ziggyelman
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> {quote:title=CelluloidKid wrote:}{quote}
> My friend just emailed me this...I hope I'm not repeating myself!??
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> *MGM: When the Lion Roars is Finally Getting a DVD Release in January 2009*
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> *Hosted by Patrick Stewart in 1992, This Excellent Three-part Documentary on MGM's Complete History Has Been Eagerly Awaited.*
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> In April of 2009, MGM will be celebrating its 85th anniversary, and they apparently felt that waiting to release on DVD an important documentary about their history had to wait until then to have more relevance. Certainly when the three-part docu called "When the Lion Roars" premiered on
> TNT in March of 1992, it was bar-none the most thorough documentary every done on the history of a major studio from Hollywood's golden era.+
This is a very good documentary, but I have a small bone to pick with whomever wrote that...."it was bar-none the most thorough documentary every done on the history of a major studio from Hollywood's golden era"
He probably never saw *Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story*. I started a thread on it a few years back, would love to see it run on TCM someday...
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7877242
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That's what I get for not remembering the titles!
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Hi! There are two versions of the film . 1930 is called *Outward Bound* (the title of the play, I just read) and stars Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr and others http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021225/
The 1944 version with John Garfield and many others is *Between Two Worlds*. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036641/
I have both, but have only seen the later version. Need to watch the earlier version one of these days.
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Well, I see some now, might as well post the info!
Tonight, (11th)After the Long, Long, Trailer at 10 PM EST
11:40pm [short Film] *Desi Arnaz And His Orchestra (1946)*
The multi-talented Desi Arnaz displays his love of music in this fun short.
BW-10 mins
12th, after the 6:00am the Big Gamble(1932)
7:04am: *Big City Fantasy* (1934)
BW-10 mins From a reviewer at IMDB...
The first 3 minutes of this Vitaphone Melody Master feature Phil Spitalny's orchestra playing popular music. The band's singer then fantasizes about her experience when she first arrived in America, looking for "Uncle Phil." As she wanders through the various ethnic neighborhoods of New York City (the Bowery; Hester Street; Mott Street; Harlem), music associated with each area is heard. She finally hears music from her homeland being played in a restaurant and is united with her relatives. Written by David Glagovsky {dglagovsky@prodigy.net}
After 8:00pm No Greater Glory* (1934)
9:22pm One Reel Wonders: *King For A Day* (1934)
BW-21 mins A Bojangles Robinson short, that has run before, and is cute
9:51pm *Fine Feathers* (1933)
C-9 mins (2 strip Technicolor???) A Pete Smith MGM Oddity Short Subject.
13th, after 2:30pm Maisie Goes To Reno
4:01pm [short Film] Short Film: One Reel Wonders: *Romantic Nevada* (1943)
C-9 mins A FitzPatrick Traveltalk
14th
after 3:30pm Somebody Up There Likes Me
Short Film: From The Vaults: *Another Romance Of Celluloid* (1938)
A look at the movie making process and tour of studio stages.
BW-11 mins
15th(last one on the schedule as of 1:20 PM Sunday
after the 8:45am (est) Sabrina (1954)
10:45am *You, John Jones!* (1943)
John Jones (James Cagney) is on duty as air raid warden when he realizes how fortunate he is to live safely with his family while others around the world suffer from the war.
BW-10 mins
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I remember seeing the film years and years ago...I recall Edward Everett Horton never said a word! Is that correct??? I think he had a stroke near the end of his life, I don't know if that's the reason, or that was the way the role was "written"
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> I liked Rose. I thought she did a good job as the *Essentials* co-host. In fact, since they changed the format to a co-host with Robert O, I think Rose is my favorite so far. I think she did a much better job of talking about the films and engaging with Robert O about the films then either Molly Haskell or Carrie Fisher did....
Exactly! The other two almost seemed to think it should be a Siskel and Ebert adversarial kind of thing.
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> I am surprised that no one has mentioned "A Kiss Before the Mirror". This classic pre-code directed by James Whale has been difficult to find and TCM has it scheduled. Three very big cheers!!!
