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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}Yes, Bruce was in a Tarzan serial.
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Bennett's Tarzan was a lot closer to Burroughs' literary Tarzan than most, but that's because Burroughs was one of the producers. It's available as a serial and a feature called TARZAN AND THE GREEN GODDESS. Bennett would later play (as Herman Brix) in the Republic serial HAWK OF THE WILDERNESS as a character similar to Tarzan.
Same goes for Crabbe, he was not only Tarzan, but also Kaspa the Lion Man in KING OF THE JUNGLE which came out before his Tarzan film. As late as 1952's KING OF THE CONGO, Crabbe was still wearing a loincloth while rival Weissmuller was by now covered from head to toe as Jungle Jim.
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The Magnificent Ambersons
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> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:
> }{quote}That is an interesting angle. i.e. the White House from the POV of a maid. That also helps avoid a lot of the politics. I agree that Fonda with her hair styled like Nancy look similar.
This project sounds similar to an old mini-series:
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Speaking of Gary Cooper and internalizing, maybe you've come across this anecdote.
Early on in the shooting of the submarine film DEVIL AND THE DEEP, Bankhead observed Cooper prowling around the submarine set, ducking in doorways, playing with the periscope, asking questions of the tech advisor - little things like that.
Bankhead asked if he was having fun and Cooper responded that he was familiarizing himself with the set as he was supposed to be an officer who had spent considerable time on the vessel and he wanted to give the impression that he knew what he was doing.
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If they do run it, I insist that they pair it up with CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS.
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It was other than you're probably thinking, but I did revise it a bit.
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I heard that Bob also helped Lila Leeds pull the weeds out of
her garden. What a guy.
I think they were looking for crabgrass.
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A pound? We're in an inflationary spiral, it's already reached 18 ounces.
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> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}Don't know if it was an error in the telepompter or an incident of mis-speaking, but I am betting that Robert Osborne was meant to say Mitchum worked with William Wellmann.
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Pay up. Wellman was the last in the group of names mentioned.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}I believe that Mitchum helped Wyler load some bags of groceries into his car in the parking lot of a Ralphs supermarket.
I once read that Mitchum's brother John helped Monty Wooley carry some things into a new residence. What Wooley wanted him to do next isn't suitable to mention in this forum.
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> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:
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Thanks for that. I didn't even try the "match" process, I just looked at the titles in the Wyler list and didn't recognize one of them as a possibility.
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Robert Osborne just rattled off a bunch of top directors who worked with Mitchum to illustrate the compliment that Mitch made about Laughton being the best director with whom he worked. Wyler was the first director named.
I've seen every Wyler film made since *Counsellor At Law* and I can't recall one with Mitchum, not even as an extra.
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I'm glad to see VIOLENT ROAD among those Dick Foran films. It's a WB low-budget spin on WAGES OF FEAR about truckers carrying explosives. I haven't seen it in 40 years when it aired as a CBS Late Movie.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}Geez, I used to like this movie.
I know what you mean. I'm suddenly getting nostalgic for the HOT SPELL guy.
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Mike Reese is a reporter who is about as sleazy as they come. He must be, he's played by Dan Duryea in the Cy Endfield noir gem. Chuck Tatum of *Ace in the Hole* has nothing on Mike - except that he probably makes a bigger salary.
Mike's lost his job because given some confidential info about a mobster's secret testimony, Mike runs it the paper that employs him which causes the bad guys to know just where to ambush the man testifying. Sure, the paper is equally at fault, but they'll get off by printing an apology, Mike's the scapegoat.
With a stake provided by the local New England gangster who benefited most from the silenced witness, Mike buys into another suburban newspaper. Shortly thereafter, the murder of the daughter-in-law of a prominent publisher and the cover-up as well as the innocent victim accused of the murder, has Mike manipulating all in his path to make his way back to the top and a few bucks on the side.
As the guilty person says of the accused: "She's a n-word, who is going to take her word over ours?"
