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Peter Falk, Columbo Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce...Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson William Hopper as Perry Mason's favorite private detective, Paul Drake

Moreover, TCM was probably burning off Fox movies that had been licensed before Disney acquired assimilated acquired the Fox catalogue. I'd love to see the titles you mention and other surviving pre-1935 Fox titles. But Disney appears to have put these films--at least for now?--in the vault alongside Song of the South.

JAMES GARNER BASIL RATHBONE MARGARET RUTHERFORD HUMPHREY BOGART ROBERT MITCHUM STEVE MCQUEEN CLINT EASTWOOD

A lot of people think they just buy the DVD or Blu-Ray at Wal-Mart, pop it in a player and send it out over the airwaves or down the cable to their TV, not realizing how complicated lawyers and legislatures have made it. One TCM lawyer talked for a few minutes before a showing of a film at the TCM Film Festival that their legal department had been working for several years to be able to get the rights, as it was tied up in probate hell. Edit to clarify: The TCM lawyers had to work so long just to figure out exactly who had the rights, and then negotiate to get them. The first part took a long time to unravel, as the rights had been neglected by various heirs through the years.

Tom Conway and George Sanders as The Falcon Warner Oland as Charlie Chan

The Man Between (1953) Director Carol Reed returns to the moody ambience that he had masterminded four years earlier with The Third Man with this post WWII thriller set in Berlin. Claire Bloom plays a naive English woman who arrives to visit her brother, now married to a Berliner (Hildegarde Neff) who, while outwardly pleasant, holds troubling secrets. Soon appearing on the scene is James Mason, as a mysterious East Berliner, also outwardly pleasant, who has some kind of relationship to Neff. After an interesting, if slightly meandering, first half, this film really starts to take off as a taut thriller following a kidnapping. The real stars of the film are its dramatic visuals, many of them set at night, with the same striking photography, this time by Desmond Dickinson, full of odd off centre Dutch angles, that had so memorably distinguished The Third Man. The cast is generally impressive, in particular Mason as the film's charming, morally ambiguous Harry Lime-like character. Shot on location in the ruins of post war Berlin, along with interior shots taken at Shepperton Studios in London, the two blend seamlessly together, excluding some obvious rear screen projection at the film's climax, to create a memorable exercise in moody suspense. One wishes that the film's script might have been as impressive as the performances and the photography. Something else that the film lacks, when compared to The Third Man, is that film's oddly effective dark humour, which so effectively complemented the suspense and mystery elements of its tale. If The Man Between falls short of being a classic, it still remains a film of distinction and visual bravura, and must rank as one of the better films in James Mason's career. 3 out of 4

Have you seen Flamingo Road, the noir with Joan Crawford. This is Sydney at his worst (as far a character), but as his best as an actor. Crawford and Sydney were made to go at each other!

Thank you TCM for showing Clue. I love this movie, I've seen it at least a dozen times. I never tire of it. I own it. But I'm watching it again. There will be no f-f-flames on the side of my face tonight!

James Gleason and Edna M. Oliver as Hildegard Withers Essie Davis as P. Fischer Tom Selleck (Magnum), Lance (on Rockford), and Blue Bloods Chris Noth, Jerry Orbach, Ice T., Mariska H., Christopher Meloni (and all those other L&O detectives) Margaret Rutheford (Miss Marple)

FRANK SINATRA PETER LORRE ALBERT FINNEY PETER USTINOV WILLIAM CONRAD KARL MALDEN ROCK HUDSON ROGER MOORE MIKE CONNORS MICHAEL DOUGLAS PIERCE BROSNAN JACK LORD

Murder at the Gallop

Lloyd Nolan started the Michael Shayne series of films. Hugh Beaumont finished the Shayne series (although it's hard not to picture him as Mr. Cleaver!). Beaumont and Nolan actually appeared in many noirs.

Lovers and Other Strangers

i'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that THERE IS A SLIGHTLY GAY UNDERTONE TO THIS STORY.