Wow, Nancy Carroll and Gloria Stuart! One reviewer on imdb back in 1999 said..."Gloria Stuart(who has a brief,surprising nude scene-we see her back as she strips) Well, her back ain't exactly nude, but still, makes it all the more interesting to see....
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OMG!!!! She voted for McCain????? Now I am really sorry to see her go! From dating Marilyn Manson to voting for McCain....some people do wise up with age!
Seriously Kim, I don't know how you can say she didn't know anything about classic films, that Miley Cyrus would be better...she may not know what Robert does(but then who does?) but she has a love for classic films, and they worked well together.
Lucky for Robert, Alec only screams at Women and little girls....
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> I noticed the "Grindhouse" double feature movie posters behind her.
I noticed something(s) else.
I thought she was surprisingly good, she knows her classic film, and I thought she was pretty good from Robert, much better than Carrie, or the snippy critic who's name escapes me right now.
Alec...I just think of him as the guy he screamed at his daughter for forgetting to have her phone turned on for a call....he so clearly wanted to scare the ___ out of her. Not someone I care two sh*ts about so, I won't bother watching essentials this year.
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> > Bronxgirl, I too thought that Carol Lynley didn't age gracefully. Perhaps too much sun.
> > I did post an image of Robert Walker, Farley Granger and Hitchcock from "Strangers on a Train" in the past. It's among the 1500 images on this thread.
> > When I copied the Gary Cooper image the caption said it was from his movie "Lives of a Bengal Lancer", although Rock Hudson appeared in "Bengal Brigade".
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> That's why I try to stay out of this Florida sun, but it's everywhere!
> I must have missed the STRANGERS photo then; thanks for letting me know.
Had to back up a few pages, but that is a truly amazing photo of Carol Lynley! She looks older than Eva Marie Saint. And what is more amazing, is that when she was in her mid 40's she looked at least 10 years younger
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> > Groundhog Day? Someone has got to be kidding That would make Scrooge LAUGH (before his dream). "Gone with the Wind'", NOT on the list? Someone has a strange sense of humor or is drunk!
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> > Well at least "5000 Fingers" is not included (whew).
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> Ah, but when someone who obviously has such deep appreciation for so many movies from the 40's and 50's selects that one as the _only_ American movie from the 90's that deserves to be considered one of the Top 10 American movies of all time, it sorta makes you think, no?
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> I'll be honest and admit that my eyes almost popped out when I saw that he'd included it. But that's the beauty of "top ten" lists - sometimes you come across a choice that is bizarre and fascinating and just makes you think for a while. At least that's how I saw it.
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> To idolspencer: feel free to join us at tcmfans.ning.com, we can chat there.
Good point about Groundhog Day! I like a list that doesn't look like every other list. And nice to not see the films only going back 10-15 years like most weekly mags would do.
To pick only 10 films is in it's way silly and pointless, but...a list like this is still interesting.
And It's a Wonderful Life should be there, and Red River shouldn't!
Had to edit because I hit the space bar before tying the 3rd line, which meant it disappeared on me!!! Small world, or somethin'
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> If you didn't get to order them, don't worry. I have these from when they came out originally and they were for the most part very bad disc pressings. The discs usually had scratched from being double-sided and pressed into poor packages. Often the films would freeze or not play. I don't know about now, but Universal suffered for a long time with very poor package quality control. All of the Legacy series they produced back them with multiple titles in them suffered.
I have the Dracula set, don't recall having problems with it, but I sure did with either volume one or two of the Abbott and Costello sets that were double sided. Of course I discovered that months after buying them. I think I read a bit about that "issue" on amazon awhile back.
Its sad that Universal has skimmed on sets, or didn't bother to restore films at all(Like the Marx bros set) They are sitting on a lot of good films.....
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> Amazon has the Universal Horror Legacy sets for $13.99!!! I kept looking for a cheap price on them before Christmas, but never did...
