clore
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>>Because if another man takes your wife, it's not personal.... there's no reflection on you. If your wife is a tramp, it all hurtles back to YOU. What did YOU do, to drive her to other men? YOUR choice of woman was wrong. YOU made the mistake. YOU must have been an idiot not to see.... So your self worth takes an incredible beating. But truly, sometimes it's just not your fault. To a man like Bart Allison, one mistake is reason to stop living. He has high standards, and he hasn't met them.
You've got that right. A man can really beat himself up over such things. Hopefully he will have the resolve and the benefit of friends to help him get through such a period. Being unfaithful is about the worst insult one partner can give to the other. Many get over the hurdle and it makes them closer, but when it happens repeatedly...
It could make a person retreat to cyberspace and avoid such entanglements. I did for quite some time until I realized that getting over it was the best revenge.
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>>He doesn't have a mule named Ruth, does he?
No, the budget couldn't afford a donkey along with all of the dogs playing shrews.
The purse strings were tight as THE KILLER SHREWS was filmed back-to-back with another Curtis production, THE GIANT GILA MONSTER. That creature was big enough to knock over a Lionel train and a few Revell cars.
The budget on that one was so thrifty that Curtis couldn't even afford to hire himself. He doesn't appear in the film. Or else he was busy that day doing a bit for father-in-law John Ford. According to Woody Strode, Ford couldn't stand his son-in-law, but to keep peace in the family he continued to give Curtis parts in his films.
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>>Find somebody who thinks they know film (you know the type...people like me) and bet them the action hero of this jewel is Festus (Ken Curtis) from Gunsmoke. They will look at him and tell you that you're wrong...but you are right.
No, they will look at me and tell me again they are right and I'll have to hand over the money as they show me that James Best is the hero. Ken Curtis is the villain of the shrew, err I mean the show and also the producer.
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Speaking of "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," Gil Scott-Heron died just the other day.
Paddy makes a few errors in references to TV ratings, but I was in that business for 30 years and I doubt that many would pick up on them. Otherwise, the film is one of my favorites and I watch it every time that it airs. I'll be watching it again on July 4th.
My favorite scene has Conchata Ferrell discussing the pilots for upcoming shows, all based upon the "crusty but benign" older lead and similar stereotypes for the other primary characters. Having read literally hundreds of such descriptions and having to write just as many, it was always difficult to do with that scene in mind.
Otherwise, it's Ned Beatty's bit that gets me the most.
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And just think of the damage done to the stock footage from QUO VADIS.
First, to be included in the widescreen print, they had to shave off the top and bottom of the image. Now to be part of the pan-and-scan print, the QUO VADIS footage has the sides shaved off.
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>>Clore--I like & respect you opinions but Edgecliff is right. This argument has become so circular and everyone seems to want to get the last word that it's not solving anything. It's just time for fxreyman & spockets to both knock it off.
To that degree, you may be right that nothing is being solved, but that shouldn't require the thread to be terminated.
It would probably have been better if the thread hadn't been titled in the way it has and I like to think that in my own contributions I hold the staff rather than Bob Osborne responsible. I do believe that fairly worded criticism could be of some benefit so that in the future the staff doesn't just dust off old transcripts and hand over the same errors for Mr. Osborne to repeat.
Maybe admin should consider a standing thread for posters to submit such revisions so that it could be handled in more of a community fashion.
Thank you for the kind words Helen, when I get to know you better, then I'll call you "baby."
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>>Personally, I don't think they should show anything made later than the Great Train Robbery. The Edwin S. Porter version, 1903. Ah, those were the days.
I disagree. That was when films became too grandiose, with each one trying to outdo the other in terms of how much of my precious leisure time would be taken away. You can take it to the bank that people won't stand for movies that are so long that you can't stand during them.
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>>This is one of two threads that need to be terminated. Really, enough is enough.
Yes, alternative opinions should always be censored.
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It really is annoying that one must log in again every 15 minutes. I have also suggested an option to remain logged in but I don't see it happening anytime soon. In fact, it's gotten worse as it used to be that I had to log in again every 30 minutes.
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I'd rather see someone such as author Tom Weaver, a guy who has also done many DVD commentary tracks.
