mrroberts
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"Anyone here think that male noir fans are always like their filmic counterparts in being wussy" -- CaveGirl --- I can't answer for the theory that male noir fans are necessarily wussy, but I certainly don't believe that the male noir leads are usually that way. The atypical noir male guy is usually a macho he man type (like Mitchum, Lancaster, etc) . Where they fall down is they end up being suckers for the little "helpless " female who is able to lead the big macho man around by his nose and get him to do stupid things that he would never normally do. And he usually knows that he's doing something stupid but he does it anyway. If he were smart he'd turn around and run the other way, but does he ever? A big NO. So when she says "wash the windows" , "take out the garbage", paint the front porch" , "clean out the basement", etc, etc he just shrugs and does it. I can't speak from personal experience (not married) but I've seen enough from others. So I guess they are being "wussy"
. I've been fortunate not to become a captive of a Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Greer, Peggy Cummins, etc type. Although it might have been fun if I did. -
This I find impossible to believe. You love mysteries AND Basil Rathbone and yet you've never seen any of the Basil/Sherlock films? This must be remedied immediately!!
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that last post was way above average for you, Finance. (only in word count)
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Just recently I caught a few minutes of Vincent Price playing "Egghead" on a "Batman" episode. And his crime partner was none other than Anne Baxter!
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But Finance's average post is only around 8 to 10 words .
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Mr DeBartolo, I applaud your choice of movies the other night. I like *Murder By Death* a lot, it has some great moments and its great seeing that cast together (Alec Guinness was particularly fun) and I always find Elsa Lanchester so delightfully quirky. Peter Falk was also a standout and just a year or so later he starred in Neil Simon's *The Cheap Detective* which was an even better film and a dead on satire of classic Bogart. So if you get another cohosting gig with RO...
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Dan Duryea has a long list of tv appearances to his credit. One of his best known has to be an episode of The Twilight Zone (one of the very first episodes of that program) where he plays the aged gunfighter who has now become the town drunk. Dan gets an opportunity to relive his glory years when a traveling salesman gives him a magical tonic that makes him feel young and lighting fast on the draw. But when he has a big showdown gunfight with a young gunfighter things don't go exactly as planned. Dan Duryea gives us an unusual, for him, sympathetic performance as the down and out man who is desperate to regain his self esteem. We are actually rooting for "Slimy Dan" in this one.
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I feel fortunate to be in a somewhat unique situation; I have *2* cable services to choose from plus the various satellite services. In other words, there's competition. I have the one cable service at present, it isn't cheap (nothing is) and as is the common practice , to get the good stuff (like TCM) I have to buy a deluxe package which has a lot of very marginal channels (does anyone actually watch some of these channels??). I sympathize with you all out there.
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Vincent Price was one of those actors who was great fun to watch on the old variety shows (he guested on many). He did Hollywood Squares and I believe other game shows. He was a frequent guest on talk shows too. You got to see the real man and he was a fun guy. So no matter how evil he was playing those villain roles you knew it was all acting and he seemed to enjoy every minute of it . He also was a bit of a ham (remember that ham thread awhile ago), but I don't think anyone minded. Ironically one of his best known films is *The Fly* , and he plays the straight man in that one.
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Sorry to hear of your situation. But business is business, for them. Hopefully you can hook up with a satellite service to your liking that carries the programming you want. And drop the cable and let them know why. Maybe in the future they will reoffer the channels they dropped and offer you a sweet deal to come back. And, if the deal suits you , go ahead. That's what competition is supposed to be about.
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The Cary Grant Cadillac apparently belonged to a museum in western Pennsylvania, part of a large collection that was partially sold off. The Swigart Museum (I have to check out this place) has a web site, they identify the car as 1940, not clear if they still have the car . Cary was a big Caddy fan, he must have owned quite a few. All of the small auto manufactures like Duesenberg disappeared in the late 30's. so Cadillacs, Lincolns, Chrysler Imperials, and Packards were all that were available to the wealthy, unless you went to an import. And of course there were still the regular production models and there were the one off customs that the very well healed could buy.
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Notice the name "Anthony Curtis" at the bottom of the poster? Don't think I ever saw this one. My introduction to Howard Duff was in the 60's on tv, The Felony Squad.
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Sorry if anyone misunderstood my previous post and I assure you this thread went way beyond my definition of "fun".
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Of course *Yours, Mine and Ours* did better box office. Everyone wanted to see Henry Fonda
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Hey, lets not get TOO polite here. It will get awfully boring. A moderate amount of mud is permitted, it can even be fun.
