clore
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Funny how so many people have latched on to Pollack's Heebie Jeebie phrase...
In my case it's because I'm sort of reminding the powers-that-be that I've seen the promo that touts TCM as the place to see movies in the proper format. There have actually been a couple of times that i saw the promo right before TCM aired a pan-and-scan feature.
It's the first time that I ever saw such a disclaimer also but given the number of widescreen TVs out there, the language needs to be altered somewhat. That may have worked for TNT twenty years ago when 4:3 was prevalent, but those days are over.
I did like the way that it said "TCM tried to get a copy..." That almost had me thinking that it was in response to those of us who complain about such things here.
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First INTENT TO KILL comes on with a warning that it has been formatted to fit this screen. Well, not mine, I have a widescreen TV. While the disclaimer is appreciated, that it was necessary isn't. I did see the film on FMC a few years ago in widescreen, so I passed on it.
Now THE LION is airing in a 4:3 ratio despite having been shot in 2.35:1. I didn't tune-in early enough to see if it too had a disclaimer and I tuned out right away. If I want to see a widescreen movie butchered, I have enough old VHS tapes that can also accomplish that.
There's a certain irony that in celebrating the career of a man known primarily as a cinematographer, that when they air films he directed, we're not seeing the whole image.
It's enough to give one the heebie-jeebies.
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These boards are very inconsistent with that quote function. I usually hit the "enter" key three times before typing and sometimes it formats properly, other times it doesn't. I was only doing that as I learned that one "hit" does not space things correctly.
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> {quote:title=cigarjoe wrote:}{quote}*The Brasher Doubloon* (1947) Director John Brahm, with George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, and Roy Roberts. Nothing to go running out to find very talky and studio set bound. Probably the worst film based on Chandler's Marlowe P.I. character. Didn't like Montgomery at all nor the rest of the cast for that matter.
Fox had John Payne, Richard Conte, Mark Stevens and Richard Widmark on the lot at that time and the best that they could come up with was George Montgomery. The film makes you wonder what the very talented John Brahm must have been thinking of while making it as it shows none of the flair of THE LODGER or HANGOVER SQUARE.
Even the earlier adaptation TIME TO KILL with Lloyd Nolan, while no great shakes itself, was a better film.
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I've checked the schedule for the month and I can't even find a 2007 movie. There is a Private Screenings dated 2006 and a 2009 Elvis Mitchell interview, but otherwise, the closest thing this month is a showing of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.
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> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}
> Joan's character never completely loses it except towards the end. In the remake the mother starts losing her grip quite early.........
I prefer it the way that it was done in the Ophuls film. I think it was deliberate as Bennett's character was not shown to have the opportunity to break down. Every where she went in the house, there was some other family member or the household help intruding on her - she had to maintain her composure. When she went out, she would run into others who might just be saying "hello" such as even in the car with Mason, she still had a neighbor in another vehicle greeting her. It seemed that she lived in a goldfish bowl and had she started freaking out, that's only going to raise questions among the many characters who make up her day.
I'm perhaps wishing too hard that it was deliberate as I would not have been able to put up with another Nancy Kelly in THE BAD SEED type performance that simply wears me out. Just imagine the microscope that Bennet would have been under if she did demonstrate becoming unnerved.
Not that I'm that impressed with THE RECKLESS MOMENT. I've heard about it for years and love Joan Bennett, but I'll take her work with Fritz Lang over this one - except perhaps for SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR which struck me as "deja vu all over again" in the words of Yogi Berra.
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> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}
> The two-hour program is called "Bombing Hitler's Dams" and is available for viewing on the PBS website -
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/bombing-hitler-dams.html
Thanks for the link, I'm going to check that one out.
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> {quote:title=JefCostello wrote:}{quote}
> Is the title of this film supposed to be a funny pun on Errol Flynn?
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> He was accused of rape and that's where the saying "In Like Flynn" came from. This title sounds very similar and is inappropriate when you think about its context.
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When the film was released, James Coburn made his objection to the title become quite known, even voicing it on the Tonight Show. I don't know if that's why he refused to do a planned third film in the series, but he did claim to have tried to talk Fox out of using the title out of his own respect for Flynn.
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I believe that I read that Peter Jackson will be producing the remake. It's said that the footage of the aircraft was one of the inspriations for the attack on the Death Star in the first STAR WARS film. With Jackson aboard, I'm sure this will turn out to be a CGI-fest and sort of his expansion on the original just as 30 SECONDS OVER TOKYO inspired some of PEARL HARBOR.
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The humor in the first Flint film was a bit more subtle as I recall. The second one goes a bit more for slapstick but then, Gordon Douglas got his start doing "Our Gang" and Laurel and Hardy films.
