Mandos in the Movies

[Staramouche]

Waterworld coulda used a Mandolin.....:p

Joe

[mandopete]

Funny, no one mentioned Cold Mountain. I think the mando player even got one of the girls in the end!

[mandodebbie]

Ummm...I mentioned Cold Mountain when I opened this New Topic , silly person.
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[mandopete]

Ummm...I mentioned Cold Mountain when I opened this New Topic , silly person.
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My Bad!

[Eugene]

My Bad!

Your bad indeed! I even discussed his inappropriate, anachronistic mandolin at some length.

[Blueglass]

I think its Signs where the a guy is sitting at his table playing mandolin. or at least its a fairly new alien movie.
also on PBS the barenstien bears is all mandolin music through the whole show. I let my boy watch it just so I can hear all the great mandolin music.
Don't forget All the Pretty Horses and Marty S. mandolin inspired soudtrack. The movie Greatfull Dog had great mandolin music.
Bonnie and Clyde has mostly all banjo but a little mandolin in it.

[mandopete]

My Bad!

Your bad indeed! #I even discussed his inappropriate, anachronistic mandolin at some length.

Fo' Shizzle!!

[jefflester]

At the Mandolin Symposium "music appreciation" classes that started each day, the teachers showed all sorts of clips of mandolin players. One of these clips in particular got quite the audience reaction. It was from a 1967 movie called "The Road to Nashville" and featured Donna Stoneman playing an electric mandolin (maybe a Gibson EM-150?) while go-go dancing (boots, fringed skirt etc) while other Stonemans (I think) accompany her on a rather progressive song (for the time). After the clip, one of the teachers (Dawg I think) said that was an example of "Go-Go-Grass." Bobby Osborne is in the movie and no doubt there are other mando appearances as well.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268582/

But other than the list of worst movies of all time, I've never seen a rating this low on imdb, so viewer beware! It's 2.4 would put it around #30 of the all-time worst list, but it doesn't have anywhere near enough votes.

-Jeff Lester

[mandroid]

there is a breif scene in Fellini's 'the Clowns', [todays rental], with a mandolin banjo player {a very tiny head, a banjo playing pinhead?) Zippy, where are you?

[Spencer]

I seem to remember a F-5 type being used as a prop in an old Marx brother film, but I can't remember which one. Anybody know if this is correct, and if so which one? I think there was some gangster gang involved and a lot of running in and out of hotel rooms. That's probably about as helpful as saying there are banjos in bluegrass.

Spencer

[AlanN]

Gee, I'd like to see that movie. As a younsgter, I watched them all, but was not mando-centric yet. They were all musicians, as you know. Chico - piano, Groucho - guitar, Harpo - guess!, not sure what Zeppo played.

[John Bertotti]

Meng gui da sha (1987)

The description makes it sound like a show I would love to watch and laugh at. Chinese Elves, hahaha!

Now I'm 39 in a couple of months and I remember this but I'm surprised someone else here didn't mention the singing cowboys in some of the Gene Autry movies. Several Mandolin appearances. I think the singing cowboys were the Sons of the Pioneers. John

[madog99]

The Alamo . The scence where Billy Bob is doing a cool fiddle tune at the dance , you can see a guy playing mando behind him .

[mandodebbie]

They need to make a Mondo Mando movie.

[mrmando]

There are bowlbacks being played during the sappy love song sequence in the Marx Bros. "Cocoanuts." I don't remember ever seeing an F-style mandolin in any Marx Bros. film and I've seen them all. Groucho plays a nice Gibson archtop guitar in "Horse Feathers" and then throws it in a lake.

Hoagy Carmichael's band in "To Have and to Have Not" includes a mandolin player.

[Paul Kotapish]

The scene in Horse Feathers features Groucho singing "Everyone Says I Love You," pursued by a duck who quacks at the end of every line. At the end of the song, Groucho chucks his guitar at the duck and it ends up in the drink. If you look carefully, you'll notice that there's a quick edit and they swap Groucho's Gibson for a cheapo. Very funny.

Other mando-in-the-movies sightings:

Matewan Italian mandolin
Grapes of Wrath A model
Eat My Dust Grisman soundtrack
Hot from Petrograd Dave Apollon
Club Cassanova Dave Apollon
Merry Go Round Dave Apollon
Second Chorus Charles Butterworth playing an F-5, Fred Astair making fun of him, and Artie Shaw in on the action, too.
Bound for Glory I think it's Tom Sauber on the mandolin

[Tom C]

While watching Woody Allen's Zelig, I saw Leonard Zelig playing a Gibson F4 in a mariacchi(sp) band.

[GRW3]

I can't believe I got to the end of the list without seeing

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

He was not a cook but an Italian Army Officer enchanting the ladies with his playing.

Robert Altman's Nashville has some mandolins sprinkled througout.

[jefflester]

I can't believe I got to the end of the list without seeing

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

It was mentioned in the very first post.

[GRW3]

oops

[Phillip Tigue]

Now why can't the Tablature fairies transpose some Vivaldi on this site? It's long over due.

There are tablature fairies?

[Scott Tichenor]

A few selections from the This Day in History part of this site:

January 1, 1935 - Dave Apollon and his Romantic Serenaders appeared as themselves in the movie In Town Tonight
January 13, 1972 - Second movement of Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto in C major used in the movie "The Cowboys", released on this date.
March 24, 1972 - "The Godfather" movie released with a now famous mandolin track entitled "Speak Softly Love."
May 8, 1937 - Dave Apollon starred in the movie "Movie-Mania" as himself.
June 29, 1999 - David Grisman appeared as himself in history of jugband movie "Chasin' Gus' Ghost."
August 17 , 2001 - The movie "Corelli's Mandolin" is released starring Nicholas Cage and Penelope Cruz.
August 19, 1914 - The movie "The Fable of the Two Mandolin Players and the Willing Performer" released.
September 11, 2001 - Director Gillian Grisman released the movie Grateful Dawg about her father David and musical relationship with Jerry Garcia.
November 14, 1937 - Dave Apollon appeared as bandleader in the movie "Merry Go Round of 1938."

[frankenstein]

Gee, I'd like to see that movie. As a younsgter, I watched them all, but was not mando-centric yet. They were all musicians, as you know. Chico - piano, Groucho - guitar, Harpo - guess!, not sure what Zeppo played.

mando ?

[bluegrassman3.0]

There is about a second of a mando in the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. It looks like a Fender acoustic-electric A-style.

[CrocatoanPicker]

Try THIS one...
'Captain Correli's Mandolin'
(Nicholas Cage WWII movie).

Cage plays an ITALIAN WWII Captain who gets stationed in Greece, after Germany had to finally take the country (as usuall, for the Italians)...
... and this movie starts out with some humorous play on that fact as Capt. Correli (Cage) tries to peacefuly assimilate the people of his assignment into Greater Italy.

It is a GREAT flick (one of Nicholas Cages lesser known movies) in which Cage actually speaks with an Italian accent and plays traditional Italian Mando as he demands musical accompaniment from his Troops.
It's a love story, a war flick, it offer breathtaking scenery and YES.... 3-4 Mandolin parts ! Haha

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