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Subject: Favourite Scene Author: Elizabeth [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 15:53:23 08/29/07 Wed I wanna know what your favorite scene of any Robert Newton film is. Example: My favorite scene is in This Happy Breed when Frank and his wife are seeing if the curtains will fit in the windows and they get to talking about her face and he says "Shut Up!" and he kisses her. What's yours? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Jenny [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 20:32:10 08/30/07 Thu Gosh! You mean I have to pick just one? Gee, this is gonna be tough...I have so many! Well, I'd have to say that one of my very favorites is in Henry V, when Ancient Pistol is talking with King Henry in the encampment. Bob's mannerisms and voice (he uses many different pitches)are so incredibly awesome in this scene! Pistol is such a rogue, but you can't take your eyes off him. Henry (Olivier) is off camera, leaving Bob the opportunity to totally steal the scene. Oh, he was so good at that! The Boar's Head Inn sequence in the Globe Theater (earlier in the film) is my second favorite. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Susan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 00:24:52 08/31/07 Fri Oh, gosh, I have so many, I wouldn't know where to start! I mean, just about every scene he's in from "Treasure Island," just for starters! Every scene he's in from "Major Barbara." The river-crossing scene in "Soldiers Three." The marriage-proposal scene in "Wings and the Woman." His entrance in "Oliver Twist" ... Just name a movie, and I probably have at least one favorite scene in it. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Elizabeth [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 06:44:52 08/31/07 Fri I know! I love how Fagan throws the bottle at the door and he's like RIGHT THERE! At first it sared me becuase I'd never seen it before and I didn't know where he came in at and I was sitting really close to the T.V, in a dark room, by myself. But that's cool how they did that. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Jenny [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 09:41:30 09/03/07 Mon Oh you're right. That was such an awesome entrance! No matter how many times I see it, it still startles me every time. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Elizabeth [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:03:32 09/03/07 Mon I wish I could find in on DVD somewhere. I looked at my city library but all they have are Treasure Island, HenryV and Around The Would in 80 Days. I'm actually reading the book for the first time right now, I'm on chapter 10! I like the one with Jackie Chan too, probably because I'm a Jackie Chanaholic. But, they're both good. It's sooo sad when Phileas Fogg leaves Fix in the jail cell and that look on Robert's face, I started crying, I am such a baby [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Susan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:59:48 09/04/07 Tue I know, Elizabeth. I got all sad too, partly because of the look on his face and partly because it was his last scene in his last film. :-( Actually, it wasn't the last scene filmed though. According to David Niven, his last scenes were on the ship--the ones they called him back for a few weeks after the main shooting wrapped. I'm wondering if those were the scenes on the ship from China across the Pacific. He's supposed to be seasick, but he looks genuinely unwell. *sob* [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Sue G. [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 08:34:29 09/05/07 Wed I know how you felt Susan. I was finding the whole movie (Around the World) kind of sad and I think it was because I knew that it was RN's last film. It just kind of put me in a sad mood to think that I was seeing him in his last role (and peeking sadly through a cell). And I agree that I thought that he looked as though he was 'really' sick in that boat scene. He looked totally wiped-out and tired. I know that Around the World was listed as his last film but I have the Alfred Hitchcock DVD with the 'Derelicts' episode and that was aired in Feb of '56, so I wondered if he could have been working on some TV episodes around the same time as ATW. Those TV programs were only half hour episodes back in the 50's, so he could have been working on some of them at the same time as doing a film. So could it be possible that what we saw in ATW was really not his last appearance on film? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Jenny [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 08:39:33 09/08/07 Sat I just saw "Around the World in 80 Days" yesterday. Oh my gosh, you're right...he did look unwell in that sequence. I got teary-eyed! Poor Bobbie. :-( By the way, how do I obtain a copy of David Niven's autobiography? