clore
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The discussion lost momentum when one person pointed out that it was obvious that the Egyptians, Maya and Hindi must have had shared information since their depictions of circles, squares and triangles are absolutely identical.
I thought that it was the ancient space travelers who were responsible for that.
Sometimes it may just be a matter of similar thoughts striking individuals. While there are cases of patent infringement, there are also cases where the earliest forms of what we use today - be it cars, phones, radio/TV - just happened to be in progress by inventors on the opposite sides of the world.
I mentioned the other day on how when I saw DIRTY HARRY in 1971, I commented to a friend that Andrew Robinson reminded me of Liberace. Almost two decades later, there he was playing Liberace in a TV movie. Just a simliar thought process, that's all, I didn't sue.
It was even more strange when the whole Amy Fisher thing was in the news and it was announced that there would likely be a TV movie soon following. I thought that either Drew Barrymore or Alyssa Milano would be good casting and both of them played the part, along with yet another actress in a third adaptation.
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Are you asking me that question? Of course I've seen the whole film.
No Fred, that was in the context of a person I'm describing who does exist on another message board. It was used to illustrate just how "uninformed" some people can be when talking about a subject on which they try to appear to be the authority.
I'm sure that you know the type - when all else fails, they'll resort to "If you don't love XXXXXXX, then you don't love cinema."
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Thank you sir, much appreciated.
I have a thing for that woman in the third row center, the one who is shaking her head back and forth. Nice to see such enthusiasm.
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If we see enough films in our lifetime, especially films of all decades, then we begin to notice the similarities and we can often spot the outright copies.
I can agree with you there, but too often I've found people making leaps that strain credulity. Such as recently on another board, I saw someone claiming that Hitchcock's shower scene in PSYCHO was inspired by a scene with Anita Ekberg in the shower in SCREAMING MIMI.
Then someone came along and said the "obvious influence" was LES DIBOLIQUES and still another came along to say that it was a shower scene in THE SEVENTH VICTIM that was the inspiration.
To say that such things are similar is one thing, but unless one is doing a Mr. Spock mind meld, or the filmmakers in question have revealed it, we really don't know whether one thing was "inspired" by another.
It's common on message boards for some to attempt to be the last word in all things related to cinema. I can think of one person on another site who had already ostracized many with his frequent "No, you are wrong, Joe Schmoe's best film is undoubtedly THE CORN BLOWS AT MIDNIGHT" remarks.
But he outdid himself recently when in a discussion of projects that Hitchcock never brought to the screen, he proclaimed that "The ultimate Hitchcock never-made film is an adaptation of J. M. Barrie's Mary-Rose..."
Apparently he's not only the expert on every film ever made, he's also able to gauge films that were never made. My introduction to this person was when he referenced a film that you mentioned earlier. In a discussion on Wellman's output before the Code, he cited Wellman's crowning achievement as being SAFE IN HELL. Now, as it's one opinion versus another, I would hardly challenge such a statement, but when one makes such a claim, following that with "it's an uncompromising look at the lives of hookers in New Orleans," then I have to wonder if you've ever even seen the film as only about ten minutes is set there.
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> {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.
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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.
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I can't say that I agree wholeheartedly on your stance. However, I do believe that if the purpose of the marathons are to commemorate those who served, then such live-action cartoons as WHERE EAGLES DARE or KELLY'S HEROES do them an injustice.
There's a big difference between that type of war film and one such as A WALK IN THE SUN, THE STORY OF G.I. JOE, BATTLEGROUND or MERRILL'S MARAUDERS.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS was the very first film to air during the tribute, May 2 was the date.
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I may have been presumptuous, I can only recall that it aired rather late at night and my notes indicate it was in March 2008. I log all of my viewings of feature films, have been doing so since January 1, 2008 and as of today I'm up to 2,727 titles without dupes.
Maybe, given that it's May 27, I should play the number 27 in some lottery game.
At any rate, this thread looks to be the work of a "hit-and-run" poster who does not seem interested in responses.
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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.
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SOUNDER is another film that TCM has shown frequently and they've shown both versions of CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY.
They've also run the Fox film NO WAY OUT a few times and I've also watched A DRY WHITE SEASON on TCM.
I've also seen Jim Brown in THE SLAMS, DARK OF THE SUN, DIRTY DOZEN, TICK, TICK, TICK, THE SPLIT, I ESCAPED FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND and THE SPLIT.
I seem to recall seeing COOLEY HIGH on TCM Underground.
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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.
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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.
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did anyone tune in for 'Heavenly Bodies' and 'Fame'
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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?"
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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.
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I've already responded to you in the Hot Topics folder.
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There is a tribute to Dorothy Dandridge on Tuesday night.
Also, TCM has in the past had screenings of films by Oscar Micheaux and Charles Burnett. They are also the only channel that I've known to run HALLELUJAH.
Now that the Oscars have been moved to February, TCM no longer features a fest to coincide with Black History Month in order to hold the Annual 30 Days of Oscar fest. I wouldn't exactly shed any tears if the Oscar fest was curtailed, but I don't make policy around here.
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Sounds like SPELLBOUND to me.
THE PLAINSMAN on Encore Channel tonight
in Westerns
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You're quite welcome, glad to be of some assistance. That was a big mistake on the part of Paramount and they should have had some concern as to Universal's willingness to purchase the library.
Could part of it have been related to the fact the not long before, Universal had leased its horror films to the Screen Gems division of Columbia and the latter was reaping big bucks on the Shock Theater packages? But it was just a lease and the films reverted to Universal within the decade.
Now we all suffer as Universal seems to be sitting on the bulk of the Paramount library as well as a hefty chunk of their own titles.