[j5]

Grapes of Wraith?

[catherwood-offline]

the lighting reminds me of "Night of the Hunter"

[aliendial]

*looks for a wooden-fences-in-movies index site*

[Gupfee]

Gone With the Wind?

[konamouse]

Movie Time

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Or "LXG", for short. Told ya it was a quickie.

[konamouse]

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (or how ever it's spelled).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311429/

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Since it's been a couple of hours, I'll toss in a quickie. It's pretty much impossible to find a clip that doesn't give this one up easily.
I saw that Goldie was in that one, but it didn't click as a theme.

[rose]

It is difficult to imagine a movie plot with "KGB tries to break up relationship between American reporter and Russian ballerina" ever being that interesting. But this movie does sound terrible.

I don't have a still, and EGo is driving across country or something, so anyone who has a still should go next. Including Rogi! I would never have recognized Hal Holbrook. So Rogi or someone, you're next.

[aliendial]

Yes! Our theme was Goldie Hawn movies! And while some IMdB reviewers seem to like it, I just cannot imagine this was very good. Goldie as a Russian ballerina. Involved with Hal Holbrooke. Also starring Anthony Hopkins?! Who got third billing? Oh my.

And for movies with chess:
http://movie-chess.hemobile.de/

(See the chess pieces in front of Hal? There's more actual, if not real, chess in the movie.)

[rose]

The Girl from Petrovka?

The only theme I could think of is something with Goldie Hawn? Is that her on the sofa? I'm assuming it is Hal Holbrook.

She plays a ballerina.

Here is part of the review from the NY Times in 1974:

Quote:

Meanwhile, here's a plea to American performers to stay at home. Goldie Hawn can't play a Russian, any more than Dustin Hoffman was able to seem Italian in "Alfredo, Alfredo." Like all the Russians in this picture, she talks English with a lush accent, landing hard on the d's and r's, while swallowing the l's: "Ow, my pour doorllink." Admittedly she has a difficult part, since sexual teasing is supposed to be cute—a slightly staggering notion for the nineteen-seventies.

[aliendial]

Also no. And the thing indexed is not the theme I chose, although we could make a theme of that too.

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Hal shows up on sites indexing journalists, doctors, lawyers and lots of others.
How about All the President's Men?

[aliendial]

oh, and I tripped across another site that indexes all instances of [unnamed thing] in movies.

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Married or shacked-up real-life couples together in a movie could be a theme, but only if this is a 1966 episode of the "Preview Tonight" TV series called, The Cliff Dwellers.

But that can't be it, so I'm stuck.