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Too often, coverage of DS focuses on the bloopers, with the show being dismissed as cheesy and unintentionally funny. However, people fail to realize that DS was one of the most creative and ambitious shows ever to appear on TV. Granted, it was done on a small budget, but the people involved were seriously committed to the show and they pushed the available technology to the limits. DS went to extremes that no other shows would dare even to approach. To borrow from THIS IS SPINAL TAP, the creative team behind DS took it to 11.

Yes, it's a portrait of Joan's character used in Woman in the Window. I guess she got the painting!

I have no plans to watch HALLOWEEN KILLS. Period. Here's the deal: I will only watch the original HALLOWEEN (1978) on my MEDIA Home Entertainment VHS tape. It is simply a transfer of a theatrical film print with the 'Compass International' logo at the start. There are some hisses, pops and scratches -- which gives off an eerier vibe since it's not cleaned up in any way. The movie was only a couple of years old when the MEDIA VHS was released in 1980 so there was no need for re-mastering. As far as HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH . . . I'd like to like it more, but there's at least 1 plot •hole• you can drive a truck thru and there's really no way for me to suspend my disbelief due to the time zone differences across America when the sinister commercial comes on. 'nuff said.

And yet, David always managed to find a way get into the Old House. If not by door, then through the window which remains open at all times.

Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman -- she is 5000 years old. We learn in Episode VII that Chewbacca is well over 200 years old. Gandalf, the spirit Maia, existed before Middle Earth and cannot perish. He is over 11,000 years old.

Dracula in the movie DRACULA and his daughter in HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA The Mummy The witches in I MARRIED A WITCH The witches in THE WITCHES Samantha in BEWITCHED

And Gloria Stuart lived to 100 in real life.

Is this portrait from a movie? It reminds me of the famous Laura portrait of Gene Tierney.

For the record it’s not just the bugs and snakes that make Halloween III so disturbing: the music is absolutely unsettling, as is the cinematography and the locations. It is a depraved film. I keep meaning to buy it on DVD...

Multiple takes are common William Wyler easily did 50 takes on everything and on Mank ,Fincher made a 100 takes on a scene with Gary Oldman a great actor. Hitchcock hardly made any direction,the film was already shot in his mind and he casted actors whom he knew would do the job without directing or almost,many actors had confirmed that.Wyler was the worst,and some editors and producers knew how he was and selected often the first take out of 50 ! Actually few actors ,if any, made 2 films with William Wyler, the guy was not articulate with the actors, he was saying 'Do it again' the actor did not know what was wrong with it, When questionned about what he wanted ,he would say' when I will see it will tell you'

Tom Thumb Kid Glove Killer Rings on Her Fingers A Fistful of Dollars He Who Gets Slapped

MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE

Something that drives me crazy is when someone is fighting for their life and their companion just stands there frozen or cowering in a corner. I'm thinking "You know, the odds of surviving this would increase dramatically if only you'd help! If you don't want to get too close, pick up that shovel and give him a good whack, for god's sake!" James Mason, Joan Bennett in The Reckless Moment

I recall Jason McGuire breaking in there to steal some of Barnabas' jewels after being ordered out of town. He found something else instead, in the basement, much to his everlasting regret.

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Bette Davis was forever criticizing her co-star Errol Flynn for his performance in 1939's The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. Many years later, after Flynn's death, she watched the movie on TV and stated that Errol was a lot better than she had remembered, in fact he was very good. Upon hearing this, the late Flynn's wife, Patrice Wymore, said in an interview on TCM that she wished Errol could have heard her comment as it would have meant so much to him.

A bit off topic but i remember the first time my wife took me to Brighton and walking on the pier i saw a Helter Skelter. So after decades of speculation and people like Charles Manson proclaiming the Beatles song was about race wars in the apocalypse, turns out it was just a silly song about a slide. The White Album really is just a bunch of silly nursery rhymes isn't it.

5 Fingers (1952) Cool Hand Luke (1967) The Hired Hand (1971) The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) Winter's Bone (2010)

