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I need a wine glass like the one Dirk Bogarde has in Modesty Blaise:

I agree with you both. I'm not familiar with Cantone, but I hope he is respectful. The horror film genre represents modern man's myths and folktales.

I assumed that Mario's horror connection was his participation in "Sex and the City."

Monday, Oct. 4, is another horror movie day. Some good ones, but the best is I Walked With A Zombie. Tom Conway and Frances Dee do a great job in it.

Broken Blossoms (1919) The Hands of Orlac (1924) Battleship Potemkin (1925) The Lodger (1927) Liberty (1929) The Artist (2011)

Beyond Mombasa 1956 UK Columbia directed by George Marshall. Cornel Wilde Donna Reed Leo Genn Christopher Lee Ron Randell.Aventure yarn set in Africa. Wilde's brother died as he just discovered an important goldmine-could be uranium also. They aged Genn by 25 years hard to recognize with a white mustache and a big white haired wig. I was surprised to see Ron Randell not dressed as a Roman soldier...Nice Technicolor, most of the outdoors filming was shot in Kenya, some studio works in England. We have seen this before. 90 minutes . 6.75/10

I felt the need to re-watch the '85 PRISM tape yesterday. I noted something I'd missed previously in regards to the print of WHITE ZOMBIE used on the PRISM tape. There seems to be an intentional cut on the print used right after the butler goes to see Beaumont and inform him that Madge Bellamy and John Harron have arrived. Recall that Beaumont at first says "Tell them I'm out" and then changes his mind right away and says "Maybe I better go see them; it would be odd if I didn't!" and the butler chimes in "Very odd, sir". Right there as Beaumont moves off the table the scene cuts away to him greeting Ms. Bellamy in the study. → However, there's some 30 seconds or so missing in between that c/u/t that appears on the version on YouTube. There's no obvious print damage on the tape during that scene so that cut looks to be intentional to speed up the action. Ah, the joys of 'Public Domain' film prints! But, hey, the sound is good on the tape. I recall reading WHITE ZOMBIE originally ran 74 minutes. Is that accurate? Who knows. I've seen various run times listed 73 minutes, 70m., 68m. Jeepers! I think WHITE ZOMBIE actually runs just under 67 minutes. Anyway, I thought to post this because I'd not mentioned previously about the 30 seconds missing on the PRISM tape just after when the butler tells Beaumont (Robert Frazer) the young couple has arrived. A THOUGHT: I reckon the "as-cleaned-up-as-it-can-be" version of WHITE ZOMBIE is copyrighted. One of those 'digital copyright' thingies due to the work put in to restore the movie as much as possible. Maybe I'm wrong, but the thought occurred to me because TCM has used a PD print of the 1944 movie "Frenchman's Creek" in the past with seriously washed-out color even thought there is a better version available (think it's on Universal on an 'MOD' disc). Digital copyright! Clean-up costs money! 💰

Dean had so few roles, I've never been able to decide if it's his performances, or the characters he's playing, especially in his first two films, that turn me off. I wasn't a real angsty teen, so maybe I just can't relate to those roles. I thought he was great in Giant, though.

I love classic horror movies too and I hope they are treated respectfully. Some of the great classic horror movies are based on great works of literature such as Frankenstein that examines the morality of the experiment and the experimenter. Karlof is amazing as the monster. There was some humor written into some horror movies but to make fun of them would not be okay.

Ya know and come to think of it, I myself often feel like this kid here while watching the movies TCM shows...

Just when I had resigned myself to the slow motion eternal creeping of Ben's background (I close my eyes when it's on), they dig their heels in and do the same thing to Alicia's intro. I was so grateful that the background didn't keep moving pointlessly behind Alicia and Mr. Karger. But now I see my worries will not be assuaged! I can't tell you how much I hate this new effect. I will not give up on the channel because my love of classic film is deep and everlasting. However, I can't watch the moving background. I will just have to keep closing my eyes, I guess.

Google "Why Ferris Bueller is a Textbook-Psychiatry Sociopath" from any number of Internet and YouTube fans, and you will never un-see the movie the same way again. 😮 Me, I already hated John Hughes for being a smug, untalented hack, so I never warmed to Ferris's incarnation of Hughes' 40-yo. teen-hipster fantasies in the first place, but it's nice to see a consensus growing.

