markbeckuaf
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I already chose Bela, and sticking by that, but another creepy dude I'd be freaked by in this situation would have to be George Zucco! Wow, that dude was waaay creepy!
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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.
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> 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!
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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!
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Hmmm...interesting take on this! I'd go with Bela, all the way! Dude was creepy!!! But in a good way!
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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
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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!
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Kingrat, thank you for that info on those two flicks! Darn, sorry I missed them now!
I see both are available on Amazon, hmmmm!
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Miss Wonderly,
Sorry that I missed mentioning last night's Brit Noir's! I sort of looked ahead to Monday and beyond for the week! I also missed watching them (or getting them on the DVR), unfortunately!! Were you able to catch them? What did you (or anyone who saw them) think? Some interesting comments in this thread about them, thanks!
And for QUICKSAND, yep, glad you saw that flick is coming up later in the month! I'm also looking forward to watching it again!
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Musicalnovelty, thank you for sharing that, particularly as I did not see that write-up! That's awesome to hear about!
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I really dig commentaries! I prefer sets and films that have them!
I have pretty much liked all the commentaries I've heard except for anything Drew Caspar does, man that dude, I don't know! The rest, even if they aren't that knowledgeable about one aspect or another, they still seem pretty interesting to me, and I really did listening!
I have thoroughly enjoyed the commentaries on the Chan sets, the Sherlock Holmes set, and two of the Universal Horror Legacy series (Frankenstein and Dracula) sets. Also the MGM Horror collection, those are all really good. And most of the Gangster and Noir sets.
I also loved the Pre-code commentaries, and the one you mentioned, NIGHT NURSE, I just listened to this past weekend and really enjoyed it also!
Basically I prefer them to not having them. If they suck, you can just turn them off, but I have found them pretty much always a decent listen!
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Great poster of the Boys, Kyle!!! I dug that flick yesterday!! Thanks!
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Thanks! Yes, that is in my queue!!! Looks like a great set!
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Any word on whether or not FOX will put out some of their noir films on collection sets (like Warners did) rather than just as individual titles? That would be so cool! Any news is appreciated!
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Any word on whether or not FOX will put out some of their noir films on collection sets (like Warners did) rather than just as individual titles? That would be so cool! Any news is appreciated!
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Lots of groovy flix this week courtesy of TCM!!!
First up are a couple of Busby Berkely pre-codes on Monday daytime:
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933---Warren William--I need say no more but I should cos this flick is so cool!
42ND STREET---another great pre-code backstage musical, choreographed like only Busby could! I dig it!
Tues is my Va-Va-Va-Voom day!!! Sorry have a huge crush on Virginia Mayo, and TCM is honoring her on her birthday--and treating us--with a day full of her films, which include some crime and noir films, notably, SMART GIRLS DON'T TALK and FLAXY MARTIN!! Yowza!!!
Somehow a B programmer gets tagged on to Tuesday, with CAPTAIN SCARFACE and my man Barton MacLane! Coolio!
Wed wee hours (4:30am EST) we are treated to THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN, a great pre-code Capra with Babs Stanwyck! Awesome flick!!
Thursday is the first SOTM 24 hour day with The Mick!!! This first one sees a lot of his early pre-code films when he was but a wee tot! Included is: BEAST OF THE CITY (awesome hard-hitting crime pre-code with Walter Huston and Jean Harlow as the sexiest vamp you ever did see!), BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD (1933), THE CHIEF (1933), THE LIFE OF JIMMY DOLAN (1933), and with a sexy young Loretta!, BLIND DATE (1934), DEATH ON THE DIAMOND (1934), HIDEOUT (1934), MANHATTAN MELODRAMA (1934)--great crime drama with Gable, Powell and Loy!!!, UPPER WORLD (1934)---awesome groovy pre-code with Warren William--YEAH!!!-Mary Astor (when she was young she was a **** extraordinaire!!), and Ginger Rogers--hotcha!!! Plus an outstanding support cast!
I know not all of those are strictly pre-code, but most are and the ones that aren't, are borderline just after the code was implemented and still treading that line! Plus the early to mid-30's man--great time for films!! A couple more during the late afternoon and early evening of note with The Mick's tribute is:
DOWN THE STRETCH (1936). I've never seen this and look forward to it!
AH, WILDERNESS (1935) Ditto!
RIFF-RAFF (1936) About as pre-code as you can get in 1936 with Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy heating up the screen!
THE DEVIL IS A SISSY (1936) Never saw it and want to!
LIVE, LOVE AND LEARN (1937) Roz Russel and Bob Montgomery--oh those 30's!!!
Friday we are treated to some crime and noir gems including MAN HUNT (1941) which is borderline on this theme, but wow, what a harrowing and very poignant war-time drama, somewhat off-beat, with Walter Pidgeon and Joan Bennett---tears my heart out absolutely.
THE BLUE DAHLIA--Ladd and Veronica---hotcha!!--Lake!
THE BIG CLOCK (wow, great noir with Charles Laughton doing what he does best!)
KISS ME DEADLY--been a while since I saw this seedy little noir and can't wait to do so again!
Later that evening, one of my new favorite holiday films, IT HAPPENED ON FIFTH AVENUE---just love it!!
Early Sat morning: THE SAINT IN NEW YORK!!! Yes, a crime/detective flick from the 30's always gotta dig them!
Followed by A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, possibly the best of the Marx Bros, certainly with MGM!
A CHRISTMAS CAROL--the 1938 gem my favorite rendition of that tale! Always makes me bawl like a baby at the end!
And of course, my main men, The Bowery Boys feature, this week the boys are in the jungle, with JUNGLE GENTS!!!
TCM...you simply rock the house!!
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Grooving on this morning's Bowery Boys treat!!!! PARIS PLAYBOYS!! Had to catch last week's on the DVR, as I couldn't watch last weekend, and it was funny and totally cool!!! Thank you TCM for this weekly treat, I dig it totally!!!
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Just watched, from the DVR, last week's gem, PRIVATE EYES, and looking forward to PARIS PLAYBOYS this morning! TCM rocks for showing these every Saturday!!
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I have 2 of the volumes, still have yet to get the first one, but the two I have are awesome! One is a solid Wild Bill Wellman set, the other is absolutely fantastic with a couple of great commentaries on THE DIVORCEE and NIGHT NURSE. Hope that they'll produce more of these sets, I prefer them to the on-demand stuff from the WB Archives--better pricing for one thing! And more extras!
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Given as a gift, this set is AWESOME!!! Commentaries, pristine prints, great stuff!!! The complete Universal films of Abbott and Costello!
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Here is a link:
http://www.wbshop.com/WB-Horror-Mystery-Double-Features-6-movies/1000180248,default,pd.html
And the title list:
Disc 1
Find the Blackmailer (1943)
Smiling Ghost, The (1941)
Disc 2
Sh! The Octopus (1937)
Hidden Hand, The (1942)
Disc 3
Mystery House, The (1938)
Patient in Room 18, The (1938)
Great B mysteries!
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Being relatively new to this particular forum, I didn't realize you had it set up this way until just now, so will stick to that, or post them in other forums. Sorry man!
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Given as a gift, this set is AWESOME!!! Commentaries, pristine prints, great stuff!!!
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I wish TCM would do more with the Archives series, particularly this one! I have both of these, still checking out Vol 2. Vol 1 is the only one I don't have yet, only because no commentaries. Hope TCM will continue this series!!!
Can rarely go wrong with Barton MacLane in a B!
Thanks TCM for Upperworld
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I'm for it 100%!!!! Warren William for SOTM!!!!!
And yes, this film is rocking!