clore

No, he wasn't in the movie although EGR was in the play MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. Gena Rowlands had the Kim Novak part.

Believe me, I can use the terms when I'm discussing films. For example, it's not at all untrue that VERTIGO was underrated at the time of its release and I suppose someone could say that the reverse is true and that it's overrated now. The same might apply to RIO BRAVO or THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE. I just tend to shy away from saying something such as THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH was overrated. First, I doubt than anyone who voted it Best Picture had anything in mind but a career award for De Mille, as much as perhaps John Wayne's TRUE GRIT Oscar was awarded with similar thought. None of it really means a lot to me anyway. I grew up on horror and sci-fi as well as westerns and crime films that rarely then received many plaudits. I learned not to rely on critics or public approval when it came to the films that I enjoyed. I still get more of a kick out of ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS than I do from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. I'm not one who spends a lot of time on reviews although I do read a lot about film history. Not to dismiss anyone here or on any of the boards in which I participate, but I don't spend a lot of time weighing a film and coming up with a rating for it. I don't spend time making lists to determine if something should get a 80.5 or an 80.7 on the scale. I'd rather spend the time watching another film. I do agree that Stanwyck wasn't properly appreciated by the Academy, but with a career that lasted as long as her's did, it's obvious that the public liked her. Cary Grant and Edward G. Robinson never won a competitive Oscar, but both are among the best in their craft. What was the quote about John Wayne? "Nobody liked him except the public."

When I see the words "underrated" or "overrated" being used these days, I consider it shorthand for the user saying "the rest of the world doesn't agree with me."

Nevertheless, it was a rare chance to see Harry Carey in his prime. Even though it wasn'ty exactly a Western. I enjoyed the film, but did think that it wasn't exactly state-of -the-art for 1924. However, the scenes with the train in the fire did impress me. It was also fun to see early Harry Carey, although contrary to what was claimed, it was not "Harry Carey before he became a member of the John Ford stock company." With one exception, Carey's films for Ford were all behind him in 1924.

{quote:title= > Sprocket_Man wrote:}{quote}Alistair Sim, not Sims. Actually, it's Alastair Sim.

Did the print of THE MOON AND SIXPENCE come with the opening reference to being restored by the Eastman House? I hope not as it looks terrible, like something from the Mill Creek 50 Pack of Costume Dramas. This happened about a year ago when there was a salute to the UCLA Preservation efforts - they showed two public domain Sherlock Holmes films that were no better than what you could buy at Big Lots for a dollar. Yes, UCLA did restore those two films, but as I have them on DVD, I can safely attest to the fact that the prints shown that day were inferior.

To my knowledge, no explanation was given.

It's already on YouTube:

Walker is a better example than MacMurray becaus that's the ONLY time he played a character like that. Walker also played a spoiled rotten character in SEA OF GRASS but only gets into the last third of the film. He's not any more likable in VENGEANCE VALLEY either.

It wa George Pal's first feature film and after all of those Puppetoons that he made, it was probably a very viable concept. Hey, if Cary Grant can play to a dancing caterpillar...

> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:}{quote}Ernest Thesiger would have been a great Scrooge! I can just envision him saying, grudgingly, in his campy way, "have a potato." He does show up in the 1951 version airing now - he's the undertaker.

Jocelyne LaGarde who appeared in the 1966 film HAWAII, is the only actor ever nominated for an Oscar for what was their only screen appearance.

> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote} > Not just the media. Everybody. That's why there are lots of responses to a thread like this - people love to wag and the media knows it. OK, so let's turn the tide a bit. Here's a nice story about Keanu Reeves offering his seat on the subway: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/09/keanu-reeves-gives-up-subway-seat_n_1139228.html

> {quote:title=Swithin wrote: > }{quote}I hope they show *The Egyptian*. That's one I've been longing to see again for years. If TCM shows The Egyptian, I promise not to complain the next five times they show NBNW ! There's a film that gets knocked because Purdom and Darvi are not exactly Lunt and Fontanne. It's remembered as the film that Brando abandoned if anything. Personally, I find it one of the better spectaculars of the 50s, literate script and gorgeous visuals. I saw it twice in 2010 on the Fox Movie Channel and wouldn't hesitate to watch it again. I admit to being biased as I'm a big fan of Michael Curtiz.

