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Yay. MeTV is cranking up "The Invaders" again, right away, with Episode 1 "Beachhead" airing at the usual time, 5:00 a.m. Eastern Sunday mornings. Starting Sunday, October 24. Once again, "architect, David Vincent" will traverse that lonely country road, fall asleep and awaken, only to find himself on the weirdest trip of all-- trying to convince a disbelieving world that "they" are here-- the aliens. I love the way Roy Thinnes played this -- serious, totally straight, totally committed. He's like a latter-day Kevin McCarthy from "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Earnest, single-minded, oblivious to other concerns. They were both perfect for their respective roles. Thinnes could have exploited his considerable personal appeal, luring audiences, but instead, he made Vincent a bit sour, rarely turning on the charm, and hoarding his smiles. Very good for the role; I think I read that producers were frustrated with that. "Beachhead" is also fun for having James Daly as David Vincent's loyal architecture partner. I love the wackiness of that fire set in David's cool young Sixties' apartment, with Ellen Corby gloating in the background... The color in "The Invaders" is vivid, saturated, enticing. I suppose some sci fi purists find the special effects of the time to be wanting. I love them as part of the distinctive "Invaders" package. To me, the sci fi aspect is not what really makes the series-- it's the "quest", ha.

Just wait. Someone will complain certain monster types were not equally represented.

Myrna Loy in The Barbarian.

Deanna Durbin sang the title song in Can't Help Singing in a bathtub. Lucille Bremer also sang while bathing in Yolanda and the Thief. That's Clark Gable in the tub in Hold Your Man. Claudette Colbert took a milk bath in The Sign of the Cross.

Cool Runnings (1993) -- is this a bathtub or a bobsled? Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) -- baths are supposed to be relaxing, no? The Big Lebowski (1998) -- "nice marmot" For Pete's Sake (1974) -- Barbra Streisand and Michael Sarrazin in the tub Fatal Attraction (1987) -- yeah, she deserved it The Shining (1980) -- do NOT go in there! Grosse Point Blank (1997) -- a bathtub is as good a place as any to hide with a gun What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) -- Gilbert forgets and leaves Arnie in the bath overnight Splash (1984) -- every girl bathes with a box of salt, right? Ghostbusters (1984) -- pink ooze The Cincinnati Kid (1965)

"Hats", ya ask?! This old weathered greybeard here usually only sports this number when it he knows he's going to be out in the rain or the snow... And yes, we do get snow here in the higher altitudes of northern Arizona. Otherwise, the only other time the old f*art here wears something on his head would be a baseball cap while he's out playing tennis or driving his little sports car around with its top down. Oh AND of course, ALWAYS a helmet when he's ridin' one of his motorcycles around, too. (...btw, don't ya just HATE IT when someone refers to themselves in the third person?...how pretentious is that, RIGHT?!!!) LOL

The most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Totally appropriate in a Museum of the History of Native Americans but absolutely inappropriate in a museum purportedly about the history of movies.

POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL RED DUST WHAT A WAY TO GO

Some Like it Hot Ben-Hur

Baby Doll (1956) Pretty Woman (1990) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) The Opposite Sex (1956)

This is apparently part of the display for NORTH BY NORTHWEST at the new film museum. While this sort of information/opinion is interesting, it has no place in a film museum (IMO) that's supposedly celebrating film. From what I've heard from others who have visited, the museum is filled with little PC nuggets like this..... Your thoughts?

I know what you mean, Bronxie. A large part of the problem was reading all those subtitles, since the film is very dialogue -heavy. And I'm used to sub-titles, I like foreign films , but I found it a lot of work to read all those sub-titles and still keep up with everything that was going on. The first 20 minutes or so of the film was quite dense, dense with action, dialogue, characters, just a lot of stuff going on and to keep track of. I found it did get more comprehensible once the flashback, which is most of the film, started. SPOILER : as Eddie noted, it's very unusual to have a child murderer in a film, especially back then. And it never would have been allowed in an American version. But then again, there's always "The Bad Seed", isn't there? However, the guilty kid in La Bestia Debe Morir is quite sympathetic, and not at all like the psycho-killer kid in that film ( TBS ). And in a way, it was poetic justice, and made the whole structure of the story quite symmetrical, since the boy who poisoned the horrible hit-and -run killer was about the same age and seemed similar in personality to the boy who was killed.

I think this is my favorite of the multiple monsters films in the Universal series. One of the best things is Elena Verdugo as the gypsy girl. She is feisty and cute and brings a lot of energy to the part. She is involved in a strange triangle with Daniel the hunchback falling in love with her, but she only has eyes for the Wolf Man. I have read some interviews with her where she says she really enjoyed working on this film. Since she was a blonde she wore a brunette wig to play the gypsy. She called Lon Chaney a "lovely friendly man" and J Carroll Naish as someone she knew from her first picture Down Argentine Way (1940). She recalled "I simply loved him. He helped, he supported, he gave so much." It shows in the film, she has some nice, tender scenes with both actors.

