Fedya
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Or they could just have singing cows:
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John Wayne's *Island in the Sky* has a disturbing scene in which Andy Devine does a cannonball into a swimming pool.
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Joan Crawford, on the other hand, did appear with the Stooges in *Dancing Lady*.
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I agree with slaytonf that your plot synopsis describes *Libeled Lady* -- if the movie you saw was in black and white. *Libeled Lady* was remade in color as *Easy to Wed*, which aired last week as part of Esther Williams' turn as Star of the Month.
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I see I'm not the only 1972 person here. I don't like *The Godfather*, so I'd probably pick *The Poseidon Adventure* because it's just such mindless fun, or *Frenzy* because I'm a Hitchcock fan.
I see 1972 is also the year *Deep Throat* and *Fritz the Cat* were released.
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Have you even seen *Lured* or *The Dark Corner* ? Lucille Ball shows in both that she's been underrated as an actress. She's certainly no worse in them then, say, Greta Garbo was in any of her movies. (Not that that's saying much.)
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> What I want to know about *Buck Rogers* is why were *two* directors needed for each episode!
Ford Beebe was the director on Earth, and Saul Goodkind did the location scenes on Saturn. ;-)
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The last time *Rififi* aired back in March, it had a 122-minute running time. Good luck fitting it into two hours. :-)
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I had a problem with the ending of *Kiss Me Deadly*, at least starting from the point where Mike Hammer gets the key from the coroner. Was it ever established what the coroner was doing with the key and why the cops didn't get it? If he was in with the crooks he would simply have given them the key; if he was honest the cops would have gotten it; if he were in it for himself you'd think the criminals would have gotten the key from the coroner already.
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I thought Harvey was harmless and liked everybody (or at least liked all nice people).
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Is color being used at all in the movies of today? Every time I see a movie ad on TV, the color palette looks to be mostly blues and browns, with the exception of the explosions.
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Don't confuse The Morning After (
) with *The Day After* (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404/).Edited by: Fedya on May 1, 2011 7:21 PM because you still can't name links in General Discussions. :-(
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Take the TCM Classic Film Cruise, and you'll be guaranteed to have a night to remember.
And there will be a morning after, too.
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> It's a good thing that in the movie Howard Roark doesn't present a defense so he can address a jury last. This is necessary, since his argument is insane. Instead of suing his "friend" for disobeying his instructions, he blows up the building. Basic tort law is not a communist conspiracy. I assume he was being tried for destroying a building, but wouldn't the owners of the building sue him to pieces?
The government were the owners.
That having been said, his argument is one I find no different from Richard Barthelmess' in *Heroes For Sale* where he and the crowd destroy the laundry equipment because it took away people's jobs which was expressly against Barthelmess' wishes. But that movie takes a different political tack so people don't savage it the way they do *The Fountainhead* (the movie or the novel).
I'm with the people who think the problem with the movie is that Ayn Rand had no clue how to write a screenplay.
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John Ford kept reusing Monument Valley for his movie backdrops. ;-)
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At least Claude Rains didn't try to affect a Noo Yawk accent in *They Made Me a Criminal*. Or a southern accent in *They Won't Forget*.
On the other hand, I can't stop laughing at Laurence Olivier playing a Qu?becois trapper in *49th Parallel*. The last time I mentioned it here, somebody else commented he had an accent that could get up and walk off all by itself. :-)
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> Hooray! "Stand-In" is finally scheduled on Joan Blondell Day! I'll surely post a reminder sometime around, oh, August 20th --
I'd be curious to see the 1934 version of *Million Dollar Baby*. While not starring Blondell, it's about parents who dress their son up as a daughter to win a contest at a studio that wants a new Shirley Temple. (It's from Monogram, so I don't expect it to show up any time soon.)
The Blondell movie I wouldn't mind seeing again is *Blonde Crazy*. Well, that and *Night Nurse*.
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I heard *Judgment at Nuremburg* star William Shatner say the transporters were just a plot device to get characters from the Enterprise to the planet quickly and move the story along, without having to put them in a shuttlecraft or anything.
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July 16 is a Saturday. For whatever reason, TCM rarely schedules birthday tributes when they fall on the weekend.
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Your dental hygienist didn't appreciate Joe E. Brown's mouth? :-)
For me, the moment came when I was watching *Rhapsody In Blue*. I missed the opening credits, and a few minutes in there was a scene with Gershwin and his music professor. I immediately blurted out, "That's Albert Bassermann!"
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> Oh. Maybe you are referring to *Tarzan* and *Ecstasy*. "Move along. Nothing to see here."
If you watch *Red-Headed Woman*, about 15 minutes in there's a scene where Jean Harlow asks for her nightgown back from her roommate (Una Merkel, I think), who is currently wearing it. The roommate takes it off and hands it to Harlow, and the way the scene is cut you can see Harlow's bare breast for about half a second. It's one of those things you'll miss if you don't know about, but once you know it's there, it's hard to miss. Kind of like all those Hitchcock cameos, although we wouldn't want to see him naked.
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> He said that he thought the most beautiful woman in the world, back then, was Olivia DeHavilland and how he went to some conference and Bette Davis was there picking a fight with another actress. Olivia Stepped right between them and calmed everyone down. He said she was a really sweet person in real life.
He should tell that to Joan Fontaine. ;-)
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Trust me. You don't want to see *Dondi*.
It's so bad it's not even "so bad it's good". I wasted 100 minutes of my life watching this monstrosity that I can't get back. http://justacineast.blogspot.com/2011/04/so-bad-its-not-even-so-bad-its-good.html
Edited by: Fedya on Apr 17, 2011 9:56 PM, because they still haven't fixed the problem that you can't turn text into a link in General Discussions.
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George Sanders was good and loveable as ffolliott (the ff is pronounced "like fuh") in Alfred Hitchcock's *Foreign Correspondent*.