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I'd planned a long ramble, sort of a defining statement of purpose and how it's altered in my 13 years on these boards. I also intended a sort of commentary/lecture on behavior of these boards and the state of social media in general and finally a discussion on movies and how my tastes have changed during this time. All that seems like a lot of work right now. So, thanks to all the people who have been on this long, crazy ride with me. Moderators, please don't move this thread! I live my online life on the General Discussions board and wouldn't want to have to go somewhere else. To keep this topical: movies movies movies TCM movies movies movies movies Andy Hardy Esther Williams SUTS 31 Days Attack of the 50 Foot Woman Meet Me in St. Louis movies.

Warm and Healthy Ninety-Seventh Birthday Wishes and Greetings for Madam Eva Marie Saint.

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I don't feel the chemistry between James Garner and Sally Field in Murphy's Romance (1985). I also don't feel the appropriate "unchemistry" between Brian Kerwin (who plays the ex-husband who is something of a rounder) and Sally Field. I like Garner, and he has the right amount of sex appeal in the movie as a mature man who still has interest in romance, but for me, the other two fall flat in their respective roles. I also never felt any heat between Alan Alda's Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H (1972-1983) and any of the nurses he kissed. Maybe because it was television in the 70s, maybe because (in my view) Alda has the sex appeal of a codfish. No disrespect to Alda. No disrespect to codfish.

Crime School (1938) TCM On Demand-6/10 A newly appointed deputy commissioner of corrections (Humphrey Bogart) tries to help out some slum kids (The Dead End Kids) sent to reform school. A Dead End Kids film that came in between the excellent Dead End and Angels With Dirty Faces. It's not as good as those but still worth seeing. It starts out pretty tough and gritty but has a bit of a pat and comical ending. It's a treat seeing Bogart on the right side of the law for a change. The early scenes in the reform school are quite brutal. The Kids are still in their early stages, keeping to their usual characters-BIlly Halop is once again the leader and main character, Leo Gorcey plays the loose cannon who gets in the most trouble, Huntz Hall is again the comic relief (his character is named Goofy). I liked them this way before they became a comedy team as The East Side Kids and Bowery Boys.

Dargo, if you excluded the posts in which you made reference to superfluous U's, you'd be tied with Sewhite with 5,000 posts.

All About MONEY! Movie titles related to money -- cash, check, gold, jewels, coins, etc -- such as... THE MILLION DOLLAR COLLAR

Happy Fourth Of July everybody.

Private Buckaroo (1942) Follow the Boys (1944) Up in Arms (1945)

Some months ago I finally surpassed 10,000 but received no glory because by that time 10,000 had ceased to be considered a milestone around here. I didn't even make the 10,000 Post Party Thread. This thread is moribund as that milestone is now small potatoes. My achievement is but paltry alongside the sheer proliferation of nearly everyone else. I once complained to my analyst that I was suffering from inferiority because everyone else had so many more posts that I did, despite the fact that I have around here for a long time. "Now, now," he said trying to comfort me, "I consulted the forum just the other day and there was someone there with only 8,766 posts. You have more than that." "Yeah, I know," I replied, "but that person has been here for only two weeks." "Oh, I see," he said, "Well, I guess you are pretty bad, after all. Have you thought of killing yourself?" I have since changed analysts. Now I am approaching 15,000 and by the time I get there I fear I will once again be tragically ignored. I could start my own thread and call it "MY 15,000TH POST" but I have an appalling aversion to initialing threads, I have started probably less than 20 threads my whole time here. I could never take the trauma. So, I will continue my drab, anonymous existence, posting away nonetheless, one post at a time (as they say), and wrenching whatever joy I can get out of each one singly. What me, Count?

What I noticed during this watching is that the money was mostly in stacked bundles when it was put into the sack but was all loose when he put it into the suitcase. I am sorry to say that I am one of those people also who are affected by apparent discrepancies. Both the bag and the suitcase seem to weigh less than fifty pounds. This is based on their swing patterns and the ease with which they are picked up and are carried. Two million dollars in fifty pounds requires an average bill to be eighty-eight dollars. This suggests a mix of only fifty and one-hundred dollar bills with slight emphasis on the latter. A racetrack with that volume of high-value bills would need forklift access to their money room to accommodate the handling of pallet-loads of ones, fives and tens.