I watched EVIL UNDER THE SUN (1982) on TCM. I don't know why, But I had forgotten that the opening credits have THE MOST MARVELOUS ILLUSTRATED TITLE CARDS, sadly some of my FAVORITES, I could not find online, but here are a couple I can: [I literally leapt out of my chair, paused my Television and snapped photos with my phone for some of them] They used to show this on HBO in the 1980's and I loved it almost as much as DEATH ON THE NILE and it is where I learned about COLE PORTER (the use of his songs for the film's soundtrack was a TERRIFIC IDEA.) technically, yes- it is an example on the part of multiple parties (even Christie herself with the source novel) returning to the same well once too often- for both novel and film are very very very obviously retreads of DEATH ON THE NILE...But Oh the style of it all! And while part of me wishes they had gone in a different direction for this third installment- maybe a JAWS 3, PEOPLE 0 outright parody of the genre- or (more wisely) an adaptation of FIVE LITTLE PIGS (retitled of course)- which is probably the most humanistic and grounded of the Poirot novels- there is still something marvelous about a poodle-permed MAGGIE SMITH in primary colors and DIANA RIGG spitting lines like "THE B!TCH, DAPHNE!" and NICHOLAS CLAY'S LOWER BUTT CHEEKS and the fact that almost every frame of this film is GORGEOUS... Although I will say I did not like the main interior :HOTEL LOBBY" set at all, it looked like something out of SOAPDISH.

The Tamarind Seed (1974)

Another poster who does not understand broadcast "packaging" of films. Networks don't always have control of what they are licensed to broadcast by availability, cost & "bundled" packages offered by distributors.

THE BAD SEED (1956)

My favorite performance from Sydney Greenstreet is in THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS. I also enjoy his comedic role in CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT.

Friday, January 15 Ann Miller day 6 a.m. Too Many Girls (1940). WIth Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. 3:45 p.m. Kisses For My President (1964). About America’s first female President. This was made 57 years ago. 4 a.m. Pipe Dreams (1976). Gladys Knight received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Acting Debut.

Our fourth character actor is SYDNEY GREENSTREET. He made his motion picture debut in THE MALTESE FALCON (1941). He was outfoxed by Zachary Scott in RUTHLESS (1948). And he learned that you cannot judge a book by its cover when he investigated Rosalind Russell in THE VELVET TOUCH (1948).

I too would like to see some good transfers of pre-Fox fire movies come out, stuff that existed before the fire. By this point we are probably looking at forgotten copies in obscure archives.

Good Neighbor Sam

Fox is now owned by Disney. So blame the mouse.

LA, AR, GA, SC and NC voted entirely for Kennedy FL, TN, KY and VA went to Nixon MS went to Byrd (a Democrat, a segregationist, from VA) AL split their votes 6/5 with Byrd/Kennedy

Barbara Harris starred on Broadway in The Apple Tree and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, so she had solid singing credentials. Unlike, say, Lily Tomlin, and I don't know why she got the Oscar nod either. I think it's partly the "Oh, she's in a movie instead of doing a comedy routine!" novelty effect, and as one of the biggest films of the year, Nashville was figuring out who they wanted to push for the nominations. By the way, there's a moment in Nashville much beloved by some viewers where Barbara Baxley talks about all the Southern states that voted for a Catholic for the first time when they voted for Kennedy. However, this is bogus (despite the strong anti-Catholic feelings in the South; that much is true) because in those days the South was solidly Democratic, not Republican, and most Southern states automatically voted for any Democrat.

BREAKER MORANT (1980)

Butterfield 8 next : Dostoyevsky

Some pre-code material should STAY in the pre-code era.

IMPEACHMENT III: MELANIA’S REVENGE

Thurs., 2-14 2 Davis/Hopkins classics......... 8:00 pm The Old Maid (1939) 1h 35m | Drama | TV-PG An unmarried mother gives her illegitimate child to her cousin. Director Edmund Goulding Cast Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent 9:45 pm Old Acquaintance (1943) 1h 50m | Drama | TV-PG Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives. Director Vincent Sherman Cast Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young

I just watched a certain someone get impeached for a second time (2021) Four out of four stars, loved it, Although at about 4.044 hours it went on for a little long.