I seem to recall a studio setting. It was a special on NBC about Hollywood and Judy was there mumbling about drunken munchkins which was ironic considering her own condition. Just checked the IMDb - it had to have been A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO HOLLYWOOD. The year is right and it has Paar and Garland credited. Even the telecast date works out correctly as I remember that it was a Sunday night program.

Dr. Zhivago should be shown more often? According to a schedule search, it has already aired eight times this year.

I'm very glad that this one and IT HAPPENED ON FIFTH AVENUE have been aired on TCM to hopefully greater recognition.

...and I suppose that that was Garland's last attempt at a movie role before her death. As far as I know, it was. It was quite depressing to see Judy on TV in that period. In fact, I could not even enjoy her earlier work until relatively recently as all I could think of when I saw that younger version was that the future did not look bright. I remember seeing her on some 1967 special hosted by Jack Paar and she was incoherent. I was surprised that they allowed that taped segment to go on the air.

> {quote:title=wouldbestar wrote:}{quote} > I was surprised that Susan Hayward played the Helen/Em role as it was very unflattering to this person and, hey, would she want somebody else doing that to her? Judy Garland was originally cast in the part, but some bad behavior on the set caused her to be replaced after a few days. She did get to keep her wardrobe as I recall.

According to the thread in this forum about the March schedule, the Boston **** films will be airing on Saturday mornings in March.

Coincidentally, he's in the movie that's airing on TCM as I type this - TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI and he was visible earlier today in HOW THE WEST WAS WON.

Clore, I must confess that I've never heard of this movie. And here I thought that I knew all of her films. AIP butchered it when they released it as JOURNEY TO THE LOST CITY. It was originally a two-part German film and it is on DVD in that form.

Those Universal classics of the 30s and 40s are always going to be 4:3 and if ever the day came where TCM started offering faux-widescreen versions, that's the day that I give up on the channel. That's as important to me as seeing widescreen movies in the proper ratio. On my TV, THEY LIVE did have space above and below the image, but that's going to happen with 2.35:1 ratio films on a 16:9 ratio screen.

TCMHD is really a synthesized product. It's upconverted through a processor, it's not true HD, In fact, I enjoy B&W more on the regular TCM as the HD process adds a greenish tint to the image. I forget if the end of THEY LIVE had a verbal quip, but I did recall him giving the finger at the end. I didn't even bother with THE FOG as it has never been one of my favorites since I saw it theatrically and besides, I just saw it over Halloween weekend.

Clore, you're rather good with trivia....can you go into detail about why those films weren't released? Thank you for the compliment. All I know about TWO GUYS ABROAD is that the producer Ian Warren decided after it was edited to shelve it. Maybe he realized that a film with two aging stars wasn't a viable prospect, but apparently it wasn't even sold to TV. The director was Hammer veteran Don Sharp so it would have some marketability these days as a DVD. DEADHEAD MILES at least had some exposure on TV but that took close to a decade. It was a Paramount production with a lot of cameos by familiar faces such as Charles Durning, Loretta Swit, Paul Benedict, Hector Elizondo and I'm surprised that it was never released on home video. I've seen it and it isn't the most linear film I've ever seen, more a series of vignettes If it has a fault, it's that it is one of those smug, self-indulgent "aren't we hip" movies so typical of the era (1972) and which would have been dated by the time you got home if you saw it in a theater. Still, it deserves to be seen if only for the cast. JET PILOT was filmed in something like 1949 and didn't see the light of day until 1957 and even that was only briefly. What were originally modern aircraft were nearly obsolete by the time that the film came out. But with John Wayne falling for a Russian female being the plot line, the film wasn't exactly in line with the times when it was finished. Then again, with a filming start date of December 1949, someone among the duo of Hughes or Wayne should have realized that it was a dubious commercial project anyway.