markbeckuaf
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I'm with you MFF! Thanks to TCM for all that they do! I love the classics and those not so classic but old and B or even lesser budget, great stuff!
I'm also an advocate that there should be more films on DVD, and I hope that trend continues for all the classic era studio film libraries. I'm not as big a fan of the MOD stuff, and prefer the classy releases of a a few years ago with commentaries and extras. I'm really hoping we move back to that soon! But in any event, get them released, by all means!
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I also dug Ish!
I believe TCM has shown all 4 of the 1940s Dick Tracy films a few times, sometimes separately, and occasionally in blocks of 2-4 of them. They are also PD and I have all of them on a couple of those 50 film packs.
Great Boris lineup, still grooving to a few of them!
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Just came home from Thanksgiving Dinner and TCM is airing this fun comedy!!! One of my favorite Bob Hope films and one of my favorite comedies of all time! Great support cast with Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney, Jr! Thank you TCM!!
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I hope they do more of them also! This set is far out!
What a great way to enjoy some time off during the holiday!
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Thanks, Kyle! You too, and to everyone who shares in the holiday, may it be a wonderful one!
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Also totally digging on WEST OF SHANGHAI, ISLE OF THE DEAD, and DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME!!! B films rule!
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Wow, these are awesome, Kyle!!! Thank you, man!
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It was a GREAT day! I didn't have a chance to watch anything that day but will be visiting on the DVR! Thanks TCM for an awesome day of films!!! I will be particularly looking forward to YOU'LL FIND OUT, one of my favorite horror spoofs!!!
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This is an awesome pre-code flick, one of the most outrageous and one of my faves! Thanks to TCM for airing it the other day!!
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I still go once in a great while (like once in a few years). For me it's about choices and limits. Limited time and money and preferences, which mine are for old black and white movies, and I get pretty much all I need there on TCM!!
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I'm with you! I do think BRIDE is an awesome sequel and one of the best in the history of cinema, without question, and it does work so well on so many levels. But for pure horror fans, I'm with you and dig the original better. Nothing like the opening sequence in the grave yard, or the first encounter with the Monster, or the "It's Alive" and subsequent dialogue. Stark and intense and gothic, I love this film! Both are great, but if I had to choose and could watch only one, I would probably choose the original!
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Warnerbrosfan, I'm with you, I'm going to spring for the full set of shorts sometime when I have a bit more dough. They are re-mastered, and awesome!
Meanwhile, I've been catching the shorts on IFC, sister station to AMC, but airs the Boys uncut and commercial free, and they appear to be the re-mastered shorts as well!
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> {quote:title=CitySlicker wrote:}{quote}
> What WONDERFUL television *The Rifleman* was. My father died when I was a tyke, and I could relate to Mark, the son, in a certain way. Lucas was, in many ways, a father figure. His high morals and the way he doted over his son bring a tear to my eye even today. Great, great TV. Tightly edited stories, great character actors (John Anderson, John Dehner, Peter Whitney) and superb supporting cast. Paul Fix as Micah was a treasure ... boy, great memories of a great show.
City Slicker, I totally agree and can relate with your experiences. My father left us when I was 4, and I related to Mark (my first name too!) and yearned for a father figure, which I found in this show (along with a few others). It's a great show and I can't wait to see it when I get home every day!
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It's SUCH an awesome film, I agree!!! Never gets old for me, I can watch it a zillion times!!! This and LITTLE CAESAR are the bomb for me!
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Just purchased this set and it's awesome! More Mystery than Horror I think, which is why I'm posting in here. Very B, which I dig!
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Love this set of 6 films, price is right, and they are classic B's!!! Love it!! Anyone else have this??
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Kyle, my man, totally digging on the OF HUMAN BONDAGE poster---thank you again for this great thread and all these treats!! You rock, man!!
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Awesome, YOU'LL FIND OUT is one of my favorite horror spoofs! How can you go wrong with Bela, Boris and Peter!!!
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Kyle, I haven't been around the boards for a few days, and I saw this, and I am in full support of you and your posters!!! FOOTLIGHT PARADE and I AM A FUGITIVE FOR A CHAIN GANG are two of my very favorite pre-code films and deserve all the attention they can get! Please keep on plugging man, despite the censorship that we encounter here and many places! Your posters are awesome and I totally dig them!
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Kyle, I haven't been around the boards for a few days, and I saw this, and I am in full support of you and your posters!!! FOOTLIGHT PARADE and I AM A FUGITIVE FOR A CHAIN GANG are two of my very favorite pre-code films and deserve all the attention they can get! Please keep on plugging man, despite the censorship that we encounter here and many places! Your posters are awesome and I totally dig them!
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Wow, lots of great comments in this thread! I agree with so many of them, so I'll just add that one of the huge reasons I love older films (mostly silents through early 50's) is that they take me to a different time, when people were different, culture was different, styles were different, everything...different. Older..not necessarily better, but nevertheless there is a nostalgia, even if I wasn't alive during those times. It's one of the reasons I like older TV shows too, from the 50's and 60's. Those times seem magical to me from my perspective of "now". But like a few folks mentioned, there is something magical and amazing and wondrous and mystical the further back you go. I think Silents are the purest form of that experience for me, one of the reasons I have to be prepared for them, because I can't really do other things while watching them, I have to put my full effort into watching them, and just find that I lose myself completely in them! I find something similar with very early talkies, and some of the pre-codes as well, but not as completely as Silent films! They are awesome!
TCM...wow, a channel not only shows old black and white movies most of the time, but also airs silent films. It's an incredible channel and here's to hoping they'll also do this! At this time of Thanksgiving, I give thanks to the cinematic wonders that TCM brings to us 24/7/365!
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Gaqman, I'm with you! I also grooved hard to SAFETY LAST last night! I love it, it's hilarious and it was the first Harold Lloyd movie I ever watched, so it always has a soft spot in my heart!!! But I have grown to like many of his other movies better, though I still always groove to this! I absolutely groove to Harold Lloyd! IMHO, he's the funniest of the big time silent comics and I felt his humor translated best (though no more successfully I guess) than the others, though I like them and like their talkies also. I just laugh out loud more to Lloyd!
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Thank you all for the great discussion here about this film! I also really love this film, and have for a long time! Fortunately I had the chance to watch it again yesterday, and it still packs a punch on many levels. Really dig it! Thank you, TCM!!
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> Just so no one misunderstands me, I'm 100% for Mickey Rooney getting the star of the month, he just turned 90 and is still going strong (like a Timex watch). He would be a great TCM interview, eh?
Indeed he would!!! He was awesome a few years ago in one of the Robert Osborne interviews, and I'd love to see him do another!
Noir fans don't miss THE BRIBE on TCM this morning @ 9:15am EST!!
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Very interesting noir with a great cast, particularly Charles Laughton and Vincent Price in supporting roles, with Robert Taylor and Ava Gardner as the leads! I've always liked this flick and look forward to seeing it this morning! Thanks for the gift, TCM!