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Here's an interesting challenge.

In John Huston's Across the Pacific, at about the hour and twenty-minute mark, Humphrey Bogart
goes into a movie theater (in Panama City) to meet a contact. The theater is showing a Japanese silent
film with a post-synchronized soundtrack (not sure if the soundtrack is real or was added by the production).

The film being screened is a comedy with two students who are pretending not to ogle a young woman
in Western attire. It's definitely a product of the silent era and not something filmed for the production
beforehand.

Any ideas about what film is being shown?

Here's the full scene from the Bogart film.

This is a hard one because I've only been shown one scene from the film that a friend working in a video shop showed me back in the late 1980s.

The film is most likely from Europe - could be 70's but more likely 80's and dubbed into English. The video cover was clearly produced by the local distributor and pictured a woman clearly identifiable as a prostitute and drug addict. It had the tag-line on the cover "She earns her money between her legs and spends it up her arm" so there was no mistake what the film was about (no wonder I never remembered the title of the film with that written on the cover).

The scene I saw from the film (the friend played it in the video store for me once it had closed) showed a woman (probably late 20's to early 40's) being bent over whilst dressed in a very short skirt revealing a bare bum and then (to my shock) the man fishing a packet of something (I'd assume drugs) out of the anus. It was probably not a graphic as my memory recalls it but I am curious as to what the film was from all these years later.

Aunt Peg wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 11:15 am This is a hard one because I've only been shown one scene from the film that a friend working in a video shop showed me back in the late 1980s.

The film is most likely from Europe - could be 70's but more likely 80's and dubbed into English. The video cover was clearly produced by the local distributor and pictured a woman clearly identifiable as a prostitute and drug addict. It had the tag-line on the cover "She earns her money between her legs and spends it up her arm" so there was no mistake what the film was about (no wonder I never remembered the title of the film with that written on the cover).

The scene I saw from the film (the friend played it in the video store for me once it had closed) showed a woman (probably late 20's to early 40's) being bent over whilst dressed in a very short skirt revealing a bare bum and then (to my shock) the man fishing a packet of something (I'd assume drugs) out of the anus. It was probably not a graphic as my memory recalls it but I am curious as to what the film was from all these years later.

Driving Miss Daisy?

brundlefly wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 9:56 am Here's the full scene from the Bogart film.

There is a movie poster repeated twice as Bogart enters the theatre picturing a woman in left side profile that also has text (in Japanese) at the top — presumably a title — clearly visible. Has anyone pursued that angle?

According to the source below, it's a Japanese poster for the 1923 film Merry Go Round which
Erich von Stroheim (uncredited) and Rupert Julien directed.

http://www.filmsinfilms.com/across-the-pacific/

Addendum: I stand corrected, I thought you meant the poster at the ticket window. The other
poster with the woman in profile I haven't been able to find any info on.

JSC wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 8:14 pm The theater is showing a Japanese silent
film with a post-synchronized soundtrack (not sure if the soundtrack is real or was added by the production).

Another thought on this, which unfortunately won’t help with the identification, is that the film depicted in Across the Pacific is not post-synched, but rather has Benshi accompaniment.

DeprongMori wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 6:58 pm

brundlefly wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 9:56 am Here's the full scene from the Bogart film.

There is a movie poster repeated twice as Bogart enters the theatre picturing a woman in left side profile that also has text (in Japanese) at the top — presumably a title — clearly visible. Has anyone pursued that angle?

A commenter on the YouTube video posted, "I notice the Japanese on the movie poster. It says "Fujin Kouron"(婦人公論）。It's the title of the very famous monthly magazine for women. Fujin Kouron was first published in 1916 and is still published today."

Another thought on this, which unfortunately won’t help with the identification, is that the film depicted in Across the Pacific is
not post-synched, but rather has Benshi accompaniment.

That's interesting. Puts me in mind of that anecdote of Spaulding Gray's from Monster in Box, about when he was showing
Swimming to Cambodia at a film festival in Moscow. They couldn't afford to have subtitles added to the prints of the movies
so they had people acting out the speaking parts on stage. Imagine that for The Empire Strikes Back, which was one of the
films showing!

JSC wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 9:11 pm

Another thought on this, which unfortunately won’t help with the identification, is that the film depicted in Across the Pacific is
not post-synched, but rather has Benshi accompaniment.

That's interesting. Puts me in mind of that anecdote of Spaulding Gray's from Monster in Box, about when he was showing
Swimming to Cambodia at a film festival in Moscow. They couldn't afford to have subtitles added to the prints of the movies
so they had people acting out the speaking parts on stage. Imagine that for The Empire Strikes Back, which was one of the
films showing!

Correction: they had ONE GUY doing all the speaking parts!

I'm searching for an Asian, probably Korean production from the 90s to 2000s. I've been searching this movie for an eternity and haven't been able to find it anywhere. It has been a long time, since I saw it on the tv, so my mind is a bit hazy, but I'll try to summarise the story.

The movie starts with the wife and children, as well as the police partner, of a police inspector being killed. The inspector then tries to find the murderer. Next thing I know, is that he travels to (I guess?) spain and interrogates a plastic surgeon. I also think that the actor of the surgeon could be known from 70s crime series, in the vain of knight rider. Nevertheless, the surgeon then tells the protagonist that he completely changed someone's (the murderer's) face lately. Next thing I remember, the protagonist is able to find the murderer and battles him in an abandoned factory, where they have a martial arts battle, e.g. punching eachother through the walls with kicks. In the end, there is the grand plot-twist, where it becomes clear that the murderer was the protagist's former police partner, who faked his death to kill the protagonist's wife and children.

The whole movie has a very dark vibe and a greenish filter over it, kind of like in Se7en. I saw it around 2017 on German tv, maybe on the channel Silverline. I'm very unsure about this, but I remember the flick having a very unfitting name, in the vain of old martial arts movies; something like "das blutige Schwert", in english "the bloody sword". Sadly I can only vaguely recall the German title, since I've only seen it in German.

Thanks in advance, all help is appreciated.

Can anyone identify this movie featured in TCM's March 2025 promo? I know I've seen it, but I can't remember what it is and can't identify the actor from the brief glimpse given in the promo.

Looks like Ron Eldard in Nancy Savoca's True Love (1989).

That's got to be it. TCM is having a Savoca mini-retrospective on March 25. Thanks!

Wasn't sure where to post this, this seemed like the most appropriate. This is Zach from season 2 of Traitors UK. He looks exactly like someone but I am going crazy trying to figure out who. Could be an actor, musician, politician, reality star... maybe even just someone I know. But if this looks like anyone to you, please let me know.

Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop?

mteller wrote: Sun May 25, 2025 4:26 am

Wasn't sure where to post this, this seemed like the most appropriate. This is Zach from season 2 of Traitors UK. He looks exactly like someone but I am going crazy trying to figure out who. Could be an actor, musician, politician, reality star... maybe even just someone I know. But if this looks like anyone to you, please let me know.

James “Murr” Murray from Impractical Jokers

Boosmahn wrote: Sun May 25, 2025 4:34 am Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop?

This has to be it, it looks just like him

I'm afraid I've never seen either of those people before. It might be this guy just has one of those faces.

mteller wrote: Mon May 26, 2025 4:30 am I'm afraid I've never seen either of those people before. It might be this guy just has one of those faces.

Painfully true ](*,)

I finally figured it out, it's just a guy I know from the internet... not famous at all, and I never even met him. Thanks for trying though!

mteller wrote: Tue May 27, 2025 12:03 am I finally figured it out, it's just a guy I know from the internet... not famous at all, and I never even met him. Thanks for trying though!

Would it be possible for you to reveal who it was?

Dude in the middle, obviously. I won't reveal his name.

Two bits from two movies, unseen by me, have been occupying me for the past day or so. Can anyone identify them?

1. This is an American Western of probably the 60s-70s. I only remember a description of the final scene: the hero attacks or is ambushed by a bear and is about to fight it. Freezeframe (or some similar effect) on the hero's face, with a voiceover of something like "it was a good way to die/it was a good death," etc. Roll credits.

2. This is a Hong Kong movie from the 1990s or so. I saw a very short clip of it on Twitter which contained a full-on parody of Wong Kar-wai and his kinetic style, including the camera flying into people's faces and a mannequin(?) falling off a building, complete with a voice-over mocking the supposed virtues of all-style-no-substance award-winning films (like Wong's).

Never Cursed wrote: Mon Jun 02, 2025 8:07 pm 1. This is an American Western of probably the 60s-70s. I only remember a description of the final scene: the hero attacks or is ambushed by a bear and is about to fight it. Freezeframe (or some similar effect) on the hero's face, with a voiceover of something like "it was a good way to die/it was a good death," etc. Roll credits.

Legends of the Fall?