clore
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> Wow, Bob, you are fantastic!
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> I'm not very technical--how can I put my address in your "in" box? Not sure where to find it.
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Click where it says Private Message User after clicking the link below:
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And look - we're getting more repeats of ON THE WATERFRONT and FACE IN THE CROWD. I'm so glad to see those again - NOT!!
How often is it that a guest programmer selects either A FACE IN THE CROWD or NIGHT OF THE HUNTER? Spike Lee picked both of them.
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Check your PMs.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}I'm not blaming Doris at all. She probably didn't even notice.
I never thought that you were. As far as there not being any Blacks shown in STORM WARNING, I look at it this way - if I were Black, I would not be living in such a town. With most of the population apparently involved or in approval of the ****, the "boundaries" would have been loud and clear.
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Certainly it's less the fault of the star than it is of the Hollywood perception of what middle-America wanted to see.
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While they are indeed in the film, I was being somewhat sarcastic. I figured if there wasn't a black person in a movie set in mid-60s NYC, then there is something wrong.
I haven't seen it since it came out. A date wanted to go to Radio City Music Hall and that was the film that was playing there in the summer of 1968.
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Morgan Freeman and James McEachin had uncredited bits in WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT?
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A Warner set could consist of those WB, MGM or RKO titles under Warner control these days. I have a package of westerns titled "Warner Western Classics Collection" but five of the titles were actually MGM productions originally and the other was from National General.
Not a Warner title in the box.
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Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
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Lazenby's film is my second favorite of the series, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE being the first.
As for DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, it's among my three least favorite and in fact, I don't care for any of the Guy Hamilton Bond films including GOLDFINGER. And I'm no newcomer, I've seen all of them theatrically.
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Gavin was once paid for not acting - for not even showing up.
He was contracted to play James Bond in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. This was the one after George Lazenby and they went for an American since the Lazenby film did so relatively poorly here in the States.
But UA said "try Connery again, up the stakes" and this time he said yes, but only after getting a record-breaking deal. Meanwhile, Gavin was paid off as per his contract.
They did set the bulk of the film in Vegas with the American appeal still in mind. Maybe they were afraid we Yanks wouldn't recognize Connery this time around as he had aged considerably.
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It's the kind of film where there are so many little things that don't add up that it becomes a chore to enjoy. Like the whole scene in the boardroom in the beginning, just to set up Rhys Williams as an angry client who just may have a grudge.
Or John Gavin's accent - they could have just cast him as an American who stayed behind after the war and being hospitalized. Not to mention that he looked too young to have been in the war in the first place.
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What took so long for the police to arrive at the end? John Williams even mentioned that they were tapping the line and heard the correct time. So why when they heard the bad guy make the fake call, did they not come rushing?
And how stupid for the bad guy to make such a call when it was John Williams who said he would take charge of getting the phone number changed?
"Hmmm, the police inspector got us a new number. But I really doubt that he would think of monitoring it, let me make believe that I'm calling him when I'm actually setting it all up for the kill."
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As the TV listings in The New York Times once declared:
"Dial M For Mediocrity."
POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW
Red herrings come and go, what with Roddy MacDowall and Herbert Marshall conveniently forgotten about half-way through, and then there was the bit about the pub putting John Gavin's phone calls of the previous night on the bill.
And Anthony Dawson shows up at just the right moment to divert our attention from the real villain of the piece.
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I saw that it flashed by rather quickly, but the print was rather choppy looking anyway. I'm not sure if it was owing to bad reception or the print itself. Nothing else tonight has been similarly affected though so most likely it was the print.
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Thanks for the update. I saw this many years ago in 16mm and while I remember it as being rather unfunny, I'll be certain to give it another shot. Maybe instead of Ralph Thomas, they should have gotten his brother Gerald to direct it and have some of the "Carry On..." gang along for the ride.
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I think that it is likely that many Americans bought into this without much thought or skepti-
cism about it, something, however bad it was, that is somewhat understandable
for the time.
Well, back then in the pre-Watergate era, people tended to think that the government was the great father of us all, they wouldn't lie to us or do something that wasn't in our best interests.
Such a thing could happen again, it didn't take much for a great many to believe that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. Just a few things implied in oft-repeated speeches and suddenly we're invading a country. Even the Dems didn't bother to counter much of it - midterm elections were coming up and nobody wanted to be on the wrong side of "If you're not with us, you're against us" so they rolled over and gave in easily.
It was much the same process as before - create a new boogeyman, that's all it takes to unite people. Two people are never closer together than when they're discussing someone whom they both dislike and there will always be a third person to use that to his advantage. It just gets played out on a much larger scale.