Congratulations! And many more profound posts to come, no doubt! I was going to mention that I celebrated my 15th anniversary on the Board on Thursday, July 1, but didn't get around to it. But I will certainly celebrate St. Swithin's Day on July 15.

Silent screen comic Max Linder and Francis McDonald:

Every time core video-raised fans say "What was wrong with Temple of Doom?", I tell them about the days of sitting in a theater, and having to sit through Primitive Mating Rituals. (In which the Howard the Duck writers fancy themselves as Grant & Hepburn screwball-romantic-comedists... 😣) It is very EASY to believe that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were both going through bad divorces while this movie was made. I was recently watching Bus Stop (1956) on YouTube reaction, and while I can appreciate Marilyn trying to take a stab at real acting during her Strasberg days, turning the entire movie over to her being pursued by cowboy hick Don Murray didn't feel like a wistful "This's the best I'm going to get" relationship, so much as a very LONG episode of Beverly Hillbillies: "Heheh, bad news, Miss Hathaway, Jethro wants to marry Marilyn Monroe!"

Whenever Audrey Hepburn is paired with a guy old enough to be her father. With Bogart in SABRINA (she has more chemistry with William Holden). With Gary Cooper in LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (a major mismatch). With Rex Harrison in MY FAIR LADY (another unconvincing pairing).

Tomorrow, 7/5/21, TCM is airing movies directed by Brian De Palma. Some of his films I know and others I don't. I'd love to know your favorite Brian De Palma films. My favorites are: The Untouchables (1987) I love this story about how the FBI finally captured Al Capone and the accountant is a hero. Robert De Niro plays a chilling Capone (one of the best and darkest roles he has played) and I love Sean Connery's portrayal of an Irish Chicago Policeman. Whenever I walk through Union Train Station in Chicago I think of that incredible scene from The Untouchables when the baby carriage goes down the steps in slow motion. Blow Out (1981) A great neo-noir suspense thriller about a sound recordist that discovers a murder.

Hollywood Canteen (I think that is the name) White Christmas

Eddie's intro and outro were the best parts, particularly his shout out to byNWR.com. The film itself was slow. The wife fell asleep and I got sidetracked so started over this morning and watched the whole thing. Locations are interesting, camera work acceptable but nothing especially remarkable, Mary Boland stole the show, not a particularly high bar.

I, for one, forgive you. Green lines in a TV is something that could happen to us all and we should all stick together. Solidarity in the face of green lines, hail to the cause!. And despite it's greenness there is something noir about the very thing itself. Waking up one morning and finding green lines on a television screen is a plight for any noir hero/heroine. There is something quite fatale about it, male or female, depending on the gender your particular TV set. Here's hoping you're particular noir will have a happy ending. Surely there have been noirs with happy endings ... right? Despite noise to the contrary, do let us know when you are once again connected.

For a Few Dollars More (1964)

You'll Never Get Rich (1941)

Lorna, I've noticed that like a lot of posters here, you like to read crime novels, pulp fiction, detective stories -- however one wants to label the genre. I'm very impressed with how many of the original novels you've read that many noirs and crime movies are based on. I know you read other types of literature too, but crime fiction seems to be one of your favourite type of novel. I must disclose here that I have read very few - unless you count British "cozies" - and there's a reason for that. Every time I've even browsed through a novel by any of the original noir writers, there's a hardness, a nastiness, that doesn't seem to make it into the film versions of these novels. I know a lot of people, especially fans of that genre of fiction, are bothered by this, by the film version being less ugly and violent than the original book. But I dislike that ugliness, and I'm glad the cinematic adaptations are almost always toned down - sometimes just a bit, sometimes, I gather, a lot. Of course this probably has a lot to do with the Code and the censors and the Catholic Board of Decency or whatever they were called, as well as the producers worrying about the commercial value of the crime film; they don't want their audience repelled by the movie they're hoping to make money from. One example: You may remember, a few years ago there was a discussion on these boards about "In A Lonely Place". A few people who'd read the original book pointed out that the Bogart character, Dixon Steele, was much less violent and misogynistic than his namesake in the novel. Someone even quoted a passage from the book. I found it so ugly, so pathologically full of hatred and sadism, that I decided I never wanted to read it. And I was glad they'd made the changes to that character and to the story in the film version. So sue me, everybody .

