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Crow, I 'm always happy with Eddie's selections on Noir Alley. That doesn't mean I like every single film he shows. But I've seen a lot of noirs, and at least on Noir Alley sometimes I get to view one I've never seen before. I like that he presents a wide variety of noirs, some foreign films, some British, some recently discovered languishing in a basement somewhere, some really classic, and some kind of rubbish. Also, some that it's a bit of a stretch to call them "noir". You can't have first rate grade A noirs every time. Come on. It's not "only going to get worse". It's a checkered program, some weeks outstanding film noir ( or is it films noir?) and some weeks, something kind of forgettable. So what? I'm just glad a program like Noir Alley exists at all.

I get the impression Muller is making most or all of the selections for Noir Alley, including Hell Bound. If TCM has a copy of a particular film and has broadcast rights, and Muller wants to feature it, the film will air on Noir Alley. I think some of these low budget films make for entertaining viewing. How about Ulmer's Detour? They couldn't even afford a shoestring for the budget. Sometimes, schlock can be the best choice.

TO SIR WITH LOVE -- museum field trip PORTRAIT OF JENNIE -- doesn't her portrait hang in a museum at the end? BORN YESTERDAY -- visit to the National Gallery and other spots in D.C. THE MUMMY -- in some versions, the mummy ends up/gets opened/brought back to life in a museum LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA -- the vacationers visit museums in Florence THE MONA LISA HAS BEEN STOLEN (1966) TOPKAPI -- robbing a museum in Istanbul CAIRO -- robbing a museum in Cairo THE HAPPY THIEVES -- robbing the Prado

Congrats to Ms. Stewart. I very much enjoy her contributions to TCM and to the film community.

Exactly. They're full of discontent (malcontents?) and they're goal is to stir up trouble. As for Muller, we have reached the point where he is now just a TCM host trotting out what's in the TCM library. He would probably like to show more Universal, Republic and Paramount noir. But I suspect his hands are tied budget-wise.

https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2021/jacqueline-stewart "Ensuring that the contributions of overlooked Black filmmakers and communities of spectators have a place in the public imagination."

"In" has one of my favorite all-time movie lines: "An actor as president?" -- Superspy Derek Flint (James Coburn), upon discovering that the POTUS (Andrew Duggan) has been replaced by a lookalike actor (also Duggan) in "In Like Flint" (1967).

Play It Again, Sam (1972) -- San Francisco Museum of (Modern) Art Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) -- Chicago Art Institute The International (2009) -- Guggenheim Museum Mr. Turner (2014) -- Royal Academy of Arts (recreated at Wentworth Woodhouse)

Journey to Italy (1954) - National Archaeological Museum, Naples Dressed to Kill (1980) - Philadelphia Museum of Art Match Point (2005) - Tate Modern, London

Lois was also fantastic as Jack Nicholson's sister, Partita in Five Easy Pieces (1970). Keep going gal!

Back Street, 1961

Wednesday September 29, 2021 Silents on TCM flesh and the devil the wind the passion of joan of arc the four horseman of the apocalypse the freshman

Why not just "overlooked film makers"? Why does everything have to be about race? This kind of thing, despite its stated purpose, serves to divide us as a people. It's a form of segregation. The same holds true when we emphasize "women filmmakers". It's divisive. We're not going to make any actual progress as a society until people get past this identity nonsense. This assumes, of course, that everyone wants to get past it and not wallow in it, and that, unfortunately is not true.

