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Does everyone know about this site which I came across yesterday? It's called "Colonial Film, Moving Images of the British Empire." Despite the politically incorrect sounding title, the site features many interesting (mostly short and many silent) films depicting life in the "colonies." I just came across a film sponsored by a religious organization, starring a young George Zucco! Here's the link to the site and then the link to the George Zucco film. http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/ http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/990

Lots of good stuff. I'm intrigued by The Mysterious Doctor. And both Outward Bound and Between Two Worlds !

True, Teresa wasn't casting blame, I think she viewed it as sort of comical. And regarding Greer Garson's first husband, I think that the marriage may have been annulled; at any rate, I have a vague memory of my friend telling me that. Greer and Sir Edward (who wasn't Sir Edward yet) were not together very long; I think the marriage may have been annulled sometime later. Sir Edward's second wife was a very keen Anglo-Catholic.My friend Chris, Sir Edward's son, told me that his family had to flee Bangladesh in 1971, in the middle of the night. Chris was a small child. It was the time that Bangladesh seceeded from Pakistan and dangerous for British civil servants. Sounds like the opening scene from Lost Horizon!

Greer's first marriage was indeed short-lived. It was to Edward Alec Abbott Snelson, later Sir Edward, a judge and civil/foreign servant. He was the father of a friend of mine who now lives in the English midlands. After leaving his British government post in what was just becoming Bangladesh around 1971, Sir Edward settled in Hampshire, with his wife and children. Teresa Wright told me an amusing story about Greer Garson. It was around Christmas-time, and they were shooting *Mrs. Miniver*. There was a cast party. The major female leads had maids. Teresa brought her maid to the party, who was dressed in slacks. Greer brought her maid, who wore her maid's outfit. They exchanged presents. Greer's present to her maid was a new maid's outfit! I adore Greer Garson and her films, but Teresa Wright was one of the kindest, sweetest actors whom I ever met, and I believe her story, totally.

*Biography of a Bachelor Girl* Next: Sitting on the stoop

Two of my favorite character names are in the film Three Strangers: Crystal Shackleford, played by Geraldine Fitzgerald; and Jerome K. Arbutny, played by Sydney Greenstreet.

*Entertaining Mr. Sloane* (1970)

Yes, that is a great film, with Tom Tryon, who went from playing the monster from outer space that she married to playing The Cardinal five years later!

It features the great Gloria Talbott. When was the last time anyone saw her triumph in Edgar Ulmer's Daughter of Dr. Jekyll?

*Advise and Consent* Next: Gibson girl

Very interesting, and amusing, Capuchin! Of course you know the names for both the monkey and the hood derive from the Order of Capuchins, so there is that connection. The Monk which has just opened in NYC is based on one of the original Gothic novels of the early 19th Century -- others were Frankenstein, The Castle of Otranto, The Mysteries of Udolpho, and my favorite, Melmoth the Wanderer. But I am WAY OT for this voting thread!

Capuchin, a bit of (what I consider to be) levity before I cast my vote. Today's Time Out NY features a review for *The Monk*, a new movie based on the Gothic novel which I read (related to my theology studies in a rather perverse say) in college. The review includes this line: "Vincent Cassel makes for a tightly coiled Brother Ambrosio, the famously devout *Capuchin* whose confrontations with a hot wayward witch, a beautiful virgin, a slatternly nun and a poisonous garden centipede eventually lead him to Satan-assisted rape, murder and worse." May we assume, Capuchin, that you did not take your screen name as an homage to Brother Ambrosio? In any case, I digress. All the schedules are wonderful. We should all be given a go at TCM programming, or at least we should all be copied. I'm sorry the Countess did not get to post her schedule, maybe next time. But looking them all over, the one that speaks to me most closely, is Skimpole's. How can I resist the combination of Woody Allen, Eric Rohmer, Satyajit Ray, as well as Betty Garde stabbing Hope Emerson with a fork in Caged ? And to top it all off, Renoir's exquisite A Day in the Country ! Hence my vote for Skimpole.

I've rarely laughed so hard in the movies as I did at the ISHTAR scene with the vultures!

I was surprised to see how many early television shows are on archive.org. I particularly like watching "Your Hit Parade," though the Lucky Strike commercials are totally out of another time!

That's right, LZ. I thought it ironic -- when those riots in Cairo and elsewhere were taking place because of that film several months ago, You Tube refused to take it down. They'll gladly take down films if someone's financial interests are compromised, but not when people are getting trampled to death!

I saw it when it came out. I liked it and found some of it quite moving. I remember a scene where Chris Walken is entertaining a young lady, he puts newspaper down on the chair, for her to sit on, as I recall. Sweet scene.

Don't underestimate archive.org. I just watched a 1934 charmer -- House of Mystery. Crazy characters, a curse, a haunted house, secret passages, an ape -- the works. The closest thing the film had to a "big name" was Irving Bacon. Oh, and Gabby Hayes, in a totally unrecognizeable role.

Very nice! My maternal grandfather came from Odessa. I never met him, but my mother told me some of his stories about the beautiful city of his youth.

I recorded it when it was on TCM on November 18 (I assume 2012, DVR doesn't give year) -- haven't watched it yet. It will probably turn up again.

Beautiful poster! I'm guessing that the print TCM will show in May -- listed at 111 minutes -- is the extended version. The traditional version is 96 mins., the extended one is about 14 minutes longer.

Well, I struggled with all sorts of IE/Microsoft sites. I'll get back to that, but in the meantime, I downloaded Google Chrome, and now, as my father used to say, everything is *copasetic*.

Fred, that's hilarious! Attack of the Zombie Operators!

It's not there. If I go to my other computer -- which I don't use regularly -- it is there, when I click on Plain Text. But it's no longer here on my main computer. So I guess something is messed up! The point is, it was all there on this computer until yesterday.Btw, thanks for the compliment, but I'm not Canadian.

"We O'Learys are a strange tribe...and what we set out to do, we finish..." The DVD of In Old Chicago actually has two versions of the film -- one is called "Road Show (Extended) version."

Well the odd thing is that I have always been able to post using the symbols/letters above the text box, without resorting to all those characters. I did just post, taking Fred Dobbs' advice, in the Tomorrow on TCM thread, using brackets, etc. for bold. I guess I'll have to learn the others. I have the same symbols above left of the text box -- B, I, U, etc., etc., but none of them works on this (my main) computer. There's a thingee above right of the box which says "always use this editor."I don't see any "Plain text help."