clore

> {quote:title=Dargo2 wrote:}{quote}Yeah, okay, granted clore. However, I think you got the basic premise in my previous posting, right?! Oh, I got it, don't worry. I also think that a lot of people dig too deeply. They'll claim that so-and-so was influenced by such-and-such a film, but that's usually conjuecture. We don't know if some obscure American Pre-Code film influenced some director in Lapland forty years later. Sure, sometimes the influence will be too obvious - I'm thinking Eastwood's PALE RIDER and SHANE. Even before Eastwood admitted it, Ray Charles would have noticed - if he had been exposed to both films.

And so Fred, have you ever watched "The Hurt Locker" or "A Beautiful Mind" or maybe 'The Departed"? All Best Picture winners in the last ten years. I would dare say none of these films "steal from" or were remakes of earlier or "classic" films. THE DEPARTED was an Americanization of the Hong Kong film INFERNAL AFFAIRS and I thought that the first time around was the superior film.

Don't you remember his reaction when Lee Marvin brought along the hookers for the last night's party? He was raving about sin and eternal damnation.

I wish there were some way to check back on an entire month's schedule. If there were, I wouldn't have made a fool of myself like that, because I could have checked what's already played in May. I tried, but it only goes back a couple of days. I suggest that you just go to the "month schedule" on the menu list under "schedule" in the upper left-hand corner. http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.html I've been saving them for the past few years. I always have the current month's schedule open in a browser tab.

If they stuck Ava into THE DIRTY DOZEN, the guys would have been more intent on nailing her than completing the project. All but Telly Savalas.

Apparently, Universal remade it in the 60s. So at some point they acquired it from Paramount. In 1958, Universal purchased about 700 Paramount titles that had been made between 1929 and 1949. There are some exceptions, such as the 1931 DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE which had already been purchased by MGM so as not to compete with the Spencer Tracy adaptation.

i think it's ok for TCM to show 80s films , but NOT OFTEN. Early 80s. fine. late 80s/early 90s, i'll start worrying. So, what you're saying is that you don't want to see films made after you were born. If I felt that way, and could put it into effect, you would not be seeing any movies made after 1951. Oh, to be so young that the vintage of scheduled movies can cause me worry.

SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS was the very first film to air during the tribute, May 2 was the date.

MASTER makes a return appearance on June 20, a day filled with Flynn films including THE WARRIORS. I haven't seen the latter in years, but I recall him as being much more aged in appearance and the head-to-toe costuming enabling him to be extensively doubled by Raymond Paul. He does have a duel with Christopher Lee however, one which Lee claims caused him to suffer an injury that left him with a permanently crooked little finger. Unless it's been updated, the schedule I saved on my PC does not indicate that THE WARRIORS will air in letterboxed form, a pity as the cinematography of Guy Green is a primary asset.

CIRCUS WORLD had several other high-profile persons take a walk. Rod Taylor was originally the younger male lead in the film but early on he noticed that Hathaway was favoring Claudia Cardinale in their scenes together. Taylor pointed this out to the director and was told "But Rod, American men only go to the movies to look at European women." That was all Rod had to hear and he departed, to be replaced by John Smith who had a role in THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY. David Niven saw his part shrink in the revised James Edward Grant script and he took a powder and was replaced by Lloyd Nolan.

Director James Edward Grant wrote a lot of good scripts, but he only directed one other movie, Ring of Fear (1954), but I never saw that one. Come November, as you eat your Thanksgiving dinner, not having seen RING OF FEAR is something for which you should be grateful. One of the most silly premises - hiring Mickey Spillane to solve the mystery of who is trying to sabotage the circus. Spillane then hires his mentor to help him. Yet nobody could figure out that all the trouble started when they rehired known sicko Sean McClory (as "Dublin O'Malley" just to ensure you realize that he's Irish). Since the audience is in on the ID of the villain from the start, it only makes the rest of the cast appear that much more stupid.

did anyone tune in for 'Heavenly Bodies' and 'Fame' http://forums.tcm.com/message.jspa?messageID=8643326#8643326|Go to message i fell asleep early and didn't tune in. i woke up this morning all mad about it. i forgot to set my dvr. don't think TCM will show it again. they already shown the two films twice. Aren't these two 80s films the kind that make TCM "less classic?" Arent you on record as saying "TCM Underground has got to go?"

