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> > Oberon's contract might have required that, to make her own diffusion look less obvious
You could be right, but it only becomes apparent anyway when you cut to a close-up of Taylor or Rennie and you are back to crystal clarity.
Years ago my ex once complained of getting a headache during a sitcom starring Valerie Harper. "It's the third Monday in a row that I've gotten a headache."
I told her it was because the show kept jumping back-and-forth from Harper's diffusion to any other character being in sharp focus. The next week she didn't watch the show and she didn't get a headache.
Mind you, this was a woman who didn't normally get headaches, she gave them.
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If you have the complete monthly schedule, then maybe you are the best one to post it here in the thread.
I tried just putting up one day of the new format schedule, and just look at how it turns out:
http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=160249&tstart=0
I'm not about to go reformatting a whole month just so that it takes less room in a thread. I'll wait a few days to see if they ever put the link back up. If not, then perhaps I'll try posting one week at a time.
EDITED TO ADD
Since you don't have the first and second of September, here they are:
h4. 1 Thursday
h1. 6:00 AM
h2. [Flame and the Arrow, The (1950)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/75084/Flame-and-the-Arrow-The/]
Roman rebels fight against invading barbarians.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
C-88 mins,
h1. 7:30 AM
h2. [Jim Thorpe--All American (1951)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/79770/Jim-Thorpe-All-American/]
The famous Native American athlete fights prejudice in his pursuit of sports stardom.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC,
h1. 9:30 AM
h2. [Ten Tall Men (1951)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/4265/Ten-Tall-Men/]
A Foreign Legion sergeant leads ten volunteers against a mighty Arab army.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
C-97 mins, TV-G,
h1. 11:15 AM
h2. [south Sea Woman (1953)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/27294/South-Sea-Woman/]
A Marine sergeant battles Nazi agents to help a showgirl escape war torn China.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
BW-98 mins, TV-G,
h1. 1:00 PM
h2. A Yankee sea captain tries to make his fortune in the South Seas.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
C-90 mins,
h1. 2:45 PM
h2. [Kentuckian, The (1955)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/22838/Kentuckian-The/]
A backwoodsman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
C-104 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
h1. 4:30 PM
h2. [Trapeze (1956)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/25707/Trapeze/]
An aging trapeze star and his protigi fall for the same woman.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
C-106 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
h1. 6:30 PM
h2. A preacher and a rebel leader change places during the Revolution.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
BW-83 mins, TV-PG,
h1. 8:00 PM
h2. [Householder, The (1963)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/78604/Householder-The/]
A newlywed needs help dealing with his independent, outspoken wife.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
C-100 mins,
h1. 9:45 PM
h2. [Creation of Woman, The (1960)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/519166/Creation-of-Woman-The/]
After asking God for a wife, Adam wonders if he made a mistake.
C-14 mins,
h1. 10:00 PM
h2. [shakespeare-Wallah (1966)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/89781/Shakespeare-Wallah/]
Traveling British actors in India are torn when their daughter becomes involved with a local playboy.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
BW-120 mins,
h1. 12:15 AM
h2. [bombay Talkie (1970)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/69322/Bombay-Talkie/]
A British writer becomes obsessed with a young Bollywood star.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
C-112 mins,
h1. 2:15 AM
h2. [Helen, Queen of the Nautch Girls (1972)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/491725/Helen-Queen-of-the-Nautch-Girls/]
Cameras trace the career of Bollywood's most popular dancing star.
*Dir*:
C-31 mins,
h1. 3:00 AM
h2. [Delhi Way, The (1964)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/0/Delhi-Way-The/]
Cameras capture the past and present contradictions of India's capital.
C-50 mins,
h1. 4:00 AM
h2. [Mahatma and the Mad Boy (1974)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/491726/Mahatma-and-the-Mad-Boy/]
A homeless boy struggles to survive another day on a Bombay beach.