I didn't mean to veer off but was just so upset in the moment I needed any place to vent, not realizing it might be inappropriate. Well, in any case I won't need a separate thread as my technician made it painfully clear the problem was not Xfinity/Comcast but the television itself, so any further discussion elsewhere would be for me like pouring salt on a wound.

I was thinking of home decor, buildings, etc. The only colors that seemed to be used, other than earth tones, were the now well-known avocado green, harvest gold, and a bright orange. Otherwise, everything seemed brown, brown brown. Even TV cabinets, though now made of plastic, were still make to look like wood, with fake wood grain. Some clothes were wild, patterns were anyway, with stripes and checks but unflattering lines. I was not much of a fan of the 70s, even though I spent most of my childhood and teen years in that decade. Shortages, fuel crises, Watergate, inflation, ugly clothes (to me), ugly cars (again, to me), recession, Olympics hostages, Iran hostages. The only bright spot to me was the Bicentennial.

Bogey & Lizbeth (sp?) Scott - she isn't Lauren B. William Hurt and Holly Hunter in Broadcast News In the prequels to the original Star Wars, I can't see Haydn C. and Natalie Portman (and Ewan M. is not Alec Guiness) People mentioned the age difference in Sabrina, but how do people feel about Holden and Hepburn As far as age goes, in Funny Face, she dances with an aging Fred Astaire, but I really don't care

I’ve never thought of that. But yeah, I see it. However, I highly recommend to you or anyone who is interested in great works of American pulp fiction checking out the novel CLEAN BREAK by LIONEL WHITE, Certain editions have been re-titled as THE KILLING To capitalize on the fact that it is the source novel. I read it about 25 years ago and I remember absolutely loving it, although it is very very different from the movie especially the ending which is 100 times better. There’s absolutely nothing at all redeeming about anybody in the novel, no glimpses of humanity to be found at all. And the Marie Windsor character is even more evil.

The romance which really makes me grimace is between Lana Turner and Ezio Pinza in Mr. Imperium (1951). Ouch. She played a popular American music star along the lines of Peggy Lee or Rosemary Clooney. Right. Who knows; Ezio Pinza may have been romantic as hell onstage in South Pacific, but in front of a movie camera he was a block of wood. I'm a Lana fan who will forgive her practically anything as long as I get to watch, but this one put even me over the edge.

Well CONGRATS Sewhite2000! Thank you for all your schedule lists & posting your opinions on classic movies in well thought out, plain language we all enjoy. In a sea of careless stream-of-consciousness gibberish on these internet message boards, your posts are memorable & refreshing.

Gold doesn't always weigh 50+ lbs. I keep thousands of dollars of gold in my toolbox that weighs practically nothing. Gold leaf comes as fine as a human hair. A book of 25 3x3" sheets costs about $300 (tripled in the last decade) with the tissue paper's weight exceeding the gold's weight. Even large amounts are super easy to steal & hide anywhere undetected. I always wondered why anyone would bother stealing heavy solid gold bars when gold leaf is so much easier to hide & distribute. No, you don't get a million dollars, but you also don't get caught so easily. Blind greed.

GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933

The MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E movie series WHERE THE SPIES ARE

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1925 - The Dark Angel 1926 - The Winning of Barbara Worth 1928 - Two Lovers Next: Dennis Morgan & S.Z. Sakall

As I recall, it was a kind of drab decade in real life too. Lots of beiges, browns and earth tones everywhere. It must've been a recoil against all the wild colors of the 60s.

One happy finger for each post...

