clore

>>That's the one I most want to record tonight. It sounds interesting. This is one of those British films that I hope is closed-captioned. I recall the accents as being a bit rough. Not as difficult as KES. but tough enough. One never knows, it could have just been the acoustics where i saw it (gulp) 39 years ago.

>>I lived in Forest Hills and Rego Park many many years ago. Oh, did you? My ex lived on Alderton St., just off 63rd Drive when we met. My son presently lives on Saunders St, just a block away from the old Trylon theater. I've been in Jackson Heights since 1973. I wish you luck on the print quality of the Ladd and Cooper DVDs. I have CITY STREETS on VHS from a WNET airing in the early 80s, I wonder if it will still play. I'm hoping these things will show up on TCM when the MCA stuff starts becoming more plentiful.

>>I feel your pain. Although I do prefer letterboxing over pan-and-scan, I find I can't enjoy a subtitled movie when I'm reading instead of watching. When I do watch one I 'watch' it, taking in the original language as I ignore the subtitles. I'd much prefer an accurate over-dubbing. Actually, I was being sarcastic. I don't mind the subtitles, after a while I don't even realize I'm reading them. Except when I have to read white captions on a white or light background, then it's frustrating. I much prefer the closed-caption style of white text on a dark backgrounded box. I don't mind dubbing for spaghetti westerns, Japanese monster and Italian gladiator movies, it adds to the goofy fun. But when I see Stewart Granger's lips move and someone else's voice come out, it's very disconcerting. As for THE BRIDE WORE BLACK, I was not impressed - not in 1968 nor a few months ago when TCM last aired it. TAXI DRIVER is another one I'll be passing on. I drove a cab during NYC's financial crunch period, when I was between jobs. The work was not pleasant and the film isn't either. Whatever social message the film contains is lost on me - not that I can't figure it out, I just don't buy it. I do want to see THE NIGHT DIGGER though, I liked it back in 1971 and want to see if it holds up. I don't expect TCM to be programming for my tastes all day long. I've got enough VHS and DVDs to keep me occupied during such spells, or I could always find a chore or two to do.

>>Today's truckload of Greer Garson movies is a real treat. What an attractive woman. There's also the double treat of her perfect on-screen mate - Walter Pigeon. Yeah, but then what happens at 8pm? They got one of those color letterboxed films, with subtitles yet! What - Sunday morning at 2am isn't enough? We gotta watch these foreign movies that were made for foreign people, like there's not enough good movies made in English.

I'm in Queens, NY and there isn't a Costco anywhere near me. I keep reading of friends catching great DVD deals there or at Big Lots, but a 75-minute trip to the one Big Lots store around only yielded me a few steak knives. All that they had were some public domain titles. My brother picked up a Warner Gangsters Volume 1 at Costco for 18 dollars. He lives in Lancaster Pa and on my next trip there, I'll take a look. The two Ladd films are items I'd like to have, I've not seen either since the early 70s. CHICAGO DEADLINE is a cousin of sorts to both LAURA and the Black Dahlia case and was remade as FAME IS THE NAME OF THE GAME for TV. Being a fan of both Walsh and Ladd, as well as of thoroughbred racing, I found SALTY O'ROURKE a delight. It was Stanley Clements' time to play a jockey, it seemed that he and Frankie Darro alternated such roles. Gail Russell is as lovely as always. I must confess to being paranoid about dealing with companies that offer bootlegs. One really has no recourse if ordering an illegal film and the order is unfulfilled. I'm certainly not about to give them credit card or bank account info either, but as I said, I'm paranoid about identity theft. I once made a donation to my PBS station on a new credit card in order to get a premium for my then three-year-old son. It was the only time that card was used. A volunteer used the card number to order all sorts of merchandise. I got it straightened out, but it took a few months and caused some problems at the time.

