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Jimmy Stewart rocks and is definitely, without question, in my top 5 actors of all time! THE MORTAL STORM is such an incredible film, I really enjoyed watching it tomorrow, and am looking forward to seeing THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, which is on next Sunday on TCM! I adore him in DESTRY RIDES AGAIN, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, HARVEY, and IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, to name my favorites!

Grooving to TCM this week! Not a lot of pre-codes compared to last week, but some cool and relatively obscure noir/crime flix though! Wee hours of Monday morning--3:45am--catch ZOO IN BUDAPEST, very rare pre-code with a young sexy Loretta Young! Monday is pretty jazzy with BLUES IN THE NIGHT, YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN and The Mick in THE STRIP--great noir!! Basically you want to stay up all night on Tuesday, cos the wee hours starting at midnight has some groovy flix that are part of the Dorothy Malone fest earlier in the eve: THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS with John Ireland, CONVICTED with Broderick Crawford himself and Glenn Ford! Then at 5am a pretty rare noir with Freddie Mac, PUSHOVER, along with Kim Novak!! Mick's day on Thursday has a few crime and noir flicks including KILLER MCCOY, THE BIG WHEEL and the best, IMHO, QUICKSAND, also starring Peter Lorre!! And of course on Saturday, I always have to give a shout out to my Boys from Bowery, this week is BOWERY TO BAGDAD! Tune in for your B chuckles!!! And later in the afternoon on Saturday, THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, always dig that sci-fi gem! Just a few of the groovy highlights from the upcoming week! Thank you, TCM!

Cool! That is hilarious!

Actually....I'm of the opposite view and I really dig the exuberant drinking, particularly in this first one, which was also pre-code and typically a LOT of drinking goes on in pre-code flix! When they stalled on that later in the series, I thought it was a mistake, though understandable given the code and the times. Fun stuff!

Sorry if there is another thread on this, but wow, just watched this on TCM this afternoon, and really loved it! Mid-30's films, love 'em and on a Sunday afternoon! Props to TCM for airing this today and in this time slot! Near constant bed of big band music from the time, love it! And more early Paramounts like this showing up is always good! Wicked cool!

Thanks for this early evening treat, TCM!!! I absolutely love 30's mysteries! And this film has that awesome Loy/Powell combination to boot!! Pre-code, lots of drinking and a great mystery! Powell and Loy are great in their signature roles!

Kyle, my man, I will definitely check that out, thank you! I totally groove to STAGECOACH! What a great film! On so many levels! I'm a huge fan, my man! You do an awesome job with the posters, keep 'em coming!!

Totally groove to the Eddie G poster with CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY!!! Way to go, Kyle, my main man! Great flick, looking forward to it tonight!

I have to be honest with you here. Cher is a Sexy Cougar. Seriously, I'd be cool with her being hostess of something like Underground (desperately needs a host of some sort). But I'm not sure that is where her interests lie based on what I've read.

Anyone else checking out the Boys this morning?? I'm glad I don't have to work this morning (sometimes do), and can just chill out and enjoy the Boys! This is definitely my weekly treat!

Dig the Stagecoach poster! I watched that in it's entirety the other night, it never grows old no matter how many times I've seen it! Love it!

Dig the Stagecoach poster! I watched that in it's entirety the other night, it never grows old no matter how many times I've seen it! Love it!

Wow, what an awesome way to wake up on a Saturday morning! First off THE SAINT IN NEW YORK!!! Fans of George Sanders won't be happy, but I kind of dig this earlier Saint flick! Any old time 30's/40's mystery flick is a solid winner in my book! Digging it! This is followed by the Marx Bros in one of their best: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA!!! Then my favorite version of A CHRISTMAS CAROL!! And then this week's Bowery Boys feature! This week it's JUNGLE GENTS! Wow! It's a rocking Saturday morning on TCM!! And there's more grooviness on the way throughout the afternoon and evening! Up later is: THE MORTAL STORM THE THIN MAN---always groovy!!! THE SNAKE PIT CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY!!! THE LONG NIGHT And into the wee hours of tomorrow: OUT OF THE FOG!! TCM is out of control! And I'm loving every second of it!

Hey, that's great stuff, Wouldbestar, thanks for letting us know!

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > I am LOVING Ed Wynn! He's so adorable. And what better choice of career for a man who can't do anything than politics? > > The Chief rocks! I know, he's awesome!!!! This is such a great day!!!

Arch, hope you enjoyed them!!!! Today is an early 30's paradise!!! Thank you, TCM!!! And thanks to The Mick!

I will admit, I'm a commentary junkie now!!! As someone already mentioned, it's often a reason that will sway a purchase for me. For example, I still haven't purchased Vol 5 of the WB Film Noir sets, as that is the only one sans commentaries. Same with Vol 1 of the Pre-Code Hollywood TCM Archives series, the other two have commentaries! I dig them!

