Mister Hart, here is a dime. Take it, call your mother, and tell her there is serious doubt about you ever becoming a lawyer.

The story centers on Hart, a brilliant young law student from Minnesota who attends Harvard Law School and becomes obsessed with one of his teachers, Professor Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr. Hart becomes an expert on Kingsfield's subject, contracts; he reads everything about the subject, including all of Kingsfield's papers, most of which are not on the reading list. He goes so far as to break into the law library to read Kingsfield's original law school notes. Hart becomes such an expert that Kingsfield asks him to contribute to a paper.

At the same time, he begins a relationship with Susan Field, who turns out to be Kingsfield's daughter. Susan stands aloof from the law-school rat-race and dismisses all the things Hart cares about most.

At the end of the term, Professor Kingsfield really means something to his students, but he still does not know their names. For him, the class is only a group of people, the students simply names on a paper. He does not even recognize Hart after several encounters and classroom debates. After one incident, wherein Kingsfield asks Hart to leave the class, Hart says in front of the lecture hall, "You are a son of a bitch, Kingsfield."

After much effort preparing for the final exam, Hart's grade is delivered to him, but he simply makes a paper airplane out of his final report card, and sends it sailing into the Atlantic Ocean without looking at it.

I saw this movie on TCM one night and really thought it was well done. It is a great movie to show would be lawyers who are about to go to law school or even ready to pass the bar to become one. The movie is well written and has a nice side plot of a love story. The greatness of this film is it's like other films I like. The era of this film is why I really like watching films. I think re-watching a film like this gives you a feel of how great films like this from 1973 should be. Even some the authenticity of the behind the scenes of going to law school and studying for those dreadfully hard tests show in the film.

I know three friends who are lawyers and let me tell you, all three have seen the film and love how great film shows how some law professors are that way in real life. I would recommend to any film buff or anyone who wants to get into law. Hope this film will have you enjoy what goes on behind the scenes of what it is like to be a lawyer. Enjoy!

You sell whatever you want, but don't sell it here tonight.

Ambitious politician Walter Chalmers is holding a Senate subcommittee hearing in San Francisco on Organized Crime in America. To improve his political standing, Chalmers hopes to bring down mobster Pete Ross with the aid of key witness Johnny Ross, Pete's brother. Bullitt takes place the weekend before the hearing, from Friday night (during the opening credits) to Sunday night. Following the theft of $2,000,000, and his escape to San Francisco Johnny is placed in the San Francisco police custody for the weekend. Chalmers requests Lieutenant Frank Bullitt's unit to guard him.

Bullitt, Sergeant Delgetti, and Detective Carl Stanton give Ross around-the-clock protection at the Hotel Daniels, a cheap flophouse near the freeway. Late Saturday night, a pair of hitmen burst into the room and shoot both Inspector Stanton and Ross, seriously wounding them both. Bullitt wants to investigate who shot the pair and find the Mafia boss who ordered the hit. Chalmers attempts to shift blame on to Bullitt and the San Francisco Police Department.



Ross subsequently dies of his wounds. Bullitt suppresses news of the death, asking Doctor Willard to misplace the chart and have the body placed in the morgue under a John Doe. Chalmers arrives at the hospital on Sunday morning and is angered that Ross has disappeared. He is further incensed when he and his police minder Captain Baker receive no help from Bullitt. Chalmers places pressure on Bullitt to produce Ross, to no effect.

Bullitt reconstructs Ross's movements, finding his way to a hotel where he finds a woman registered under the name Dorothy Simmons (Brandy Carroll). With the hearing the next day, Bullitt suspects the dead mobster may not be who he seems. After picking up his Ford Mustang Bullitt is tailed by the two hit-men, resulting in a famous car chase that ultimately kills the hit-men.

Back at the police station, Bullitt is interrogated, and is given until Monday morning to follow his remaining lead. He begins to investigate Simmons, but discovers that she has been murdered. Later, Bullitt and Delgetti learn that Simmons's true identity was Dorothy Rennick, and that the murdered man that they knew as Ross may in fact be her husband, Albert. Bullitt asks immigration for a copy of Mr. Rennick's passport, hoping to prove this theory.

Chalmers arrives at the morgue, demanding, from Bullitt, a signed admission that Ross died while in his custody. Bullitt refuses, producing a copy of the Rennicks' passport photos. Chalmers realizes his mistake upon seeing the couple's true identity: the murdered man was not Johnny Ross, but Albert Rennick. The real Ross set Rennick up in order to escape, then killed Rennick's wife to silence her. Chalmers later tries to smooth things over by offering Bullitt a chance to further his career, which Bullitt refuses on the spot, knowing how Chalmers operates. Based on clues in the Rennicks' luggage, Bullitt follows Ross to the airport, where he discovers the real Johnny Ross and pursues him. A stand-off ensues, with Bullitt eventually shooting and killing Ross.

