clore
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There are two versions. One from 1970 with Lee Marvin and a TV remake with Tom Selleck. The remake isn't too bad, but I prefer the original.
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Monte Walsh
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>>The mule I ride on the cyberspace trail is slow and that is why for nearly ten years whenever I find a good site,you are already there to greet me.I think after randy was retired he would still make calls out to where stardust was kept to make sure he was alright.These message boards are the best.It is time to pull off my warbag from the saddle and pitch a permanent camp.I am tired of driftin' and it doesn't get any better than this.
My mule, as in this PC, is slow when it comes to this website. Every third click of the mouse takes 5 minutes for the thread to open. This is the only site that gives me such a problem.
Do you think that Whiskey resembles Stardust? Sure does to me, but all that I know from horses is from wagering on thoroughbreds. They both have that golden mane, but with Kirk's film not being in color, it's hard for me to tell.
We had a one-eyed horse win the Belmont Stakes back in 1979. He spoiled the hopes of Spectacular Bid who was trying to win the Triple Crown. Bid's trainer blamed the loss on his horse having stepped on a safety pin.
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>>Clore, Thanks for the photo of Randy (Cue Chorus) Scott and Stardust. What a beautiful horse.
You're welcome. I wish it looked as good on line as it does in the photo on my hard drive, but something in the uploading affects the image quality.
I thought I had other photos, but they must be on my old computer. One of these days I'll take the hard drive out of there and use it as a back-up on my newer PC. It's just that I'm always using this PC for something and don't find the time.
Here's another one:
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I think I have a shot of Stardust uploaded to your TCM Fans site...
Yep, there's one there, now let's see if I remember how to place it here:
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Raymie ol' buddy - how are you?
Folks, I've known this man for nearly a decade on a number of different message boards. He's a great guy!
Just so I stay on topic, I'm once again going to mention Randolph Scott's great horse Stardust. That golden maned beauty is my favorite movie horse.
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When I was 20, I was told I looked like Tyrone Power and Peter Deuel.
At 35 I was told Robert Urich.
Now at 50+ I'm told that I look like Oliver Reed.
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This was on the Sundance Film Channel just this morning, but it had already started and I didn't want to join it in progress. Maybe it will overlap into the March schedule.
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Of course it's a Twentieth Century movie, it was made in 1933.
Couldn't resist.
Enjoy it, I'm sure that I will. One of the few of Walsh's sound films that has eluded me all of these years.
I only put the mention in this thread because I couldn't find the thread on "Upcoming movies on the Fox Movie Channel." Since the film was already mentioned in this thread, I felt it was appropriate enough.
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THE BOWERY will air again tomorrow (March 1) at 6am eastern time on The Fox Movie Channel.
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Oh the irony!
Was Hoover sitting around in a house dress when he'd read his daily dirt?
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>>Here's the thing that gets me when people try and set a timeline. I started really getting into classic films back in the late 1950s. All the great films of the 1940s, the same ones we consider classics now, where already considered classics then and many of them were only ten or fifteen years old. I don't recall anybody saying that CASABLANCA or THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES or RED RIVER or THE MALTESE FALCON weren't classics because they were "too new". Each film was judged on all its merits and not just its age.
As one who began watching films on TV at the same point in time, I keep in mind that in the late 50s we had 30 years worth of sound films. If we assign a "half-time" rule to age, then those up until the post-war era were the ones considered classic.
I think it's also a trick of the mind because at that point in time, recent films weren't getting exposure on TV - unless they were British. I remember seeing Jack Hawkins and Kenneth More so often on TV around 1960 that I thought that they were major stars.
Now we have roughly 80 years of sound films, so it's roughly the first half again that most people consider classic. By coincidence, it's the period where the old guard - Hawks, Hitchcock, Walsh, Wellman, Wyler, Vidor, etc. - were all either retired or about to, and the new crop described in "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" were "taking over."
By the way, I'm not dismissing silent films, but TV has never been especially keen on offering them to viewers, save for an occasional PBS airing. But even at the midway point for film production in general, when SUNSET BOULEVARD was produced, we had a main character who favored the first half - the silent period - while scoffing the second.
I think that the "half-time" rule still applies as I hear and read many relative youngsters who refer to something made further back than the first half of their lives as an "old film." It seems to be a problem plaguing studio execs who wil release anything of recency to home video, while we're still awaiting many titles from the 30s-50s that are considered classics.
It's when these titles show up on TCM that I rejoice, and if I can get even just a handful of them a month, I consider my cable bill money well spent.
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But is it a matter of Capp changing, or the world catching up to him? He tended to burlesque anything popular. Like filmmaker Stanley Kramer, he went from being considered part of the counter-culture to being part of the establishment by the late 60s.
However,even I'll admit to being dismayed by the change in tone of the comic by this point, but in its good years, it was as good as we got.
