Fedya

Apparently the most complete print of *Mysterious Island* (the 1929 part-talkie starring Lionel Barrymore), or should I say one more complete than the previously known prints, has been discovered [in a Czech film archive|http://www.radio.cz/en/section/arts/us-film-historians-find-treasure-in-czech-archive]. If you want to listen to the interview instead of reading a transcript, there's a link [here|http://media.blubrry.com/radio_prague_media/rebel.radio.cz/mp3/podcast/en/arts/us-film-historians-find-treasure-in-czech-archive.mp3] to an MP3 file that's about 5.1MB and 11 minutes. We now return you to your regularly scheduled bickering about movies made after 1960.

My first that was, another movie set in the 1960s?

Remember the 1956 WB version of *Helen of Troy* filmed in Italy? Rossana Podest?, who played Helen in that movie despite having to learn her lines phonetically since she didn't speak English (at least according to Wikipedia), has died at the age of 79. She was also in the Kirk Douglas version of *Ulysses*, although obviously not in the title role. ;-) I'm sorry to say that the only obituary I could find [is in Italian|http://ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/spettacolo/2013/12/10/Morta-Rossana-Podesta-_9756364.html].

> But movies made in the 1930s set in previous eras typically featured actors with 1930s hairstyles although sometimes there were modifications to SUGGEST the style of the time of the story . . . but these were always grounded in the time when the movie was made. I noticed this when I was watching *Back Pay* a couple of weeks ago. A 1930 film set in the World War I era, and the cars look much too modern. (I don't know enough about the different hairstyles of the teens and 30s.)

Nora Charles: What hit me? Nick Charles: The sixth martini. *The House Across the Street* is pretty much the same story as *Love Is on the Air*, Ronald Reagan's debut movie which is coming on on December 14. Both are remakes of *Hi Nellie* starring Paul Muni and Glenda Farrell.

Yes; Connery was Star of the Month that month.

> The other funny thing is that the two more recent threads, this one included have had their start with relative newcomers to the message board. And yet after they started the threads neither one of the OP's have bothered to come back and correspond with the rest of us. I wonder what that says of them? Nitpick: I believe that these people are infrequent posters, but their registration dates have been quite a few months ago. Which implies that they should know enough about TCM to know better, yet still complain. I kind of wonder whether some of these are sock puppets of posters who have been banned under other user names.

I think *Tom Jones* and *The Loved One* are part of a Friday Night Spotlight of food/cooking scenes. It would certainly explain the presence of *Eat Drink Man Woman* and *Christmas in Connecticut* on Friday nights. Oh, and the last three films on the 28th. :-) Louis Wolheim day (at least, I think that's the morning/afternoon of the 28th). *Zardoz* in TCM Underground! *Anna Lucasta*. (Although, I'd be interested in seeing the original version.)

> Do the "suits" read these boards, or are we just wasting our figurative breath? I hope they read the boards and laugh at all of us (myself included). :-)

Ida Lupino [has already been Star of the Month|http://www.tcm.turner.com/this-month/article/173825%7C173826/Robert-Osborne-on-Ida-Lupino.html]. Either June or July 2007, I think.

Actually, I think *It's a Wonderful Life* is back under copyright, thanks to one of the recent Disney Copyright Extension Acts. I don't remember the full details, though.

I believe there was a DVD release in Europe as part of a Terry-Thomas collection. And yes, it is a great movie. "Is this the place with the illegal gambling?" Or the use of memorable movie music.

A little-known fact is that the woman who was the face for healthcare.gov is actually Manti Teo's girlfriend. ;-)

November 22 is also the death anniversary of Sterling Holloway (1992), Shemp Howard (1955), Moroni Olsen (1954), and Lorenz Hart (1943). I should watch my DVD of *Picture Snatcher* tonight.

In honor of yesterday's airing of *Shadow in the Sky*, I think [this video|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAK_P65YgnI] is appropriate. (Don't worry, it's safe for work.)

