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That wasn't the impression I got from the two hosts, Moe. Nope, I got the impression that both Ben and Eddie kept making allowances for Tequila Sunrise's inadequacies during their wraparounds for this film and in fact KNEW that they were while doing just that, and primarily because they've both always liked the film. And while I myself enjoyed watching it last night to some degree, especially and as Ben noted Raul Julia's movie stealing performance in it and not to mention gazing upon the gorgeous Miss Pfeiffer's visage, AND because much of the film was shot in my (and I believe yours too, if I'm not mistaken) old stomping grounds of L.A.'s South Bay beach area, I think THIS film was far from being the best film Eddie and Ben presented during their series.

Except, and as Katie kind'a pointed out about Alicia and most all Brits and Aussies and their non-rhotic 'R's, Brewer & Shipley's song would be sung as "One Toke OVAH the Line". (...and which reminds me of all those TV commercials I've watched in which actress Jane Seymour is hawking her cheap little piece of jewelry and calls it her "open 'hot' pendant")

Fantasound -- Fantasia (1940) DTS Surround Sound -- Jurassic Park (1993) Sony Dynamic Digital Sound -- The Last Action Hero (1993) Dolby Digital Sound EX -- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

Who knows? → Maybe the CC was accurate and Alicia did want some 'Mary Jane'! Wacky Weed! Mara Ju Wanna! Seeds 'n' Stems! Perhaps the 'CC' people know something we don't! If we see an intro featuring Alicia with the BREWER & SHIPLEY song "One Toke Over the Line" playing in the background, well, shucks . . . there could be some HERB burning in the studio!

On January 7, 2011 I started a thread titled LISTS on the Favorites Forum. My goal was to list films in my library at the time and to really just get members involved with listing their library of films, or any type of list of any films, actors, directors and so on. The thread has over 63 pages as of now. But because I have deleted over 100 films from my original list of films, I thought it was time to see how many films I have and which decade led my list. My second post on that thread showed how many films I had at that time in my personal library. A total of 621 films were listed. Of those, 113 films were still on VHS. Since moving back to the Chicago area in January of 2015 from Colorado Springs, I deleted all 113 VHS films from my library. And since that time I have added 16 new DVD titles giving me my present day number of films in my current library of 524. Of those 524 films, 12 films can be found in my iTunes library. The breakdown of my films per decade are as follows: 1920's: 12 1930's: 70 1940's: 88 1950's: 83 1960's: 82 1970's: 52 1980's: 33 1990's: 58 2000's: 38 2010's: 8 Based on many conversations we have had over the years here on the message board about what possibly could indicate older films versus newer films, or at least when the split between older studio era films and newer Hollywood films occurred, I ma making the case that 1969 was the last year of the old Hollywood system and the new era of filmmaking started in 1970. Many of the conversations have centered on when the old Hays Code was abolished and that was in November of 1968. That code was replaced by the newer MPAA code with the letter codes, G, PG, R and X. Over the years these codes have changed somewhat but are still basically the same as when they were adopted in 1968. So I have decided that according to the films I have in my library, 1969 will be the break between old Hollywood and new Hollywood. With this in mind, my library includes 335 films made between 1923 and 1969, or 63.93% of all of my films. 189 films are in my library which were produced after the start of 1970 and that equals 36.07% of my films. Easily, most of my films in my library are from the older Hollywood production period. Not too bad.

Say what you want about Sterling Hayden, but that dude can die with terrific style, e.g. The Asphalt Jungle that just aired. With the horses nosing around sniffing him. Doll running to get help. There was a fair share of corn in the movie but Jean Hagen was completely sympathetic and moving really. The ending scene ranks right up there with the ending scene in One Flew Over.

