Suddenly

Starring:Frank Sinatra
Studio: Platinum Disc
Product Type: DVD
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- Awesome!!!
- My Family Loves IT!!!
- Drake and Josh are very funny
- My girls love it!
- An awesome DVD; I'm hoping for more.
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Drake and Josh, Vol. 1 - Suddenly Brothers
Director: Adam Weissman , Fred Savage , and Roger Christiansen
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Release Date: 2005-02-15 |
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Nickelodeon's fresh teen comedy (a successful spin off of The Amanda Show) displays the uncanny comedic talents of Drake Bell and Josh Peck as 15-year-old stepbrothers who are thrown together as roommates when Drake's mother marries Josh's father. Polar opposites in personality, the boys must navigate their way through a myriad of adjustments in their newly blended family. In the first of this two-episode program (from the TV series), Drake discovers that Josh is an undercover advice columnist for the school newspaper using the pseudonym "Miss Nancy." Tensions mount when girl-crazy Drake decides to exploit Josh's "insider information" to attract the school's hottest pick, Tiffany. The second segment, "Dune Buggy" takes a humorous yet insightful look at the "art" of lying--is it a character quality or flaw? The overall show works because of the unmistakable chemistry and physical comedy of its stars, who have been lauded as modern-day Felix and Oscar (of The Odd Couple). Parents will appreciate the program's G-rated humor and refreshing absence of offensive innuendoes. (Ages 8 and older) --Lynn Gibson
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Fifteen-year-old Drake and Josh are schoolmates, but not close friends. As a matter of fact, Drake thinks Josh is a bit of a goof. Imagine his shock when he discovers this goof is about to become his stepbrother and new roommate when his mother marries Josh's father!
Customer Reviews:
Awesome!!!.......2007-06-08
This DVD is awesome, It came in excellent conditions and in the right ship date. The Quality is Excellent.
My Family Loves IT!!!.......2007-01-19
This is an excellant bargain. My family loves watching Drake and Josh.
Drake and Josh are very funny.......2007-01-11
My sons (6 and 3) love watching Drake and Josh so I was very happy to see that I could get some episodes on TV. Family friendly, with good stories and music. I hope that they release more soon.
My girls love it!.......2007-01-09
I got this for my 8 yr old daughter for Christmas. She watches it all the time. I watch it with her sometimes and its really funny. I like the message too - not full of stuff that is too old for them.
An awesome DVD; I'm hoping for more........2006-08-29
Drake and Josh is my favorite show on Nickelodeon. Even though there are no DVD season boxsets out yet, this DVD came out in early 2005 and I bought it. Here is my review ( I have no life ).
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[*]Pilot: 4.5/5 This is the first episode of the series. Drake and Josh become step brothers and Drake realizes that Josh is a real loser in school. In a case of mistaken identity, Josh has to fight a "jealous boyfriend".
[*]Dune Buggy: 4.5/5 Drake and Josh get a dune buggy from Drake's friend, Trevor, but find out that it doesn't run. After getting it fixed, Drake and Josh aren't allowed to even drive it. Josh gets grounded for lying because of Drake, and Drake takes the dune buggy for a ride regardless. He crashes into a tree and tries to hide his injuries.
Two Idiots And A Baby: 4/5 Josh volunteers to babysit, but Drake abandons the baby to play a concert with his band. Josh soon loses the baby and looks tirelesly around the house for him. Soon, Meghan reveals that she had it the whole time and nobody knows what happened.
[*]First Crush: 4.5/5 Josh promises to play a birthday song on guitar at a girls birthday party. Having no idea how to play it, he has Drake teach him, but the strings on the guitar snap. Drake comes up with a plan that makes Josh look like he's playing it but he really isn't.
Special Features: Outtakes: 5/5 On this DVD there are 8 minutes of outtakes. They are pretty good, too, and are well worth watching. Makes the DVD all more worth the money.
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Overall, this is an excellent DVD. The quality for some reason is furry-like on the episodes, but the episodes are still great. It has some of the first episodes of this great series. I really think you should buy it. Since it is from the first season, you will notice some things. First, the whole entire house looks different; especially Drake and Josh's room. The door doesn't even face the same way, and the whole room looks different entirely. You will also notice some "slip-ups" by the director, but you'll forgive them. You should really buy this DVD if you are a Drake and Josh fan. It's really just a bummer there are only 4 episodes and there hasn't been a new volume to this for about a year and a half now.
4.5/5
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- Fine movie, but slow at the beginning...
- Suddenly Last Summer
- really puts the "gothic" into Southern Gothic...
- Don't wish for this kind of summer vacation!