> http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_d?url=search-alias%3Ddvd&field-keywords=TheLegacyCollection+&x=14&y=18
Well....I guess I caught this on the last day...somehow, or was it a mistake???? I don't even recall how I found the sale on amazon, but they are $23 now....
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Chip, thanks for that info, will definitely check them out!!!
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I guess like others here, if you like Pre code, you have seen these movies already. I think everyone of them ran during William Wellman month earlier this year, well, last year. (go ahead tell me it was really 2007!) OTHER MEN'S WOMEN is an interesting movie in more ways than one, good beginning, bogged down middle, then Grant Whithers is less annoying, and ***Spoiler Alert*** Regis Toomey's final scene on the train, that look of relaxation as he is about to cross the bridge, almost makes up for the bulk of the film, IMHO.
Wish they would toss us a bone in one of these sets....
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Thanks Pat! Lets see if I can remember in a few days! Funny how the next few days lineup showed up later the same day!
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Amazon has the Universal Horror Legacy sets for $13.99!!! I kept looking for a cheap price on them before Christmas, but never did...
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_d?url=search-alias%3Ddvd&field-keywords=TheLegacyCollection+&x=14&y=18
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> {quote:title=ChipHeartsMovies wrote:}{quote}
> Over the holidays I picked up what appeared to be a cheapie budget 3-fer (at a supermarket) for about $10 that included *Born Yesterday, His Girl Friday* and *The Awful Truth* . (There were similar compilations of Steven Seagal films, Stallone films, Matrix movies, etc). Imagine my surprise on opening the box to find three separate, fully loaded with extras, DVDs!
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> They are all Hi-Def DVDs, which are apparently being cleared out as Blu-Ray won the war. Play fine on regular DVD players, though.
Shoot, even if they're not HD-DVDs, that's an amazing price for Columbia films that not too long ago they tried to sell for over $20 each!!! Wish I could find them for that price at a supermarket in Atlanta!
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> The book you're thinking of is called "Today is Tonight." It took some research, butI found a used copy of it probably 4 years ago through a used bookseller on amazon.com, and I very carefully read it. It's not the greatest novel in the world, but it's fun to read something knowing Jean Harlow was really excited about it and wanted to (so I've heard) adapt it into a film for her. It wasn't released until the sixties, so she never got to see it published.
A-ha! So I didn't dream it up!
Thanks, I knew some sharp person would know about this! I just looked it up on amazon. Great blurb underneath the title, "Explosive, Long suppressed Novel! 
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> {quote:title=ChipHeartsMovies wrote:}{quote}
> Three screwball comedies that are often overlooked:
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> *Bombshell* with Jean Harlow - terrific in every way, and if you are ever able to see it on the big screen you will be blown away --- this is one of those movie that lights up on screen.
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> *Hands Across the Table* with Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray. Personally my favorite Lombard.
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> *Midnight* with Claudette Colbert. Magical, and finally available on DVD.
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> Look for *A Child is Waiting* , a Cassavetes film with Judy Garland as a teacher at a school for developmentally disabled kids run by Burt Lancaster.
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> More recently, my two favorite films of the past few years are almost unknown here, since they aren't American-made. The very, very sweet *Ma Vie en Rose* (from France) about a boy who feels like he's a girl inside is not for everyone's taste. but if the subject doesn't upset you it's truly charming. And the very grim *Nobody Knows* from Japan (about a mother who abandons her children) was astonishing.
I sure agree about Hands Across the Table, and Midnight, films that until TCM ran them, (And they came out on DVD in the past couple of years) hadn't been seen since AMC ran them around 20 years ago. Too good to be buried...
As with Easy Living(The Jean Arthur film) that just came out on DVD this year(Or was it last year?)
After seeing Remember the Night, with Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, I don't know why it isn't better known. So very good. Say, those were both Directed by Mitchell Leisen and written by Preston Sturges. Just now checked and not only was Hands Acoss the Table a Mitchell Leisen film, but so was Midnight! I didn't remember that at all! He just might be a pretty good director!
