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Both are very good, but wow...VAMPYR just blows me away every time I watch it! What an intense and atmospheric flick!

Kyle, my main man!!!! Yes! I absolutely LOVE this film, a sort of sequel to DRACULA, but with a different name at a different studio! This is one of my favorite later Lugosi flicks, and thanks for the poster, my man!

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > I love the Richard Barthelmess one - and I don't know why! It's a great film and poster, and I dig Barthelmess!

From Constance Bennett's day on Friday, what a great film, Claude Rains is amazing, as is Audrey Totter and of course Constance Bennett!!! And Fred Clarke (I can never watch him without thinking of Burns & Allen show!) was great as well! And for tough guys, you had Jack Lambert making an appearance! Loved the film!

Bela!!! Numero Uno!!! Then Karloff....Lon Chaney Jr... And runners up: Lionel Atwill, Dwight Frye, Lon Chaney Sr, George Zucco...

Caught this film this week on TCM and really love it! I've seen it before, in fact I saw it well before ever catching the original that it's a remake of, HIDEOUT. I ended up thinking the original a bit better, but have a fondness for this one, as I saw it first. It still made me bawl at the end! And Marsha Hunt, wow! Just love her! Thanks for airing these films that are not all that well known these days!

Sad to hear this. Thanks for the photos, folks! It would be awesome if TCM would do a day long or evening tribute, with some Tarzan and Bomba films!

Movie Professor, wow, that is great background information on Lewis Stone! I have wondered too about his relationship with LB Mayer, and your information was great! Thank you for a very interesting read!

LOL! Actually I had a crush on his first teacher, Miss Canfield, played by Diane Brewster!

Miss Wonderly, awesome post, and I agree! I absolutely dig on Val Lewton and the RKO horror films of the 40's! They are incredible, creepy, mysterious, atmospheric and intense!!!

> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote} > *"Love this. Love the art, love the graphics, love the era."* - DougieB > > *"I couldn't agree more, Dougie! Constance is a dream."* - JackFavell > > Thanks you two. It was no easy decision to abandon "Hammer Night" in favor of Constance Bennett today, so I am pleased you approve. > > Kyle In Hollywood I want to add my approval too!!! Constance trumps all IMHO!!! Thanks, Kyle!

