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GHOST STORY was also the title of a 1981 feature film with a similar milieu that also starred Melvyn Douglas.
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The Jazz Singer is the first talkie even though little talking was done. The important thing to know is that Vitaphone could be used in any theatre or auditorium. It was up to the projectionist to sync it right. Its drawback was phonograph records getting broke during shipment.
No, Vitaphone's real problem was that editing sound to picture was all but impossible with sound-on-disc. By contrast, sound-on-film was infinitely flexible, and allowed for the mixing of multiple tracks into a single composite (dialogue-music-effects) soundtrack with an acceptable amount of degradation from multiple film generations.
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Cheyenne Brando. Yes, she was.
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It was an indoctrination to Marxist theory. You didn't miss anything.
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Because war creates an upheaval in all society, touching all levels and classes; in the case of World War II, it was a struggle for survival for all of Western Civilization, with millions of men under arms sent to every corner of the Earth, and their families knowing that they very well might never return.
Yes, firefighters are heroes, no question about it, but fires, unlike wars, are localized, eventually burning themselves out. War too often, if sadly, requires the ultimate sacrifice of men for a cause, while the standing order among firefighting organizations is that no suppression of a fire, or saving of property, is worth the cost of a firefighter's life.
That's a vast difference.
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It's an import. If you want something to run on your Region 1 player, you'll have to record it from Fox Movie Channel.
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I wonder if there's anyone at TCM who was cringing each time Bob Osborne mispronounced Joe Pantoliano's name ("Pantileano"). For the record, it's "pan-toh-lee-AH-no."
As for THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, it's a great, great, great and moving film, but the best ever made? It's not even the best film William Wyler ever made (for my money, that honor goes to his THE HEIRESS, but that film is far more ambiguous and subtle in its emotions and character motivations, and, therefore demanding of its audience expressly because it doesn't rely on the simpler, heart-tugging story points of a BEST YEARS).
PS: B52, I'm afraid that your penchant for omitting spaces after punctuation marks has the effect of making your postings seem as if you'd never punctuated them at all. That makes them a chore to read (irrespective of the content, which is certainly very interesting). You'll reach a wider audience, therefore, if you go the extra mile (a single space at a time) to give the people here the opportunity to read your entries as they deserve to be read.
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Both are bad movies; ALWAYS is a really, really bad movie (did it not occur to Spielberg that fire-fighting pilots are simply not, and can never be, as compelling protagonists as soldiers and airmen in wartime?).
A GUY NAMED JOE was a hastily-conceived, and badly-cobbled together piece of heavy-handed wartime propaganda masquerading as a romantic fantasy.
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Kirk Douglas, already a star, had agreed to play Brad Braden, but then his agent asked for more money than the parsimonious DeMille wanted to pay. So, the part went to the little-known Charlton Heston, under contract to producer Hal Wallis, who was based at Paramount.
Really unfortunate, as Douglas would have given the film an energy and dramatic focus that the laconic Heston simply didn't have and couldn't provide at that point in his career (and has never had, compared to the tightly-wound intensity that's Douglas's trademark).
Dramatically, the film really is as awful as people say, and probably the most inexplicable and undeserving Best Picture Oscar winner in Academy history. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH does have one great merit, though: it provides a priceless filmic record of what the Ringing Brother, Barum & Bailey Circus was like at the midpoint of the 20th century -- not the acts so much as how the circus functioned when it was still under canvas, before the era of the Big Top gave way to that of the Big Arenas, like Madison Square Garden, which sucked away most of the romance and drama of the tent, the very thing that called to the nomad in us all (and who among us has not, at some point in our lives, not dreamt of running away with the circus?). For the circus to truly be The Circus, it must tower over us, and reduce us to the size of small children; in arenas, most of the spectators hover above it, with the acts reduced to the size and scale of postage stamps.
If you ever have the oppotunity to see THE GREATEST HOW ON EARTH on the Big Screen, only there does the circus continue to tower, and make children of us all.
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I found Alec Baldwin to be among the most pretentious and self-conscious Guest Programmers on TCM. It was obvious that he was trying VERY hard to show everyone what a knowledgable and deep-thinking "cinema scholar" he is.....and he failed miserably.
I can't believe that Robert Osborne was able to keep a straight face during some of Baldwin's "insightful" comments....but then, knowing Baldwin's volatile temper, poor Robert was probably afraid to do ANYTHING that could set Baldwin off!
