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>>Clore is correct. That was what was shown on the on-air, coming up schedule. I was surprised, but figured something must of happened (they received an unplayable print, etc). I did not watch (went to sleep), so I don't know what was actually shown. Was it Eddie & the Cruisers after all?
Ahhh, thank you - I'm glad that my set wasn't the only one affected.
I would have just recorded STAINS and CRUISERS to watch over the weekend, but when I saw the Stones film announced, that was one that I had to make sure that I stayed up to watch (and set the recorder personally) as it's been a long time since I've seen it. It's not available on a Region 1 DVD, and even the Region 2 DVD has been discontinued.
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I'm referring to the on-air promos.
After SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, it was announced verbally and visually that the next three movies would be:
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: THE FABULOUS STAINS
LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER
After NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, the Stones film was still referred to as being on at 4am and even after LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: THE FABULOUS STAINS, at 3:55am, it was announced as coming up next.
I had seen EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS on the monthly schedule, but given the same day/date nature of the on-air promos, I naturally expected that to be more accurate.
If TCM wishes to check their own air-tape, they will see that I'm not mistaken.
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Right up to five minutes before its scheduled airing, TCM was announcing LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER would air at 4am. Instead, we get EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS.
This Stones fan is totally annoyed at having stayed up until this hour to watch it and getting a poor substitute.
Shame on you TCM.
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>>Well they say there's always a silver lining...
Art Tatum used to tell me daily that I should look for it.
Oh wait, that was the Sunny Side of Life that he recommended.
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To be honest, I find Oscar month to be the least satisfying month of the year. Gone are the regular features such as silents and imports (although the 24th is stacked with some all day), but not to worry, we get yet another excuse to see THE APARTMENT, SOME LIKE IT HOT and ANNIE HALL again.
ALL ABOUT EVE seems to have run once a month on average since last March and EXECUTIVE SUITE is another perennial. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF and FROM HERE TO ETERNITY air constantly also.
But, it will give me more time to run some DVDs which I've yet to catch up with, so maybe it's a blessing in disguise.
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I love this film - and I say that as someone who considers the 1941 THE MALTESE FALCON to be his favorite film of all time.
It's a heck of a lot funnier than the awful 70s film THE BLACK BIRD, and Warren William appears to be having such a good time. If one goes into it expecting a parody rather than a straight adaptation, I think that one will be less disappointed.
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Columbia actually threw it her way thinking that she would reject it and that they could terminate her contract without paying her off - she was getting 85K a film on her Columbia contract. Lucy was advised that Harry Cohn was handing her a deal-breaker, and that if she accepted, Cohn would squeeze out of assigning her since this was a Sam Katzman quickie and her salary would nearly eclipse his budget.
At the time, she was wanted by De Mille for a role in THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH, and she expected to be allowed to do it once she got out of appearing in THE MAGIC CARPET. Perhaps Cohn heard of Lucy's discussions with De Mille and wanted to thwart both of them - he wouldn't allow her out of the film.
Lucy's scenes took 5 days of the 10 day shooting schedule and she probably wouldn't have been able to shoot much longer as a midriff-baring belly dancer since she was pregnant at the time.
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>>Bologna, huh? Great, you realize you've just made me want to run to the kitchen and make myself a sandwich?
I must have made myself hungry as I just heated up some leftover ravioli.
I love B movies, at least the more inventive or goofy ones. Especially the series films such as those in the Lone Wolf, Boston ****, Crime Doctor, The Saint, The Falcon or Bulldog Drummond series.
I adore the Fox Charlie Chan, Mr. Moto and Cisco Kid films and anything in the Universal horror canon.
"B" film noir is another favorite of mine, I often find them more interesting than the more celebrated "A" level features. Anthony Mann, John Sturges and Richard Fleischer got their start doing those things so there's often some indications of talent even on such small budgets.
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No, it never gets even close to Russ Meyer territory. Closer to Oscar Meyer in that it could be considered a lot of bologna about a girl imprisoned for a crime that she didn't commit who prefers to remain silent in order to protect others.
Not much different from the kinds of things that Kay Francis or Barbara Stanwyck were doing around the same period, but on bigger budgets. Leading lady Zita Johann was hardly built like the woman on the poster, although what she didn't have, she didn't need. Here she is a year earlier on the set of THE MUMMY:
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>>Judging by the title and the image, I'd say the film is about the first female to get breast implants.
"Thou shalt not get implants?"
Somehow I must have missed that one.
It's actually not a bad little B film at all. Like THE POWER AND THE GLORY or CITIZEN KANE, it's done in flashback style, with some excellent camera work that belies the small Majestic budget.
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VARIETY 3:25pm Wed, Jan 21, 2009...