*Dir*:
C-27 mins,
h1. 4:45 AM
h2. [River, The (1951)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/88366/River-The/]
Members of an English settlement cope with the exotic lure of life in India.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
C-99 mins, TV-G,
h4. 2 Friday
h1. 6:30 AM
h2. [To Sir, With Love (1967)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/93472/To-Sir-With-Love/]
A substitute teacher changes the lives of the slum children in his class.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
h1. 8:30 AM
h2. [Patch Of Blue, A (1965)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1040/Patch-Of-Blue-A/]
A blind white girl falls in love with a black man.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
h1. 10:30 AM
h2. [up The Down Staircase (1967)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/16123/Up-The-Down-Staircase/]
A novice schoolteacher faces delinquent students and apathetic administrators in a tough inner city high school.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
C-124 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
h1. 12:45 PM
h2. [bright Road (1953)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/639/Bright-Road/]
Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
BW-68 mins, TV-PG, CC,
h1. 2:00 PM
h2. [blackboard Jungle (1955)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1206/Blackboard-Jungle/]
An idealistic teacher confronts the realities of juvenile delinquency.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
BW-101 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
h1. 4:00 PM
h2. [Corn Is Green, The (1945)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/614/Corn-Is-Green-The/]
A dedicated teacher sacrifices everything to send a young miner to Oxford.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
BW-114 mins, TV-G, CC,
h1. 6:00 PM
h2. [Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/76737/Goodbye-Mr-Chips/]
A cold-hearted teacher becomes the school favorite when he's thawed by a beautiful young woman.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC,
h1. 8:00 PM
h2. [Mr. Peabody And The Mermaid (1948)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/20917/Mr-Peabody-And-The-Mermaid/]
A middle-aged man accidentally catches a mermaid and falls in love.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
BW-89 mins,
h1. 9:45 PM
h2. [beach Blanket Bingo (1965)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/20605/Beach-Blanket-Bingo/]
The surfing gang rescues a beautiful singer from evil bikers.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
C-97 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format
h1. 11:30 PM
h2. [Miranda (1948)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83581/Miranda/]
A doctor on fishing holiday catches a mermaid by mistake.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
BW-77 mins, TV-G,
h1. 1:00 AM
h2. [Mad About Men (1954)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/556766/Mad-About-Men/]
A mermaid trades places with a teacher and finds love.
C-85 mins,
h1. 2:30 AM
h2. [i Was a Teenage Zombie (1987)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/78903/I-Was-a-Teenage-Zombie/]
Teenaged vigilantes kill a drug pusher only to have him return as a zombie.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
C-90 mins,
h1. 4:15 AM
h2. [Zombiethon (1986)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/0/Zombiethon/]
BW-0 mins, ,
Edited by: clore on Jun 20, 2011 11:02 PM
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It is conceivable that TCM took the link down until the schedule is completed.
Actually, I have the September schedule saved on my PC and it is complete. It was saved on June 15 at 9:04AM.
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It was just a little scene back in his room. He had just come back from his second cleaning out of someone's wallet and all that he got out of it was a few fives and singles. Thus he cries to himself that it's all the fault of people now using credit cards.
It got to me how in the scene where Catherine Spaak was with Rod Taylor in his apartment that they were using as much diffusion for her close-ups as they were using for Merle Oberon. The woman was only 22 at the time.
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I don't think he had any lines of dialogue in this film.
He had a great scene where he was bemoaning that guests were using credit cards. Incredibly ironic since he would soon be the pitchman for American Express and telling people "don't leave home without it.
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ValentineXavier wrote:
I wish they had moved it all to vBulletin, like the AudioVideoScience Forum uses. It is so much easier to use than this primitive software.
vBulletin does have a nice layout, probably a better shell than Yuku but even the latter is preferable to what is used here. But both seem to be designed with a community in mind and right now it appears that the intent here is to destroy the community.
Maybe it's all to drive everyone to the CFU but when I first went there and fiddled around, there were features promoted in on-air spots that weren't ready yet (uploading of pics being one of them) and it just struck me as a work in progress for which I could wait to be completed.
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You're quite welcome. I'm looking forward to THE HANDS OF ORLAC. I've seen three other versions of the same story but I've long wanted to see the Veidt original.
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The other side of it is that with no schedule provided well in advance, I won't be able to warn them of things such as when they had the March and Rennie versions of LES MISERABLES back-to-back but in a slot that was one hour too short.
Or the more recent listing that had ROOM FOR ONE MORE and THE EASY WAY back-to-back, apparently they didn't know that those two titles are one and the same film. On both occasions I posted here an advisory notice.
