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An Affair to Remember (1957) - By providing Love Affair (1939) as one of your examples, can we really start off with anything other than the remake?

I liked this version of The Killers well enough (I think it might have been the third time I've ever watched it over the years), but no, there's no way this version even comes close to the quality of the 1946 version. First, IMO, Robert Siodmak's direction in the '46 version is far superior to Don Siegel's in the latter. And, so is the cinematography. Secondly, I've never EVER found Angie Dickenson to be all that attractive. Or, perhaps to paraphrase Sen. Lloyd Bentsen's famous line, "I know Ava Gardner, and Angie, you're no Ava Gardner". (sorry, MissW ) And besides, I've always loved the final scene in the original and were Ava pleads not for her life (as Angie does), but for her dying sugar daddy to exonerate her to the police as she's being taken away by them. The remake in my view contains too much unnecessary bloodshed, and which I think lessens the impact of the film's conclusion and seems almost too easy and simple of an ending for this story. Now, being the gearhead that I am, I DID enjoy looking at all the classic race and passenger cars in the remake and which of course served the purpose of showing Cassavettes as a race car driver whose services as such would be of later use in the plot in this version. (...but other than that, nope, its "2.5 to 3-star" rating as compared to the original's 4-star rating is and continues to be perfectly understandable in my view)

Girls About Town with Kay Francis (early George Cukor). Trail of the Lonesome Pine with Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda.

Yea, what a character.

The Henry Aldrich movies. Paramount made eleven of them, two with Jackie Cooper and nine with Jimmy Lydon as Henry. These movies were a staple on local TV programming during my youth in the late 1950's & 1960's. Not big budget blockbuster movies, just a lot of fun.

Perhaps so but the way Gulager saw it, since it was Marvin's last scenes to be filmed, Marvin showed up drunk because he could get away with it. And he did. Having said that, though, Lee is excellent in those scenes so maybe his drunken state did add to the performance. A couple of years later, though, Marvin drunkenness during the making of The Professionals back fired on him when Burt Lancaster picked him up and dangled him over the edge of a cliff, threatening to drop him off it the next time he showed up drunk. Marvin, I understand, was sober during the making of the rest of the film.

Two actor/hoofers from the past. Young Bobby Van (before his nose job)... And, Ray Bolger...

Young Gig

The Canary Murder Case (1929). This pre-code film features William Powell playing detective Philo Vance, with actresses Jean Arthur and Louise Brooks.

This is the best acoustic guitar \ singing duo, I have ever heard.

For me it's NO MAN OF HER OWN (1950)

The Day of the locust

LUXURY LINER OPERATION PETTICOAT WE'RE NOT DRESSING (they fall in love on the ship before the shipwreck)

When he's asked, "What does 'American Pie' mean?" Don McLean likes to reply, "It means I'll never have to work again."

ONE WAY PASSAGE ...which was hilariously spoofed on THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW:

It was only mentioned in the GTA, but only as a nominee for Mary Tyler Moore, for "Worst Performance as a Nun/Priest". While Food of the Gods only got a Worst Rodent Movie nom, and The Silver Chalice for Worst Debut Performance. Guess this is a warm up for their 31 Days of Oscar, where anything nominated gets shown. (And Spinout doesn't count for only getting into the Medveds' "50 Worst Films".)

I love Saint-Saens. Lately, I've listened to Moon River clip from Breakfast at Tiffany's. I've also listened to some Robbie Robertson and some great tunes while driving (Rock Songs). I like a great deal of music but don't prefer much of today's pop/rap/etc. (sorry for awkwardness). I also get a kick out of listening to 80's music when I watch some movies. I have a question for those who actually watch the commercials: did you ever wonder how the original intention or interpretation of the song fits with the commercial. Do you think Freddy Mercury/Queen would have wanted I Want to Break Free (don't know song's exact title) used for a cruise line? It is a rhetorical question.

DIVINE in ANY ROLE could save ANY FILM. (A bold statement, I know, but one I stand by. )

Horse Feathers next--a turtle

The Princess Comes Across Romance on the High Seas Ship of Fools Anything Goes

The Loves of Salammbo (1960) - Because it is more interesting if one goes for something other than the obvious choice! Next: Frank King

one thousand nine hundred seventieth category Shipboard romances LOVE AFFAIR (1939) NOW VOYAGER (1942) TITANIC (1997)

HOT SPELL (Paramount 1958)

Bickford, Charles

Gloria Grahame

Too Close for Comfort

Waxman, Al

"Forgotten Faces" (1928) starring Clive Brook, William Powell, and Olga Baclanova.

Petrocelli

Clara Bow in "Kick In". This was her last Paramount film before her breakdown. I saw it years ago at Film Forum and she was fantastic. The film itself had been restored and was in pristine condition.

