The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday
I spent a short evening with CPRM last Thursday on Zoom, looking at films. I originally decided on a film called Shanghai Joe (Che Botte Ragazzi!) for “Cultural Appropriation Thursday.”
But it just didn’t meet my high standards for this group. In fact it was absolutely forgettable and it turned out that Klaus Kinski did NOT play Shanghai Joe. He played the bad guy. So there was very little cultural appropriation. Sad!
I can do better! So I picked The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday instead. It’s a western starring Oliver Reed as an Indian, and the always fantastic Lee Marvin, who might just be playing himself. And it is actually a good movie, there have been entirely too many oddball films lately. This move even has everyone’s favorite theme, crooked politicians! And prostitutes! And gold! It’s like a libertarian fever dream.
I feel like the plot description is a little convoluted on IMDB, so I recommend just watching the film and it will all make sense. Instead of blathering on about the film I pulled this from IMDB trivia:
“Lee Marvin and Oliver Reed had a drinking contest, which Reed won after ten hours when Marvin fell unconscious.”
Of course they had a drinking contest. The trivia for this movie on IMDB is stunning, I do suggest a read.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! It’s been a whopper of a few weeks with all the North Texas storms, vacations, etc… so I don’t know what I want to play next. Remember, if you don’t want to talk about the movie, feel free to talk about your garden or whatever your latest project may be. There are no rules on Thursdays!
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Jetpack sucks ass.
What jetpack?
It’s this tool of the devil that keeps blocking my IP so I can’t login.
I’m also thinking it’s why we’ve had way less participation lately.
Odd. I have not had issues so far with this thing. If it is in use on my PC.
Are you using a VPN/proxy/etc? Sensei posted it won’t allow tor either.
I am not.
I thought it was going to be Quick Gun Murugan? Which looks like a Baliwood spoof of a Western.
That is next week. I just turned it in yesterday.
OK, well now I have it ready.
Also this film is great. Had to be shown. It is an excellent tonic to modern movies.
Kay Lenz was so hot.
Hell yeah, Lee Fucking Marvin…I mean, it ain’t Paint Your Wagon but he never made a truly bad movie (that I know of).
I had a really great answer to this, but the site won’t let me post it.
Nice avatar 🙂
I sometimes confuse Lee Marvin with James Coburn.
I can see that.
Raintree County, although he’s not the star.
Delta Force gives you a thumbs up.
And what a shitty movie to go out on.
On the other hand, Gorky Park.
I won’t tolerate any bad talk about Delta Force. College age Chafed saw it with some buddies at an 11 pm showing during finals. It was just what the doctor ordered.
Or Cannon films in general.
What an ending!
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Oliver Reed was the bad guy in Condorman.
What’s interesting is that Condorman doesn’t appear to be on Disney+. You can buy it cheap enough, but otherwise there is no free streaming option.
“I’ve been shot five times, knifed twice, bit on the ass by a pig, stomped on by a horse and sat on by a mule. And once, in the winter of ’91, a grizzly chewed my big toe off. And I’ve survived two avalanches, three blizzards, five Indian uprisings and seven Presidential elections, but I ain’t never been owned by no woman nor dog… and I’ve come too far down the road to let it happen to me now.”
–Lee Marvin in this film, or any rando Glib.
“…a western starring Oliver Reed as an Indian, and the always fantastic Lee Marvin…”
Um. Damn. Damn damn. And it’s good, you say?! Imma have to scope this out. With excitement, I venture.
The secret short this week is the colorized version of “Beer Barrel Polecats” with the Three Stooges.
“The movie in the USA only received a ”PG” rating by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) which some found surprising given its subject matter involving prostitutes, bordello settings and topless nudity.”
I strongly approve.
An elegant ratings system for a more civilized age.
It was Temple of Doom what killed the simpler system. Tits (were there tits, I can’t remember), heart evisceration, a guy being fed through a rock crusher, Indy slapping Long Duck Dong or whatever his name was around: Now that’s PG.