What an obvious political rant this is on the part of you two. Baldwin's comments were more on-the-money than most of the other "Guest Programmers'" were by at least half a notch.
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A Happy Thanksgiving, without a showing of PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE???
Sack the entire programming staff first thing Friday morning.
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No, it's not Bronson.
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Swanson, it is. Cooper? No way!
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Bronson is not in the movie.
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That's because Turner Broadcasting didn't have its own home video division; they made a deal with MGM to release the films it owns through that company's home video division. When the contract expired, Turner negotiated a similiar deal with Warner Home Video, which has become permanent since Turner's 1996 merger with TimeWarner.
ATLANTS is, and will continue to be, the property of TimeWarner, and there seems no reason as to why TCM is not showing it.
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Mankiewicz.
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Once, I was in California, and I told a lady I was from Chicago. She said, "Wow! I've never been that far east!" I said, "Um, Chicago's in the midwest." She knew that. But I still thought it was funny. Of course, no trip was complete without the inevitable, DON'T TELL ME! YOU'RE A *****CUB FAN!
The lady didn't say that Chicago was in the East, only that it was east of California, and farther east than, say, Denver, or, Rapid City, South Da-KO-tah (as our Mr Vandamm was wont to say it).
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You are the most annoying person on this board--and also one of the worse spellers -
I will never read another word you write as I am going to join the others who have you on their ignore list -And by the way I spelled it right.
I asked you a legitimate question, since it wasn't clear whether you were referring to June Haver, or June Havoc.
You spelled June Haver's name correctly only after I pointed out that you'd misspelled it, and obviously went back to correct your previous posting (I copied and pasted that posting into the top of my own, so that misspelling reflects accurately your error). It's extraordinarily dishonest of you to do that and then claim that you got it right on the first try.
And I am "one of the worst spellers?" Not in the space-time continuum in which all six-billion known Earth people live, sweetie.
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You remind me of the apoplectically incoherent peanut salesman in DUCK SOUP, after Harpo gets through with him.
HONK, HONK!
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Really? Did either of you have any Bad Days there?
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"De people, dey a-cry, when de monkey, he a-die."
...Dino DeLaurentiis, during the production of his version of KING KONG (1976)
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You're like a rat in a maze that just can't find the cheese, fella.
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Black was certainly the weakest link in a film that really had no complelling reason to be made. Even if he were a better actor (and not associated with comic roles as what are, basically, ineffectual slobs) Black was far too young and lacking in gravitas and guile to play Carl Denham. Now, Michael Douglas, in full Gordon Gekko mode, might've been able to carry it off, but I can't think of too many of today's actors who could.
Adrien Brody as Jack Driscoll is also a bit of mysterious casting that seems to defy common sense.
That said, while the film's Skull Island scenes are far too violent, and seem to go on forever, once the film and Kong get to New York City, the (largely digital) re-creation of Depression-era Manhattan is remarkable (especially considering that the NYC sets were built in New Zealand), and the depiction of Kong, himself, is exceptionally well-integrated with it.
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In the scene, an airline name, Northwest, can be seen in the background. And since a trip to South Dakota (Mt. Rushmore) from NYC would be in a very slight northerly direction, and since we never know which airline he and Carroll do get on, it could very well have been Northwest. So he would be going "North by Northwest." LOL! This may be the most outrageous example of a product endoresment in a film, getting it right in the title (no, probably "Boeing, Boeing" may be the most blatant).
The wide gap in your reasoning is that the plane is waiting to take off not from Idyllwild International Airport (now known as JFK Int'l) in New York City, but at O'Hare Airport (though I suppose it could also be Midway Airport) in Chicago (remember that Roger Thornhill leaves NYC on the 20th Century Limited train, on which he meets Eve Kendall; it's only after returning to Eve's hotel from the crop-duster episode that he follows her to the auction house, arranges to have himself arrested and, instead of being taken to police headquarters, is driven to the airport by the cops).
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You are right Metz -Many have been thrown off --I don't know what his problem is--could it be he is posting from prison ? he is so mean...And now he cut his original criticisim in half and took out all the rude and degrading things he said , to make my post look ridiculous..... what a loser..
I'd be interested in knowing exactly where I'm supposed to have "cut my original critcism in half," since I have no regrets about anything I write. I might add to them to further eviscerate someone like you, but pull my punches? Never.