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A little aside about the movie, *Winchester 73* . A few years ago I had the pleasure of meeting and briefly talking to James Best (maybe the only surviving cast member) . He autographed a photo still I had of The Caine Mutiny cast. Then subject of " Winchester 73" came up. Jimmy Best was one of the cavalry soldiers (along side of Anthony Curtis) and in the shoot out with the Indians Jimmy gets killed. Actually got killed twice, once as his character , and a second time as an unnamed extra. For anyone who doesn't know it James Best worked for many years in films and tv but is primarily known today for being Sheriff Rosco on the Dukes Of Hazzard tv show.
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From *Winchester 73* , another great Waco Johnny Dean moment; when we first meet him and his gang, they are holed up in the farm house. The law arrives and the big shoot out starts. When things get too hot and the bad guys are going to get overwhelmed good ole' Waco sends his pals out the front door (where they promptly get gunned down by the posse) and Waco grabs the girl (Shelly) and scrams out the back way. What a nice guy, I worked for some bosses that were like that
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I only live about 60 minutes from Hershey , Pa. The annual AACA meet is coming in a few days. Some very nice vintage cars will be there and some are for sale/auction. I believe it was just two years ago that there was a 1941 Cadillac that was built for Cary Grant and his wife Barbara Hutton. Got to see that up close and talk to the then current owner. I don't know if it sold or for how much, but a little out of my league I can tell you.
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I agree with Sepiatone 100% . There is a time and a place for everything, but these boards aren't the place for "Tim"s postings. When the TCM site gets clogged with this kind of stuff it discourages new visitors from staying and participating in the discussions about movies. That's why this site exists. This also hits at the heart of Misswonderly's original thread issue, why there isn't greater participation on these TCM boards.
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Ah, good old John Ford. You have to love him, and hate him.... As it seems most anyone who knew him or worked with him can attest to. But damn it the guy made some great movies.
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A quick checking of Dan on IMDb shows that many of his films were at Universal (it figures, that dirty rat would do that to us
. I guess that complicates the issue of film availability to TCM. Starting in the mid fifties he moved away from films and started doing a lot of tv work. I don't believe I ever saw episodes of "China Smith" , was the show itself any good? I'm sure he gave it his best effort. After that he did only guest shots on series, maybe he did that by choice, not wanting to make the time commitments involved with being a regular in a series. January 23, 2014 is a Thursday so hopefully that day is open for scheduling a Duryea day (no apparent relation to the Duryeas of automobile fame). The ideal films I'd like to see are *Winchester 73* , *Scarlet Street* , *Too Late For Tears* , and *The Burglar* ( a neat little noir that TCM had on recently). I also would like to see the Burt Lancaster film *Criss Cross* on again, Duryea has a nice supporting role in that one. -
What we need now is a little Joel McCrea type of campaign for Dan Duryea to get a night of films. January 23rd is his birthday, maybe its not too late to get a mini tribute scheduled (TCM programmers are you listening, please?)
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What we need is Burt (Wyatt Earp) Lancaster and Kirk (Doc Holliday) Douglas to come clean up the town. Seriously, I guess the only thing to do is just ignore the trolls, they'll get bored and move on. And encourage new posters to stay and make the distinction between the sane and the not sane. (In some cases the line between sane and not sane is a little blurry
)Edited by: mrroberts on Oct 7, 2013 1:55 AM
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John Ford seems to have been especially combative during the filming of Mister Roberts. From my Fonda bio book, Ford wanted to show his dominance from day one. His challenges to both Fonda (over the script ) and Cagney (over what, who knows?). When William Powell demonstrated early difficulties in remembering some lines Ford made no effort to try to accommodate him. So Fonda spent extra time with Powell rehearsing lines , out of respect for a fellow actor. Ford had picked Jack Lemmon for the Pulver part and maybe that is why Ford was more civil to the young actor. The actors all got along very well with one another , photographs of them sitting together during breaks show that. From what I have read about James Cagney he could be a very amicable man to work with but he would not tolerate being disrespected by anyone and would make that very clear.
. I've been fortunate not to become a captive of a Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Greer, Peggy Cummins, etc type. Although it might have been fun if I did.
He must tire easily.
. I guess that complicates the issue of film availability to TCM. Starting in the mid fifties he moved away from films and started doing a lot of tv work. I don't believe I ever saw episodes of "China Smith" , was the show itself any good? I'm sure he gave it his best effort. After that he did only guest shots on series, maybe he did that by choice, not wanting to make the time commitments involved with being a regular in a series. January 23, 2014 is a Thursday so hopefully that day is open for scheduling a Duryea day (no apparent relation to the Duryeas of automobile fame). The ideal films I'd like to see are *Winchester 73* , *Scarlet Street* , *Too Late For Tears* , and *The Burglar* ( a neat little noir that TCM had on recently). I also would like to see the Burt Lancaster film *Criss Cross* on again, Duryea has a nice supporting role in that one.
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