The actress Jean Hale, remembered for numerous performances in films and on television during the 1960s and early 1970s, died last month in Santa Monica, California at the age of 82. Her family confirmed on Monday that Hale died on August 3, 2021 of natural causes. From 1961 to 1984, Hale was married to the actor Dabney Coleman. They had three children, including their singer-songwriter daughter Quincy (pictured below with her parents and brother Randy in 1981). Another daughter, Kelly, is an actress. Coleman had a third daughter, Meghan, from a previous marriage. In "The Night That Terror Stalked the Town" -- an early Season 1 episode of CBS' "The Wild, Wild West" -- Hale played a femme fatale working for the evil Dr. Miguelito Loveless (Michael Dunn). She helped the evil scientist replace U.S. Secret Service Agent James West (series star Robert Conrad) with a surgically enhanced duplicate. The episode originally aired on November 19, 1965. In "The Oscar" (1966), Stephen Boyd played a Hollywood heel named Frank Fane who wanted an Academy Award so bad, he could almost taste it. Hale appeared as Cheryl Barker, a demanding actress who wound up as one of his victims on the way to stardom (he tossed a salad onto her lap during dinner at a restaurant). During the first week of January 1967, Hale appeared in two episodes of the ABC hit series "Batman" as Polly, the moll of the villianous Jervis Tetch (a.k.a The Mad Hatter, played by David Wayne ). Although she accompanied The Dynamic Duo (Adam West, Burt Ward) to a water tower where The Mad Hatter and his henchmen awaited, Polly was booked by police as an accessory. Hale played a femme fatale opposite James Coburn in "In Like Flint," the 1967 sequel to Coburn's hit 1966 spy comedy "Our Man Flint." She played Lisa Norton, a key conspirator in a diabolical plan by powerful women to take over the world (they even replaced the U.S. president with a lookalike). But Lisa eventually fell for the superspy Derek Flint (Coburn) and assisted him in quashing the plot. Also in 1967, Hale starred in "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre," the story of the infamous mob hit in Chicago on February 14, 1929. She played Myrtle Gorman, the moll of doomed North Side Gang mobster Peter Gusenberg (George Segal). Directed by Roger Corman, the film also starred Jason Robards (as Al Capone) and Ralph Meeker (as Bugs Moran). Jack Nicholson -- two years away from major stardom -- had an uncredited role as a hit man. For its ninth and final season, NBC's 90-minute Western "The Virginian" was retitled "The Men from Shiloh." In the 1971 episode "The Politician," Hale played a married woman (and former saloon girl) reunited with her friend The Virginian (series star James Drury). A tragedy ensued when she was inadvertently killed by a prominent rancher (William Windom) scheduled to be appointed to the United States Senate. The Virginian was determined to prove he wasn't a suspect. The episode also featured Diana Muldaur, John Ericson and Denny Miller.

The IMDB dataset version I used, before they moved to their "newer dumbed down and less useful" data format at the end of 2017, had a numeric weighting attribute used to prioritize each actor in a movie. Let's say AFI gets that right for the most part (in spite of all the holes in their data), for an omission the data would show up as incomplete, or in this case out of order. This is understandably the case for some obscure foreign movies. In particular I remember one day they had some National Film Board Of Canada stuff where the related info for every single entry was blank on TCM's website. I got a chuckle out of this as the IMDB info was entirely there - and thus in my premieres report.

Thiess, Ursula

Debbie Reynolds was in ATHENA with ❤️Jane Powell❤️

We know some folks will complain because it's a post-code movie that does not feature Cary Grant or Bette Davis and thus does not belong on TCM!

I think my favorite "running gag" (I know that's not the right word, but lietmotif doesn't quite fit either) on the show are the fates of TRASK in his various incarnations- twice walled up and once mortally wounded where he stumbles into a parallel time and dies...if the show had kept running it would have been fun to see him basically end up entombed at the end of every storyline in some form or another, Hell, they could have a bedroom in the East Wing full of TRASK SKELETONS.

You may be correct. The timing is suspect, what with another member clearly trolling this forum last night and having most of what he posted, deleted. I see that that member went silent suddenly, so I suspect he may have gotten a timeout. The author of this thread simply may be a fan of the work of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot, but, Clouzot's film Le Corbeau is about the effects of anonymously submitted poison pen letters. Food for thought. When you post- or even simply log onto a forum such as this, your IP address is recorded. There are tools available online- free of charge- which make it possibe to pinpoint an IP address location down to even zipcode level (in the US). Usually, the next question people ask is "What if they're using a VPN?" Such services do disguise actual location of the member, but these tools I'm talking about tell you if a VPN (or proxy server, cloud service, etc) is being employed. Logging on via your phone service provider is another way of obscuring your location. A good admin can put together all the clues and ferret out trolls. In my world, I do it all the time.

