#Naunton Wayne

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Basil Radford & Naunton Wayne THE LADY VANISHES | dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1938

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Frankie Manning—Frankie Manning is the greatest jazz dancer of all time--he took the art form of the Lindy hop and he made it SHINE. He went from innovating the dance in the ballrooms of Harlem to a professional dance troupe playing in movies left right and center. Hellzapoppin's dance scene remains the greatest dance scene in all of cinema, and Frankie Manning, the choreographer of it all, is shining so bright in overalls. Once again we are butting heads between scrungly and racial stereotypes, as the white gaze permeates all these incredible dance scenes, but... the skills speak for themselves, for goodness' sake.

Naunton Wayne & Basil Radford (The Lady Vanishes, Night Train to Munich)—Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford made such a hit as Charters and Caldicott, British buffers eternally trying to get the cricket score, in The 39 Steps [editor's note: I think the person who wrote this propaganda means The Lady Vanishes; Charters and Caldicott do not appear in The 39 Steps], that they continued to turn up playing these characters or variants of them for the rest of their lives. Sometimes you just need a scrungly little guy who is utterly useless in a crisis until the chips are really down, when it turns out he was a crack member of The Scrungly Club at Eton

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[additional submitted propaganda + scrungly videos under the cut]

Frankie Manning (farthest left):

Wayne & Radford:

"There was only one bed!"

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NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH (1940) | dir. Carol Reed

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Circle of Danger (1951) Jacques Tourneur

October 20th 2024

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Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne in The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938) Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty, Cecil Parker, Linden Travers, Naunton Wayne, Basil Radford, Mary Clare, Emile Boreo, Googie Withers, Sally Stewart, Philip Leaver, Selma Vaz Dias, Catherine Lacy, Josephine Wilson. Screenplay: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder. Cinematography: Jack E. Cox There are those who think that Alfred Hitchcock never surpassed The Lady Vanishes when it comes to the romantic comedy thriller. From the opening sequence of an obviously miniature Eastern European village to the concluding scene in which Miss Froy (May Whitty) delightedly reunites with Iris (Margaret Lockwood) and Gilbert (Michael Redgrave), it's an utterly engaging movie. If I happen to prefer North by Northwest (1959), it may be only because Cary Grant is a greater movie star than Redgrave and James Mason a more suavely subtle villain than Paul Lukas, and of course the thrills -- the crop-dusting scene, the Mount Rushmore chase -- are done more deftly (not to say expensively) and with greater sophistication. But virtually everything in The Lady Vanishes works: There's real chemistry between Redgrave and Lockwood; Whitty is a delight as the geriatric spy; the notion of a song being the MacGuffin is witty; Caldicott (Naunton Wayne) and Charters (Basil Radford) are the perfect ambiguously gay duo; and there's a nun in high heels who pauses to fix her makeup. It also has a genuinely serious subtext: 1938 was a year fraught with tension, and when Caldicott and Charters are preoccupied with getting the news from England, our first thought is that it has to do something with the threat of war and not with a cricket test match. The satiric glances at the insular Brits are also underscored by the relationship of Todhunter (Cecil Parker) and his mistress (Linden Travers), escaping to a place where nobody knows them to conduct their affair, and even by Gilbert's blithe preoccupation with collecting information about the native folk dances of the Bandrikans, who might indeed be next after the Czechs to be swallowed up by the Third Reich. 

[ulrichgebert]

Heiter verklärte Eisenbahnromantik in einer Ealing-Comedy, die wir noch nicht kannten. Es ist nicht die ausgefeilteste, dafür aber die erste in Technicolor. Die Einwohner beschließen, die Eisenbahnstrecke, die geschlossen werden soll, selber zu betreiben. War ja auch eine dumme Idee, diese Verstaatlichung.

