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I will cast my vote for the real National Enquirer. I know people such as Carol Burnett had to sue them for printing total lies.

I like Harry and Tonto. Art Carney was great in that. That holds up. A story about an elderly man whos wife has died, taking his cat and going off to see his relatives and the USA. An aged Easy Rider. Few could pull it off as Art Carney did. There was more to him than Norton.

Of course Born Free and Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were big hits. So was Shaft. I liked the Paul McCartney James Bond song, Live and Let Die that climbed up the charts in 1973. I wasn't as thrilled with Bob Dylans Knockin' On Heavens Door for Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, but it's a hit that continues to be played by alot of bands. I thought Superfly had some good Curtis Mayfield songs such as Give Me Your Love. Car Wash had a good funky disco song. ......Of course there is always Jiminey Crickett singing " When You Wish Upon A Star ". Worlds greatest animated singing crickett.

Yes, the guy in the middle and even this picture is funny. Look at him in that hat with that look on his face and that finger going. You just know he's going to say something funny. I heard on Carson that some comics say funny things and some comics say things funny. Durante and Buddy Hackett and Leo Gorcey had the ability to say things funny. I think the TV kid Erkle said things funny. ...Sometimes Gorcey didn't have the best line, especially with Cagney, but Gorcey could hold his own with the way he said it. I really like these movies that let Leo go wild with the street slang and double talk. The go to heck hat is a classic. Message was edited by: WhyaDuck

Georgey Girl was on yesterday and although I didn't watch it, I did hear the opening song. In 1966 this song was a big hit and even the Lennon Sisters on Lawrence Welk sang it. I liked the sound of the Searchers as I listened to it. Kind of like Peter, Paul and Mary and a little like The Mamas and the Papas or The 5th Dimension of that era. A cute little song that caused some people to name their pets Georgey. Do you remember any big pop hits from the movies that you liked ?

He could run on his Doc Holiday line. " I'll Be Your Huckelberry ".

I like these movies because of the short tough guy that usually wears the hat. Was his name Mugsy in these. The tall weird skinny kid is suppose to be the funny one, I guess, but I think the funny one is the short tough guy. He gets to say all that double talk. It's really funny. He is great on the slang of that era. Alot of it is just made up. So you have this tough little short guy using all these big words and like Jimmy Durante, it's just funny. Alot of comics tried to do this but Durante and this guy were among the few that I laugh at. ....I wish I knew his name. I want to say Hunts Hall, but wasn't that one of the other guys. Maybe that was his name......Anyway, this guy was funny. I like the movies where they give him a real chance to be funny and use all the double talk street talk....Wasn't there a Leo and was his last name Gorsey ? ..Whoever this guy was, he was FUNNY. Message was edited by: WhyaDuck

Letterbox and all that aside, Let me ask some of you a question. How do you think this movie holds up over the decades ? The content and subject matter ? Does this movie hold up well over the years or was this just something weird of shock value out of the late 60s ? Was it even meaningful in the late 60's or was it just just hollywood trying to cash in on the times of that era ? These are fair questions and it's OK to say the Oscar wears no clothes. ....I can say I've heard this movie in conversations used as an example of a movie that doesn't hold up very well over the years. That four people in a bed after Aids would be insane. Myself, I was never a big fan of the movie and I can think of many other movies from this era that I like better. Not that I found it shocking. Maybe it was because I remembered Robert Culp from " I Spy ". Maybe because I saw him in a made for TV movie with Barbara Eden, Larry Hagmann and Barbara Feldon and they were all middle age bending over backwards to be mod and hip. Kind of like watching Bob Hope immitate Fonzie. You had the Beatles and before you knew it, everybody was trying to cash in on it. As a kid, I liked adult entertainers like Johnny Carson and Redd Foxx who were anchors in the water, they didn't change with every passing fad. I now also have alot more respect for Sinatra and Dean for being themselves in the face of the 60's. So on this movie, it was never one of my favorites and I think this movie of white upper class middle age swingers doesn't carry over well into today. ...but thats just my take on it. Message was edited by: WhyaDuck