Stevens, Andrew

Howard Da Silva (in 1776) Next: played a 20th century president

The Howards of Virginia (1940) Next: 1776 (1972) - Two more with Thomas Jefferson

I would love for TCM to show Calcutta (1947); this is the only Ladd 40s noir\crime film I haven't seen. Also has the always interesting Gail Russell, and pairs Ladd again with William Bendix.

it caused me to totally re-evaluate BETTE DAVIS. When I first started wtaching classic films ca. age 10, she was my favorite, but over time, I grew a little indifferent to her (in the mid forties, she started playing her parts a bit too noble, a bit too prim.) Holy ****, BEYOND THE FOREST reminded me of just why I loved her. It is honestly a bit like the great LOONEY TOONS cartoon DUCK AMOK, where DAFFY DUCK finds himself cast against his wishes and left at the whims of a MAD ANIMATOR [revealed at the end to be BUGS BUNNY], the resulting meltdown is a thing of beauty to behold. Same thing with BEYOND THE FOREST, only BETTE is in the DAFFY DUCK part and JACK WARNER is the unseen hand relishing giving her a hard time. slap a Morticia wig on Daffy here and I wouldn't be able to tell them apart.

It’s interesting how different we all view the Thin Man films. I like the first one the most; but the last one, “Song of the Thin Man,” is actually my second favorite. I like the jazz score, the focus on the clarinet player (I played clarinet from 5th-12th grade, lol), and Gloria Grahame. A mustache-less Leon Ames is also in that film. This is a man who needs a mustache. My least favorite is probably the fifth one, when Nick is sipping apple juice the whole time. It just doesn’t feel like a Thin Man film. I hate the baby party in the third one. For me personally, I’d rank the films: 1. The Thin Man (#1) 2. Song of the Thin Man (#6) 3. After the Thin Man (#2) 4. Shadow of the Thin Man (#4) 5. Another Thin Man (#3) 6. The Thin Man Goes Home (#5)

Lord Of The Flies (1963) TCM On Demand 6/10 A group of English schoolboys are fleeing a nuclear attack on a plane, it crashes on a deserted island and they are the only survivors, they have to learn to fend for themselves. This is a good version of William Golding 's novel, not as good as the book though. I liked the B&W documentary feel and some of the performances. The three leads are quite good, Ralph is the thoughtful one who is voted chief, Jack is the school bully who wants to be the hunter and Piggy the bespectacled fat boy who is constantly ridiculed. It is a short movie (90 min) and there are times I wish it was longer. The ending is powerful.

Race With the Devil (1975). Riotously funny comedy starring Warren Oates and Peter Fonda as a pair of friends who decide to go with their wives (Loretta Swit and Lara Parker respectively) on vaction in a state-of-the-art RV from Texas to Colorado. Unfortunately, on their first night on the road, the two guys see a satanic ritual murder, and the Satanists spot them having seen it. So now they've got the Satanists chasing them. And this is where it gets funny, as the Satanists seem to have thousands of extremely powerful supporters who are able to cook up a series of increasingly implausible scenarios to try to chase and catch the two couples. I think my favorite was when one of the wives opened up a cabinet and found a rattlesnake. I was hoping Oates would say, "Get these mother****ing snakes off this mother****ing RV!" 5/10 in the intended genre of horror; 8/10 as a comedy. This one is in the FXM rotation at present and is getting another pair of airings on Monday (Feb. 1) and Tuesday. Definitely worth a watch.

My own source, who has painstakingly created an independant broadcast log going back to the beginning of 2011 (making a record of every single thing shown - not just what's on the schedule - but what was actually shown), has given me data which agrees with cmovieviewer. Before that my data relies on published official schedules, so something might have happened then. Multiple times? I kind of doubt it. It would have had to have fallen through the cracks each and every time.

As for The Swarm, its bad. I just feel sorry for Fred MacMurray. For the past week, his onetime SOTM tribute has been used as a bumper for The Swarm.

TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE is one I'd like to see on TCM as well. It's a must for Beulah Bondi fans.

Harrison, Gregory

Great post (one of your best on the subject of movies). I think the melancholy ending is so powerful because of Shirley Booth and how she plays it. The ending is of course foreshadowed throughout the picture because we know things are not going to end well for this man, his wife and their family. Still that last sequence really packs a punch and hits you right in the gut.

Nip, Have you ever told us why you like this movie so much?

If memory serves, NOT SO DUMB was not a big hit and, oddly, FIVE AND TEN with Leslie Howard (although Davies is terrific in it.) Her starring talkie debut in MARIANNE was supposedly a big hit but it may have included the box office from the silent version (with a different cast) of the same 1929 film. Davies was working on both these versions while filming her sequence for THE HOLLYWOOD REVUE OF 1929. And yes it helped that Davies was paired with the likes of Gable, Crosby, Cooper, and Montgomery ... although she always got top billing.

Clifton Webb

TREASURE OF THE GOLDEN CONDOR