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> {quote:title=Mike00 wrote:}{quote}How about the others? Can anyone tell me if they have aired on tcm or not? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1976's My Friends Need Killing > > > 1958's The Haunted Strangler > > > 1958's It Happened in Broad Daylight > > 1972's Un Flic > Mike00, THE HAUNTED STRANGLER may have been shown on TCM back in November 2002 when BORIS KARLOFF was Star of The Month. I'll check my old NOW PLAYING guide over the week-end and let you know definitely.

What I want to know is what happened to SINBAD THE SAILOR SON OF SINBAD THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD CAPTAIN SINBAD These films should have been included.

> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote}Oh, jeez. You and fxreyman again. > > > > > 'Endless' joust comin' up, folks. Get comfortable. > Not so. Just thought I'd toss in my two cents worth like the reyman did. But, if good ol' xrey dosen't want to make change he dosen't have to. I think I made my point. Now, if you want to dance........

> {quote:title=fxreyman wrote:}{quote} > > Why would you want me to share things about myself? There is really nothing interesting to share. That answer says a lot about yourself in a mostly negative and selfish way. What you are saying is that "I am a private person who wishes only to get information I want and I really do not want to exchange ideas or thoughts with anyone else on a more personal level". > > And if that is indeed where you are going after I extended my hand of friendship to you in my more than generous post to you yesterday, then I see no reason why I should waste anymore of my valuable time posting to you. > > This choice can either have gone two ways. And for you it has gone the opposite direction, a path that will lead you with no friends here and worse not many answers. Why are you assuming that his response is negative and selfish? What is so negative and selfish about it? You state that this board welcomes the exchange of ideas or thoughts on a more personal level yet opposing ideas or thoughts are more often then not met with vitriol and scorn, shot down as worthless by those who have more experience or inside knowledge, and mocked as the result of lazy research habits. Is that the kind of personal level you are referring to? The fact remains that aside from you and Kyle from Hollywood, I don't know anyone else's first names. If people wanted their names known they would not be using message board aliases.

Does anyone know if there are any books or web pages that list lost or badly decomposed films by studio? For alot of us this would go along way towards cutting down on the number of obscure film requests if we knew those specific films have no chance of ever being unearthed or restored. For example, is there a list of all the films that were lost in the in the various vault fires over the years?

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > > It seems lately, everything on TCM is a retread. Very few premieres or original programming. They just recycle what's already been shown under a new theme. They must be really cost cutting. Are starting to resemble the old AMC with the repeat showing of films too..... > Here at TCM City it can sometimes feel like all TCM does is rerun the same handful of films over and over. > > But, if you look at the actual schedule, TCM offers a great deal more than that. > > > The rare Cartoon festival, the Halloween screenings of Universal horror films that fans have been clamoring for quite some time. > You mean like the screening of THE MUMMY'S HAND complete with the chopped off ending? Yes indeed, that was a real eye opener into the care that TCM places on living up to it's motto of uncut films. Just what fans have been clamoring for quite some time. By the way, what happened to SOUL OF A MONSTER? It was offered on the schedule, but never shown. I guess that also falls under the "TCM offers a great deal more then that" banner. I know, "well infinite, if you're going to be picky, but hey it was Halloween after all and TCM decided on a trick rather then a treat."

> {quote:title=calvinnme wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=infinite1 wrote:}{quote} > > > {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}It would nice if a programmer would chime in on this topic. > > At this point I wouldn't mind if a TCM Janitor chimed in since information wise there wouldn't be much difference. All I know is that during TCM's 15th Anniversary there was an interview with ROBERT OSBORNE printed in FILMS OF THE GOLDEN AGE. When RO was asked about new films coming to TCM he was happy to report that a deal was made with UNIVERSAL to start showing UNIVERSAL FILMS en masse once the old deal with COLUMBIA ran it's course. It was very vague with no estimated date. Strangely, it appears that I was the only one in creation to have read that interview since no one else here acknowledges that they read it as well. It is frustrating that TCM can hawk UNIVERSAL FILMS that are being sold on DVDs like the CULT HORRORS COLLECTION, but they are either reluctant or forbidden from showing those films on their channel. It dosen't make sense and no one either knows or cares to explain why not. > > > I'm not the TCM janitor, a TCM programmer, nor did I sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but I'll take a stab at this issue. Universal is making deals with TCM/Warner Bros. to distribute individual films and collections of films that are owned by Universal via the TCM.com shop for sure and maybe the Archives???. Distribution rights are completely different from owning the copyright outright. Distribution rights are granted by the copyright holder. However, Universal, as the copyright holder, can decide to not let TCM broadcast these restored films even though TCM is selling DVDs for them. Perhaps Universal is afraid people will simply record the films they want and not buy the DVDs, although I'd venture to say that most people are more likely to buy once they've seen a film and KNOW what they're getting. However, it is entirely up to Universal. > > Likewise Warner Bros., parent company of TCM, has the rights to distribute the Sam Goldwyn library save three or so titles via an agreement reached this year. However, WB still can't dish out to TCM the restored Goldwyn films for broadcast any time they want. Those broadcast rights still reside with the owners of the Sam Goldwyn film library, not WB. Sorry, and I appreciate your feedback, but if that's all true then it's a cop out on the part of TCM/WARNERS and proof that they care less about their fans and more for the almighty buck. It is TCM/WARNERS's job to GET A DEAL made that caters more to their loyal fan base then their wallets. If UNIVERSAL or the SAM GOLDWYN film library refuses to allow TCM to show their films then TCM/WARNERS should tell them to stick their films where "the sun dosen't shine". But, then again I don't know if it is the case since TCM dosen't even show half of the films that WARNERS owns outright or films that are supposedly in the public domain. Where are all the AL JOLSON films? Where is THE MAN WHO LAUGHS? When I look through a MOVIES UNLIMITED CATALOGUE or a CRITICS CHOICE catalogue at all the films in the WARNERS ARCHIVE COLLECTION, I become frustrated at the amount of films that TCM does not show that have nice clean digital prints, a new MUST HAVE requirement for films that air on TCM. It's high time that TCM/WARNERS stop with all the FILM FESTIVAL and CRUISE B.S. that most of TCM's viewers care little to nothing about and spend their money where it belongs, on the fans that religiously watch their channel, with MORE premieres of old films that have been buried way too long, except when they're dug up for inclusion into a catalogue or a TCM COMMERCIAL. In fact, I'd like to see one lousy month of ALL TCM PREMIERES. Please don't tell me that it can't be done. There is no such thing as CAN'T.

> {quote:title=calvinnme wrote:}{quote} > I remember reading somewhere in "A Song in the Dark" that after the Laemmles lost control of Universal in 1936 that their output was largely considered mediocre B fare until the 1960's. All of the major stars that Universal had been cultivating under the Laemmles - and there hadn't been many - left. If Richard Barrios (author of Song in the Dark) feels that way, then probably a lot of other film historians do too. That feeling might extend to Universal itself. Thus outside of their horror franchise and Abbott and Costello, even when the DVD market was good, you didn't see too much Universal classic material being published. This is Universal's centennial and they've just been trotting out the same films that have been widely available for years. Outside of some sets done in partnership with TCM, nothing interesting has happened this year with Universal's classic films. > > I actually find 30's, 40's, and 50's Universal films fun stuff, but I'm sure I'm in the minority and what I have is derived from old AMC broadcast tapes. Restoration work needs to be done on these films and I can't see Universal ponying up the money. > > Too late to make a long story short, I'm trying to say that I don't blame TCM for the lack of Universal films in their schedules. TCM can't force Universal to care about their classic catalog. TCM wants to broadcast quality prints and they just don't have many in the case of Universal. Unless a billionaire takes an interest in their catalog like Ted Turner did with the MGM film library, I'd expect Universal's old films to rot away to dust with the exception of the few that TCM can coax out of them as far as DVD sets. Don't think I don't share your enthusiasm PrinceSaliano, I just realize TCM is not made of money. Plenty of Universal's films from the golden age have been digitally restored. After all who better to know then us, TCM continually hawks them. They have been available for a few years, I am thinking the CULT HORRORS COLLECTION yet universal refuses to show them on their channel. There is no excuse.

Wonder why TCM didn't show more Lon Chaney silents???? Almost all of Chaney's films featured a disablity of one kind or another. At the very least they could have shown THE PENALTY which could have been a companion piece to THE UNKNOWN which they did show. How about Pirate films like TREASURE ISLAND??? There were always pirates in Pirate films hobling around with either a peg leg or swinging a mean hook. I mean, as long as you're got to show films highlighting disabilities, why not??? Finally why didn't TCM include FREAKS which ran the gamut of disabilities?

> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}It would nice if a programmer would chime in on this topic. At this point I wouldn't mind if a TCM Janitor chimed in since information wise there wouldn't be much difference. All I know is that during TCM's 15th Anniversary there was an interview with ROBERT OSBORNE printed in FILMS OF THE GOLDEN AGE. When RO was asked about new films coming to TCM he was happy to report that a deal was made with UNIVERSAL to start showing UNIVERSAL FILMS en masse once the old deal with COLUMBIA ran it's course. It was very vague with no estimated date. Strangely, it appears that I was the only one in creation to have read that interview since no one else here acknowledges that they read it as well. It is frustrating that TCM can hawk UNIVERSAL FILMS that are being sold on DVDs like the CULT HORRORS COLLECTION, but they are either reluctant or forbidden from showing those films on their channel. It dosen't make sense and no one either knows or cares to explain why not.

> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}Here's 25: > > > > DARK STREETS OF CAIRO > > SLIGHTLY TEMPTED > > ZANZIBAR > > CRACKEDE NUTS > > HELLO, SUCKER > > SAN ANTONIO ROSE > > TIGHT SHOES > > MEET THE CHUMP > > SIX LESSONS FROM MADAME LA ZONGA > > THE GREAT IMPERSONATION > > NIGHTMARE > > EYES OF THE UNDERWORLD > > DRUMS OF THE CONGO > > YOU'RE TELLING ME > > UNSEEN ENEMY > > JAIL HOUSE BLUES > > YOU'RE A LUCKY FELLOW, MR. SMITH > > FRONTIER BADMEN > > ALL BY MYSELF > > GOOD MORNING, JUDGE > > MURDER IN THE BLUE ROOM > > SOUTH OF DIXIE > > PARDON MY RHYTHM > > MOON OVER LAS VEGAS > > JUNGLE WOMAN > > > > > > Stars include George Zucco, Hugh Herbert, Peggu Moran, Lola Lane, James Craig, Stuart Erwin, Una Merkel, Jane Frazee, Robert Paige, Lon Chaney, Broderick Crawford, Lupe Velez, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers, Brian Donlevy, Diana Barrymore, Richard Dix, Ona Munson, Allan Jones, Nat Pendleton, Irene Hervey, Anne Gwynne, Rosemary Lane, Dennis O'Keefe, David Bruce, Patric Knowles. > > > Bumping this up. When will rare Universal titles start showing up regularly on TCM? Perhaps when enough fans get sick of the same films every month, tell TCM to put up or shut up about their love for classic OLD films, and boycott the station until TCM tells us flat out why they can't, at least, meet us half way. Don't get me wrong, I love NORTH BY NORTHWEST, but once a year is enough for any film to be shown. I don't understand why Academy Award Winners have to be shown in months other then February, ditto for SOTM, SUTS, or ESSENTIAL FILMS. They should be shown once a year, period. NO REPEATS during the year. If someone can't record a film with their TIVO, DVR, or VHS then TOUGH LUCK, YOU BLEW IT.

> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}Here's 25: > > > > DARK STREETS OF CAIRO > > SLIGHTLY TEMPTED > > ZANZIBAR > > CRACKEDE NUTS > > HELLO, SUCKER > > SAN ANTONIO ROSE > > TIGHT SHOES > > MEET THE CHUMP > > SIX LESSONS FROM MADAME LA ZONGA > > THE GREAT IMPERSONATION > > NIGHTMARE > > EYES OF THE UNDERWORLD > > DRUMS OF THE CONGO > > YOU'RE TELLING ME > > UNSEEN ENEMY > > JAIL HOUSE BLUES > > YOU'RE A LUCKY FELLOW, MR. SMITH > > FRONTIER BADMEN > > ALL BY MYSELF > > GOOD MORNING, JUDGE > > MURDER IN THE BLUE ROOM > > SOUTH OF DIXIE > > PARDON MY RHYTHM > > MOON OVER LAS VEGAS > > JUNGLE WOMAN > > > > > > Stars include George Zucco, Hugh Herbert, Peggu Moran, Lola Lane, James Craig, Stuart Erwin, Una Merkel, Jane Frazee, Robert Paige, Lon Chaney, Broderick Crawford, Lupe Velez, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers, Brian Donlevy, Diana Barrymore, Richard Dix, Ona Munson, Allan Jones, Nat Pendleton, Irene Hervey, Anne Gwynne, Rosemary Lane, Dennis O'Keefe, David Bruce, Patric Knowles. > > > Bumping this up. When will rare Universal titles start showing up regularly on TCM?Perhaps when enough fans get sick of the same films every month, tell TCM to put up or shut up about their love for classic OLD films, and boycott the station until TCM tells us flat out why they can't, at least, meet us half way. Don't get me wrong, I love NORTH BY NORTHWEST, but once a year is enough for any film to be shown. I don't understand why Academy Award Winners have to be shown in months other then February, ditto for SOTM, SUTS, or ESSENTIAL FILMS. They should be shown once a year, period. NO REPEATS during the year. If someone can't record a film with their TIVO, DVR, or VHS then TOUGH LUCK, YOU BLEW IT.

> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}We got MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD in December and ONE MORE RIVER in January... > > > > LITTLE ACCIDENT (1930) Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Anita Page > > OUTSIDE THE LAW (1930) Edward G. Robinson, Mary Nolan > > RECKLESS LIVING (1931) Ricardo Cortez, Mae Clarke > > UP FOR MURDER (1931) Lew Ayres, Genevieve Tobin > > CHEATING CHEATERS (1934) Fay Wray, Cesar Romero > > THE COUNTESS OF MONTE CRISTO (1934) Fay Wray, Paul Lukas > > EMBARRASSING MOMENTS (1934) Chester Morris, Marian Nixon > > LET'S TALK IT OVER (1934) Chester Morris, Mae Clarke > > MADAME SPY (1934) Fay Wray, Nils Asther > > ONE EXCITING ADVENTURE (1934) Binnie Barnes, Neil Hamilton > > > Come on, TCM. Let's get this done! I would love to see TCM air ALL OF THE ABOVE plus NIGHT RIDE (1930) Edward G. Robinson, Joseph Schildkraut, and Barbara Kent NIGHT WORLD (1932) Boris Karloff, Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke, Hedda Hopper, and George Raft EAST OF BORNEO (1931) Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart, Georges Renavent, Lupita Tovar, and Noble Johnson EAST OF JAVA (1935) Charles Bickford, Elizabeth Young, Frank Albertson, and Sig Ruman SECRET OF THE BLUE ROOM (1933) Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas, Edward Arnold, and Onslow Stevens THE MAN WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD (1934) Claude Rains, Joan Bennett, and Lionel Atwill SECRET OF THE CHATEAU (1934) Claire Dodd, Alice White, Osgood Perkins, and Jack La Rue DOUBLE DOOR (1934) Evelyn Venable, Mary Morris, Anne Revere, and Kent Taylor LIFE RETURNS (1935) Onslow Stevens, George P. Breakston, Lois Wilson, and Valerie Hobson THE GREAT IMPERSONATION (1935) Edmund Lowe, Valerie Hobson, and Murray Kinnell NIGHT KEY (1937) Boris Karloff, Waren Hull, Jean Rogers, and Alan Baxter THE BLACK DOLL (1938) Donald Woods, Nan Grey, Edgar Kennedy, and C. Henry Gordon THE MISSING GUEST (1938) Paul Kelly, Constance Moore, William Lundigan, and Edwin Stanley THE HOUSE OF FEAR (1939) William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Dorothy Arnold, and Alan Dinehart

> {quote:title=bob45 wrote:}{quote}After watching TCM classics for many years, I personally feel that the actresses of this period were far more accomplished than most of those that followed them.These ladies of these golden years of film were more able to express their emotions facially, verbally and with body language and gestures than the actresses of today. Does anyone else agree with me? I do. Alot of them were from the stage and they brought their training for the stage with them to Hollywood.

> Dammit, I liked her. Edited by: TCMWebAdmin on Oct 19, 2012 10:20 AM to remove copyright violation.

Problem with HORROR OF DRACULA is that it is overrated. The film is an entirely different DRACULA story that is even less based on the STOKER novel then the 1931 film. What happened to England, Renfield, etc. Characters are all mixed up. The DRACULA character,as played by Lee, is too British, at first aloof and almost blahzay about the whole business and then becomes overanimated not long into the flick when his bride(?) decides to snack on Harker, there goes the charade. Van Helsing, Cushing, makes for a very effective VAMPIRE HUNTER, except that is not who or what Van Helsing is supposed to be. And he appears to be in competition with LEE as to who is the more overanimated. All in all a hodge podge of the story. Purely HAMMER'S own take on DRACULA, not an adaptation of the novel, not even a veiled attempt at an adaptation of the novel. Why we needed another repeat Holloween of Hammer's garbage is beyond me. Give me LUGOSI's 1931 DRACULA any day. Wonder why it was held back???? No one else is showing it. Thought it might have something to do with the new BLU, but they're showing KARLOFF's FRANKENSTEIN and that got the BLU treatment to. I guess the LUGOSI bias now extends to TCM as well. Don't tell me about BLACK CAT, SOF, and MURDER IN THE RUE MORGUE. DRACULA is LUGOSI'S signature film role and that film, more then any other, deserves it's place on TCM'S HOLLOWEEN film roster, or any other time of the year, especially VALENTINE'S DAY. It was after all billed as the "world's strangest love story".

> {quote:title=princessananka wrote:}{quote} > > Mark, your enthusiasm for WHITE ZOMBIE had me getting out my Bela Lugosi collection and putting WZ on my queue list to watch this weekend. Bela was a marvelous movie actor--but, as has been mentioned, he had that near comical accent that branded him for life. > > *That LUGOSI had an Eastern European accent that "branded" him for life is debatable. However, I find nothing "comical" about his accent. It was that accent that contributed to the overall otherworldly ambiance that he exuded through his being, that was in so much demand in the early thirties. That some found it funny is less a comment on LUGOSI's accent but on mankind that looks to derive humor from anyone that looks or sounds different. For every LUGOSI impersonator that goes about with their arm covering the lower portion of their face and intoning "I vant to suck your blood", there is a CLARK GABLE impersonator with their ears pulled out, a makeshift mustache, and a scrintched up face intoning in their "best" GABLE voice "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." Yet, GABLE is the eternal king and Bela is the marvelous movie actor with the "near comical accent that branded him for life". That LUGOSI did not become a major star was not due to his accent. Frankly, I believe it was a combination of self missmanagement of his own career and cut throat studio politics. The facts are available, but to simply blame it on his accent is wrong. If an accent is so detrimental to ones career how do you explain PETER LORRE, PAUL LUKAS, MAURICE CHEVALIER, and CHARLES BOYER, to name a few. Even BORIS KARLOFF, who's career is oft times compared to LUGOSI's, enjoyed a longer more varied career although he had a thick BRITISH accent, and spoke with a lisp, which, if you want to talk funny, was a lot funnier then LUGOSI's accent.* > > And the way he was wasted in NIGHT MONSTER is a tragedy. He was actually all cast to star as Agor Singh, a rather meaty part as a cdrystal gazer psychic. For reasons we'll never never, director Ford Beebe gave him the nothing role of a butler--where all he did was roll his eyes, smirk mysteriously and utter his few lines of dialogue like he were in a Hungarian court of royalty. > > *Exactly what I mean by cut throat studio politics. They knew that his name and Atwill's would sell tickets, so they gave them top billing, but little to no dialogue.*

> {quote:title=Dargo2 wrote:}{quote}Yeah, and so in THAT case, how could we ever forget Billy Barty, eh?! Never forgotten and definitely on the short list.

> {quote:title=princessananka wrote:}{quote} > Infinite, what a great horror name--Lucille La Verne! > > Her presence in a movie guaranteed some genuine thrills and excitement because of this gifted actress. > > > Do you know whatever happened to her in her later years? I think Alfred Hitchcock would have loved her. > According the the International Movie Data Base "After working on Snow White, Lucille La Verne retired from acting, and became co-owner of a successful nightclub. She died at age 72 of cancer on March 4, 1945 in Culver City, Los Angeles, California."

> {quote:title=stargazing wrote:}{quote}wow! there are even more movies starting with Johnny than I realized, cool! thanks for the replies everyone! Here's another JOHNNY film JOHNNY COME LATELY (1943) starring James Cagney.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}"Johnny One Note" was a Rodgers and Hart song. Was it also a film? No, but it should of been.

I would have to name LUCILLE LA VERNE as the greatest female horror star in non horror films. Who can forget her chilling performances as MOTHER FROCHARD in ORPHANS OF THE STORM, MA MAGDELENA in LITTLE CAESAR, or THE VENGEANCE in A TALE OF TWO CITIES, to name a few. She also played the witch, a role she was well suited for, in DISNEY'S SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. I'm surprised that UNIVERSAL never grabbed her up, in the thirties, for a cinematic version of HANSEL AND GRETEL.

{font:Times New Roman}How about MICKEY ROONEY? He gave the greatest short performances in all of the films he was in. If you want a modern actor, how about MICHAEL J. FOX? {font}

How about JOHNNY ONE NOTE?

This film is a cheat. I don't understand why it is referred to as a horror film by fans of the genre as the "horror" turns out to be nothing more then a conventional murder mystery. I don't know why LUGOSI aficianados regard it favorably since LUGOSI's COUNT MORA is nothing more then a red herring AND he has no dialogue until the very end, which added nothing to the film and was more of an afterthought. All in all the film is a tease, a cheat, and a big zero.