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This thread needs Sydney Greenstreet's laugh.

The Prell was destroyed by its monsters from the id. [ducking]

When was the last time before this week that TCM showed it? My computer search function must be on the fritz, because I've got the monthly schedules going back to July 2007, and the computer only found this week's airing.

It is? It aired once in 2014 (31 Days of Oscar), once in 2013 (31 Days of Oscar), zero times in 2012, and once in 2011 (Summer Under the Stars). Unless I missed an airing for Elizabeth Taylor's memorial tribute. Or perhaps my computer's search function isn't working?

Worse than Going My Way?

To be fair, we have posters who whinge when TCM shows non-studio era, non-Hollywood stuff. Anyhow, This Property Is Condemned was new to me this month, and a commenter at my blog said he'd never seen A Place in the Sun before.

Isn't Joan Crawford's blackface scene in Torch Song referred to in That's Entertainment! III as "tropical"?

Would it be mean and offensive to like this post? /ducking

Visual News found a gallery of vintage movie theater slides at the Library of Congress site that the exhibitors would have run before and between the movies back around 1912. Pete Smith probably would have recognized some of these when he was making Movie Pests 30 years later: Of course, there's nothing about turning your cell phones off. (The rest of the photos are at the link above.)

Considering Rolling Stone's journalistic standards, do we know that Taibbi even watched the movie? Seriously, I've only seen the commercials, and the two words I'd use to descrive Amreican Sniper from those ads are "mawkish" and "tedious". Come to think of it, that's the same impression I got from the commercials for War Horse, but for whatever reason that movie didn't seem to endgender so much horrified shrieking from the critics.

If they showed Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, and the other famous movies, people here would be complaining that TCM was running the same repetitive stuff again

Saying that doesn't allow people to complain about how horrible and repetitive they think TCM is.

Socialist realism: Boy meets tractor. Boy falls in love with tractor. Boy marries tractor.

So they ripped off William Castle's Strait-Jacket. I hope Robert Walker Jr. didn't wear the dress Joan Crawford wore in that movie.

I was going to mention 36 Hours and The Liquidator too, but see somebody beat me to the punch. I don't think anybody mentioned his supporting roles in 1950s films like The Catered Affair and Separate Tables. Maybe now TCM can finally show Zabriskie Point?

Stetson is a brand of cologne:

Using square brackets (the ones next to the P if you've got a standard QWERTY keyboard) put IMG= followed by the internet address of the image, inside square brackets: If you click on the "Quote" button at the bottom right of this post, and turn off the "what you see is what you get" button on the text editor (the one at the left of the first row), you should get the raw code for the image. Alternatively, you can use a pair of IMG tags the same way one has opening and closing tags in HTML: [ IMG]http://turnerclassicmovies.invisionzone.com/uploads/profile/photo-thumb-15222.jpg?_r=1396834341[ /IMG] without the spaces in the IMG tags, should yield my avatar: (The board software apparently changes it to the first format.) Of course, you need to have someplace on the internet other than your own computer where the image is. I've got a photobucket account, but there are other free image hosting sites.

Look for the telephones. That was one of the places they hid the microphones needed to pick up the sound.

Cole Porter's "You're the Tops" originally had a line referring to Mussolini that was changed for fairly obvious reasons. One of Marie Dressler's dogs in Dinner at Eight was named Mussolini, but once Hitler came to power, they didn't want to have a dog named after a Fascist dictator, so they changed the name of the dog to Tarzan (if memory serves) in post-production. Frankly, I don't see why admiring Fascist totalitarian collectivism is any more beyond the pale than admiring Communist totalitarian collectivism. Totalitarian collectivism is vile regardless of what outer garments it's costumed in.

And Perry Mason gets Col. Potter to kill George Raft's brother in Red Light.

I hate that Shelhammer doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're". You could HAVE gone to IMDb in order to LOOK up the names of the ACTORS in the cast. For the record, it's Simon Jones as Shelhammer in that version. Thurston Howell played him in the 1973 TV movie.

I'm reminded of my reaction to Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin, although perhaps I just saw the wrong version since he supposedly kept re-editing the movie. That, or F For Fake.

I don't think anybody's mentioned Skidoo yet. Grouch Marx on acid. Carol Channing doing a strip tease for Frankie Avalon. Or was she doing it for Cesar Romero? Jackie Gleason trying to kill Mickey Rooney. Channing doing the musical finale dressed like either John Paul Jones or Napoleon, take your pick. Groucho Marx with a girlfriend 50 years his junior in an outfit so backless you can see her butt-crack. Nilsson singing the closing credits. And I haven't mentioned George Raft or Peter Lawford yet. This was supposed to be serious as far as I know, but it's a hilarious disaster.

"Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney. His genius was in coming up with songs that are just fun to sing along with, as opposed to John Lennon's dirges. Perhaps "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses.

A year earlier, WB released Don Juan, the first movie with a synchronized soundtrack. In conjunction with that film, they released several shorts which had instrumentalists (such as violinist Efrem Zimbalist Sr.) performing; various singers, and one of Will Hays introducing synchronized sound: