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The Cuckoos (1930) - Wheeler and Woolsey
Umbrella Sam:
--- Quote from: metaldams on January 19, 2021, 07:25:32 AM ---As far as POPPY and which version, hard to say. Never been ideal Fields to me, but that may be a plus for you. Fields was sick when filming the talkie version and the silent version has tons of beautiful outdoor scenery shot in that D.W. Griffith way, so I prefer the silent.
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Thanks for the recommendation.
Umbrella Sam:
--- Quote from: HomokHarcos on January 19, 2021, 08:55:57 AM ---I like your Oswald picture. That (along with a big bad wolf reference) reminds me that once I finish watching the Clark and McCullough shorts, I plan on doing the massive task of watching the Walt Disney animated films (shorts and features) in chronological order (mainly just the ones produced during Walt's lifetime).
I really want to get around to watching Wheeler and Woolsey's movies. It's just that the RKO sets I bought are with my uncle right now. I've only watched Rio Rita, and since I watched that movie for Wheeler and Woolsey it felt like a lot of filler with the focus on Bebe Daniels and the leading man and I didn't like the fake Mexican accent Bebe was putting on. I enjoyed the parts with Wheeler and Woolsey.
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Thanks. Watching all the Disney films seems like a daunting task simply because of how many there were even when Disney was alive, but there definitely are a lot of good films so it should at least be somewhat worth it.
GenoCuddy:
--- Quote from: HomokHarcos on January 19, 2021, 08:55:57 AM ---I like your Oswald picture. That (along with a big bad wolf reference) reminds me that once I finish watching the Clark and McCullough shorts, I plan on doing the massive task of watching the Walt Disney animated films (shorts and features) in chronological order (mainly just the ones produced during Walt's lifetime).
I really want to get around to watching Wheeler and Woolsey's movies. It's just that the RKO sets I bought are with my uncle right now. I've only watched Rio Rita, and since I watched that movie for Wheeler and Woolsey it felt like a lot of filler with the focus on Bebe Daniels and the leading man and I didn't like the fake Mexican accent Bebe was putting on. I enjoyed the parts with Wheeler and Woolsey.
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I'm personally a Fleischer guy, his Gulliver's Travels is my favorite animated feature of all time.
Umbrella Sam:
--- Quote from: GenoCuddy on January 19, 2021, 11:08:19 AM ---I'm personally a Fleischer guy, his Gulliver's Travels is my favorite animated feature of all time.
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Yeah, I like Fleischer too. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS is good, but for me their greatest work was the three Popeye Technicolor epics from the 1930s.
Freddie Sanborn:
Everything’s Rosie, Woolsey’s talkie version of Poppy, was made five years before Fields’ definitive version, so it probably didn’t seem as much of a rip-off in 1931 as it does to us today.
--- Quote from: Umbrella Sam on January 19, 2021, 10:40:43 AM ---Woolsey’s my favorite of the two as well. It might have been possible for him to pull off his own starring vehicle, but I see him more as someone who would have been great in supporting roles. I read the Watz book and he drew a lot of comparisons to Walter Catlett there, so I could probably see him pulling off a lot of Catlett’s roles.
I also read the biography on Clyde Bruckman and in the book the author mentioned that Woolsey specifically requested being able to do the lead in a version of POPPY (Bruckman was the director of EVERYTHING’S ROSIE).
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