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Obsession

Where else can you see Long John Silver hold Luke Skywalker’s Uncle Owen in the basement of a bombed-out apartment block than in the wonderful world of film noir? Edward Dmytryk made OBSESSION (1949, TCM), aka THE HIDDEN ROOM, in England while he was on the Blacklist and cast Robert Newton as a psychiatrist who plots what he thinks is the perfect murder when he tires of wife Sally Gray’s infidelities. He chains up her latest lover (Phil Brown, another Blacklist victim who spent most of his career in England) until the time is right to kill him and dispose of his body. The film is very British in its talkiness (it’s adapted from a play and novel by screenwriter Alec Coppel) and a twee final scene that should please animal lovers. But Dmytryk also works with cinematographer C.M. Pennington-Richards to capture the devastation of German bombing that persisted into the 1950s and create some great chiaroscuro effects in Newton’s lab and the nighttime streets. The scenes in the hidden room, where Brown is chained to the wall and Newton has taped out his ambit, have an offbeat, almost kinky feel. Despite its talkiness, the picture builds up a good level of suspense, helped by Miklos Rosza’s score. The cast, including Naunton Wayne as a classier predecessor to Columbo, is uniformly good, and Gray has a field day turning the wife into a film noir femme fatale.  There’s also a great dog and even a cat who contributes to the climax. If you’re like me (meaning still 13 on the inside), you’ll hoot when a bobby runs into a police call box. I felt sure he was headed to another planet in a different century.

[postersdecinema]

No Último Minuto

UK, 1949

Edward Dmytryk

7/10

Rebuscado

Um filme estranho e invulgar, que antecipa o thriller, no seu sentido mais moderno, muito para lá do simples policial ou do film noir.

Tenso, quase claustrofóbico, no espaço exíguo em que se desenrola a história e na obsessão ilógica do protagonista, o filme não carece de predicados para os apaixonados pelo thriller psicológico.

Falta-lhe, contudo, alguma consistência no argumento, que nunca parece muito credível, demasiado rebuscado e sempre inconclusivo, mas também um cast que dê mais convicção ao enredo. Nem Robert Newton, nem Sally Gray, nem tampouco Phil.Brown são especialmente inspirados nas suas interpretações. Apenas Naunton Wayne, no papel de superintendente da Scotland Yard, tem uma interpretação convincente e empolgante, introduzindo na história a tensão que um bom thriller precisa.

Uma curiosidade, que vale a pena ver, mas não que deixará seguramente, uma memória duradoura no espectador.

Far-fetched

A strange and unusual film, which anticipates the thriller, in its most modern sense, far beyond the simple detective story or film noir.

Tense, almost claustrophobic, in the cramped space in which the story unfolds and in the protagonist's illogical obsession, the film has plenty of predicates for those in love with psychological thrillers.

However, it lacks some consistency in the argument, which never seems very credible, too far-fetched and always inconclusive, but also a cast that gives more conviction to the plot. Neither Robert Newton, nor Sally Gray, nor Phil.Brown are particularly inspired in their interpretations. Only Naunton Wayne, as the superintendent of Scotland Yard, gives a convincing and exciting performance, introducing the tension that a good thriller needs into the story.

A curiosity that is worth seeing, but will not leave, for certain, a lasting memory for the viewer.

[byneddiedingo]

There are those who think that Alfred Hitchcock never surpassed The Lady Vanishes when it comes to the romantic comedy thriller. From the opening sequence of an obviously miniature Eastern European village to the concluding scene in which Miss Froy (May Whitty) delightedly reunites with Iris (Margaret Lockwood) and Gilbert (Michael Redgrave), it's an utterly engaging movie. If I happen to prefer North by Northwest (1959), it may be only because Cary Grant is a greater movie star than Redgrave and James Mason a more suavely subtle villain than Paul Lukas, and of course the thrills -- the crop-dusting scene, the Mount Rushmore chase -- are done more deftly (not to say expensively) and with greater sophistication. Because virtually everything in The Lady Vanishes works: There's real chemistry between Redgrave and Lockwood; Whitty is a delight as the geriatric spy; the notion of a song being the MacGuffin is witty; Caldicott (Naunton Wayne) and Charters (Basil Radford) are the perfect ambiguously gay duo; and there's a nun in high heels who pauses to fix her makeup. It also has a genuinely serious subtext: 1938 was a year fraught with tension, and when Caldicott and Charters are preoccupied with getting the news from England, our first thought is that it has to do something with the threat of war and not with a cricket test match. The satiric glances at the insular Brits are also underscored by the relationship of Todhunter (Cecil Parker) and his mistress (Linden Travers), escaping to a place where nobody knows them to conduct their affair, and even by Gilbert's blithe preoccupation with collecting information about the native folk dances of the Bandrikans, who might indeed be next after the Czechs to be swallowed up by the Third Reich. 