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There was plenty of room for stupidity on both sides - HUAC and those cited to be Communists. But the bulk of the blame should fall upon the American people who did not realize that what was being done in the name of God and country was little removed from the Nazi tactic of uniting a country by creating a boogeyman.
This could not have escaped the moguls of Hollywood, most of whom were Jewish and who were now in effect American royalty. The closest we came to that previously was in politics, their names were the public figures prior to the movie industry. Now it was time to slap down the usurpers, the moguls who cooperated with FDR to make pro-Soviet movies during wartime and those writers and directors with foreign names like Biberman, Dmytryk, Maltz, Ornitz and Polonsky as well as those movie stars who changed their names, guys like Jacob Garfinkle, Emmanuel Goldenberg and those who kept their birth names such as Morris Carnovsky. Nothing stirs a populice up like blaming evil on foreigners.
No wonder the moguls were shaking, many of them already lost an element of power with the Paramount Decree of 1948 forbidding studio ownership of theaters. If they perceived it as step one of a threat, it was probably a case of not being paranoid enough.
But it's easy to sit here 60 years later and point fingers (even I'm doing that) or offer bumper sticker slogans and misspelled names and even name some that had no bearing on HUAC. Boy, the irony of that last sure goes to show how blame can be spread unknowingly even today, because there are few willing to take the time to verify something as truthful or even accurate. No wonder the hysteria proliferated back then and could again given the lack of intellectual curiosity. It would be even worse now because a Red Channels list would be available right on the internet and probably updated by the public at large just like Wikipedia.
The really sad thing is that back then all of it was so unnecessary, the names were already in the hands of law enforcement officials. It was all just a circus act to show who had the real power at the time:
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/navasky-chap10.html
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I can't give Cooper any flack. He appeared before the committee but didn't name anyone. He was smart enough to play dumb and avoided contaminating anyone. He also stood up to the likes of John Wayne and Ward Bond who were insisting that he drop out of HIGH NOON lest it kill his career by appearing in something "so un-American."
In fact, Cooper has the last laugh. Knowing that he could not make the Oscar ceremonies, he asked Wayne to pick up his Oscar if he won. So, there was John Wayne, picking up a friend's award for a film that he had passed on doing - and warned his agent that he would be fired if Wayne was ever sent such a Commie script again.
Yet, while accepting the Oscar, Wayne said "Now I'm going to have to speak to my agent about why I didn't get the part."
Cooper must have been laughing for some time after that.
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Some people had no trouble taking care of the nitwits of HUAC.:
Lionel Stander's testimony on one occasion is like something out of a Marx Brothers movie. While being grilled about what he knows, Stander keeps interrupting the questioner to tell him of a body of men who are doing everything that they can to subvert the Constitution. He's clearly trying to denigrate the Committee, but his inquisitioner isn't going to let him make his point without difficulty.
I've tried to find it online but that effort isn't yielding what I'm looking for as printed in "Naming Names" by Victor Navasky.
Arthur Miller wrote of how Chairman Walters of HUAC offered to cancel Miller's hearing if Miller would get his wife Marilyn Monroe to agree to a photo with him. Miller refused, but it goes to show the priorities were really just opportunistic and self-serving. The hearings effected no new legislation (the usual intent of such hearings) and offered up no real evidence of any crimes committed.
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It's also Jane Powell's 83rd birthday. TCM should have saved ATHENA which aired the other day and have run it today to get two b-days tributes in one.
Or they could have aired HIT THE DECK today.
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In the first draft of the June 2011 schedule, they did list ROOM FOR ONE MORE and THE EASY WAY back-to-back. They're the same film, the latter title was what the film was called in its earliest TV runs while there was a concurrent ABC TV series with the former title.
Yours truly pointed it out and it was subsequently changed.
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One would almost think that Sony has a stake in Antenna TV from the schedule. So many of the movies and series are from the old Columbia or Screen Gems catalogs. I've even seen some Boston **** movies within a week of seeing the same titles on TCM.
They appear to be using time compression on the Hitchcock shows and while most of the time it's not distracting, once in a while you'll get an episode where it's almost impossible to decipher what is being said.
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The Woody Allen film ALICE is carrying cast and crew of a whole different film of the same title.
STORM WARNING (1950) - KLAN KO'd BY GIPPER & GINGER
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There's a scene in PILLOW TALK where Doris is telling Rock that her latest is rather the gentleman type. Rock then says something along the line of "Oh, is he one of those - the kind who collects recipes." Something else may have followed, but it's obvious that he's implying that her date didn't make a pass because he's gay.
I just got the DVD today, I'll have to check for the sake of accuracy. It came in a set with four other films, and I watched CHARADE and DOUBLE INDEMNITY first.