clore
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That's easy - I can base it off my own experience working in programming at TV stations.
A station will usually buy a film or a package of films under the terms of so many runs over so many years. Whatever films are under lease are referred to as the station's library. Sometimes it even said "Film Library" on the door of the room where the films (or tapes) are stored.
The method of storage and presentation may have changed as we've entered the digital age, but it's generally considered that whatever films are presently under license encompass the station's library. Sometimes the dictionary is slower to change relative to technology, that's why a certain company still calls itself "Dial-A-Mattress" instead of making reference to pushing buttons.
If TCM wants/needs to step out of its own "library" to honor a deceased artist, this is the kind of situation to which Osborne and Megan Buckle-Robinson were referring.
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>>I do find the whole idea of his being accused of having a massive sex **** at this home, amusing to say the least. He just was doing what others in Hollywood sometimes did behind closed doors.
I do feel sorry for him in that regard as he got the worst of it whereas the likes of Flynn and Mitchum somehow managed survived with their careers intact. These days a situation like that gets one a contract, back then he was a sacrificial lamb to "prove" that the studios weren't vice dens.
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No, there's nothing wrong with being gainfully employed, but Poverty Row was a long way from the glory days of supporting Gable, Tracy and Colbert in BOOM TOWN or appearing in Lubitsch's TO BE OR NOT TO BE.
Of course, it could be just a coincidence that he wasn't in any films from the majors such as Fox, WB or MGM after 1943 but what he was doing at the end hardly counts as a career revival of "major status."
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>>When he died in 1946, his career had been sort of revived into major status with a string of classic horror movie hits!
Hey, I like the guy but that sure is stretching the truth. Atwill was reduced to practically cameo appearances in HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and HOUSE OF DRACULA and having to accept roles at PRC and Republic. The big studios closed their doors to him after the scandal that was big news in 1943 but wouldn't raise an eyebrow now. Only the mini-major Universal kept him steadily employed, but the good years were over once the verdict came in.
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters
Rodan
Ghidorah the 3-Headed Monster
Godzilla vs. Monster Zero
The H-Man
will all air in June, so that has to bring you some satisfaction.
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It's a good thing that a higher power was not judging the fate of the human race by the quality of that film.
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That's probably because it's a dead issue now, you can see today's schedule - it is no longer stuck on March 14th.
However, it won't go past today now.
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Man Hunt is out on DVD, has been for over a year now.
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>>Indeed, the dog's name in the Topper TV series was Neil
True, but he was credited as being played by "Buck" so both previous posters were correct.
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Fortunately I have a copy of THE GODFATHER on DVD and THE GODFATHER SAGA on VHS. I'm also in NYC, but you couldn't pay me to watch AMC with its 50% commercial load (ad time is half the length of the movie airing) and the bombardment of promos on the bottom of the screen while the movie is airing.
26 months ago I swore I would never watch the channel again and it's one New Year's resolution that I've kept. I had watched the 80-minute MACHINE GUN KELLY in a two-hour slot which meant 40 minutes of ads for **** extenders (two different brands), **** pumps (possibly Medicaid approved) and finger-tip vibrators for women. I suppose they missed a bet by not offering Machine Gun Jelly for such occasions.
Every break had the same ads, they just mixed up the order of them, although some played twice within the same pod. I'm no prude, they could have been selling swamp land in Florida and Schaefer beer as WCBS used to do in the wee hours, the repetition was annoying and the breaks long enough to have me forget what i was watching in the first place.
Then when we returned to the movie, the bottom quarter of the screen had little animated characters telling me that a new episode of MAD MEN was airing next week.
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Last year it was announced that AMC has exclusive rights to THE GODFATHER and the sequels through December 31, 2019.
"The Godfather is recognized as one of the greatest sagas ever told on film," said Tom Halleen, AMC's Senior Vice President of programming and scheduling. "AMC is proud to be the exclusive long-term basic cable home to this incredible franchise, for the next decade. The Godfather acquisition, as well as our ongoing commitment to quality original series, underscores AMC's promise to provide the best stories on television. The latest investment further represents AMC's commitment to continually expand *its extensive movie library.*"
Couldn't resist the bolding above.
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>>I guess that's more marketable than Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sleep.
Slight correction, it's "Sheep" not ""Sleep" - as in counting sheep.
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KRAKATOA - EAST OF JAVA had a malfunctioning compass.
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It just came out on DVD a couple of months ago, courtesy of Universal's made-on-demand DVD program. I bring that up only as it means a digital copy is available for TCM to consider.