Here's a story (rather old now) about rights management and restoration of some old RKO films that Turner didn't get with his purchase. I would imagine all of this was really done under the WB umbrella, rather than TCM, but TCM personnel were responsible for management of the overall process. It's an example of situations where people ask "Why doesn't TCM show X or Y or Z. " It gets complicated sometimes... https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/turner-classic-movies-search-for-6-lost-films-is-the-stuff-of-movies/

Eerie Tales (1919) Germany/Dir: Richard Oswald - Horror anthology. In the framing device, characters on posters come to life after hours at a book store. They take turns reading stories. In the first ("The Apparition"), a man and his female companion check into a hotel. When she goes missing, the hotel staff claim that there was never a woman at all. In the second ("The Hand"), a man is haunted by guilt and a ghostly hand after committing a murder. In the third ("The Black Cat"), a man hopes to commit the perfect crime, although the title creature may have something to say about it. In the fourth ("The Suicide Club"), a man joins an exclusive gambling club that has lethal consequences if one loses. And in the fifth ("The Specter"), a bored wife considers an affair with a visitor. Some have called this the first horror anthology, but I can't verify if that's true. The stories are based on written works by Anselma Heine, Robert Liebmenn, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and director Richard Oswald. The cast is primarily comprised of Anita Berber, Reinhold Schunzel, and Conrad Veidt, who appear as the trio in the framing device, as well as the lead characters in each story. This provides an opportunity for them all to show off some acting range. Overall, this was mildly enjoyable, although a bit too facile and primitive. (6/10)

My favorite Dracula movie is "Nosferatu". A Symphony of Horror, 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau. This film was based on Bram Stoker's book "Dracula" but they had to change the name because the widow of the estate felt ripped off. This movie may not be scary in the modern sense but I love it for its atmosphere, artistry and ideas. Vampires are like an evil that dwells in the shadows and feeds on death. Some of our worst fears are in this film such as disease and madness. The scariest scenes for me are in the ship that becomes a ghost ship because all the crew is killed. The image or "Count Orlok" the vampire rising straight up out of a coffin is really eerie. This was one of the first silent films I watched and it proved to me how amazing and visually artistic silent films could be.

I've read about this in a few articles. Columnist Pat Lewis of The Daily Express opened the contest in an effort to find who would be the first James Bond. This after failed attempts at casting Cary Grant, Richard Johnson, Richard Todd, a young Roger Moore, and likely a few others I've forgotten. Over 1100 entries were received, including a man actually named James Bond. Six finalists were selected and actually screen tested for the role. Peter Anthony, a suave model with chiseled good looks, was chosen to be the first Bond, but there was only one problem -- he couldn't act. At this point, everyone was wearying of the search, and Connery was chosen with decidedly he'd-better-turn-out-to-be-good attitude attached.

In Broad Daylight (1971) This is very much like a Columbo episode. Clocking in at 73 minutes, it was written by Larry Cohen, who later penned a few Columbo episodes. If you are a youngster and don't know who Columbo was, he was a raincoat wearing cop who looks at the less obvious suspect and wears them down with his "Just one more thing..." questions and his annoying quirky presence until the murderers trap themselves.Richard Boone plays an actor, Tony Chappel, who recently went blind and is leaving some institute where he has been recovering and relearning basic skills as a blind person. He is being allowed to leave five days early and with his own full time therapist - somebody to help him continue learning how to adapt. This person is played by Suzanne Pleshette. If you have your calculator out and find this sounds all very expensive, first off Chappel was apparently a very successful actor and thus very rich, and plus healthcare costs have grown far faster than the rate of inflation this past fifty years.On the way home Tony asks the therapist, Kate, if he can stop by his lawyer's apartment and get something without her assistance. He even knows the desk drawer. She relents. Tony actually does find his way up to the apartment and lets himself in with a key that he knows is hidden outside. Once inside, he hears his wife Elizabeth (Stella Stevens) and his lawyer in the bedroom doing bedroomy things with her talking about how exciting he is and what a drag it will be having to take care of Tony once he gets home. Tony leaves undetected but pretends to his therapist that he got lost and never got into the apartment. He immediately and secretly plans to murder his wife by shooting her and set up his attorney for the crime. But how can a blind man shoot anybody? Watch and find out.Just like in Columbo, relationships are not deeply probed. The focus is on Tony and how he arranges everything to pull off the perfect crime. I've never seen Boone in much but "Have Gun Will Travel" and he did command my attention throughout. As an actor, Tony effectively and continually misleads everybody about both minor and major details and never lets on to his wife that everything between them is anything but perfect.After the crime, which happens rather ironically itself, "an inspector calls" - John Marley as Lt. Bergman. Marley is rather bland in this part but he is methodical and thorough. But the important thing is that, from the beginning, he suspects Tony in spite of evidence that the attorney did do it and the fact that Tony is blind. Suzanne Pleshette, in spite of being second billed, does not have that much to do here.I'd recommend this. But there is just one thing...never is it revealed HOW Tony became blind. Was it an accident? A disease? It is never mentioned. Also, was Tony's arrest even legal? The aftermath would have made a great episode of Law&Order. on just that issue alone. It is a very suspenseful made for TV treat and I would recommend it. Source: youtube Score: 8/10

