clore
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Plus "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" on Monday
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>>It's interesting that he could play brawn, but he could also play softer musical roles. He was definitely a versatile performer and not given the credit he deserves.
Funny how Cagney wanted to go from tough guy to musical performer while Payne and Dick Powell went the opposite route.
Payne is one of the unsung noir heroes with at least five gems. Three of them air tomorrow and I'll throw in 99 RIVER STREET and SLIGHTLY SCARLET. If one want to call THE BOSS a noir, I won't argue since it should please fans anyway.
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Better watch out, someone might get upset at the sight of some nipples.
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Warners even recycled scripts for their TV shows. WHITE HEAT became an episode of BOURBON STREET BEAT and both STRANGERS ON A TRAIN and DIAL M FOR MURDER became chapters of 77 SUNSET STRIP.
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And HOUSE OF STRANGERS was remade yet again as the circus-based THE BIG SHOW.
Fox also remade THE LODGER as MAN IN THE ATTIC.
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>>I wonder how MGM justified remaking it so quickly in the 40s...perhaps because the Garland-Johnson version was in Technicolor and obviously had songs added.
I guess that Goldwyn had similar reasons for remaking BALL OF FIRE as A SONG IS BORN, even using the same director.
Speaking of same director remakes, Raoul Walsh remade THE STRAWBERRY BLOND AS ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON by adding music, OBJECTIVE BURMA was set in Florida and called DISTANT DRUMS and HIGH SIERRA was set in the West as COLORADO TERRITORY.
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Looks like Alfred E. Newman to me.
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>>They're actually showing her in two other films after The Great Ziegfeld, but I'm too lazy to look up which two.
*The Good Earth*
*The Great Ziegfeld*
*The Great Waltz*
The not so great nor even especially good *Dramatic School*
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I'd be willing to settle for just one day in August as long as they stuck to the pre-Code portion of his career.
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>>And, I hope that others who feel the same way will take this opportunity to publicly make the same pledge, right here in this thread. And, in any other Hot Spell threads that you start.
If they don't do something about these continued "requests," I won't even watch TCM during a HOT SPELL.
Rearrange the letters and you get SPOT HELL, a nice spot for the OP to visit.
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>>Tighter, and with funnier gags- I never tire of Cary replaying Scott on the rings.
Sorry Tiki, that's MY FAVORITE WIFE. I mix them up also, the endings are very similar.
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I remember seeing this on the ABC Sunday Movie in 1965. My mother saw it in the theater and she said that quite a few lines were blanked out. It's the first time that I can remember lips moving but nothing coming out. Usually any offending scene would just be cut out.
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Applying a 2011 perspective to a nearly 50 year-old film will do that.
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>>I have come to the conclusion that, "Elvis' 1964 film Kissin' Cousins was the beginning of "Girls Gone Wild and the disrespect of women in film. Happy Birthday Elvis!"
I suggest that you avoid the 1959 version of LI'L ABNER.
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>>My guest made Sheridan Whiteside look like a pussycat.
Now you know why "guest" rhymes with "pest."
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Kreuger is the one who coined the phrase "three on a match" as a bad omen to sell more matches. Warren William's previous film before THE MATCH KING was THREE ON A MATCH.
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>>Maybe MM visited Stuart Whitman.
It might have been Whitman Mayo.
Whitman's chocolate and mayonnaise - sounds like Homer Simpson's favorite dessert.
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>>The time-fillers are excruciating! They are so repetitious. It's the same ones over and over.
I have to agree. There were about 18 minutes of program followed by 12 minutes of fluff. It would have been better to run three shorts in a row and cut down on the filler.
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It's probably there to foil bootleggers and YouTube uploaders.
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Hey tut, whatcha doin' in this neck of the woods?
My guess is that because THE BOLD AND THE BRAVE was one of the last RKO releases, it's either tied up in legal limbo or else there just isn't a digital copy existing that would be compatible with TCM's standard.
The film was produced by Hal E. Chester, a former actor who was in some of the Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys movies. Perhaps the rights reverted back to him.
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>>Most of the time, right before they get to the cast, the credits are scrunched up so that it is difficult to read the actors' names.
Yet another reason why I avoid watching TV episodes. On the Fox Movie Channel they squeeze the end credits so that Tom Rothman can babble on about the film's "legacy." Some legacy, those who worked on the film get shoved to the bottom of the screen and the end credit music is wiped out by loudmouth Tom.
The good thing is that they can't do that with older films since the end credits barely run 15 seconds.
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>>I used to watch these marathons religiously until I got the definitive DVD editions, whose restored video/audio and UNCUT presentations make for much more pleasant viewings.
And it's even more pleasant for those who order it today from Amazon where until midnight, one can get the 28-disc set for 99 bucks.
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>>I do hope that TCM will be able to run DOWN TO EARTH again. I was very disappointed that the film ran longer than the block of time that indicated.
I fell asleep during IN OLD KENTUCKY, a shame as i love films about thoroughbreds. The problem was that the first half-hour was spent on the shotgun-toting grandfather which became annoying. I woke up just a few minutes before DOWN TO EARTH started, so I have no idea of where the timing slip was created. It just struck me when the film ended since the on-screen graphic showed SOUNDER as starting at 630am, but the clock on my cable box said it was 638am.
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Originally the Kaye Ballard role was to star Carol Channing. However, Mitchell Leisen turned her down when she would only do it with certain script improvements. According to Leisen, these "improvements" were on the level of a gag having Channing fall down an open manhole.
William Bendix 1.14
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THE GLASS KEY was on the other day, Bendix fans are having a ball.