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Favorite "Under the Radar" movie?

Frequency (2000): Dennis Quad; Jim Caviesel Saw this one in the theater.

The Red Violin (1998): Samuel L. Jackson; Greta Scacchi Jackson's character enters midway through the film and is unlike anything he's ever done. Superb!

The Prestige (2007): Hugh Jackman; Christian Bale; Michael Caine; Scarlett Johansson; David Bowie

Finding Forrester (2001): Sean Connery (one of his last big screen performances, if not the last); Rob Brown; F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin.

Each of these films are pure story and not bogged down by something as primitive as plot, with superb acting by all.

Just for fun I'll add Hot Rod (2007): Andy Samberg; Isla fisher; Bill Hader; Sissy Spacek. It's one of those knuckle-headed comedies not unlike Napoleon Dynamite, which I didn't care for, that gets me grinning every time I see it.
 
I saw Frequency on an airplane at some point -- and enjoyed considerably.
The Heathkit radio gear was the star of the show, I'd opine.
 
Quicksand, 1950 Film Noirish gem Starring Mickey Rooney.

Odd little film where "borrowing" $20 from his employers cash register for a date leads to an out of control string of criminal offenses.
 
"200 Motels" (1970)

Frank Zappa`s surrealistic representation of "Life On The Road for a Rock `n Roll Band".
The Mothers of Invention at their zany best, with Flo & Eddie, Jimmy Carl Black ("The Indian of the group"), Ainsley Dunbar, George Duke, Don Preston, Motorhead Sherwood, Ringo Starr playing the part of Frank Zappa, Keith Moon as a drugged-out, perpetually horny nun, and the late Theodore Bikel as The Tour Guide.

Lots of fun, great soundtrack :thmbsp:
 
Tom Brennan said:
I saw one early Waters movie where Mink Stole got a "rosary job" and Christ fed the multitudes with cans of Chicken of the Sea and Wonder Bread. I'm laughing like Hell just thinking about it.
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LOL, I haven't seen these in ages.
I believe I never knew of or heard the distinctive Baltimore accent until I saw Polyester.
 
Uncle Bambi said:
We're No Angels, 1955, starring Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, and Aldo Ray. Bogie in a comedy. and doing a damn fine job of it.
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I would actually call We're No Angels iconic rather than under the radar. Under the radar is the horrific De Niro/Penn remake and it should stay there. But Peter Ustinov has one that is superb and worth checking out, Billy Budd. Wonderful adaptation of Melville with John Ryan playing the shitbag (fantastically too). It also has Terrence Stamp in one of his first movie rolls. Ustinov could not be better cast as the captain. This is a guy film for a rainy fall afternoon with a stiff drink if ever there was one.
 
The Haunting (1963)

One reviewer had this to say and I'm inclined to agree

The story has, by now, been imitated endlessly. Four people on a haunted house just to study it. But this is just the premisse.

The great Robert Wise sets up the most perfect, most classic haunted-house film ever made. The screenplay is built on the principle that you don't have to see it (the gore, the blood, etc.) to feel the fear. So, this is one of those great films where the tension is constructed upon the things you hear... the things you know are there.

In the pre-CGI era, you really had to create something out of what you had. So, Mr. Wise had a great script (years ahead of its time), great characters, great actors, a great cameraman, and settings that are a wow!

This is what makes this film so much better than any other (not to mention its remake - who clearly goes for the predictable cheap-trick CGI effects).

The story is told in the most perfect classic form. From beginning to end, you follow the story in the most careful pace. Beat by beat. From the prologue to the conclusion, the story is peerlessly told.

The characters and actors are great to watch: Julie Harris is the perfect troubled woman haunted by inner ghosts, while Theodora (the beautiful Claire Bloom) is the perfect icy clairvoyant who may or may not be a lesbian (everything is constructed with such taste...). Richard Johnson is great as the Doctor who must keep control of the experiment. Russ Tamblyn is also great as the non-believer who's in just for the adventure. As we will discover, all of them have weak points the house will explore. So it is possible to say that this is one film where the set (in this case the house itself) is one character just like the others.
 
"My Blue Heaven" (1990)

Steve Martin is hilarious as Vinnie, a mob informant-turned Witness Protection Program recipient, for whom old ways die hard. Rick Moranis is straight-arrow FBI Agent Barney Coopersmith, trying to keep Vinnie alive long enough to testify.
Several notable "Goodfellas" similarities here....
 
A few westerns worth being in my collection:

The Fastest Gun Alive (1956) Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford
Day of the Outlaw (1959) Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise
Man Without a Star (1955) Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor
Seven Men from Now (1956) Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin
Hanging Tree, The (1959) Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden

For Oddball: Electra Glide in Blue(1973) Robert Blake
 
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Ahh, Man Without a Star. Good picture, directed by King Vidor, a fine Golden Age of Hollywood director who's kind'a neglected today. He made a delirious picture of "The Fountainhead", with a masochistic Patricia Neal driven into hysteria by the sight Gary Cooper working his rock drill in a quarry.

 
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Tom... wait, what? Is that rock drill thing kinda... Freudian?
... i.e., in the 'trains plunging into dark tunnels' school of film making?
 
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