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Three from the weekend: The Miracle at Morgan's Creek (1943) Loved this film. First time seeing the entire thing through. We studied this back in my film theory class, something about when the characters are walking to town it leads to the breakdown of the family and when they are walking home it is restored. Either way i though the acting was amazing and must say i'm not familiar with Eddie Bracken but his voice sounds very familiar. He stole the show with his comedic performance. William Demarest also stood out me. I recognized him from My Three Sons and i believe this is the youngest i've ever seen him on screen, but his portrayal of the cranky over-protected father was great and seeing him take a couple pratfalls was funny. And how did the studio ever get away with a name like Cockenblocker? Very fitting and humorous name. The Prince of Tides (1991) Guess it was okay but didn't really find myself connecting with any of the characters. Under the Volcano (1984) Late John Huston film i had never heard of before. Decently directed but as a wino myself, i find endless scenes of drunks bumbling and mumbling a bit tiring after a while.

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I thought Pulp was the only dud in Neo Noir Night Friday. It started out well, but when it hit the Rooney part went downhill. Lisabeth Scott came out of retirement to do THIS? She must've had TEN lines! Caine saved it from being a total miss. I'd seen Body Heat when it came out and liked it, still do. Like many noirs its far fetched, but engrossing. Think this was the first time I've seen it since then. I'd never seen Live and Die in LA and was prepared not to like it from the storyline, but it was my favorite of the evening! Great storytelling; acting; photography; editing etc. That chase scene!

Los tallos amargos seems pretty deep into gay subtext. The meeting at the bar is like a gay pickup. Liudas (Vassili Lambrinos) stares at Alfredo (Carlos Cores), and Alfredo can't look away. Although Alfredo has a girlfriend, he doesn't seem all that interested in her, and he is clearly obsessed by Liudas. In the later scene with Alfredo, Elena, and a younger man, any woman like Elena who's been around would assume that a man behaving like Alfredo is attracted to the younger man.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) A Raisin in the Sun (1961) The Untouchables (1987) Proof (2005)

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I went through a similar thing a few years ago with a rear projection HITACHI of mine. GOOD looking picture, but started getting green lines(horizontal in my case) and wide ones too. Replaced it with an LG "smart" TV that can't give me the aspect options the Hitachi did. But for a second the beginning of your post reminded me of how my Dad used to joke that we needed a new TV set because; "I've already seen all the shows on this one!" Sepiatone

Ginger Rogers has been blonde, brunette & redhead (which just looks mid tone in B&W movies) These are hand colored B&W pics, but give you some idea: I think most recognise Ginger as platinum blonde because that was how she looked in those famous movies dancing with Astaire. Watching a B&W movie, a person might imagine her as a redhead because of her name, "Ginger". Because she was famous for dancing with Fred, I think that was Ginger depicted. Redhead Rita Hayworth was also known as a dancer, but was famous just a little later than the cartoon. It's very hard to draw caricatures well within the parameters of animation. No one could caricature as well as Hirschfeld. Although that guy who made those computer graphic SUTS caricatures a few years ago was brilliant: Even drawing a woman: (haha I love those two squares for nostrils)

The Sisters is one of my favorite Bette Davis films. I think she's beautiful in it and that the character has a magnetism that her sisters don't. As for Errol, I've never thought of him as a particularly handsome bloke, but in The Sisters, he is! The unmoustachiod look suits him.

Mickey One (1965) Medium Cool (1969) Ordinary People (1980) Pennies from Heaven (1981) Sixteen Candles (1984) The Color of Money (1986) Midnight Run (1987) A League of Their Own (1991) Spider-Man 2 (2004) Chi-Raq (2015)

Show him a little ankle and find out...

I just got in a 16mm Anscocolor print of LET'S MAKE UP (the American release of LILACS IN THE SPRING). Near the end of the picture, Flynn chides his daughter for not going to Burma because she doesn't have her pajamas. Flynn remarks "Pajamas in Burma? Darling, you don't need them - I should know!" Flynn is very, very good in this musical drama.

I read Under the Volcano and saw the movie. Prince of Tides is another ego trip for Streisand. I didn't see the chemistry between her and Nick Nolte. Based on a Pat Conroy novel.

Yes, this is absolutely true. A friend once said, "Did you ever notice that none of those people who used to talk about 'getting their **** together' ever did?" That's maybe the best comment ever about the late 1960s to late 1970s.

Actually that was a 1970 Dodge CHALLENGER, not a Charger. I had a 71 Challenger. Great looking car, but a POS as far as quality and assembly. The Challenger was Dodge's late entry into the pony car business. It was similar to Plymouth Barracuda, but slightly longer. Vanishing Point is a very good movie.

that's how he got his whole start, his popular nickname "BUTCH" came courtesy of lifelong friend JOAN CRAWFORD, who was stunned when she found out he was gay.