Another great list of films I'd love to see more of (or of at all!) Back to my idea---it's great that TCM chose to opt for more variety in their playlist a few years ago and went after Columbia, Disney, Paramount, etc....but it would be great to see them dig into their own a bit more!

I'm for it 100%!!!! Warren William for SOTM!!!!! And yes, this film is rocking!

Wow, those are some great titles, thanks for letting us know! I really wish their prices were better though! The $50 deal was ok, but I'd like to get more than 5 titles for that price if possible, considering that these are DVD-R. Hopefully these prices will come down and/or they will consider doing more value-packs. 3 for $24.95 for example isn't bad.

> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote} > I wonder if someone made a mistake. All day long we have Virginia Mayo - until 645pm where CAPTAIN SCARFACE makes an appearance. The top-billed female in the film is Virginia Grey. Coincidence? Clore, I wondered about that too! I think perhaps it was an error, but coolio cos I dug CAPTAIN SCARFACE too! Can rarely go wrong with Barton MacLane in a B!

I'd love to see all of these films get into the rotation! I'll go back to an idea I had a while back, something that perhaps could be used for the upcoming 20th anniversary, something big but yet very retro! "Open Up The Vaults" a year long celebration of opening up the deep, deep TCM Library itself, MGM, RKO and early WB! Films that haven't aired since the first few years of the channel, along with some that maybe never aired at all, plus some that are more well-known, or recently aired mixed in!

Hope everyone is able to catch the many pre-codes and early 30's films tomorrow for The Mick's first day of tribute this month!!! They are awesome!!! Here's the full day's lineup in case anyone missed it! Worth a sick day if you can swing it!! Dig it! 2 Thursday 6:00 AM Beast Of The City, The (1932) A police captain leads the fight against a vicious gangland chief. Cast: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford. Dir: Charles Brabin. BW-86 mins, TV-14, CC 7:30 AM Broadway To Hollywood (1933) Three generations of vaudevillians fight for stardom on stage and screen. Cast: Frank Morgan, Alice Brady, Jackie Cooper. Dir: Willard Mack. BW-85 mins, TV-G, CC 9:00 AM Chief, The (1933) A fireman's son goes into politics. Cast: Ed Wynn, Dorothy Mackail, Charles 'Chic' Sale. Dir: Charles F. Reisner. BW-65 mins, TV-PG, CC 10:15 AM Life Of Jimmy Dolan, The (1933) A boxer facing a murder charge finds refuge in a children's home. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Loretta Young, Fifi D'Orsay. Dir: Archie Mayo. BW-88 mins, TV-G 11:45 AM Blind Date (1934) A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her. Cast: Ann Sothern, Neil Hamilton, Paul Kelly. Dir: Roy William Neill. BW-72 mins, TV-G 1:00 PM Death On The Diamond (1934) A rookie pitcher tries to stop someone from killing the St. Louis Cardinals. Cast: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Mickey Rooney. Dir: Edward Sedgwick. BW-71 mins, TV-G, CC 2:15 PM Hide-Out (1934) Farmers take in an injured racketeer and try to reform him. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mickey Rooney. Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II. BW-81 mins, TV-G, CC 3:45 PM Manhattan Melodrama (1934) Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law. Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy. Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II. BW-90 mins, TV-G, CC 5:30 PM Upper World (1934) A wealthy man escapes his wife's social pretensions in the arms of a burlesque queen. Cast: Warren William, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. BW-73 mins, TV-G 6:45 PM Down The Stretch (1936) A disgraced jockey's son fights to clear the family name. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Patricia Ellis, Dennis Moore. Dir: William Clemens. BW-66 mins, TV-G, CC 8:00 PM Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1935) Shakespeare's classic about two pairs of lovers and an amateur actor who get mixed up with fairies. Cast: James Cagney, Dick Powell, Mickey Rooney. Dir: Max Reinhardt, William Dieterle. BW-143 mins, TV-PG, CC 10:30 PM Ah, Wilderness! (1935) In his only comedy, Eugene O'Neill captures the trials of growing up in small-town America. Cast: Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Mickey Rooney. Dir: Clarence Brown. BW-98 mins, TV-G, CC 12:15 AM Riffraff (1936) Young marrieds in the fishing business run afoul of the law. Cast: Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, Joseph Calleia. Dir: J. Walter Ruben. BW-94 mins, TV-G, CC 2:00 AM Devil Is A Sissy, The (1936) A British boy in New York tries to join a tenement gang. Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney. Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II. BW-92 mins, TV-G, CC 4:00 AM Live, Love And Learn (1937) A bohemian artist and a society girl try to adjust to marriage. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley. Dir: George Fitzmaurice. BW-79 mins, TV-G, CC

Huge crush on Virginia!!! Totally dug today! I've seen all these before, but loved watching my faves again anyway, especially SMART GIRLS DON'T TALK (great flick!) and FLAXY MARTIN, natch! I also dig ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING!

Kingrat, thank you for that info on those two flicks! Darn, sorry I missed them now! I see both are available on Amazon, hmmmm!