- One of the Scariest Films I've seen
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Suddenly, Last Summer
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor , Katharine Hepburn , Montgomery Clift , Albert Dekker , and Mercedes McCambridge
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ASIN: B00004TWZH
Release Date: 2000-08-15 |
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This black-and-white film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Southern gothic play is perhaps more famous for the rumored off-screen shenanigans of its stars than for its over-the-top repressed sexuality (only Williams could pull off that paradox, and pull it off he does). Supposedly, stars Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor battled for screen time; Hepburn warred very publicly with director Joseph Mankiewicz; and a postaccident Montgomery Clift relied heavily on painkillers and support from friend Taylor during the grueling shoot. Even this, however, cannot top the events of the film itself, revolving around the unseen playboy Sebastian and his mysterious death, which has something to do with young boys, a decadent European vacation, and Taylor in a provocative wet, white bathing suit. To give away the plot would spoil the fun, but suffice it to say that what Taylor saw was so horrible it drove her nuts, and Sebastian's mother (Hepburn) wants her to have a lobotomy in order to keep it from coming out; Clift is brought in to do the procedure. It's all a hoot and a holler, but as played by the two leading ladies (both of whom nabbed Oscar nominations), it's also compelling, chilling, and utterly gothic. Taylor gives a fierce performance, as the climaxing monologue that reveals Sebastian's "secret" rests entirely on her shoulders, and Hepburn plays brilliantly against type as Sebastian's manipulating, overbearing mother. Only Clift, saddled with a dreary character in charge of plot exposition, fails to deliver. Adapted by Gore Vidal. --Mark Englehart
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Fine movie, but slow at the beginning..........2007-07-01
I like the movie and the acting is mostly great. My only problem is with Montgomery Clift, who is slightly stiff in this movie, yet I still like him. Elizabeth Taylor and Katherine Hepburn give stellar performances.
Basically, Cathy (Taylor) is locked up in a mental institution with Clift as her psychiatrist. He needs to find out the shocking truth of why her cousin died the summer before. Her aunt Violet (Hepburn) wants her to have a lobotomy so the truth cannot come out. I won't say what happens, but the end is satisfying. I'd watch this again.
Suddenly Last Summer.......2007-06-26
A lurid Southern Gothic tale adapted by Gore Vidal from a one-act Tennessee Williams play, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's "Suddenly, Last Summer" is a trifle campy and overheated, but rich with smart, biting dialogue. Hepburn is haughty and indomitable as an overprotective mother, while Taylor is rivetingly sensual even in apoplectic fits of distress-witness the climactic flashback scene. Mankiewicz handles themes of forbidden desire and depravity with consummate skill, making this a memorable "Summer" indeed.
really puts the "gothic" into Southern Gothic..........2007-06-10
SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER is one of the strongest Tennessee Williams film adaptations, and that is due in no small part to Gore Vidal's fiery screenplay and the first-rate main players of Taylor, Hepburn and Clift.
The story opens in 1937. Eccentric and wealthy Southern widow Mrs Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn) enlists the services of prolific mental health surgeon Dr. Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift). Cukrowicz specialises in performing the revolutionary frontal lobotomy procedure on those patients whose entire lives are consumed by their illnesses.
Mrs Venable introduces Cukrowicz to her troubled young niece, Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor). Ever since Catherine accompanied Violet's dead son Sebastian on his last trip to Europe, Catherine has been plagued by fearful fits of insanity. In return for some important funding for his surgery, Mrs Venable wants Catherine to be the next patient for Cukrowicz.
But what exactly happened to Sebastian on that fateful final trip...and why does Mrs Venable desperately want Catherine to forget it...?
Here in SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, a horrifying journey into sweat-stained asylums and heavily-veiled secrets, Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn deliver tour-de-force performances. A lot of people still find Montgomery Clift somewhat lacking here, but a lot of that does come back to the character he plays, who is very much overshadowed by the two women. There is also some fine work from Mercedes McCambridge as Catherine's weak-willed mother.
Taylor was nominated for an Academy Award (in addition to Hepburn), but failed to win, partly because this was during the period when her tumultuous private life essentially got her blackballed; though she did manage to grab the Golden Globe for her performance--in direct competition with Hepburn.
SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER remains a searing and shocking movie experience. If you have never seen it, do yourself a favour and buy it today. You'll be riveted from beginning to end.
The DVD includes a bonus video montage of stills; talent profiles for the main players, and the trailer for "28 Days". (Single-sided, dual-layer disc).