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Frankenstein (1910) The Hands of Orlac (1924)

Whether any comedy or plot idea is "tired" depends on who's watching. As with Blandings, my younger daughter, who's never seen it until a couple or so years ago, and had gone through the whole having a house built ordeal with her ex a decade earlier, said she found it "familiarly amusing". After all, some are capable of watching "classic" movies of an advanced age with consideration of WHEN it was made, and not compare anything about them with what the current culture is at the moment. And funny is funny regardless of when it comes from. One example.... In the Laurel and Hardy short MEN O' WAR('29) there's a situation where the boys, both sailors and wanting to treat two girls they meet to sodas, find they only have 15 cents. Thinking the sodas are 5 cents a piece, Ollie cooks up the idea of ordering only three and having him and Stan split one of them. But when the sodas come, Ollie indicates to Stan to dink his half first. But When Ollie discovers Stan drank the whole thing and confronts him about it, Stan in his high-pitched whimper tells Ollie, "I couldn't HELP it. My half was on the BOTTOM!" Now, THAT'S funny. In 1929 AND 2021! Sepiatone

What a lovely print of The Glass Wall. Gorgeous

two thousand two hundred thirteenth category Silent screams NOSFERATU (1922) THE UNHOLY THREE (1925) FAUST (1926)

I make this point too often but comedies are very much of their own time. It's a rare one that crosses generations in it's appeal. Blandings was once a novel plot idea, but it's tired now. Still it has its moments. I always like the bit about the lallies or whatever, and Cary did exasperation very well. Douglas is very good, too, always hanging around to see Myrna. ("Why doesn't he get married!?")

Town Without Pity - Gene Pitney - Town Without Pity let's please continue, there are so many great title theme songs from 1960's movies

Shallow Grave (1994) 3 Scottish flat mates discover their other room mate dead with a suitcase full of cash. Excellent suspense and great final twist.

Well I'm a professional restorer & know all too well what a time & money pit an old house is too since I do all the work myself. I actually LOVE that scene and actually start my restoration proposals/presentations/articles with it and always get a laugh. It works remarkably well in text, although maybe because I can hear her voice in my head when reading it. No argument, Myrna Loy is beloved and a very talented, natural actress. I just don't care for Nora Charles, the charactor. I think she's haughty, smug & full of herself. Irene Dunn strikes me that way sometimes too, like in MY FAVORITE WIFE. As for HAROLD & MAUDE, it's one of my top ten faves, but as many of you have pointed out, I first saw it as a young adult. I remember looking at my friends saying "ew, they really slept together?" found the movie shocking, then poignant. It is kind of heavy handed and at times silly, but I love the story. Through the years watching it, I discovered how brilliant & funny Vivian Pickles as the Mother is. It's like once you know the story, your focus shifts to other performances. As we left the theater my friends said, "Maude is what you're going to be like as an old lady" which I could not fathom. And they were 100% right.

I've had a chance to look at the WatchTCM version of White Zombie in more detail and I think I see what Lorna is referring to. What threw me initially is that the print currently shown on TCM is overall a good resolution scan. Unfortunately it appears to be from a print with quite a bit of damage throughout. The YouTube version that was posted seems to have all of this damage cleaned up. Here is a WatchTCM shot from the beginning of the film. Notice the vertical scratch mark on the face: Here is the same shot on the YT version: At around 35 minutes there's a scene in a study that illustrates the film damage: More scratches in the image: Along with this damage there are occasional edit and picture jumps as Lorna has mentioned. So it would be very nice if TCM could show the cleaned up version, but apparently that is not available to them. (Thanks to EricJ and Mr. Gorman for their comments on this above.) Usually on TCM you see films in 2 general categories - lower resolution lower quality videos, and newer high definition videos from good prints. This is a less common case where they are showing a higher definition video from a print with significant flaws and not much if any restoration. With the HD video you can really see the defects as they go by.