I think the OP is another of those newbie "troll types". Like 'ootsy'. The woods are full of these 'types', it seems. My only beef with HELLBOUND was the /jerky/ transfer. I have 40+ year-old VHS tapes that play better than that.

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK

Wed, September 29 (times ET) 12:30 am Hear My Song (1991) 1h 53m | Comedy Inspired by the life story of American-Irish singer Joseph Locke, whose disappearance in the 1950s led to his identity being assumed by an imposter until Locke resurfaced 20 years later. Director Peter Chelsom Cast Shirley Field, Constance Cowley, Tony Morando 2:30 am Silver Streak (1976) 1h 53m | Adventure A book editor takes a train from Los Angeles to Chicago, looking forward to a restful trip... Director Arthur Hiller Cast Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder 4:30 am Chattahoochee (1989) 1h 43m | Biography True story of a man who was insitutionalized after being perceived as mentally disturbed. ... Director Mick Jackson Cast Ed Grady, Whitey Hughes, Wallace Merck 8:00 pm The Melies Mystery (2021) 58m | Documentary | TV-PG Documentary detailing the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering dir... Director Serge Bromberg,Eric Lange Cast No Cast Information Available.

I'm going to say Turkey and France. As the Orient Express terminates in Istanbul and Paris, both cities known for their minarets, it is logical cover art.

To be fair, there's only so many times the can play "Out of the Past"

I've posted this in the LGBT thread, but I'm thrilled that The Inheritance, which I saw in London a few years ago, won four Tony Awards this evening: Best Play, Director, Actor, and Featured Actress. The Broadway production closed due to Covid before I could see it, but I did see the two-part, seven-hour play in London several years ago, with Vanessa Redgrave in the featured part played by Lois Smith. However, I had the pleasure to work with Lois Smith a couple of times and found her to be a lovely, talented, and very special woman, who made her Broadway debut in 1952. She is now the oldest person ever to win an acting Tony Award. Her film career includes the role of Annie in East of Eden, in 1955. Lois Smith in The Inheritance James Dean, Lois Smith in East of Eden

Lois Smith is an ensemble member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre. Her two prior Tony nominations were for performances in Steppenwolf productions that transferred to Broadway: THE GRAPES OF WRATH (she played Ma Joad) and BURIED CHILD.

I'm not gonna provide a big, splashy photo, but I think the '80s or very early '90s also gave us The Name of the Rose, with Sean Connery as sort of the Sherlock Holmes of his medieval abbey, working to solve a murder with detecting techniques viewed by some as blasphemous. Also with Christian Slater.

Wise Blood

One of my favorites is Stars in My Crown starring Joel McCrea & Dean Stockwell. It's not flashy, but it's a gentle, sweet story about a country preacher dealing with big issues in a small town. Plus, I like the hymn the title is based on. I'm also quite fond of the aforementioned The Miracle Woman.

Don't know, Peebs, but am going with the first to come to mind: Tom Jones for THUNDERBALL?