Don't wish for this kind of summer vacation!.......2007-05-15
Suddenly, Last Summer starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, and Katherine Hepburn was quite a provactive film for 1959. Themes of homosexuality, cannibalism, and implied incest makes this film interesting right up 'til the very end. You won't believe the shocking truth about the unseen and unheard Sebastian. Catherine (Taylor) and Sebastian were cousins, during a summer vacation, something horrific happened to Sebastian, and it traumatizes poor Catherine into a mental hospital. Catherine's aunt, Mrs. Venable (Hepburn) wants her lobotimzed, she is so desperate to hide the truth about her son, she'll do anything not to let her son's private life come out. Fascinating performance from Hepburn and while Clift is great to look at, his performance suffers due to the fact he was relying heavy on pills and booze to help through the shoot (he was in a car crash three years prior to filming this movie, he was in a lot of physical pain). Anyway, you'll either love or loathe this film but it's defintely gonna leave you shocked in your seat. Enjoy!
One of the Scariest Films I've seen.......2007-04-05
"Suddenly, Last Summer" - is one of the scariest films I've seen. Directed in 1959 by Joseph Mankievitz and based on one of Tennessee Williams' plays, it deals with very disturbing and uncomfortable subjects. Elizabeth Taylor is sensational, playing Catherine, the girl who may have lost her mind after having witnessed her cousin's bizarre death that occurred "suddenly, last summer" during the vacation. Katherine Hepburn is magnificent as his adoring mother who wants the disturbing memories been surgically removed from the girl's memory.
Production design, set decorations, and costumes are absolutely stunning. Both, Hepburn and Taylor received very deserving Oscar nominations for the best leading performance.
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- Entertaining rubbish
- Not for Suddenly Susans.
- Meat 'n' Potatoes with Tommy Guns
- Suddenly
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Suddenly
Starring: Frank Sinatra , Sterling Hayden , James Gleason , Nancy Gates , and Kim Charney
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Release Date: 2004-05-18 |
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Directly in the wake of his Oscar-winning comeback in From Here to Eternity, Frank Sinatra took on the role of a psychopathic hit man in this taut, low-budget film noir. The choice shows how interested Sinatra was in serious acting during the mid- to late '50s; there's nothing remotely likable about this angular, neurotic assassin. He's in the small town of Suddenly to kill the president, who is passing through on a quick train stop. Sinatra makes hostages of a local family and sheriff Sterling Hayden, and the film is basically a countdown to the president's arrival, with Sinatra's patter getting loonier as the day goes on. Aside from the interest of Sinatra's performance (very focused and downright perverse at times), and the film's place in the American noir tradition, Suddenly is uncannily prophetic on the subject of assassination. It's clear that the killer is doing it for the fame as well as the money, a theme that would crop up in later confessions of real-life killers or would-be killers. Perhaps the 1954 film was too prophetic; like Sinatra's Manchurian Candidate, this movie was pulled from circulation for years after the JFK assassination. According to Kitty Kelley's bio of Sinatra, Lee Harvey Oswald saw this film a few days before he took rifle in hand. Now in the public domain, Suddenly is generally available in cheap, scratchy prints. --Robert Horton
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See the legendary Frank Sinatra as you've never seen him before in this taut, terrifying thriller that was suppressed for decades! When the President is slated to pass through a small town, murderous John Baron (Sinatra) decides to take over the tranquil Benson household as part of chilling assassination plot. Can this madman be stopped before the country is thrown into turmoil?
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Suddenly.......2007-06-26
Shortly after his celebrated turn in "From Here to Eternity," Sinatra was cast as a cold-blooded killer in Lewis Allen's gritty thriller "Suddenly." Anticipating the Kennedy assassination by several years--Lee Harvey Oswald reportedly viewed it days before he killed JFK--"Suddenly" has the look and feel of a "B" movie quickie, but Sinatra's intensity blazes off the screen. Still thin as a reed, the actor excels as a human time bomb, while Hayden's Sheriff provides a decent, steady counterpoint. Only debit: that annoying little boy- but just focus on Ol' Blue Eyes.
Entertaining rubbish.......2006-07-02
Predictable ending to a typical post-war script. They are hitting you over the head without any subtlety. The theme is that pacifism doesn't work, sort of like preaching to the converted, since it is a POST-war film, not a pre-war film.
A war widow spurns the advances of the town sheriff and doesn't allow her 8 year old son to play with guns. There's your pacifist, the war widow. By the end, she's ready to kill the bad guy herself. As I said, there's no subtlety to the script. It is obvious, unoriginal, completely predictable, and therefore juvenile and uncreative.
Sinatra's acting is no big deal. It's laughable the way people rave about it. It just shows that any silly old nonsense can impress people. He's not terrible. He's just a non-actor doing a more or less decent enough job in a silly script. You can't compare his acting to his singing. He was an exceptional stylist as a singer, and a hack as an actor, as you should be able to see in this movie. To compare his acting to a singer, you might say he is the Freddy Cannon of actors. You remember the guy who sang that silly song Palisades Park. Maybe you don't. You shouldn't. It's nothing, like Sinatra's acting.