>>I think there is more healing before he could go off with Annie. It was also a nice touch by Boetticher to avoid the usual "in-a-clinch" fade-out of so many other films with similar endings. He does this in several of the Scott films and it's a refreshing change of pace that may have been a concession to the age gap between Scott and his leading ladies, but it works anyway. By similar endings, I'll refer to a film that I saw recently where Scott is making plans at the end with a woman whose dead fiance is only a few feet away out of scene, having been killed only moments before. It's like the laughable smooch at the end of some Universal horror films that goes on while the house is burning in the background and the heroine's family are dead or dying inside.

VICKI isn't bad at all, even if you're familiar with the original, I WAKE UP SCREAMING. Richard Boone is quite acceptable in the Laird Cregar role and Aaron Spelling is good enough in the Elisha Cook part that one wishes he stayed with acting rather than going into production.No doubt, with that puss he would have been typecast however. The big problem is Elliott Reid in the Victor Mature role. Boone calls him "pretty boy" but he doesn't even have that much going for him and certainly not Mature's virility.

33 dollars for the Holmes set? Wow! The set that I bought is $105.00 at Amazon. It was knocked down to 61 dollars at Deep Discount and I had a 25% off coupon. and I thought I got a bargain. I've gotten three of the Fox Chan sets recently for between 18 and 20 dollars (only missing the third volume now) and am going to pounce on the Mr. Moto films if I see a similar deal.

>>Pictures don't post in the General Discussions Forum. It's been a problem since they revamped the boards. Maybe because a picture is worth 10,000 words? Are we using up bandwidth?

What I would do to this if I had Photoshop skills: Hmmm, not coming out. The preview works fine. Edited by: clore on Sep 28, 2009 10:34 PM

>>Soon after its initial release in 1960, a situation arose based primarily on local transportation problems. In smaller cities, where bus service from the outlying areas was the main means of transit, the last busses were leaving before the film ended. As a result at least 30 minutes was cut from the film. No offense to the OP who was merely passing along information, and not to demean the restoration efforts, but that has to be one of the dumbest excuses I've ever read. It was not as if THE ALAMO was the first 3 hour-plus film to be released. Was bus service better when GONE WITH THE WIND, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS or BEN HUR were in release? It was more likely simple greed, the desire to be able to book an additional showing per day that prompted the cuts.

>>It might be as simple as showing more color movies...I think that's a big part of it and a real minus, IMHO. I know. don't you just hate it when they run: GONE WITH THE WIND DIVE BOMBER DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK WESTERN UNION GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT BECKY SHARP NOTHING SACRED PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX THE JOLSON STORY DESPERADOES WIZARD OF OZ A SONG TO REMEMBER MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS NATIONAL VELVET BILLY THE KID MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM CAPTAINS OF THE CLOUDS JUNGLE BOOK THIEF OF BAGDAD ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA

The leather one Scott is wearing in HANGMAN'S KNOT. It shows up a lot, even in Scott's last film.

When I look at the unopened stack, at first I get annoyed with myself. Then I remember that what I have bought was purchased because I got items that I wanted at bargain prices. I have a restored THE GODFATHER that cost me only 8 dollars, an OF MICE AND MEN that cost me only 5 dollars. That one I would have watched, but it arrived only two days before TCM aired it in July. I did check it out after seeing the TCM copy, only to see if it had the same audio problems, and it did. I got the 14 Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films for 46 bucks about a month ago and that one I have gotten through half-way. I bought a three-pack of RAWHIDE, GARDEN OF EVIL and THE GUNFIGHTER for 10 dollars and that is the most likely next DVD premiere in my home. I've never seen the Cooper film in widescreen, so that one will be first.

>>Didn't you love those cheap cardboard glasses?.... Somewhere around here, I still have the glasses that I got when I saw the 1961 film THE MASK which had select scenes in 3D. I was born in 1951, so I missed most of them except for those that were revived. I did see the Hitchcock film, but he didn't really strive for 3D effects. I saw the first "Creature" film and IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE in revivals, plus THE HOUSE OF WAX several times.

