clore
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> {quote:title=TopBilled wrote:}{quote}It's not the usual Ayn Rand, because it has the usual David Selznick touches instead.
I can just imagine Selznick sending Rand an 82-page memo about how to cut down the verbiage.
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There's also DARLING LILI
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Oh the difficulties of locking yourself into a fixed theme within a theme and having interns draft the schedule.
I somehow can't see them airing IN BRUGES at 3pm.
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How about THE NUN'S STORY? It clocks in at 149 minutes.
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I've already ordered the DVD from Amazon. Today's showing whetted my desire to see it as it should be seen.
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Clearly the people who research and write up the copy for these intros have to do a better job at verifying their work. I don't expect RO to know everything or spend his time proofreading everything.
I honestly don't expect Mr. Osborne to have to double-check everything. But I will say that while he was on vacation, there were far fewer such gaffes. Perhaps the copy was being checked for accuracy better since they might have a problem attracting hosts otherwise.
Or else someone on the staff is going out of his/her way to make Robert Osborne look less than knowledgeable.
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I couldn't find any info either on BATTLE OF THE BULGE being Oscar nominated. Maybe it's a new format this year - films we wish were Oscar-nominated.
Being a weekday afternoon airing, there won't be any intro - it would have been fun to see how it would be handled. My guess is that a revision is coming.
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You do that and you won't be disappointed.
Well, guess what? I was disappointed. The film was at one point listed as having the UK running time of 135 minutes. It was about a half-hour short of that. The running time doesn't even match the U.S. timing of 123 minutes, at 104 minutes it matches the version seen in Germany.
While it wasn't full-length, it was full-screen, the print being 1.33:1 rather than the 1.78:1 ratio as seen in theaters.
It looks as if I'll have to buy the DVD to get the movie the way it's supposed to be seen - which is what TCM claims is its mission. I don't want to hear this usual excuses about what was supplied by the distributor - the same distributor managed to get the film out in the proper form on DVD.
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The King World logo was also on the print of NIGHT IN PARADISE that aired the other night. That print was worse than the one of UNDER CAPRICORN.
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Well, in the meantime you can make do with Jones and Cotten in another William Dieterle film LOVE LETTERS tonight at 10pm.
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You do that and you won't be disappointed. The director is Lewis Gilbert, who helmed ALFIE, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE and THE SPY WHO LOVED ME.
When I was a kid, I swore that Kenneth More and Jack Hawkins were big stars. This was before the studios started leasing relatively recent films to TV, but there werre tons of British movies of recent vintage on local TV and it seemed to me as a nine-year-old that most of them starred More and Hawklins.
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No, it's not some line from a western. REACH FOR THE SKY is an inspiring story based on Douglas Bader, a man who lost both of his legs in an airplane crash and still went on to become a pilot during WWII. It may well be the best role that Kenneth More ever had.
This is a film that I've not seen in fifty years but I remember it with great fondness and recommend it highly.
Edited by: clore on Jan 21, 2012 4:11 PM
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Sounds like a case of
JOEL McCREA !
JOEL McCREA !
Now I'm stuck
For something to say
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From Universal
Joel McCrea Westerns Collection
The post-war years saw the maturing Joel McCrea moving almost exclusively into the western genre, and a quartet of popular oaters from his latter career have been assembled for the first time on DVD. Joel saddles up opposite co-stars like Brian Donlevy, Dean Stockwell, Leon Ames and Yvonne De Carlo in The Virginian (1946), Cattle Drive (1951), Border River (1954), and Mustang Country (1976).
AVAILABLE 04/02/12
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> {quote:title=Dargo wrote:}{quote}Hey clore, it didn't happen to come as a two VHS set with *The Parallax View*, did it?!
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> You know, as some kinda in-depth "How To Guide" for all those crazed potential political assassins out there among us!
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THE PARALLAX VIEW could also be considered a primer for reporters on how NOT to cover a story.
As an aside, one film that has always amazed me is the original DAY OF THE JACKAL which builds incredible suspense despite our knowing that history already makes it impossible for him to complete his objective.
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As in what's the difference between "oldies" and "classic rock"?
