Bill_McCrary

Just got through reading that article. WOW! I remember (and have kept handy) the article from High Fidelity magazine, but never knew anything like all the stories (and details) in the Classic Images article. Thanks so much. If you've said, I didn't see it - your husband, with a jazz program, is he somebody those of us not from your area would know (of)? Bill

The most recent one to work on me was this afternoon's "Goodbye, Mr Chips," the Peter O'Toole/Petula Clark musical. I remember hearing nothing but terrible things about it when it was new. I've got the LP but don't think I've ever played it. Never watched it before. HAVE watched the Donat classic. Hey - I was impressed. PC sings, for sure; PO is at least as good as Lee Marvin (!) in that regard, or close to Rex Harrison (more to the point). By the final scenes I was really into it, and prepared for the same ending as the Donat - and just as happy for what I was watching, instead. I like this ending, too ( - - and some of you thought I was going to give a spoiler, I'll bet). Cried as much because of the change (in a good way) as for him in general. Long movie, but then I'm used to opera! And it looks gorgeous.

Anything up to 1976 (well, '77) is over 30 years old now. For those of us over 50, who grew up with the first real burst of television, that would have meant seeing silent movies on tv.... When we were watching movies on tv in the early '60s, they were mainly from the '30s and '40s; that would translate now into the '70s, '80s, and early '90s - hmmm??? Of course, that doesn't address whether (many of) those are classic or not - and neither were lots of the movies we watched back then. And we watched them chopped up, cut down, and often on snowy screens. (None of which is any endorsement to play more and more of the '80s and '90s movies that are being shown on other channels routinely.) Bill

Been in Rome and Florence, where I've not no internet access in my hotels, I'm suprised Georgia (Rome) and South Carolina/Alabama (Florence) couldn't provide you with that!! Buon ritorno!

it is a fairly notable characteristic, not shared by many. In fact, I daresay it is NOT shared by ANYONE who is acting today. They all fought in World War II?

....i remember seeing as a child and never thought twice about it.... There's your answer. I think most of us are like that as children. We watch, it's a story, we accept. We know the difference between stories and real life. And, as I posted a little while ago on another thread, we (most of us) like/liked being scared, since we knew/know we can come back from that to the real world. I mean, Cruella DeVille (the original one)... eeek!!!!!!!!!!!! And the villains always met their match. Of course, that doesn't keep "stories" from meaning lots of different things for the adults reading/watching. Like the '40s cartoons - kids liked them, but they were really for the adults! (Some of them, in particular)

did it move to another thread ? OK, Dan has commented in "My Favorite Trivia" that he's deleted this question since it wasn't in the right post. He sounds as if he might be getting ready to continue it there (though it's a TV question).

It's fun to hear the sayings of the times, like "I think you're swell," and "that's a humdinger!" There're plenty of us - at least in my "neck of the woods" - who still talk like that! Bill

What did you think about the ditch digging sequence? I know I had not seen the movie before tonight, but the ditch-digging seemed like yesterday to me - where? And then I remembered - within the past year or so TCM showed The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor, so that MUST have featured the scene. Wow!

why would I want to scare myself silly? Well, not as a regular diet, of course. And I'd rather be watching a musical or a comedy or a mystery or .... But, as I posted somewhere a day or so ago, when I saw Alien and Exorcist at their original screenings they both really "got" to me - with Alien in particular vividly etched somewhere deep in my psyche now - and I'd go back to them, knowing exactly what they were going to do to me. And, knowing those, I'd watch films of the same genre and be very upset if they didn't "deliver the goods." One TCM showed a couple of years ago, I missed much of: Theatre of Blood, with Vincent Price. What I saw intrigued me enough that I located the laserdisc on eBay. Strange movie, but certainly worth it. When I was little, I remember seeing a preview (probably of one of the U-I Price movies, or Cushing/Lee, or similar) in the theater. Scared the bejeezus out of me because I couldn't (and just can, now) stand skeletons - I had to hide behind the seat and watch through my fingers. Do you think that meant I didn't go to the movie when it came - heck, no! What's a little fright in your life!? But, again, as I've said several times - if there's something coming along that you know isn't your "thing," then do something else till it's over. I just pity those who don't expose themselves to "good" music - and that includes beach music as well as classical and semi-classical (read: operetta) - for example; bored to tears by movies because of their (no real) plots, whereas for musiclovers the whole point is songs interrupted by a (necessary?) story we have no trouble ignoring. Thank Goodness, there is plenty on TCM for all of us. Bill Message was edited by: Bill - because I first said DVD, instead of laserdisc. Don't THINK it's on DVD yet. Bill_McCrary

