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TopBilled said: This one for GYPSY WILDCAT illustrates a point. He expects a film in an entirely different genre to turn out like THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE: D: Roy William Neill. Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Nigel Bruce, Leo Carrillo, Gale Sondergaard, Douglass Dumbrille. Lowbrow saga of princess raised by gypsies; colorful, splashy, but routine. James M. Cain was one of the writers! He's not saying that GYPSY WILDCAT should have been another POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, he's just pointing out that Cain was one of the writers. That might be a plus for any fans of Cain and possibly a surprise to one also. If he were to note that Carl Foreman wrote SPOOKS RUN WILD with the East Side Kids, that's not saying that he expects it to be another BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI or HIGH NOON, but it would certainly give the film an added distinction. As for GYPSY WILDCAT, it is a routine Montez/Hall potboiler, the fifth in a series of six films that they did together. It certainly isn't highbrow, this isn't Olivier and Leigh or Flynn and de Havilland, it's a 77-minute programmer.

I haven't seen this in about 35 years. My recollection was that it took a while to get started. It was longer than I thought. They spent too much time on the set-up and now he's knocking off monsters in ten seconds. There are very few thrills other than the sets.

My humor masks my annoyance. I have no recording facilities, so I've long been used to making sure that I'm there when something starts. This kind of thing actually does annoy me more than most as I've been in the business and I ran a New York City station for two years. We never had a problem such as this, we never got the wrong print on the air and that was all because we had safeguards. It is a different era now, everything is digital but it's not as if there aren't ways of keeping such mistakes to a minimum. As the biz gets more computerized, the thing that is forgotten is that errors are still likely to be made by humans. There has to be accountability, things have to be double-checked.

The princess does nothing for me, but Anna May Wong sends out all the right signals. Ya know, I had it all planned. I was going to post a thread titled "We're 25 minutes into THIEF OF BAGDAD..." with the text reading "Yet we're actually 35 minutes into it."

I am so glad I had the channel running earlier so I didn't miss any of Fairbanks. I've waited a loooong time to see this. Maybe it's a new way of making sure that you stay tuned in to TCM.

Yeah, I mentioned that in the thread on THE SEA HAWK. The program started at 10:20PM. They never ran the short HIGH SPOTS OF THE FAR EAST that was listed to air between this and the last movie. Last night (actually this morning), DUCK SOUP was supposed to start at 215AM but it started at 230AM. They must have the interns making the schedules now.

It's 10:20 and the 10:30PM movie is starting already.

I just wish that the tints were a bit less intense. I think that I'm losing detail with them being so "there."

Fred C. Dobbs said: About three astronauts. It seems so realistic. The actors and screenwriter make it seem believable. And it tells a long and complex story in only 25 minutes. But doesn't that 25 minutes turn into 40 on the SyFy Channel? The last time I attempted a TZ marathon, I gave up. I can't spend what time I have left on the planet watching commercials.

I've seen it already and once I remembered that it has one of those annoying organ scores, I came back to the PC.

Just a guess since I've never seen it, DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046907/

sorry, duplicate post Edited by: clore on Jul 5, 2011 7:54 PM

wouldbestar said I also got introduced to Ride Lonesome last night which I liked very much. From what you described, I have a sense that you mean RIDING SHOTGUN. There were no town scenes in RIDE LONESOME but I suire could have ridden away with the woman in there also.

First off, Maltin is just the editor and has a whole bunch of others doing the actual writing. Sure, he has the ability to veto what's been written and has the knowledge to correct mistakes, but at this stage I think his biggest concern is the size of his picture on the cover. I like the guy and when I was an adolescent I knew him rather well since we moved in the same circles and did for about the next 15 years. But I expect that he just gives it all a quick once-over and sends it off to print. Before the IMDb, I used his book and its predecessor, "The TV Key Movie Guide" by Steven Scheuer as a reference source for casting info and year of production. Also the running time - if something on TV was likely to be cut too much to fit a time slot, I didn't bother watching. I haven't bought a Maltin volume in over a decade and I have yet to look at one of his on-site reviews. I grew up on what were considered B movies so I had long ago realized that too often what I liked was not getting recognition. The credits and storyline were the key criteria for my viewing, not the star ratings or commentary. If I saw that Billy Wilder was attached to a film, I had a different level of expectation than if I saw that his brother W. Lee Wilder was directing. It's the same thing with the Oscars, I must have been still in single-digits when I realized that what I liked was never going to be nominated. The Academy loves drunks, whores and the afflicted, but I knew that one of Christopher Lee or Vincent Price's tormented characters were never going to be announced just prior to the envelope being opened. Awards and/or critical praise does little to influence me so thus I spend little or no time to develop counter-arguments for those with whom I disagree.

LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON is another rather prestigious title for AA. Walter Mirisch talked a bit about both when he was on Private Screenings. AA was doing its best to upgrade the industry's perception of itself. Getting Cooper in Wyler and Wilder films was a considerable feat. You didn't see that happening at American-International.

I've sprung this on the IMDb boards and some are having great luck with it and others are asking questions about how to use it. I think the big issue is centered around "Is your character still alive?" Now if you're going for Clark Gable, you naturally should say "no." But if you're going for Rhett Butler, then since he's alive at the end of the tale, you answer "yes." Granted there is no one left alive who was alive during the Civil War but it appears that the program is only interested in the details relative to the source material.

There have some such as the whole of the Bowery Boys titles and some Joel McCrea westerns. Also AL CAPONE has aired along with INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS and SHACK OUT ON 101. There were a few others recently such as QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE and FRANKENSTEIN 1970 and I believe that TICKLE ME aired last month. I suspect that print quality may be an issue, a couple of the McCrea westerns looked faded and at least two were in full screen. Additionally, AA released a lot of films from indie producers and those rights may have reverted back to them or their estate.

*CineMaven said:* *"NETWORK"* is one of my favorite films. It doesn't get old. It comes on in July? I'll try to be there. Well, I hope that you remembered. I just love this film. I love the way that Faye Dunaway nods her head up and down rather than to say yes in a couple of scenes. What we need is a bobbing-head Faye Dunaway doll.

Now try the Akinator's power to figure out the person of whom you are thinking: http://www.akinator.mobi/us?t=e7a62eba2 Just be warned - it's addictive.

I remember Zeppo Mark picking up a hankerchief in MONKEY BUSINESS.

I would like to see how many clowns come out of the gondola though.

Both star Kevin McCarthy and director Don Siegel show up in the 1978 remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.

Martin Balsam also shows up in the CAPE FEAR remake. Jane Greer has a small role in the remake of OUT OF THE PAST titled AGAINST ALL ODDS. Lewis Stone shows up in two versions of SCARAMOUCHE.

You're welcome. There was another code "<img src=PLACE_YOUR_LINK_HERE>" (except for quotes) but that one seems to only work now when it feels like it. I gave up trying so perhaps now it doesn't work at all. Who knows, things change from day-to-day here and not usually for the better.

IMDb must also be "improving" their site. I'm sure they will fix it pronto as that's a feature that aids the bottom line. Right now they have to finish the work on the message boards which have been inaccessible since this morning.