clore
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>>Your comment makes me feel not so bad about having missed it, although you have indicated you are primarily watching for Jane.
I was surprised at how much footage came from TARZAN AND HIS MATE. The crocodile fight just had a different set-up, but the fight itself came from the previous film - and would be used again in TARZAN'S SECRET TREASURE. In fact the fight even appears again in the 1959 TARZAN THE APE MAN starring Denny Miller - poorly tinted to "match" the color footage of the rest of the film.
ESCAPES also repeated a brief scene of Cheetah being chased by a lion.
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THE MALTESE FALCON a "B" film? If it were, it would have carried Bryan Foy's name on it, not that of Hal Wallis.
As far as Raft turning down FALCON for MANPOWER, that's just not so, it was already in the can. According to the book "Bogart" by Sperber and Lax, Raft had Bogart knocked off the cast list of the latter, refusing to work with him.
There's some conjecture that Bogart, wanting the part of Spade, was influential upon Raft's decision to turn down the film. Bogart is said to have told Raft that it wasn't an important film and that he would be wasting his talents. Huston wanted Bogart all along, the two knowing each other from HIGH SIERRA and he was delighted when Raft complained that he wasn't an important enough director.
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Here is the July schedule under discussion:
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.html?tz=est&sdate=2011-07-01
Here are the May and June schedules:
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.html?tz=est&sdate=2011-05-01
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.html?tz=est&sdate=2011-06-01
You'll note the pattern in the links - just change the month in about three weeks time to "08" and the August schedule should appear.
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Ray, trust me as a fellow non-fan of June Allyson - THE SHRIKE is her best performance and a movie well-worth watching. It's one of the few that I have requested on this site. I haven't seen it since it aired on WCBS back in 1971 but it remains fresh in my mind.
It's her supposedly sweet demeanor that works for her in this role as actually she's a selfish and demanding wife who makes sure that it appears to outsiders that she's sweet and loving but all the while she's mentally torturing hubby Jose Ferrer. While admittedly the ending works against all that has gone before, it doesn't detract from her performance.
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Nice to see Robert Young get a mini-fest there. As with Fred MacMurray, his TV success seems to have blotted him out of people's memories but he was a very able leading man for some 20 years.
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>>All the advance schedules are "a work in progress", even the ones with complete listings are subject to change.
I guess I'm spoiled by the better schedules that used to be posted in advance. They may not have been 100% accurate, but at least they weren't 50% filled.
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>>If my memory serves me correctly (and Kyle will likely jump in, if not), this was a smaller, separate film festival from the current TCM Film Festival.
Wasn't it just an on-air fest, with titles such as THE FOUNTAINHEAD, SKYSCRAPER SOULS, MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE and STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET? I remember at the time thinking that it was a rather thin premise for a 20-or-so film festival during the given month.
Ahhh - did a little searching before posting and look at what I found:
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/144942|0/Architecture-In-Film.html
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They call that a schedule? I looked at the first three days and there are hours of airtime that aren't filled in. It looks more like a work-in-progress.
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You may have watched it on a black-and-white set. It was shot in color and in 3-D also.
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> > When the term "upscale" is used in THIS context, I think they're referring more to education and intelligence than purchasing power. If there were advertising of a product or service, purchasing power WOULD be relevant.
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> > I'm sure that income would have something to do with it - as in having enough discretionary funds to be able to buy all the products mentioned as being for sale at TCM.com and Barnes and Nobel (the latter on select items). The product plugs now include every title that airs that is part of the Warner Archive. When the film ends, we are reminded that we can purchase this classic title.
Edited by: clore on Apr 13, 2011 4:38 PM
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> > TCM didn't even have their usual short memorial tribute to Mr. Granger.
>>Sad.
Yes they did, I saw it several times.
Ironically though, in changing April 10 to a 24-hour salute to Elizabeth Taylor, one of the films that was scuttled that day was STRANGERS ON A TRAIN.
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What he said was that he was 50/50 over whether she was an actress or a movie star. It's actually a valid comment as she really didn't have that many opportunities to shine as a dramatic actress - certainly there weren't many vehicles for her on the level of the Kazan film. Then and now, her starring vehicles THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED, MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR or INSIDE DAISY CLOVER were not received well and a good many of her films, such as CASH McCALL, SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL, ALL THE FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS, BOMBERS B-52 are barely worth watching once.
Baldwin went on to say that he wasn't sure if he had thought she was a child star who never matured and thus relied on being cute or if she had blossomed. I got the impression that he was unfamiliar with the film - although he did not come out and say it - but that he did know something of her career and let's be honest, she didn't always have a Kazan or Nick Ray in her corner. Warners put her in a lot of crap that didn't tax her abilities but did rely upon her name to bring them in.
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>>Strange, that if the film was in fact a standard 4:3 ratio, then why did it have to be manified or enlarged beyond the standard ratio expected for television? Strange. . .
Maybe whomever is responsible for the "upgrade" to the website is now upgrading the look of the channel itself. Perhaps that explains why all the pre-1953 films in the listings are now listed as letterboxed and the post-1953 films aren't.
What next, call in that guy in the TCM Fanatic segment who rescores old films with new musical soundtracks and have him do his thing on the whole library?
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>>Personally, this movie irritates me. It seems to have been designed to irritate as many people as possible. I don't recall anything being happy in the movie.
It's a "so bad it's good" type of film. As Ray noted, it's Max Steiner's film and with the aging Gable somehow managing to deliver some of the worst-ever dialogue, we see that he's still got it. Yvonne DeCarlo is quite lovely and it's really her film just as much as GWTW is Leigh's film.