It seems people on here agree its tiresome to see the same movies on over and over and over. I made this suggestion in a scheduling thread and I will make it here again. TCM should divide the days into 4 sections of 6 hours each EST, with 6:00 to 12:00 being Prime Time. Now if Turner only has 1,095 movies, then they should make sure no movie is ever shown twice in the same time slot in a 12 month period. No movie would be shown more than 4 times a year. Now if Turner has 2,200 movies, they can reduce a movie being shown to 3 times a year and never repeating it in the same time slot, such as Prime Time. Now if Turner has 3.315 movies, they can reduce a movie being shown to 2 times a year and never repeating it in the same time slot such as Prime Time. If Turner doesn't have 1,095 movies, then TCM is in worse shape than I thought. TCM likes to use theme months and birthdays alot. Such as 31 days of Oscar or an actors birthday. What TCM would then have to do is schedule ahead for a 12 month period and select their Prime Time movies for these different themes. There would be around 1,085 Prime Time movies to schedule without repeats. After you get the Prime Time figured out, the jig saw puzzle falls into place in the other slots depending on if you are showing movies 4 times a year, 3 times a year or 2 times a year based on how many movies Turner has avaiilable. In this way you can fill the theme months and birthdays. I think it's something they should do. 4 times a year is plenty. I'm more for 3 times a year or twice a year if possible. Even at a movie 4 times a year, under this system it would never be in the same time slot more than once and the theme days should force the showing dates to be spread out more over a year. Alot of you have said you are bored with the repeats, and this is my programming fomula as a solution to make cable and satalite customers more pleased with what they pay good money for. Now I'll bore you with the math. A 6 hour time slot is pretty much 3 movies with commercials and filler. 365 days times 3 is 1095 to repeat 3 more times in other time slots. Add 1095 movies to show it only 3 times a year and add 1095 more to show it only twice. ...... Reducing repeats is very possible if TCM only wishes to make it so. Message was edited by: WhyaDuck Message was edited by: WhyaDuck Message was edited by: WhyaDuck

I remember on The Johnny Carson show Johnny said to Ed a few times that he thought Sellers just keeps getting funnier. So Carson thought the 70s Sellers was funnier than say the 50s Sellers. When Peter Sellers passed away, Johnny Carson raved about his timing in Being There. I remember a big ex Marine and Ex bar room bouncer named Tiny that I worked with in the late 70s. He said he rolled on the floor laughing at The Party. ....I remember a bar made and some customers in 1978 raving about the latest Pink Panther movie at the theatres starring Sellers. ......Of course I have heard people laughing at Sellers in Dr Strangelove. Not just Strangelove at the end but as the President on the phone he gets alot of laughs as well. The Pink Panther with Peter Sellers is on TCM now. It is OK, but it is mostly a David Niven picture. Peter Sellers wasn't suppose to have a very big part in it. Sellers as Clouseau though had them write him more into the movie. Myself, I think A Shot In The Dark is funnier because they build it more around Sellers. I also think the combination of Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers just got better and better with each movie as they develoiped the chemistry and the characters. Added was Clouseaus Asian housekeeper who was paid to attack him at any moment to keep Clouseau on guard. In the highth of the Bruce Lee and Kung Fu movie era, these battles between Clouseau and his housekeeper were great comedy. .....Towards the end the scripts were almost too funny to film. I remember seeing out takes of Sellers as Couseau undercover as a one legged sailor with a fake parrot on his shoulder. Sellers could barely shoot the scene as he died laughing at what Blake Edwards had him doing. .....Of course there was the Henry Mancini music and the rise of the Pink Panther cartoon, plus the rise of James Bond that let Edwards and Sellers have some fun with Mr Bond way before Mike Myers. Its too bad Mr Sellers passed away too soon because he was getting more funny as he went, as per Johnny Carson. Let us not forget the great talent of Blake Edwards. AS a kid, I thought Inspector Clouseau trying to sneek into the nudist camp in " A Shot In The Dark " was about the funniest thing I had ever seen. It's still pretty funny stuff. ......So Sellers made alot of people laugh, including Carson. He left alot of very funny films. Unlike alot of sequels, the Pink Panthers seem to be funnier as they came out. The original Pink Panther being OK, but A Shot In The Dark funnier and each new Panther movie being funnier up to Sellers death. These things just got funnier as they went. By the 1970s, people were rolling in the isles over these Edwards / Sellers movies. Sellers leaves some very funny movies. Classic funny movies that will be laughed at by generations decades from now. He was enjoyed by people of all ages and economic differences. He hit the funny bone of audiences around the world. Blake Edwards did also.

