#The Director
Frank Tashlin (1913 - 1972)
>Feature Films 1952- The First Time, Son of Paleface; 1953 - Marry Me Again; 1954 - Susan Slept Here; 1955 - Artists and Models; 1956 - The Lieutenant Wore Skirts, The Girl Can't Help It, Hollywood or Bust; 1957 - Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?; 1958 - Rock-a-Bye Baby, The Geisha Boy; 1959 - Say One for Me; 1960 - Cinderfella; 1962 - Bachelor Flat, It's Only Money; 1963 - The Man from the Diners' Club, Who's Minding the Store?; 1964 - The Disorderly Orderly; 1965 - The Alphabet Murders; 1966 - The Glass Bottom Boat; 1967 - Caprice; 1968 - The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
Frank Tashlin was one of only two filmmakers from Hollywood's classic era to make the transition from animation to directing live features - the other was also a good comedy director, Gregory La Cava (My Man Godfrey, Stage Door). What's remarkable about Tashlin's transition is its seamlessness. Tashlin's cartoons have the deliberately chosen camera angles and speedy cutting of feature films, and his live-action features have the bright colors and impossible logic of his best Looney Tunes shorts. He had a consistent taste in actors, too; what are Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope anyway, if not hominoid equivalents of Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny?
Tashlin began his career as a print cartoonist, before moving out west to Hollywood where he was briefly employed as a gag writer for Hal Roach Studios (fellow directors Frank Capra, Leo McCarey, and George Stevens also got their start with Roach). Before long, Tashlin broke into the animation industry, working for Warner Brothers' animation department from 1936 to 1946 (despite a brief diversion to Columbia's Screen Gems from 38-42), where his tenure was marked by the focus on speed and editing that he brought to his Looney Tunes shorts. Its clear that Tashlin thought in cinematic terms long before he was behind a movie camera.
While many animation enthusiasts feel that Tashlin's most important works were his Looney Tunes shorts, auteurists adore him for his feature films. In his review of The Girl Can't Help It, Jean-Luc Godard wrote that "in fifteen years’ time, people will realize that The Girl Can’t Help It served then — that is, today – as a fountain of youth from which the cinema now — that is, in the future — has drawn fresh inspiration ….henceforth, when you talk about a comedy, don’t say ‘It’s Chaplinesque’; say, loud and clear, ‘‘It’s Tashlinesque’."
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TSPDT 19631, highest ranking 15262 in 2016; Director: Phil Karlson; Writer: Stirling Silliphant, William Bowers, John Barnwell, Frank Tashlin, Jack Finney (magazine story); Watched December 18th as part of the Indicator Columbia Noir #1 Limited Edition Blu-ray box set (303) IMDB
86 minutes. A group of handsome male leads and a bombshell female seductress scheme together to knock off a casino and make it look easy.
Credit where credit is due, this movie does it first before Ocean’s 11 five years later. It is nowhere near as good, but this is an entertaining movie in its own right. As opposed to seasoned criminals led by Danny Ocean, we have four 30-year olds playing college students. They take a trip to Harold’s Club in Reno and discover that the casino is impregnable so naturally devise a plan to rob it.
Since they are college kids they don’t want to ruin their lives so actually plan on returning the cash. They just want to prove they’re smart enough to get away with it. Well, one of the group members has other ideas and things get hairy in the third act.
This is a well-made film full of competent actors. Kim Novak needs no introduction from her connection to Hitchcock, and she gives a captivating performance here. A young Kerwin Matthews was fun to watch as well. This was probably his most subdued role, and was before he became the legend that worked so closely with Harryhausen as the hero adventurer. Alvy Moore wouldn’t be a household name for 10 more years until Green Acres came out in syndication and then Brian Keith and Guy Madison had long careers in both film and TV and this was an earlier role for them. My point with this long background is just to say that the cast was all strong and could play whatever material they were given.
My only slight knock on 5 Against the House is the premise. I struggle to believe that the original plan to rob, only to give the money back, would have ever made it past the back of the napkin phase. That and the beginning of the film felt like a 50s TV show even down to introducing the character names on the bottom of the screen. All that could be forgiven overall, however, and the film knew how to carry suspense when it needed to and let the scenes play out long enough to let the actors act.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
all times e.s.t.
WED SEP 01
(12:45am) I Married a Witch (1942/1h 16m/Comedy/René Clair)
(2:15am) A Star Is Born (1937/1h 51m/Romance/William A. Wellman)
(4:15am) There Goes My Heart (1938/1h 21m/Comedy/Norman Z. McLeod)
(6:00am) Time Out for Lessons (1939(10m/Short/Bud Murray)
(6:15am) Dramatic School (1938/1h 20m/Drama/Robert B. Sinclair)
(7:45am) Finishing School (1934/1h 13m/Drama/Wanda Tuchock)
(9:15am) Freshman Love (1936/1h 5m/Comedy/William McGann)
(10:30am) The Male Animal (1942/1h 41m/Comedy/Elliott Nugent)
(12:30pm) The Browning Version (1951/1h 30m/Drama/Anthony Asquith)
(2:15pm) Goodbye, Miss Turlock (1947/(10:m/Short/Edward L. Cahn)
(2:30pm) Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939/1h 54m/Drama/Sam Wood)
(4:30pm) The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953/1h 14m/Comedy/Don Weis)
(6:00pm) The Drop Out (1962/(10:m/Short/?)
(6:15pm) Get Yourself a College Girl (1964/1h 26m/Musical/Sidney Miller)
(8:00pm) The Barkleys of Broadway (194(9:/1h 48m/Musical/Charles Walters)
(10:00pm) They Died with Their Boots On (1941/2h 18m/Western/Raoul Walsh)
THU SEP 02
(12:30am) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967/1h 48m/Comedy/Stanley Kramer)
(2:30am) Key Largo (1948/1h 41m/Crime/John Huston)
(4:15am) Mogambo (1953/1h 55m/Adventure/John Ford)
(6:15am) Murder She Said (1961/1h 26m/Mystery/George Pollock)
(7:45am) The Gazebo (1960/1h 40m/Comedy/George Marshall)
(9:30am) Pocketful of Miracles (1961/2h 16m/Comedy/Frank Capra)
(12:00pm) Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964/2h 3m/Musical/Gordon Douglas)
(2:15pm) The Alphabet Murders (1965/1h 30m/Mystery/Frank Tashlin)
(4:00pm) The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968/1h 50m/Crime/Ken Annakin)
(6:00pm) Sophie's Place (1969/1h 46m/Comedy/Jim O'Connolly)
(8:00pm) The Comic (1969/1h 35m/Drama/Carl Reiner)
(9:45pm) Hugo (2011/2h 6m/Adaptation/Martin Scorsese)
FRI SEP 03
(12:00am) Sunset Blvd. (1950/1h 51m/Drama/Billy Wilder)
(2:00am) Singin' in the Rain (1952/1h 43m/Musical/Gene Kelly)
(4:00am) The Jazz Singer (1927/1h 36m/Musical/Alan Crosland)
(6:00am) Guns of the Timberland (1960/1h 31m/Western/Robert D. Webb)
(7:45am) **
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They were cooked in Greece.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
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A play on words.
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Or would that be too forward thinking?
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
I won't be doing that today!
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
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