clore
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>>Wasn't she also in a film with Rita Hayworth, as the mother of Rita's lover who gives testimony against her son who's charged with Rita's husband's murder?
That was *The Story on Page One* - I just saw it on the Fox Movie Channel about a month ago.
She did Death of a Salesman twice - the film with Fredric March and a 1966 TV version with Lee J. Cobb.
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Actually, William returned to the Vance role in 1939's *The Gracie Allen Murder Case*. That used to be a late movie perennial when I was a kid, but always during the week and I've never had the chance to see it.
I understand that Gracie keeps calling him "Fido" in the film.
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>>I prefer Curtiz' DAWN PATROL to Hawks' original<<
Don't mean to be picky, but the remake was helmed by Edmond Goulding.
Curtiz did venture into Hawks territory with *The Breaking Point* which was another adaptation of *To Have and Have Not* - I'll leave it up to the individual as to whether that counts as a remake. I actually prefer the Curtiz film.
It was adapted yet again as *The Gun Runners* with Don Siegel directing and Audie Murphy starring - I'd really love to see that one again.
Siegel's *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* has seen three remakes, but I find only the 1978 version comes close. It actually seems more of a sequel than a remake.
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>>Yes, I think that's what he's saying too, except that he says it was a shame to have an Italian-American played a Chicano in "The Milagro Beanfield Wars." I think that Olmos is being extremely hypocritical because of his portrayal of Gypsy in "Triumph of the Spirit." I'd like to hear Olmos respond to that, although of course he never will.
That reminds me of Ricardo Montalban being so strong an advocate for Hispanics being cast as Hispanics.
OK, I'm all for it, but this was coming from a man who played a Japanese in *Sayonara* and Native Americans in *Across the Wide Missouri* and *Cheyenne Autumn*.
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>>I dont think the movie holds up so well with repeated viewings. Too many coincidences in the story; one dimensional characters etc.
Definitely too many coincidences - and some just plain dumb situations.
Da Silva is running around with Ladd's wife. Of all the people to run into once he walks out on his wife, Ladd runs into Da Silva's wife Lake.
They split up, but just happen to be in the same spot later when Lake tells him that the cops are on his trail.
Ladd's a wanted guy and supposedly street smart, but he's dumb enough to get into a car with two strangers. Didn't his mother ever warn him about such things?
Lake just happens to pick at the flowers in front of Bendix the same way that Dowling did, and with the same monkey music going on in
the background.
Tom Powers lets a murder suspect (Ladd) toss a gun to another suspect (Bendix) where we get some silly Buffalo Bill shooting stunt.
Nevertheless, there are some good lines. I love it when Powers tells Will Wright "Kinda hard on the Morrison dame too."
Or when the desk man at the hotel asks Ladd if he lives in San Francisco and he replies "Yeah, when I'm there."
Anyone notice that when the description of Ladd goes out on the air, they neglect to mention his height? They don't even say average height, they just ignore that qualification completely.
I much prefer *This Gun For Hire* or *The Glass Key*.
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I watched it again yesterday morning - it gets better with each viewing. This time I recorded it.
I'm looking forward to the two pre-code films tonight on TCM - a Lubitsch and a Whale:
8:00 PM Broken Lullaby (1932)
A guilt-ridden World War I veteran travels to Germany to meet the family of a man he killed. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes. Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. BW-76 mins,
9:30 PM Kiss Before the Mirror, The (1933)
An attorney defending a friend whose wife cheated on him suspects his own wife of adultery. Cast: Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Paul Lukas. Dir: James Whale. BW-67 mins,
I've seen Whale's own remake of his film, titled *Wives Under Suspicion* which had Warren William in the lead. It will be interesting to compare the two.
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I had a sleepless night about a month ago and out of desperation, I watched *Machine Gun Kelly* on AMC at 4am. I hadn't seen it since it aired locally in 1964.
It's an 80 minute movie that used a full two-hour slot. That's a 33% commercial load, and what commercials they were - male enhancement products (two brands), a **** pump, a fingertip massager for women.
