CineSage_jr
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When I come on the TCM boards and discuss my take on movies starring/directed by Ginger Rogers, Fredric March, John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, or Elia Kazan (the most far-right-wingers that come to mind) --- OR Barbra Streisand, John Garfield, Shirley MacLaine, Warren Beatty, Katharine Hepburn, or even, gasp, Jane Fonda (the biggest lefties that strike me off the bat) --- I come on to talk about their work. NOT their politics.
Ronald Reagan was a committed Roosevelt New Dealer during his acting career's heyday.
For all his unforgivable duplicity in naming names to HUAC, Elia Kazan never abandoned his liberal political outlook.
Frederic March was one of Hollywood's leading liberals.
So much for your grasp of the political dynamics of the film industry and its leading members during the 1930s-'60s.
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And Basil Rathbone, who plays the homeowner in question.
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I believe it is, in fact, John Barrymore in THE MAD GENIUS (1931)..
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No, it's not DIVE BOMBER. I know the film iranon's referring to; it is, indeed, from the 1930s, older than the Flynn film, but I can't think of its title right now.
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hmm there was SF International TV Pilot
A movie named SF made in SF...how clever !! LOL
It wasn't just a pilot: San Francisco International Airport, starring Lloyd Bridges and Clu Gulager, was a TV series that ran from 1970-'71 as part of Four in One, a rotating group of 60-minute episodes on NBC (the pilot, San Francisco International, starred Bonanza's Pernell Roberts and Gulager), in which it alternated with The Psychiatrist (starring Roy Thinnes), McCloud (starring Dennis Weaver), and Rod Seling's anthology, Night Gallery.
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Like:
VERTIGO
THE SNIPER
TIME AFTER TIME
DIRTY HARRY
Dislike:
STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME
the other four DIRTY HARRY movies
There are several films mentioned below that take place in S.F., but were not shot there, such as THE MALTESE FALCON, THE CASE OF THE CURIOUS BRIDE (both shot at Warner Bros. in Burbank), and THE TOWERING INFERNO and IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA, most of whose footage was shot in L.A.
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Hi,
This is my first post and regards my first (and what I hope to be my only) marriage. We are eloping and are pretty excited.
We want to send out announcements after we return. We are both film buffs/geeks and want something that reflects that. Something in the screwball comedy genre, preferred.
Does anyone have any ideas for images to use on our announcement? Please, nothing Suspense/Thriller where the wife is in danger of dying because the husband wants insurance money. I won't need that announcement for another 5 years. Whoops! Um, ignore that.
Thanks!
Mike
Message was edited by: MCalahan
This will only work out to your satisfaction if:
A: You and your intended spend your first week together as passengers on an increasingly uncomfortable bus
or
B: Your beloved spends a night with a stanger called "Ratzkywatzky," or something (it's best that she not remember too clearly)
and/or
C: The woman's previous fianc? comes to re-claim her affection in a weird auto-gyro aircraft
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It sounds like the 1960 cheapie, DINOSAURUS!
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Night of the Gekko
brought to you by your friends at Geico Insurance.
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(Please note: The Prisoner of Shark Island is currently only available in the UK with Mr. Eyman's commentary, but this may interest those who have a Region 1 dvd player or all-region dvd players. A dvd of The Prisoner of Shark Island is slated for US distribution on Dec. 4th, 2007 as part of Fox's upcoming dvd cornucopia of John Ford works on disc.)
You mean that it may interest those who own a Region 2 player.
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TCM BRING THE ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW ON TCM
This junk belongs on TV Land, not on TCM.
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Pre-emptive warfare? They're menacing him because they're vampires. So, he created the vampire threat by killing vampires? How could it be pre-emptive warfare when the whole world/country is populated by vampires trying to kill him? They're not trying to break in his house to kill him because he hunts and kills them during the day, they want to feed on him because he's alive. In the book, the vampires even feed off each other. The whole pre-emptive warfare thing is absurd. Maybe their beef with him is that he's the only one who's still burning fossil fuels driving around during the day. Maybe Dracula was really a metaphor for Wal-Mart. Maybe the Bronte sisters were implying pre-emptive warfare in Wuthering Heights.
Like Maple Street, I Am Legend was a cold war metaphor, except Maple Street was implying that the Red Scare was just mass hysteria, while Matheson was saying that it was a real threat. The vampires were communists, an ideology that wants to make people think like they do and be like them, where as the new hybrid vampires were fascists, who want to eliminate those who aren't like them. At the end, Robert sort of sympathizes with the mindless vampires while the hybrids kill them, which was Matheson's way of saying that maybe they were the lesser of the two evils, but evil just the same. But both stories had the same plot device of people being under siege by people they were once friends with. Whether it's the neighbors in Maple Street or the more literally-changed vampires next door in Legend, it doesn't matter, they contain some of the same plot elements. Serling just took the story and changed its message, characters, etc.