As long as I can see July 1 on June 30, I'm not that concerned about not having the schedule that far in advance. I'm not about to subscribe to the magazine, I already did and it took four months to get started after they got the check and several issues arrived late. I barely used it anyway, so used to looking things up on the PC or the TV screen am I that a printed source just serves as a coaster.
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The apologists are hard-pressed to put a positive spin on how messing with the schedule is a good thing.
Don't you realize that TCM is doing you a favor. Now instead of posting in mid-July of how you're looking forward to all of those goodies to air in October, you'll now be able to pay more attention to other things going on in your life that day and not be so fixated on what's going to happen months from now. You'll also have less time to complain if there aren't enough Universal horror films or Bela Lugosi titles for Halloween month.
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I suppose anything that has death presented as an entity gets a label of horror or supernatural. Just as ON BORROWED TIME also shows up on such lists. When I was a kid it was much simpler, the TV Guide just called it "melodrama."
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Ron Chaney is Lon Chaney, Jr.'s grandson. He is the son of Lon's son Ronald.
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YOUNG BESS is on Tuesday the 21st.
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Here's what I have for August 23:
h4. 23 Tuesday
h1. 6:00 AM
h2. [Above Suspicion (1943)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1525/Above-Suspicion/]
A honeymooning couple are asked to spy on the Nazis in pre-war Europe.
*Cast*: Fred MacMurray, Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt. *Dir*: Richard Thorpe.
BW-91 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
h1. 7:45 AM
h2. [Contraband (1940)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/840985/Contraband/]
While held up in a British port, a Danish sea captain tussles with German spies.
*Cast*: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie. *Dir*: Michael Powell.
BW-92 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
h1. 9:30 AM
h2. [All Through the Night (1942)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2526/All-Through-the-Night/]
A criminal gang turns patriotic to track down a Nazi spy ring.
*Cast*: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Jane Darwell. *Dir*: Vincent Sherman.
BW-107 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
h1. 11:30 AM
h2. [Jew Suss (1934)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/87006/Jew-Suss/]
A Jewish businessman using his wealth to benefit his people discovers he's not Jewish.
*Cast*: Conrad Veidt, Benita Hume, Cedric Hardwicke. *Dir*: Lothar Mendes.
BW-105 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
h1. 1:15 PM
h2. [spy In Black, The (1939)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91168/Spy-In-Black-The/]
A German sub tries to sink the British fleet during World War I.
*Cast*: Conrad Veidt, Sebastian Shaw, Valerie Hobson. *Dir*: Michael Powell.
BW-77 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
h1. 2:45 PM
h2. [Whistling in the Dark (1941)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/12898/Whistling-in-the-Dark/]
A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
*Cast*: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Conrad Veidt. *Dir*: S. Sylvan Simon.
BW-78 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format
h1. 4:15 PM
h2. [Escape (1940)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2892/Escape/]
A Nazi officer's mistress helps an American free his mother from a concentration camp.
*Cast*: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt. *Dir*: Mervyn LeRoy.
BW-98 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
h1. 6:00 PM
h2. [A Woman's Face (1941)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/507/A-Woman-s-Face/]
Plastic surgery gives a scarred female criminal a new outlook on life.
*Cast*: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt. *Dir*: George Cukor.
BW-106 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
h1. 8:00 PM
h2. [Hands of Orlac, The (1925)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/554250/Hands-of-Orlac-The/]
An experimental graft gives an injured concert pianist the hands of a murderer.
*Cast*: Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Kortner. *Dir*: Robert Weine.
BW-92 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
h1. 9:45 PM
h2. [The Thief of Bagdad (1940)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/498726/The-Thief-of-Bagdad/]
A young thief faces amazing monsters to return Bagdad's deposed king to the throne.
*Cast*: Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez. *Dir*: Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan.
C-106 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format
h1. 11:45 PM
h2. [Casablanca (1942)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/610/Casablanca/]
An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up.
*Cast*: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid. *Dir*: Michael Curtiz.
BW-103 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
h1. 1:45 AM
h2. [Nazi Agent (1942)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2927/Nazi-Agent/]
An Allied sympathizer discovers his twin brother is a Nazi spy.