This film is nothing but stereotypes. I'd be ashamed of it if I had directed it. There are no real people in it. There are no believable lines in it. It's just one of those stupid stories of the early fifties to make a point, that Americans are this or that way, that we gotta shoot some bad guys. Okay, whatever. Sure we have to shoot some bad guys. You don't need to convince me. I'm not a pacifist. But I know a dopy script when I see one.
I'm giving it three stars for entertainment value. Even though the movie is dopy and completely predictable, it's kind of fun to watch. That's worth a few stars. The writing gets an F, the acting gets a D, but the entertainment value gets a C plus or B minus, and it isn't hard to sit through.
There's one part that is so stupid it cracked me up. Sinatra sends one of his bad guy assistants outside to check things out, when what he really wants is to keep his presence secret. So he sends out one of his bad guys to become very visible. Hahaha. And of course the bad guy is spotted and blows Sinatra's cover. That is the funniest part of this dopy movie.
Not for Suddenly Susans........2006-05-13
A long, withheld movie of historical and musicological interest,that has taken on increasing interest. Why? Frank Sinatra, the star, the Voice, withdrew the film following the assassination of JFK, because of the mob ties. Nevertheless, this B noir movie is better than you expect.Among the supporting cast lies a real WWII hero,Sterling Hayden, who gives a restrained performance, playing the sheriff in the small town with the responsibility to see that the president's train gets through without incident. However, Frank Sinatra and his gang of co-conspirators plan to remove the responsibility, by using his girlfriend's lofty house above the railroad tracks.
No one since the first screening has given this film digital enhancement in any way, which makes it play out like you'd see it in your town theatre. Although this begs for a modern re-doing, it stands on its own as a look at Sinatra the actor, playing a creepy thug with a chip on his shoulders. He plays it very well, as if the producer told him he would be getting back at all his detractors. Sinatra pulls it off convincingly, making everyone uncomfortable in his presence, as if he's going to explode like a bomb with a short fuse,emotionally threatening and leering at the same time.And he's not "Maggio" here either, the same punk "From Here to Eternity." Even Sterling Hayden admires him as he ranges like a captive lion in confinement. Psychotic, unbalanced and self-assured around his weapons or just handling them, it is one of Sinatra's most realistic portrayals. Just when the script slows, a glare or scowl from Sinatra and your pulse takes off. Sinatra made a lot of toss-off films, this is not one of them.For him, the part was probably like himself between rained-out gigs, holed up in Palookaville, as Gay Talese indicated in his short story,"Sinatra Has A Cold." If it is ever re-made, and I doubt that it will be, it is one film that is nothing without Frank.
Meat 'n' Potatoes with Tommy Guns.......2006-02-01
This is a great slice of Americana, a true "Period Piece." Sinatra was a competent actor and probably could have paid the bills this way even if he hadn't been a remarkably talented singer. It's not everybody who can pull off a menacing tough-guy when he weighs 118 soaking wet. This film presents itself in stark tones both visually and thematically. Patriotism, courage, honor, sacrifice. The words necessary to make that into a sentence would only sully the higher meaning; and that's the feeling you get as you watch this film. It is sparse, but self-assured. Think of it as the lost episode of "The Andy Griffith Show."
Suddenly.......2005-09-26
Oddly enough I had never seen this show.. and I found it to be very good.
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Release Date: 2004-01-01 |
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- Featuring landmark and extremely rare Donald Duck WWII Propaganda Cartoon !
- Hard to find -- hard to like.