My first viewing of Bullitt was when I was eleven years young. I was coming home from playing outside when my friend from up the street came over with his brand new VW GTI. I was much younger then this friend. He was actually ten years younger then my parents. The reason I called him a friend is because we both shared the love of cars. I would ride my bike past his house and he be outside with his two seat classic car washing it and detailing it. I loved that car. I always thought it was cool to see him work on it every weekend during the summer. He would take it out for it's usual route around the block and maybe to the store and back. One day he asked if I wanted to be his passenger. His wife always laughed at the car because it was not the hip car to have, but it was a car that actually was pretty cool.



He and I became friends. He told me all about classic muscle cars and also about the wonderful world of European classics. These cars all had a history and lore that would make the car fanatic that I am now. I loved everything about the stories of past cars he had. He even told stories to my father who also shared some of the same history. His VW GTI was a car that was not cool now (or maybe it was) but it was flashy and cool for me. It was quick, it made a unique sound compared to my parents wheels at the time and and was fast around the block. We would go to Lime Rock every year that I knew him. We did this for about six years till he moved away and got divorced. He kept the GTI for a while then bought an Alfa Romeo which I loved to death. It was sad to see him get divorced, and also to not see him again.

In the time I knew him, beside teaching me about cars he taught me about classic films with great cars in them. He told me about LeMans, Bullitt and Grand Prix. All classics in their own way. He always liked Bullitt because of it's famous chase scene in downtown San Francisco. It was that scene one day when he came over to pick me up my dad and him were watching. I caught the beginning of it on my dad's small TV. My friend telling my father about the time they saw it as a kid. My dad telling me and my friend that he saw it in the drive in. The chase scene was so great that my dad said all the cars at the drive in were stepping on their breaks. The stories they told about this film were great. I had to see it from beginning to end.



Every moment of the film was exceeding my expectations and I was having a blast reflecting on what makes older films such classic icons. This movie does that. It is part of every American Culture lore. Steve McQueen is in the world of acting one of the great of his time and all other chase scenes will be judged by the one in this film. Every once in a while I try to pick up something new in the film and here and there I do. It's the greatness of using San Fransisco as a character that makes the film. There is a few websites devoted to the areas that this film used and you should check it out.

This is one of my films I tell my friends to watch, so it's old and not new, but you know it's a film that just does a great job for it's time. It's classic beyond words. It's awesome and wonderful to watch and just see the actors play cool like it's no big thing. The music is pretty damn good too. it's the reason I like good movies with great music. I just wish you all could enjoy the pleasure of this film like me. Never saw it in the big screen I would love to see how it would be presented. Watch this and tell me what you think. The 1960's films were great for their time and this one is no different. Enjoy!!

How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can't even trust his own pants.

The main storyline revolves around a struggle for Sweetwater, a piece of land near Flagstone containing the region's only water source. The land was bought by Brett McBain, who foresaw that the railroad would have to pass through that area to provide water for the steam engines that power the locomotives. When railroad tycoon Morton learns of this, he sends his hired gun Frank (Fonda) to intimidate McBain, and Frank kills McBain and his three children, planting evidence on the scene to frame the bandit Cheyenne (Robards) and his gang. By the time McBain's new bride, Jill (Cardinale), arrives from New Orleans,the family is dead and she is the owner of the land.

Meanwhile, a mysterious harmonica playing gunman (Bronson), whom Cheyenne later dubs "Harmonica", pursues Frank. In the film's opening scene, Harmonica kills three men sent by Frank to kill him, and, in a roadhouse on the way to Sweetwater, he informs Cheyenne that the three gunfighters he killed appeared to be posing as Cheyenne's men. Sometime later, Harmonica kills two men sent by Frank to kill Jill. Back at Sweetwater, construction materials are delivered to build a railroad station and a small town. Harmonica explains to Cheyenne that Jill will lose Sweetwater unless the station is built by the time the track's construction crews reach that point, and Cheyenne puts his men to work building it.



Meanwhile, Frank turns against Morton, who wanted to make a deal with Jill. Frank's betrayal is made easy by the fact that Morton is crippled. After having his way with her, Frank forces Jill to sell the property in an auction. He tries to buy the farm cheaply by intimidating the other bidders, but Harmonica arrives, holding Cheyenne at gunpoint, and makes a much higher bid based on his reward money for delivering Cheyenne to the authorities. After rebuffing another intimidation attempt by Frank, Harmonica sells the farm back to Jill. At this point, some of Frank's men try to kill Frank, having been paid by Morton to turn against him, but Harmonica helps Frank kill them in order to save that privilege for himself.

