mikedonovan

Apparently the Molly Maguires were four guys infiltrated by Richard Harris. I once read that they were a large organization of terrorist miners all over eastern Pennsylvania in 1876-77.

I don't know why Don Knotts was in thi8s film without a credit at the end. He played a Pinkerton detective and was surprisingly convincing for someone who usually plays a funnyman.

They took a lot of liberties with the story but what else is new? The priest stole the movie with his sanctimonious lectures to the Maguires at every funeral. Why did they take chowderhead off the IMDb? He was my hero.

Henry Mancini did the music and there's nothing like good music to dance to when people are dying in coal mining accidents.

The Molly Maguires was an amazing mood piece for life in the coal mines in the 19th century but it did not do justice to the injustices that motivated the Molly Maguires to acts of protest. The Mollys were wrong but they were wronged to begin with and the movie does not show the grievances of the workers in any mature way.

I liked the part when they tried to kill Harris with a pile of coal.

BARABBAS rocks. We saw it at the drive-in in the early 60's and the whole family loved it, all nine of us. I'm not always enamored with Anthony Quinn. Sometimes he seems conceited. But as Barabbas he is brilliantly humble, yet powerful. This is by far, his best movie ever. His faces say a thousand words a thousand times. It's as though he was transformed and really became the character, not played it. He is stoic and disturbed, tortured by the crisis within his soul. Barabbas is the man the crowd chose over Christ and this is a fictionalized account of his life after Christ was crucified. Jack Palance gives the second greatest performance of his life as the man who trains, and sometimes kills, gladiators. That evil laugh. That face. What corner of hell gave birth to this man? It's almost as good as his Jack Wilson gunfighter role in Shane. Palance is so mean in Barabbas that all sorts of pacifists would gladly kill him if they had the chance. There are a couple of slow spots but the sets are fantastic and the story is great.

How did Jack Palance sleep at night?

BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD DO AMERICA has many, many chuckles but (he said ‘but') unfortunately no belly laughs. Not one knee slapping, stomach hurting gag. I was a little disappointed. I am a big fan of the TV series; so don't get me wrong; these characters are great. Maybe that's why this didn't work that well; DO AMERICA was more about the plot than about the characters.

I've fallen on the floor laughing at many a TV episode but it was never about the brilliant plot. Also, what plot there is in the TV series is usually logical, within the confines of their brand of insanity. This movie had a plot that went off the deep end way too often. It also got a little redundant with the portrait of the ATF authority figures as being unreasonably macho. Two hours of gung-ho fed men jumping out of trucks with trigger happy attitudes wore thin. Also the hysterical Cornholio character that Beavis made immortal in a hippie poetry café didn't work when transferred to this film. It was forced and not nearly as funny. All right, maybe one scene was killer. The Senate laughing like Beavis and Butthead over a dirty joke. I think Mike Judge deserves all the wealth and fame he has achieved for his comedy work. I liked this movie, but I was hoping to laugh till tears rolled down my cheeks. ..He said ‘cheeks'.