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> Missing also is Juno and the Paycock, Hitchcock's adaptation of Sean O'Casey's play. This aired on TCM when they did a week-long tribute to Hitchcock back in October of 2004 or so. I didn't think it was a particularly good movie. (Then again, I have an animus towards Southern Ireland.) I hope you weren't implying that *Number 17* is a silent. It's a really fun early talkie, if you can understand the dialog. The special effects aren't all that great, but the story makes up for them. :-) I'm really pleased to see they've finally been able to get *Lifeboat*, which is one of Hitchcock's more underrated films, if you ask me. This is the one year where I think he clearly deserved the Oscar. Certainly, he deserved it more than Leo McCarey.

How many of them did James A. FitzPatrick visit in his Traveltalks shorts?

> Atticus Finch and his children live a middle class life in *To Kill a Mockingbird* (Miss Maudie and Dill's Aunt Stephanie likely do as well). Isn't there a scene in which Atticus' daughter asks him if they're poor and he more or less responds affirmatively? After all, several of his clients are paying him in barter, what with the Depression going on. One thing that hasn't been brought up so far in the thread, I think, is the movies of the 50s and 60s set in suburbia, such as *No Down Payment* or *Divorce, American Style*.

Sounds a lot better than *The Story of Mankind*. ;-)

> In the case of groceries, maybe they should just stick to the weather, but even that is not going to result in a law suit. I hardly think something along the lines of "I heard we're getting a thunder storm later today, I won't be able to mow the lawn !" is controversial material. There are cultures where the people simply don't want to engage in this sort of small-talk. My Finnish friends say this is one of the things about America that they find irritating. They told me what is apparently a common Finnish joke: Q: How can you tell a Finnish person is interested in you? A: When he talks to you, he looks at your shoes instead of his.

> I'd also LOVE beyond words a SOTM for Bela Lugosi!!!! I'd be totally trippin' out! The could show his comic turn in *Broadminded* in prime time. Granted, it's not really a horror movie at all, unless you consider Joe E. Brown playing a baby at a "baby party" horrifying. :-)

From the pre-Vitaphone days of experimenting with talking pictures: [Gus Visser and his Singing Duck|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05-dgkiUHj4]

*Summer Holiday* is, of course, a remake of the play and 1935 movie *Ah, Wilderness!* Also from 1935 is *A Midsummer Night's Dream* *Sunnyside Up* from 1929 starts off on the Fourth of July and is mostly if not entirely set during the rest of the summer.

I saw it. I think the life rings all had names of hotels that were presumably in the Los Angeles area. The diving instructor would have been an immigrant from Sweden. If you want to see some more interestingly talented kids, watch the second half of the 1934 Technicolor short [*Show Kids*|http://justacineast.blogspot.com/2012/11/show-kids.html]. Some of the talents are a bit creepy, however.

> P.S. I just saw Nora's earlier post about this. Nora identified it as free, white and 21-- but it was usually spoken as free, blonde and 21. And of course, how many non-Caucasians have blonde hair...? LOL I've always heard it as "Free, white, and 21" myself. Inger Stevens says it to Harry Belafonte in *The World, The Flesh, and the Devil* causing a prolonged moment of tension. As for offensive language, some pepole find Communist apologias offensive; other people find anti-Communist apologias offensive.

> Some shots are comin' my way and they ain't pina coladas, know what I mean. So you don't like pi?a coladas, or getting caught in the rain?

[somebody|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZUzXKDVx8] is laughing, at least.

*It's a Great Feeling* is a noir????? Ruth Chatterton in *Female* is a noir????? *His Girl Friday* is more sci-fi than noir. Although if you ask me, it's even more of a western.

If I had been reading this forum earlier I would have chimed in that I think it's [*Twist of Fate*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047625/] from 1954 with Ginger Rogers and Herbert Lom, made in the UK.

Unsurprisingly, [iMDb|http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0002561/] has a wealth of information.

> In the first version, Gutman does it to steal back a thousand dollars from Spade. In the 3rd version, there is no reason given. I always figured it was to keep Spade from following them to the La Paloma. They could get the bird and leave the city. Note that in the 1931 version, there's only one visit by Spade to Gutman. In the 1941 version it's split into two, with Spade stealing Wilmer's gun before entering Gutman's suite in the second visit, if memory serves. It would help explain why Wilmer had it in for Spade.

In *The Man Who Never Was*, the Nazis hire Irishman Stephen Boyd to travel to Britain to find out whether the information identifying the dead body that washed up in Spain (placed there by Clifton Webb) is accurate or not.

Apparently, this Hungarian film was long considered lost until a copy was found in New York in 2008. Yesterday, I came across an article saying that [money has now been allocated|http://www.budapesttimes.hu/2013/06/05/70438/] to restore and remaster the film. The movie was directed by Mih?ly Kert?sz, who would later emigrate to America, anglicize his name, and go on to bigger and better things. The restoration is expected to take about a year, to be finished (with any luck) in time for the movie's centenary. The article mentiones that the movie can also be seen [on Youtube|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O_zdTnt_hU], but I didn't look to see if the subtitles are in English or Hungarian.

> It's as if someone asked "Are we including British series?" and was answered "Oh, just scatter some in the bottom sixty." Not having Doctor Who is also a travesty. Yes, Minister is also missing from the list.

The first time I saw *The Crowded Sky* and heard the theme from *A Summer Place* playing in that scene in the background, I nearly fell out of my chair laughing. *The Crowded Sky* is one of those movies that's so truly awful it's a laugh riot.

> I believe your view of foreign television is skewed. There were many instructional programs A brief Youtube search yields gems like [this|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnZxGo1x6n8]. :-) > but great amounts of fiction also. The fiction was not bridled by Western views of morality. I'd assume in the Soviet Union they were bridled by Soviet views of morality, however. Boy meets tractor. Boy falls in love with tractor. Boy and tractor fulfill and overfulfill their grain quota! {ducking}

> Does anyone know if the estates of McQueen and Newman are still arguing over the billing on this turkey??? I would have given serious consideratoin to billing them as Paul McQueen and Steve Newman.

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The Humphrey Bogart *One Fatal Hour* is of course not a remake of the *Two Against the World* they showed today (what a nutty ending!), but of *Five Star Final*, which is a really good movie. As for the shotest time between remakes, how many movies that were basically *Madame X* were made before they really started cracking down on the code?

Did you try going to the [iMDb page|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035493/reference] and clicking on the link for the soundtrack? I only watched the beginning of the short, but I know that one aired. I don't think the Ted Weems [Merchant Marine Corps Cadet Band short|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240966/reference] aired.