McKinley was a character, and his assassination a major plot point, in the movie *This Is My Affair* with Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor. And I'm not saying Kennedy doesn't deserve any place in history. I'm saying that the whole Kennedy era should be relegated from supposedly being a part of our current culture to a place in history. And part of my talking about Huxley and CS Lewis is to point out that perhaps we shouldn't be treating our politicians as the most important people going.

The Kennedys were the Kardashians of the 1960s.

Hmmm. Apparently my post got sent twice, so I'll edit this one. Aldous Huxley died November 22, 1963, too. Perhaps TCM should have shown the 1940 version of *Pride and Prejudice* or the Orson Welles version of *Jane Eyre* since Huxley is credited with the screenplays to both films. Edited by: Fedya on Nov 21, 2013 9:51 PM because there was apparently a double posting.

I was born in 1972. I'm sick and tired of the whole Camelot garbage and the attempt to make the entire Kennedy family some sort of icons. Please can our political culture move beyond the 1960s? CS Lewis died on November 22, 1963 too. Why not commemorate him instead?

> I certainly didn't. Did I seem to say "newcomer" with a condescending air? I think it was the way you were twirling your handlebar moustache like Snidely Whiplash. ;-)

> And it is the solid use of tripods and dollies, with NO hand-held shots I'm sure the folks who made *The Narrow Margin* would be pleased to know their movie doesn't qualify as a classic because they used hand-held cameras. > and NO zoom, zoom, zoom. I've said it before and I'll say it again. If Erich von Stroheim had had wide-screen cameras in 1923, his Death Valley scenes in *Greed* would have been more brilliant than anything David Lean came up with in *Lawrence of Arabia. Just because techincal quality advances doesn't mean that the new advances can't be classic. > And good color. REAL color. Two-strip wasn't good. Not having blues isn't real. > Original Technicolor, not Eastmancolor, not De-Lux color, not Tru-Color, and not all yellow-color in 1960s,70s, and 80s films that are supposed to look like "sepia". How real was three-strip, anyway? > It's the good acting, Oh, there was a lot of bad acting in old movies. And a lot of good acting in more recent movies. > and the classic actors, and the proper clothes, cars and trains. not like the 1960s trains used in the 1920s settings in THE CINCINNATI KID. And NOT 1960s clothes and hair styles on women who are supposed to be living in the 1920s and 30s. Last week, TCM showed *Back Pay* from 1930. It's supposed to be set during World War I, but the cars, fashion, and hair styles were obviously 1930 vintage. What a non-classic movie. I don't know why TCM bothers showing such non-classic crap as *Back Pay*.

> I'm sure we can all compile lists of our own, but I'm sure that every one of them would meet with at least a few objections. I've even heard there are still a few surviving fans of *The Jazz Singer*. Why would anybody think Neil Diamond was a good actor? Anyhow, my vote goes to *Dondi*. Painfully unfunny.

> And movieman, what dramas are you thinking about? I do seem to recall a few of them like Blackboard Jungle starting out with a song, but other than those godawful widescreen spectaculars I can't think of a lot of others. My first thought was *High School Confidential* (assuming you believe it's not a comedy), which has Jerry Lee Lewis singing the opening theme on the back of a flatbed truck as the students come to the high school which doesn't look anything like a high school. More seriously, I remember the first time I saw *Autumn Leaves* and heard Nat King Cole doing the opening theme, since I only knew the Roger WIlliams piano version with the 4783215409874321807832547 extra notes. I believe there's also a vocal theme song at the beginning of *Imitation of Life* as the diamonds pour down the screen.

> Thank you for pointing out my misuse of the word liberal, MrRoberts. I was wrong and apologize if I offended anyone. You didn't offend me so much as bemuse me, since I'm a libertarian and not a liberal in the sense that you were using the word. :-) If you go and read the last thread on *The Fountainhead* when it aired a week or two ago, you'll see I was one of the people generally more sympathetic to the ideas Ayn Rand was presenting. (Not that she could write a screenplay, which is where the movie really falls flat. But I don't want to start that discussion again.)

You're lucky if you've got a full day timed out. I've got somewhere between 50-60 movies selected and put into various themes, but I haven't even started donig the dirty work of getting prime time to start at 8:00 PM every evening, or even figuring out whaich themes are evening themes.