I have a modest DVD library (certainly nothing to match the posters above), including some PAL titles as well as some programs recorded from British television. I also had a large number of films and programs on my DVR. But alas! My cable company replaced my cable box, and now I'm back to square one with that part of my library. I do remember the first movie I purchased on video; and the first on DVD: Video: King of the Zombies (1941): I SO had to have this movie, that I purchased it even before I had a VCR, when I was quite young. DVD: Last Year at Marienbad (1961): It sounds like a more sophisticated choice than my first video, but they're really quite similar! 😊 I also have a fair number of videos and DVDs of programs I produced; meaning programs presented live that were recorded.

Have to include… Vitaphone on disc — THE JAZZ SINGER 1927

I gave up trying to keep track of how many VHS tapes I have. About 5000? 90+ boxes full of tapes over the past thirty-something years. I have 2 Blu-Ray discs: RECORD CITY (1978) -and- SKATETOWN, U.S.A. (1979). I reckon I've got about 125 DVD/DVD-R's. All else is *mylar*! I ♥ old tapes. I have especially enjoyed searching out the 1st homevideo releases of popular movies/movies that were released multiple times on VHS over the years like JAWS, THE HOWLING, THE WAR WAGON, AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, THE THING '82 and many others like THE OUTFIT and POINT BLANK. I have noted JAWS is now available in 4k for those who are interested. I like to watch "Jaws" on the 1980 MCA Videocassette, inc. tape. JAWS didn't need remastering when this release came out; the movie was only 5 years old. Just a transfer of a film print, admittedly not in W/S. I have 5 copies of JAWS on tape and the other 4 are all W/S releases with various bonus features/deleted scenes/outtakes, but I really •wanted• to get hold of the '1st-issue' VHS release of "Jaws" for my stash about 15 years ago. 🙂 The only thing I've had to do is use double-sided tape to keep the spine label from falling off the videocassette. I reckon the glue holding the label on simply dried out after all these years. Those old videocassettes were like ▬ bricks ▬!

1954 The Barefoot Contessa - Perspecta 1974 Callan - Dolby Stereo 1979 Apocalypse Now - Dolby 5.1 1990 Dick Tracy - Cinema Digital Sound 2010 Toy Story 3 - Dolby Surround 7.1 2012 Red Tails - Auro-3D 11.1 I would like to thank the many contributors to Wikipedia for helping me with this list.

Alicia would likely pronounce it, "One Toe-uk OW-ehvuh the loin!" Sepiatone

If that was so, likely something like THIS might be playing in the background! Far OUT, man! Sepiatone

A worthy group! Especially Louis Calhern!

Meryl Streep (I do like her, but I don't feel she's as great as others think she is.) Next: guest-starred on Fantasy Island

Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag and Svengoolie. Now, there's a triumverate!

The Petty Girl, The Florodora Girl, Show Girl in Hollywood, The Doughgirls, That Girl from Paris, Fifth Avenue Girl, Big Business Girl, The Girl Most Likely, The Prince and the Showgirl, Play-Girl, Boy! What a Girl!, The Girl from Missouri, Our Little Girl, That Brennan Girl, Three Sailors and a Girl, Nice Girl?, The Girl from Tenth Avenue, Two Girls on Broadway, Too Many Girls, Every Girl Should Be Married, Girl Missing, The Richest Girl in the World, Glorifying the American Girl, The King and the Chorus Girl, The I Don't Care Girl, There Goes My Girl, Three Little Girls in Blue, Boy Meets Girl, The Goodbye Girl, Girl Crazy, Three Wise Girls, Small Town Girl, Grand Old Girl, Two Girls and A Sailor, Wise Girl, Rich Man, Poor Girl, One Hundred Men and a Girl, Eleven Men and a Girl, The Girl Who Had Everything, Girl of the Golden West, The Harvey Girls, Three Smart Girls, Three Smart Girls Grow Up, Ziegfeld Girl The Fall Guy, Tough Guy, A Very Honorable Guy

Honorable killer, sees justice cop, always solid and a delight...