"Oldies" is all-encompassing while the other refers to maybe 25 tunes in total that get constant airplay on that form of radio known "Classic rock."
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> {quote:title=DougieB wrote:}{quote}Maybe there was some confusion between this movie and "Suddenly", which I believe was pulled after the Kennedy assassination.
That may well be as I can recall that there were claims that Oswald watched this film not long before that day in Dallas. Yet, I can recall seeing it on local NYC TV around 1967. But I don't recall seeing it listed for quite a few years after that until it fell into public domain and then it was all over the place, including a colorized version.
But the legend about THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE has been around for some time, at least 30 years. I recall that I sent a letter to either VIDEO or VIDEO REVIEW in 1983 when they had a reference to it and at the time I had access to the dates for all four network runs and the Nielsen ratings for each.
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I thought the story was it was pulled after it's tv showings?
It was apparently pulled after the showings in the 70s, but the researchers had Osborne specifically cite that it had been withdrawn for 26 years, from its initial release year to the late 80s revival.
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Are WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT? and HOW TO STEAL A MILLION relatively unknown films?
What about THE RULING CLASS - were we supposed to take that seriously? Or GREAT CATHERINE, clips of which even appear in MY FAVORITE YEAR.
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(...sorry clore, I couldn't resist that one...actually I must admit I'm one of folks who had believed this myth...thanks for the correction)
You're quite welcome. Another one that Sinatra should have pulled from distribution is JOHNNY CONCHO, where he's as out of place in the American west as he was south of the border. I once mentioned to his co-star William Conrad that I had seen it and he laughed, telling me that he's never met anyone who admitted to seeing it.
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It aired on the CBS network in September 1965 and was repeated later in the season. It showed up again on network TV on NBC in 1974 and 1975.
Somehow the myth that Sinatra pulled it from distribution has perpetuated but a "Films In Review" article in 1988 debunked all of that and having seen it twice on TV personally, I can attest to two of those airings.
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> {quote:title=Dargo wrote:}{quote}Thanks clore. Yes, or should I say, yeeEEEEEsss, it's Frank Nelson!
Sometimes I watch reruns of Jack Benny's show at 3am on Antenna TV and he pops up there quite often. The other night he was the prosecuting attorney while Raymond Burr was the defense guy for Benny who was charged with murdering a rooster.
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This might another case such as when people confuse Harold "The Great Gildersleeve" Peary with that other guy(who's name I can't remember now) who came along a little later, and who both were known for saying "YeeEEEEEsss" with that same inflection in their voice.
That was Frank Nelson.
There were two actors who played Gildersleeve. The first was Harold Peary and later Willard Waterman played the character on TV.
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It aired on January 4 at 8pm Eastern time as the first SOTM film featuring Angela Lansbury.
Errol Flynn's age
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The possibility exists that the writers and other support staff don't have final say, and that Osborne brooks no disagreement with his own memory and judgment. If this is so, then it's disgraceful, and so counter-productive, since Osborne would be the one sabotaging his own reputation.
That is one scary thought. I missed the intro on BALLANTRAE so I can't claim to have heard it. That would have really knocked me out of my chair as it's just too easily verified and those are the kind of errors that really annoy me. Between features I had to run an errand and got back just in time to see the WB logo.
I imagine that whoever is putting these things together is doing so at a computer, not on some ancient Underwood typewriter in a dungeon room with no electricity and thus no PC. TCM has all of these promos about how one can access the site with a downloded app and access all sorts of info. Give that man an app if he's the one at fault, they run on batteries so the lack of electricity in his cell can't be an excuse.
I can see someone making an error when it comes to the age of George Raft as I can find three different birth years in my library alone. Loads of studio bios would shave years off a player's age and some of these inaccuracies still manage to surface.
But I've never seen any dispute over Flynn's reported age - many of his exploits have been debunked or doubted, but not his birth date.
However, any possible dispute between Osborne's memory or the copy he's presented can most likely be settled if the writer is forced to supply footnotes as to his source of the info. If that person is proved wrong - or lazy - it will become apparent soon enough. Meanwhile, because of flubs like these and some of the less than worthy prints that have been airing, it does appear as if quality control is slipping.