I hadn’t realized it until I read the Wikipedia entry on TLoS, but apparently Sondheim and Perkins used to concoct scavenger hunts among their Hollywood and Broadway buddies, like the ones depicted in the film. That’s a more likely reason for their collaboration on the script, rather than Perkins wanting to play a part in it.
What I meant is that a famous actor disappeared into an endless string of movies that were never heard from again. The actors you mention aren’t working that much today, but they made many famous films in their heyday. I’m sure that each has a lost movie, but that wasn’t typical of their output year after year.
I actually liked an Invisible Man. It sounds weird casting Chevy in a movie like this but coming shortly after Michael Keaton became Batman it paid to keep an open mind. It looked like he was trying to get back to a leading man role, like in Foul Play, but it was starting to get too late for that.
The MST3K version was on Netflix… until about a week or two ago. :smack:
“Hey little goldfish, where ya goin to, little goldfish let me swim a long with you. Pretty goldfish we can have a whale of a time, oh oh, put your fin in mine oh oh”
I saw that movie one time, when I was 8, and I still remember that song.
How about the Doberman Gang movies and Bless The Beasts and The Children.
Anyone remember The Blue Iguana? Dylan McDermott as a bounty hunter blackmailed by rogue IRS agents into a complex last-man-standing heist of an outlaw Mexican bank.
Bless the Beasts and the Children was one of my faves. I’ve got the soundtrack.
Dammit. I would have seen that if Netflix Canada wasn’t so limited. It’s on YouTube, though.
Are we still talking about lost movies? I’ve seen most of these.
The one I have always wanted to see is the version of Largo Desolato that aired about 25 years ago on PBS. At the time, I was able to listen to it, but I did not have a working television. Why it so utterly vanished is beyond me. Perhaps the great, evil trilateral commission was working out of Prague at the time.
Swashbuckler
Bob Carol Ted and Alice
Southern Comfort
The Savage Seven
If Its Tuesday it Must be Belgium