I've seen Blade Runner two or three times before so the plot was easier to understand, though the plot is not that interesting. I think one of the two neo-noir hosts mentioned that after being wowed by the look and production values the first time around, it loses quite a bit when one focuses on other aspects of the movie. Yeah that's my take also. I never thought that Ford was a replicant. I'm presuming, unless the Blade Runner world is totally screwed up, that he would have been outed as one long before now. Unless the Tyrell Corp. is one of those nasty companies that would do anything to make a buck and there is a buck to be made by letting a replicant pose as a cop, but I discount that. I nearly LMA totally O when Eduardo said that maybe what the movie is really about is Existence. Did he make a pre-show trip to the noir bar or something? This is one of those movies I watch every few years, but I wouldn't want to see every year. Plus 2019 is now in the past. Maybe there could be an hour long version of the movie called The Movie Classics Illustrated Version.

ALIEN

RE: SEAN YOUNG someone else mentioned this earlier on, BUT I WAS WATCHING LIVE WHEN IT HAPPENED ON THE JOAN RIVERS SHOW ca. 1991 AND IT WAS GLORIOUS! TOTAL. ON-AIR. PSYCHOTIC BREAK, MAMA.

SLOW is right!!!

Go to the exact moment on the YouTube video you wish to direct attention to and then hit 'pause'. Then, right click while within the video's body and in your pop-up you'll see 'Copy video URL at current time' and left click that. And then, right click and paste it within the Reply field of your post. (...and re Mel Gibson...I just view him as just another example of how religion can unfortunately often screw up the minds of some people, and with emphasis on the word 'some' here...and which is something I believe you touched upon a bit earlier in this thread, didn't you Lorna?)

I have a very large DVD library of thousands of discs (probably around 11,000), both pre-recorded as well as copies of films I've put on blank discs. Most I never put on after initially seeing them. They just sit there. Lately, though, I have been dismayed to discover that some of the older discs are freezing up on me. Call it laser rot or DVD rot or whatever, I have now been forced to try to replace some of my DVDs with newer versions of them for that reason. This has not only happened to some of the pre recorded DVDs but to some blank DVD-Rs upon which I made recordings, as well. Some years ago TCM showed a beautiful copy of a John Barrymore silent, When A Man Loves. It was such a lovely image that after copying it onto a blank DVD-R I then made a backup copy of it on another blank just in case something happened to it. Sound paranoid? Two weeks ago I put on that first copy of the film and after seven minutes it started to freeze up on me. Thank God I made a backup, I thought. Ten minutes into the backup being played it started freezing up on me, too, and then stopped playing. As a result of this I wound up purchasing a Warners Archive DVD of the film but I was lucky that the film still existed as a MOD DVD. If it hadn't, well, that would be one film to strike off my list that I thought I had. Bottom line, much as I hate to say it, nothing lasts forever. You can make these lists and think you've got a great collection but until you actually put the disc on to see that it still plays you don't really know if you've got it. Fortunately, so far, the freezing or complete non playing issues have only happened to a small percentage of discs. I keep thinking, though, with more time passing, how many more?

But I have a long list of actors I want to ban. Where am I going to shove that list? Oh, wait. Don't answer.

Walter Brennan was a racist. Therefore let's start a campaign for TCM to never show The Westerner, Sergeant York, My Darling Clementine, Meet John Doe, Rio Bravo, Red River or anything else that dirt bag ever appeared in. I thank you. Next up to ban, John Wayne . . .

Moe Howard, Thank you! According to the Web, POP had a relatively brief existence, 1958 to 1967. So I was a preteen when I visited it. The only memory of it that I have is King Neptune. Visitors would enter POP by going "underwater" and walking through Neptune's Kingdom, eventually encountering The King himself. For a small child, the experience was not a little bit frightening -- at least for me. Sad that POP had such a short, troubled run. Growing up in L.A. during the 1960s, residents were blessed with several thrilling amusement parks, besides "The Magic Kingdom." My parents took my siblings and me to Knott's Berry Farm, Marineland, Jungleland, The Movieland Wax Museum (a particular favorite of mine), Santa's Village, and of course, POP. Good times!

People find sitar music relaxing??

LOL Yep, she probably would, Sepia! (...very nice phonetics here, btw)

Whistle Down The Wind (1961) One of the most poignant paeans to the innocence and gullibility of childhood the movies have given us. A simple tale, with allegorical overtones, it depicts children in a Lancashire farm who discover a man in a barn and believe him to be Jesus Christ. The man, an escaped criminal charged with murder, accepts the food and gifts they bring him while, at the same time, the children try to prevent any adults from knowing of his presence, knowing what they did to the Christ the last time. Bryan Forbes directed this British production produced by Richard Attenborough which is based on a novel by Mary Hayley Bell, wife of actor John Mills. Her daughter, Hayley, is cast in the central role of a young girl who makes the initial discovery of the man (he mutters "Jesus Christ" to himself before passing out after she asks who he is). Filmed on location in Lancheshire, its gloomy skies and remote feeling of oppressiveness add to the film's atmosphere, with the entire cast of children, excluding young Mills, recruited from the local populace. All are totally natural in their responses, adding immeasurably to the film's effectiveness. As for Hayley, better remembered today for her Disney films made during the same period, there's not a false note to be found in her remarkably natural portrayal of innocent blind trust. She received a BAFTA nomination as best British actress for her astonishing work here. Truly a great performance. Bernard Lee, on the verge of soon being cast as "M" in the James Bond series, plays Hayley's widower father, while Alan Bates in one of his earliest film roles is memorable as the man in the barn. We know where the story is headed and there will be a final memorable Christ identification for the children in one particularly strong visual at the end. An unusual, affecting, lovely little film, it has not, to the best of my knowledge, been shown on TCM. This is a film that should be sought out. There is currently a lovely looking copy of Whistle Down The Wind available on You Tube. I recommend seeing it before it disappears. 3 out of 4

Summer Under the Stars begins tomorrow on TCM. Are you ready?

Sho' 'nuff! Calhern has never let ME down. Sepiatone

Tequila Sunrise was the best of the bunch, and Ben and Eddie seemed to agree. I don't know if that's true and I would certainly never hold someone to something uttered while stone drunk and angry. Not to mention, if I had a shekel for every time I heard a Jew say something anti-Jewish, I'd die a wealthy man in South Florida.

Well, you could argue MONA LISA does feature a sociopathic character (or two), it’s just not Hoskins.

Mona Lisa = Taxi Driver sans psychopath, I expected more from this movie. Yes, Hoskins and Tyson are good.

YES!!!! For the record, if the entire movie was about RoboMildredPierce I would probably be 100% on board. Can you imagine the scene where she Roboslaps RoboVeda on the stairs and knocks her head clean off??

It's not bad, but it's sooo sloooow. Too long. Sets are a bit cramped, looks like a cross of The Crow and Total Recall. Sean Young is one the things that save this movie. She's a robot but arguably the most human thing in the movie.

