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a blog dedicated to the life & filmography of HBL run by ted.

the movie in my mind far surpasses anything scorpio even accidentally stumbled on bar cross calling zharkov “baby” and it frustrates me so bad

#cockblocked by reality #blue balled by my own imagination #edged by concepts

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#this old gay communist and his defector boyfriend could’ve been the best movie couple of the 70s

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early scorpio script on ebay jamie was the original name for the alain delon character and it’s good to know zharkov and cross were gay about each other even on the page

#self reblog #i didn’t talk about this NEARLY enough

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sadistic ruthless egotistical rude. maybe he’s not a killer but he enjoys seeing things destroyed

#self reblog #meanwhile chico hamilton is cracking jokes w him and receiving gag gifts

Carson Smith and Fred Katz remained and this was the group that played such an integral part in the film Sweet Smell Of Success starring Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster. ... Elmer Bernstein incorporated much of the music by Katz and Hamilton into the movie score and when I interviewed Chico in 1994 at London’s Jazz café he had this to say about the production, “It really was a dynamite film and we had a ball making it. Tony hung out with Paul Horn a lot because he wanted to learn the flute and Burt really was a funny dude with a hell of a sense of humour. He had a special edition of the Los Angeles Herald printed with the headline: Chico Hamilton- Busted! which he showed to the entire cast.”

Source: JazzProfiles (blogspot.com)

that burt might’ve been lighthearted and pleasant to people on this set at the same time he was terrorizing alexander mackendrick and garnering a reputation for sadism in the industry so perfectly demonstrates his contradictions i’m crying

#ask #this is the kind of shit i want in my inbox #<3 #chico hamilton walking away from this movie like that was so fun and burt’s a funny dude #then picking up a rag to see shit like ‘burt lancaster has the spirit of a sadistic killer without the body count’ or whatever tf that #article was 😭#sweet smell of success

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Burt Lancaster by an unknown fan, ca 1940s.

#self reblog #pretty pretty

ufonaut

I didn’t want to be alone anymore. I don’t want to be alone now. If we go back, if we stick together… if we face it… do think that maybe somewhere somebody will listen--somebody will say it wasn’t all our fault?

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948, dir. Norman Foster)

#kiss the blood off my hands #1948 #1940s #screencaps

burtlancster

All night long the Viking men, women, and children watched the ship with the body as it burned in the water. By dawn all that was left were ashes, complete obliteration, carried by the currents to the four corners of the earth, fresh and beautiful, and vanished completely, like a dream.

Rocket Gibraltar — 1988. dir. daniel petrie, cin. jost vocano

#self reblog

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this 75 year old is at an apex of his beauty rarely remarked upon. beautiful grizzled old leopard. he's so vulnerable and raw in some of the scenes in this movie and then he'll do a twinkle, like marc singer talked about, where he just turns smth on and all of the years melt away and suddenly he's "so gorgeous to the extent you can't take your eyes off him" or is that just us

#self reblog #🚬

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at least watch this movie for his stand up routine

#self reblog #GAY OLD MAN OF MY LIFE

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burt was on the novecento (1976) set ready to grind this sight & sound reporter into the ground

#self reblog #lmao

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end an interview by throwing one lousy journalist out of your hotel room and suddenly it’s an “embarrassment” to UA and the hotel and a “PR nightmare” 🙄

#self reblog #unfortunately i love how he talked to the press