Bogart also guns down Steele in THE ENFORCER. Steele also serves as a link between the old and the new in HANG EM HIGH where he plays an elderly prisoner and shares a couple of scenes with Clint Eastwood.

RITA http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380673/

Sounds like SPELLBOUND to me.

A couple of the things that would work for "poverty row" studios, probably made DILLINGER look so realistic on its "miniscule' budget, is that a lot of it was probably done in actual locations, or standing sets were employed for their city scenes. Fritz Lang was rather annoyed that one robbery sequence (the Farmer's Bank payroll scene) was lifted from his film YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE.

I'll never forget the first time that I saw DIRTY HARRY. Leaving the theater with a friend, we were talking about the film and my friend asked "Wasn't he really creepy?" I said "I thought that he reminded me of Liberace." Nearly 20 years later. Robinson would play Liberace in a TV movie.

Glad that you enjoyed the comment. One has to be a good actress to have to read a line about the cute looking blond guy, all the while knowing that he's one homely dude. Maybe if he had some charisma going for him that would be one thing, but he looks as if there is nothing going on upstairs at all. Chandler was fine in small parts as in RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY or OUTLAW JOSEY WALES, but people should not have to tolerate him for more than a few minutes.

We still flush toilets like we did 40 years ago. No computers there. Just you wait, this is the office of the future:

Here's what I wrote last night before the film started: http://forums.tcm.com/message.jspa?messageID=8643094#8643094

I noticed that they skipped the 1929 scene with the cowboys switching the newborn babies around, perhaps a scene that influenced a similar one in Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA.

> {quote:title=Jayo wrote:}{quote}Dear TCM Programmer: > > I would like to suggest that you devote a day's programming to real-life gangsters, from "Dillinger" > (1945) to "Dillinger" (1973). In between, there'd be "Machine Gun Kelly" and "The Bonnie Parker Story" > (both 1958), "Al Capone" (1959), "Pretty Boy Floyd" and "The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond" (both > 1960), "King of the Roaring 20's: The Story of Arnold Rothstein" (1961), "Young Dillinger" (1965), > "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967), and "The Valachi Papers" (1972). With the exception of "Pretty Boy Floyd" > and "The Valachi Papers," the movies are part of the Warner Bros. and MGM libraries (the original > distributors being Monogram, AIP, Allied Artists, WB and W-7). > > Thank you for taking the time to seriously considering my suggestion. Somebody must be really happy with tonight's schedule. Folks, you don't want to miss one of the all-time worst performances in film history at 1130pm when John Davis Chandler stars as MAD DOG COLL. It's like watching Frank Gorshin doing Steve Buscemi doing an impression of Don Knotts. We're talking train wreck proportions here.

clore, you really misunderstood my post. More a case of my not effectively stating my point. I just found it unusual that one of the films that you cited has the revenge motive being initiated by a young girl rather than the usual male-driven plot line. That makes if somewhat unique, as if Charles Portis sought to expand the appeal of a fairly well-worn genre. I am surprised in a way that it has yet to show up on "Essentials, Jr."

i have never witnessed anybody speak face to face instead of texting. I would have to say that you are more than slightly exaggerating. get me out of here ! technology can make people's lives hell. The irony of your saying that on a message board is just too much to let pass without noting.

Jonny, I have to throw in a mention of Jerry Lee Lewis opening HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL while singing and playing from the back of a flat-bed truck as school opens. That never happened when I went to high school. Nor did I go home to an Aunt like Mamie Van Doren, more like Mamie Eisenhower.