mrroberts

Is this the first time Tyrone Power made the list? Getting access to a number of Fox films, thats a good sign for future TCM scheduling possibilities. --- Glad to see him on the SUTS this year. Edited by: mrroberts on May 3, 2012 11:54 PM

When films like *Fort Apache* and *She Wore A Yellow Ribbon* give the "Duke" a real good character to play , he usually responds with a strong performance. Its easy for some people to just give you the "its John Wayne playing another John Wayne character" critique. But he has quite a few really good roles in his resume, his total record speaks for itself. I think SWAYR may be my favorite Wayne film.

Mrroberts' battle plan for tonight is to set the tape timer to start at 1130 pm est (I have a dual deck DVD/VCR recorder player) and let it run through the night. I will be up before 7 am tomorrow to "reload" for taping the morning McCrea films. The VCR unit records very well, and I can transfer what I want to save to a DVD. This plan will be the standard procedure for the whole month. Hope everyone out there can get what they want to see/save for the month. I also look forward to the RO intros, maybe the "faithful" here will get a mention. Edited by: mrroberts on May 2, 2012 6:31 PM

What "Peyton Place" needed was the Lee Remick character from "Long Hot Summer" .

Enough about this Cooper guy, let him get his own thread. There are a number of Joel McCrea films coming up that I have never seen. I will try to see many of them, anyone care to opinion a favorite "sleeper" film in the McCrea month, one that's a "must see" ?

*Foreign Correspondent* is one of my favorite Hitchcock films (admittedly that is a long list). Joel McCrea is a big part of my liking that movie so much, he just seems so right for the role. I could see him doing very well in several other Hitch films (playing the average Joe), like *Strangers On A Train* (Granger role of course), *Man Who Knew Too Much* , or *North By Northwest* (a particular favorite of many people here ). Wonder if Hitch ever considered using McCrea in another film, I am sure he was pleased with Joel's work in Foreign Correspondent. And no knock on Coop' but couldn't Joel McCrea have done well in just about any Cooper role?

Good to see that I "kick started" this thread again. Misswonderly, pepper spray is rather intense, don't you think? That's getting into Cagney territory.

COUNTDOWN ; It is only 9 days to the beginning of the month of May, otherwise known as JOEL McCREA month. Anyone getting excited yet?

Good observation , JJG. Burt was still "learning his craft" while Kirk had the edge in acting experience at this time. Burt had to rely on his director a lot I'm sure. And yet Burt got the early big break (his role in *The Killers* ) while Kirk had to wait awhile for a real starring role. Its still fun watching Burt and Kirk "spar" and its an indication of their future joint efforts.

Edmond O'Brien was a very good actor and he really shines here (around the same time he was also in *White Heat* with Cagney ). Really neat story line (doomed man gets to solve his own murder) and the on location street scenes are excellent. Neville Brand plays a really scary thug in this one. A "must see" noir classic.

Today we can look at this film and focus on the "comedy" aspects. I wasn't old enough to see the movie and really understand it until the mid 70's. So it was "scary" (the Cold War was still very real in the mid 70's) but it satirized the authority figures so well it was also funny to me. I am not sure the film seemed very funny to most people when it first came out, but apparently it was still popular. Any "old timers" out there who saw this when it was originally done and can comment on their first impressions?

This is a really good film, much under appreciated, or at least unknown. I have a dvd (very decent print too). Brian Donlevy is an actor I really like and this is one of his rather rare starring roles. Charles Coburn seems an odd choice for the "cop" , but he does a good job. And the gal is very good as the "femme fatale". The "crash" scene is obviously done using models, but it looks very "real", someone put some effort into that one.

Just want to bump this thread back on top, Richard Widmark is on TCM tonight in one of his best performances, *Night And The City* . Maybe we can get some new talk about this great, somewhat underappreciated, actor.

I am getting the same results as movieman1957. I am not the most computer savy guy but it appears that we all don't get the same results when trying to access these features. I assume that is not the TCM site's fault, individual visitors here have to look on their end for solving the problems.

*Night And The City* . From 1950, one of the high points of the film noir era of movies. Starring Richard Widmark, in one of his very best performances. A fine supporting cast including the wonderful Gene Tierney. Filmed in England with lots of great London location background (only a few years after WW2 here). TCM is showing this Fox movie classic this Sunday at 8 pm est. Hopefully many people will watch, if you've never seen it before, you will be in for a treat.

*Night And The City* ,The always very good Richard Widmark at the top of his game.

I would like to spend a "quiet" evening at home in the Bullock house (as in My Man Godfrey) , just Irene (Carole) and me. Then I would like to see a live performance of Henry Fonda doing "Mister Roberts" on the stage. Finally, I would like to spend a day at the studio just watching William Powell and Myrna Loy doing a "Thin Man" movie.

This northerner, Pennsylvanian, never really developed a taste for coffee. I drink tea, hot or iced. Probably more than I should. And no fancy, flavored stuff. Either straight (no sugar here) or with some lemon or lime.

Stan and Ollie can always count on my vote.

This coming Tuesday, March 20, at 10 pm est, TCM is showing *My Man Godfrey*

This coming Tuesday, March 20, 10 pm est, *My Man Godfrey* is on TCM.

Burt certainly had a run of big hit movies in that time period. Some were quite entertaining, others were really bad (I wanted to walk out in the middle of Cannonball Run 2). *The Longest Yard* , *Hooper* , and *The End* were the best Burt movies in that period IMO. The best Burt car flick is definitely *White Lightning* , saw that in the theatre and was very impressed, I was just starting to drive around that time. After *Sharky's Machine* (a good film as well) I think Burt's movies took a bad tumble, it took years for him to recover and it took tv to make that happen. Burt would make a good guest for a TCM night.

*Frisco Jenny* has my favorite "obscure" star gal , Noel Francis , in it. I have seen the clips on youtube, but you can bet the recorder will be running tomorrow morning to catch this one.

Finance says he "allegedly" beat up on June Allyson in an old thread. If I recall, he was holding a smoking gun in one hand and a lead pipe in the other.

I sense another "beat up on June" thread