*Cast*: Conrad Veidt, Anne Ayars, Dorothy Tree. *Dir*: Jules Dassin.
BW-84 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
h1. 3:15 AM
h2. [The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/5891/The-Cabinet-of-Dr-Caligari/]
A carnival performer uses a hypnotized sleepwalker to murder his enemies.
*Cast*: Werner Kraus, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover. *Dir*: Robert Weine.
BW-72 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
h1. 4:30 AM
h2. [Dark Journey (1937)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/18974/Dark-Journey/]
Rival spies fall in love during World War I.
*Cast*: Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Ursula Jeans. *Dir*: Victor Saville.
BW-79 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
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In looking up some info on another film, I saw a reference to AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON, a film that contained some great segments that were spoofs of old horror films, commercials and public service spots.
There were several others in this vein such as KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE and THE GROOVE TUBE, but as I recall they came closer to just being a collection of skits.
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Why do you think the sci-fi network went out of business?
They changed the name to SyFy but they are still in business and even have a sister station called Chiller. I don't watch either because of the heavy commercial load, but they do exist.
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I would not put anything past Barrymore at that stage, but he's also an easy target for such gossip. Weidler was a scene-stealer, she could easily blow anyone off the screen. I just wonder that with the chaperones presiding over child actors, both familial and official, that such a thing could happen.
I could see Barrymore lifting her as if to throw her and that the tale was embellished with each telling.
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I remember reading Kanin's account of this and he said that when he saw the rushes, he saw that Barrymore was right about being upstaged.
Being that Kanin's account is the only one that we have, I tend to think that he may have exaggerated a bit.
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John Payne night in January
The Hal Roach tribute of the same month
Getting to see I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG and HELL'S HIGHWAY back-to-back in March.
Swashbuckler days in both January and March
The Toho night in June
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THE CYCLOPS was missing a few seconds. The giant getting impaled in the eye on screen was missing. When the title came out through the Warner Archive, the scene was missing and this was brought to their attention. They issued a new copy with the scene intact and went as far as exchanging the previously issued version for those who wanted the new one.
Too bad TCM didn't get that copy instead.
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Isn't it annoying? It would be different if we could use a "nest" or "threaded" view here as on the IMDb message boards, then you woudn't have to quote. But when you're trying to respond to someone ten posts below, it's a convenience for everyone to be able to quote.
It just serves as proof that those who control these boards do not use them. They are emphasizing trivial cosmetic "upgrades" while eliminating the truly functional features, both here on the boards and with the schedules.
At this rate it will soon be more trouble than it's worth to be here. Perhaps that's what they want, to chase us all out of here and just close the department.
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I wish that you folks there at TCM would stop "improving" things. Someone there has too much time and too little ability. It's not as if these boards were technically advanced anyway, but metaphorically you're bringing us back to the quill and ink stage of communications.
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>>I know that B Grade horror and sci-fi films deserve a wing in the classic film library, but showing this many in one month is ridiculous. I find myself watching HBO more and more.
So tell me, what "classics" did you find on HBO? Besides maybe two times a week finding a pre-1960 film at 7am.
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Some people never learn. In 1947, Roy Roberts was a hotel desk man trying to keep what he thought was a Jewish couple out of his hotel in GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT. In HOTEL he's again a desk man, this time trying to tell a black couple that there are no vacancies.
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I'd much rather see the historians than the horror hosts. The former fit in better with what TCM is already doing. I associate the horror hosts with a certain amount of poking fun at the films and while it has its place, I'm not sure that the place for that is TCM.
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>>Speaking of angels and noir, I'm dying to see *Fallen Angel*. (Otto Preminger ! Dana Andrews ! Linda Darnell ! ) It seems to be one of those rare elusive films that are hardly ever available.
Anyone know why? I would sell my first-born child to see it (how would that be arranged, I wonder? )
I've seen it several times on The Fox Movie Channel. I was tremendously disappointed having heard good things about it for so many years. I could not go into detail without spoiling it for anyone who hasn't seen it. Still, I tried viewing it three times in total over about two years. A year ago Time-Warner cable put FMC on another tier and I don't feel like paying extra for the few classics that the channel puts on in the morning. If I were a big fan of PORKY'S I might have gone for it, that's about as old as they get in prime time over there.