I don't understand this threads starting post. Haven't they pretty much nomitated around 5 pictures each year for best picture for decades. All these movies are good movies, but there were as many Osacar nominated movies in the 60s and 80s as in the 70s, wasn't there ?. .....Again, I'm just not getting the direction this thread attempted to go in. I think the starting list leaves out alot of 60s and 80s movies nominated for best picture. Message was edited by: WhyaDuck

I got a call from the VA and a nurse put my dad on the phone. He told me he was in pain and fading fast and he said good-bye to me. Now he is in Florida and I am in Ohio. I start making the needed phone calls to the family. It is now morning and I am waiting for 9:00 AM to get the head administrator for more more info. I fight back the tears, because it falls on me to be the communicator to the rest of the family. On top of it, I'm in bed with the flu, phone by the bed.......and after last night phone calls, what ? I turned on TV and what would even help at a time like this. ...Except TCM had alot of Borgnine and my dad looks just like Borgnine. So in watching Borgnine in this interviwe and some old movies, I fell asleep thinking of dad and woke to Borgnine in Torpedo Run, and my dad was in the Navy in World War II also. ....So now I'm up, waiting to call the nurse and do what needs to be done, the crying I'm sure to come in buckets when I can. For now just killing some time on the internet to shake of the flu and get moving. In other words, I'm real glad they had Borgnine on last night and this morning. For some reason he is soo much like my dad that it helped. Why, I dont know.