She was originally cast as The Wicked Witch Of The West in Wizard Of Oz. She was going to be sexy and slinky like the Wicked Queen in Snow White, then the producers decided that bad witches should be ugly, so they cast Margaret Hamilton.

The Remains of the Day is an interesting case where both the novel and the film are excellent in different ways. The novel, where everything is seen from the butler's viewpoint, if I remember correctly, is high comedy with undertones of tragedy. The film has a more objective point of view, so that it feels like a tragedy with overtones of high comedy.

THE NANNY 1965

LEE next: James, Wendy and Yvonne

Illusionist Siegfried Fischbacher dies in Las Vegas at 81

Queeg, Lt. Cmdr. -- Humphrey Bogart in The Caine Mutiny

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You get to see Sydney Greenstreet in a different kind of role in Between Two Worlds.

Good morning all. I've been reading the postings here for quite some time. What a friendly informative group this is. I used to read and post at IMDB until things got to gruesome over there. I've been watching the classics since I was a kid, sitting with my family (esp my father) watching The Late Show and The Million Dollar movie on tv. He would always name the actor as soon they appeared. One of my early memories is recognizing Bette Davis when we saw Whatever Happened to Baby Jane in the theater. Anyway, glad to be here.

Especially if one is interested in Hitler's lighter side.

Hey! I wonder if maybe a showing of The Producers here might help satisfy the OP's complaint???... Okay sure, so maybe it's not actually a "Nazi" movie per se, but anytime you can catch the late great Dick Shawn in ANYTHING is always a big plus, wouldn't ya say?! (...hey, it's just a suggestion here, that's all)

Jessica Campbell, ‘Election’ and ‘Freaks and Geeks’ Star, Dies at 38

I finished NASHVILLE (1975) SPOILERS! Big thanks to everybody who replied to me on this. I have to say I don’t think I liked it, it gave me kind of a READY TO WEAR Vibe: a similar sense of “just what what the hell was that all about?” at the end, director and co. give us a dozen different threads but they don’t weave together into anything. And I get that Exact same sense from NASHVILLE, In the end I don’t really see why we were supposed to follow around any of these insufferable, BADLY DRESSED people. I can’t remember how, but I knew that “Barbara Jean“ was assassinated at the end However I was not expecting it to be such a very very clumsy analogy for the Kennedy assassination. “This is Nashville not Dallas” Is, in my opinion, an absolutely terrible line. I also find it extremely hard to believe that minutes after a performer is shot and carried off stage someone gropes around for another performer, points to some Vicky Lester type and says “you go on kid!” (Seriously though was this a thing? Have I missed somewhere in the history of of country and western music, numerous examples of stars being assassinated in the middle of performances? Did Squeaky Fromme take a shot at Loretta Lynn and I missed it?!?!) I’m sorry to say this but I’m in a dark mood lately, I would complain about the fact that no motive is given for just why Barbara Jean’s assassin assassinates her...and then I remember her singing.. Barbara Harris (as Country Western Vicki Lester) was absolutely terrific though, and her singing voice is sensational, and I actually somewhat enjoyed her song and admit to feeling somewhat Emotionally manipulated the end of the film. Speaking of which it’s funny to me that Pauline Kael absolutely love this movie because she absolutely hated being manipulated. I stand by everything I earlier said about a majority of the songs in this movie. I also don’t understand what the hell Lily Tomlin did it was worthy of a supporting actress nomination, but I know 1975 was a weak year. But seriously what the hell was the point of having her sing (VERY BADLY) with a black gospel group? Some kind of sight gag? I posted this using my phone so sorry about the grammar and stuff.

And im NEVER Shure About meds dosage..lol Lol

"New York, New York" would have been a much better choice.

Gerald Hiken, an actor known for Car 54, Where Are You?, Reds, and Invitation to a Gunfighter, died on January 6th at the age of 93: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=197479712

I need a translator

PETULIA (1968)