This being Thursday, it's time for another edition of Thursday Movie Picks, the blogathon run by Wandering Through the Shelves. Several months this year have Oscar-themed editions on the first Thursday of the month, so this time around the theme is Best Supporting Actor or Actress winners. That's not overly difficult; I just had to think about whether or not I had used any particular movies that fit the category recently. I decided to go with three movies that have more or less all-star casts:
The V.I.P.s (1963). Winner: Margaret Rutherford. A whole bunch of people are at Heathrow Airport trying to get on a plane to the US, but unfortunately the airport is socked in. Liz Taylor is divorcing hubby Richard Burton to live with Louis Jourdan; Rod Taylor has an important board meeting in New York; Orson Welles needs to get out of the UK for tax residence reasons; and Margaret Rutherford is trying to make money to save her family estate. The various travelers might be able to help each other solve their problems, or maybe not.
California Suite (1978). Winner: Maggie Smith. I would have done the movies in chronological order, except that Maggie Smith is in two of the movies I picked. Based on a Neil Simon play, this one tells the stories of four suites at the Beverly Hills Hilton and the people who rent them. The only good story line is the one involving Maggie Smith as an Oscar nominee who bickers with her husband (Michael Caine). The worst thing is that the movie isn't mounted as a traditional anthology with discrete stories where one ends and the next begins, nor an ensemble picture like The V.I.P.s where the characters interact. Instead, none of the people in the different rooms interact, but the movie goes from one subplot to the next.
Murder on the Orient Express (1974). Winner: Ingrid Bergman. Albert Finney plays Hercule Poirot in this version of Agatha Christie's story in which a passenger (Richard Widmark) is murdered on the Orient Express and it turns out every passenger has a relationship to the deceased. These include Anthony Perkins, Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, and others.
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