Producer Charles H. Schneer dies
Hollywood vet worked with Ray Harryhausen
by VARIETY STAFF
Producer Charles H. Schneer, who worked with Ray Harryhausen on films
including "Jason and the Argonauts," died Jan. 21 in Boca Raton, Fla.
He was 88.
Schneer started out at Columbia's B-picture unit, producing
Harryhausen' s special effects-laden films including "It Came From
Beneath the Sea," box office hit "Earth vs. The Flying Saucers" and
"20 Million Miles to Earth."
He also produced films including "Hellcats of the Navy" and "Face of a
Fugitive."
Convincing Harryhausen to work in color, Schneer produced their
biggest hit of the 1950s, "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad." They
continued with Columbia sci fi titles including "The Three Worlds of
Gulliver," "Mysterious Island" and the influential "Jason and the
Argonauts," which Schneer remembered as his favorite title of the
collaboration.
Schneer continued as an independent producer in London, shepherding
films including "Half a Sixpence" and "The Executioner."
He reteamed with Harryhausen on "The Valley of Gwangi," "The Golden
Voyage of Sinbad," "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger" and their final
film, the bigger-budget "Clash of the Titans" for MGM-UA.
Born in Norfolk, Va., Schneer graduated Columbia University and made
training films while serving in the Signal Corps during WWII.
He was an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences and was Chairman of the London Events Committee from 1989-
1998.
He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Shirley, two daughters; three
grandchildren and four great grandchildren and a sister.
Donations may be made to the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research
Center, Department of Development, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St. SW,
Rochester, MN 55905
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Star of the month for February is Oscar.
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I prefer not to watch them on my monitor, only because stretching out on my couch is preferable. However, I do have a 19-inch monitor and rather than spend money on public domain DVDs, I'll settle for the monitor.
Also, another problem that I have with watching on my monitor is that I'll get antsy and pause a film just so I can check various message boards.
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Here's a link to the original page for the picture:
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Obviously a pre-code poster, even today one rarely sees such explicitness:
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You must have your browser set to not accept any Randolph Scott images. I still see it fine.
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>>That photo doesn't seem to work
Do you mean as in you can't see the image, or that you're just not "in the mood?"
I can see it fine, even in your post.
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For the women, a shot of a bathing-suited Scott:
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>>1,080, to be exact!
Honestly, I knew that. Why I typed 1,020 is beyond me. I've even got the carton of a Samsung 40-inch set with 1,080 in large print just a few feet from where I'm sitting. I'm waiting for the proper day to put it outside for garbage collection. My son was so happy with his 27-inch Samsung - only 18 months old, that he had to go out and get the new one for his Playstaion and BluRay discs.
Fine by me, the 27 incher, which is also a 1,080 HD set is now in my living room.
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It would be nice to see it restored, but the materials are in bad shape. From the IMDb:
"The major reason that 'Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm' has never been restored is because the original 3-panel Cinerama camera negatives were heavily water damaged in a warehouse fire. The film was never transferred to a 70mm version after it was made so the only surviving prints are edited 35mm composite prints with the three joined panels. The surviving print are not the roadshow version and do not contain all three panels of information. The left area of the A panel and the right area of the C panel are missing from the composite prints. In addition, the color is badly faded. It is doubtful we will ever see a properly restored version of this film."
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Kim Novak's eyebrows look as if they were painted on with a Griffin's Liquid Shoe Polish applicator.
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You're right in both cases. Now we're up to 1,020 lines with Blu-Ray, who know where we will be in another decade.
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>>Hopefully, the TCM print will look as good, if not better, than the VHS you have. I'm not sure about the broadcast signal, but wasn't VHS capped at about 280 lines of resolution?
Yes, it would have had to be as that was the limit of the format. Super VHS boosted it to 420 lines.
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>>clore, I am completely with you on this one. TCM does throw their icon up at the bottom of the screen, but I thinking that they do this for taping/DVDing reasons.
I forget the exact details, but stations are required by the FCC to identify themselves hourly, as close to the hour as possible. In the old days, there used to be on-air announcers who would say "we pause now for station identification."
But some cable channels leave the darn logo up constantly - except during commercials. The TCM one is basically unobtrusive and on letterboxed films, at least it doesn't affect the image since it appears in the black bar portion of the screen.
More like "Let's Not Spend the Night Together" - Where are the Stones?
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>>I printed out the schedule back in November and EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS was on it, not the Rolling Stones.
I've got a schedule that I printed out at the same time that had the original 1951 CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY listed to air on January 19, but on that date, the on air promos were correct as to the changed line-up.
The same printed schedule could not of course also have predicted that January 23rd would be devoted to Ricardo Montalban, but the on-air promos that day were correct.