clore
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>>I remember that. Not only did it take a little longer to reach TV. When you're eight years old, a decade is a LONG time!
If a film was on TV and only a few years old, chances are it was British. I saw so many films with Jack Hawkins and Kenneth More by the time I was ten that I thought they were major players.
Speaking of which, I would love to see REACH FOR THE SKY again. I must have seen it three times when I was nine or ten and never again since.
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I've never really thought about it. I was watching THE MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE from the time that they premiered KING KONG when I was only six years old. I had a contest with myself in regard to seeing how old a movie I could find. I recall being thrilled about watching the TV show "Silents Please" which showed edited versions of silent films.
Then again, at the same time I had a thing for antique cars so perhaps I just have an appreciation for what came before my own time.
There is something to be said in regard to watching studio films and seeing the contract players, many of whom are like old friends now. Not just the stars but the supporting players also. When I was growing up, old movies were a staple on TV, back then it took years for a recent film to hit the airwaves. Even when "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies" started airing in 1961, the films played were about a decade old on average.
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Contrary to what was just claimed, VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS did credit H.G. Wells' "Food of the Gods" as the source for the story. It was the second title card at the beginning fo the film.
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>>But why can't Tcm air it??? It's their appointed task to air old movies, ain't it?
Probably because they know that you have a copy of it. They are most likely doing this just to annoy you in the same way that you annoy them by continually asking for the same movie. It's a vicious cycle, try asking for something that you don't have and perhaps the conspiracy will end.
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>.My gripe with commercial television is that the programmers are idiots.
If you want to show 30% more commercials then extend the movie's ending time by 30%. Why do movie channels have to have a strict schedule?
AMC seems to have no problem with extending the running time. Not that I watch them, when it takes two hours to air an eighty-minute movie, I'm not putting up with a 33% commercial load.
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Normally I click on the big "MESSAGE BOARDS" in the upper left to get to the main forum page, today if I do that it takes me to the TCM home page.
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The Italians contributed also. YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW and BOCCACIO '70 come to mind immediately.
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Don't forget Jim Jarmusch's MYSTERY TRAIN. I think that was the first time that i ever noticed Steve Buscemi.
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>>So Tcm should never have to air Hot Spell ever again if people recorded it on their VCRs. Would you apply the same logic to GWTW, clore?
I'm not talking about other people, I'm talking about you. If you haven't noticed, you're the only one continually complaining about it not airing anymore. You claim to have a copy so watch it and enjoy it and stop whining about it.
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Yes, I've noticed that you've been busy. Well, you did say you were going to pay it forward.
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Oh no, not the HOT SPELL guy again. I searched for his old posts, they were all deleted. Most of his complaints were that the film hasn't run in years and isn't on tape or DVD. Not that he obviously ever thought of recording it when it was on in previous years.
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Don't forget ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT. Maybe next time they'll finally run a letterboxed print of it.
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Do you think they will ever schedule it for a John Dall tribute?
I say that thinking of how I must have seen FROM HERE TO ETERNITY aired to honor five different performers. One of these days Mickey Shaughnessy is going to get his due.
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>>Or Spartacus. Why no Spartacus?
You will have to wait until September when it airs as part of Kirk Douglas month.
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THE BISHOP'S MURDER CASE will be on again in September, kicking off a weekly Philo Vance retrospective on Saturday mornings.
For me, the big surprise on Tuesday was A FEATHER IN HER HAT. This had to be one of the sweetest roles that Rathbone ever played. I can't get over Louis Hayward's baby face in this period but I like that for a stage trained actor he's quite a natural on screen.
Nydia Westman who played Emily was seven years older than Louis, but looked closer to being a contemporary of his mother. I just could not accept that those two grew up together.
As for Pauline Lord who played the mother, she was an absolute revelation. I've never seen MRS WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH which was her only other film and I'm already bemoaning that she never made any more. A great actress, she hit all the right notes.
A most enjoyable film, I'm glad that I caught up to it.
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>>Clore: I don't know how it happened but I just found you were on my ignore list in error probably by a typo of mine. I have never intentionally put you or anyone else on it; as far as I am concerned it does not exist. I don't know if I am by others but none are by me. I'll keep checking it from now on to keep out the glitches.
That's OK, I probably haven't had much to say anyway.
And for all of you SUSAN SLADE fans, a song from Brian Eno:
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It will air again on September 28th.
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That was the opening to the promo for the Star of the Month feature, wasn't it? It may be in the media room,
I'll try to find a link.
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>>Con you honestly say that there is a single film between the Mexican incident and THE BEST MAN that you've ever heard of?
SUTTER'S GOLD is a film that I saw only once when I was about twelve years old. This film was apparently the HEAVEN'S GATE of its day. Its failure ended the Carl Laemmle regime at Universal as the film cost two-million to make and that was without stars - the two top-billed players were Edward Arnold and Lee Tracy.
I still recall that when she saw me watching the film, my mother mentioned that it was a notorious flop and practically closed Universal. She remembered this from when it came out yet she was only 16 or 17 at the time. Let's face it, we didn't have the media frenzy that we have now, boxoffice figures weren't exactly common knowledge. Thus for this film to have generated such news, it must have failed on a spectacular level.
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>>The Wasp Woman had a running time of only 61 minutes. IMDb says it's a 73 minute movie. What happened there?
When the film was first sold to TV, AIP added footage to it to stretch it out so that it could play in the then-popular 90 minute time slots.
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I brought this up the last time that the film aired. The Anchor Bay DVD is in 2.35:1 format so a digital copy is out there. I can't find it at Movies Unlimited but numerous other sites which will remain nameless (in deference to our host) carry it.
When that happens with the titles, it does set up a false expectation. Worse was when TCM aired YOU CAN'T WIN 'EM ALL as part of a Tony Curtis tribute. There is action going on during the opening credits. While there were actual credits on screen, the format was 2.35:1, but in the action sequences between each individual set of credits, the image reverted to full screen. As soon as the director's credit faded away, it was full screen until the end of the film.
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Well, as long as you put it that way...
Still, I want to emphasize that I don't expect Robert Osborne to know that stuff. I do expect his researchers to do a better job. This is one of the big promotional items of the month, extra care should be taken.
Like John Marley in THE GODFATHER, a man in Osborne's position should not be made to look ridiculous. As I've said on previous occasions, I can only hope that such corrections ensure that the same mistake doesn't happen again if Robert Osborne has to intro the film at a future date.
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>.Osborne also mistakenly tagged "The Black Scorpion" as the last film Willis O'Brien worked on. I knew he was wrong right off about that having seen "The Giant Behemoth" many times. Those are the kind of mistakes an informed cinemaphile should not be making.
Gee, I wrote that to you over three hours ago right here in this thread.
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>>And you know...he saved the day with Mara Corday b'cuz she has a small part as a waitress in his film "SUDDEN IMPACT."
She was also in THE GAUNTLET, PINK CADILLAC and THE ROOKIE with Eastwood. I don't know if he's doing an old friend a favor as SAG benefits depend on working so much during a given period, or if he's just tossing some roles and moolah her way, but it's nice to know that he's so gracious.
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Great, maybe now they will air some film noir on Encore Westerns.