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Night and day, I am the one.

Nobody's mentioned The Bride Came COD or One, Two, Three yet. Cagney proved to be just as adept at comedy.

The Arrangement (1969) Adman Kirk Douglas has a midlife crisis that results in him attempting suicide. Deborah Kerr plays his wife, Faye Dunaway his mistress. Horrible, horrible movie that gets one point for the porn-stache that Douglas wears before the suicide attempt. Amazingly, a lot of reviewers praise this one simply because it's supposedly making deep comments about suburbia or something. Apparently Elia Kazan saw The Swimmer and thought, "Let's make something with the same themes that's even more ****ed up!" Terrible. 1/10, with that one point for the aforementioned mustache that has to be seen to be believed.

Entirely in "three-strip" Technicolor; there were full-length "two-strip" (and yes I know that's a misnomer) Technicolor films before that.

I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

The Glenn Miller Story?

So it's a day in the life of the guy from The Story of Film? At least now we know he finally makes it to town.

So they should have called it 6-1/2 Women?

During the screening of Cinema Paradiso?

Cigarjoe: You're probably thinking of Flyboys (2006), which was about the Lafayette Escadrille. Bill Wellman's last movie was also about the Lafayette Escadrille.

Thelma Ritter always got to deliver such great lines.

The 1954 censors did for Rear Window.

The House on 92nd Street Boomerang! The Street With No Name The Iron Curtain Panic in the Streets Mr. 880

Oh, and Golden Boy has more problems than just Lee J. Cobb.

I'd put Call Northside 777 in Fox's cycle of docudramas of which they made several from 1945 through about 1950, not so much a noir.

Five Gates to Hell (1959). Neville Brand plays a Vietnamese warlord in French Indochina in 1950 whose commander is deathly ill. So he leads a raiding party to kidnap a bunch of doctors and nurses from a Red Cross field hospital to treat the commander, who is laid up in a hilltop castle. The medical staff obviously would like to escape. The idea is good, but Brand is miscast (technically, he's mixed-race, as his white mother died in childbirth) and the dialogue the characters (especially his) have to deliver is terrible. The production values also look surprisingly subpar. FXM also showed a panned-and-scanned version of this. It's going to be on FXM Retro again this Tuesday and Wednesday (11/14 and 11/15) if you have the channel. 5/10

I'm reminded of The Story of Film where it seemed we were all left wondering whether the guy got his coffee and made the morning train.

I'd start with the shorter movies, and the comedies since I think the humor looks less dated than the silent acting. One Week might be a good example. Laurel and Hardy shorts might be another, since those are names people should recognize.

[youtube] be] Hmmm.... This time it did work. I was going to put it in the square youtube tags, but as I was typing the closing tag the video showed up.

Citizens United v. FCC (the Supreme Court Case) centered around an anti-Hillary Clinton movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOnOrRrFP9M For some reason I'm seeing the Youtube link I included as a link, not an embedded video.

Too bad they can't cast the Tallulah Bankhead of Die! Die! My Darling as Hillary. Maybe they can use the Jacki Weaver from Animal Kingdom instead.

Careful about the times for TCM Underground tonight. With the end of Daylight Saving time, everything is moved back an hour. The TCM online schedule has The MGM Story between the two features; my set-top box guide has it at the end of the night.

TomJH: You need to get some freeware photo editing software that will allow you to create a smaller version of the scanned image that won't come up against the attachment size limit. If you're on Windows, IrfanView is a good basic editor.

I've got an idea! I'll use numbers, the way I do for Fellini! Instead of "I don't understand you Alexander..." I'll say, 22, 83, 16, 72, 5, 3, 18, 9, 14, 7, 9. 17, 10, 10, 4, 18, 69...