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The first one should be VAULT OF HORROR with Glynnis Johns as the woman who finally learned how to be neat as she labeled all of the jars containing her hubby's body parts.

Why is it his last case? Does he die of boredom?

Clint Walker had only an unbilled bit in an Allied Artists Bowery Boys film prior to the premiere of CHEYENNE. His bit in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS was released after the series premiered.

I suppose you mean someone outside the likes of Arthur Godfrey - you're looking for someone who "acted" in a series. Not that Godfrey's on-air personality wasn't an act. I'll have to ponder that a bit, but don't anybody else refrain from taking a shot.

wheres your allied artists list? You must be talking to me, the list was in the same post in which I provided the UA titles, but here it is once again: *Within the past year TCM has aired all of the Bowery Boys movies, AL CAPONE, FRIENDLY PERSUASION, LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON, THE CYCLOPS, CRIME IN THE STREETS, SNOWFIRE and AL CAPONE. All of these are Allied Artists films.* I'll let you go back and count just how many Bowery Boys movies were AA rather than Monogram. Still, even just one movie would be more than what you claimed when you said: "You wont even see Allied Artists pix & WB owns that & UA owned by WB is gone missing."

Joan Davis hardly had the status of the rest of them, but I tossed in her name just to show to what extent TV producers would go to hire someone with even a modest name. She was also in the appropriate age bracket, unlike say Donna Reed or even Gale Storm who were a bit younger. TCM had a couple of Joan Davis films on June 29, her birthday: h1. 11:30 AM h2. [beautiful but Broke (1944)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/28077/Beautiful-but-Broke/] An agent's secretary puts together an all-female big band to cope with wartime male shortages. *Dir*: *Cast*: , , . BW-69 mins, TV-G, h1. 1:00 PM h2. [Kansas City Kitty (1944)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/3706/Kansas-City-Kitty/] A piano teacher takes on shady music publishers. *Dir*: *Cast*: , , . BW-71 mins, TV-G,

I think that she would have gone to TV eventually. Stanwyck, Wyman, Loretta Young, Ann Sothern, Joan Davis, Jean Arthur, Ann Sheridan, Doris Day, Betty Hutton, Lana Turner - all of them eventually landed on TV, some were more successful than others. Even Bette Davis tried a couple of pilots - I saw one where she was an interior decorator. It's just that feature-film wise, there are only so many good years for an actress. Joan Crawford landed in grade-Z schlock movies, she would have done better on TV.

To me it is a colossal waste of time as millions of viewers obviously cannot attend so they hold back on airing Spartacus because of it. Do you know that for a fact? Renting a film for theatrical exhibition is a whole separate issue from leasing it to air on TV. TCM has aired SPARTACUS in the past, it could be that it didn't air for Jean Simmons month because another channel had an exclusivity on it. TCM could conceivably present THE GODFATHER at the film festival, but AMC has the telecast rights locked-up on it until December 31, 2019. That means that neither TCM or any other channel can air it until then. What's the big deal? You couldn't see it in June but you're getting to see it in August. Two months later really mean that much to you?

Can you image what Harry will feel every time he encounters that little boy afterward? That will probably hurt him even more than the loss of his arm. Thanks for the kind words. I like to think that Harry takes the boy under his wing, despite what it's going to do to his head to have to look at him. Somewhere in the dialogue, there is a mention that Wesley has a wife, he's not a single parent. Thus, it isn't there for Harry to take the boy with him to pick lettuce - and with one arm, Harry is going to need help. So maybe he'll stay there in Newport Beach and struggle with the boat. Who knows, maybe he will open it up as a tourist attraction and make money by pointing out the blood stains and bullet holes. Now that would be a really dark ending.

That thing is doubly annoying for folks who also don't care for Carol Burnett. I have an even lower tolerance for Carol Burnett than I do for Lucy. At least Lucy had a number of varied roles in her pre-TV era that show her talents, I just never got into the TV show as I found it as repetitious as something like *Three's Company* - s show that Lucy once hailed in an interview. She even had John Ritter on the first episode of her last series. I do make the exception for the *I Love Lucy* episode that has her doing the mirror routine with Harpo Marx. It shows off her skill much more than her whining and crying. One thing that I do like about that Burnett/Ball promo is very fleeting. There is a photo of Burnett and the cast of the play "Once Upon a Mattress." In that shot I can see actor Joseph Bova who played the prince. I get nostalgic seeing that as Bova, even prior to that play, was the host of the WABC Little Rascals telecasts and called himself "Uncle Joe Bova." There's not a heck of a lot of film footage for the man out there, but seeing his face instantly has me sitting there watching the old shorts and then dashing to first grade. The show aired 8-830am, I was lucky that my school was right across the street.

I am so glad we were spared The Facts of Life and Yours, Mine and Ours yesterday- thank you, TCM. Or *The Magic Carpet*. That's the one that Harry Cohn threw at her, hoping she would break her contract, but she went ahead and did it.

I just read a post on the IMDb that stated that the Third Reich's version of *Jew Suss* is available for screening on YouTube. There''s more Nazi stuff there, maybe enough to keep mikemcgee happy and out of here. Or drive him crazier.

