clore
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Of course, of course,
Except when your horse is a dinosaur
He's always on a steady course
Stepping on your car
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If they hadn't played back-to-back, I probably would not have noticed. My back is to the TV as I'm at the PC, so sound was all that I had to go by. I often use TCM as electric wallpaper and in the case of these two films, I've seen both of them in the last month or so (even own BEAST) and didn't feel the need to sit and watch.
Anyway, I had a moment where I thought "didn't BEAST end an hour ago?" and I turned around and there was the horse.
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Not to change the subject, but some of the sounds being made by the horse in the movie airing now (THE LION AND THE HORSE) sound just like the rheasaurus in BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS.
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MissWonderly said:
I do know that I would find a "critic" who was always positive about the movies they reviewed unprofessional, and would not take them seriously.
That would be David Manning, a fictitious critic created by Sony to provide favorable quotes for their films about a decade ago.
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It was odd that since they were supposed to be his picks that he wasn't on duty for part of the time.
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TopBilled said:
But sometimes, he's immersed in an ugly sort of negativity that makes his writing not fun to read and turns people off. At least that's how I see it.
I guess we could say that about any of us here. Maybe we don't mean it the way it reads to someone else, but subtlety isn't always easy to detect. I haven't looked at one of his books in ages but if I came across a review with which I disagreed, I'd turn the page and chances are that I'd find one with which I did agree.
I've found him a lot kindlier toward genre films than most, especially Steven Scheuer his predecessor. He wrote of 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH:
"Science-fiction rides again, it's not worth the trip."
That was it, along with a 1 1/2 star rating. No mention of Harryhausen's effects. I doubted that he even saw the film. Maybe that early exposure contributed to my taking such things lightly today. It's just one other person's opinion.
Back in the 50s, the works of Anthony Mann, Robert Aldrich, Howard Hawks, Phil Karlson and Douglas Sirk (to name a few) were not as revered by critics as they are today. But the public made the films popular. VERTIGO was dismissed by critics and the public, now it is perhaps the most celebrated film of its director.
In the long run, it's what you think that matters. Celebrate what you love and don't let anyone else get you down.
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I REALLY should know this, but how fast is 100 kilometers? How many miles an hour?
As I recall some very early math examples, a kilometer is 5/8 of a mile. Thus 5/8 of 100 = 62.5.
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FredCDobbs said:
No, you are thinking of the 1-hour TZ shows, They ran for a year or so.
These were definitely the half-hour shows that I was watching during a New Years marathon. It's not as if they were trying to hide anything, the listings had them blocked for 40 minutes, something I discovered when I checked as I thought it took more than a half-hour.
The original shows on CBS were cut for 26 1/2 minutes. That accounts for opening and closing credits as well as the bumpers in the breaks. I worked there years later but I had in the files the timing sheets and break structures for the history of the network. At one point they only allowed two breaks in a half-hour slot.
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skimpole said:
Something isn't right. I can't seem to access the July, August and September schedules at all. I just keep getting the June schedule.
Now any attempt to use another month reverts to providing the July schedule. I suppose around here that passes for progress.
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Well, I've seen GYPSY WILDCAT and even of its type, it's not very good. ARABIAN NIGHTS and ALI BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES were better films starring the duo. Even COBRA WOMAN had more going for it since it had twin Marias for the price of one.
As with their Frankenstein series, Universal began to cut corners and the results were routine films rather than exemplary of their kind.
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Thank you for that post, nice of you to take the time to provide the details.
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MissWonderly said:
Also - no one's mentioned the special effects, which I thought were fantastic for any era. I enjoyed the monsters much more than any CG creatures we have in film today
I loved the creatures, I just wish that they weren't so easily eliminated. They needed more screen time and I'm surprised that Fairbanks didn't push this as he had a great awareness of what his fans expected - action.
BTW - if you looked at the credits, you'll have seen Elton Thomas as the writer. That was the pen name for Fairbanks.
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On another thread (Arab Images on Film Evenings - Politics-Free) it is claimed by a user that you had to start early because the print ran longer than expected and this wasn't realized until the last minute.
But you aired the Kino print and a look at their website has it listed as being 154 minutes:
http://www.kino.com/video/item.php?film_id=651#.ThR9yIJx1-x
That was the Kino print that you aired, it said so.
The IMDb has it listed as being 155 minutes with the Spain DVD being 139 minutes:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015400/
Certainly with such discrepancies, it would have paid off to have checked a bit sooner. Or maybe have put up a crawl during the intro and outro for the previous film stating that the next film will start earlier.
Having been in the business, I'm sympathetic, but one would think that after the debacle of the airing of A STAR IS BORN which had no credits and a nine-minute segment that repeated itself, there might be some new safeguards established.
Nevertheless, thank you for checking in.
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Slightly off-topic but I'm reminded of something Errol Flynn wrote about in his book.
It seems that he and some others wanted to promote a new starlet and they came up with the name Linda Fortune. John Barrymore was being told about this and he said that would never do.
"Why not?" asked Flynn.
"Just how are you going to introduce her, as Miss Fortune?" came the reply.
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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.
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I have gotten one from another user and all that was written in the thing was a certain two words, one that starts with "F" and the other with "Y." It wasn't apparent until I tried to respond exactly what the first word was, then it was as clear as day.
I've had no feud with this person, in fact I've always rather liked him.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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It's 10:20 and the 10:30PM movie is starting already.
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I just wish that the tints were a bit less intense. I think that I'm losing detail with them being so "there."
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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.
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I never realized how much Cukor resembles David O'Selznick