What I could not help but think of while watching it was that Walsh may have picked up more than just technique while apprenticing with D. W. Griffith. The film isn't that much more advanced in its attitudes than BIRTH OF A NATION despite being made 40 years later.
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>>The transfer supplied by Warners was not masked/letterboxed. It was the FULL 1:33 frame.
Then what is the explanation as to why the credits were cropped off on the sides?
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The credits for the film were cut-off on the sides, thus we saw "rector of Cinematography........Lucian Ballar" while they were unreeling.
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Yes, that New Orleans street was seen a bit. We also get a glimpse of it in THE IRON MISTRESS and dressed only slightly, it stands in for Paris in THE PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE.
I agree about the duel scene, that's where the cropping was most apparent. I've wanted to see this one again for a long time. The last time that I saw any of it was in the earliest days of TNT, in fact, it may even have been the first day. It aired immediately after a showing of GONE WITH THE WIND.
I do recall when it aired on the CBS Late Movie. It was on until 230am and I had to get up at 630am for work the next morning. I was 20 at the time and watched it with my brother who also had to get up, he was still in high school. We had both heard that the film was quite too awful to be believed, but I rather like it. At least there were no commercials during this viewing for me.
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I was really hoping to see this is a letterboxed form - ironically it is airing just after the TCM promo on "Letterbox" films. I mean come on, the DVD is out there in that format (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews27/band_of_angels.htm), it can't be claimed that it doesn't exist in digital form as originally presented.
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>>Perhaps those attending the Film Festival later this month will take the opportunity to mention the multitude of unresolved issues to the TCM staffers. If they hear it from a number of different individuals, they may respond.
Imagine the reaction if some TCM staffer claims that this year's festival is an "upgrade" over last year's edition.
Well, this website upgrade at least puts the lie to what the Alaskan woman claims in the Festival promo: "If TCM is connected to it, you know it's going to be good." Or words to that effect.
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>>But TCM has spoiled me rotten regarding movies in their original format -- I rely on HBO more for its original programming than movies because I cannot stand pan-and-scan!
I even sent a letter of complaint to HBO, noting that while their own original programing such as BOARDWALK EMPIRE and Bill Maher's show are aired in a wide screen format, all of the movies that they air are pan-and-scan jobs. I never got a response, but then, I didn't expect one.
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>>The Tall Target may have not made it to the Civil War line-up for this month, but it is playing Thursday June 30, at 9:45 a.m.
I think it must be worth checking out- I see it's directed by Anthony Mann.
It's especially eerie since it concerns a man named John Kennedy and his trying to foil an assassination attempt on President Lincoln.
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Here's what I have from my saved copy of the old schedule:
31 Thursday
6:15 AM Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
A team of flyers risks their lives to deliver the mail in a mountainous South American country. Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth. Dir: Howard Hawks. BW-121 mins, TV-PG, CC
8:30 AM Love Me Tonight (1932)
A Parisian tailor falls in love with a princess. Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charlie Ruggles. Dir: Rouben Mamoulian. BW-89 mins, TV-G, CC
10:00 AM Children's Hour, The (1961)
A malicious student tries to destroy the teachers at a girls' school. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner. Dir: William Wyler. BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 PM God's Little Acre (1958)
A dirt-farmer lets his family fall apart while he hunts for his grandfather's buried gold. Cast: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Tina Louise. Dir: Anthony Mann. BW-118 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
2:00 PM Of Mice and Men (1939)
A drifter and his slow-witted pal try to make their way in the West. Cast: Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney, Jr., Betty Field. Dir: Lewis Milestone. BW-106 mins, TV-14, CC
4:00 PM Trapeze (1956)
An aging trapeze star and his protigi fall for the same woman. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida. Dir: Carol Reed. C-106 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
6:00 PM Black Narcissus (1947)
Nuns founding a convent in the Himalayas are tormented by the area's exotic beauty. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Sabu, Jean Simmons. Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. C-101 mins, TV-14
8:00 PM All About Eve (1950)
An ambitious young actress tries to take over a star's career and love life. Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. BW-138 mins, TV-PG, CC
10:30 PM Last of Sheila, The (1973)
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing. Cast: Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn. Dir: Herbert Ross. C-120 mins, TV-14
12:45 AM Splendor In The Grass (1961)
Sexual repression drives a small-town Kansas girl mad during the roaring twenties. Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle. Dir: Elia Kazan. C-124 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
3:00 AM Story of G.I. Joe, The (1945)
War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins an Army platoon during World War II to learn what battle is really about. Cast: Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-108 mins, TV-14
5:00 AM Men In Exile (1937)
Gun smugglers clash with an island dictator. Cast: Dick Purcell, June Travis, Alan Baxter. Dir: John Farrow. BW-58 mins, TV-G
Oh for the good old days where we had descriptions and the right movies were indicated as being letterboxed.
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I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU with Tyrone Power
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It's also still all screwed-up as to which films are letterboxed and which ones aren't.
Who was it that gave the TCM website an award? They often refer to their "award-winning website."
There is someone at the door - they want their award back.
I think that the explanation as to why so many beloved features of the website have been gutted is that TCM outsourced the revision of the site to AMC.
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>>Yes, I keep a browser open on the TCM forums page too and yet I still get logged out, sometimes after only an hour or two...
You're lucky, I get logged out after just 15 minutes. It used to be a half-hour, but this is ridiculous. I have tabs open to six other message boards at any given moment and this is the only site that insists on kicking me off.