clore
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I thought it was the sequel to UNMAN, WITTERING AND ZIGO.
Now there's a movie that's a candidate for TCM Underground.
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Nothing much to say except that I saw Mabel Albertson this afternoon on a *Burns and Allen* rerun on Antenna TV. I only recently discovered that my NYC Time-Warner system has added that channel and while I don't normally watch any sponsored programming, I've made an exception for George and Gracie.
It was the episode titled "Mortons Exchange Houses With the Gibsons From New York" and it's not on the IMDb at present for having Mabel. But I'll fix that.
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I guess that we can presume that he's not coming back. Zero, zilch, nada chance of that happening.
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They sound a bit "classier" coming from Scott as there is still a mix of some Virginia in there. But it would surely confuse the heck out of Professor Higgins.
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I'm a big Scott fan, and also born in Brooklyn and I can say that he pronounces "work" and "heard" (or "herd") with what does sound like a bit of my old neighborhood in it.
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But one thing is driving me nuts. Do they really have to say before every movie (as well as after many of them) that Robert Osborne will still be hosting The Essentials and the Arab images in film series? That has gotten so old already! Does anyone out there seriously not get this? Do we have to be hit over the head with a verbal 2 x 4???
Isn't that annoying? It has been said before and after every film that I've had on during the past week and a half, maybe missing four of them. I guess they figure that they have to do that for the person who watches only one movie per week.
I've also noticed that all the outros are generic. There isn't a single reference to what you've just seen or are about to see. Just the same old Robert Osborne info. I could swear that on one night over the weekend, they used the same outros that Wagner used on Monday - he was in that same pale yellow suit that needs to be taken out a bit around the waist.
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I've already seen the remake with the two Redgrave sisters - I can't imagine a third version.
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Ever been to the "DVD Savant" website? That's Glenn Erickson, a most knowledgeable fellow who is also entertaining in his reviews and not didactic or condescending at all.
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I have a 16mm print of the 100 minute version. I'll have to run it again to compare, but I don't think there are any major sequences deleted for the 89 minute print.
This info from the film's IMDb page may help:
The original theatrical release (@ 102 minutes) includes the following three segments which were removed from the VHS and DVD releases (both of which are approximately 86 minutes):
* Following the fade on Ma Greeny's reaction shot as Maish is beaten in the boxing ring, there is a seven minute sequence in the hotel bar and adjacent alley: Maish asks Mountain if he has any money stashed away (to pay off Ma Greeny); Mountain recognizes and stops to help a bleeding, drunk fighter in the alley and gets into a fight with his scumbag promoter of illegal matches, which is broken up by Army and Maish, who rejects scumbag's idea of getting Mountain a wrestling career with Pirelli. Scene ends with Maish's clichés about the Three Musketeers and "Til death do us part" that reinforce the illusion that "Nobody jumps anybody in this group!"
* A 1 minute 43 second transitional sequence after Mountain is rejected for the movie usher job shows him rejected as he tries to get a job on a moving van crew and as a sparring partner for a boxer who's training to fight Clay. Again he starts a fight after the boxer says, "I already got a punching bag!"
* A 6 minute 27 second sequence after Maish's reaction shot in the stairway following his confrontation with Grace Miller. Pirelli is coaching Mountain in the gym to "make it look real!" Again Mountain starts punching his wrestling partner after his seriously injured eye is intentionally reinjured. Ma Greeny's goon squad warns Maish that he has till tomorrow to come up with the cash. And Ma Greeny tells Maish that "we're cutting out the middleman" and that Pirelli will pay her directly for Mountain's wrestling contract. Maish says, "I wish you weren't a woman," and Ma replies, "Maishy darling, that's the nicest thing anyone ever said to me!"
* The VHS release adds an additional scene (@ 1 minute 11 seconds) which was cut from both the theatrical and DVD releases. [since the DVD restores the original sequence at this point, and significantly changes the emotional focus of the ending, the DVD is preferable to the VHS release.] As Mountain ascends (both literally and figuratively) to the wrestling ring, the deleted scene has Maish warning the newbie who wants to sign a boxing contract replacing Mountain to "Go home!" instead of starting a career in which there are only eight champions and everybody else is a loser. The VHS also cuts medium shot in which the referree says, "Come on, Mountain, let's get this show on the road!" and, more significantly, the closeup in which Mountain makes the crucial decision to embrace his humiliation and starts his warwhoop dance around the ring.
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I do believe that the broader "Middle Eastern" umbrella might have been more appropriate overall.