Yeah, well, maybe if we’re spectacularly unlucky Rob Zombie will give it one of his patented “reinterpretations” and we’ll get a 2 1/2 hour version, with the first half hour comprised of shaky handheld camera footage of 12 year old Murder Legendre, struggling to fit in at Haitian middle school and living with a stripper mom and a witch doctor stepdad who is an abusive prick...

I love all the documentaries which have aired in this past week alone. I wish we had had a weekly showing of a documentary, like we do Noir, Silents, Imports and Underground!

Monday, October 4 Boy, during the day it’s the same old horror movies year after year. Instead I’ll go with .. 8 p.m. Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980). Sissy Spacek’s tour de force.

Never (Ever) have seen the charm, Nor the appeal with Leonardo Dicaprio. Always seems to be catching glances of cue cards (whether imagine or actually there) just off-screen.

1940 - The Letter Next: Liza Minnelli teaches a group of misfits to tap dance.

late Sun'; 10-3 (times ET) 12:30 am This is Francis X. Bushman (2021) Documentary at about an hour in length, "This Is Francis X. Bushman," is nonetheless a suitable documentary for its silent-film star subject. Not every biography need be two-hours-plus and in-depth psychologizing investigation. From the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum and Bushman biographers Lon and Debra Davis (authors of the book "King of the Movies: Francis X. Bushman"), ... se e: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15379452 Director Lon Davis Writers Debra Davis Lon Davis Stars Chris Bushman Francis X. Bushman(archive footage) ================================================================= 4:00 TCM Imports............. am The Human Condition III (1961) 3h 11m | War Part three of a trilogy. Conscientious objector Kaji, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Soviet troops and imprisoned in Siberia, where his record as a prison labor camp supervisor ironically brands him as a war criminal. Kaji attempts to escape from the horrors of the Russian Gulag. Director Masaki Kobayashi. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Condition_(film_series)

I just saw a promo for two films every Sunday (10 films in all). Looks like it will be a Ben - Mario affair. So I'm sure it will be interesting.

1942 - Somewhere I'll Find You 1948 - Homecoming 1954 - Betrayed Next: James Stewart & June Allyson

I always tell myself when watching Svengoolie, "Remember when you were a kid, and you went with all your friends to the Saturday matinees where popcorn flew through the air like shrapnel and everyone around you laughed and talked back to the screen? Well, pretend you're back there right now." It gets me through the 8:00 -- 10:00 time slot with a good old, relatively healthy dose of nostalgia. And the Sven set is really cool when viewed through rose-colored glasses. But, like most things these days, that's just me.

Tornado (1943)

Stella Dallas (1925)

Not so, NoShear! I enjoyed reading the exchanges between you and Peebs. You two had a busy day, while all I did today was clean the garage.

Young and Willing

"Mary's a Grand Old Name" sung by Irene Manning as Fay Templeton in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Next: Song from a movie directed by Henry King.

Union Pacific

Gloria looked good right up until the end. From her last film, The Nesting. Can't wait to see Dana, Gloria, and Eddie tonight! In addition there's more Gloria coming up on Tuesday. Tue. Oct. 5 Daytime Theme: Directors Minelli & Ray ..The Cobweb, 1955 (Minelli) ..The Bad and the Beautiful, 1952 (Minelli) ..In a Lonely Place 1950 (Ray)

For those who might be interested, here are the original 1948 MGM titles to Frank Capra's STATE OF THE UNION. After the original release, rights reverted to Capra and he reissued it under the Liberty Films banner. The remade titles also misspelled Katharine Hepburn's name (as "Katherine"). Also significant is that the original release did NOT include the portion of the scene in Kay Thorndyke's office where her editors resign en masse. I've included the original cutting of that sequence on the video, followed by the original Liberty Bell end title (title was changed and music was cut in the reissue).

As a movie I think the Rouben Mamoulian/Fredric March version is the best of the Jekyll and Hydes. But, come on, who's going to look at a missing link like March's Mr. Hyde enter a tavern and think he's just a little bit of a roughneck? He looks like he escaped from the island of Dr. Moreau. At least Tracy's Hyde still looked human, though I'm not a fan of the film itself. My favourite film Mr. Hyde is Jack Palance in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968). He plays the role like a bad boy roue who attacts the ladies and carries a sword stick by which he deals out sadistic pleasure.

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MURDER ON A BRIDLE PATH (1936)

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)

When (and if) they make it, James Caan would be perfect to play Joe Biden.