To see somebody trying to be Clouseau is like watching somebody trying to be Charlie Chaplins Little Tramp. It doesn't work. It can't be duplicated. I use to like Steve Martins 1970s stand up act or on Saturday Night Live skits. He was good in his own films and still would be. Unfortunatly he has became the king of the copy movies. Replacing Spencer Tracy in Father Of The Bride. Replacing Jack Lemmon in The Out Of Towners. Replacing Marlon Brando in Dirty Scoundrels. Replacing Phil Silvers as Seargent Bilko. Now his attempts to replace Peter Sellers as Clouseau. Ok, he wasn't too bad in the updated Father Of The Bride but he really didn't come close to the Brando / David Niven combination in Dirty Scoundrels. The Out Of Towners remake is just awful and doesn't come close to the original. The original makes we the audience feel trapped as well. The new version is just Steve Martin and John Cleese as in old gay person jokes. Phil Silvers was Bilko and Steve Martin doesn't come close. Martins immitation of Silvers rapid talk isn't funny. It took years for Phil Silvers to make that funny and it was Silvers act. It's like, why is Martin even trying to do Phil Silvers. ....But Martin trying to do Peter Sellers is the worst. The phoney French accent isn't funny when Martin does it. Why is Martin saying, " You have a bimp on your head ". Thats Peter Sellers and it's just not funny by anybody else. Steve Martin is like somebody at a party doing cheap immitations of Silvers and Sellers and just boring the party to death. Does Hollywood not have any original ideas anymore. Are the writers still on strike. If this is the best the writers can do, maybe they should go back on strike until they get some new ideas. .....No, this is Hollywood just trying to make a buck on remakes. I would have no problem with that except the remakes take over the video stores and internet under the same name. You go to look for the original good movie and al you can find is the new high tech color piece of garbage just released. Hollywood floods the market with the remake in order to insure making a buck. ....How did Steve Martin become Mr Remake. He use to have such original stuff. I know Three Amigos was awfull, but House Sitter was good. The Jerk was good. Alot of his movies were good. Where did Steve Martin go ? Why is he now Mr Remake ? So on TCM they show commercials for the new Steve Martin movie in yet another Pink Panther knock off. I don't blame TCM because they need some money to show movies without commercial breaks. It's not their fault Steve Martin made thiis movie. ....but Steve Martin and everybody else need to give it up on the Clouseau. That was Peter Sellers and it can't be duplicated. Now when I see the Pink Panther is on, I will have to see if it's Sellers or some cheap immitation like Steve Martin. For those who may say I'm in a bad mood today, I'm just putting in my 2 cents worth on these TCM commercials for the new Steve Martin movie, The Pink Panther 2. I think it's fair to say that these are just Hollywood rip-offs in a cheap attempt to make a buck. I think it's fair to say Steve Martin was good at alot of his work, but I'm tired of seeing him ripping off Tracy, Lemmon, Brando, Silvers and Sellers. This idea that Steve Martin is all that, no...he isn't. So Hollywood will make some money and Steve Martin will get his face on the screen again and he will make money....but I wish they wouldn't even try to remake Clouseau. It can't be done. It shouldnt be done. Some of these remakes are such half hearted attempts to make a buck, they need somebody to say, Please Stop It. On an upbeat note,there are good movies coming out of Hollywood each year. Even some original comedys that don't hit the mark but at least they tried to be original. I don't feel the only good movie is an old movie and I think Hollywood makes alot of good new movies. Steve Martin trying to be Peter Sellers is not some of the new good movies. Message was edited by: WhyaDuck

Yes, our generation doesn't know how big Betty Grable was in the 1940s. You get an idea if you watch a war movie, such as Stalag 17. The poster gal with the legs and backside. ....My mom in her 80s likes old Betty Grable movies when they are on. So Grable was a gal the other gals could like. As for the Marx Brothers, the classic Duck Soup was such a box office disaster it almost put them out of bussiness. They ended up at MGM after that one and a new director said their problem was no plot, just insanity. So in A Night At The Opera he gave them plot and their best box office hit ever. This box office didn't last long though. .....The Marx Brothers gained a following in the 1960s and 1970s on TV and theatres with a younger generation. Jokes that went over my grandmothers head, the new audience was now getting. Especially the college towns where the audience looked wilder than Harpo so in that they could now relate to Harpo and such. .....Duck Soup is now considered a classic, but it was over everybodys heads in the 1930s and just about put the team out of bussiness. Some of the other names were on the list for one year, but I decided not to list all the one year box office stars because its too long. I don't see Drwe Barrymore as being big box office either. Her name alone must not sell tickets. I didn't look into the 2000s but I would guess that Jim Carrey and Russell Crowe are up there. That DiCaprio guy is probably up there also. Alot of gals like him.

