PrinceSaliano

> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote} > Prince, > > So Is that a Silent film??? Why not, try asking for the Silent version of THE FOUR FEATHERS (Paramount, 1929) with Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, and William Powell. It has a vintage track, and is now owned by Universal and not Paramount. It might take them a year to get it, but let them know there is a demand. You don't seem to understand though that TCM has limited lease agreements for some few Universal titles. Same as it is with other studios like Columbia. They can't just show anything they like. You are now on ignore.

MURDERS IN THE ZOO (a Universal-owned Paramount title) is scheduled for October.

> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote} > PrinceSaliano, > > Isn't this a Universal Picture? TCM has no rights to the film. Please try asking for something that they do have the rights to. How about WHERE EAST IS EAST (1929) with Lon Chaney and Lupe Velez? Hasn't aired in over 10 years! Umm, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and THE CAT & THE CANARY are Universal Pics that have played on TCM. It makes perfect sense to request Universal titles.

> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote} > What horror films are you hoping to see on TCM this year? > > 1. German silents (THE GOLEM; FAUST; HANDS OF ORLAC) > 2. SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN (First National, 1929) > 3. RETURN OF THE TERROR (First National, 1934) > 4. THE VAMPIRE'S GHOST (Republic, 1945) > 5. VALLEY OF THE ZOMBIES (Republic, 1946) > 6. THE MAD GHOUL (Universal, 1943) > 7. NIGHT OF TERROR (Columbia, 1933) > 8. THE APE MAN (Monogram, 1943) a good print! > 9. THINGS HAPPEN AT NIGHT (British, 1948) > 10. THE CAT AND THE CANARY (Paramount, 1939) They didn't make the October schedule. Let's get 'em in 2010!

> {quote:title=drednm wrote:}{quote} > Silent murder mystery in a spooky old theater with Laura LaPlante the leading lady, John Boles the stage manager, Montagu Love the detective, along with Margaret Livingston, Slim Summerville, Roy D'Arcy, Bert Roach, Mack Swain, and Carrie Daumery as the old lady. > > My copy is heavily tinted red and mute but still an enjoyable film directed by Paul Leni. Great camera work! Still waitin' on it!

Almost forgot John Abbott in LONDON BLACKOUT MURDERS (1942).

I want Universal's Detective Bill Crane trio starring Preston Foster...THE WESTLAND CASE; LADY IN THE MORGUE; THE LAST WARNING.

Ida Lupino during her Jean Harlow phase.

I have no problem with a Gloria Jean Fest. But if Universals are available, I want an Evelyn Ankers Fest!

How about a Republic Mysteries Fest?... THE FATAL WITNESS (1945) THE FRENCH KEY (1946) THE GIRL WHO DARED (1944) THE MADONNA'S SECRET (1946) THE MANDARIN MYSTERY (1936) MURDER IN THE MUSIC HALL (1946) MYSTERY BROADCAST (1943) A SCREAM IN THE DARK (1943) SECRETS OF SCOTLAND YARD (1944) WHO KILLED AUNT MAGGIE? (1940)

Very interesting reading... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_faked

Two years or so ago, TCM aired some Roy Rogers westerns. The prints weren't so hot and they were edited. Who owns these anyway? The Roy Rogers Estate?

> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote} > February? No, that's "31 Days of Oscar". My point exactly.

Montezuma's other revenge???

> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote} > > The October schedule is quite interesting. But Leslie Caron as Star of the Month? Why not Lugosi or Karloff or Chaney or Atwill. Remember Halloween??? > > Wouldn't it get old very fast if the October SOTM was always a horror movie star? You mean like February???

> {quote:title=drednm wrote:}{quote} > For one reason or another, in 1942 MGM lost 4 of its all-time biggest stars: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Jeanette MacDonald, and Greta Garbo. During 1931/32, Paramount lost Kay Francis, William Powell and Ruth Chatterton to Warner Brothers. Fay Wray also left Paramount at that time, as did Clara Bow.

The October schedule is quite interesting. But Leslie Caron as Star of the Month? Why not Lugosi or Karloff or Chaney or Atwill. Remember Halloween???

He functioned similarly the same year in Paramount's TERROR ABOARD...another zesty pre-Code which would be much better remembered today if Atwill or Lugosi played the villain.

I think he gets top billing, which is a bigger crime than anything Atwill does in the movie!

Universal made _fun_ B-movies in the 40s...Patric Knowles, Robert Paige, Jon Hall, Alan Curtis, David Bruce, Hugh Herbert, Evelyn Ankers, Anne Gwynne, Anne Nagel, Louise Allbritton, Peggy Moran, Acquanetta, et al.

Uh oh.

> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > PrinceSaliano: > > You mentioned the familiar theme music used for the end cast lists for Universal movies. We've all heard it hundreds of times. > Have you ever wondered what the name of that tune is, who composed it, and exactly when and how often it was used? > > The name of the music is "Strange Faces", composed by Frank Skinner for the 1938 Universal picture "Strange Faces". > It was used as end cast list music for a total of 219 different Universal movies between 1938 and 1945. > In 1938 it was used 4 times. > In 1939: 35 times. > In 1940: 43 times. > In 1941: 38 times. > In 1942: 39 times. > In 1943: 31 times. > In 1944: 26 times. > In 1945: 3 times. > > It was heard incidentally in two other Universal movies and in at least two trailers. > > I wrote a detailed article on that music, along with a complete listing of usages, appearing in the March 2008 issue of "Classic Images". > > . Fascinating! I must dig out that issue. Thanks.

One wonders what was taped over it. The mind reels.

The print of Columbia's THE FINAL EDITION (1932) was terrific.

It depends on the studio. During the "Golden Age", Columbia rarely had closing credits, while Universal almost always did (and they had familiar theme music as accompaniment). During the pre-Code era, Warner Brothers did not. But later in the 30s it did.