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Well, among the "lesser known films" showing are CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, DAWN PATROL, SANTA FE TRAIL and NORTHERN PURSUIT, all considered classics of their respective genres, and shown by TCM fairly frequently. It was also the third time that MASTER OF BALLANTRAE has been shown in 2012.

I saw Flynn in a TV episode that aired after his death. The title was "The Golden Shanty" and it's enough to make a Flynn fan run out of the living room. There's a scene where his character has to climb aboard a wagon. We see him about to step up, the camera then shows us another character watching him, then when we return to Flynn, he's already in the wagon. The point being that he wasn't as physically able as he used to be and director Arthur Hiller did his best to hide it. He may have been 50 when he died, but whoever it was who performed the autopsy claimed that his body was much older. Sure, he could still do westerns and for anything that required walking more than a few steps, they could have hired a double. This is not meant to disparage the man, but he was getting to the point where he was going to have to play the senior officer at the fort who sends the young men into battle, the Willis Bouchey role.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > He looked much younger than Gary Cooper in High Noon. Well, Flynn was eight years younger than Cooper. In his autobiography, Flynn writes of an apparently recent attempt to coax Clark Gable into doing a film with him. Gable refused, telling him "I'd do another picture with Spencer Tracy, but you cousin, you're too young." This was right after Flynn noted that he was well aware that when he entered a room, people were commenting on his aged appearance.

Arthur Lubin, the man who directed all but one of the FRANCIS films, also produced directed the MISTER ED TV series. When he was done with the latter, he directed THE INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET - I wonder if that upset any sailors?

> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote} > LOL. I love Western vampire pictures. There have been several. I saw one with John Carradine (forget the title).......... Is that BILLY THE KID VS DRACULA? There's a much later one with David Carradine titled SUNDOWN: THE VAMPIRE IN RETREAT. A very stylish surprise that I caught on HBO about 20 years ago.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}Somehow, Liz was never considered a buffoon (buffoonette?) the way Lohan is. Maybe not, but as far as I know, the Pope has yet to denounce Lohan. Fifty years ago, the Taylor/Burton scandal was the subject for stand-up comedians and gossip columnists. It was a different era, but she was villified in the way that was typical then in the days before the web and TMZ and The E Channel. As Noah Cross said in CHINATOWN: "Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough." Maybe someday Lohan will have her champions.

Lohan is really a substatially talented young actress. Too many are factoring in the abymally poor choices she made in her private life. And she's playing an actress who obviously made a few wrong decisions in her life as well as a few headlines in the tabloids to boot.

The director is Lloyd Kramer, who isn’t exactly so known, other than having had an extensive career as a director in television. Well, seing how it is a TV movie being made for Lifetime no less, how much more of a career does Lloyd Kramer need to have? It's not as if this is a theatrical movie, and it isn't even the first TV movie to depict Elizabeth Taylor, Sherilyn Fenn got there already in 1995. That one did have a unique bit of casting for trivia lovers - actor Kevin McCarthy played Sol Siegel and actor Patrick Robert Smith played Kevin McCarthy. At age 80, McCarthy was a bit too old to portray himself in the 1950s.

Most defenetley.

SUDDEN IMPACT has a particularly pointed ending with a carousel. SHADOW OF THE THIN MAN has William Powell getting tipsy on one. There's one featured in THE STING. My sister was editor of "Carousel Horse and Trader" - I'll have to ask if she knows of any.

But don't let the name Charles Higham deter you from buying the book "Celluloid Muse: Hollywood Directors Speak." It a great compilation of interviews, actually more like oral histories, from the likes of Lang, Hitchcock, Minnelli, Vidor, Culor, Frankenheimer and more: http://www.amazon.com/The-Celluloid-Muse-Hollywood-Directors/dp/B000K4SSQO I've had my copy for 40 years and still pick it up now and then.

Higham was the man who wrote the "Errol Flynn is a Nazi" book.

No, I didn't mention it, but it was deliberate, as I didn't want to encourage a series of puns about Cooper's legendary bedroom prowess. Even that Molly Haskell promo bit makes a mention of the image of Neal admiring Cooper's drill. Nor did I mention that Ayn Rand claimed that she preferred Bogart for the part, but I think that might have been acceptable a decade earlier, but if one of the complaints about Cooper is that he looks too old, then the even more rapidly aging Bogart would have been ridiculous. One of my favorite scenes is when Toohey (could Rand have been any more obvious in picking a name for this character) confronts Roark: Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me in any words you wish." Roark: "But I don't think of you!" But I laugh like Hell in scenes such as the ambulance one with Henry Hull's ranting, or the cocktail party with the message-laden napkins and the old dowager claiming she fired her cook for reading the Banner. Another anecdote about the shooting of the film: According to Vidor, at one point Cooper wanted to rephrase a line in the script as he felt uncomfortable saying it. Vidor reminded his star that Rand wrote the script and that the deal made with the studio was that not one word of it could be changed (a parallel to the film's plot). Vidor did suggest that he could call Rand and have her come down for a conference and Cooper said "I'll read the line as written."