I think it's well within Ted Turners budget. Not showing repeats in prime time is very possible even without buying or borrowing more films. .....Without spending a day or two going over what TCM has shown in Prime Time in the last months, I'll just say anything shown in prime time in the last 12 months would be on my dead movie list for February. That gives me a month of prime time to fill. Normally that would be 6 hours times 30 days which means I have to fill 180 hours of prime time with movies that aren't on my dead mvie list. I'm sure Turner has 180 hours of movies available that have not been on prime time. .....Once I establish what the dead movie list is, which would take a day or two unless I'm working at TCM and can get a fast computer read out, the rest shouldn't be that hard. ......I think you can keep it well within Ted Turners budget and give him a better station and if I couldn't avoid all the prime time repeats, then indeed I should be fired as program executive if this was all in the real world. ......Once you establish the 12 month dead movie list, then you have your list of movies not shown in prime time in a while. Then each month movies would drop off the dead movie list. Anybody that has done any bookeeping or scheduling could do this. ....As for me spending the next few days on this for no pay, forget about it, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't be done. We are only talking about filling 180 prime time hours. Thars about 90 movies. Certainly there are 90 movies TCM has that they haven't shown in prime time in the last 12 months. I mean, they have 7 decades of movies to chose from. Again, To make a month list I need more info. What movies have been shown in prime time in the last 12 months and what movies haven't that are in the Turner vaults. Even if I would spend all the time to make a list of what has been shown in prime time the last 12 months, I still don't have a list of the Turner movies not shown, so I would need more inside info .....If me or you were program execs we would have that info and the selection then would be much easier. .......Again, no deaths or birthdays or special hosts would change the dead movie list. If a movie is in the prime time dead movie list, it stays in jail until its 12 months are up. After you establish a 12 month dead movie list and a probably bigger unshown movie list, then you let the birthdays and guest hosts and Osbourne and such do their stuff with the unshown list....but they have to stick to the unshown on prime time list, no dipping into the dead movie list. .....This is just an option of programming that could be done. It wouldn't be that hard to come up with an unshown in prime time movie list and update it every month. ...Do I have access to all this TCM data, no I don't, but they do. ....Again, this is just a very possible programming option. Message was edited by: WhyaDuck Message was edited by: WhyaDuck Message was edited by: WhyaDuck

Yes, and I would just guess that Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy were big box office in the silent era because I've heard the old time theatres packed them in with their movies. ....Maybe there is another list somewhere to show the box office of silent films. Also, some of these stars went on to be big box office into the 1980s and up to now, such as Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Paul Newman. Tom Cruise and Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Eddie Murphy and Arnold Schwarzenegger really took off in the modern era. This is not an exact science, if even science is exact. This is just a poll of who theatre owners thought made them the most money and kept them in bussiness each year since 1933 and I stopped at 1979 to stay in Classic Movie Mode. I couldn't help but see Judy Garland only at 2 years and I didn't see Gene Kelly or Henry Fonda on the list even once. Not that they didn't have talent. These stars were big at the Acadamy Awards. ....But we know there is a difference between the Acadamy Awards and what the average American pays to see. Movies such as The English Patient and Shakespear In Love may win the Oscar, but who is packing the people in at the theatre is another story. The surprise to me on this list was Jerry Lewis. I knew he was big, but not this big for that long. .......Some say his movies don't hold up now and such, as in artistic I guess. As in Oscar stuff. I don't think Jerry was ever shooting for an Oscar. But Bob Hope did get his humanitarian Oscar as did Audrey Hepburn and others. Because of The Jerry Lewis Telethon for 5 decades and also because of him making theater owners money for alot of years, I would like to see Jerry Lewis get a special humanitarian Oscar while he is still alive. Hope, Chaplin and Groucho got a special Oscar in their last years and I think it would be great to see Jerry on Oscar Night get his. Comedy doesn't get much of a chance for Oscar, but Jerry does deserve this thing for his years of big box office and especiallly his humanitarian efforts fighting MD. .....I had the great pleasure of seeing Chaplin and Groucho get their nights at Oscar. I think Jerrys night would be as special for the TV audience and viewers as it would be to Jerry himself. It might make for one of the highest Oscar TV ratings ever. HIs film clips would make us laugh and cry as did Chaplins, and I'm sure Jerry would get a standing ovation to bring down the house. Jerrys age and health means this is something Oscar needs to do ASAP. This year if possible or next year at the latest. Message was edited by: WhyaDuck Message was edited by: WhyaDuck Message was edited by: WhyaDuck Message was edited by: WhyaDuck

