clore

If you want to do a nostalgia trip, this is a good site: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/7895 I spent my teen years living just a block away from the above on Seneca Avenue. It closed a few years before we moved there.

I lived in Ridgewood, so I didn't get to the Forest Hills theaters too often as I had the RKO Madison, the Ridgewood, the Oasis and in the earliest days, the Parthenon and the Starr Theater which is really the home of most of my childhood viewings. These were all in walking distance. Once I was old enough to drive, then I got around and was in the Forest Hills area more often. My son lives on Saunders Street, if he could walk through walls, he's in a straight line south of the Trylon. I'm in Jackson Heights where we only have one theater left and it's been so chopped up that the screens seem only slightly larger than my TV. But the Kaufman is just a 15 minute bus ride away.

Yes, I noticed and put up a post in a thread on the film in the Hot Topics folder a few minutes after it started. This also happened with a couple of Abbott and Costello monster films a few Sundays ago and the Sunday before that it happened with JOAN OF ARC. But the films were fine on the SD version of TCM. The online monthly schedule does have STATE FAIR indicated as being letterboxed. Maybe someone saw that and pushed the wrong button.

You have a good point. Gene Hackman had no control over his birth date and he is considered one of our best actors of the last half-century. That should not exclude him from consideration as long as the year that a film was nominated for an Oscar doesn't exclude it. Nor should it exclude someone like Robert Duvall who does not seem to have been mentioned in this thread.

This will bring back a memory or two, although I apologize for the vintage of the photo:

> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:}{quote}Interesting topic for a thread -- actors who played Napoleon Bonaparte. Rollo Lloyd in Anthony Adverse is another. But there are probably hundreds. But Albert Dieudonne in the Gance film would have to come at or near the top of the list. That film may be silent, but it sings! You may enjoy this: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027456/ Just glancing, I see a couple of actors played him two or more times - Herbert Lom, Emile Drain and Egon von Hagen.

> {quote:title=TopBilled wrote:}{quote}I was looking forward to VOICE IN THE WIND, because it seemed interesting. But when I watched it this afternoon, I came to the conclusion that it was pure junk. Shot in thirteen days and it shows. I am sure there was very little rehearsal time. It does not seem like they had much opportunity to really hone it and put their best work into it. > > VOICE is sort of a time capsule, showing what a group of artists managed to produce in under two weeks, and here we are decades later watching that document but it is not a classic document. It is rather frayed around the proverbial edges, all scratched up and about to disintegrate in our very hands. > I'm not certain if more money or time would have made it any better. I'm a "B" movie enthusuast, I adore the cinema of Ulmer, Cahn, Beaudine and the like. I can make allowances for time and budget if there are enough elements there in the first place. This one had a story that was just shoddy. Francis Lederer actually did great work under the handicap, Granach was OK, but why were he and Naish employing Italian accents when they were supposed to be Portuguese? As I said earlier, Naish was doing his Chico Marx impression which is different from his Italian soldier in SAHARA where he isn't piling on the stereotype. As for Sigrid Gurie, what can I say? I've seen more expressive department store dummies. Maybe the whole thing was supposed to be director Ripley's CALIGARI, where we're seeing it all through the eyes of a madman. I won't call it junk, but it was hardly the treasure that some have called it through the years.

"Baseball been berry, berry good to me." Garrett Morris as Chico Escuela on SNL is what comes to mind when I think of that movie. Granted, I saw the film first, but once SNL introduced that character, I could not help but think of ALL FALL DOWN. I'm glad that you liked the post, thank you for commenting.

it is such a tedious, overwrought, mundane little affair- and honestly, it's been in heavy rotation for the last two or three years. I don't consider it a berry, berry good movie. Yes, it is berry, berry overwrought, and it is berry, berry much in constant rotation. And there is one character name in there which is berry, berry annoying with its constantly being mentioned. It goes to show that his parents didn't have berry, berry much imagination.

> {quote:title=MGMWBRKO wrote:}{quote}FYI - Joel McCrea is the SOTM in May. Thanks for the word. Did you pick May because it rhymes with McCrea so his biggest fan here, misswonderley. can make up a new poem?

I am saddened to hear you may have to drop cable, 'clore'. I can empathize. Truly, I can. Thanks for the thought. I'm going to stave that day off for as long as I can, maybe I'll learn to eat less. As for HOW THE WEST WAS WON, I did watch the DVD in that Smilebox format over a friend's house on his 50-inch set. I'll put it this way, the Cinerama version was meant to be seen on a curved screen. On a flat screen, that image shape is most disconcerting.

But since I am not a fan of the Oscars and the politics of Oscar, I am not into TCM's marketing in February. I am just interested in finding films I haven't seen or films I have seen that I think are worth watching again. Well, on that note today I finally saw VOICE IN THE WIND, a film that UA picked up from PRC so it has always had that curiosity factor for me. It was difficult to watch as the print was terrible, and the music score drowned out whatever the actors were reciting. But I'm glad that I had the chance to check it out. Oddly enough, it was nominated for the score and sound recording. It was fun to see J. Carroll Naish doing Chico Marx again. Tomorrow is THE NAVY COMES THROUGH which has Pat O'Brien and Dennis Morgan, but amazingly it was made at RKO and not Warners. It's one that I've never seen though and I'm always glad to add one more to the list. Other than PETE KELLY'S BLUES, I don't see a thing for the rest of the week worth going out of my way to see. That's OK, I have tons of stuff to catch up on, some of which has nothing to do with movies. But I know where you're coming from. Despite having seen all but one Oscar telecast since 1963, I don't care who wins what because most of the time, the films that mean the most to me never get a nomination. But even the telecast means less to me each year as I become less familiar with the players and I'm no longer at an office water cooler the next day to discuss it.

