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Oddly enough, the day of the release was August 13, 1982. I remember standing on a line in hot sticky August-in-New York City weather to see it.
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And it was the first franchise to have the third installment to be in 3-D.
The Friday the 13th series beat Jaws to that honor by not quite a year (49 weeks).
While not considered a blockbuster in the traditional sense, the film that started the block-booking phenomenon was Columbia's BREAKOUT with Charles Bronson. Actually, the studio smelled a dud, but since Bronson was hot after DEATH WISH, the idea of saturating the media with ads, and then opening in over a thousand theaters set the pattern for what was to follow.
All because the studio didn't think the film would have legs, so they went for as much as they could get in the first weekend of release in May 1975.
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Bogie was also having a bit of trouble with the Dies Committee around the time of making HIGH SIERRA, so WB had another reason to be reluctant to put him on top.
Yes it was OUT OF THE FOG that had Lupino nixing Bogie and Raft didn't want him in MANPOWER. So, Bogart was assigned to BAD MEN OF MISSOURI. He sent the script back with a note saying "Are you kidding?" and took a suspension.
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I do recall that the actual doctor - played by Jay Novello, eh? - was supposed to be a vet. Or a fallen doctor who was demoted to looking after animals instead of people, unless something shady was involved.
At one point, Sterling Hayden makes a reference to a girl having died and Novello going to prison, so we can presume that was "Code" for his performing an abortion.
I didn't even think of Ted de Corsia being called "Doc Penny" so I must say that I do understand your confusion. That nickname was never given any detail, so I wonder what the reference was supposed to be. Maybe as he was the head man, the othersd in the gang would ask "What's up, Doc?" and the name stuck.
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Someone called Ted de Corsia plays the doctor.
Ted was the "brains" behind the outfit, the one who rode in the car with Gene Nelson to the bank at the end. He's also in NAKED CITY and THE ENFORCER with Bogart.
The doctor was Jay Novello:
http://www.nndb.com/people/740/000279900/
Here's Ted de Corsia:
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The doctor was Jay Novello, who was sort of the TV version of J. Carroll Naish in that he played just about every nationality sooner or later. You may recall him as the Mayor in the last season of McHALES"S NAVY. I used to see him often when I was a kid watching the WB westerns and private eye shows on ABC.
There was actually some footage from GUN CRAZY used in the film, just some vehicles arriving at the police station.
Watching it last night reminded me of days of old when it came to reception. It was probably my cable system, but every once in a while, the film would jump a few frames. Once I got used to it, it was less distracting, but it did occur at its worst in one key point in the bank robbery climax and I was ready to have a fit.
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This came up in a thread a few months ago and I posted the following:
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Lee probably had an easier time in getting to the director's chair than Eastwood. Eastwood couldn't get CBS to let him do an episode of RAWHIDE. Even as a superstar, he only got Universal to agree to let him helm a film if he gave up his usual acting fee for the privilege. This is the man whom Life proclaimed on a 1971 cover as "the world's favorite movie star" and he had to beg for the chance even with 15 years in the business.
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Yes, quite different. PAYMENT DEFERRED was stage bound, most of it set in the home of Laughton. THE STEEL TRAP is all over the place with that kind of location shooting that Andrew L. Stone specialized in with his thrillers. The tension is high, even if it isn't quite always believable.
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You're thinking of PAYMENT DEFERRED
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For anyone interested, here's a link to the IMDb thread mentioned:
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If I remember correctly, the billing for LIBERTY VALANCE had James Stewart on top on the posters, but John Wayne on top in the film's credits.
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> {quote:title=ginnyfan wrote:}{quote}The entire cast of The Patty Duke Show, except Jean Byron of course, appeared in a Social Security PSA a couple of years ago. Eddie Applegate, who played boyfriend Richard, looks as old as Mr. Schallert.
Here it is:
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Thank you, thank you. I had that in my head for at least an hour, trying to decide if it was appropriate. Then I figured that since it is mentioned in the movie...
Next week is one of the more inspired of all titles I've ever seen listed for the showcase, the 1940 version of THE THIEF OF BAGDAD. I have grandchildren, and while I haven't purchased this one on DVD, I've gotten them things such as
Lassie Come Home
The Black Stallion
Black Beauty (1994)
Tom Thumb
Three Worlds of Gulliver
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Three Lives of Thomasina
Hand in Hand
Jason and the Argonauts
Hand in Hand
Little Fugitive
Caveman (their father loved it as a kid)
It helps that my son follows in my path as a film buff, and he has a regularly scheduled movie night with his twin girls who are almost nine years old now.
