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It's the photography.
In the diner scene, he should have slashed his tires or punched a hole in one or two. That would have brought the driver out in the open and he could handle it from there.
Let's not forget who wasn't nominated: Robert Preston for THE MUSIC MAN; Roz Russell and Natalie Wood for GYPSY; Joan Crawford for BABY JANE; Robert Mitchum for CAPE FEAR; Montgomery Clift for FREUD; Jackie Gleason in GIGOT; James Mason and Peter Sellers in LOLITA; Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey in THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE; Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin in PRESSURE POINT; Anthony Quinn for REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT;
and how about no nomination for supporting actor Ross Martin in EXPERIMENT IN TERROR.
The question he did not know the answer to was: how did the wearing of the prayer shawl get started. Not WHY they wear it. That he knows.
Yes, Troy. Donahue played the part. This was a very popular film on NY television in the 60's, 70's and 80's, but this scene was always cut. All they would show was the aftermath of the beating. It wasn't until the appearance of cable TV and VCRs that we got to see this scene.
Actually the novel CROSSFIRE's original victim was a homosexual.
Classic line!
The fun thing about the movies!
The Oscar was given to The Beatles (as a band, a singular unit). Therefore only one Oscar was awarded. The guys did not receive individual Oscars.
Juanita Moore, the black mother, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress only 3 years prior (for IMITATION OF LIFE) and even she wasn't credited! In today's world everybody and their pet cat is credited. I don't know which is worse.
To be more precise, it was a lobotomy.
Obviously you haven't seen UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE, AIRPORT '77 or LUV. SAM is quite entertaining and while a lot of it has a tv sitcom vibe, the cast is exceptional and it's a pleasure watching them go through their paces. Film was an enormous hit in its day.
I saw it in a movie theater somewhere around 1965 in Brooklyn NY. Of course it was the 2nd feature. Then it showed up regularly on late night television and played for years.
I was wondering about that too. Is it part of Max Steiner's Oscar nominated score? Don't know.
Because, for good or bad, God gave man free will. He did not create us to be robots, but to learn, to choose, to come to Him willingly.
I think you're off track on this, "Bernie you made my film even better, I hate you." Doesn't make sense. He helped shape the bird sounds like a score but I'm sure it wasn't any strain on his talent or his time. In case you don't know Hitchcock conceived the shower scene having no music. Herrmann scored it anyway and when he reminded Hitch that it wasn't designed to have music, Hitch replied, "Totally inappropriate!" and gave Herrmann his scoring screen credit prominently right before his own, an unheard of gesture. On MARNIE the studio requested, and got, lyrics to the main theme, recorded by Nat King Cole if I remember right and thankfully not used in the film. On TORN CURTAIN it was the studio, Universal, that wanted a hip James Bond spy movie-like score (those soundtracks sold a lot of records). Remember that the Hitchcock films that followed were all Universal Pictures. And don't forget Herrmann had a big ego and I'm sure he blamed Hitchcock as much as the studio for the rejection. Although he won an Oscar for his first year in Hollywood, scoring a double nomination for CITIZEN KANE and ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY (aka THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER) he quit the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, exactly when I don't know, hence no Oscar nominations for VERTIGO, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, PSYCHO or MARNIE or JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS. (Never found out the reason). It was only after his death that his last two scores (OBSESSION & TAXI DRIVER) were submitted for nominations, which they got, with both scores losing out to Jerry Goldsmith's work on THE OMEN.
And as a grown up: ALIEN, WITCHES OF EASTWICK and INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
It's Juano Hernandez. Catch him in a bigger role as John Garfield's mate in another classic "The Breaking Point" (1950)
A Soundtrack was never released.
Toots Thielemans was a unique, distinctive harmonica player, but he did not write the "Midnight Cowboy" theme. John Barry did.