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According to the IMDb trivia page:
William Powell has framed 8x10 photos of RKO actresses Irene Dunne and Ann Harding prominently displayed in his bedroom suite.
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So nice to see Warren William getting some love here.
I looked up BEDSIDE on the IMDb - I had forgotten that I have seen this one, albeit some time ago. As soon as I saw David Landau was also in it, it all came back to me.
Yes, this is definitely another one for a box set or tribute on Warren William's birthday.
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Oh no, does this also mean the end of the Blockbuster Awards?
Maybe they can get a bailout if Obama can get a better discount on future gifts for foreign leaders.
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>>The Match King is outstanding, and it is based on a true story. There was a European guy who cornered the market on matches early in the 20th Century and became a multi-millionaire.
Thank you for your response. In reading your synopsis, I was reminded of the fallacy of the old "three on a match" superstition, which supposedly was really just a ploy to have to use more matches .
Sure enough, the same Ivar Kreuger was behind that. Ironically, another Warren William film of 1932 was *Three On a Match*. That would probably be another one for consideration for a tribute or box set, even if William doesn't quite headline the film.
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>>It seems like you're all reading each other's minds over here!
Well, they do say that great minds think alike.
I put in a request for all of these on the TCM request site. It would be great if William could get some recognition on his birthday in December.
Not to compare the two, but while George Sanders was often cast as a despicable cad, Warren William usually comes across as a likable one. Ironically, the two men would appear together in William's last film, *The Private Affairs of Bel Ami*, one which I've not seen in 35 years.
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You read MY mind Scottman. I had THE MIND READER on my handwritten list, but neglected to include it. THE DARK HORSE is a good one also, but I haven't seen THE MATCH KING.
I'll look for it in the future though.
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Would a Forbidden Hollywood IV set containing the pre-codes of Warren William sell? To me, he epitomizes the era, imagine a set with:
Employees Entrance
Skyscraper Souls
Under 18
The Mouthpiece
Dr. Monica
Beauty and the Boss
Or feel free to make a suggestion.
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You can't forget Cheech and Chong.
Dusty and Sweets McGee
Panic in Needle Park
Blow
Believe in Me (1971)
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TCM does have The Good, the Bad and the Ugly slotted for May 30 and according to the schedule, it's the 180 minute version.
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Here's one for TCM Underground:
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
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The one that makes me head for the barf bag is the one that Michael Douglas does for papa Kirk.
When he talks about being on the set while his father was doing a love scene, and adds "he's very good at those," I want to toss my cookies.
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>>On the first page of this thread, calvinnmen did the service of putting together the titles WB had there. I just noticed WB's count is now up to 155, so here is an updated list (with new titles in the list bolded):
You might want to make note that CRIME AND PUNISHMENT is actually properly titled as CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, USA, which starred George Hamilton.
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>>That's funny you should mention that, clore, I was just thinking that "Springfield Rifle" for some reason sounded very similar to "Winchester 73", so I guess you might be on to something.
Warners own *Colt 45* was released just before *Winchester '73*, so it may have been thought that putting a reference to a weapon was good boxoffice.
Besides, after *Dodge City, Virginia City, San Antonio, Dallas, Carson City, Fort Worth* and who knows how many more, maybe Warners was running out of city names to use as the title.
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>>Didn't Scott do something similar where he played a stagecoach agent or something similar?
Both *The Man Behind the Gun* and *Westbound* have Scott as an army officer going undercover and involved in Civil War intrigue.
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I've always had the feeling that SPRINGFIELD RIFLE was a rush job or an upgraded programmer. The title I'm sure was just tacked on given the success of James Stewart's WINCHESTER '73 - where at least the titular rifle had more to do with the plot.
Maybe Cooper owed Warners a film, so after his success in HIGH NOON, they threw him into something that De Toth was originally slated to do with Randolph Scott. Just a hunch, but it wouldn't surprise me.
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They stole about half of the image. I was all set, savoring the letterboxed credits of this 2.35:1 film, but when they were over, we bounced into a full screen print.
No, this is hardly the greatest of its type, but the cinematography by Ted Moore (with Nicholas Roeg on camera) was probably the film's chief asset.
Oh well, maybe next time...
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>>I guess they could have alternated the Dr. Kildare films with Dr. Gillespie films one after another. That would have offered a little variation to the schedule. (I wonder if Lionel Barrymore ever got the two roles confused?)
Those films run in a deliberate sequence though. Events in one chapter may be referred to in the next. The Dr. Gillespie films got going only after Lew Ayres was temporarily persona non grata because of his conscientious objector status during the war. From what I've read, many theaters rejected his last in the series as the story had broken at that time.
The Gillespie films have him seeking a replacement for Kildare, giving MGM a chance to break in some contract players.
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Actor | 1932 - 2009
Star of apocalyptic sci-fi classic 'The Day the Earth Caught Fire'
Edward Judd, who died on 24 February, 2009, was a British actor best known for his starring role in the 1961 science fiction classic The Day the Earth Caught Fire.
It led to roles in other sci-fi films such as First Men in the Moon (1964), Invasion (1965) and Island of Terror (1966).
In the 1970s he continued to act on film, television and the stage and was also known as the face of a 1975 road safety campaign with the slogan, 'Think Once, Think Twice, Think Bike.'
