clore
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LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE wasn't a remake although it was a film that Wellman wanted to make for years.
Some of the titles with Bogart (INVISIBLE STRIPES, THE GREAT O'MALLEY, THREE ON A MATCH) aired during last December's Bogart fest.
I forget if it was a MacMahon or Kibbee day about two years ago, but about five films with the duo aired on the anniversary of one of them.
Similarly for Kay Francis, there was a month-long tribute within the past two years.
I saw SH! THE OCTOPUS late one night within the last two years, I could barely keep awake but a friend told me there was a great man-into-monster transformation scene. It was good, but I'd think of burning the rest of the film.
UNION DEPOT ran twice in the last two years or so - fairly close together. Marvelous movie.
But you are on target in saying these films don't air often enough on a relative scale. It seems that there is always a reason to drag out FROM HERE TO ETERNITY or A PLACE IN THE SUN ten times a year. CASABLANCA is on tomorrow and it just aired on Monday. Granted that these three are Oscar-winning/nominated films, but many of the others here deserve exposure.
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Odds botkins - did I make that mistake again? I made that mistake a few years ago when writing about the Private Screenings show with the former child stars.
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I didn't either, but having watched the whole thing and then realizing that I didn't spot him, I checked the IMDb. I wonder if he was to be a playmate for Dickie Jones in a scene.
Right now Mick's doing double duty, besides TCM, he's on ABC - his voice anyway - in SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN.
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Ironically, while UPPERWORLD is airing as part of a Mickey Rooney salute, his part was actually deleted from the film prior to release.
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At least it's one film for Warren William's birthday.
My candidate for a Summer Under the Stars tribute.
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Add THE SILVER CORD to the McCrea or Dunne list. Another John Cromwell film that I've yet to see on TCM is VILLAGE TALE.
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>>Yeah, it was awful. I didn't know what kind of accent it was supposed to be until he said something about "Russia".
I'm certain that were he playing a Frenchman, Barton would have used the same accent. However, I will say that I never would have pegged this big-city tough guy as being born in South Carolina. Maybe somehow that enabled him to move from crime films to westerns and not miss a beat.
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>>From the description I read using my cable guide, SHE'S WORKING HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE was a reworking of THE MALE ANIMAL
And Don DeFore was in both of them, but the second time around he got an upgrade to what was the Jack Carson role.
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>>Can rarely go wrong with Barton MacLane in a B!
I had to laugh at that accent though. Not often though that one sees a film directed by Pearly Gates of the George Sanders "Saint" films (and the guy in the trunk in WHITE HEAT).
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I wonder if someone made a mistake. All day long we have Virginia Mayo - until 645pm where CAPTAIN SCARFACE makes an appearance. The top-billed female in the film is Virginia Grey. Coincidence?
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>>What is it about Columbia that they hire and promote miscreants to the top levels of power?
Don't forget Guber/Peters, the subject of a fascinating book titled "Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood."
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Bedbugs. No kidding, close to an epidemic here in NYC it seems.
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Maybe if he watched the latest "Moguls and Movie Stars" he might have heard the name enough times to realize it's Harry Cohn with the last name as "Cone" instead of "Cohen."
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>>Well, I think a lot of us are adult enough to handle it. LOL I didn't see the documentary, though I did reference it in my original post...now, I wish I had seen it!
You can on January 18.
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>>Burning spoilers give you so much less
Are you paraphrasing Brian Eno?
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Is that all one sentence?
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>>Thanks for the correction. I guess I can no longer add and subtract.
Don't feel bad. Sometimes I'll figure the difference between someone's birth year and the year 2000, then forget to add the years from 2000 - 2010.
My ex was fairly good in math, always kept the checkbook balanced. Yet to figure how many hours there were between 430pm-1030pm, she had to count it on her fingers.
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>>People should check out the book "Genius of the System"
A great book, I was pleased when I saw its author Thomas Schatz in last week's chapter of the series.
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>>But, Peter was actually 32 when he made Tail Gunner Joe, and he lived another 29 years. But, having a dead man play Joe McCarthy would be interesting.
Actually, he was 42, but the thought of Boyle having an additional 10 years for us to enjoy is s nice one.
Ed Asner was a good Huey Long that same year in *The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish*, another one I'd like to see again.
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I'm surprised that EXECUTIVE ACTION hasn't shown up on the schedule. Especially since I bought the DVD a year ago (for $5.70) and usually when I buy a film that I haven't seen in years, it shows up on the schedule a few months later.
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While there are a few made-for-TV movies that i would not mind seeing air on TCM, I'd be surprised to see a mini-series ever show up. Wasn't WASHINGTON: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS 12 hours long (with commercials)? I thought that there was no difference between Robards as Monckton and Robards as Al Capone.
BLIND AMBITION with Martin Sheen as John Dean was a good one.
Wouldn't mind seeing Peter Boyle as TAIL GUNNER JOE again
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>>I enjoyed the show but wonder?would this movie had been better had Joel and Randolph switched roles? To elaborate on that would require telling more than I wish to?but I think it might have been better.
I've read that the roles were reversed when they started shooting, but that both leads thought that they would be better off switching. I prefer it as is, McCrea always seemed basically decent, even in COLORADO TERRITORY where he played a western version of Roy Earle. Scott had WESTERN UNION and THE SPOILERS on his list of credits, even if he was usually the stalwart hero.
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>>Anyway, from what I saw on standard TCM the film did not look restored or at any rate different from the DVD print- other than that white object flaw which is onscreen for at least a few minutes of film time. I wish I could say exactly where i saw it in the film but can't recall.
Apparently they can honor a restoration outfit without using restored prints. A few months ago there was a 24-hour tribute to the UCLA film preservation team that had at least one public domain copy of a Sherlock Holmes film. It was no match for the restored edition in my DVD collection.
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>>It's Rothman, not Rothmann. He's a Jew, not a German. (If I knew how to do a smiley face, I'd do one)
You'll have to forgive me, I was uncertain of the spelling, so when I put the name with the double "n" in Google last night and saw the link below (among others), I presumed I was using the correct spelling:
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One additionally sad thing about it is that we seldom get to see Cameron Mitchell in such a sympathetic role. I sure wish that someone would dig up FACE OF FIRE, another fatherly role for Cam and a rarely-seen-anymore example of a B film with class.