Could it have been THUNDER IN THE SUN which concerned Basques? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053359/

I wish that I saw it in 3D. The only westerns I've seen in that format were a revival of HONDO and COMIN' AT YA when it was first released. I've read that the latter will be re-released soon, albeit in a SIN CITY color scheme. Let's see if there's going to be anyone complaining about the de-colorization of a movie.

When Scott holds the rifle over his head, he sort of looks like a letter "T." I knew there had to be a simple explanation.

Part of today's Donna Reed fest (the second one this month it seems) is Raoul Walsh's GUN FURY. Given the recent subject matter of this thread, it should prove an interesting film to many of you. Rock Hudson plays a Civil War vet who is dead set on recovering his wife who was kidnapped by a vicious outlaw gang. At least she's alive, usually Randolph Scott's similar missions involved his being a widower. Lee Marvin, Neville Brand and Leo V.Gordon are all involved, so three more bonus points. Originally shot in 3D by the one-eyed Walsh, it's still a worthy western even viewed "flat." I'm looking forward to it, not having seen it in about 40 years. And don't forget HANGMAN'S KNOT this afternoon, which like the above, has a Roy Huggins screenplay.

I haven't even opened it yet. It's just the widescreen edition, although they (Deep Discount DVD) was offering the other version at the time for 5 dollars. I'm on their mailing list and occasionally they have one or two-day specials. As you noted in the other thread, sometimes it's difficult to catch up with purchases because of the good stuff that's on-air.

>>I even got that one which isn't in the DVD boxset, I forget what it's called... Is that WESTBOUND? I just got that one in on Friday and can finally put my pan-and-scan VHS aside. The Warner Archive had a half-price deal on a 5-pack which included CARSON CITY, TRAIL STREET, BADMAN'S TERRITORY and RETURN OF THE BAD MEN. At 10 bucks a title, I finally made a purchase from the Archive.

One thing that I like about several of the Boetticher films are the contrasts between the hero and villain. For one thing, while we can figure the outcome and know they are up to something, Marvin, Richard Boone and Claude Akins are all somewhat likable. In Marvin's case, his character does sort of set the mold, he's rather verbose as compared to Scott's man of few words. Boeticher also displays the contrasts visually - we see Marvin playing with his guns, we presume he's fast. With Scott, in the two key scenes, we never even see him draw. It's off camera, as if to tell us he's so fast we can't see him anyway.

>>Thank you. I really don't know why my posts come out so different. Maybe I need to >>hit "return" after each line to create a line break. The problem seems to be that you're already being given unnecessary line breaks. For example, in what I see at my end in your previous post, using the above text, there is a break after the period following "different" and another break between "to" and "hit." No matter how I try though, I can't duplicate how it appears to me, the preview always shows it properly. I'd report it to the tech people, but my experience there with other issues is usually "your Flash settings must be off" but according to the Flash website, they are proper and I have the latest upgrade. If this message board were a movie, it would be a silent, black-and-white, hand-cranked one. Here is one case where TCM does not need to dwell in the past.

Thanks for your response. The thing is, if there's something with my settings, shouldn't it affect all posts? Not that I'm trying to blame you, Holly is probably right when she says it's a board quirk. It affects several others, but to be candid, since I find your posts particularly worthy in the first place, I thought to put the question to you directly. I have been through my settings though, both here on site and my browser settings. That's because I have a few other problems with this place that I don't experience on any of the eight message boards that I visit on a daily basis. That's not counting the ones that I visit infrequently.

The text that you quote from someone else's post comes out fine, properly justified from edge to edge. But the original text that you type comes out with one full line of text, followed by the next line having two words, and it repeatedly goes on that way through the various posts of yours that I see on this page. Do you compose first in a word processor that may be adding unwanted line breaks? I only bring this up as I enjoy reading your stuff, but it is difficult for the eyes (mine anyway) to have to make the adjustments as there IS a rhythm to reading. Yours aren't the only posts that I see around here so affected, I was wondering if it's just my PC, or do others see what I'm seeing.