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I was thinking that he resembled a dark-haired Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Seeing DESTINATION TOKYO last night brought Peter Whitney to mind, although he wasn't as large there as he would be later in life in BUCHANAN RIDES ALONE and IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT.
In his last decade, Peter Lorre was rather corpulent. Appearing on YOU BET YOUR LIFE and mentioning that his latest film was FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON, Groucho asked him "Are you playing the balloon?"
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>>Like, The Narrow Margin ?
That was Paul Maxey who also played Jackie Cooper's father-in-law on THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE.
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Thanks for posting that article on one of my favorite films.
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>>Just take it in small chunks, a little at a time.... be sure to stock up on snacks and drinks. Take plenty of breaks.
It was fine Jack, really. As one of my old mentors William K. Everson used to tell me, "Keep it interesting, avoid being pedantic. This is something you're writing about because you want to share your enthusiasm."
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This was more Randolph Scott by way of Anthony Mann, like one of James Stewart's conflicted characters. Usually Scot has "right" on his side but this time he's wrong from the start and worse, he doesn't ride off any smarter than when he started. He sees what he may have inadvertently done for the town of Sundown, but he's no better off.
It's a big change from the Scott who so many times looked for closure in the face of being widowed. Rarely do we see our hero as flawed as he is in this film. I know many who feel it is one of the lesser of the Boetticher collaborations and point out that it is town-based and looks like a TV show.
Perhaps, but then we could say that about some westerns of Zinnemann, Daves, Hawks and Ford. Sometimes you have to look a little deeper for the riches. For me that was the refreshing thing about the Ranown films, they were stripped down to the purest of story-telling. It's like seeing Shakespeare in Central Park with a minimum of props and only the words and performances to tell the tale. That's when one can really realize the power of what's there.
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A very nice job Jack. It's a film that I'm quite familiar with and really can't add anything to what you've written.
Except perhaps to suggest that you consider a double-bill of DECISION AT SUNDOWN and NO NAME ON THE BULLET, a thought-provoking Audie Murphy western that has more than a few similarities.
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The film got a lot of press here in NYC at the time. Donahue thought that it was going to revise his image and do great things for him in one article that I read at the time. It just led to a lot of cameo roles from what I remember.
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I'll bet that you're thinking of SWEET SAVIOR which wasn't an AIP film, but did cast Donahue as a Charles Manson type only it takes place in NYC rather than Los Angeles.
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From a page on the website that is promoting part of the June line-up:
Also in June, TCM's sister network TCM premieres a powerful new drama series Falling Skies, from executive producer Steven Spielberg and starring Noah Wyle, which follows a group of survivors in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack. Falling Skies premieres Sunday, June 19 at 9 pm ET.
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/385840|0/Drive-In-Double-Features---Thursdays-in-June/
I think that they mean TCM's sister network TNT. I just want to make sure that people look for the new show in the right place. Chances are that the same copy went out as a promo piece to newspapers, so perhaps the powers that be may want to revise it.
EDITED TO ADD:
I can't get this post to provide a link to the page in question, it keeps removing the "http://www" part and drawing a line through it. Trust me, it's not my mistake, I'm providing a link in the same manner as I have for years. It just isn't coming out the way that I expected.
Edited by: clore on May 23, 2011 5:28 PM
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>>The only thing which mars that scene is that he throws like a girl.
That comment got me as I noted a long time ago that in the 60s, Richard Harris wore more eye-liner than any of his female co-stars.
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>>-shoudn't Irena be naked?
Not in the 1940s, we had to wait for the remake to get that graphic.
It's like asking how Larry Talbot manages to go from a tee-shirt to a long-sleeved shirt in his first transformation in THE WOLF MAN, or how is it that when Dracula changes from a bat, he's got clothes on?
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Let's also keep in mind that TCM does not claim to be a commercial-free channel. Their claim is that the movies are aired commercial-free.
There is a difference. At least the ads are related to classic films, they aren't for deodorants, reverse mortgages, sham wows and **** pills.
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I'd like to see TCM air the silent Raoul Walsh film REGENERATION once again. It aired around 2003 or so and the DVD is out of print, so a re-broadcast is about the only way to see it again.