clore
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>>Around 1970, there was show on TV for a brief period in which celebrities answered questions about old movies. I remember that Earl Holliman was particularly good, but nothing else. Does anyone remember this show?
I recall a show titled THE MOVIE GAME hosted by Larry Blyden. Burt Reynolds was a guest one day and after there was a question about Marlon Brando, whose picture was shown, Blyden cracked that it wasn't Brando, but Reynolds in disguise.
Reynolds was probably sick and tired of comparisons to Brando by this point in his career, so he reacted by saying to Blyden that "at least it's better than being considered the poor man's Roddy McDowall" and there was a moment of silence on the part of all.
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Bravo TCM.
I just saw the promo again and the error has been fixed.
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>>It was their annual tradition to run KING KONG, SON OF KONG and MIGHTY JOE YOUNG back-to-back on Thanksgiving Day.
Unlike the other independent stations in NYC, WOR didn't run any kid's shows. The RKO gorilla films were popular with kids when aired in a block in on weekends opposite sports, so the station decided to try that on Thanksgiving in order to get a piece of the ad revenue touting Christmas sales - especially toys.
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>>I figured there had been some foreign films that were more progressive in this regard. There were others, I'm sure...films that American audiences may know very little about, because certain actors and directors did not cross the globe and work in Hollywood.
I wish that I could remember which one it was, but there was an early 30s British film that TCM aired within the last few months in which "damn" was uttered. I was surprised, then presumed that since it wasn't produced here, it didn't have to comply with the Code.
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So low budget that they used the same podiums for the band in the 20s as they did in the 50s, despite the change in location to Cuba.
Danton was good, but he's not Raft at all. He's at least a half-foot taller, better looking and had a much more pleasing speaking voice.
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The intros would be easier to take, even without the salt, if it wasn't for the constant hype about Bob Osborne being the expert. I mean didya ever see the one with Alec Baldwin talking about Bob's knowledge - it's almost embarrassing to watch. The promos in that vein set him up for a fall.
I've had the channel for a decade now and it just seems that there are far more errors lately, and it's not as if I started watching at the age of eleven and thus naturally can spot more of them.
Make no mistake - I don't expect Mr. Osborne to know every little detail. I do expect him to be better served by the research staff. To that end, they should be made to footnote their info to him so that he can have something to fall back upon when someone comes along and disputes a claim.
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But this one has nothing to do with Robert Osborne.
During the October fest, THE REPTILE and THE MUMMY'S SHROUD were shown in pan-and-scan prints.
Friday's airing of DIE, DIE, MY DARLING on "TCM Underground" was also not telecast in a letter-boxed version.
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Is this guy missing a few of his senses? One can hear a train coming, there is vibration under one's feet and a rush of wind into the station to let one know a train is coming. I know that platform well and I've been riding the trains for all of my 59 years.
If the train was so close that it could not stop in time, there's no way he could not have known that it was about to enter the station.
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You forgot The Lone Wolf.
I just have to mention that as I'm a big Warren William fan. William was Perry Mason, Philo Vance and Michael Lanyard. He rivals Tom Conway who was The Falcon, Bulldog Drummond and Mark Saber on TV. He was also The Saint and Sherlock Holmes on radio.
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I didn't think that it was that bad, although I did have the thought that it looked cheaply done. That seems to be a commonality with Bert Friedlob's films and it was especially apparent with the two films that Fritz Lang made for him.
Lang once commented on how he brought in the two titles for a total of $350k adding "including the producer's phony overhead."
I think that Parker could be well up to the task in the right material - she's quite amusing in MANY RIVERS TO CROSS as the backwoods woman who is set on snagging frontier man Robert Taylor.
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As I said in another thread on a Hedda Hopper quote, a poster on the IMDb sent me a PM with two of the questions. Since those two were also being asked in several IMDb forums by different people, I just knew it had to be a quiz, so I Googled the question in quotes and sure enough came up with the link.