Back when they were new, one problem that the spy spoof genre had was that they were parodies of Bond films and it didn't take Bond long to start spoofing itself. GOLDFINGER was only the third film but it was considerably lighter than the two that came before it.
More recently we had Austin Powers which was more a send-up of Flint and Helm than the Bond films, right down to the ring tone of the phone.
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When TCM aired the film, they did air the British print where the name wasn't censored. Supposedly a remake is coming and the dog will be called Digger.
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Well, if nothing else, we get to see Lee J. Cobb in drag.
The original holds up much better in my opinion, this one was never as good anyway but it's still better than any Matt Helm movie except the first one.
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> {quote:title=Dargo wrote:}{quote}Wait a minute, let me try somethin' here....
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> Who around here likes that old WWII British movie, *The Dam Busters*?
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> (...okay, now lets see what happens!)
Now try getting away with citing the name of the dog in THE DAM BUSTERS.
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You just have to understand why the auto censor exists. This is to free staff from having to patrol the message boards and free them up for more important things such as making sure that all of the commentary spoken by Osborne and Mankiewicz is accurate, that all prints are suitable for airing and in the proper length and aspect ratio.
Seriously, this is nothing compared to what I've seen on some other movie boards. For a while on the IMDb boards, you could not refer to the 1982 Clint Eastwood film HONKYTONK MAN without getting censored, nor could you get away with any reference to Soderbergh's 1999 film THE LIMEY without the title being censored.
Next time try using two dollar signs when you want to use that word.
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I just saw Darla Hood last night on a Jack Benny rerun that I have not seen since my birthday in 1962. She sang a song and also appeared in a spoof of the Our Gang comedies that had Jack as Alfalfa, Rochester as "Oatmeal" and Don Wilson as "Spunky."
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In THE WOLF MAN he plays a character with the same first name and it's pronounced Bayla by Maria Ouspenskaya.
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I found that on another web site and rushed here to post it.
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For several years now, I've been watching the Jeremy Brett SHERLOCK HOLMES episodes on WLIW every Saturday at 7pm. But otherwise, I can't find much there on a regular basis.
I used to travel the East when I was in TV syndication and the local PBS stations in Boston, Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Buffalo could often keep me up later than planned with the late movies scheduled. This was before the days of TCM and I got to see many 30s and 40s films that were hardly ever aired in NYC.
I've watched a few of the Saturday WNET films, but I am spoiled and avoid those that aren't in widescreen. I can't manage to work up any enthusiasm for DR. ZHIVAGO in full screen but once in a while, there's a pre-Cinemascope Fox title that catches my attention.
But it's nothing like when WNET was WNTA and the bulk of the schedule was Fox titles.
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Thanks for your response. That would have been the American release listed in the magazine, which may be shorter than the UK one, but at least it's the film as seen here in its initial release, and on TV in NYC as of its first showing on WABC on December 19, 1960.
If they could not get what was expected, they should have just substituted another title. Although since it's on DVD in the proper langth and format, how difficult could it be for the distributor to supply the right one?
I will give TCM credit for last night's ISLAND OF LOST SOULS. From what I'm reading on another forum, their print was better than the one issued by Criterion.
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Do WNET and WLIW still present movies other than the Neal Gabler-hosted weekly slot? Maybe around Halloween one or the other will show some public domain titles suitable for then day if not for broadcast.
I can recall the days in the 80s when WNET had multiple movies on Saturdays starting at 10pm, a treasure trove of MCA-owned stuff including the Paramount pre-48 films. Perhaps I'm not looking hard enough at their schedules, but their website does not make for easy browsing. Still, when I surf the grid on my cable syustem, both 13 and 21 are on my list and I rarely see any features.
There are lots of program-length commercials for various forms of music oldies and if you pledge 100 bucks, you'll get the full-length DVD set or CD release.
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> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:}{quote}As I recall, in one of the most effective scenes, Dearborn is seated at a long table, with many blind men. He speaks to them in an impeccable English accent. Was that Lugosi's voice, or was it dubbed?
Lugosi was dubbed by London-born O.B. Clarence
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}Well, I liked the version I saw. Muriel Pavlow was certainly cute
Yes, a most attractive woman.
Do you get the Now Playing Guide? I was wondering which version of the film was listed there. I have a sked that I downloaded on December 1, 2011 and it cites the 135 minute edition.
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It's for Universal's 100th Anniversary that a bunch of films are getting the restoration treatment.
It must be Full-Screen night on TCM
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With INTENT TO KILL, the credits were squeezed together. There was action going on underneath them and the humans and autos were a mite skinnier than they should have been.