clore
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I've got this turkey on right now - can they stretch out the hospital scene any longer? And where are the angels to welcome him to heaven? That's about all that they missed.
What a revolting development this is!
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>>Whatever he could get away with.
Wait, are we talking about THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR or THE UNINVITED?
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Well, there's an Al Adamson film on the Underground this week. That will surely be the worst for October.
Although THE BABE RUTH STORY is pretty bad. I read once that his widow said that Bendix was all wrong, that she and Babe would have preferred Paul Douglas. Casting another actor would not have altered the script any and this is where the film's problems really began.
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Jeff Chandler appeared in a good one titled THE TATTERED DRESS. Probably pretty much forgotten now, the story of the trial of a man who avenges his wife's rape beat ANATOMY OF A MURDER to the screen by two years.
Very nice supporting cast including Jack Carson, Jeanne Crain, Gail Russell and taut direction by Jack Arnold - a guy who could do just about anything well but still ended up doing doing GILLIGAN'S ISLAND and THE BRADY BUNCH despite being as talented as Don Siegel or Robert Aldrich when it come to squeezing the most out of a buck.
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You must mean Aleksandr Ptushko.
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>>You folks might want to check in with your ear doctor.
I just had a physical a few weeks ago. My hearing is exceptional according to the doctor.
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>>I wish we had TCM HD in NYC. I guess there aren't enough of us in this town.
As I understand, it isn't as big a deal as one might believe as they are really just upconverting the standard signal. But if it results in issues such as the OP is having, I'll stick with what we've got here in NYC. With the increasing number of flubs, I'm wishing that they would go back to tape copies. There seem to be more mistakes made in 2010 than I've seen in all previous years (since 2000) combined.
But I'm sure they'll have a meeting to decide which day of next week they should get together to plan a meeting to discuss this in the future.
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>>Robert must have forgotten about The Creeping Unknown's original British release title - The Quatermass Xperiment. The unique spelling was to promote/exploit the "X" certificate the film received as well as the later X the Unknown.
Had he mentioned that, he would have added his own unique pronunciation and called it "The QUARtermass Xperiment." Maybe they left it out just to spare us.
Now if they could only find a way to keep him from saying Harry Cohn's last name as "Cohen."
EDITED TO ADD;
See, he just did it again - five times he referred to QUARtermass.
Edited by: clore on Oct 22, 2010 9:32 PM
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>>That's a scream! My laugh for the day...
Thank you, thank you. I had to be very careful with the wording and also count on someone knowing the reference.
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>>Interesting that the alleged line that Charles Boyer is known for, "Come with me to the Casbah" makes it sound as if the Casbah is a romantic haven, rather than a teeming tenement district.
Being about five when I was first exposed to Looney Tunes, my sister and I used to think that Pepe LePew was saying "Come with me to the cat's box."
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Perhaps Taylor's looking that way had to do with his depression over being cast in the film in the first place. But while he may have looked as if he aged rapidly, it's not as if he continued on that spiral. He pretty much looked 50 up until the time he started doing DEATH VALLEY DAYS by which point his illness had him looking somewhat haggard.
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The film is in public domain so perhaps they just found a different supplier. It is a bit better than the one I saw a couple of years ago.
At least it didn't start with the Nation Film Museum logo. That outfit has no shame whatsoever, they once supplied TCM with a print of VAMPIRE BAT that had footage that never existed in the film in the first place. They just padded it with footage from some silent film that had nothing to do with the original at all.
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Pee Wee Herman once played - oops, forget I mentioned that, different subject.
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However, as far as I know, there is no such street as Skid Row.
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>>LOL. Yeah, I decided to look it up right after writing that. Felt VERY stupid
Don't feel too bad about it. Just yesterday in a thread on the IMDb that got to the point where someone asked about Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier, I mentioned that Hoffman was the presenter at the 1979 Oscar ceremonies for Sir Larry's award.
I went on to say that Hoffman gave a rather incoherent, rambling speech, doing Olivier no favors.
Someone came back with the text of Olivier's own rather strange acceptance speech. I asked "where did you ever find that?" and was told "I Googled it."
I didn't bother to say "I asked where, not how." But I do want to say that my response was not meant to have you feeling stupid.
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>>LOL!!!!
>>I remember those sweaters!
