Golden Age of Hollywood Book Club discussion

Here's another 'curated list' by Scorcese and his chum Jay Cocks, Village Voice film critic and writer.

The duo participated in programming a month of "double features" (2 films for the price of 1) in Greenwhich Village some years ago.

The 'fun' part for them was pairing up titles which appealed to their quirky taste in classics.

I'm citing it here simply as another culling of films admired by Scorcese, which we might not all have heard of before.

This list of 'two-fers' is simply a reference for obscure, oddball titles.

p.s. I've cleaned it all up for easier legibility.

MARTY & JAY’S DOUBLE FEATURES SCHEDULE/LINEUP

Friday, Aug 16
THE WRONG MAN
(1956, Alfred Hitchcock)
Henry Fonda, Vera Miles
2:05, 5:45, 9:25
~plus~
PICKPOCKET
(1959, Robert Bresson)

Saturday, Aug 17
THE GOLDEN COACH
(1952, Jean Renoir)
Anna Magnani
~plus~
THE BAND WAGON
(1953, Vincente Minnelli)
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant

RICHARD III
(1955, Laurence Olivier)
Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, Cedric Hardwicke
~plus~
THE TOMB OF LIGEIA
(1964, Roger Corman)
Vincent Price

Sunday, Aug 18
STATION WEST
(1948, Sidney Lanfield)
Dick Powell, Jane Greer, Raymond Burr
~plus~
BLOOD ON THE MOON
(1948, Robert Wise)
Robert Mitchum, Robert Preston, Barbara Bel Geddes

Sunday, Aug 18 & Monday, Aug 19
BARRY LYNDON
(1975, Stanley Kubrick)
Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson
~plus~
THE CASE OF THE MUKKINESE BATTLE-HORN
(1956, Joseph Sterling)
Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan

Monday, Aug 19
THE UNINVITED
(1944, Lewis Allen)
Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey
~plus~
THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI
(1954, Mark Robson)
William Holden, Fredric March, Grace Kelly

Tuesday, Aug 20
UNCONQUERED
(1947, Cecil B. DeMille)
Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Boris Karloff
~plus~
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW
(1959, Robert Wise)
Robert Ryan, Harry Belafonte, Shelley Winters, Gloria Grahame

Wednesday, Aug 21
WINTER LIGHT
(1963, Ingmar Bergman)
Max Von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand
~plus~
PLAY DIRTY
(1969, André De Toth)
Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Harry Andrews

Thursday, Aug 22
ONE-EYED JACKS
(1961, Marlon Brando)
Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer
~plus~
WE WERE STRANGERS
(1949, John Huston)
John Garfield, Jennifer Jones, Gilbert Roland

Friday, Aug 23 & Monday, Aug 26
AN ACTOR’S REVENGE
(1963, Kon Ichikawa)
Kazuo Hasegawa, Ayako Wakao
~plus~
A DOUBLE LIFE
(1947, George Cukor)
Ronald Colman, Shelley Winters

Saturday, Aug 24
RAMROD
(1947, André De Toth) 35mm
Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake
~plus~
DESERT FURY
(1947, Lewis Allen)
Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster, Mary Astor, John Hodiak

F FOR FAKE
(1973, Orson Welles)
Orson Welles, Oja Kodar
~plus~
PARTY GIRL
(1958, Nicholas Ray)
Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb

Sunday, Aug 25
THE ROUND-UP
(1966, Miklós Jancsó)
~plus~
PETE KELLY’S BLUES
(1955, Jack Webb)
Lee Marvin, Edmond O’Brien, Janet Leigh, Peggy Lee, Louis Armstrong

PINK STRING AND SEALING WAX
(1945, Robert Hamer)
Googie Withers, Gordon Jackson, Mervyn Johns
~plus~
LIVING ON VELVET
(1935, Frank Borzage)
Kay Francis, Warren William, George Brent

Monday, Aug 26
THE SMALL BACK ROOM
(1949, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins
~plus~
THE MAGICIAN
(1926, Rex Ingram)
Alice Terry, Paul Wegener

Tuesday, Aug 27
JUDEX
(1963, Georges Franju)
Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob
~plus~
CURSE OF THE DEMON
(1957, Jacques Tourneur)
Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins

Wednesday, Aug 28
ASHES AND DIAMONDS (1958, Andrzej Wajda)
Z. Cybulski
~plus~
STATION SIX-SAHARA
(1963, Seth Holt)
Carroll Baker, Peter van Eyck, Ian Bannen, Denholm Elliott

Thursday, Aug 29
KINGS ROW
(1942, Sam Wood)
Betty Field, Robert Cummings, Claude Rains
~plus~
THE MAZE in 3-D!
(1953, William Cameron Menzies)

Friday, Aug 30
HUSBANDS
(1970, John Cassavetes)
Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes
~plus~
THE BIG KNIFE
(1955, Robert Aldrich)
Rod Steiger, Ida Lupino, Jack Palance

Saturday, Aug 31
HIGH AND LOW
(1963, Akira Kurosawa)
Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai
~plus~
CRIME WAVE
(1953, André De Toth)
Sterling Hayden, Ted de Corsia, Charles Bronson

Sunday, Sept 1
THE RIVER
(1951, Jean Renoir)
~plus~
WILD RIVER
(1960, Elia Kazan)
Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet

Monday, Sept 2
VOYAGE TO ITALY
(1954, Roberto Rossellini)
Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders
~plus~
THE LONG, LONG TRAILER (1954, Vincente Minnelli)
Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz

THE CHANGELING
(1980, Peter Medak)
George C. Scott
~plus~
THE BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW
(1971, Piers Haggard)
Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden

Thursday, Sept 5
THE COUNTERFEIT TRAITOR
(1962, George Seaton)
William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith, Klaus Kinski
~plus~
SLIGHTLY SCARLET
(1956, Allan Dwan)
John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl

THE MUSIC ROOM
(1958, Satyajit Ray)
~plus~
IL POSTO
(1961, Erman)

What a list! I will be looking for some of those mentioned. But why would they addThe Long Long Trailer?????

I donno either. Mark that one off from any TBD list of mine; never had nor ever will have any intention in watching Desi Arnaz on the Big Screen.

Must be some kind of cult or camp fave?

Gotta defer to Bruce or Spencer for expertise in this.

p.s. I've never seen Clifford Odet's "the Big Knife" so that is my first takeaway from the collection.

And I have already been on the hunt now --for a while --to find "Crime Wave"

Other observations: fun to see the George C. Scott flick listed. That is a very obscure but critically-acclaimed little work of the occult. Likely the reason why? Note the director: Peter Medak (or however his name is spelled). Quirky movies were his ouevre.

Next. Besides longtime favorites like 'Barry Lyndon' I would remark that Michael Caine in 'Play Dirty' is the most sheer flat-out fun title in the whole festival. It is one very entertaining war romp. Slick and clever; gritty; taut. Full of "Caine being Caine". Luv it.