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For anyone in the UK, the free view channel Horror is showing The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg/Stephen King) this Monday night at 9.00 o clock.
It's not that oft shown, as far as I know.
I love this film and the score by Michael Kamen is ace too.
Can't forget the scissors in the bath room.
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The Wind and the Lion 8/10 ( maybe more). A personal favourite. I like everything about it. The music, the scenery, Candice Bergen at her loveliest. The actor playing the boss German ( he of the severe face, he was in fistful of dynamite). Followed by some shite called-
Gun belt 2/10 with George Montgomery and John Dehner. Fairly insignificant. Dehner is usually a good watch but he was killed after about ten minutes.
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That "German" guy is Antoine Saint-John, french actor.
The one eating raw eggs n cleaning his teeth?
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That "German" guy is Antoine Saint-John, french actor.
The one eating raw eggs n cleaning his teeth?
Correct, he looks more German than some Germans. Apparently when he was born they smacked his mum. 
Also I even liked Hamish MacRaisuli.
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Sep 22, 2020 - 12:35 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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DANGER SIGNAL (1945) – 7/10
This OK suspense film finds murderer “Ronnie Marsh” (Zachary Scott) moving to a new town and taking a room in the home of stenographer “Hilda Fenchurch” (Faye Emerson) and her mother. Hilda is smitten by the charming Ronnie, and in time he proposes marriage. But when Ronnie finds out that Hilda’s younger sister “Anne” (Mona Freeman) is soon to come into an inheritance of $25,000, he quickly shifts his attentions to her. Equally mesmerized by the older man, as was her sister, Anne takes Hilda’s warnings of his duplicity as evidence of jealousy. After Hilda finds a gun in Ronnie’s room, she’s desperate to stop him from marrying Anne.
This picture seems to borrow elements from other suspense films, such as Hitchcock’s 1943 SHADOW OF A DOUBT, but the plot points were already in Phyllis Bottome’s 1939 source novel. Unfortunately, the film’s buildup of suspense is periodically interrupted by frivolities involving Anne’s school chum “Bunkie Taylor” (Dick Erdman) and Hilda’s gal pal at work “Katie” (Joyce Compton). There is also a rushed and unsatisfying ending to the film. The picture likely played as a second feature, and racked up an underwhelming $1.9 million at the box office.
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I'm loath to give any films I love 10/10, I don't know why.
Is there any such thing as the perfect film?
But based on how it affects me and makes me feel, and the acting and cinematography and direction and music, THE DEAD ZONE (1983) comes pretty close to being the perfect film for me.
I have no problem giving it a 9.5/10 and having watched it again tonight, it's just a masterpiece of fantasy/thriller film making.
The tragedy and foreboding atmosphere is compelling and floors me every time.
I made a point of watching this last night - as you say, it's rarely shown. The emotional clout that Kamen's score provides to Johnny's situation is powerful. By the end, a tear was shed. Again.
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"I made a point of watching this last night - as you say, it's rarely shown. The emotional clout that Kamen's score provides to Johnny's situation is powerful. By the end, a tear was shed. Again"
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Indeed.
Like CARRIE (another damn fine Stephen King film adaptation) it's a film that lingers with me long after the End Credits have rolled. Can even affect my mood.
I want it to end differently (happier?)...but not really. As such is life.
I wonder how Kamen would have approached the score had THE DEAD ZONE ended with a happy resolution. His score is so rooted in the tragedy of Sarah and Johnny's doomed relationship that having a happy ending would have changed the scores feel completely.
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Hell on the border
2019
Incoherent mess about Bass Reeves, a posseman who became the first black marshall. Wasted the premise of a good story. Poorly executed with wacky camera angles that missed half of what was going on. It looked like it had been filmed by a 17 year old student after about his 2nd week of film studies! And dreadful songs that were annoyingly inappropriate.
2 out of 10.
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Hell on the border
2019...
2 out of 10.
What?! ... I thought your lowest rating was 7.4, Bill!
Not for utter claptrap.
For that i get down and dirty on the scoring. 
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Jesus Wept!!
How many out if ten does it get
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) and I've watched it at least twice on TV since. I've seen only a few David Cronenberg films but this is easily my favourite (probably the only one I like!)