After Morton and the rest of Frank's men are killed in a battle with Cheyenne's gang, Frank goes to Sweetwater to confront Harmonica. On two occasions, Frank has asked Harmonica who he is, but both times Harmonica refused to answer him. Instead, he mysteriously quoted names of men Frank has murdered. The two men position themselves for a duel, at which point Harmonica's motive for revenge is revealed in a flashback: When Harmonica was a boy, Frank killed his older brother by tying a noose to the top of an arch, placing it around the brother's neck, and forcing Harmonica to support his brother on his shoulders with a harmonica in his mouth. Harmonica draws first and shoots Frank, and when Frank again asks who he is, he puts the harmonica in Frank's mouth. Frank nods weakly in recognition and dies.

With Frank dead, Harmonica and Cheyenne say goodbye to Jill, who is supervising construction of the train station as the track-laying crews reach Sweetwater. Cheyenne collapses almost immediately, revealing that he was shot by Morton while he and his men were fighting Frank's gang. The work train arrives, and the film ends as Jill carries water to the rail workers and Harmonica rides off with Cheyenne's body towards the horizon.

I was a High School Junior when I took a video editing class that allowed us to make videos and edit them to certain length. We also were allowed to the the video cameras out of class and do projects and have them at a desired length of what the teacher wanted. These big video cameras were used around school to do all sorts of projects by other students for other classes. An example we had a student who was sick for part of the year at their home and we set up a camera and had the cable company run a feed to the cable company and then to a public access station that would let the student see the class at their house and hear the teachers lecture in class. At the end of the week someone would pick up and hand the assignments in. It was quite revolutionary for it's time.

One day I wanted to do some extra credit. I asked the teacher for this idea I wanted to practice editing commercials out of a film. The teacher knew I had an eye for good editing and his choice for a film was Once Upon A Time In The West. He told me he has rarely seen it on TV and it was going to be on the upcoming weekend and he wanted me to tape it and bring into class and edit the film minus the commercials.



The teacher told me that he saw the film back in the day on the big screen and loved it. I did not know much about the film when I was told about it. After watching the film at home while taping it I could see why. The film was visually wonderful. The acting was top notch and the action was great as well. When I brought the video to school I went to tell the teacher that I really liked the film and looked forward to editing the commercials out of it. The film ran three and half hours with commercials. I had to edit about a half an hour of them. After I was done with the project I told the teacher that we should sit down and watch it and see how I did. When the project was complete the teacher told me that there was stuff missing that really change the movies intent. After a long while I finally saw the film and I could see all the stuff they edited out. The movie is a classic.



If you want to see a film that is a true classic western I suggest you start with this. It is raw and very good. Even Henry Fonda as one of the best villains it has really great cinematography. Sergio Leone did a wonderful job with the actors. Most of all the music of Ennio Morricone is really great. With the age of blue ray and with large televisions that are out there this film is one that should be shown in that format. I had the pleasure to see the film at a small cinema and was blown away on how it really is a great experience. Watch this and you will too. Enjoy!

"We're all out of cornflakes. F.U." Took me three hours to figure out F.U. was Felix Ungar!

Felix Ungar checks into a fleabag hotel room and attempts to kill himself by jumping out the window, but he can't get the window open and ends up pulling a muscle in his back. Limping back on the street he tries to get drunk and ends up hurting his neck when he throws down a shot. Finally, he stands on a bridge, contemplating jumping into the river.

Meanwhile, in the pig-sty Upper West Side Manhattan apartment of divorced sportswriter Oscar Madison; Meanwhile, in the pig-sty Upper West Side Manhattan apartment of divorced sportswriter Oscar Madison, Roy, Vinnie, and Murray the cop are playing poker and discussing their friend, Felix Ungar, who is unusually late to the game. Murray's wife calls and tells him that Felix and his wife Frances have split up. As they are discussing what to do, and worried that Felix might try to commit suicide, Felix arrives not knowing that his friends already know that his wife has kicked him out of the house.



Felix eventually breaks down crying and his friends try to console him. Oscar then suggests that Felix move in with him, since Oscar has lived alone since he split up with his own wife, Blanche, several months earlier. Felix agrees, and urges Oscar to not be shy about letting him know if he gets on Oscar's nerves.

The movie is a classic comedy. It's considered one of the best of it's genre. The movie still makes me laugh to this day with it's witty dialogue and really funny one liners. It was my first in the series of educational movies that I learned that writing is an art all in itself. Movies that are well written are usually the films I gravitate to because they really know how to make the character part of everyday life. I think I also like the film because the writing of Neil Simon is something of an American Treasure. Neil could write some of the best comedy there has ever been written.




The first time I saw the film was when I was a teenager and I never laughed so hard in my life. The wonderful and funny interaction between Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau was priceless. It was like they did not have to rehearse or any second takes of the scenes they were done with such great ease. It was not the only times they worked together, but it was the second film they stared together in film.



Looking for a laugh then I would make sure you don't pass this one up. Enjoy a film that will make you laugh and will also see inside the male mind of a neat freak and a messy freak. It might bring back memories of having a roommate yourself. After watching this film, like myself, you will be a fan of Neil Simon's writing. Enjoy!