I am rather saddened at the low literacy skills deemed acceptable in our society. One of the last situations of having to hire someone before my forced retirement had me receive a résumé as an e-mail attachment from someone who worked in another department in the company. While the document was quite satisfactory, the e-mail cover memo had me scratching my head. Not one sentence began with a capital letter and in six sentences there were three misspellings. So, I informed the young man that I was going to pass on considering him for the position and made suggestions for the future. He complained to his supervisor who got in touch with my supervisor and I was called in to explain my position. "It's quite simple, we're in the research and marketing field, we have to be accurate, we have to be clear and most of all, we have to be expedient. We're short-staffed and over-burdened and I really can't consider someone who would not go through the extra effort to ensure that he presented himself in the best way possible." As it turned out, the applicant was lucky. Two months later they cut an already short department in half, they just looked at the bottom line of the client list and figured that the ones who brought in the lowest revenue were clients who could be spared. Had I hired that applicant, he would have been out of a job.

I think the last time I saw Foran was on an episode of FAMILY AFFAIR. I must have missed that. The last time that I saw Dick Foran was when he was a regular on the Burl Ives series OK CRACKERBY in the 1965-66 season. But the first time that I saw him was in THE MUMMY'S HAND which I saw in 1961 when WOR-TV ran Universal horror films during the summer on Sunday nights.

Can you clarify what it means to "run like 1940"? It's similar to "I'm gonna party like it's 1999."

Robert Osborne has done that on a few occasions, but you're to be complimented for offering an alternative to censorship. Of course, there still will be the person who will show up to declare that Osborne's segments are "boring" and that they never pay attention to them.

I have no idea as to granny's cooking skills, but she had three children and there were eight years between the first and second as well as between the second and third. That sorta hints to me that if she cooked well at all, it was only in the kitchen. She was fairly nasty to my brother and I - not so much anything that we did, we just weren't girls, that's all. She doted on my sister though. Maenwhile, granny had a sister, my Aunt Bess who was the complete opposite, a real fun loving woman who treated us all nicely and once went down the slide in the playground when she was in her 70s. My grandmother couldn't even be bothered to take us to a playground, she just wanted us in the house and quiet.

Those kind of rugged individualists are my kind of people. They paid into the system for years and have a right to what's their due, Ayn Rand calling it socialism or not. But hey, my mother tells me that her father spoke against FDR every chance that he could, even though the public works programs that he initiated were what saved her family during the depression as my gramps was in the building trade. Ironically, my grandmother looked amazingly like Eleanor Roosevelt - maybe that was Grandpa's real grudge.

4 - 5am some stupid educational stuff Are you saying that you want to "educate" viewers to become stupid? Or more stupid in the case of some. Maybe they should put on a show to inform viewers on the proper spelling of Robert Osborne's last name.

Certainly the Ayn Rand philosophy of individualism and greed (an architect performing a criminal act, blowing up a building that he designed because others had changed his original work) is fairly bizarre, to my thinking, and certainly a contrast to the populist message of Cooper's Capra films. King Vidor had his own reservations about the message also. So in discussing just how ridiculous a premise it contained, he said to Jack Warner "Well, suppose I toss the film in the fire, do you think the court would forgive me?" Warner replied, "The court might, but I won't." To me this is one of the great train wrecks of Hollywood. I just can't help but watch it, even though I know it's ridiculous beyond belief. I thought that about the novel also.

Judy Garland is the subject of AMERICAN MASTERS this week (Friday) on my PBS station in NYC. Others may want to check their local listings to see if it's on in their area.

Lane Smith was in PLACES IN THE HEART, MY COUSIN VINNY, THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN and THE MIGHTY DUCKS among other films. He was also Perry White on the TV series LOIS AND CLARK and a very credible Richard Nixon in the TV movie THE FINAL DAYS.

They had a segment they ran many times to promote the tribute, with some actors like Ricardo Montalban and others politely commenting that "the door hasn't been opened far enough yet" What I would have loved to have seen was someone ask Montalban why he accepted the part of a Japanese Kubuki player in SAYONARA or a Native American in CHEYENNE AUTUMN.

I'll stick to my opinions no matter what. That's part of the problem, you don't stick to them. When I said I dislike Japanese monster movies , everyone on here acted super upset and were ready to drive me away from the board with they're (sic) insults and bullying. Then you came back to say that you enjoyed them in the very first post of this thread: http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8649866