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Some would argue that being about baseball is the biggest flaw of them all. Unrelated, but The Cowboy Quarterback works where Elmer The Great (the original version of the same story) doesn't because football allows for player substitutions where baseball doesn't.

I prefer to imagine that voice telling Costner to use the force. (I think it's actually not James Earl Jones who does the voice, however.) (BTW, Lafitte, your sig is grammatically incorrect. It should be mich, not sich.)

Get me his non-union Mexican equivalent, Señor Spielbergo!

Have they found the Vitaphone score to Glorious Betsy? And regarding What Price Glory?, I'd assume the version aired in 1996 couldn't be run on TCM what with the change to digitization. I can't recall wither FMC/FXM ran the silent What Price Glory?, although I know they've run the James Cagney version. I think it's been several years, however. (I just can't get into the Cagney version, for what it's worth. I have no idea if the silent version is better.)

Claudette Colbert's left side begs to differ with you. (And the Cleopatra in question was actually Cleopatra VII.)

Films from 1912 are in the public domain. (I didn't listen to the music. I'm guessing that's more recent?)

Here's a shorter version of Cleopatra: [...]

To give the story away, Christopher turns out to be a woman in drag.

Oh, it can get worse. Have you seen Abar?

Disney films in the public domain? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! They were the ones lobbying to get Congress to extend the copyright terms when Steamboat Willie was getting close to entering the public domain.

Who is Christopher? (And if you didn't get the reference, I'm sorry for giving away a key plot point.)

Technically, didn't One Week (which is also on tonight) bring the house down first?

"That's no lady; that's my wife."

Not even to a deeeluxe apartment in the sky?

I was looking through the set-top box programming guide one day, and that channel had something on about the Nazi concentration camps. I was trying to figure out who the American heroes were.

Come and knock on our airlock (come and knock on our airlock) We've been waiting for you (we've been waiting for you) There's a lovable space that needs your face Three's cosmonaut too....

I don't think anybody's mentioned her as the Gal With the Hoe in Leave Her to Heaven.

The Bottle and the Throttle (1968 short) TCM showed this yesterday evening just before the start of prime time. It's a 10-minute anti-drunk driving short. It's hilariously earnest, to the point that at times it hits the "so bad it's good" territory. Watch the mannequins in the accident scene, for example. The driving is almost of a piece with Lana Turner's manic joyride in The Bad and the Beautiful just after she finds Kirk Douglas with Elaine Stewart and goes off, flailing in front of rear-projection with a Los Angeles rainstorm. Or, I suppose one could be reminded of Bette Davis' drunk driving scene in The Star. 8/10 for the "what the ..." factor; 4/10 if you're taking it seriously. (And seriously, we can't use the acronym?)

McLintock! (1963) Overlong, underfunny comic western about Mr. McLintock (John Wayne), his estranged wife (Maureen O'Hara), and their daughter (Stephanie Powers) who wants to live out west much to her mother's chagrin. The plot and subplots are meandering; the humor falls flat; and several of the minor characters are intensely irritating. What were they thinking? 5/10

Stairway to Heaven Build My Gallows High All That Money Can Buy

There's a Mill Creek set that has eight Columbia romances, including It Should Happen To You, The Solid Gold Cadillac, and The Marrying Kind. (The other five, I think, don't have Holliday.)

The schedule for that date is still up as of the time I'm writing. The short between Doomed Cargo and Movie Crazy was The Yacht Party from 1932. IMDb lists the singer as Gertrude Niesen/Nissen (never heard of her) and the dancer as Melissa Mason (don't call her Marsha). Did you see a strange dancer? TCM's schedule page lists American Madness as having come on before Doomed Cargo. Youtube has a clip from The Yacht Party available with Nissen singing: There's also one of Mason's dance: Do either of these look familiar?

It's the German city of Kleve, close to the border with the Netherlands (not too far from Arnhem, site of A Bridge Too Far). There are also Roman ruins in the nearby city of Xanten. (I spent half a day there back in 1989 with my German relatives.)

But since Grant Mitchell was in every movie Hollywood made in the 1930s (even The Women), it doesn't take long to find those 10 or 12 appearances.

My high school calculus teacher preferred the word "bogus".