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Cartoon Craze Presents: Donald Duck/ Woody Woodpecker: Pantry Panic
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Cartoon Craze Presents: Donald Duck/ Woody Woodpecker: Pantry Panic. Episode List: Pantry Panic The Spirit of 43' Bars and Stripes Forever Inki and the Minah Bird Suddenly It's Spring Quack a Doodle Doo Fox Pop The little Stranger
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Featuring landmark and extremely rare Donald Duck WWII Propaganda Cartoon !.......2005-09-11
The phenomenally successful "Cartoon Craze" DVD series from the excellent DVD company Digiview Productions has released some very good and very very hard-to-find public domain cartoons that have and haven't been released on DVD before.But I was very very fortunate and glad to have own perhaps,in my opinion,one of the most hard-to-find and rare compilations that showcases a classic Woody Woodpecker cartoon ("Pantry Panic",availible elsewhere on other DVD's) and very rare and landmark Disney public domain (!) WWII Propaganda cartoon starring the lovable Donald Duck ("The Spirit Of '43"),to the animation genius of Chuck Jones ("Inki and the Minah Bird"),this collection is a good one and an easily affordable one nonetheless !!! The one big reason to own the DVD is the inclusion of the excellent Donald Duck cartoon,made during the very big year of WWII as it portrays our duck icon choosing sides between a scheming con-artist spender or a tax saving Scottish duck (which interestingly would later loosely inspire Disney to create one of his most popular characters,Scrooge McDuck !).Donald merely appears all but 3 1/2 minutes in this 6 minute short which unfortunately has accidentally slipped into the public domain along with several Disney's so-called 'special cartoons' that have appeared elsewhere on video and on DVD such as "Susie The Little Blue Coupe" and Humphrey The Bear's "Hooked Bear".This short also appears on the 'authorized' Disney Treasures collection called "Shorts From The Front" which has a very good restored print of this excellent and landmark short.The print used here looks like it was copied from video using a faded print which means that the animation quality and contrast Disney was known for in his color shorts are badly,but not contrastly shoddy,represented here,but looks not too bad for the $ 1.00 cost.Along with the Woody Woodpecker cartoon "Pantry Panic",this disc also has the wonderful Chuck Jones cartoon "Inki and the Minah Bird" as well ! Digiview did a very good,but not great,job on picking out some great and vastly entertaining shorts,but I highly recommend this DVD for the Donald Duck cartoon and Chuck Jones cartoon alone !! You won't be dissapointed !!
Hard to find -- hard to like........2005-09-05
On the one hand, I'm glad to have the classic Chuck Jones cartoon Inki and the Mynah Bird on DVD. On the other hand, the quality is poor -- a copy of a copy of a copy. You get better quality on the VHS tape , if you can find one. So, five stars for availability, one star for quality, gives a three star average.
You can also see three additional great Inki cartoons on the out of print but still available VHS "I Taw a Putty Tat".
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Suddenly
Starring: Tatiana Saphir , Carla Crespo , Veronica Hassan , Beatriz Thibaudin , and María Merlino
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ASIN: B0006SSR38
Release Date: 2005-02-22 |
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Marcia, a lonely lingerie salesclerk in Buenos Aries, dreams of escaping her dreary life. One day she is propositioned by a pair of girls named Lenin and Mao. When she resists, they kidnap her, steal a taxi, and go looking for the beach. Marcia is a little frightened - but also a little excited. A sexy road movie shot through with a raw freshness reminiscent of early Godard or Jarmusch, Suddenly is "the sort of modestly scaled movie that feels like a gift!" (Los Angeles Times)
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ASIN: 630518495X
Release Date: 1998-11-03 |
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Directly in the wake of his Oscar-winning comeback in From Here to Eternity, Frank Sinatra took on the role of a psychopathic hit man in this taut, low-budget film noir. The choice shows how interested Sinatra was in serious acting during the mid- to late '50s; there's nothing remotely likable about this angular, neurotic assassin. He's in the small town of Suddenly to kill the president, who is passing through on a quick train stop. Sinatra makes hostages of a local family and sheriff Sterling Hayden, and the film is basically a countdown to the president's arrival, with Sinatra's patter getting loonier as the day goes on. Aside from the interest of Sinatra's performance (very focused and downright perverse at times), and the film's place in the American noir tradition, Suddenly is uncannily prophetic on the subject of assassination. It's clear that the killer is doing it for the fame as well as the money, a theme that would crop up in later confessions of real-life killers or would-be killers. Perhaps the 1954 film was too prophetic; like Sinatra's Manchurian Candidate, this movie was pulled from circulation for years after the JFK assassination. According to Kitty Kelley's bio of Sinatra, Lee Harvey Oswald saw this film a few days before he took rifle in hand. Now in the public domain, Suddenly is generally available in cheap, scratchy prints. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews:
Suddenly.......2007-06-26
Shortly after his celebrated turn in "From Here to Eternity," Sinatra was cast as a cold-blooded killer in Lewis Allen's gritty thriller "Suddenly." Anticipating the Kennedy assassination by several years--Lee Harvey Oswald reportedly viewed it days before he killed JFK--"Suddenly" has the look and feel of a "B" movie quickie, but Sinatra's intensity blazes off the screen. Still thin as a reed, the actor excels as a human time bomb, while Hayden's Sheriff provides a decent, steady counterpoint. Only debit: that annoying little boy- but just focus on Ol' Blue Eyes.
Entertaining rubbish.......2006-07-02
Predictable ending to a typical post-war script. They are hitting you over the head without any subtlety. The theme is that pacifism doesn't work, sort of like preaching to the converted, since it is a POST-war film, not a pre-war film.
A war widow spurns the advances of the town sheriff and doesn't allow her 8 year old son to play with guns. There's your pacifist, the war widow. By the end, she's ready to kill the bad guy herself. As I said, there's no subtlety to the script. It is obvious, unoriginal, completely predictable, and therefore juvenile and uncreative.
