I noticed that we don't have a review for 'Popi' here in this forum, though we have a nice synopsis of it in our movie database if you click on that movie title.  

I wasn't really going to do a complete review of it here, but there's a nice one at the Turner Classic Movies website, and I also wanted to post this link to a 3-minute trailer from it that they have:

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I also wanted to repost these pics that I think we had in one of our threads here at BA before one of our crashes.  


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If any of you have any thoughts, or an in-depth review of this movie that you want to share, here's your chance.  I think it was one of the best movies of 1969 anyway, and I would have voted for it as Best Movie at the Academy Awards that year instead of 'Midnight Cowboy'.  

Love,
Sir J

Thanks SJ.

I'll endorse your recommendation. I'm not sure I'd rate it above Midnight Cowboy as a movie but I'd definitely rate it as one of the BEST 'boy' movies ever. A must for serious collectors of boy flicks.

One of the most delightful production stills of all time has to be this one:

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Oh, come on now, guys.  How could anyone say that a movie about a cowboy prostitute on the streets of New York, and his drug-addled pimp named Ratso, could be a better movie than one about two cute boys and their father's love for them?   

I liked 'Midnight Cowboy', too.  I just liked 'Popi' a lot better!   

Love,
Sir J

I haven't seen Popi. Those caps are absolutely beautiful and I'm sure I would enjoy the movie on some level, but I don't know if it would beat Midnight Cowboy. Although, I think Midnight Cowboy is slightly overrated.

There were a lot of good movies in 1969:

The Wild Bunch
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Andrei Rublev
Z
Kes

Some of these I haven't seen, but they're all on my to-see list of "important" movies. I think I'll add Popi to that list, though.

since we've moved into an OT zone of general movies - rod steiger was one of my favourite actors.

he made many good movies.

[for anyone who hasn't seen it, i'd recommend the sergeant for its gay angle and, despite what the person he was playing said about children, W.C.Fields and me [it got lousy reviews at the time but i thought it was great!].

THE SERGEANT is the story of the dark inner struggle of Master Sergeant Albert Callan to overcome the overwhelming attraction he feels for one of his charges.

In the staid and stifling environment of a post-World War II army post in France, Callan's deeply repressed attraction to other men surfaces when he encounters handsome Private Swanson.

Maintaining the rugged "man's man" image of a war hero, Callan barks orders to his underlings. Later, lonely in his solitude, he recalls the frightening experiences of war and the events that led to this crossroads.

Filled with self-loathing and unable to act on the natural attraction he feels for Swanson, Callan's affection festers into antagonism.

He pushes Swanson constantly with verbal assaults and undeserved punishments. Oblivious to Callan's attraction to him, Swanson comes finally to feel enmity for his Master Sergeant.

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Steiger was a brilliant actor in the sixties and nobody can ever take that away from him.  At that time I would go to the cinema just to see him in a film. He lost the plot during the 70s and I was very disappointed by the quality of the films in which he subsequently appeared. Somewhere along the way he seemed to have become a parody of himself.

Sir J,,, one of the last films he made was with a boy:

called A Month of Sundays.   

Hey, I never saw that one, Cal.  Thanks for mentioning it.   

I guess it was worth it to have an off-topic post, so we could learn about a movie with Jeffrey Tott.   

Love,
Sir J