I would suggest to the TCM schedulers if they are going to exhibit two very looooong Clint Eastwood films that require a total of five or six hours, that you do it on some night that is not Saturday. Friday night would have done just as well, and then Underground can start on time and so can Noir Alley. Starting at 12:15AM or 12:30AM is OK, but waiting until 2AM is ridiculous. I just recorded it and watched it when I got up this morning.

Another Time Another Place 1958 UK Kaydor Productions- Paramount. Directed by Lewis Allen . Lana Turner Barry Sullivan Glynis Johns and 'introducing ' Sean Connery (not true he made 4 or 5 films before). Melodrama with a hard to believe story line, filmed in England with a complete British cast except for the two leads. This film was never presented on TCM. Released in the UK at 98 minutes,USA 91 , I have seen the 91 minutes one. 6/10

Good one. I think of it more as a "western" which both expands and contracts that genre and is still inclusive of the "western's" tropes while also being inclusive and non-non-exclusive of fundamental ideologies. Smile when you say that, pardner. 🤠

Yeah, but BEFORE the Wicked Queen turned herself into that old hag, she suuuure was one hot and sultry babe, I always thought! (...uh-huh, even as a kid I noticed that!) LOL

Many bathtub scenes in Looney Tunes cartoons -- Tweety sings "Singin' in the Bathtub" -- sometimes Bugs things a boiling pot is a bathtub... DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER Not sure if it's a tub or shower in EASY LIVING, but it's ridiculous anyway MY FAIR LADY -- trying to bathe Eliza! THE WOMEN -- Crystal Allen's special tub NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS -- walking bathtub A QUIET PLACE THE THRILL OF IT ALL MARY POPPINS RETURNS -- whole bathtub number

Yes, the plot would have been clearer if the first twenty or so minutes were placed closer to the end of the film. It has to be much easier to understand on a second viewing. I thought whether Felix or the little tyke was the killer was ambiguous. I went with Felix because whatever mental problems he had I just don't see him committing suicide by sea just to throw suspicion away from the kid. It was certainly a well done movie with an atypical plot, though all the scenarios he came up with for knocking off the bad guy started to remind me of Kind Hearts and Coronets. All that money spent on restoration and you'd think they would have used yellow subtitles. But in general it was an interesting change of pace. I tuned into Unforgiven at 11:15, which was the start time in the schedule. Ben comes on for a moment and then they run a promo for Clint's new movie Cry Something. That went on for twenty dull minutes with people saying what a great director Clint is, blah blah. Waste of time. Finally they actually ran the film. Hooray.

Lee Marvin

Oops! I always get those two mixed up!

Kevin Bacon (Friday the 13th) Next: someone you idolized when you were a kid

Why? This seems an ideal place to comment on the unreliable Saturday night schedule for Noir Alley. And the poster was talking specifically about the program Noir Alley. Also, Mr. FloydBarber is not the only one here to be displeased about the switching around of Noir Alley's schedule on Saturday night. Now, I say this completely objectively, since I always watch it on the Sunday morning slot. Which, thank the noir gods that be, seems to be pretty consistent in its 10:00 a. m. schedule. But I'm just saying, this seems like a legitimate complaint, and I think this thread is as appropriate a place as any to comment about it. ps /edit : By the way, which thread in General Discussions are you alluding to? I always thought this was the original, real McCoy, and primary Noir Alley thread. You mean there's another one? Gak ! And I've been missing out on it all this time ! Now I'm experiencing major FOMO. 😬

ROXANNE (1987)

ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK (1956)

Wow, JAKEEM , are you observant, to notice and remember those two appearing in tandem in both "The Fugitive" and "The Invaders"! That's one thing I really like about Quinn Martin Productions, the way they would mix and match, and cross-pollinate the actors from one of their series to the other. It was like one big stock company, and there were lots of repeat actors in both. Like Lin McCarthy, Dabbs Greer, Diana Hyland, Dabney Coleman, and on and on. "The Invaders" got a lot of terrific performers, from both old Hollywood and new. Classics like Kent Smith and Roddy McDowell. Newer ones like Carol Lynley , Antoinette Bower, Jack Lord. Loved Suzanne Pleshette in "Invaders". Roy Thinnes has said that he couldn't believe his luck, as a relative newcomer, to have guest stars like Ralph Bellamy being willing to go on the show... DARGO, I do like that 'metaphor' aspect of Invaders-- like all of a sudden, the once- familiar is alien, things are topsy turvy, people (and institutions) are not what they seem, you can't trust what you formerly trusted, etc. Hmmm, SLAYTONF, there is that tingly element of paranoia animating the series, among other things. I've always liked sort of "paranoid thrillers" like "The Parallax View", among others, so that fits.

LUXURY LINER (1948) Jane Powell, George Brent. Jane stows away on her Dad's boat instead of taking exams at school! Next: Plane crash in the jungle

Museum Denver Airport

→ You know, I once teamed up with Jenny at the bowling alley on League Night. She folded in the clutch . . . we needed a strike and she rolled agutter ball! JEEZ. Ok, TB, I'll venture a guess. I could be way off because I didn't cheat and look up the movie title beforehand. I think there was 1970 Britsh movie called THE RAILWAY CHILDREN and that's the best guess I can make.