You need to ask your question on the "General" thread at the TOP of the forum. This thread is for problems with the website. Bill

Not B/W, though, but the (usual for musicals, especially Grable) brilliant Technicolor. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039634/

Desk Set, but it wasn't originally in color, its a black and white. No, don't know where you got that from, but it's widescreen, brilliant color, and (I think) stereo sound, to boot.

OK, Bill. Note that I said "I'm there," not "I can solve them." A little nudge, please? I guess you noticed/realized by now - it was Dan's challenge, not mine (I haven't put one up on the sites yet). I'm about as lost as anyone on this one, and Dan's deleted his comments. Help! Bill Or are we supposed to give up and start a fresh one (or did it move to another thread - I haven't checked them yet today)?

I got all these books at the time they were first were published . Like you, I got most of mine from Publishers Central, way back (the '70s?), and filled in a gap or two fairly recently at one of the film shows I attend each year. They are truly "something," and regular use of them will strengthen both mental and other muscles!

"Every Day's a Holiday" is a West rarity which I'd like to see again. I first saw it from a tv print (but apparently complete, since it's short) over 20 years ago, from a UHF station a friend in a neighboring town received on his cable (we didn't). For almost 20 years it was my "must find" movie - loved it that much, and mine was so spliced and faded. Finally tracked it down on eBay two years ago; rapture, now seeing the official MCA issue. It was as good as I had thought, and no small part is due to Louis Armstrong! Now, I've finally got her whole output (either on VHS or laserdisc). With the new arrangements, maybe others will be exposed to its charms on TCM!

I've GOT to stop posting so late... Took a quick glance and never saw the first part of the sentence (from IMDB)! Reeves never reconnected with his biological father, who is now in prison on charges of cocaine possession.... On with the search. Bill

Rhondo Hatton..... Who he??

You mean the colorized Greed slide show? As I recall it, the only color(ing) was every time there was GOLD. And it was claimed that the original film was hand tinted for those scenes and that an attempt was being made to restore that as well as some of the length. But I haven't watched it in over a year, so...

Keanu Reeves? http://us.imdb.com/Bio?Reeves,+Keanu

Hold Back the Dawn? (Which I'm pretty sure I've never seen) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033722/

Can anyone identify the uncredited actor who played Stephen Foster in Memories and Melodies Somebody will probably know and post it. I thought I had seen it on one of the other posts in the past two days, but it didn't come up with a search just now. IMDB lists three (all uncredited) but not Foster: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026698/

Please don't post your e-mail address in the open. Ask people to PM (Private-Message) you, then check those from time to time. You can change/edit your post by clicking on the little symbol that appears to the top right of your message (it doesn't show on anybody else's); once the box opens, you change highlight anything you want and then delete that part or change it (just like in Word). There are many reasons not to show your address.... If you want to address the TCM folk in particular (not just other posters) there are various places on the home page either to e-mail them or to suggest-a-movie. This is mostly just for us to talk to each other. Bill

...those people are home all day and they see the good movies that are shown in the morning - because that is where all the good movies are stuck. Those of us who work only see what is on after 5, and that is where you will see most of the 50's and 60's movies,... Before I retired I would sometimes have as many as three VCRs programmed to catch what I knew was coming up. I like it better now that I can edit on the fly, but I seldom missed anything that was conceivably worthwhile in the "working" days, either. Plus, I seldom actually watch (except at night) stuff while it's showing, anyway. I time shift it all (often recording similar things together) and watch later. Maybe years later, in some cases! And with TiVo and hard-drive recorders, who CARES now when something is showing? Bill

I notice the sound of the opening where the orchestra is playing music get corrupted towards the end. Are you talking about the movie that started at noon - where the sound broke up a little while the credits were still showing? Film in poor condition does that! I'm sure it's all they had to work with. This is NOT the place for this type question - this is for people who are having problems using the website/forums. "Information" or "General" in the top portion would probably be better places to ask. Bill