From July 31-August 3, 1921, the Poli ran The Love Special, starring Wallace Reid as Jim Glover and Agnes Ayres as Laura Gage. The film was released on April 17, 1921, at five reels. The Library of Congress holds a complete copy. Plot: Jim Glover, construction engineer, is chosen to guide the president of the railroad company, Gage, on an inspection trip. Laura Gage, the president’s daughter, is aboard the train as well as Allen Harrison, a director for the company. The railroad intends to build a cut-off so Glover helps Gage obtain an option on the needed land, which is owned by Zeke Logan. When Harrison notices that Glover is interested in Laura, he decides to buy the land himself, and tells Logan that Gage is trying to cheat the land-owner. Harrison plans to use the land as a bargaining chip, so that Gage will agree to let him marry Laura. Laura overhears the plot. Meanwhile, Gage goes on ahead of the party. Laura tries to reach her father before his option expires. She makes a perilous trip during a blizzard, with Glover running the engine. They reach Gage in time, the land is saved, and Glover wins Laura. Photoplay wrote “the romantic adventure upon which they are started is a plausible adventure and is carefully and intelligently developed. There are no heroics, and there is a lot of scenery; commonplace, everyday incidents of a trip through the mountains, briefly enlivened by a hotel party and a comedy holdup. A “flat” comedy, so far as action is concerned, but always human and always interesting.” Motion Picture Magazine remarked that the film “marks no epoch of the cinema, but it will cause you to forget your worries and revel in its sheer romance.” Wid’s Daily called the film a “delightful comedy-romance with a lot of “touches” that make it register entertainment all the way through,” adding “this is undoubtedly the best story that Wallace Reid has had of late.” Moving Picture World wrote that the film “sags in the middle and the dramatic punch at the end drags in the telling, but the fine start of the plot and the expert acting of the entire cast carry the picture over the line, a winner.”

I just watched Five and Ten (1931) on Turner On Demand. I'm not a Marion Davies fan, but I thought she was much better in this than in later films, such as Cain and Mabel, and the chemistry with Leslie Howard was surprisingly good. However, the film was not quite what I expected. While I was expecting a romantic comedy/drama, overall, the film was a depiction of the effect of wealth and workaholism and its devastating effect on the family. The Douglass Montgomery character, Avery, seems to be the embodiment of the dysfunction on the family, and except for one incredible plot element toward the end, his scenes are excellent. He's one of the few actors who can act with his whole body, even his shoulders, as you see by his walk and demeanor the gradual deadening of his spirit from the family dynamic. I had seen Montgomery in the original Waterloo Bridge, and was surprised by the authenticity of his performance, but he does some nice work in this film, too. I feel as if I'm watching two acting styles going on in the film, from observing Leslie Howard's polish to Montgomery's more natural approach, kind of like watching a blonde Montgomery Clift. I guess he was Laurie in Little Women, which he's OK in, but I don't know what happened to him after that.

Sunday, August 1 Bette David SOTM 8 p.m. Jezebel (1938). When she's bad, she's great.

Here's a piece about Andy Warhol and his favorite film, Creation of the Humanoids: http://www.rebeatmag.com/fantasia-obscura-story-human-replication-andy-warhols-favorite-film/ "The film had one strong champion, Andy Warhol. The film was his favorite, as stated in a review of one of his openings in The Village Voice from December 3, 1964, and it’s easy to see why: the themes of creation and replication, the inability to divide the natural from the crafted, certainly appealed to his aesthetic, and guided his vision through most of his artistic career. Warhol could take the themes raised in the film and present them in a way that would resonate with the viewer. In his hands, how he tackled the questions raised by The Creation of the Humanoids became art."

Smith, Jaclyn

Here are some more dependable and underrated stars. Brian Keith Richard Conte Louis Calhern Patric Knowles Maureen O'Sullivan Jane Greer Celeste Holm Mercedes McCambridge

The photographer of this shot did a fantastic job with this one. Not only is the subject beautiful, but the lighting is superb, too. The type of fabric in her dress is easily recognizable, and her nail polish, which is in the shadows, shines brightly. Thanks for choosing this photo, Bogie56!

STAR SPANGLED GIRL (I love this movie!)

I saw the end of THE CONSPIRATORS (1944) today, which of course has JOSEPH CALLEIA as a reliably neutral Portuguese cop with a bent towards good... which made me think of him in GILDA... and of course FIVE CAME BACK... a very honorable killer... and once in awhile he played a rat... reliably! He's a favorite, I admire him like I admire J. CARROL NAISH.

Oh yes! Joseph's crowing achievement in my book -- TOUCH OF EVIL

Her accent never really bothered me....until now. It does cause occasional problems with my CC, for example "She really wanted the pot" for "She really wanted the part."