Sorry to hear about your rib, here's wishing you a rapid recovery.
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Can't wait until they show The Bank Dick this weekend and all those parents get to explain The Black P****y Cafe to their kids.
"Hey Mommy, that sounds like the website that Daddy looks at while you're out shopping."
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Both of the regular TCM hosts perform their intros as if speaking to adults.
Ask yourself this - do teachers face the students in their respective seats, or do they look out the window to their left? Go back to your own childhood, when there were local kid show hosts - did they look at you? Did Dick Clark look at you? Did Rod Serling look at you? How about Walter Chronkite?
If one goes back as far as I do, looking at the audience has always been the rule. Whether it's Buffalo Bob or Bob Saget, a host addresses the audience.
If it's a matter of packaging, given that kids are exposed to all sorts of personalities in the media facing them head on, what's the likelihood that they also see something amiss in the way that "Essentials, Jr." is packaged?
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Perhaps it is because the intended audience of "Essentials Jr." is distinct and different from the general / traditional TCM audience. Enlisting a different style of filming could reinforce the idea that the next two hours of "Essentials Jr." are not "Mom and Dad's TCM".
I thought that the whole idea of "Essentials Jr." was that it was something for the whole family to watch together, not just kids sitting by themselves. Not that it has escaped me that so many of the titles have already run on the regular Essentials and thus it really is Mom and Dad's TCM.
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Actually, Lee was critical of Eastwood's two Iwo Jima films, FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS being the other one and the first to be released.
Just put the names "Spike Lee" and "Clint Eastwood" into a Google search and you'll come up with hundreds of links.
Lee has been critical of Eastwood ever since BIRD as he thought that a white director was a bad choice to bring to the screen the story of a black musician. I sort of see Lee's point, when he made SUMMER OF SAM, I thought that a black director was a bad choice to make a movie about a white serial killer terrorizing NYC in the mid-70s.
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It's an interview "style" that I, too, have never cared for. If you're trying to tell me something, LOOK at me!
I just wonder why the change in policy for the temporary hosts on "Essentials, Jr." as opposed to the way the two main faces of TCM are photographed. A different director perhaps, or is it possible that both Lithgow and Hader both walked up to the director and said "I think it would be better if you threw in some weird angles so that people think that maybe I'm spying on the neighbors next door."
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...c'mon now....if THAT isn't Raymond Burr there playin' that wing-walkin' gremlin dude that only Shatner sees in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", then WHO the heck IS IT???...it sure as heck looks like Raymond Burr to ME, anyway!)
That was Burt Lancaster's circus partner and several time co-star Nick Cravat.
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UA used it for STRANGER ON HORSEBACK which came out in 1955.
I remember using Ansco 8mm film in the mid-60s.
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The Kazan film has become the *The Third Man* of recent Guest Programmers. Very over-exposed.
*Night of the Hunter* is another one, and that airs tonight also.
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Maybe it's another one like the physical media thread, where after errors were cited, we were told:
"My thread wasn't suppose (sic) to be 100 percent right."
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Births of 1919
Mickey Rooney , Jackie Robinson , Red Buttions , Ernie Ford , George Gobel , Dorothy McGuire , Curt Gowdy , George Wallace , Kitty Wells , Jim Snyder , Tom Harmon , *Kirk Douglas.*
Mickey Rooney was born on September 23, 1920
Kirk Douglas was born on December 9, 1916
Dorothy McGuire on June 14, 1916
anyone catch "Crime Wave' (1954)?
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ps- don't know if he shot Crime Wave before or after Johnny Guitar (also 1954) but I'd wager it was after. He looks like a man who has been to hell and survived.
CRIME WAVE was actually shot in 1952, finishing up on December 5 It was actually shot before HOUSE OF WAX although last night it was mentioned that CRIME WAVE "reunited" a couple stars, the director, the producer and the writer. Additionally, there were three actors that the two films shared, they neglected to mention Nedrick Young, who played the crook who dropped dead in the apartment. He was in addition to Bronson and Phyllis Kirk.
Young did have billing in CRIME WAVE, but not in HOUSE OF WAX as he was having some HUAC trouble. Apparently WB failed to alter the credits while CRIME WAVE was sitting on the shelf. Young would go on to win an Oscar for co-writing THE DEFIANT ONES, but under the front of Nathan E. Douglas. He also plays a guard in the film, and when his alias for screenwriting comes up during the credits, he can be spotted in his acting role.