tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6155853741712764167.post8841821117268943837..comments2024-02-01T23:41:43.069-05:00Comments on Out of the Past: Virginia City (1940)Raquel Stecherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687110907002450794noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6155853741712764167.post-73340851611811761772010-11-13T07:41:54.094-05:002010-11-13T07:41:54.094-05:00Virginia City is pretty bad. The thing is I had ju...Virginia City is pretty bad. The thing is I had just watched the terrific Dodge City about a week before I saw Virginia City and I was thinking this is going to be very good. How wrong was I. The movie just never clicked for me. Miriam Hopkins, who I love, was totally wrong in this role as was Bogie. As good as Dodge City was, Virginia is the complete opposite.montyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01357464302627055092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6155853741712764167.post-53592718588162006442010-11-12T17:27:44.528-05:002010-11-12T17:27:44.528-05:00you nailed it Quelle, Ann was the one that shoulda...you nailed it Quelle, Ann was the one that shoulda been in Virginia city instead of Miriam Hopkins and it shoulda been in color too.Artman2112https://www.blogger.com/profile/03062864368596074661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6155853741712764167.post-69589232781555539942010-11-12T16:44:46.659-05:002010-11-12T16:44:46.659-05:00Kevin - oh don't get me started with Miriam Ho...Kevin - oh don't get me started with Miriam Hopkins. Groan. Seriously not a good fit for this movie. Great actress, just not the role for her. I don't think Olivia de Havilland would have been that great either. Perhaps Ann Sheridan?<br /><br />Paul - you have a point there. Warner Bros. really did take a gamble with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. From the doc I saw, the studio seemed to make several possible financially disastrous decisions that came out glorious. Thank goodness for some risk-taking. Seems like studios today want a sure thing and then we are overloaded with crappy remakes and sequels galore.<br /><br />Elgart - eh. Really?<br /><br />Emm - Wow you really don't like it. It would be cool if you and Elgart had a back-and-forth convo about it. I totally forgot about that part in Dodge City! Weirdness. Thanks for stopping by.Raquel Stecherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02687110907002450794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6155853741712764167.post-13271292518923786332010-11-10T23:34:11.355-05:002010-11-10T23:34:11.355-05:00Dear me, how I hated this film! I felt embarrassed...Dear me, how I hated this film! I felt embarrassed for Bogie. Even Errol couldn't redeem how terrible the entire movie was.<br /><br />I found it interesting that at the end of Dodge City, Errol and Olivia are about to move to Virginia City. So strange.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6155853741712764167.post-304312709793639852010-11-10T22:53:43.073-05:002010-11-10T22:53:43.073-05:00So surprised at the level of cinematic perfection ...So surprised at the level of cinematic perfection this film had...elgarthttp://buzzturning.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6155853741712764167.post-71308654017529298052010-11-10T10:32:15.610-05:002010-11-10T10:32:15.610-05:00its been a number of years since i've watched ...its been a number of years since i've watched Virginia City but i can still hear Bogie saying "Si Senior" in that inimitiable oh so NOT mexican voice of his, lol!<br />same as you i prefer Dodge City to this one but it's still a lot of fun! Bogie's big break really came when he nabbed his role in High Sierra and then he got an even bigger break when George Raft, brilliant career manager that he was, turned down the rold of Sam Spade in John Huston's Maltese Falcon, which was what Huston was hoping for anyway, lol! its a funny kinda two-edged sword with Jack Warner, yes he doled out roles that were quite often beneath his stars but he and the studio mahcinery were the ones that made them into stars in the first place right? he took a chance on Flynn and Olivia, 2 relatively unknown actors who were not his first choices for Captain Blood, put them in a HUGE budget epic film and it just worked out that the public loved them and the film was a mega box office hit. I'm totally not condoning the moguls tyrannical practices, for the most part they were slave drivers who treated humans like cattle and though the stars were pretty well paid for their day the moguls and the studios made a whole lot more. But we have to give the devils their due as the saying goes ;)<br /><br />that's very interesting you prefer the early Bette to the later more well-known Bette. i like them both for diff reasons, but just for how she looks, the earlier short bob blonde Bette with those enormous blue eyes is a unique and striking vision!Artman2112https://www.blogger.com/profile/03062864368596074661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6155853741712764167.post-20347320746412369572010-11-10T10:28:38.623-05:002010-11-10T10:28:38.623-05:00Not only is Bogart miscast in this one, but so is ...Not only is Bogart miscast in this one, but so is Miriam Hopkins, probably Flynn's worst leading lady. Not only does she look uncomfortable in her scenes with Flynn, but her song renditions are pretty bad too. I love Hopkins in many of her roles, but not here. <br /><br />Been enjoying these Bogart reviews.Kevin Deanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07697597405552599370noreply@blogger.com