[wahwealth]

Margaret Lockwood | Michael Redgrave | The Lady Vanishes (1938) Alfred Hitchcock directed

The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. After visiting the fictional country of Bandrika, English tourist Iris Henderson is returning home to get married, but an avalanche blocks the railway line. The stranded passengers are forced to spend the night at a hotel. In the same predicament are Charters and Caldicott, cricket enthusiasts anxious to see the last days of a Test match in Manchester, and Miss Froy, a governess and music teacher. Miss Froy listens to a folk singer in the street, but he is strangled to death by an unseen murderer. The Cast: Margaret Lockwood as Iris Henderson Michael Redgrave as Gilbert Paul Lukas as Dr. Hartz May Whitty as Miss Froy Cecil Parker as Mr. Todhunter Linden Travers as "Mrs." Todhunter Naunton Wayne as Caldicott Basil Radford as Charters Mary Clare as Baroness Emile Boreo as Hotel Manager Googie Withers as Blanche Sally Stewart as Julie Philip Leaver as Signor Doppo Selma Vaz Dias as Signora Doppo Catherine Lacey as the Nun Josephine Wilson as Madame Kummer Charles Oliver as the Officer Kathleen Tremaine as Anna Never Miss An Upload, Join the channel. https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics

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MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“All murderers are amateurs, you know. Nobody makes a profession out of murder. In fact, the only professionals in the game are those who try and catch the murderers.”

Naunton Wayne in Obsession (aka The Hidden Room)

#Obsession #TheHiddenRoom #AlecCoppel #EdwardDmytryk

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Big Bea's real name is Beatrice Gay. She was part of the first generation of Lindy hoppers (swing dancers), and often danced with "Shorty" George Snowden. The movie they are in there is actually called Ask Uncle Sol. (Snowden dances with a different dancer in After Seben, which is the first recorded instance of Lindy hop!)

They had a schtick (she's real tall! he's so short!), but they were some of the best dancers of the generation and real innovators for jazz dancing. I'd like to put in a shout out to all my jazz dancing scrungles: Big Bea and Shorty George, Frankie Manning, and Paul White & Marie Bryant. (Also CAB CALLOWAY, who does not need my help.)

Thank you! I'll edit the post to reflect her real name.

George Snowden and Beatrice Gay [scrungly unit] vs Victor Jansen

Marie Bryant and Paul White [scrungly unit] vs Victor Buono

Frankie Manning vs Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford [scrungly unit]

Cab Calloway vs Oskar Werner

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The Lady Vanishes

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Obsession (The Hidden Room) (1949) Edward Dmytryk

October 19th 2024

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Dead of Night | Various | 1945

Naunton Wayne, (Stoat cameo)

Section directed by Charles Crichton

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'The Lady Vanishes' – Alfred Hitchcock's breezy romantic thriller on Criterion Channel

‘The Lady Vanishes’ – Alfred Hitchcock’s breezy romantic thriller on Criterion Channel

Alfred Hitchcock patented the romantic thriller with The Lady Vanishes (1938), a bright, breezy confection that takes his quirky cast (and the audience along with them) from an idyllic picture postcard of fantasy Europe to a nightmarish journey to the heart of the dark days of World War II that lay just ahead. This snappy, sophisticated romantic thriller begins innocently enough as a contingent…