Wow, what a weekend ahead, all starting on Friday, Oct 29th!!!! Karloff--Lugosi--Lewton--Fay Wray--Lorre--pre-codes! This is what I'm digging hard on: 29 Friday 6:00 AM Doctor X (1932) *Awesome flick!* A reporter investigates a series of cannibalistic murders at a medical college. Cast: Lee Tracy, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray. Dir: Michael Curtiz. C-76 mins, TV-PG 7:30 AM Mystery Of The Wax Museum, The (1933) *Fay Wray and Glenda Farrell! Hotcha!!* A disfigured sculptor turns murder victims into wax statues. Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell. Dir: Michael Curtiz. C-77 mins, TV-PG, CC 9:00 AM Vampire Bat, The (1933) *Loving my Fay and Lionel! These two are rocking the house!* Villagers suspect the town simpleton of being a vampire. Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, Dir: Frank R. Strayer. BW-61 mins, TV-PG 10:15 AM Ape, The (1940) A mad doctor dresses as an ape to kill victims for their spinal fluid. Cast: Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gertrude Hoffman. Dir: William Nigh. BW-63 mins, TV-PG 11:30 AM Isle Of The Dead (1945) *One of Lewton's all time great flicks!* The inhabitants of a Balkans island under quarantine fear that one of their number is a vampire. Cast: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Helene Thimig. Dir: Mark Robson. BW-72 mins, TV-PG, CC 1:00 PM Corpse Vanishes, The (1942) A mad scientist kills brides and uses their glands to keep his wife alive. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters, Elizabeth Russell. Dir: Wallace Fox. BW-63 mins, TV-PG 2:15 PM Devil Bat, The (1940) *Bela at his cheesy best!* A mad scientist trains killer bats to respond to a special scent. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien. Dir: Jean Yarbrough. BW-68 mins, TV-PG 3:30 PM White Zombie (1932) *My opinion? This is one of the greatest horror films of all time, and I would argue BEST low-budget horror of all time! Bela, zombies, pre-code naughtiness all rolled into one!* A zombie master menaces newlyweds on a Haitian plantation. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, John Harron. Dir: Victor Halperin. BW-67 mins, TV-PG 4:45 PM I Walked With A Zombie (1943) *This flick trips me out and it has the smooth talking Tom Conway to boot!* A nurse in the Caribbean resorts to voodoo to cure her patient, even though she's in love with the woman's husband. Cast: Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison. Dir: Jacques Tourneur. BW-69 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS 30 Saturday 6:15 AM Devil Commands, The (1941) A scientist kills innocent victims in his efforts to communicate with his late wife. Cast: Boris Karloff, Richard Fiske, Anne Revere. Dir: Edward Dmytryk. BW-64 mins, TV-14 7:30 AM Ghoul, The (1933) *I've never seen this and can't wait to! A 1933 Karloff film, WOW!* An ancient Egyptian returns to punish those who violated his tomb. Cast: Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger. Dir: T. Hayes Hunter. BW-81 mins, TV-G, CC 9:15 AM Walking Dead, The (1936) *Gangsters meet horror, WB style! This is a GREAT film! Don't forget Ricard Cortez and Barton MacLane as some heavy gangster dudes in this one!* A framed man comes back from the dead to seek revenge. Cast: Boris Karloff, Edmund Gwenn, Marguerite Churchill. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-65 mins, TV-PG, CC 10:30 AM Bowery Boys Meet The Monsters, The (1954) *I've never seen this horror spoof and can't wait to! Lovin' the Boys!* The Bowery Boys battle a family of mad scientists. Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Ellen Corby. Dir: Edward Bernds. BW-65 mins, TV-G 12:45 AM Mad Love (1935) *Lorre, what a creepy dude in this one! Awesome flick!* A mad doctor grafts the hands of a murderer on to a concert pianist's wrists. Cast: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive. Dir: Karl Freund. BW-68 mins, TV-PG, CC 2:00 AM Cat People (1942) A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast. Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway. Dir: Jacques Tourneur. BW-73 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS 3:30 AM Martin Scorsese Presents, Val Lewton: The Man In The Shadows (2007) *This is an awesome doc!* This TCM original documentary looks at the imaginative producer who fashioned a lasting body of beautiful and unsettling films on meager budgets. Cast: Martin Scorsese Narrates. BW-77 mins, TV-PG, CC 5:00 AM Leopard Man, The (1943) *Wow, talk about freaky! Lewton rocks man!* When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders. Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks. Dir: Jacques Tourneur. BW-66 mins, TV-PG, CC 31 Sunday 6:15 AM Freaks (1932) *Bizarro pre-code zaniness!* A lady trapeze artist violates the code of the side show when she plots to murder her midget husband. Cast: Wallace Ford, Olga Baclanova, Harry Earles. Dir: Tod Browning. BW-62 mins, TV-PG, CC 7:45 AM Mark Of The Vampire (1935) *The cast is unmatched, and wow, gotta dig it!* Vampires seem to be connected to an unsolved murder. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi. Dir: Tod Browning. BW-61 mins, TV-PG, CC 9:00 AM Devil Doll, The (1936) A Devil's Island escapee shrinks murderous slaves and sells them to his victims as dolls. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton. Dir: Tod Browning. BW-78 mins, TV-PG, CC There are some other flicks I'm looking forward to, like THE TINGLER and BESERK, but most of all the films listed above! Thank you, TCM, for doing it up right on Halloween!!! (only way to do better is to score the Universal's of the 30's and 40's! Maybe next year???)

Awesome day! Thank you, TCM!!! Just loved watching Constance in all of these films! I have seen all of them previously, but always great to re-visit! And Love, yes, I agree, I really get into pre-code flix even when crime or gangsters play no role, because there is always a bit of grit and edginess to them, most of the time, not to mention the racy dialogue as you mentioned! And wow, yeah, FIVE STAR FINAL is one of the greatest films of all time IMHO! I absolutely dig that film!

TVLand pretty much sucks these days. Actually I am digging to this digital channel, RETRO TV!! They show stuff that TV Land either used to, or even never did! I realize not everyone would get that though, but they rock when it comes to classic TV shows, they are airing LEAVE IT TO BEAVER twice every weekday! Though I dug seeing most of the LITB cast in their later years, the novelty wore off for me after a few episodes on that 80's show. It lacked the charm of the earlier show (no fault of theirs, it's tough to go back), and without Ward, who for me was the heart of the original, it didn't do it for me. But I agree it would be worth checking out for sure if you haven't seen it.

MissWonderly, it's cool, no worries! Thanks for trying! Actually...so sad about Marsha Hunt! Anyway, this film was just a very nice and easy way to wake up on a Sunday! TCM is my dream come true!

