markbeckuaf
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> {quote:title=LoveFilmNoir wrote:}{quote}
> hey mark!
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> I'll be home and look forward to a whole day of John Garfield. I love that guy! I only wish they were playing the *Fallen Sparrow*, but I get to see *The Postman* so that makes up for it. That film never gets old for me!
Love, lucky you! Hope you enjoy! I will actually get to see POSTMAN since I should be home from work by then, and will catch NOBODY LIVES FOREVER from the DVR later! The latter is probably my favorite from tomorrow's lineup, but many gems in there!
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One of the grooviest early talkies is on late tonight, don't miss it!!! BROADWAY MELODY OF 1929!!! Groove-a-licious!!!!
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Hear, hear! Wonderful star!
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Very, very groovy!!! TCM continues to rock the house!!
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Can't wait!!!! It wasn't all bad, but overall not my cup of tea. Tomorrow's lineup is great stuff!!! A full daytime lineup of Garfield! Take us home, John!!
6:00 AM They Made Me A Criminal (1939)
A young boxer flees to farming country when he thinks he's killed an opponent in the ring. Cast: John Garfield, Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson. Dir: Busby Berkeley. BW-92 mins, TV-PG, CC
7:45 AM Tortilla Flat (1942)
Inhabitants of a Southern California fishing village strive for the simple pleasures of life. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield. Dir: Victor Fleming. BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC
9:30 AM Destination Tokyo (1943)
A U.S. sub braves enemy waters during World War II. Cast: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale. Dir: Delmer Daves. BW-135 mins, TV-PG, CC
12:00 PM Between Two Worlds (1944)
Passengers on a luxury liner realize they are en route to the afterlife. Cast: John Garfield, Edmund Gwenn, Eleanor Parker. Dir: Edward A. Blatt. BW-112 mins, TV-G, CC
2:00 PM Pride of the Marines (1945)
A blinded Marine tries to adjust to civilian life. Cast: John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark. Dir: Delmer Daves. BW-120 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS
4:15 PM Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece. Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan. Dir: Jean Negulesco. BW-100 mins, TV-G, CC
6:00 PM Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946)
Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman's older husband. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway. Dir: Tay Garnett. BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
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This set was available for a song on Amazon, and since I have a little credit there, I had to get it. It arrived this week, and it's great stuff! Since I'm not feeling well today I'm watching a bit of the DVD's, starting with the George Raft series, I'M THE LAW!! It's very gritty and noir-ish, just the way I like it! I also recognize some of the backing music from the first season of THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN! Cool!
This set is filled with series from the late 40's through the mid-60's, great stuff! I got it for under 15 bucks, and it has tons of stuff packed onto 12 double sided discs! Groovy!
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Yes, I sure did get a chance to preview both April and May, both look totally groovy to me!
March is looking out of sight! It's nearly here!
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Yes, I sure did get a chance to preview both April and May, both look totally groovy to me!
March is looking out of sight! It's nearly here!
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Very cool flick, Kyle, thanks!
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Very cool flick, Kyle, thanks!
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Wow, very cool, I just noticed this thread! Great job!
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Miss Wonderly!
First, Val Lewton totally rocks!!! I'm very happy with this set!!!
Second, the Forgotten Film Noir collection is really hot! B films, some of them with stars like George Raft, but great stuff!!! If you want to explore some B grade noir films, I would recommend any of these, particularly the volumes with Raft!
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LZ,
There is that too...thanks for delineating it.
I am not a fan of it, but it is what it is! And here is to the accelerated digital conversion of old films!!
All I know is that TCM is the ONLY channel to air silent films, to air films from the 30's and 40's. No one else does that anymore, period.
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Thanks, Arch!!! I know you are grooving to many of the same films I am!
I love this community of classic film fans! Glad to be here!
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Amazon was crazy enough to extend me credit, and I was foolish enough to take them up on their offer, but at least I'm a happy fool!
Recent purchases include 3 volumes of the Forgotten Noir series (great B stuff!), The Thin Man collection (more mystery than noir or gangster, but good stuff!!), The Film Noir from the Studio Vaults Collection, The Bad Girls of Film Noir Vol 1, and the 2nd volume of the Columbia Noir's! Now, if only Fox would make some sets of their noir's, I'll be further in debt!
Oh and again, not so much noir, but also picked up the Val Lewton collection!
I have a lot of viewing to get through!! Anyone else have some of these want to comment?
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Been a while off the boards, Kyle, but happy to see you're still posting posters like crazy!!! Keep 'em coming, my friend!!!
Take care!
Mark
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> I enjoyed the film very much. Nice to see a new old film. It makes me feel like the ghosts of Hollywood past are still making old movies, and they keep turning up on our TV screens!
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> Id rather see a 16 mm print than no print at all. I remember the first Bowery Boys festival of several years ago, and most of those films were 16 mm prints. Now in this latest Saturday series, all the prints are 35 mm. Thats great. Time marches on. Prints improve over the years. Full steam ahead. I enjoy seeing the new old films.
Fred, I'm with you all the way!!! I hadn't seen it before, and really dug it! I also am ok with less than stellar prints, I just want to SEE them any way we can!
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Thank you, Sewannie!! I took a bit of a break during the Oscar's plus things were kind of crazy in Jan too. Really looking forward to March, the second week is out of control!!