**** SKYE. Really Otto-sensor? → More 6th grade dropouts working for TCM. Since when is the name I-O-N-E a dirty word?

Whitefield, Elizabeth - Claudette Colbert in Daughters of Destiny

I'm loving this. Don't know if he has everything in common with me, or nothing. But none of that matters. Mr. Shatner is living the dream, for those who wish to travel into Space. And for the record, I'm not one of them!! 😁 So my best wishes to him (and crew) as he reenters our atmosphere in the near future, hopefully with tales to tell. I am looking forward to it!! And perhaps a new beatnik LP record. But one can only dream. P.S. I wish those empty-headed talking heads would just stifle it about Jet Blue (or whatever it is) being a private company, and not NASA. 😁 FWIW One of my beloved uncles was one of the few original NASA physicists who figured out how rocket propulsion worked, through complex formulas and equations, and with an EE on hand, developed an early computer program to calculate. That's right, an EE, not a "computer programmer" in those days!! I have the original scanned documents on my computer and am proud to have known him - really wish I could have known him better as an adult - I think he might have approved of me - just maybe - fingers crossed - he once told me I "cleaned up well" at a wedding, and I took that as a compliment. We are talking mid to late 1950s here for this project of his, and he had some significant other projects that changed our history that I am aware of. I am told by my family that his rocket propulsion program is still used to this day, universally all over the world, on newer computer platforms of course. Maybe even in a web browser. Damn, my family makes me look good... For perspective, tonight I just helped my next door neighbor and her best friend put together an IKEA sofa, metal framework and all, without really using the instructions. I originally went over there for the "entertainment value" (they are a heck of a lot of fun), but they mostly stood back out of the way just this one time. I just used the parts inventory on the first few pages as an "exploded diagram", and not much more, maybe about a 30+ page manual, but I don't know for sure. Blew their minds. Mars vs. Venus or whatever. Comfortable sofa BTW, nice and firm. 😁

@CIGARJOE: I looked for "The Third Day" many years ago on homevideo, but it was never released by Warner on VHS. Then I noticed several years back it had been issued on one of those MOD discs by Warner Archives so I bought one. I noted the movie screens @ 2.40:1 on the disc; that's some fat W/S! No wonder Warner didn't issue it on tape . . . that would've been some heavy duty panning-and-scanning to be done since Warner issued very few movies on tape in their original W/S theatrical presentations. I concur with your review at 6/10. I think Leonard Maltin gave "The Third Day" **½ stars out of '****' for 'Worth Watching'/A Little Bit Above Average. It's pretty good but not great. I can think of four amnesia movies that came out between 1965 and 1968: THE THIRD DAY (1965) along with MIRAGE (1965), MISTER BUDDWING (1966) and JIGSAW (1968 - A sort of 'mod' remake of "Mirage"; apparently filmed for televsion by Universal but released to theaters instead). These kind of amnesia plots remind of the Elvis Presley song: I Forgot to Remember to Forget.

Brigadoon — the whole town is over 200 Lord of the Rings — Gollum and all the elves, wizards and dwarves, plus we attend Bilbo’s 111th birthday

38 seconds in, LARA PARKER, looking LUMINOUS (anyone know what her pink button says?)

I'm a huge Lucy fan. I was looking forward to this podcast and I listened to the first episode this morning. I thought it was well done and I like hearing Lucy's story in her own words. Because I've read so many books about Lucy, including Lucy's autobiography, there wasn't a whole ton of new information learned. However, what was fascinating was hearing the voices of Lucy's ever-present mother, Dede, who was a major support for Lucy throughout her entire life until Dede passed away in the late 1970s. Lucy was also close to her brother, Fred, and cousin, Cleo, and it was fun hearing their voices telling some of the stories. I would love to visit Lucy's hometown in Jamestown, NY. Unfortunately, Jamestown is over 2600 miles away from my house, so I'll definitely have to see the Lucy-Desi museum and Lucy's childhood homes whenever I am able to visit that area of the country.

In one episode, there is a cut to the Old House and the scene begins with Barnabas saying to Willie, "And I want you to make sure young David doesn't come into this house..." It always makes me smile because I imagine that Barnabas is in the middle of giving Willie an endless list of instructions.

I'd get the discs, LILYPOND, if they're not very expensive. As long as they're watchable that's all you really need! ALSO: Edmond's last movie was 99 and 44/100% DEAD! (1974) and his last television appearance was in "Police Story", also in 1974. After that, the early on-set Alzheimers made it impossible for him to remember his lines. He was only 58 when his entertainment career was effectively ended by the disease. (He was born Sept. 10, 1915).

The Vampire and the Ballerina (1960) Italy/Dir: Renato Polselli - A group of beautiful dancers and their trainers/managers end up staying in an old, isolated castle that's also occupied by vampires. With Helene Remy, Walter Brandi, Tina Gloriani, Gino Turini, and Isarco Ravaioli. The filmmakers took the revived gothic horror style of Hammer and imbued it with more blatant sexuality. The film was a big hit, and is said to have influenced European horror in the next decade quite a bit. While I enjoyed the dancers in their skimpy, tight outfits, the horror elements of the film are weak, and the vampires look ludicrous. (5/10)

Thursday October 14, 2021 Candlelight on TCM seance on a wet afternoon

Thursday, October 14 at 1h00pm In Canada only the original uk Gaslight with Anton Walbrook, not showed often(The 1944 Gaslight with Bergman & Boyer was a remake of the UK one) In the USA they have OBSESSION aka The HiddenRoom . For once we have a very good substitute in Canada the best one imo.

2622--"Suzy"is a mediocre Jean Harlow film that I got to see when it came out on DVD. It's claim to fame-- Cary Grant kinda sings one song. 2623--WB's wartime benefit, "Thank Your Lucky Stars". Some stars sing and dance better than others, or not well at all. Of course, Bette was good. 2625--"It Should Happen To You"--One of Cukor's gems with Judy Holliday. Historically noted also as Jack Lemmon's feature film debut. BTW, Jack was quite funny. 2629--"La Bamba"--Lou Diamond does a great job portraying an early rock legend, Ritchie Valens.