It's amazing how somebdy can see the exact same thing as everyone else, and perceive it as being just as exactly opposite of its intended meaning.
In THE OMEGA MAN, chief Zombie Matthias (Anthony Zerbe) states quite clearly that it's Neville's relentless hunting forays that forced them to besiege his home and try to eliminate him. Neville is, after all, just one more quick meal, and not much of a loss if the zombies simply bypass him.
As for Maple Street, Matheson and Seling were saying that subversion has very definite limits, and that it's fear that destroys societies from within. The residents of Maple Street, like all human beings, have always had an inherent predilection for suspecting and fearing one another, and that it's only our forbearance, often maintained with great difficulty, that prevents us all from being at one another's throats. Whether there are real aliens or not manipulating those base instincts is irrelevant; given the slightest pretext, we will gladly devour our neighbors.
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I think they should've deleted all the other scenes from that wretched movie.
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WESTWORLD has nothing to do with time-travel. In the not-too-distant future, the Brolin and Benjamin characters are guests at a high-tech "theme" amusement park in which the supposedly fail-safe robots that populate it suddenly go on the fritz and start killing the guests.
It was written and directed by Michael Crichton, who then cribbed the whole idea and re-worked it twenty years later into Jurassic Park, though there are also elements in WESTWORLD that would eventually become the comedy film CITY SLICKERS.
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Thank you, CineStooge for the clarification. I did mean "Maple Street" but my brain cross-referenced "Wimpole" for some reason. But for thinking that the Twilight Zone episode has nothing to do with Matheson's story, you're thinking way too literally. Just as Omega Man was loosely based on the story (which is in its credits), the Monsters are Due on Maple Street is also. You have a family barricading themselves in their home against their "transformed" neighbors, during an apocalyptic event (or so they think). You have to enter the metaphoric into your train of thought instead of being too literal all the time. Matheson's story has a man who barricades himself in his home from his neighbors who have become vampires. What's the big difference between the two metaphorically? You have humanity becoming monsters in both stories. I'm surprised you didn't see that ... or am I. And since Matheson wrote for the Twilight Zone, and some were based on his short stories, it's not a big stretch that Serling "borrowed" from him.
No, it's an absurd comparison. Maple Street is an allegory about the climate of fear that existed in the U.S. during the Cold War, when politically-driven voices were telling the populace that "Commies" were hiding under every American's bed. The point is that there was no change in the neighbors who were suddenly accused of being the invaders; indeed, the finger shifted from family to family as the real aliens manipulated the town's electrical grid to drive the humans into destroying themselves. That manipulation is a direct reference to the calculation on the part of certain politicans to gain maximum advantage by setting neighbor against neighbor.
The above is a far cry from the actual, literal zombie-vampires menacing the Price and Heston characters, though the upshot of Matheson's story is that the creatures are menacing Robert Morgan/Robert Neville precisely because he goes out and hunts them, so they are left no choice but to try to eliminate their tormentor. Ironically, it's a fairly effective metaphor about the folly of pre-emptive warfare, the same thing the U.S. has engaged in in Iraq.
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The Twilight Zone episode is called Monsters are Due on Maple Street, not "Wimpole Street" (where the Barretts lived in the movie by the same name), and it has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with the plot of Richard Matheson's novel, I am Legend, the basis for THE LAST MAN ON EARTH/THE OMEGA MAN.
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From what I hear, she may have been easy on the eyes, but very, very difficilt to work with, a real primma donna.
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You had merely to search and go here:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7993853
which I posted on September 9, 2007.
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I think that the British actress, June Duprez, was more sublimely beautiful than any of her Hollywood contemporaries.
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The question she faces on her exam is to solve the problems of staging Heinrich Ibsen's drama
'Peer Gynt'.
It's Henrik Ibsen, not Heinrich (the Norwegian, not German, form of Henry).
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It was Sam Goldwyn.
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How do you know that Robert Osborne doesn't bite the heads off live bats? We wouldn't know about Ozzy's charming predilection for doing it because he decided to do it once in public.
Who can say what any of us do away from the prying eyes of society?
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Since TCM's headquarters are in Atlanta, and Georgia is a so-called right-to-work state, I should think that it's unlikely that most of their people are union members.
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The answer is nothing: the documentaries run on TCM, and intros spoken by Robert Osborne and Ben Mankiewicz, are written by writers not covered by the Writers Guild West and Writers Guild East.
And look at it on the bright side: movies nowadays are so bad that the longer the writers are out on strike, the fewer crummy movies will be made on which audiences can potentionally waste their time and money.
Strait Jacket
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The term is straitjacket (as being in dire straits), not "straightjacket."