Some time ago I made a comment that I'm sure most people thought was silly and toss-asideable. However, I'm perfectly serious about it to repeat it here. I thought the new C in TCM could stand for "coprolitic." Now, for those unfamiliar with that adjective, please look it up as it is a pure delight of a word -- the English language is a motherlode of fun. I really do think that the TCM platoon of hosts views the cultural artifacts of the past in a very uncharitable fashion. But, sadly, it is all too in tune to the Zeitgeist that others on these boards are lamenting. It is a very seriously flawed approach to human existence -- especially the thoughts and activities of all those who have gone before us. For us at the present moment to think that we alone are the eternally enlightened ones and possess some kind of authority to scorn and belittle the way in which people foreign to us lived their lives, this is sinful. It belies a very shallow understanding of the world and its history. Human beings are extraordinarily complex creatures -- as individuals and in communities. To think that everything that has happened before our time must be measured according to the fashionable yardstick of today is unhistorical and anti-intellectual. I say all this to get me to this point. As far as TCM is concerned, I think the message boards are revealing an animosity directed toward a specific corporate point of view that will not allow any divergence from that line of exploration. I am perfectly fine with looking into serious topics that are dealt with in movies. Movies are part of our cultural history and certainly fair game for critique. The problem is that when we have our "conversation" about these things, a conversation solely based on your terms is called a lecture. Now, try as they might to tell us that they are not instructing us how to watch "problematic" movies, that is indeed what they are unabashedly doing. Again, these are very complex aspects of human behavior and society; they require serious study and consideration to be discussed intelligently. And when some people look at the facts and record of the past, they can reach legitimate conclusions that are different from the corporate line. This is what's missing from the new push to set up some kind of blind date for "then" and "now" to meet. I simply don't trust the on-air talent to be able to carry out the rigorous husbandry of allowing the art of the past to yield true and fruitful bounty. Oh, boy. I've gone on a bit here. Sorry about that, but I sometimes suffer from an ingrown essay and need it excised once in a while.

FATS WALLER The Joint Is Jumpin'

Sorry Officer, just killing time in between films and conversations.

RUSSIAN ARK — the Hermitage LIZZIE — Eleanor Parker works at what is now LA’s Natural History Museum (at the time had art too) BANDE A PART — the Louvre MUPPETS MOST WANTED — Constantine and Dominic rob a few museums including the Prado THE WRONG TROUSERS

L.A. Story --Los Angeles County Museum of Art Mystery of the Wax Museum The Plot Thickens --with Zasu Pitts in the Hildegard Withers role How Sweet It Is !--montage of photos standing in front of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre (as re-created at a studio...)

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973, 1995) -- Claudia and Jamie run away from home and live in the Metropolitan Museum Vertigo (1958) -- the Legion of Honor in San Francisco Blackmail (1929) -- the British Museum House of Wax (1953) -- Vincent Price's creepy wax museum How to Steal a Million (1966) -- in the film it's supposed to be Musée Carnavalet, but the set was modeled after the Musée Jacquemart-André On the Town (1949) -- the American Natural History Museum Museum Hours (2012) -- the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna Manhattan (1979) -- the Guggenheim Museum The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) -- the Metropolitan Museum of Art

I knew with every fireplace going in every room in every house every hour of the day sooner or later something would burn down.

Sorry if this is late or has been discussed before, but I want to give a thumbs up to the shorter intro sequences that signal a movie coming up. The former one, with a Rube Goldberg setup that started a movie projector, was annoying. I suppose it may have looked cute the first time (but not to me). I'm fine with the same look for the Noir Alley, shorts, and TCM original content features too. Short and inoffensive, and we're sent right to the content. Thanks.

The Devil's Disciple ('59) (historical setting) "History, sir, will tell lies as usual."

overseers of once greatness now mediocrity. whither TCM.

Paula Prentiss

September 29 at 4;30 am Chattahoochee (1989) I have seen it first run,if i remember well it was very good. Gary Oldman is a great actor & great cast .Sorry for the bold type...

The Other (1972) next: flipping a coin

Thanks, Peebs. I don't think anyone would be offended by that. It's really a part of movie history. We're going to try: Henry Fonda Kirk Douglas Burt Lancaster Edward G. Robinson John Boles