But then I suppose someone would come along and say that not all Middle easterners are alike, but then neither are all Americans. If the point is to show how Americans react to the images on screen, then they become the stereotyped group.
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Thank you for the compliment Dargo.
You may be right that in a sense they just threw more dollars than necessary at it and had to justify it somehow. I felt similarly about DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES which does not work as well for me as a movie than it did as a TV show.
On the other hand, I can't separate the two versions of MARTY. I liked Steiger in the TV version, but not to the degree that he overwhelms Borgnine's work. Just different interpretations and maybe because I'm so used to Steiger being the kind of ham that should be hanging in the window of Marty's shop, I appreciate his subtlety all the more. Nancy Marchand though was more effective than Betsy Blair, closer to the type of NYC woman that would be in such a situation.
My viewings of the two versions of PATTERNS were too far apart for me to pit one against the other. I did think that Richard Kiley came closer to being the young exec type - Van Heflin was already playing patriarchs at the time he landed the movie role. No matter, it's Everett Sloane and Ed Begley that really drive both versions.
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Don't you understand, this series is for the stereotypical
American who wouldn't know an Arab from a VW bus. Does it have desert scenery, then it fits the schedule. This is a bias that keeps popping up in the selections.As for DREAM WIFE, its primary offence is that it isn't funny at all. Of all the comedy films he made as a major star, this is the one Grant title which I've seen in whole once and never got through more than a half-hour since.
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The professor also said that Laurence Harvey played Cleopatra's brother - it's Anthony Harvey.
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Given that it's late October, I'd rather see HORROR HOTEL.
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Late October? Is that much of the schedule available already?
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I've also seen the earlier version of it and much prefer that one. The racial element of the feature film feels like the added element that it is and there was really no need to have Quinn appear so gruesome. His Quasimodo was more handsome.
Maybe they thought that they really had a lot to try to top, but in my opinion, they didn't succeed.
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I believe that IMPACT is public domain now so good luck on getting that one in any kind of "restored" condition. Again, as with the Allied Artists releases, a lot of these were done by indie outfits that didn't bother to renew copyrights or else the rights have reverted to them and thus it may not be UA's property any longer.
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Wow - the last time this was on, I watched it so I didn't notice. Now as I'm in another roonm and can only hear it, I must say that it has one of the most redundant music scores that I've heard in any feature film.
i hear Kevin McCarthy as I type this, it must be one of his several scenes where his shirt is open to his waist. If Rod Taylor did that, you wouldn't notice Kevin McCarthy.
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If I remember correctly, Jack Dodson had a small role in The Getaway.
That wasn't nice what Archie Bunker's daughter did to him.
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I'd like to see a remake of Seven Days in May with Jon Voight or maybe even Robert Wagner as General Scott *but this time...we win and take over!* :^0 :^0 :^0
That's some scary stuff, and I don't mean the casting of Voight or Wagner.
By the way, SEVEN DAYS IN MAY was remade by Showtime in the early 90s. The title is more appropriate for what you have in mind since it was called THE ENEMY WITHIN.
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Here's what you get when you put Jack Lord's hair on Neville Brand:
Rob Blagojevich
Here's Neville Brand
Here's Jack Lord:
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I remember him as Earl Holliman's brother on WIDE COUNTRY, one of two rodeo-based TV shows that aired in the 1962-63 season. The other was STONEY BURKE with Jack Lord.
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You're welcome. The most prestigious part that Andrew Prine ever had was probably as the brother to Helen Keller in THE MIRACLE WORKER. Twenty years later he showed up in the mini-series "V" and I swear, he had not aged a day.
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Dorothy Arzner directed DANCE, GIRL DANCE and CHRISTOPHER STRONG for RKO and CRAIG'S WIFE for Columbia.
So much for "zero, zilch, nada."
American who wouldn't know an Arab from a VW bus. Does it have desert scenery, then it fits the schedule. This is a bias that keeps popping up in the selections.
20% of the OCTOBER schedule is up
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And I hope the "Classic Horror" evenings live up to the name and the quality set with the first evening's line-up. That should please many around here.
I did a search for BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN on the web site and there was a little blurb about a Frankenstein night that had the first three Universal films and a Hammer title. But the link does not lead to an elaboration. See item number four on the following:
http://www.tcm.com/search...enstein&type=allSite|http://www.tcm.com/search/index.html?text=brideoffrankenstein&type=allSite
There's an erroneous date for the production of BRIDE but there does appear to be something planned. From that I can only speculate that we may be seeing some more of the Universal classics than the few that have aired so far this year.