Sinatra's acting is no big deal. It's laughable the way people rave about it. It just shows that any silly old nonsense can impress people. He's not terrible. He's just a non-actor doing a more or less decent enough job in a silly script. You can't compare his acting to his singing. He was an exceptional stylist as a singer, and a hack as an actor, as you should be able to see in this movie. To compare his acting to a singer, you might say he is the Freddy Cannon of actors. You remember the guy who sang that silly song Palisades Park. Maybe you don't. You shouldn't. It's nothing, like Sinatra's acting.
This film is nothing but stereotypes. I'd be ashamed of it if I had directed it. There are no real people in it. There are no believable lines in it. It's just one of those stupid stories of the early fifties to make a point, that Americans are this or that way, that we gotta shoot some bad guys. Okay, whatever. Sure we have to shoot some bad guys. You don't need to convince me. I'm not a pacifist. But I know a dopy script when I see one.
I'm giving it three stars for entertainment value. Even though the movie is dopy and completely predictable, it's kind of fun to watch. That's worth a few stars. The writing gets an F, the acting gets a D, but the entertainment value gets a C plus or B minus, and it isn't hard to sit through.
There's one part that is so stupid it cracked me up. Sinatra sends one of his bad guy assistants outside to check things out, when what he really wants is to keep his presence secret. So he sends out one of his bad guys to become very visible. Hahaha. And of course the bad guy is spotted and blows Sinatra's cover. That is the funniest part of this dopy movie.
Not for Suddenly Susans........2006-05-13
A long, withheld movie of historical and musicological interest,that has taken on increasing interest. Why? Frank Sinatra, the star, the Voice, withdrew the film following the assassination of JFK, because of the mob ties. Nevertheless, this B noir movie is better than you expect.Among the supporting cast lies a real WWII hero,Sterling Hayden, who gives a restrained performance, playing the sheriff in the small town with the responsibility to see that the president's train gets through without incident. However, Frank Sinatra and his gang of co-conspirators plan to remove the responsibility, by using his girlfriend's lofty house above the railroad tracks.
No one since the first screening has given this film digital enhancement in any way, which makes it play out like you'd see it in your town theatre. Although this begs for a modern re-doing, it stands on its own as a look at Sinatra the actor, playing a creepy thug with a chip on his shoulders. He plays it very well, as if the producer told him he would be getting back at all his detractors. Sinatra pulls it off convincingly, making everyone uncomfortable in his presence, as if he's going to explode like a bomb with a short fuse,emotionally threatening and leering at the same time.And he's not "Maggio" here either, the same punk "From Here to Eternity." Even Sterling Hayden admires him as he ranges like a captive lion in confinement. Psychotic, unbalanced and self-assured around his weapons or just handling them, it is one of Sinatra's most realistic portrayals. Just when the script slows, a glare or scowl from Sinatra and your pulse takes off. Sinatra made a lot of toss-off films, this is not one of them.For him, the part was probably like himself between rained-out gigs, holed up in Palookaville, as Gay Talese indicated in his short story,"Sinatra Has A Cold." If it is ever re-made, and I doubt that it will be, it is one film that is nothing without Frank.
Meat 'n' Potatoes with Tommy Guns.......2006-02-01
This is a great slice of Americana, a true "Period Piece." Sinatra was a competent actor and probably could have paid the bills this way even if he hadn't been a remarkably talented singer. It's not everybody who can pull off a menacing tough-guy when he weighs 118 soaking wet. This film presents itself in stark tones both visually and thematically. Patriotism, courage, honor, sacrifice. The words necessary to make that into a sentence would only sully the higher meaning; and that's the feeling you get as you watch this film. It is sparse, but self-assured. Think of it as the lost episode of "The Andy Griffith Show."
Suddenly.......2005-09-26
Oddly enough I had never seen this show.. and I found it to be very good.
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Starring: Frank Sinatra , Sterling Hayden , James Gleason , Nancy Gates , and Kim Charney
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ASIN: B00005N5S0
Release Date: 2001-10-09 |
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3 Great Movies on 1 DVD. Star Power, Exciting Genre with Extras on each DVD.
Customer Reviews:
Good old movies.......2007-06-12
I enjoyed the movies and even though they are old it was a good buy.
Famous Rat Pack Movies.......2006-08-03
Judd and Little Moon was an incredibly bad movies with the poorest acting I have seen.
The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movie was marginally better
this is a waste of time!!!.......2006-06-24
the movies on this disc might be good,but from the very poor transfers here(droped audio,picture drop-out and freese pictures ,and all the movies were very very dark almost not watchable)you would never know. skip this mess and look for these movies elsewere!!!