I'll be glad to do the programming challenge for a year instead of a month. It's easier that way. First I would seperate a day into four 6 hour sections. Prime Time, Late Night, Morning and Afternnoon. I would use Eastern Standard Time. Second I would make it a rule that no movie can be shown twice in the same year in any one section. No matter who dies or who gets to pick the essentials, this is a rule that would not be broken. If a movie has already been shown in prime time in the last 12 months, it is on the daed movie list for prime time and can't be shown again. Now this would keep certain movies from being shown over and over and over because it's the actors birthday or the actresses birthday or the supporting stars birthday or the directors birthday or somebody died, or a guest host picked it as one of their essential. This would force TCM to show 365 movies times 3 or 4 in prime time. Ball Park it around 1460 movies. If TCM does't have this many, then purchase more. This still leaves it possible for the movie to turn up in another time section, and could be shown as often as 4 times a year, but a good rule of thumb would be to try to hold all films to twice a year. Twice a year is plenty for any one film. Now I think thats a good fomula to stop some of these movies from being shown over and over and over. I don't care how good a movie is, you can get sick of it. I think it's also a good formula to force other movies to be shown. If you go from the silent movie up through the 1970s, thats alot of movies. It wouldn't kill Turner and corporated to make a deal to buy or borrow some other movies. There are stars and movies we never see on TCM because they probably don't have the rights to those flicks. Then make a deal and get them. .........but even with the movies TCM has, I'm sure it would be very possible to limit a movie to one prime time showing a year and try to keep it to only twice a year period. In doing this, movies like The Apartment or Citizen Kane would become once a year events that you might look forward to, instead of saying to yourself, " I can't believe it's on again ". If once a year use to be good enough for The Wizard Of Oz, then once a year should be what TCM should be going for on prime time. Again, this lets the movie still be shown 3 more times in other time slots, but I would even try to hold the movie to just twice a year across the board. And that is my programming suggestion. Yes, I think it can be easily done......My goal would be to provide a wider selection of movies over the course of the year to the prime time audience, and the other viewers at other times as a whole. More movies, less repeats. Message was edited by: WhyaDuck Message was edited by: WhyaDuck

Quigley Publishing has polled theatre owners nationwide from 1933 on, most of the talking movie era. So taking their top 10 each year up to 1979, this would be the list of the stars who were in the top 10 the most years. Including the 1970s because those movies are 30 years old now and thats pretty much classic. 24 years : John Wayne 18 years : Gary Cooper 15 years : Clark Gable 15 years : Bing Crosby 13 years : Bob Hope 13 years : Jerry Lewis ( 6 with Martin and Lewis and 7 on his own ) 12 years : Clint Eastwood 12 years : Paul Newman 10 years : Spencer Tracy 10 years : Cary Grant 10 years : Doris Day 10 years : Bette Grable 9 years : Barbra Streisand 9 years : Jimmy Stewart 9 years : Elizabeth Taylor 9 years : Steve McQueen 8 years : Humprey Bogart 8 years : Rock Hudson 8 years : Bud Abbott and Lou Costello 8 years : Dean Martin ( 6 with Martin and Lewis and 2 on his own ) 7 years : Burt Reynolds 7 years : Elvis Presley 6 years : Shirley Temple 6 years : Jimmy Cagney 6 years : Mickey Rooney 6 years : Frank Sinatra 6 years : Jack Lemmon 5 years : Robert Redford 5 years : Dustin Hoffman 5 years : Tyrone Power 5 years : Greer Garson 5 years : Lee Marvin 5 years : Marlon Brando 5 years : Woody Allen 4 yeas : Sean Connery 4 years : Al Pacino 4 years : Wallace Beery 4 years : Betty Davis 4 years : Randolph Scott 4 years : William Holden 4 years : Sandra Dee 4 years : Julie Andrews 4 years : Charles Bronson 3 years : Will Rogers 3 years : Joan Crawford 3 years : Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 3 years : Robert Taylor 3 years : Sonja Henie 3 years : Gene Autry 3 years : Margaret O'Brian 3 years : Claudette Colbert 3 years : Ingrid Bergman 3 years : Marilyn Monroe 3 years : Susan Hayward 3 years : Glen Ford 3 years : Alan Ladd 3 years : Richard Burton 3 years : Mel Brooks 2 years : John Travolta 2 years : Jane Fonda 2 years : Sylvester Stallone 2 years : Jack Nicholson 2 years : Janet Gaynor 2 years : Mae West 2 years : Marie Dressler 2 years : Norma Shearer 2 years : Joe E Brown 2 years : Dick Powell 2 years : Myrna Loy 2 years : Jane Withers 2 years : Alice Faye 2 years : Judy Garland 2 years : Van Johnson 2 years : Esther Williams 2 years : Yul Bynner 2 years : Debbie Reynolds 2 years : Tony Curtis 2 years : Burt Lancaster 2 years : Sidney Poitier 2 years : Waler Matthau 2 years : George C Scott 2 years : Gene Hackman 2 years : Diane Keaton Again, this was Quigley Publishing polling more than 500 movie theatre owners nationwide each year for who the theatre owners considered the best box office stars. This has nothing to do with Acadamy Awards and such. This is an idea of who America went to see at the box office from 1933 to 1979. Message was edited by: WhyaDuck Message was edited by: WhyaDuck Message was edited by: WhyaDuck Message was edited by: WhyaDuck

