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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As the little Nazi Wolfgang on LAUGH-IN would say:
"Very interesting.... but stupid."
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(..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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I like seeing Frank Miller from *High Noon* in that scene.
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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.
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(...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.
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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?
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I am pretty sure Conrad Veidt is okay that no Nazi Propaganda films are showing on his day.
As I told this same person on the IMDb message boards, given that the day is to honor Veidt, it's only fitting to show the films in which he was honored to appear.
He's now spamming the boards over there with the same plea for a boycott. Meanwhile, he's equating the administrators over there to Nazis because they won't let him review a film and include a phrase that the Nazis considered jazz to be n-word music.
Somewhere a village is missing an idiot.
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I've seen WE WERE STRANGERS before and wanted to watch it last night but too little sleep the night before had me conking out about half way through. It's true, that's another one that doesn't get much play.
One thing that I really admire about Huston's films is that he takes a lot of chances. He was not one to repeat formulas. Here he is paired with an actor who was much the same way and if the film isn't a total success, it's not that they weren't trying.
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On Aug. 2nd, in the General Discussions forum, Mike M. opened a thread about exactly the same subject, so the Admin. should close one of them.
He had another one locked that he started on August 4:
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I've got an ignore list a mile long over at the IMDb message boards, but I've yet to use it here. He's also posting the same stuff over there and the reaction is quite the same as he gets here. I may have to resort to giving him sole billing on my ignore list here.
It's not as if I haven't criticized things about TCM, but I try to do so with a sense of being constructive and remembering that I'm a guest in their house. This guy just keeps repeating himself and fails to consider that there just might be some valid reason why certain films can't air. Here he's asking for such obscure items that they might not even be available for airing on U.S. TV with English subtitles.
I saw an old post the other day that referred to TCM having once aired *Triumph of the Will* and I've seen the German version of *Titanic*, so I really doubt that politics or the need to be politically correct applies here.
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Me and other serieous fans of film history , will boycott this aspect of Summer under the stars as a protest against political correctness.
Why not also boycott the message boards? Maybe spend a little time on some remedial English course. No offence, but your stance might be received a bit better were it properly presented.
It would also garner less criticism if you refrained from calling TCM management a-- h----. You could also stand to take a little of your own advice:
Why get offend (sic) at it?Your (sic) wasting your energy.
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Clore, that was a nice review of The Breaking Point.
Thanks for the kind words Tom. I rarely do that kind of thing anymore, it takes a lot to get a film to inspire me to try to sum up my thoughts on it. Plus it's hard to be encouraging to others and also not reveal too much of the storyline.
It's great to find someone else who feels as I do about this film. Even among Curtiz and Garfield fans, it seems to be the one they haven't seen yet.
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At least it's better than last year when they has the audacity to show A Face in the Crowd (AGAIN!) as part of Lee Remick's day, she's barely in the thing for five minutes!
Heck, they showed CITIZEN KANE as part of an Alan Ladd day a few years ago. He's easier to spot by his voice than he is visually as one of the reporters in the shadows. He doesn't even get five minutes.
) 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.
Can anyone alive now play a good Quasimodo?
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There was also a version from about 1957 starring Anthony Quinn.
Never seen it, but even as great an actor as Quinn was, I doubt that version could be better than the Chaney and Laughton classics.
Quinn is OK, but his Mountain Rivera in REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT was uglier. Quinn's hump isn't so pronounced either. Gina Lollobrigida makes for a lusty Esmeralda and the script is very faithful to the book. You are not likely to forget the ending.
But for a film shot in France, it looks pedestrian. Nice color and scope, but way too bright. The 1923 and 1939 vrsions may have been done on the backlot, but they're far more atmospheric.