Plus, as you mentioned, there were all sorts of animated intrusions during the movie for upcoming programs and their website.
There was a time when one could say that AMC was the model for TCM, but watching it that last time only served to remind me of why I wouldn't watch that channel even if I were starring in the featured movie.
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>>Ironically, Call Her Savage is one of the VERY FEW pre-codes that the Fox Movie Channel ever runs!
True, but it's one that they can't run often enough, it needs more exposure.
One big problem I have with the channel is that it seems the only B&W films that get exposure in prime time are Gentleman's Agreement and Young Frankenstein.
They relegate the pre-50s stuff to 6am - 12n Eastern time. In the next two weeks (generally as far ahead as you can get on the web site) are
Moon Over Miami
My Darling Clementine
The Purple Heart
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Thieves' Highway
Drums Along the Mohawk
Call of the Wild
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Road House
Fallen Angel
The Big Lift
Something For the Boys
Immortal Sergeant
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I went to the Adobe site, and it OKs my installation. I'll peek into the Firefox settings though and get back to you.
Thanks
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Thanks for your response. I tried the link to check the status of Flash, but all I got was a blank page. I did upgrade about a month or two ago.
But I had the same problem previously on a different PC when I had a cable modem. Now I'm on a high-speed DSL, only because it ended up being cheaper but the speeds are fairly comparable. I don't download large files of any kind such as music or video, so I economized when I retired early.
I'll Google and see if I can find something re the Flash check, but thanks again for your help.
Oh - I don't clear cookies. I'm an insomniac, so I have the PC on all the time and my connection with it. Only when it slows down do I do a reboot, but I don't clear the cookies as I have too many sites dependent on them.
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I was reading about this last night. They'll be commercials as I understand, but the features won't be edited.
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I heard about TCM well before it was launched, but I was in the TV Research/Programing field, and read the trades constantly.
But I was knocked for a loop that we didn't get it on our cable system right away, after all, I'm on Time-Warner cable in Queens, NY. It took about five years until it showed up and one could say that was when I gave up watching network TV.
I had so looked forward to TCM during those years, and even contacted TW cable, but all I got for my efforts was a form letter. I wrote again, this time asking how they could be so disloyal to the parent company, and I suggested that they drop one of the half-dozen home shopping channels and take one for the team.
I got back the same form letter.
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I share your frustrations. I use Firefox, I have for almost as long as it has been around. But, it doesn't matter, even if I try IE, I have the same problem with this site.
First, after every 30 minutes of inactivity, the site logs me out. That wouldn't be a problem, except that it takes from 3-5 minutes to sign back in. then I can open one thread, no problem, and none with a second thread either.
But like clockwork, every third click of the mouse means another 3-5 minute wait. I end up getting so frustrated, that I use another browser tab and do something else while I'm waiting. If I get involved in something else for more than 30 minutes, I have to sign in again, and thus wait another 5 minutes.
I really like the community, but as I have no such problems anywhere else - and I post on six different message boards for various interests - I have to think there's something wrong, some setting that I should be aware of that is unique to this website.
If anyone else could please come up with a valid solution, I sure would appreciate it.
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>>clore - I am sorry that you have such a tough time navigating here. Maybe if you presented your challenges in General Issues, someone could help. I've seen similar questions there.
Thank you Chip and CineMaven
When I first saw your responses, in order to respond, I had to sign-in again as it was more than 30 minutes since my last post. I clicked to do so at 11:22pm. Then I had to hit "reply" and by the time the reply screen came up, it was 11:32.
I've got a Gateway computer that's only 18 months old (2.2 GHz processor), and I had the same issues on my old PC anyway. It's like clockwork, the third click to open a thread or forum always takes a minimum of three minutes, usually closer to five.
But, I'll try the General Issues board and see if I can get some answers there. I'm not about to give up.
Thanks again.
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How the heck can someone manage multiple accounts here?