They're called the Djinn chair, and it looks like you can still buy them. Maybe something to think about for the TCM store. You can only drink so much wine.

Rose Calvert in "Titanic" was 101 years old. She was portrayed by the 86-year-old Hollywood veteran actress Gloria Stuart.

Later, one of the sharks had to visit the shark doctor because of bad indigestion, and the doc told the shark to eat only nice people for a while. By the way, I would never think of Pinkie Brown as an anti-hero. He was just a psychopathic criminal.

I'm an American married to a Brit and living in both Portland, Oregon and in Cornwall, England. Although Portland has gone crazy so I might just start telling people i only live in England 😉 You may be right about not many British people being swimmers back then. I don't think anyone would swim in the Thames but there's always been swimming pools here.

Orlando (1992) - doesn't grow old The Green Mile (1999) - Old Paul is 108. Twilight (2008) - [SPOILER]Edward is a 108-year old vampire.[/SPOILER]

I have already posted this video once, I post it again for reference because at the 40 second mark there is a photo of GRAYSON HALL coming either to or from the studio with HER REAL HAIR ( THIS was early in her run on the show, I think she legit cut it into that MIA FARROW/DIESEL DAGGER 'DO later on after she had settled into the part) i love this video and have watched it many times, the song is so incredibly touching and the photos very thoughtfully placed, if you missed it when i posted it several, several pages back, give it a looksie (although, fair warning, you may get misty near the end):

Lost Horizon The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

The Professionals (1966) One of the best westerns of the '60s, a wonderful combination of ruggedly staged action scenes, an intelligent screenplay, outstanding cinematography, partially shot in Mexico, Death Valley and Nevada, and a great cast of, yes, professional players. Ralph Bellamy plays a millionaire who hires four specialists, the calm, collected former military man leader of the group (Lee Marvin), an explosives expert (Burt Lancaster), a seasoned horse expert (Robert Ryan) and an expert tracker who is also a great long bowman (Woody Strode) to rescue his wife who had been kidnapped by a Mexican bandit/revolutionary and held for ransom. The revolutionary's name is Jesus Raza. "Jesus," says the millionaire, "What a name for the bloodiest cutthroat in Mexico." It's a particular joy to view the vigorous portrayals by Marvin and Lancaster playing roles they could have switched with one another. Marvin plays the slightly more compassionate, reasonable of the two while Lancaster is a mercenary taking on the job for the money. Burt is great fun to watch here in a very physical performance, running, shooting, jumping around rocks. His mercenary character, decidedly more ruthless than Marvin, has been called an extension of the soldier-of-fortune he had played in his other "Mexican Western" a dozen years before, Vera Cruz. Enjoyable as that film was, this one is much better, The two actors also have great macho chemistry in this film which is interesting to note especially since there were reports of friction between them during the filming (Lancaster was incensed when Marvin turned up drunk at one point, with reports that his anger was so great there were concerns he might do physical harm to him). Neither Ryan nor Strode have roles as well written as those of the film's top two stars. Claudia Cardinale plays the kidnapped wife, while Jack Palance is the revolutionary in a small performance in which he makes the most of his limited screen time. One of the best scenes in the film occurs when Lancaster remains hidden in the mountains to hold off the revolutionaries pursuing them on horseback. Once a friend of Palance and follower of the revolutionary cause, he and Palance, while holding each other off with guns and knowing that one of them is probably going to die also have a back and forth conversation about the revolution that is distinguished by sharp, insightful dialogue. Palance, in his only dialogue exchange in the film, really shines here and more than holds his own with Lancaster. Richard Brooks was nominated for Oscars for both his direction (one of the relatively few nominations for best directing for a film not nominated as Best Picture) and screenplay set in 1917 Mexico that keeps the viewer guessing what will happen next. Conrad Hall was also nominated for his spectacular colour photography of rock bound and desert terrains. This is an exceedingly good looking production. And, to top it all off, Lee Marvin has a great closing line of dialogue. In every sense of the word The Professionals is a winner that can be enjoyed with repeat viewings. 3.5 out of 4

hot barbara this dame is beautiful and knows it.

Then there's The Green Glove (1952, starring Glenn Ford.

Ella Raines

I thought he was in Panama last I read

I don't seem to remember that. With characters like that the only way for improvement is to stop breathing.

65 in 1988? Holy cow! So in the early seasons of Sanford and Son, he was like ... barely older than I am now. When I was a child, I thought he was like 75 THEN.

PLAY IT AGAIN SAM (1972)

Well they could squeeze in Duel at Diablo (1966), Bandolero! (1968), El Condor (1970), Skin Game (1971), Buck and the Preacher (1972), The Legend of N****r Charley (1972), Charley-One-Eye (1973), Keoma (1976).

This right here. How many of the people who made Shatner's ride possible started out watching him play spaceman all those years ago, and deciding that they wanted to make that happen? It's a testament to the power of mythmaking and storytelling, and the reason why science fiction fans like me sometimes get a little, um, passionate about the subject.

CRAIG’S WIFE (1936)