Joan Shawlee next: Ride The High Country 1962

Thank you for the information. Posters complained about airing foreign animation! That's sad. There are so many incredible foreign film makers, animators, and others who've made tremendous contributions to film including Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaut, Federico Fellini, Akira Kirosawa, Mira Nair and many many more. Miyazaki really deserves recognition. In my opinion, he's a genius. People actually objecting to him because he is Asian? That makes me heartsick. One film that speaks to me on the topic of prejudice (and has a dad in it) is "Gentleman's Agreement", directed by Elia Kazan and starring Gregory Peck and Dorothy McGuire. It is a study of the shabby cruelty of anti-Semitism. Peck's character poses as a Jewish person to write an article on anti-Semitism which points out discrimination and professional bias of Jewish people in our country. In one scene, the McGuire character (Peck's love interest) comes to a realization of her own failure to speak out against anti-Semitism when she talks to the Peck character's Jewish WWII war buddy (played by John Garfield) about his experiences with discrimination after returning from the war.

Silver Linings Playbook was billed as a romantic comedy, but I was rooting for Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence to end up with each other only so that they wouldn't ruin the lives of any people I might actually like. I just wanted that pair of messed-up creeps to be far, far away from me.

I wish they'd show DEATHDREAM aka DEAD OF NIGHT ... I do like a spook-show late night. I wish they'd show more Blaxploitation... I have enjoyed 2 or 3 awesome PAM GRIER on late nite TCM like COFFY and FOXY BROWN. They're repulsive, gross, violent... (I love them). I guess movies like last night's (HELEN) are old tires must be worn out 'til flat.

The ending is similar to that of Treasure of Sierra Madre, which I'm assuming you're familiar with.

I thought that The Killing was the perfect example of the idea that you could meticulously plan plan plan for something (e.g. a heist), but you can never account for people.

You can bet your life I can’t. Same goes with Faye Dunaway.

My Grandmother was away at college at the time of those murders, but I never heard her talk about it while she was alive. I knew the basic story, primarily because of the Jimmy Stewart movie and because my parents had a copy of the book The FBI Story. I only know the story about her cousin because I ran across her name in a book written by her cousin's grandson, and he interviewed and quoted her a couple years before she passed. As far as I know, she never told anyone in the family that she had been interviewed for a book. The book was released after she passed away. I went all through school (grades 1-12) with a Chapman of that ranch family. Growing up, we knew they were well-to-do, but we never knew they were extremely wealthy (their family trust is worth at least $1B or so). But there were a lot of oil-rich people in town, so they didn't really stand out much. They also have ranches scattered across the state and crossing the Red River into Texas, and one branch of the family has a ranch outside of Corpus Christi, TX. The Barnard portion of the Osage County ranch was purchased about 25 years ago by The Nature Conservancy to preserve it as one of the last native tall grass prairies. It was intended to be a national park, but politics got in the way.

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I find most of the offerings on TCMU to be, as Lennon said of Jesus' disciples, thick and ordinary. Others are just tiresome and dull. I saw WTMWH a few years back. Pretty bad. I've never gone for the name Underground. Should be Boring and Tiresome Low-Budget Junk That Bombed When They Were Released. FYI, Winters wasn't trying to hitch a ride while standing on the street corner. She was trying to pick up some extra dough from nearsighted or drunk or both sailors.

Whenever John Wayne is teamed with almost any other actress than Maureen O'Hara. (...the chemistry just isn't nearly up to the same degree)

This one: The Iron Petticoat

I'm going to Los Angeles/San Diego in October. We're planning on Universal Studios and eating at Musso & Frank's. I'm also going to the Larry Edmunds Bookshop. I also hope to see The Brady Bunch House (I know, not Classic Hollywood) when I'm there. In San Diego, we're spending a few days at the Hotel Del Coronado where Some Like it Hot was filmed. Not the summer per se, but this past March, we went to an aviation/car museum in Hood River, OR and I saw the two stunt planes flown in The Tarnished Angels. A couple years ago, I sat in the cockpit of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, OR. I also recently attended two films during the Paramount Theater Summer Film Series in Austin, TX. I saw To Catch a Thief and A Streetcar Named Desire.