ISTR it was Gremlins that lead to PG-13 being created.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/559038/what-movie-was-responsible-creation-pg-13-rating
Thank god it wasn’t muppets getting microwaved, that’d be ridiculous.
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No bare breasts in Temple of Doom
Probably the only movie Kim Cattrall didn’t show her jublies.
You had me at Oliver Reed and prostitutes.
*Intently stares*
I was working on a “You had me at _____” joke but it didn’t come to be. That is queer. I’m onto you.
I blame The Bro. He did it first.
Reed was something else.
“I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.”
“On the night when the great landlord in the sky called last orders on him, Ollie had supposedly drunk eight pints of lager, 12 double rums and half a bottle of the Famous Grouse, and beaten a few young sailors in arm-wrestling contests, before being taken unwell.”
He was. Also he was good friends with Keith Moon. I could see those two getting along.
I suspect Reed was an unpleasant drunk.
O’Toole and Harris would have been the fun ones.
https://youtu.be/usNndc8NthA?feature=shared
He was reported to be a completely unpleasant drunk. He would vomit on people, take swings at people and try to swordfight with actual swords at his house when drunk. In an age of total decadence, he was all but banned from Hollywood and he ended up relegated to sleazy B movies in the 1980s.
One of which is my first memory of him.
Working, so gotta go, but if you haven’t yet, check out a young Reed in the movies he did with Hammer studios.
I bet even Ted’s would like them… maybe.
He loved Hammer, he even went back and did narration for a documentary about them.
My new hero. I even forgive him for singing in Tommy.
any plural noun can be used to refer to a woman’s breasts.
juris imprudent on June 6, 2024 at 8:48 am
“Get a load of those rhinos!” hmm, maybe?
They’re definitely gettin me horned up. Love a nice set of chickpeas, rawr!
Get a load of those pristine “Magic the Gathering” card sets!
She’s got a nice set of balls on her.
Did “she” just win the state girls’ final?
You had to go and make this really gay, didn’t you.
He did make you comment. And I salute that initiative.
Yeah, that one doesn’t work.
Christmas ornaments, sure. Snow globes, alright. Dumpster bins, now we are talking!
But, not balls.
It’s been a long time since I saw toilet plungers that nice.
Well, that killed the mood.
Something something tennis ball through a garden hose?
Get a load a those tombstones!
Those are some nice down-riggers!
RACI— oh. Riggers.
Nevermind.
Whatup, my rig?
Yay! It’s Friday!
😋🌄👀🗽
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NRWUoDpo2fo
🎶🎶. Have a great day!
I will stipulate that it is indeed Friday.
I barely woke up and got through my morning routine and I’m behind schedule for commuting, so I’ll see you lot in the office.
Good morning, Sean, U, and somewhere upthread RoaT (and maybe Ted’S.?)
Morning GT et al,
Another sunny day coming, first cuppa working the magic. All is well
Morning.
Made it to the office, got annoyed at Microsoft Products. SharePoint shows me the 15 page document I last uploaded, but everyone else sees a 6 page document from earlier in the day.
Good morning, 4(20)! Sunny here in SW OH, and it’s the coolest day of the week so far – forecast high of 79. I may actually wear shoes instead of sandals today!
U, getting annoyed at Microsoft products just means you use Microsoft products. Last week during my first attempt to “share” the Separation Checklist for one former employee, I didn’t realize that sharing now defaulted to “Can View” and had to be changed to “Can Edit.”
If I’m being honest – I do like Outlook.
Yeah, I guess I can’t complain about that one – my entire work life is built around the recurring Tasks function. And I have four different calendars layered up – mine, my boss’s, the time off calendar for our department, and now the schedule for who’s responsible for locking up the building at the end of the day (alternates weekly.)
Magandang umaga. The cat is going crazy this morning, running through the house talking to herself.
That’s unusual – our cats typically do that only late in the evening.
“Watch: Boeing 777 Engine Shoots Fireballs During Takeoff In Canada”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/watch-fireball-erupts-boeing-777-during-takeoff-canada
Way to go Boeing. Can we start buying Tupolevs or Sukhois or something?
“Stop hitting the Turbo button, Frank!”