Watching this flick this evening and totally digging on it! Love all these tough hombres in one place. Agree about Borgnine, a real great actor, IMO! But this film belongs to Broderick---I'm totally digging him!

Did anyone else see this sweet film this morning? First time for me, what a nice way to start a Sunday morning! From 1945, just a very sweet film, light humor, and Hume Cronyn is great in it! And I totally dig Marsha Hunt!

Or late, if you are a night owl! 4AM EST!!! Great crime film, starring Broderick Crawford as his usual gruff, tough as nails character, with a motley assortment of rough characters including Ernest Borgnine, Neville Brand and even Charles Bronson! Great stuff!!!

Yes, it's only Sunday but I'm already anxious for this Friday's Constance Bennett tribute, with tons of pre-codes in the lineup! The beautiful Constance will be featured in: 6:00 AM Lady With A Past (1932) *(I really dig this naughty pre-code!)* A good girl raises her popularity when she pretends to be bad. Cast: Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon, David Manners. Dir: Edward H. Griffith. BW-80 mins, TV-G 7:30 AM Rockabye (1932) A Broadway star tries to hold onto an adopted child and a younger man. Cast: Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Paul Lukas. Dir: George Cukor. BW-68 mins, TV-G 8:45 AM What Price Hollywood? (1932) *(One of my all-time faves, with one of my main men, Lowell Sherman!!)* A drunken director whose career is fading helps a waitress become a Hollywood star. Cast: Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton. Dir: George Cukor. BW-88 mins, TV-G 10:15 AM Outcast Lady (1934) A spoiled rich girl sacrifices her reputation to preserve her dead husband's memory. Cast: Constance Bennett, Herbert Marshall, Hugh Williams. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-77 mins, TV-G 11:45 AM Topper (1937) A fun-loving couple returns from the dead to help a henpecked husband. Cast: Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young. Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. BW-98 mins, TV-G, CC 1:30 PM Topper Takes a Trip (1939) *(I actually think this one is funnier than the original, thanks to Constance!!)* A glamorous ghost helps a henpecked husband save his wife from gold-digging friends. Cast: Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke. Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. BW-80 mins, TV-G, CC 3:00 PM Merrily We Live (1938) *(Zany screwball comedy, must see!!)* A society matron's habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants leads to romance for her daughter. Cast: Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Billie Burke. Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. BW-95 mins, TV-G 4:45 PM Unsuspected, The (1947) *(ooooh, and even a noir--Constance is still HOT STUFF!)* The producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case on the air. Cast: Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Constance Bennett. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-103 mins, TV-PG, CC Can't wait! Thank you, TCM!!! You guys ROCK!

Great idea for a thread!!! Let's see! For me, it would be the genre of musicals! I never thought I'd like them! But of course films like the Marx Bros and the Road pictures had songs, but they seemed very incidental to the story for me, and sometimes still do. I actually used to not like The Marx Bros just for the very fact that they had musical interludes in them--I was like "What??!! No way!" Well that has certainly changed, and I'm totally in love with those Marxists, as well as my main men, Wheeler and Woolsey! And since discovering pre-code musicals--especially the Busby Berkeley backstage musicals, well, I was hooked!!! 42ND STREET, GOLDDIGGERS OF 1933, especially! So I've opened up a lot in terms of my resistance to musicals, over the years!

Thanks for sharing all that, Arch! I'm totally digging on Kay Francis, and I love Shearer too! And like you, I'm loving the pre-code Ladies!

Thanks, Arch! I've really been grooving to these on Saturdays! The prints are nice too! I am wondering if it means we might see a box set of the complete series sometime soon??? I hope so!

> {quote:title=LoveFilmNoir wrote:}{quote} > It's on and there's no wind or rain! Hallelujah. And I just saw that TCM "stamp" before the film...doesn't that usually mean it's a film they can play rather often or at their discretion? Glad you had a chance to see it, Love! I watched it last night and thought it was pretty funny! It seemed like a black comedy to me, in many ways, but for me the best was Freddie Mac! He was hilarious and I really dug him in this!

I'll post an alternate list of possibilities of sorts for some of the decades... 1910's INTOLERANCE BIRTH OF A NATION 1920's---wow, tough to choose, but some possibilities: THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC THE GOLD RUSH THE WIND THE BIG PARADE METROPOLIS 1930's---VERY tough to choose! ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT KING KONG CITY LIGHTS A NIGHT AT THE OPERA PUBLIC ENEMY 1940's CASABLANCA IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE WHITE HEAT Don't know if it meets any criteria, but those are some possibilities!

Dig all the posters, Kyle! Thanks!