Young children feel particularly scared of a person transforming from someone who is friendly to someone fearsome as with the witch in Snow White. Snow White, Cinderella and other fairy tales were not originally stories for kids. The "Cinderella" story was done in many different countries and cultures and some versions of the Cinderella fairy tale were really gruesome. An old German Cinderella story has Cinderella forcing her evil stepsisters to "dance" in red hot iron shoes after she marries the prince. Even in the less scary movie versions of these fairy tales, there's still a scary element. My daughter was always scared of the Little Mermaid having her voice taken away.

Pillow of Death 1945 Universal. Directed by Wallace Fox . Lon Chaney Jr Brenda Joyce. Another low budget B movie,a mystery thriller.Chaney is a lawyer whose wife have been murdered,of course he is heavily suspected,until 2 more murders are made.(I would not hire him as a lawyer).There is a psychic ,a medium,a stupid investigator etc. Brenda Joyce was an attractice actress. Excellent print 66 minutes 6/10.

In THAT case slayton, perhaps this old Quinn Martin production could find a whole NEW audience to entertain, and considering that a major strain of paranoia seems to be sweeping through this country of ours in the past few years. And no, I'm not talkin' about Covid here, dude! (...think of this as my "social commentary" for the evening)

Gene Tierney (Laura, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Black Widow) Next: David Grant The Spirit of Man Professor Michael Lightcap

For years slayton, I never wore a baseball cap while playing tennis under the sunny SoCal and then later Arizona skies. However, in the last few years and after noticing the damage the sun was doing particularly to the skin of my forehead, nose and cheeks, I'm now attempting to protect those parts of my face by wearing one while on the tennis courts. The point being that playing baseball isn't the only sport where wearing one would be readily advised. (...and even though I know your point was that baseball caps in recent years have somehow become "acceptable attire" in public by almost everyone and at almost any time, and whether or not one might be participating in some sort of outdoor sport)

Why, y'ol charmer! Hats are mandatory in Arizona, aren't they? Here's a radical suggestion: Baseball caps for (get this!) baseball. (I'm just sayin'. . . . .)

Jaleel White -actor debuted in '80s horror flick

"Abraham" (Holiday Inn '42) - Lincoln's B'Day NEXT -cynical love song

There are whole articles devoted to this movie and especially its opening sequence in the "real" world being one of the biggest creep-out downers to a whole generation of kids. I think I was a junior in high school when it came out and scoffed at the idea of going to see a "kid's" movie, though I was momentarily intrigued by a review in the local paper which even at that time alluded to its creepiness. I've still never seen it except for a few YouTube clips. It attained something of a legendary cult status, I assume through VHS and other technologies of home viewing, as I think it was a huge bomb in the theaters and gone in a matter of weeks.

Pat Morita Next: Who worked with Shelley Long, Danny DeVito and James Caan?

Claudette Colbert bathes her daughter (Juanita Quigley) in IMITATION OF LIFE (1934):

Nice to hear the hat affection here. I love men in fedoras in film and in real life. They offer scope for drama. In fact most of the elements of traditional male "business attire" are appealing-- tailored suits, high contrast white shirts, silk ties (yes, ties), polished oxfords. Most other women that I've canvassed on this have a similar reaction. I can't think of a leading man in classic Hollywood who didn't 'up' his considerable appeal with a sharp fedora. Also love the look of 'old school' women's business attire-- again, a nicely tailored suit, soft blouse, no extremes. Jean Arthur in her "Washington" movies. Roz Russell. Tiny Veronica Lake in a strictly cut trench coat. Ann Sothern in a white peter pan collar and black dress. Ladies and gents, looking their best.

Think about the regions where you see hats worn historically. Its normally Northern Europe/Eastern Europe where the climate can get very cold. Hats keep your head warm. In warmer climates, hats function to shade from the sun so a different style is required. The era when most classic movies were made, most of the U.S. population still lived back east where its cold (even though the films were made in sunny Hollywood). So the characters still wore their hats coast just the same. Its been said that the 1960 election was the beginning of the end of hat wearing. Ike and Nixon were often seen in hats during the 1950's. But, JFK showing off his great head of hair portrayed youthfulness, a new era, so to speak. Sending a message that "only old people wore hats". And as that 50's post war era faded away, so did the fedoras. I'd wear a hat regularly but, my head's too big. And the hats I find that do fit are way over priced. So a ball cap will have to do for now.

It seems Henry Fonda really likes to be clean: Wings of the Morning (1937) Spencer's Mountain (1963) Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)

I can never turn away from HARLAN COUNTY whenever it airs.

What a money oriented society looks like: (I appreciate the Souix's point of view)

WHAT!! A son resembling his Father?? Who'da THUNK! Sepiatone

I always think that Ross Alexander and Jon Stewart look a lot alike.

Mayim Bialik (especially without makeup) and Margaret Hamilton:

SOMEWHERE IN TIME (1980)