Columbo...I never noticed it before......Peter Faulk said Columbo isn't a " Who Done It ". He said on Johnny Carson that Columbo shows the murder and its a ' How Do You Catch Them ". ......Well, this movie did that years before Columbo, which I also like. This movie is a " How Do You Catch Them " with Edward J Robinson hot on their heels, although thats not how they get caught. Stanwick blows the whole thing up by being such a villian with MacMurray the sap that wised up. ....Great movie that sets up things like Columbo later. Edward G telling off the insurance boss. Next time I'll rent a tuxedo.

Edward G Robinson......What more can I say. Edward G telling the boss off, Edward G as the last guy you would want on your tail. Babs Stanwick in her best role. So many great movies by her, but this is great. I like her in the Gary Cooper movie and such or even as the queen of The Big Valley. She makes so many movies. She was probably the best actress in the best movies ever and thats what makes this movie soo great. She plays the worst villian woman ever put on screne. Fred MacMurray is great as always, although his narration through the movie may sound corney, but somebody had to do it. Anyway, it's all a flasback by MacMurray so it has to be this way. Fred MacMurry in one of his best movies. So MacMurray, Stanwick and Edward G Robinson in one of their best movies all in the same movie. Again, I like Edward G as the Peter Faulk Columbo guy that just won't stop. I would say that makes the movie except Stanwick and MacMurray have their strange twist to all this. Murder....We get to know the husband don't we....not that bad of a guy.......Yes, Insurance....BUT MURDER........MURDER........Thats what makes Edward G so great in this and Stanwick and McMurray. A Murder going in three direction Easily one of the best movies ever made. Message was edited by: WhyaDuck Message was edited by: WhyaDuck

Now I really like this movie, I do....but.....This has to be the 4th or 5th week in a row that they've showed this thing. So here comes The Apartment again tonight in prime time. I'm not watching it again, no way. .....This is one of those movies TCM has latched on to and is beating it to death. TCM, please open up the vaults and show some different films. You have 90 years of films you can search through.

I would imagine the Wizard of Os gets paid. I only mention this because of the great devotion to Osbourne on some of these posts, and I do like him myself, but I would imagine he is putting a couple bucks in the bank. Welcome to the posts....Again , I like Osbourne, or Ozzie as he lets me call him. Have fun, Enjoy, pop the popcorn. Message was edited by: WhyaDuck

As a kid in the 1960s, my dad who was a sailor in Worl War II said that Mr Roberts was a great movie. He was there, he should know. Now Henry Fonda is great, as is a young Jack Lemmon. But how about Jimmy Cagney on top of it. Add in some Ward Bond. The doctor I don't know, but he is great. John Ford, what can you say about John Ford. ...The best, as Orson Wells said. As for this movie, it's perfect or at least as perfect as it gets. There are scenes such as Dolan saying " Goodnight Me Roberts " that make you want to see the screen turn to black except for a spotlight on Mr Roberts. Look at Fonda as they give him the Palm Tree Award and he says nothing as he lets Doc read it, but Fondas reactions say so much, just as in Grapes Of Wrath. My favorite John Wayne movie is Henry Fonda in Fort Apache with Ward Bond, Fighting Victor Mc and Shirlet Temple in it. As you watch Mr Roberts, yes think of Cagney, Lemmon and Fonda and then lose yourself in this Navy story of World War II . It's a great movie, a great story, a great message. Mr Roberts ends up dying drinking coffee, his greatest feat being the Palm Tree Award. I will not surrender. I know the movie doesn't turn to black as a stage, but at times in this, pretend or imagine it does with the spotlight on Fonda, because thats how it grabs you. Fonda is great.....but Lemmon was Fords choice for Pulver and....Jimmy Cagney, come on, it's Jimmy Cagney. Message was edited by: WhyaDuck Message was edited by: WhyaDuck

I onece heard Johnny Carson on TV say that people told him he could have did the same movie roles as Jack Lemmon. WRONG. Carson could have no more done what Lemmn did than Lemmon trying to do what Carson did. Jack Lemmon just makes it look easy. Yet remakes of his movies are awful, just awfiul. Be it Mr Roberts to Grumpy Old Men, the guy was great. Charlie Chaplin liked Lemmon and Walter and liked them giving him his Oscar, enough said. Yes, you can put Lemmom and Walter up there with the best comedy teams of all times. Walter on his own was great. Lemmon is amazing. So TCM is showing Jack Lemmon movies and the idea anybody could do this is stupid. There was only one Jack Lemmon. His roles range from The Great Race to Days Of Wine And Roses. Always he sucks the audience into the movie and you believe he is the character. Even up to Grumpy that has him selling his piano because of forecloser, YES FORECLOSER, as in national forecloser. Lemmon could take something and make it more by doing less. If what I'm saying makes no sense, please check out Fortune Cookie, or The Apartment or any of his movies. What he makes look easy, I have to wonder why not that many other actors have done as well.......Maybe Wilder explained it. He never saw an actor work harder...could the hard work be why Lemmon makes it LOOK easy. Little known thing...The Ernie Kovacs monkee music bit....Ernie in the middle, Eddie Adams as another monkee and that monkee at the piano, Jack Lemmon, perfect comdey timing. Lemoon just makes it look easy. ...and fun to watch. Unless it a tragedy and he rips your heart out. Message was edited by: WhyaDuck Message was edited by: WhyaDuck Message was edited by: WhyaDuck

I called my mom and step dad who are in their 80s and they are enjoying this on New Years. Anything wrong with that ????? I was watching this before I picked my wife up at work. Then we ate the restaurant meal I picked up earlier and we watched the ball fall in Times Square together. .....but now I'm watching some more of this early in the morning. Whats wrong with that ???? I guess it's a darn shame people my parents age had something on TV on New Years that they can enjoy. In football, the saying is " When in doubt, punt ". I don't think TCM was in doubt. Watching Osbourne with his glass of champaigne in his New Years Tux, I don't see doubt. TCM and Osbourne wanted to bring us Mickey and Judy and Frank and Bing and Fred and Ginger and Gene and all the rest of the stars and songs on New Years Eve. So if you don't like MGM or don't like musicals, sorry about your luck. My mom and step dad in their 80s told me they were enjoying this when I called them. Whats wrong with that ?????