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Sue G. [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:03:23 09/08/07 Sat Jenny, Go to Barnes & Noble (see link): <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.barnsandnoble.com/">http://www.barnsandnoble.com/</a> Select 'Used & Out of Print' and you can just type in either David Niven for the author or the titles of this books: 'The Moon's a Balloon' and 'Bring on the Empty Horses'. You would probably be better selecting the author option. You may have to settle for a used book, though. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Elizabeth [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 21:04:57 09/05/07 Wed What other movie scenes do you cry at? Mine are the jail cell scene, the end of Treasure Island and when Lukey is trying to paint Jonny McQueen and they make him leave, when he's looking at the painting in the moonlight he looks so, like it didn't turn out how he wanted it to and he's sad. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Susan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 04:46:19 09/08/07 Sat I'll have to think about that one. I think the Lukey scene brought a tear to my eye the second or third time I watched the movie. (It took me a while to work up some sympathy for him! I was really angry with him at first for the way he used Johnny. But then I realized, hey, everybody else in the movie is doing it, so why not Lukey too.) And I don't remember if I actually cried or not (it's been a while since I've watched that one), but I felt really sad for his character, Peter McCabe at the end of Waterfront. Also, I found his performance in "The Desert Rats" very touching, but I don't think it quite brought me to tears. (The last fictional character I can remember really bawling my eyes out over is ... um, in the Harry Potter series. I won't get specific, but I can't remember ever getting that emotional over a scene before, except maybe when I was a kid seeing "Bambi" or "Old Yeller"--so at the moment it's kind of obscuring my memories of other tear-jerkers! And then there were those blockbusters I hated because they were so emotionally manipulative, "Terms of Endearment" and "E.T."! OK, this is getting off topic, but you wanna hear a really stupid one? You can tell I'm an animal lover because the scene in "Gone With the Wind" that made me cry hardest was the one where the servant goes out to kill one of the chickens for dinner! In fact, I think I got more upset when Bill Sikes tried to drown his dog than when he killed Nancy. And then there's that awful pheasant scene in "Soldiers Three"--the one part of it I can't watch! Yes, I know I'm weird, but I'm not alone ... As Ghandi put it much better than I could, "I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to the protection by man from the cruelty of man.") [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Jenny [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 08:31:47 09/08/07 Sat ("...I found his performance in "The Desert Rats" very touching, but I don't think it quite brought me to tears.") Yes, Susan, that was such a touching performance! I found that I actually did get a little choked up in the scene between RN and Richard Burton in the trench. But the place where I did nearly cry was when Bartlett gets out of the Tammy's jeep and has to walk the rest of the way in. When he turns around, eyes glazed over with tears and trembling, I gasped. RN beautifully captured that sheer terror. Definitely an Oscar worthy performance in my humble estimation. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Sue G. [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 09:56:10 09/08/07 Sat "You can tell I'm an animal lover because the scene in "Gone With the Wind" that made me cry hardest was the one where the servant goes out to kill one of the chickens for dinner!" I know this is off-topic again, but being that you brought up GWTW, the scene that impressed me, when I was a child, is the scene when Scarlett has finally made her way back to Tara and she 'whips' the horse to get it moving, and it collapses from exhaustion. I believe, right before that scene, the horse had 'slobber' coming from it's mouth and was just barely walking. It just stuck in my mind all those years. Back to RN, I do feel sorry for Lukey at the end of his scene. He really looks almost tortured and I even managed to get some of those shots in screen caps too. I won't say that it brought me to tears, but I felt pity for him. Probaby the most touching is the Peter McCabe scene in the jail cell. He really showed every emotion in his face in that scene. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Elizabeth [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:14:04 09/08/07 Sat Yea, I'm going to go get The Desert Rats tomorrow in DVD. I found it at my library. I did cry when the horse died in Gone With The Wind, but I cried most in GWTW when...well I can't remember, I just cried through the entire movie. Wasn't Robert in a movie with Vivian Liegh? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Susan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 17:36:19 09/08/07 Sat Heh, you're right--he was in *three* of them ... I guess I've got to add those to the list of statistics on the site. (Two of them were also with Laurence Olivier though; I guess I tend to think of them as a single unit.) They are "Fire Over England," "Twenty-One Days," and "Dark Journey." Sue, you *would* be the one to remind me of the horse scene (of course, of course). Yeah, that scene was horrible too ... Maybe the chicken scene was just so cathartic for me, I was all cried out by the time the *really* bad stuff happened! (Or I was getting more practiced at holding it in. That's such an emotional movie, it wears you out!) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Elizabeth [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 19:43:03 09/08/07 Sat Ha! we're crying over the animals more than Rehtt leaving Scarlett or over Ashley. Thank God Capt. Flint never died, we'd all be in a state of depression. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Susan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 21:45:02 09/10/07 Mon Or Melanie dying ... or the little daughter ... I know, I know. I just think after that "And I'll never go hungry again" scene, I was all cried out! As for Captain Flint ... well, we don't really know what happened to him, after that one episode, do we? Maybe they told Jim he went to the "bird farm." ;-) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Jenny [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 09:20:52 09/11/07 Tue Oh, yeah! Where did Capt. Flint go? That scene in 'Turnabout' was cute. Jim: "...This has been our most successful voyage." LJS: "And ta think we dun it all by honest tradin'." Capt. Flint: "Liar! Liar!" LJS: "Stow yer tongue, or I'll broil 'ye fer dinner!" I'm sure he didn't, though. ;0) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Elizabeth [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:19:07 09/11/07 Tue =~O I forgot all about little Bonny Blue, yeah that's like the saddest scene. I hate it when in books they have little babbies or children die. Didn't they give Capt. Flint to the owner of the pub? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Susan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 21:28:25 09/11/07 Tue "Stow yer tongue, or I'll broil 'ye fer dinner!" OMG ... maybe that *is* what happened to the poor little guy (or girl, actually!) ... lol Hey, I'm gonna have start saying that to my cockatiel when he gets a little carried away with his squawking! (Alas, I've been working on him for a year now, and I *still* can't get him to say "Pieces of eight" ... forget about "Sons of a double Dutchman"! All he ever says is "pretty bird" ... when *he* feels like it.) "I hate it when in books they have little babbies or children die." Me too ... much too sad. In fact, it almost seems to be a taboo/rarity in the movies/TV, more so than for animals to die, or at least it's treated more seriously when it happens ... Usually, if there's an animal in a movie, it's treated as a plot device, and you pretty much know it's a goner from the beginning because animals are deemed expendable. In fact, it seems the cuter it is, the more likely it is to die! (I'm thinking of movies like "Fatal Attraction" and "Single White Female.") Oh well, we were supposed to be talking about *favorite* scenes, I think! ;-) "Didn't they give Capt. Flint to the owner of the pub?" I think you're talking about the real parrot, not the fictional Captain Flint, whereas I was wondering why the character was only in one episode. (The sequel and the series were filmed in Australia, and the pub was in England, wasn't it? I wonder if that was even the same parrot--would they actually have flown a parrot halfway around the world and back when they totally recast all the human actors (except the star, of course)? Seems more likely they'd just hire another parrot when they got to Australia--just like they changed monkeys between the first and subsequent "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies because the trainer of the first monkey wanted to raise his salary! It's not like anyone would really notice the difference anyway ... And the obviously human voice saying "Liar liar" sounds much different from the one who squawked "pieces of eight" in TI to me!) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Elizabeth [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 06:54:27 09/12/07 Wed Yeah, whenever I talk about Capt. Flint I'm talking about the parrot in real life and in LJS and TI. I know the monkey that played in POTC is sooo cute, 3 movies and she's not out yet! Her name is Tara, I have the 2-disc set to POTC and it talks about the monkeys, there are two but I can't remember the other one's name. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]