You never saw him working. Did he ever have a job? I remember a Mad magazine parody of the show. Ozzie was shown sitting in his chair, sweater on and reading the newspaper. But there are things clipped out of it and Harriet explains that she removes the articles that would cause him anxiety.
But another mention in the spoof was that Ozzie never refers to having an occupation.
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Karen Steele was also Boetticher's main squeeze at the time and there were announcements that he would marry her as soon as his divorce was final. Somehow the relationship died rather quickly and Budd married Debra Paget just as fast. That didn't last long, but the man had a good eye for the ladies.
Steele actually does a decent job in MARTY where she is deglammed to some extent and entirely believable as the sister-in-law experiencing some problems with her live-in mother-in-law.
She may not have much to do in WESTBOUND but there is a key scene that she handles well. Her husband has arrived home from the Civil War and is missing an arm. When they first meet again, she rushes to embrace him and there is a look of realizing "my man is missing something" and then she regains her composure.
And i like the look on her face when she waves goodbye to Scott at the end of that film. When the camera would emphasize her face, she was capable of revealing emotion.
Edited by: clore on Oct 21, 2010 3:49 PM
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In the film MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES, Clarence Kolb plays himself - 50 years later than the events depicted.
Sophia Loren played herself and her mother in a TV movie.
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>>I had never heard of Park Row. Does it still exist? (the street?)
It's there, you can see it illustrated by going into Google Maps and inputting Park Row.
The big electronics store J&R Music World is on Park Row.
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>>LOL! What stress?
The hassles of having to decide which sweater to wear each day.
Or else he was worried that Harriet might find out that he was "screen testing" many of the starlets that were playing the girlfriends of Ricky and David.
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True, Beaver's friends don't seem to get as much mention as Wally's. I always liked Larry Mondello, perhaps just because his last name was a bit more ethnic and similar to my friends in what was an Italian/German NYC neighborhood of my youth.
Gilbert was another one who seems to be forgotten even though his portrayer was the son of actor Lyle Talbot and has had considerable success as a producer for PBS. Perhaps it's because he has shunned anything related to the reunions and won't do nostalgia shows that he's just a faint memory.
I do remember much being made at the time of Veronica Cartwright playing Violet Rutherford, but a lot of that was because her sister Angela was also on Danny Thomas' sitcom.
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>>So what's the purpose of the character? I just don't understand why she's there.
She's the neutral observer. She questions Brigade's motives, Billy tries to use her to help get free, knowing full well that the others have too much at stake to aid him. Boone admits to her that he wants to kill Brigade, Brigade tells her the story of the tree...
Exposition is bounced off her, she gets to ask the questions that the audience is wondering, all in the purpose of moving the story along.
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I gave up on it and came back to the boards - only I insisted that I was not going to be the one to bring up yet another screw-up. Had someone else not mentioned it, I would have let it go and resign myself to the supposition that it's becoming futile to comment.
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>>Richard Boone in The Tall T, only talked about wanting a place of his own but you felt his greed was more powerful than his desire to reform. With this Boone it wasn't so clear. Like rohanaka questioned, would he stick with his want to go straight or is it a pipe dream.
I think that if Richard Boone had gotten his ranch, he would have given it up as it involved too much work. This is a man who is responsible for the death of a child, even if it was his henchman that did it. He might like to think he's different than the animals that he rides with, but as Brennan noted, he does ride with them. It's too late for Usher to find his moral compass.
But Sam Boone is different - we don't know the extent of his crimes, but he does appear to be basically decent. Little things like worrying about the passengers on the stage bring that out. Usher would have dumped them in the well. If Boone earned his amnesty by killing Brigade, he would step over the line and probably not be able to cross back, even though he could fool himself for a few days, months or years.
But while these may appear to be simple little programmers shot in two weeks on a minimal budget, what makes them stand up today against bigger-budgeted brethren is that that appearance is deceptive. They've transcended their origins. They're a lot more psychological than those big westerns that coined the phrase in the 50s, it's just that few paid attention.
You never saw him working. Did he ever have a job?
alexander ptushco
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>>Oh, golly. That's the least of it.
>>I'm trying to determine if English is this guy's first language.
I didn't get much further than the subject line. I won't pay much attention to any post where a person demonstrates that he/she is shift-key-challenged.