"YOU GUYS WANT ME TO FINISH THIS SHOOT, YOU PONY UP WITH THE DISCO BISCUITS!!!!"

two thousand one hundred thirty-seventh category Filmed on location in Chicago THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980) FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) ROAD TO PERDITION (2002)

Please don't, it's not appropriate in this thread. Might be a fun thread of it's own, though.

A friend said she could usually tell in a 70s movie what drug most of the people connected with the film were taking. Unfortunately, she never gave me a film-by-film or drug-by-drug list.

Sissy Spacek stayed for 2 months at the hotel I used to work at and she was a pain in the behind (without meaning to be). Had to have all these pots and pans and this and that so she could cook her own food. She was not nice to the staff. The nicest, most respectful movie actor that stayed at the hotel was by far Mickey Roark. Just a pleasure to interact with, no ego at all,

I'm glad I didn't see To Live and Die in LA back in 1985, because I wouldn't have appreciated the fantastic cinematography of Robby Muller, with almost every shot jaw-droppingly beautiful yet without stopping the film in its tracks. Direction, editing, and cinematography are all at the highest level. The story is good enough. There's a noticeable lack of women with jobs other than exotic dancer, informant, or low-rent femme fatale. Despite the female flesh on display, the most important relationships are between the men and are related to the jobs they do. This must be one of the few films without explicitly gay themes that shows the three top-billed male stars naked.

Sounds like love to me.

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My handyman actually resembles Dr. Fauci. So, no, I didn't look, lol.

Did he show his plumber cliche? I bet you were looking.

Nose silhouettes, hair partings, Wikipedia entries, reissues/originals. We're getting close to Trekkies debating warp nacelle placements. 😉😂

According to Wikipedia (although of course this being the very same source which states that that's Don Ameche in the aformentioned cartoon, and when instead it is SO damn obvious that it's REALLY George Brent ) Romero was given his nickname of "Butch" by another person, Lorna. That being his friend and fellow Hollywood actor/dancer George Murphy and who Romero helped get elected as a Senator from California in 1964. (...and btw, from the look on Joan's face in almost all those pics of her with Cesar, it appears as if she might've thought he could've been the love of her life if only he weren't gay, doesn't it...well, maybe after another guy that's also caricatured in this cartoon anyway...you know, the one with those big ears)

well, I will also tell you that when it comes to electronic/digital/tech problems, forming it into a question and doing a bing or google search can yield surprisingly successful results!!!! go to one or the other and type in "my [year, make and model tv] has audio but no picture" and you might get good news...

Thanks, Lorna! Never heard of that one. Will check it out. So I'm dozing late last night, wake up, and see that the t.v. screen isn't black anymore. Has a picture. Flickering, but a picture. Then after about 20 minutes there is a "block" of black, but not all the way down. It's as though the block is "hiding" the real picture, which is the movie or whatever I'm watching. And on the bottom and sides those green vertical lines keep popping up. They're all in it together, lol. Still have sound. I was able to "see" (with the flickering) those French Eric Rohmer films. Good thing they are very talky. All these weird "digital" thingies on my screen, it just doesn't really feel like the t.v. tube is ready to burn out or anything. But it must be since my cable is working. I have power. Sorry to treat you or anyone else on here as some sort of repair person who can instantly tell me what the situation is with this crazy Samsung 32 inch set. I talk to it in low, loving tones: "Please, for Mommy, keep going...."

The character of Tomek Zaleska was based upon Theodore Marcinkiewicz. Marcinkiewicz was released in 1950, on grounds he did not receive a fair trial. In 1965, he was awarded $35,000 from the state of Illinois for wrongful imprisonment. He changed his name to Teddy Marcin and worked as a truck driver in Los Angeles. Incidentally, the original script for the film contained a final scene which was cut. After the shot of Jimmy Stewart and the closing narration, the camera was to move up the penitentiary wall until we see Tomek Zaleska peering downward. The narration then continues “But Tomek Zaleska is still in prison. As recently as March 15, 1947, application for parole was denied. Yet, he was convicted in the same trial, and on the same testimony which sent Frank Wiecek to prison. Is he guilty? Or should he, like Frank Wiecek, be adjudged innocent? Only he knows – he and perhaps Wanda Skutnik!”

I wasnt impressed with the film. SPOILERS. I was so happy when the co-worker got offed so I wouldnt have to listen to him TALK, TALK, TALK! I almost bailed on the film because of all the TALKING! (Boring beyond belief!) Once he exited, the film got better. There was a germ of a good idea in the story, once the murder happened. Just wish it had been written differently or with a different plotline. What is so interesting about a Mail Order Journalism course????? The low budget sets didnt help either. And all the darkness. People dont even turn the lights on to READ!!!

I hadn't seen it either when it came out and really liked it!

