RTRiley

Talked to a friend who is a film buff, he said that Hitchcock also remade "The 39 Steps", and that he remade Foriegn Correspondent because he was unhappy with both originals.

Yes there is an original "Foriegn Correspondent", but like "London after MIdnight", there are no masters left, now I do not know if it was Hitchcock that made it but it was a British release, never making it to the states, it was a double feature filler. Did you happen to see it on a UHF station that may have had a it lying around and showed it late night?

That company can get away with selling the movie because it is the international version and was pre-edited different and toned down before it's original worldwide distr., Disney sold the rights to that version for it's international release overseas. The Song of the South should be buried, I saw a copy of it and it was offensive to me, and I watch John Waters films and laugh. From beginning to end it is a racial stereotype of buffoonery. Very uncomfortable to watch, Save your 20 dollars, the film is pure crap.

Jeremiah Johnson is a good movie with snow as the back drop for a good portion of the film.

Anything to do with Judeo Christian devils, Rosemary's Baby, Excorcist, Omen series, these movies do well in the U.S. especially in the midwest, however are laughed at internationally.The underlying victims are extremely wealthy people, unrelatable outside the U.S. However movies like "The Haunting," and "The Bad Seed" are universal, an have a relatable underlying fear cast within the film.

Bens O.K., he kind of reminds me of A.J. Benza, the guy who was on E doing True Hollywood, who now does poker with Gabe Kaplan, however, he isn't bad, but I would like to see former out of work stars guest hosting, like Dennis Weaver and others did on the western channel.

Vincent Price Trash? Wow, that's mean, I mean c'mon some of us like his stuff. He brought a sense of camp to horror that was taking itself way too seriously. I will take Vincent Price over the racist demeaning crap that was on today, "Riverboat Rythem," man was that an affront to the senses, but no one complains when TCM shows that crap with bug eyed black people "drawlin' out all stupid like", and northerners looking like mentally challenged individuals. I know that if TCM stopped showing this crap they would lose the Baptist bible belt viewers in the south, but c'mon, Vincent Price trash? I guess trash is subjective.

Does Tor Johnson count?

I dunno', got to say Flowers for Algernon, "Charly", then the "Three Stooges meet Hercules", it was so sad to see them **** themselves off like that, and replacing Curly and Shemp with Curley Joe Devitri, god I sob everytime, when I watch that movie I know there is no god!

I don't know Marjorie Main was hot, but Jane Darwell(Ma from the grapes of wrath) had those bedroom eyes and sexy throaty cackle, but if I have to choose out of the two it would be Jane Mansfield, she had better personal hygiene than Monroe.

Marjorie Main, Margaret Hamilton, Mary Beth Hughes........seriously I like Helen Mirren, Natalie Wood, Jennifer Saunders, Angela Mao, Pam Grier, Minnie Driver, and Tipi Hedron

Day paired with Stewart in ,"The Man who knew too much", a truly great movie and the ending (SPOILER) when she is singing to let her son know she is in the building is a great and intense piece of filmwork

I really like Anne Bancroft, I think she was underated and could be sexy, scary, and pull off any role, she even shined next to Monroe, she was hotter even though she was playing the everygirl role. Also , as much as I hate to admit it, Liz Taylor in Virginia Wolfe, and Taming of the Shrew, were fantastic works, I still think the woman is a flake, but I will give her the props she deserves. Any other suggestions?

The greatest offender, Rumble in the Bronx, Jackie Chan flick, I guess the rest of the world believes New York is at the base of a mountain range.

Female Trouble by John Waters, When the Aunt begs her Nephew George to stay , and he wants to leave to Detroit for a better life ,and the scene shows her gripping his arm, sad ,despondant, yet touching, brilliant filmaking true mastery of celluloid.

The Matador, by far the best new movie, great perfomances and nice comic tension. Not for the easily offended.

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Without a doubt, it is the epic tearjerker of all time, Harum Scarum with Dean and Jerry, my god when he is stuck in that chest, it is undoubtedlty one of the most emotionally draining experiences I have felt. The bleak sadness that undlies within the movie and the sublte desperation of the two main characters just leaves me sobbing in my pillow. Seriously I always cry when I see "It's a Mad Mad Mad World!" The insanity and chaos that shows us life is fleeting and so is succcess. It proves to me that nothing is really i our control and that one day you can be a happy mechanic, the next you can be riding down the highway on a girls bicycle in a state of madness chasing your dream at all costs, only to lead to your demise. The big W is the symbol of dreams never answered, so yes this is truly a heartbreaking movie. Alright, I will get serious, three.......".Life is Beautiful," "Patch of Blue" "Fires on the Plains"

Meg Ryan is still alive? There was an urban folklore about her, now I know it's not true, a few years ago while making the boxing movie they were filming in hells kitchen and she ate herself to death on collard greens(with mustard). I checked Snopes.com and they had nothing on it so naturally I assumed it to be true.

Hand animation has so much more personality and character than cgi, now I am not some ol' timer, I just think that the human mind on cel is unsurpassed, computer animation has yet to make me laugh as hard as I do with the old Warner Brothers toons. Someday it may be there, but not yet, and for awhile, maybe ever, that is why I love Cartoon Alley, it is stellar.

I was looking for the film Mr. Eliot goes to Mars, it sounds like a great movie, now you say it's about a guy who goes to Mars and Unites the Candy Cane men with the Butterscotch tribe and they revolt against the Licorace soldiers and rescue Queen Frostine from the Gummy swamp? I've got to own this movie, where can I get it? Really, aren't we being a bit harsh about the TCM newsletter? When we get down to everyone knows that Stewart never stood for anything, he was a studio yes man, which is o.k. He had bills to pay, he never turned anyone in for being leftist, unlike Reagan, or Kazan, so the guy gets a pass on this one. To try and figure out what he was thinking by subtle actions is an impossible task, and as far as a friendship with Fonda goes, Fonda didn't have friends, he stayed aloof and emotionally detatched from close friends, could have been the struggle with alchohol. So the subjective material may be true but there can be other explanations also.

I think that was called Norma Rae, I kept waiting for the shocking cannablism scenes to take place, but I was sadly disapointed, instead the zombies that worked at the factory decided to band together and ask for more money, man what a let down. I thought for sure it was going to rival Romero, but I think the girl I was dating told me it was a horror flick to get me into the theater. Yup.

There was also another remake of this film in the 80's titled different, I wish I could remember it, I think it was made for BBC, it was not half bad, not as weird or unique as the first, handled more like mystery.

Stranger in a Strange Land, and the John Carter on Mars series, also the Foundation Trilogy would be nice.

Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Wilder, Kurosawa, Joel and Ethan Cohen, and I have to agree with David English on Ford. His use of shadow was as good as Welles, his movies have a surreal quality to them, Liberty Valance was an experiment in values, shades of gray and tones, watch it next to stagecoach other b.w. movie and you will see a difference. Another favorite of mine was William Wellman for the same reason as Welles, the use of shadow and camera angles, floating close-ups of actors who weren't speaking during the dialogue, using every bit of the film to tell the story.