He was born to British parents in Shanghai on 4 October, 1932. When his family returned to Britain during his teens he began to follow his ambitions to become an actor, joining local amateur theatre groups.
He made his film debut at 16 in the Bafta-nominated thriller The Small Voice (1948). He went on to repertory theatre work and minor and uncredited roles in films like The Good Die Young (1954), I Was Monty's Double (1958) and even Carry on Sergeant (1958). He also appeared in TV serials like The Adventures of Robin Hood (1958) and was a regular in The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1957).
His break came when Val Guest cast him in The Day the Earth Caught Fire as one of the newspaper reporters who exposes a global conspiracy to cover-up the fact that nuclear testing by both the US and USSR has sent the earth off its orbit, causing apocalyptic global warming. Leo McKern also appeared in the film as the editor Bill Maguire.
Away from the screen Mr Judd was something of a recluse and perhaps this contributed to underexposure during the rest of his acting career. He featured in a few notable films, including Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man! (1973) and the Oscar-nominated costume drama The Incredible Sarah (1976), but primarily worked in TV, with parts ranging from Z Cars (several roles) to Emmerdale Farm (1972) and Coronation Street (1982). He made his last appearance in an episode of Van der Valk (1992).
He died aged 76 and was survived by his second wife, actress Norma Ronald, and two daughters.
He once said of owing his fame to sci-fi: "I'm very grateful for that. Acting is only of any value when people actually see your work. So, if I've touched anyone or have brought back fond memories of earlier movies, then I'm pleased - and extremely humble."
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That reminds me. On Monday, March 16, the Fox Movie Channel is running John Ford's 1926 THREE BAD MEN at 9am Eastern time.
It's rare for that channel to show a silent film, I think that SUNRISE is about the only one in their rotation.
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>>I'd never even heard of the Ovation channel. Is it a basic-tier or deluxe channel?
It's basic on my Time-Warner digital. I can't miss seeing what they're airing because on my system, it's channel 83, right next to TCM at channel 82. So, if I bring up the on-screen menu, it's right below.
They air basically programs on the arts - a lot of music concerts, career overviews of artists, poets, some foreign films. But the commercial load is at least 33% of the program's running time. They ran the 160 minute version of SEVEN SAMURAI about two years ago in a slot that was just ten minutes short of four hours.
And it seems like every break has an ad for The New York Times home delivery that runs two minutes in itself.
They've got a website:
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Just had to revive this thread and say I sure wish that TCM had played LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER that night. It's on the Ovation channel right now, with a break after each individual song, full-screen and it even appears to be speeded up. Not as bad as the ballet in BYE BYE BIRDIE, but faster than it should be for each song.
Only because the film isn't out on video am I watching the Ovation channel. With a break structure such as theirs, I swore after seeing a Peter Gabriel concert on there not long ago that I'd never watch the channel again.
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>>Best of luck with that hard drive, and I don't think you'd be missing out on much if you dropped HBO. We used to have it, and Showtime, but I just can't even find the time to watch everything TCM shows that I'd like to watch.
The only thing I've watched lately on HBO is Bill Maher and even on that show, what I like most is the New Rules segment. But TCM and DVD have spoiled me for watching films in the OAR and I'm mindful of that when watching films on HBO. Yet HBO seems to run their own series in a widescreen format, so I can't understand the double-standard. I had HBO/Cinemax and Showtime/TMC for a while, but dropped Cinemax and Showtime a couple of years ago. TMC runs a lot of titles in letterboxed form, but I'm angry with them because they talk over the end credits.
Ever see a recently released movie on the Fox Movie Channel's "Legacy" series? They squeeze end credits to the bottom of the screen in order to show Tom Rothmann's commentary. Some legacy.
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There's a cute scene in THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN where Lina Romay and Scott go riding, and dismount in order to play out a romantic scene. She's really just playing up to him, trying to find out his real identity.
As the two are facing each other, Stardust keeps nudging Scott, but he's going on with the scene, pretending not to notice. I like to think that the horse is just showing his affection and that Scott didn't stop the action in order to let Stardust steal the scene.
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I may just pay someone to do it as it's dry in my house owing to too much heat. It's a 66-apartment building and some get too much, and some too little. With all of my carpeting (mandatory by the co-op charter), I generate a lot of static - you should see my cat jump when I set off a charge while petting her.
Anyway, the static can actually caused one to wipe out a hard drive just by touching it. I've got a lot of stuff on there that has sentimental value, plus a lot of verse that I've written.
Maybe what I'll do instead is just hook up a local network, either way it's going to involve reaching into my pockets and that's my hesitation. These days, there's not much left after expenses. I'm already thinking of knocking off my pay-cable services of HBO and the like. I've got TCM on most of the time anyway, unless I'm watching the news. Given the state of the latter, I'm watching more TCM than ever.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeow!
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>>Hmm who makes a better Babe Ruth, William Bendix or John Goodman?
I remember reading that the Babe's widow didn't like Bendix at all and had wanted Paul Douglas in the part.
The one who should have played Babe Ruth in my opinion, based on his appearance in THE NATURAL, is Joe Don Baker.
Stephen Lang also played Ruth in a TV movie, but it was Pete Rose as Ty Cobb who stole the film.