The only reason that I recall the distributor was because the Warner folks sent me an email when it came out. It was one of the first in their overpriced line to claim that it was remastered. At first they were charging five bucks more than the usual WB Archive title but I thought that they must have figured it to be sell-worthy to go through the extra trouble.

But this month, you don't need to be a classic to air, you just need to have gotten an Oscar nomination or win to air. Thus, a routine film such as the Robert Wagner BANNING could be on the schedule because it was nominated for Best Song - a song that even when it was new, just about nobody had ever heard since the film was there and gone in a week. Personally, I didn't even consider THE INVISIBLE WOMAN to have great effects. They weren't even up to what the same John P. Fulton did seven years earlier in THE INVISIBLE MAN.

THE GREEN SLIME is a Warner Archive title now. It's "made to order" and supposedly remastered, they have clips on the WA site: http://www.wbshop.com/Green-Slime-The/1000180218,default,pd.html?cgid=

> {quote:title=TopBilled wrote:}{quote}Some of you are very critical of TCM in terms of this issue. Now I can see why they started airing that recent disclaimer before movies. I wonder why so many folks over-analyze this when it is much easier to just get widescreen copies on Netflix. Maybe I am missing something...? LOL It would be less of an issue for me if it weren't for the promo that's been running constantly for nearly a decade. It would be a similar issue if suddenly we started getting edited versions of movies more frequently. We're barraged by the butcher and the little girl who know how to cut and the claim there is that we get films uncut. Thus when REACH FOR THE SKY shows up in the Academy ratio and cut of a half-hour, it does violate the so-called mission statement. As for Netflix, well I'm on a fixed income, I don't have the hardware to put it on my TV via downloads and I don't want to have to subscribe to yet another form of delivery be it online or by mail. Eventually it's going to be a dead issue for me as with the way things are going, I'm going to have to drop cable anyway. I'm glad that they put up the disclaimer, it shows that they noticed that we notice. It's a step in the right direction.

But I am perfectly resigned to the idea that the theater will likely become "The Coca-Cola Theater". I wouldn't be surprised if that Atlanta company has already made inquiries. After the debacle of their ownership of Columbia, I doubt that they want to be associated with Hollywood except for product placements.

I thought that at times he was doing brother Lionel, but yes, there is a bit of Frank Morgan in there also. There was one scene that had him drinking some concoction in his lab and it had me thinking of how little he resembled the man who was Dr. Jekyll twenty years earlier.

I'm sure there are plenty of Universal fans, user Prince Saliano has posted quite a bit about MIA Universal titles, supplying lengthy lists of them. I've been wanting to see NORTH TO THE KLONDIKE and THE ROAD BACK for many years as well as some of the Abbott and Costello or Olsen and Johnson films. Poor Jeff Chandler is poorly represented on TCM seeing as how he made most of his titles there.

It was nominated for special effects, but I WANTED WINGS won the Oscar.

I remember first seeing her when I was a kid watching HOT OFF THE WIRE with Jim Backus. To see her bit in ON DANGEROUS GROUND, you would think that she would have been the next Lauren Bacall or Gloria Grahame, but she never really took off. She had roles as the goofy friend of the leading lady in BUNDLE OF JOY and THAT FUNNY FEELING and as you noted, she was all over the place in the 60s on TV. I think she's equally adept in comedy and drama but can only admit to her being scary once, That was in an episode of THE FUGITIVE where she was just using boyfriend Mickey Rooney and acting to set him up for a hit man since Rooney doesn't have enough money to keep her happy.

I know the person named PeterAndres who put that clip up on YouTube. He posts on the IMDb boards and we met when he came to NYC last summer. I guess he didn't see the film last night because otherwise he would be waxing wroth about the score alterations.

It's like the old joke about the teacher going to a pupil's home to see his mother and the pupil answers the door... "Is your mother home Ted?" "Nah, my mother ain't home." Ted. your grammar!" "Nah, my grammar ain't home either."

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}I'm sure it was not TCM that screwed with the music. Why the distributor would, I can only guess. Perhaps a rights issue? Well, thanks for the info. I have recorded it, but not watched it yet. If we're lucky, maybe someone who knows for certain what's up with that will let us know. I'd agree that it's not the fault of TCM. I did notice that something was "off" with the score tonight, but not having the film on DVD or a copy of the soundtrack, there was nothing for me to compare. It's hard for a non-musician to describe, it's just that parts of it did not sound like Herrmann. I don't have many film scores on LP or CD, but the bulk of my collection are scores composed by Herrmann. The first one that I ever bought was a collection of Herrmann scores from Hitchcock films.

Ahh, forget it, I've changed my mind upon reflection. We're here to talk TCM and movies, not other posters. An admitted error that I will try to avoid in the future. By the way, this is not a judgment of your post either. You happen to be one of my favorite posters. Edited by: clore on Jan 31, 2012 7:54 AM