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> Mark,
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> I agree that they aren't showing the 1930s films from the former library. My point was that TCM and the other Turner channels do not have an exclusive deal with Warners for the pre-1960 films in the former Turner film library.
I know.....bummer though. I loved it when they seemed to have the unbridled ability to air anything in those libraries that Ted Turner purchased in the 80's.
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I dug it, but then again, pretty much anything Broderick Crawford is in is diggable!
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> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote}
> *but because that may have been part of whatever deal was made when TCM sold their library, that they retain exlusive rights to air those pre 1960 classic films.*
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> The Turner channels don't have exclusive rights to the former Turner film library. You guys need to extend your channel watching as films from the former Turner film library turn up on the HBO channels, the Showtime channels, Cinemax channels, (often in the very early morning hours), Encore channels, Retroplex, Multiplex and a few others.
I wish Ted still owned the channel.
LZ, respect you, my friend, but those channels are not showing early 30's films from the former Turner library. At best, they are showing 50's, 60's stuff, if that. I have many of those channels and they just aren't. TCM is the only hope for those of us hungry for 30's and 40's B/W films on TV and not from a DVD collection.
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Here's what I'll be grooving to this coming week on TCM!
Starting on Thursday, admittedly, with a noir I really enjoy of The Mick's: THE STRIP. Low budget, greasy stuff, I dig it!! Later that evening, it's a pre-code panorama with GRAND HOTEL, and especially BROADWAY MELODY OF 1929!!! Hoohah!!!
Actually kinda looking forward to THE STAR, with Bette Davis herself, along with Sterling Hayden. Looks kind of cheap and tawdry to me, we'll see! Love it!
Friday is John Garfield day!!! Wooohooooo!!! All of it is good stuff, but I'm personally gonna groove to NOBODY LIVES FOREVER (been a while since I saw this gem!!), and THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE with the luscious Lana!
And for some reason real late at night--midnight EST to be exact---we are treated to THE RICHEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, with Miriam Hopkins (hotcha!) and Joel McCrea (know that will make a huge part of this community happy go lucky!!) and the absolutely drop-dead gorgeous Fay Wray---Yowza!!! Anytime is a good time for a pre-code!!
I'm digging on Saturday morning to an old fave, DOA, yeah I've seen it 500 zillion times, but it's ALWAYS good! Love it!
AND!!!! The return of The Bowery Boys on Saturday mornings!!! Can't wait! Kickin' it off with FIGHTING TROUBLE, which is post-Leo, should be interesting to see how that works!!
I know John Payne, Randolph Scott and Maureen O'Hara fans will be grooving on Sat afternoon with TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI from those halcyon WWII days!
Prison movies on Saturday night, and among them are 2 pre-codes---I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG and HELL'S HIGHWAY (really grooving to see that one!!! And a cheap-o B film, CHAIN GANG from the 50's! Rock out! I know how I'm partying on Sat night!!!
Sunday will treat us to CAVALCADE from 1933 in the morning, and then a very touching film that never fails to draw tears to my eyes, HERE COMES MR. JORDAN!!
And.....the return of Silent Sunday Nights, kicking it off with John Barrymore his own bad self in DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE from 1920. 1920!!! Let that sink in...nowhere else baby!
With all apologies to those who grooved to the Oscar's month, I'm grooving harder now that it's about over and wow, the week after this coming one will be OUT OF THIS WORLD!!! Incredible stuff!!!
Groove hard, TCM fans!! I know I will!
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TCM is not perfect but it's the only place where I'm gonna see films like THREE WISE GIRLS (1932), THE HALF-NAKED TRUTH, CRACKED NUTS and the films of the Bowery Boys, as well as serials (coming up!!), and lots of cool film noir like DOA!
Oscar's month is a "necessary evil" that I put up with to get all the rest of the great stuff. No other channel on cable shows those films. I would rather they showed only pre-60's films, but it's not reality so I enjoy when they do it, which no one else on the dial really does, certainly not really old stuff, like silents and 30's films. Those are vacant from the TV other than TCM.
Love TCM, man. It grooves!
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Hibi, I'm with you! I never had AMC back when it was good, unfortunately. I got it the first time when they were already showing ads in between the movies. I was shocked to see those, but I was ok with it, as you mentioned. That was the last year they had the GREAT AMC Monsterfest with the true classics and they really went all out that particular year, they aired TONS of classic horror films during the fest!
I would love it if if AMC was back the way it was before the change (or another channel like it), along with TCM. Perhaps the new digital sub-channel thing will be where that happens? Probably not commercial free though, unfortunately.
Oh I forgot, I also had TNT when they showed classic films! I used to love that, even with the ads. In fact, I sometimes wish TCM would utilize some of that style, when they celebrated a birthday during the day for example, you always knew it because they'd have some little interstitial about it in between the ad breaks. Unfortunately my cable service didn't pick up TCM until the middle 2000's, so I also missed many of the great years of this channel. But I still dig it (not too much into this year's Oscar's Month, but hey, it gets better next month!).
Free at last!!! Tomorrow, John Garfield busts us out of the Oscar's month!
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I actually totally dig that late night opening, it remains my favorite on the channel! It's certainly the oldest one left! I dig it and hope they don't change it!
I know most of the scenes are from KILLER'S KISS, but I could swear there is one quick cut from a scene from THE WILD ONE, with Robert Keith sitting down to a cup of coffee? Anyone else catch that or think that also?