Drum Crazy - Fred sings and dances - Easter Parade Tex Beneke sings in a movie

I was confused by this question too. What is "it" that you refer to? The "clarification" is equally confusing. I don't recall a lottery in either 1941/2004 Million Dollar Baby movie, nor any Jonathan Whitaker charactor.

“Drum Boogie,” BALL OF FIRE next another song that mentions a drum

Lana Turner next: Dark Horse 1992

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100 Years of Olympic Films.... Mon., 7-19 July 19 / 10 Movies In celebration of the Summer Olympics, TCM presents 24 hours of films about the Olympic Games from various years of cinema history. All 10 titles are TCM premieres. see: https://www.tcm.com/articles/Programming Article/021394/100-years-of-olympic-films

Flynn had a lot of respect for Davis as an actress and his knowledge that she considered him inadequate for the role of Essex obviously would have bothered him, adding to the tension between the two on the set. The critics were particularly scathing in their reviews of his performance in this film. The critic in the New York Times wrote, "Bette Davis's Elizabeth is a strong, resolute, glamour-skimping characterisation against which Mr. Flynn's Essex has about as much chance as a beanshooter against a tank." Flynn, on the surface, tried to laugh off the critical reviews but it's apparent in his autobiography that they bothered him. He went off on a major bender during the making of Don Juan (a film he knew was important to his starting to flounder career) after seeing the terrible reviews his performance in the just released Escape Me Never had received. The following year he was eager to prove himself in character work with his unexpected casting in That Forsyte Woman as a pompous, stuffy man incapable of reaching out emotionally. He received respectable reviews for that performance but seemed to lose interest afterward in trying to show off his acting credentials by accepting some pretty mediocre acting assignments. Perhaps that was all that was offered to him at the time but it seems to me that around this time Errol's concern to see the money keep rolling in was of greater importance to him than trying to prove to anyone that he was a better actor than given credit for. Bette Davis's reappraisal of his performance as Essex years later, when it was too late for Flynn to know, would have meant a lot to him, I strongly suspect. Eddie Albert had an anecdote about the time he told Errol he always thought he was a good actor. At first Flynn thought he was joking and laughed off the comment but when Albert made apparent to him the sincerity of his statement he said he saw tears in Errol's eyes.

Frank Sinatra Next: WITCHES' BREW (1980)

I have read that they went through a few Mustangs in Bullitt, but only needed one Charger as it held up much better. I have seen the movie, but really never cared for it.

And that is why actors leave soap opera credits off their Playbill resumes. Cheap shot. Incidentally, Kathleen Turner was nominated for Best Newcomer by the Golden Globes, but lost to . . . get ready for it . . . Pia Zadora. This was the year that almost ended the Golden Globes. Body Heat received no Oscar nominations: nothing for William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Lawrence Kasdan, or John Barry (music), let alone Best Picture. The term "film noir" was little known by the general public in 1981. Some people would have noted the resemblance to Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice, but Body Heat was seen more as a star-making film for both William Hurt and Kathleen Turner, quintessential stars of the 1980s but, alas, no other decade. Unlike Chinatown, The Long Goodbye, and Night Moves, which also had endings that would have been unacceptable in the 1940s, Body Heat has no overlay of "This is what America is like." It's just a good story, well told and well acted.

I think the edition Dargo posted is the reissue. The opening card shows a copyright date of 1942 (though this film was released in 41) with no blue ribbon, but the title card shown before the opening sequence is spliced in with a date of 2016. This site has a scene-by-scene summary and appears to be the same cut we have. The blogger says it is the 48 reissue. I also came across - but didn't bookmark - a version that begins the Ciro's interior with Cary, skipping the mystery diner entirely. So, I don't know what if anything was cut or altered from the original 41 release and 48. A more interesting question is whether Avery had other ideas that Schlesinger vetoed before release.

For an odd, but interesting Sci-Fi, The Man Who Fell to Earth with David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust)

You know in reading his autobiography Flynn made it apparent that in his later years he had grown quite disillusioned with the course of his life. He did recount one incident, however, in which a lady told him how much his films had meant to her. In reference to that he said that was something, at least. It's good to know that there are still some others who feel the same enthusiasm for Flynn and his films than I do. It's a shame that Errol, who burned himself out far too soon, couldn't have known it, as well. Something else I wish Flynn could have known. His autobiography, My Wicked Wicked Ways, was first published in December, 1959, two months after the actor's death. It has never been out of print since, making it, to the best of my knowledge, the longest selling show business autobiography in history. To an actor who took more pride at the thought of writing a book than making his movies that would have meant something.

Yes, I have long thought that Errol would have been a great James bond during his prime years. Flynn had the physical gifts possessed by few of being charming and looking good in elegant attire, yet his youthful athleticism made him totally convincing as a man of action.