Location, Location, Location

[tubeswell]

I dunno. Playing a troll?

[Arneb]

A bad one, yes. Sort of.

[tubeswell]

something Hans Christian Handersen-ish?

[Heid the Ba]

Well, to each their own. I'm going to continue to love Armageddon regardless of all of your incorrect opinions.

Preach Brother! One day they'll repent.

[Heid the Ba]

Dammit, this was supposed to have quoted Tubes.

I think when Arneb talks about range he means the actor is most famous for playing a completely different character from the kindly uncle (or whatever) he is in the photo. It looks to me like Bruno Ganz (or Brünö Gänz if you want it in German) who played Hitler in Downfall.

Bah, autocorrect keeps taking the umlauts out, and changing the case of the "d" in Downfall.

[Arneb]

It is indeed Bruno Ganz, whose name is written entirely without umlaut, and yes, I was talking about the Hitler role. I really didn't recognize him.

The photo is from a new film adaptation of Johanny Spyri's mid-19th century cheesy children's novel, Heidi. Ganz plays the Alm-Öhi, Heidi's grandpa. This book was made into a cartoon series in the 70s (one of the few things I really watched consistently) by a Japanese studio. Alpine World, almond eyes, Manga esthetics (although kid-friendly). It was eery.

On to you, Heid.

[Heid the Ba]

I'm not sure I would have recognised him without the clue.

[Heid the Ba]

Continuing the playing against type/broad range theme: in which film was this apartment block home to an actress famous now for a completely different type of character.

In the film the tree isn't there and the film is in black and white, even though it is from the 1960s.

[Heid the Ba]

As that is a fairly anonymous apartment block a further clue: the lead actor is better known for his work in another field even though he starred in a number of films.

[tubeswell]

a 50s actress?

[Heid the Ba]

Her first films were in the 1940s, still working in tv in this century, still alive.

The male lead was born just across the Hudson River.

[tubeswell]

Bette Davis?

[Lance]

Bette Davis?

Bette Davis died in 1989.

[tubeswell]

Doris Day then

[Heid the Ba]

Not Doris Day. This actress is best known these days for a very long running tv show.

[tubeswell]

Betty White then

[Мастер]

Continuing the playing against type/broad range theme: in which film was this apartment block home to an actress famous now for a completely different type of character.

In the film the tree isn't there and the film is in black and white, even though it is from the 1960s.

Home to an actress, or home to her son? (That is, her son in the film, not in real life.)

Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury, but I thought the apartment belonged to Laurence Harvey.

[Heid the Ba]

Would you like to play some solitaire?

I think you are correct, it is the son's apartment. Apologies.

[Мастер]

So, the film would be The Manchurian Candidate. I knew the director. Before he died.

This was the shooting location, but in the film, it was supposed to be a completely different place, quite far away.

[Heid the Ba]

So, the film would be The Manchurian Candidate. I knew the director. Before he died.

Wow, that's cool. He did a nice line in Cold War paranoia.

That has been in a lot of things, but nothing I can think of where it isn't itself. If you know what I mean.

[Мастер]

The film was made decades ago, but was set decades before that.

[tubeswell]

This was the shooting location, but in the film, it was supposed to be a completely different place, quite far away.

A filum about oil fields?

[Мастер]

A filum about oil fields?

No, no oil.

[tubeswell]

Cotton fields (in LA - LoL) then?

[Heid the Ba]

How2 far away? Still in the US?