Here are the TCM premieres for October, as determined by MovieCollectorOH’s TCM schedules database. Notes: - The dates shown are based on a programming day starting at 6 am ET and running past midnight. - Shorts and cartoons are listed separately. Feature Films Oct 1 - Truck Turner (1974) Oct 2 - The Greatest (1977) Oct 2 - Cartoon Carnival (2021) Oct 2 - 100th Anniversary of Fleischer Animation – Part 1: The Silent Era (2021) Oct 2 - 100th Anniversary of Fleischer Animation – Part 2: The Sound Era (2021) Oct 3 - This is Francis X. Bushman (2021) (doc.) Oct 3 - The Human Condition III (1970) Oct 8 - Movin' With Nancy (1967) Oct 8 - The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966) Oct 11 - Pure Country (1992) Oct 11 - Kenny Rogers as the Gambler (1980) Oct 15 - River's Edge (1986) Oct 17 - Roaring Road (1926) Oct 18 - Payday (1972) Oct 18 - The Thing Called Love (1993) Oct 23 - La Bestia Debe Morir (1952) (Noir Alley - 2 showings) Oct 25 - Falling from Grace (1992) Oct 25 - Norwood (1970) Oct 25 - The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists (1995) (doc.) Oct 26 - One Way Ticket to Love (1960) Oct 26 - The Sun's Burial (1960) Oct 27 - Carl Laemmle (2019) (doc.) (2 showings) Oct 29 - Hell Night (1981) Oct 31 - As the Earth Turns (2019) Shorts Oct 2 - Aladdin's Lantern (1938) (Our Gang) Cartoons Oct 2 - Popeye: Pre-Hysterical Man (1948) Oct 9 - Popeye: Popeye Meets Hercules (1948) Oct 16 - Popeye: Robin Hood-Winked (1948) Oct 23 - MGM: Bats in the Belfry (1942) Oct 23 - Popeye: Symphony in Spinach (1948) Thanks as always to MCOH!

Yes, yes. Like you, I always thought the classic reference in TCM was pertaining to the classic era -- i.e, the studio system era -- Not that every single film on TCM was a "classic" (whatever that means.) Through the years I have discovered a ton of some silly, sometimes politically incorrect, always entertaining gems produced in the 1930's. Did each one of these films deserve to be preserved in the national archives? Definitely not, but these films do deserve to be seen so that they can continue to do what their original intent was: to entertain. Nothing wrong with that, so stop ignoring and/or apologizing for these films, TCM! I think that it will be a long time (if ever again) before we see a series of films in prime time saluting an esoteric 1930's-1940's player (as we saw for Florence Rice not too long ago.) Take today, for instance. It took me a while, since neither the website nor the "Now Playing" guide, denotes daytime themes anymore, to figure out that today was Claire Dodd Day. I love Claire Dodd, an actress I had absolutely no cognizance of before I started watching TCM. She's delightful! Would it kill someone at TCM to write a short "shout-out" about today's programming and its star? To even simply put something on the screen or website (I'd settle for one small super or line of type) saying "Today TCM salutes Claire Dodd." Apparently it would. I can't say definitively, but I suspect that pre-codes and many of the more esoteric 1930's - 1940's B movies will be buried (if they even air) in time slots the programmers feel are not very important. I seem to do all my recording now between 6 AM and Noon. But, by all means, let's do a TCM Spotlight in prime time on rollerskating . . . Now, that's "Classic" and "Contextural!"

😄 There's nothing like opening up a can of... uhh... reality check, yeah, that's it. Reality check. 😁 "the Bataan Death March"? Vivid imagery, man. Have you ever considered a career in, say, film writing and selected journalism? 😛 By the way, I could not agree more with every word you posted, Overeasy. TCM preaches to us incessantly and the self-righteousness grows by the day. And yes, it began with the passing of Robert Osborne. You nailed it. If TCM wants this forum to be a PC echo chamber, they can have it by getting rid of those of us who see what's going on and who speak their mind about it. However, ignoring reality doesn't change reality. The author of this thread did himself a disservice by overstating the current conditions at TCM. The channel may not be dying, but there is no doubt whatsoever that the channel's content is now infused with politically correct virtue signalling, and outright loathing for some of the films they air. The hypocrisy is so thick, you could cut it with a knife: "These films have horrible, outdated cultural themes, but we'll continue to air them anyway."

Don't blink or you'll miss it but there is a half second n ipple exposure by Marilyn Monroe in this scene in The Misfits when she bends over Gable after he has drunkenly fallen off the car. Look for it at the 1:56 mark of this video clip. This particular clip is a little soft and dark to spot it as easily, I assume, as on a blu ray.