One classic, two duds.......2005-01-02
I picked this up when I was first building my DVD collection. I wanted a copy of SUDDENLY but this was the only DVD issue of it I could find at the time. Being somewhat of a Rat Pack fan, I thought I was getting a great three-for-one bargain. While SUDDENLY is a classic film noir (and one of Frank Sinatra's best films), the Sammy Davis western comedy and the Dean & Jerry films are dogs. I'm gonna replace it with one of the bargain priced reissues of SUDDENLY that are now available.
Average customer rating:
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- Entertaining rubbish
- Not for Suddenly Susans.
- Meat 'n' Potatoes with Tommy Guns
- Suddenly
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ASIN: B0000639EE
Release Date: 2002-03-19 |
Amazon.com
Directly in the wake of his Oscar-winning comeback in From Here to Eternity, Frank Sinatra took on the role of a psychopathic hit man in this taut, low-budget film noir. The choice shows how interested Sinatra was in serious acting during the mid- to late '50s; there's nothing remotely likable about this angular, neurotic assassin. He's in the small town of Suddenly to kill the president, who is passing through on a quick train stop. Sinatra makes hostages of a local family and sheriff Sterling Hayden, and the film is basically a countdown to the president's arrival, with Sinatra's patter getting loonier as the day goes on. Aside from the interest of Sinatra's performance (very focused and downright perverse at times), and the film's place in the American noir tradition, Suddenly is uncannily prophetic on the subject of assassination. It's clear that the killer is doing it for the fame as well as the money, a theme that would crop up in later confessions of real-life killers or would-be killers. Perhaps the 1954 film was too prophetic; like Sinatra's Manchurian Candidate, this movie was pulled from circulation for years after the JFK assassination. According to Kitty Kelley's bio of Sinatra, Lee Harvey Oswald saw this film a few days before he took rifle in hand. Now in the public domain, Suddenly is generally available in cheap, scratchy prints. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews:
Suddenly.......2007-06-26
Shortly after his celebrated turn in "From Here to Eternity," Sinatra was cast as a cold-blooded killer in Lewis Allen's gritty thriller "Suddenly." Anticipating the Kennedy assassination by several years--Lee Harvey Oswald reportedly viewed it days before he killed JFK--"Suddenly" has the look and feel of a "B" movie quickie, but Sinatra's intensity blazes off the screen. Still thin as a reed, the actor excels as a human time bomb, while Hayden's Sheriff provides a decent, steady counterpoint. Only debit: that annoying little boy- but just focus on Ol' Blue Eyes.
Entertaining rubbish.......2006-07-02
Predictable ending to a typical post-war script. They are hitting you over the head without any subtlety. The theme is that pacifism doesn't work, sort of like preaching to the converted, since it is a POST-war film, not a pre-war film.
A war widow spurns the advances of the town sheriff and doesn't allow her 8 year old son to play with guns. There's your pacifist, the war widow. By the end, she's ready to kill the bad guy herself. As I said, there's no subtlety to the script. It is obvious, unoriginal, completely predictable, and therefore juvenile and uncreative.
Sinatra's acting is no big deal. It's laughable the way people rave about it. It just shows that any silly old nonsense can impress people. He's not terrible. He's just a non-actor doing a more or less decent enough job in a silly script. You can't compare his acting to his singing. He was an exceptional stylist as a singer, and a hack as an actor, as you should be able to see in this movie. To compare his acting to a singer, you might say he is the Freddy Cannon of actors. You remember the guy who sang that silly song Palisades Park. Maybe you don't. You shouldn't. It's nothing, like Sinatra's acting.
This film is nothing but stereotypes. I'd be ashamed of it if I had directed it. There are no real people in it. There are no believable lines in it. It's just one of those stupid stories of the early fifties to make a point, that Americans are this or that way, that we gotta shoot some bad guys. Okay, whatever. Sure we have to shoot some bad guys. You don't need to convince me. I'm not a pacifist. But I know a dopy script when I see one.
I'm giving it three stars for entertainment value. Even though the movie is dopy and completely predictable, it's kind of fun to watch. That's worth a few stars. The writing gets an F, the acting gets a D, but the entertainment value gets a C plus or B minus, and it isn't hard to sit through.
There's one part that is so stupid it cracked me up. Sinatra sends one of his bad guy assistants outside to check things out, when what he really wants is to keep his presence secret. So he sends out one of his bad guys to become very visible. Hahaha. And of course the bad guy is spotted and blows Sinatra's cover. That is the funniest part of this dopy movie.