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I remember reading years, and I mean YEARS ago about Jean Harlow writing a nutty kind of book. As I remember it, the women in her book is married to a blind man and somehow for whatever work she was doing, convinces him Day is night, and night is day! Sounds interesting, if nothing else. Anyone ever hear about this????
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Well, I cannot be trusted to remember to keep up with this, but perhaps myself and a few others can get back in the swing of this????
Jan 1st
After the 9 PM 9:00am showing of Libeled Lady (10:40am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: *A Day At Santa Anita*, (1937) A Sybil Jason short. According to IMDB reviewer, several guest stars show up including Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler, then Olivia de Havilland with Edward G. Robinson,Frank McHugh, Bette Davis, Hugh Herbert, and Allen Jenkins. On the DVD Each Dawn I Die as well. But, being in color, sounds like one to catch!
A top thoroughbred race horse, Wonder Boy, responds well only to a child. After the girl's father is killed in an accident, she inherits Wonder Boy and becomes his owner, but child authorities threaten to take custody. A familiar story that still holds its sentimental value.
Cast: Marcia Ralston C-18 mins
After MY Favorite Wife...
4:03pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: *I Love My Wife, But!* (1946) (Dave O'Brien stars and directs)
A short about the various types of wives that one can have and how to deal with them
BW-9 mins
After the 10:00pm showing of Them! (1954) 11:42pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: *Unseen Guardians* (1939) John Nesbitt narrates this short about Postal Inspection Service, which investigates mail order racketeering; the Underwriters' LaboratoriesBW-11 mins
Jan 2nd after the 11:45am film, Swing Your Lady (1938)
1:03pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: *Streamlined Swing* (1938) (A Buster Keaton directed short, that he also has a role in)BW-9 mins
Jan 3rd
11:44am(after the 10 AM Film Mystery Street)
Passing Parade No. 19: *American Spoken Here*-All about Slang.
That's as far as the website shows....
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Amazon has a pretty good small sale on Universal classics for $6.49
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> *First and foremost, more pre-Codes in 2009!;*
> I would also like '09 to be the year TCM finally acquires the Universals/Paramounts of the 30s & 40s;
> More character actors as STAR OF THE MONTH (Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Lionel Atwill, et al);
> Fewer films made after 1970;
> The continuing of TCM Underground;
> The continuing of Silent Sundays;
> Fewer schedule changes;
> More pre-Code stars during August's SUMMER UNDER THE STARS (Warren William; Helen Twelvetrees; Richard Barthelmess; Thelma Todd; Ruth Chatterton; Richard Dix; Wheeler & Woolsey, et al);
> More B-movies!.
I'd love to see that happen too, but I just don't think one channel could run all those films! You know folks would be unhappy if TCM didn't run Raintree County, or Cleopatra at least once a month!
Seriously though, it would be tough...I mentioned awhile back that I could see TCM having a sister station, that would basically run what AMC used to run, Universal, Paramount, (They ran RKO films as well) but done better, not all the repeats of the same film during the day...but, I am sure TCM doesn't have the budget for another station, and sadly, there probably isn't a market for it. Plenty of room for more shopping channels, and swell programming like that baby channel, 37 HBO channels, or 1,873 music channels though.
Shoot, just looking at dish network, you don't even get TCM with the 3 lowest rung packages! We probably don't want to know how few people even have a chance to watch TCM these days....
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Hey, want to hear about one that you most likely missed??? On the 13th, they ran...EVERYBODY DOES IT, It isn't scheduled to run again anytime soon.
Year:1949
A staid businessman (Douglas) indulges his wife (Holm) with singing lessons only to become bitten by the theater bug himself after receiving encouragement from an opera star (Darnell).
Cast and Crew:
Charles Coburn, Linda Darnell, Celeste Holm, Paul Douglas, Lucille Watson, Edmund Goulding, George Tobias
Sorry for not mentioning it. What caught my eye was the DISH network ratings was 3 1/2 stars!!! I think I vaguely recall it running many moons ago on AMC.