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I've seen it, but I hate to have to admit that it's been about 25 years since I saw it. Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray had great chemistry and made seven films together.
For some reason, they're rarely recalled when the subject of great screen couples come up.
There's a great "Superman" gag in here and I'm looking forward to seeing this one tonight.
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>>A Mississippian who doesn't mind seeing Southerners made fun of, as long as everyone else is lampooned too.
The comic strip's creator, Al Capp, was a New Deal liberal who really targeted just about anything for the sake of a joke. Heck, in public appearances, he even made jokes about his prosthetic leg.
"Fearless Fosdick" was a swipe at Dick Tracy and the origins of "Mary Worthless" are obvious.
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I suspect that some sub-standard elements in terms of print quality are keeping certain titles MIA.
THE TRAP however is particularly bad, even by Monogram standards. That Sidney Toler appears weak (he was near death and it's his last film) only makes it worse.
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>>would make the effort to be more deferential to the public's tastes and desires..and show WHAT WE wanna see..NOT WHAT THEY think is good. I'd like TCM programmers to consider showing some Irwin Allen movies like "The Towering Inferno" (which I believe they already have shown at least once) and 'When Time Ran Out...", Irwin Allen's last film and much underrated in my view.
I remember when the film WHEN TIME RAN OUT aired on NBC, it was one of their lowest rated films of the season despite the high-caliber cast.
The Fox Movie Channel runs his films quite often. THE LOST WORLD, VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA and THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE seem to be in constant rotation.
The other day, TCM did air Allen's THE SEA AROUND US and I wouldn't mind if they aired THE STORY OF MANKIND, if only because it's one of those "so bad it's good" films.
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I always get a kick out of CHRISTMAS EVE where Randolph Scott, George Brent and George Raft play her adopted sons. In real life, she was younger than all of them.
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The big problem that I have with TCM's sound is that it is often out-of-sync with the video portion. This doesn't happen to me on any other cable channel, and I even had a Time-Warner cable person over to check things out. He swapped both cable boxes, and while the sound appeared OK at first, later it went back to its old tricks.
This isn't a constant thing, but it's especially annoying during musicals.
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Well, LI'L ABNER is scheduled to air again on March 29, so hopefully we won't get the SquishtaVision print this time.
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>>I don.t know what all the hullabaloo is about
Neither do I. The film took a scatter-shot approach, nothing was sacred.
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From an IMDb post:
Actor Phil Carey (Llanview's feisty patriarch Asa Buchanan) has died! The 83-year old star died on Friday, February 6, just one week after his former co-star Clint Ritchie (ex-Clint Buchanan) also passed away. No known cause of Carey's death has been reported, however, he had been diagnosed and underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer back in June, 2006.
Eugene Carey was born July 15, 1925 in Hackensack, New Jersey and grew up on Long Island. As a young man, Carey joined the U.S. Marines and served in both World War II and the Korean War, and briefly attend New York's Mohawk University, followed by the University of Miami where he studied drama. During his college years, he met and eventually married, Maureen Peppler. After getting married, the couple had three children, Linda, Jeffrey and Lisa.
The 6'4" actor made his film debut in John Wayne's Operation Pacific in 1951, and later went on to star in such films as Cattle Town, The Man Behind the Gun, Calamity Jane, The Nebraskan and The Long Gray Line. During the 60's and 70's, Carey, guest starred in various television shows, including such hits as The Rifleman, The Virginian and Gunsmoke.
After his divorce from his first wife, Carey married a much younger woman named Colleen Welch, in 1976 and later had two more children by her, daughter Shannon (born in 1980) and son Sean (born in 1983).
It was in 1979, when Phil Carey, was offered the part of Asa Buchanan on ABC's One Life to Live, and became one of Llanview's most pivotal characters to hit town. Asa Buchanan, along with his sons Bo and Clint Buchanan, became key components to almost every major storyline over the next 25 years or so. In 2007, after being on contract with OLTL for 28 years, the show had opted not to renew his contract. After Carey had refused to go on recurring status, OLTL wrote his character off with Asa's death. In a surprise treat for many of his fans, Phil Carey, did make a few last guest appearances in 2008.
Phil Carey will surely be missed by his many fans, but will remain in the hearts of those who loved him and his outstanding character, the unforgettable - Asa Buchanan!
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>>If you are dyslexic, at least use a spell checker like I do.
I believe you mean "as" not "like."
That was a big deal when Walter Cronkite corrected the Winston folks for saying "Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should."
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I only object when it's going on in the seats right in front of me.
I'll usually know beforehand if a film is going to have either in it, so I really would have nothing to complain about. I'll admit that either can be used to excess, but so can violence yet that seems to be tolerated much more readily.
Things like spousal abuse or violence towards children upsets me, films with such depictions are more the kind that I avoid.
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Hey Raymie, check it out if you can. I could swear that's Stardust tied up to the back of Glenn Ford's wagon in the beginning of CIMARRON.