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THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL is supposed to be a comedy but I could not find one laugh in it.
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The cast is actually not a bad one, although it would take another decade for Lee Marvin to get his due and Jack Palance would be supporting him more than once. I really wish that Marvin would have had a shot at the Earle role, it might have made the difference to the film being just another remake or one that is fondly remembered.
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>>I remember Gwenn saying he had to 'bury' his cousin
Cecil Kellaway? You know, the guy who ended up wishing he didn't turn down MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET.
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I'm looking at the unidentified March schedule now. So, while just perusing the first week or so, I'll use March 2 as an example of "What's wrong with this picture?"
Movies of the 30s and 40s are apparently letterboxed, but age appropriate ones such as AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS and EAST OF EDEN aren't.
2 Wednesday
6:45 AM
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Cast: James Cagney, Walter Huston, Joan Leslie. Dir: Michael Curtiz.
BW-126 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format
9:00 AM
Jezebel (1938)
Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Fay Bainter. Dir: William Wyler.
BW-104 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
10:50 AM
MARINES IN THE MAKING (1942)
BW-9 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
11:00 AM
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Cast: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Barbara O'Neil. Dir: Anatole Litvak.
BW-143 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
1:30 PM
Captain Blood (1935)
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone. Dir: Michael Curtiz.
BW-119 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format
3:45 PM
Kings Row (1942)
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan. Dir: Sam Wood.
BW-127 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
5:53 PM
A Boy and His Dog (1946)
Cast: Harry Davenport, Billy Sheffield, Russell Simpson. Dir: LeRoy Prinz.
BW-21 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
6:15 PM
Four Daughters (1938)
Cast: Claude Rains, John Garfield, Priscilla Lane. Dir: Michael Curtiz.
BW-90 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM
East of Eden (1955)
Cast: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris. Dir: Elia Kazan.
C-118 mins, TV-PG,
10:00 PM
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Cast: David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, Cantinflas. Dir: Michael Anderson.
C-182 mins, TV-G,
1:07 AM
SWINGTIME IN THE MOVIES (1938)
C-20 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
1:30 AM
Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes (1984)
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowall, Ralph Richardson. Dir: Hugh Hudson.
BW-137 mins, TV-MA,
4:00 AM
Obsession (1976)
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Genevieve Bujold, John Lithgow. Dir: Brian Da Palma.
C-98 mins, TV-14,
5:41 AM
CALGARY STAMPEDE (1949)
C-18 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Reagan and Ann Sheridan were announced, but by all that I've read, it was just a puff release to get the title out there as well as the names of two players from KINGS ROW which was just in release.
If you haven't read Rudy Behlmer's INSIDE WARNER BROS. I can highly recommend it. Loads of info to be gained by reading the inside studio communications and transcripts of phone calls - such as one where Bogart is refusing to do CONFLICT and Jack Warner is doing his darndest to convince him otherwise.
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Raft did not turn down CASABLANCA - he never got the chance. He wanted the role, but a memo from Hal Wallis to Jack Warner claims that it's Bogie's part all the way and that Raft having "not made a film around here since I was a small boy" was being punished for being so uncooperative.
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Are you sure that you're looking at an Eastern Time Zone guide? I see an 8pm start all this week.
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>>Sometimes Scott pronounced a word like "work" as "woik," just as someone from New York City (or as a stereotypical Brooklynite) might.
Having been born in Brooklyn, I always get a kick when he says that he "hoyd" something. Maybe they hired a Brooklynite to coach away his Southern accent. Ray Milland said that when he first (or "foist") got here, he was told to get a "coach" to hang out with and he innocently chose a young lady from the south which made his Welch accent even stranger to those hearing it at the time.
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>>She was cloned by her father. Did you see her in Psycho? She was a little dumpling.
What was it she said, "He must have noticed my wedding ring." Poor gal, not to have seedy old Sam Wainwright hitting on her.
Hee haw!
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>>No, I didnt mean the bus was from the Wrong Man, but Strangers on a Train.......
Sorry, I misunderstood the first time around.
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>>I don't know why people here would keep insisting that TCM doesn't have a Film Library.
I think that it comes up when someone is under the misunderstanding that TCM owns the library, or at least owns the RKO/MGM/WB titles that it used to own prior to Ted Turner's exit. Both TNT and TCM were launched with this as a promotional point and not everyone realizes the changes in the corporate structure since then.