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>>You should feel honored. They find out fast who the REAL experts are. Nobody has PMd ME.
While on one hand it's an honor, on the other hand it strikes me as someone who is being exploitative. If a person wanted some assistance on a quiz and admitted it, I would bend over backward to be helpful. We had someone on this board recently who wanted some help on a Museum of Modern Art photo quiz and was completely up front about it.
But the prize was a crock pot, or maybe a year's supply of Rice-A-Roni, and even the inquirer didn't want it. This person just wanted to aid the museum.
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>>Notice that when I asked her where she saw that the quote was attributed to Ms Hopper, she didn't say.
>>I wonder: had the poster won the prize, would she have shared her winnings with the one who
>>provided the correct answer? I seriously doubt it. Some people have no shame.
Some may have no shame, but a subsequent post shows that this one is quick to blame:
>>That's all I know unfortunately. I thought this forum had heaps of classic movie experts,
>>so the lack of replies is disappointing.
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It's extra annoying as they show the cover of the book in the promo, it's not as if the proper spelling wasn't right in front of them.
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>>Looks like the original poster is anxious to win a contest:
I provided the same link in a thread asking another question from that quiz. I had seen that "corner house" inquiry in numerous forums on the web (as well as several others), usually by someone who just registered that same day and all with the same exact wording.
One person even PMed me to ask for answers to two of the questions - a newbie on the IMDb.
So, I Googled the question and sure enough, everyone is trying to win a prize.
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Is she so forgotten that the graphic in the November Classic Movie News promo spells her last name as "Lamar?"
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Tom Conway plays Dr. Louis Judd in both THE CAT PEOPLE and THE SEVENTH VICTIM.
Raymond Massey plays john Brown in THE SANTA FE TRAIL and SEVEN ANGRY MEN.
Martin Kosleck played Goebbels in HITLER, THE HITLER GANG and on TV in THE LAST DAYS OF HITLER.
Speaking of Hitler, Bobby Watson played him in NAZI NUISANCE, THE DEVIL WITH HITLER, HITLER - DEAD OR ALIVE, THE HITLER GANG, A FOREIGN AFFAIR, THE STORY OF MANKIND and THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE.
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And lastly we have the intro to the final film in this month's Hammer series. In setting up FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED, Robert Osborne said it was the fifth of Hammer's seven Frankenstein films, all starring Peter Cushing.
Wrong, the sixth film, HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN starred Ralph Bates in what was a spoof remake of their own CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN. The weak reaction to it brought Cushing back for the final entry, FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL.
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Thanks for that addition - I've never managed to catch up with that one and wasn't even aware that it was in color.
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>>I think - studios each scheduled only a few Technicolor films a year because there were only so many cameras to go around... all of them owned by the Technicolor company. Some productions, such as SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, were planned as color films but ended up as b&ws because the cameras weren't available.
We were lucky to get as many Technicolor feature films as we did in 1939. Besides the two Victor Fleming films there were also:
DODGE CITY
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX
JESSE JAMES
THE FOUR FEATHERS
DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK
THE LITTLE PRINCESS
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>>In fact, Rod Serling might have gotten some ideas from this film.
The TZ episode "Twenty Two" does steal the "room for one more" premise from the "Hearse Driver" segment of this film. And the ventriloquist segment was used also to some degree, but that theme goes back even further to the 1929 film THE GREAT GABBO.
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Oh for the days when THE SWORD AND THE DRAGON played 16 times in a week on The Million Dollar Movie.
The George Raft Story(1962)
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I happen to like Danton very much. He was one of a number of actors who went from Universal to Warners (Grant Williams, Richard Long, Rex Reason, Jack Kelly, William Reynolds, Troy Donahue among others) and was shoved around from one series to another, and appearing in loads of movies with few leads.
Danton was born too late, 15 or 20 years earlier he probably would have enjoyed greater success being as handsome as any matinee idol but also capable of a toughness usually not associated with such types.