Fedya
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There's a valid reason to leave a movie in hysterics:
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> Even so, isn't the theme even a little creepy
It's a musical. Of course it's creepy.
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> Only problem is, how come she's not all sweaty and crumpled? Ceylon just before the rainy season?
Women were genetically different back then, and didn't have the genes for sweating. You'll notice the women of the 50s were also genetically different in that they all had pointy boobs. ;-)
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Alas, poor finannce; I knew him, Horatio.
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In the 1932 film [*Week-End Marriage*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023677/] one of the characters (I think it's the Preston Foster character) does the grocery shopping, and you can clearly see he's bought a roll of toilet paper.
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How could you forget *Soylent Green* ? :-)
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I think only the Canadians got a bunch of Italian sci-fi films.
Here in the States, we got *War of the Planets* and *The Wild Wild Planet* but other than there there was British stuff and stuff produced in Japan like *The Green Slime*.
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> I'd consider "The Time Machine", "Village of the Damned" & "Five Million Years to Earth" classic sci-fi, no matter what year they were made.
And the two Italian moves they showed: *War of the Planets* and *The Wild WIld Planet* are both a lot of fun, even if they're really lousy. I will admit I wouldn't have minded seeing another airing of *They Came From Beyond Space*, however.
What's up with the performance art thing in *The Wild Wild Planet* anyway?
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> Don't tell the end, as I was called away and missed it.
Rosebud was Robert Young's sled.
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My problem with *Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter* is that, from the looks of the commercials, it seems to have no color palette.
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Are you sure the girl was living alone?
Your description otherwise bears some resemblance to [*Six Pack*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084690/] which, as the title implies, has six children. And the star is Kenny Rogers, not Jack Lemmon.
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> I am now watching "Rodan" and this movie is starting to bug me in more ways than one. At the very beginning, the phrase in the subtitles was used global warming.
I wasn't watching; I haven't seen the film before; and I don't speak Japanese. Is it possible that the Japanese character used something that in fact roughly meant that the world was getting hotter?
After all, I believe that's part of the plot of *Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea* (the earth is heating up because the Van Allen Belts are out of whack, and the submarine has to fire a nuclear weapon from the bottom or the Arctic or something wonky like that to set things right. It's been a while since I've seen the film.)
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Technically, it's a helix, not a spiral. ;-)
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We read the teleplay of *12 Angry Men* in my sophomore year English class. (We did *To Kill a Mockingbird* in 8th grade.) So I'd certainly say it's appropriate for teens.
The big problem TCM has is that I think they have to come up with films that fit a bunch of criteria:
1) Movies that won't offend the parents as containing inappropriate material
2) Movies that the kid's won't find boring. Hitchcock's *Notorious* might be one of the least objectionable for the parents, since the violence is only implied, but it's also got very little action for the kids
3) Movies that the parents will recognize, or have stars that are very well-known.
Most films are going to fall short on one or more of these criteria
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I know there was an episode of MASH that had a character stuck in a minefield.
A movie I haven't seen in a while that sounds like it might have some of the elements you describe is *Mr. Winkle Goes to War*.
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> Some of you were good enough to add to the list of good stories set to dismal music. A good "counterthread" might be dismal stories set to wonderful music, which I can't think of right now.
*Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band*.
More seriously, how about *Rhapsody in Blue*, which if I understand correctly introduces two romantic interests Gershwin didn't have in real life? I suppose you could put *Night and Day* in the same category.
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I'll be the controversial one, and select *Meet Me In St. Louis*. I hate hate hate "The ***** Trolley Song" (cue the "Word of Mouth" piece where Hugh Martin tells us about Arthur Fried's saying, "No, I want a song about the trolley ), and I don't particularly care for Judy Garland's style of singing either.
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Howard Beale in *Network* is both insightful and insane.
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Isn't *The Passion of Joan of Arc* the only film Maria Falconetti made?
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"MacArthur Park" was, of course, originally recorded by [Richard Harris|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WHx0B90FUc]. Yes, that Richard Harris.
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Another composer with one *really* well-known score would be Bill Conti for *Rocky*.
Actually, Conti also wrote the score for the James Bond movie *For Your Eyes Only* and the music for its title song sung by Sheena Easton, which I'd think is still reasonably well-remembered.
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> It is better to have small breasts than large ones. Just sayin'...
How about one of each size? {ducking again}
Breasts are like martinis: One is not enough, and three are too many.
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So what you're saying is you get the heebie jeebies thinking about seeing *Ben-Hur* in a regular movie theater? ;-)
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Lassie.
{ducking}
Margaret O'Brien.
More seriously, I can't think of any outfits that revealed how well-endowed Marie Dressler was or wasn't. Ditto May Robson.
John Calvert documentary
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Some of you may recall the name John Calvert as having played the Falcon in a couple of the Falcon movies in the late 1940s. However, his real profession was as a magician, and he had an 80+ year career doing magic around the world. (He'll be turning 101 next month, but I'm not certain if he's still performing. The documentary was released in 2009.)
For those of you who have the Documentary Channel -- and you should have it if you have DirecTV where it's channel 267 -- they're running the documentary John Calvert: His Magic and Adventures overnight tonight at 2:00 AM ET, which is still 11:00 PM Wednesday out on the west coast.
The documentary deals mostly with his career as a magician, which started in the late 1920s and is an adventure all by itself. Calvert flew the entire cast of his magic act from venue to venue until a plane crash in the late 1940s, and when the act went to the Far East, he took the cast there in a yacht, fending off pirates along the way. Oh, and he met his wife on that tour of the Far East.
The documentary does mention his film career, both as the Falcon and as a technical adviser on *The Silver Chalice* (presumably he handled Jack Palance's illusions). If memory serves from when I watched the documentary back in April, Calvert said something to Paul Newman after the movie flopped saying he felt bad about what it would to do Newman's career, only for Newman to remind him of that a few years later after Newman became famous.
It's quite an interesting documentary.