Yes, the killing was a bit much, but it may be that they felt the need to show just how bad these guys were by committing such a cold-blooded act. After all, Garfield had killed someone earlier yet he was getting away with it. Justified or not, he did kill someone in the middle of committing a crime himself. Now here he is, ready to take those guys to their destination. If he was really such a good guy, he could have tipped them off at the track before the crime was committed. But there was no reward in that most likely so whether he was there or not, Garfield was in on it. He's an accessory, but he's just not as bad a person as they are. Thus the killing is the impetus for him to take them on without waiting for them to make the first move against him. While it affects the boy more than Harry in the long run, the death of his partner and the loss of his arm are prices that Harry has to pay for his own crimes. He's going to have to live with the memory of tossing his friend's body into the sea for the rest of his life.

As the little Nazi Wolfgang on LAUGH-IN would say: "Very interesting.... but stupid."

(..AND, am old enough to ALSO remember sending a little letter to NBC Headquarters, begging them to please keep this program on the air, despite its rather poor Nielsen numbers) I sent a letter toward the end of the second season. By the end of the third season, I was out boldly seeking new life in the form of girls, so I wasn't worrying much about Star Trek anymore.

ps- Lucy may have only been in Stage Door for seven minutes, but they are seven fantastic minutes. pss- Stage Door is a comedy. I like the funny part where the girl jumps out of the window. But seriously, that's one of those films that goes both ways so if they didn't consider it a comedy, I could understand the omission. I'm not the world's biggest *I Love Lucy* fan, so I didn't watch much yesterday. I did watch *Stage Door* though. Give me a few minutes of Eve Arden in anything and I'll even tolerate Joan Crawford.

Ben also made it seem (at least to me) that Lucy had never really done comedy prior to EASY TO WED Well, that's a bit of a stretch. She certainly was in films with comedy in them, such as *Room Service* and those *Annabel* films. Or *A Girl, a Guy and a Gob*? Even in the case of the Marx Brothers film where she was more or less the "straight man" one has to be able to play comedy to do that.

Would it have been that burdensome to mention that the 1930s comedy was the classic LIBELLED LADY and that Spencer Tracy and Myrna Loy also co-starred? I'm sure that had that info been up there on the teleprompter, Ben would not have had a problem reciting it. I don't want to be perceived as an apologist, but I imagine that these things were done on the quick - faster than usual - since it wasn't supposed to be Ben doing them in the first place. But you are right, that kind of detail is conspicuous by its absence. Especially since the norm is to mention it and then plug that you can look up when it's going to play next on the web site.

Thank you Mark. I hope that you enjoyed the film. Now if only I can get to see Garfield once again in his other Hemingway adaptation that year, *Under My Skin*. It's been 50 years since I saw it last.

I guess you East Coasters really do think of yourselves as special don't you? Now, now, please don't paint us all with one brush. For the record, I saw all of TOS when they were on NBC and was at the first Star Trek convention in early 1972 at the Statler-Hilton in Manhattan. But please, let's not have everyone being reduced to stereotypes. That goes for the fans of yesteryear and the men of today. I'm seeing a lot of compartmentalizing around here and that goes against Star Fleet rules and regulations.

I like seeing Frank Miller from *High Noon* in that scene.

I just have one question: Don't they teach grammar and/or spelling in school anymore? It's the Nazis Under The Stars festival, otherwise known as N.U.T.S.

(...and aren't most of you folks around here just a little tired of that, just as I am?) Yes, it is getting to be rather a trend. It's as if declaring "politically correct" is the equal of a "get out of jail free" card in Monopoly. With all of the command of the English language of Latka Gravis, they seem to have revisionary dictionaries and a handful of buzzwords and catchphrases that raise attention but fail to be persuasive. I've come into this forum and have pointed out errors in the intros, disappointment in screen formats as well as scheduling discrepancies, but I've tried to be polite about it. I see a lot of "TCM never does this" such as *never* slotting Bunuel or Eisenstein films and accusations of that illustrating the greed and political correctness of the channel and yet it's blatantly a false accusation. They have aired films from both directors. I'm beginning to have the opinion (or is that the impression? ) that these people are sneaking into the office while the guards at the asylum are sleeping. While TCM should just outright ban those habitual offenders, it's probaly better to just let them bark, otherwise they will just claim that they are being censored by the thought police (another common phrase now) and to them it only underscores their deluded opinions. Ban one user name and they'll find a way back in anyway and then complain how the Nazi thought police won't let them criticize the channel.

mikemcgee should be permanently banned from the TCM message board. He has been doing this over and over a very long time. mikemaGee will never be baned at iMdB because of korparate greed. Amazons is greedie corporaT that only werships the dollar.They don't elimenate any users becuz they mite buy DVDs. They arE just beeing politicaly korrect,they think anybody has a rite to buy any moviee but they won't sell Hitler moviees becauSe they think yule be offensive if they do.You must boykott Amazon and tell them you are film fan who wants Konrad Viedt naZi movies with English tittles and that yule never post a mesage until they sell 'When Bad Things Hapen to Good nazi" DVD box.

Oh? I've seen several Republics on TCM in recent months. Please explain. It seems to me that all those Roy Rogers films last month had Republic logos. This guy has a habit of making these declarative statements about no UA films ever airing, no AA films ever airing, no Republics ever airing, that the studio era never saw any women directors working in Hollywood films... He's continually been proved wrong but he goes right on with these accusations without ever coming back to validate his point. Gee, I wonder why?