Not for Suddenly Susans........2006-05-13
A long, withheld movie of historical and musicological interest,that has taken on increasing interest. Why? Frank Sinatra, the star, the Voice, withdrew the film following the assassination of JFK, because of the mob ties. Nevertheless, this B noir movie is better than you expect.Among the supporting cast lies a real WWII hero,Sterling Hayden, who gives a restrained performance, playing the sheriff in the small town with the responsibility to see that the president's train gets through without incident. However, Frank Sinatra and his gang of co-conspirators plan to remove the responsibility, by using his girlfriend's lofty house above the railroad tracks.
No one since the first screening has given this film digital enhancement in any way, which makes it play out like you'd see it in your town theatre. Although this begs for a modern re-doing, it stands on its own as a look at Sinatra the actor, playing a creepy thug with a chip on his shoulders. He plays it very well, as if the producer told him he would be getting back at all his detractors. Sinatra pulls it off convincingly, making everyone uncomfortable in his presence, as if he's going to explode like a bomb with a short fuse,emotionally threatening and leering at the same time.And he's not "Maggio" here either, the same punk "From Here to Eternity." Even Sterling Hayden admires him as he ranges like a captive lion in confinement. Psychotic, unbalanced and self-assured around his weapons or just handling them, it is one of Sinatra's most realistic portrayals. Just when the script slows, a glare or scowl from Sinatra and your pulse takes off. Sinatra made a lot of toss-off films, this is not one of them.For him, the part was probably like himself between rained-out gigs, holed up in Palookaville, as Gay Talese indicated in his short story,"Sinatra Has A Cold." If it is ever re-made, and I doubt that it will be, it is one film that is nothing without Frank.
Meat 'n' Potatoes with Tommy Guns.......2006-02-01
This is a great slice of Americana, a true "Period Piece." Sinatra was a competent actor and probably could have paid the bills this way even if he hadn't been a remarkably talented singer. It's not everybody who can pull off a menacing tough-guy when he weighs 118 soaking wet. This film presents itself in stark tones both visually and thematically. Patriotism, courage, honor, sacrifice. The words necessary to make that into a sentence would only sully the higher meaning; and that's the feeling you get as you watch this film. It is sparse, but self-assured. Think of it as the lost episode of "The Andy Griffith Show."
Suddenly.......2005-09-26
Oddly enough I had never seen this show.. and I found it to be very good.
Average customer rating:
- Came for Shanks, stayed for the movie
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Suddenly Naked
Starring: Suddenly Naked
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ASIN: B00007GZXJ
Release Date: 2005-08-15 |
Customer Reviews:
Came for Shanks, stayed for the movie.......2004-05-19
I bought this movie as a Michael Shanks fan who wanted to see what else he'd done besides "Stargate SG-1," expecting to tolerate the movie and just be interested when he was onscreen. The write-up was not the sort to inspire me to buy the movie for itself. Happily, I was pleasantly surprised.
Jackie is not a nice, perky woman who lacks a man because she just hasn't met the right one. *yawn* She is witty...and cutting...and jaded...and dissipated...and not always someone you'd want to know. Her biting sense of humor shades into cruelty rather often.
What's a self-important, urbane woman of almost 40 to do when it turns out that the man who best fits her is only 20 years old and an up-and-coming writer? Especially when, adding insult to injury, he has a brilliant manuscript ready while she's still writing the first paragraph of her new novel for the bazillionth time.
This is where the movie could bog down in a navel-gazing mire of Jackie's self-realizations and her battle to overcome personal prejudices. Happily, Jackie comes out swinging with cutting remarks and Patrick, the 20 year old in question, zings her right back. They're both strong personalities and neither cuts the other slack in their fiery affair.
Only the movie's ending prevented me from giving the movie a fifth star. "Suddenly Naked" bravely avoided an easy, clichéd answer to Jackie's problems throughout, setting it apart from dime-a-dozen, smarmy romance comedies. Alas, the ending was very Hollywood: the magic-pill, principled speech that ties up all the loose ends with everyone happy and smiling. Earlier in the movie, Jackie had commented to Patrick that he was very brave to end his tale happily; I just didn't recognize it as foreshadowing. Despite an ending that tied up all the marvelous road blocks in Jackie's path in a single pretty bow, my enjoyment of the movie overall remains high.
For fellow Shanks fans:
Yes, he plays a small role here but the shallow amongst us have much to be grateful for. Leather jacket, simulating masturbation as well as measuring his equipment (not on-screen; he was ACTING), on his knees begging and promising to do anything... Though I'd obviously have loved to see more of Shanks and his acting talent, it's hard to complain when the movie opens with him and then gives me a lot of what I bought the movie for.
As a fan who collects works by my favorite actors, it's a real treat to get not only shallow moments to revel in but an excellent movie as well. This is one I'll watch again rather than fast-forwarding for the Shanks bits.
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