I have just one, and I get so frustrated with every third click of the mouse causing me to wait 3-5 minutes for a response. If I go away for 30 minutes, I have to sign in again, and that takes another 3-5 minutes.
I'd really like to spend more time here as I like the community. But the delays just cause me to use another browser tab and frequent other boards or read today's news.
I've got a high speed DSL connection and I don't experience such problems anywhere else.
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>>I do trust tcmprogrammr will look into it, though
I'm sure he will. When I cited a sanitized *Prisoner of Second Avenue* print, he took care of that, and the SquishtaVision
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I didn't watch it today, but I have seen the 1942 version several times. I actually like it, it's like sitting next to Chaplin while watching it. From what I've read, he would sit and watch his films and detach himself from the character, referring to the person on screen as "the little fellow."
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Marian, add me to the list of those who perceived a distorted soundtrack. I found it particularly noticeable in some portions of Cosmo's speech rather than the singing. More than any other actor in the film, it did seem to affect Donald O'Connor.
It annoyed me enough to stop watching and go to my PC, but I could still hear the film and it was actually more obvious while I was just listening.
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>>i enjoyed kiss and make-up also.
I haven't seen either *Kiss and Make-Up* or *Ladies Should Listen* since 1972. They ran on successive nights on WPIX in NYC and as they both also featured Edward Everett Horton, I'm a bit hazy on details.
But one of them had Horton singing a song titled "Corned Beef and Cabbage, I Love You" and I'd just love to see that scene again.
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The film deserves greater exposure as it's one of the wildest pre-code films that I've seen.
Clara whipping Roland and claiming it's practice for when she gets married.
Clara wrestling on the floor with an obviously male dog and getting all excited in the process (or else it was rather cold in the room).
Clara's catfight with Thelma Todd.
Her syphilitic husband trying to rape her in a hospital.
A drunken pedophile trying to entice Clara's little girl neighbor.
Clara hitting rock bottom and picking up a man on the street in order to earn money for food.
The gay waiters singing about men in sailor suits.
For all of that and more, I can excuse the lack of racial sensitivities.
NOTE:
The film will air again on April 25 at 6am on the Fox Movie Channel.
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Hey Mongo - even though I was born in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, I spent a lot of time in the Marcy theater in Williamsburg. It was a second or even third-run house where I'd catch a lot of triple-bills in my youth.
There was one ticket-taker there who worked there for about 30 years, a nice little guy who must have been in his 80s when he left.
All of you guest hosts are doing so well, I think it's a fine tribute to not only each of you, but also to Robert Osborne for enabling you all to be so relaxed.
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O.J. Sampson?
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>>I remember watching THE WOLF MAN as a kid and not understanding why Warren William got second billing for such a small part. I didn't know at the time he was a former Warner Bros. star.
I first saw THE WOLF MAN when I was nine years old. It was a summer night and I mentioned to my mother that I would be watching it. So she said she would check it out before going to bed. When she saw Warren William come up in the credits, her face beamed and she said "Oh, I used to like him so much."
She was disappointed that he had such a small role.
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>>I would like a set with a bunch of(or even a couple) Warren Williams films, the ones where he played some real slimeballs, I love those films.
I didn't mean to steal anyone's thunder by starting another thread on a Warren William box set. I just didn't see this post previously. I just get so frustrated with these boards as every third mouse-click takes five minutes to load and it keeps signing me out after 30 minutes, and each time I sign back in, it takes another five minutes. I don't know why this happens, I participate on many Yuku boards, the IMDb and a couple of horse racing sites, but this is the only place to give me such difficulty.
A shame too as I like a lot of what I read here, and there are many well-informed and polite posters. I enjoy a troll-free environment.
I'm not on dial-up, I have a high-speed cable connection, but it might as well be an ancient modem for all the speed it gives me here.
Turner On Acid
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>>The saying " They don't make movies like that anymore ". ....Well, some movies you don't want made anymore. Such is the case with " The Trip ". It's as exciting as watching paint dry.
But wow man, it's really groovy if you're watching day-glo paint. Outta sight!