This one is that gritty, but it moves with B movie speed not trying to make a social statement. Or is it? What happened to director Endfield, having to relocate owing to HUAC, has some reading "witch hunt" into the narrative but if one didn't know the personal history, it's a riveting tale anyway that reveals the levels and layers of corruption and also of the depths of sacrifice. Subtext is just as often the baggage one brings to a film as opposed to what the director installs.
Gale Storm, Herbert Marshall, Harry Shannon, Michael O'Shea and Howard da Silva in what seems to be a return to the character he played in *The Blue Dahlia* all figure prominently. Got this from the Warner Archive, highly recommended you do also when they have another sale. This will be getting many future plays as I turn others on to this unheralded gem.
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Thanks. There's a certain irony in that Doris Day is following Anne Bancroft seeing as how Bancroft got the role in THE GRADUATE that was first offered to Day.
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> {quote:title=MGMWBRKO wrote:}{quote}Doris recorded her narration at her home about 10 days ago. There are 2 versions of this interstitial. The first one is 8:39 in length and the second shorter abridged version is 6:21. The short version airs at 2:37pm (3/26/12) and the longer version at 2:09am (3/27/12). Enjoy!
Thank you for the alert. I presume that you're referring to Eastern time? I'd like to tip a friend off to the next airing and he's on the west coast.
Also, the 3/27 airing - that's the proper 3/27, not based on the broadcast day that runs 6am-6am?
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> {quote:title=willbefree25 wrote:}{quote}Which part of
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Yes, repeating the same phrase as would a parrot is really doing something. I just hope that if and when the need arises to really do something, you'll have acquired a few more bumper sticker phrases to support your position. Otherwise, your act is tired.
Until then, I hope you don't mind if I ignore you.
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What I think 'clore" meant was that any Nielsen households that watched TCM would have that viewership noted by the "Nielsen Box" installed in their homes or in the diaries they fill out. Nielsen could access that information if need be.
I'm a bit late to return to this thread, but yes, that's exactly what I meant. For example, in my last position as a media research/marketing exec, I had access to such info because we paid for it in order for us to represent our client Dish network. In order to legitimately reflect our client's competitive position, I had to have such info.
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> {quote:title=willbefree25 wrote:}{quote}which is perhaps best avoided.
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> *All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.*
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If you're going to quote me, then include the whole sentence which was:
"It's just that in this forum it's a delicate subject that brings out the worst on both sides and thus one which is perhaps best avoided."
What part of "*It's just that in this forum it's a delicate subject that brings out the worst on both sides*" do you not understand? This is a film forum, not a political forum. The admins frown on such subjects. Tossing bromides at me (that you've already stated repeatedly) and selectively quoting (a disingenuous act) as if to indicate a moral highground isn't earning you any credibility from my perspective as you're preaching to the choir.
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It's been given plenty of attention in books from both sides (I've got four on the subject) and it's been the subject of numerous films in whole or in part. It's just that in this forum it's a delicate subject that brings out the worst on both sides and thus one which is perhaps best avoided.
Here's a recent one that apparently avoided being locked:
http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=163651&start=0&tstart=0
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I wonder why so little is being made of the pervasive horror that was the HUAC.
You're relatively new here. It's a subject that probably most are avoiding as even 60 years later it's too hot a topic and any "discussion" is likely to result in a closed thread. I'm sure that if you put "HUAC" in the search box, you'll find some of the old threads still around.
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Just out of curiosity, what's the source for that story?
Not to jump in sprocket man's shoes, but I read that story in Dore Schary's autobiography titled "Heyday."
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There's a slight error in that book. It's not that it took so long to film, but it did spend a long time in post production. The shoot lasted from late July 1951 through mid-October.
Another casualty was the framing of the film. It was shot and intended to be viewed in the Academy ratio, like any other film made in 1951. By the time it was released, Paramount turned it into a 1.66:1 ratio film. That sort of turns the Oscar for cinematography into a joke.
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