Film_Fatale

I have had some pretty good editors in my time. It's amazing how much can be caught when something is re-read by a second pair of eyes. So I definitely appreciate something that has been well edited.

> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote} > OMG Film_Fatale! So unnecessary to re-highlight my entire post. Just your comment following my post would have sufficed. > > Over-kill, my dear. Alright, CM, if you would prefer that I edit my reply, I'll go ahead and do that. B-)

> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote} > That documentary is on the Budd Boetticher box set. A very similar one titled "Budd Boetticher: An American Original" is included with SEVEN MEN FROM NOW. The two overlap quite a bit, both credit Dave Kehr as the writer and feature much of the same footage and commentary. > I guess I got them mixed up. But I'm pretty sure that the one in the Boetticher box set has been shown on TCM. Hope I didn't get that mixed up as well! > I also recommend the Columbia release of HANGMAN'S KNOT, which somewhat anticipates the Boetticher films with much of it shot at a way station. Lee Marvin is also in it, so fans of his should be pleased as well. > I wouldn't exactly call myself a huge LM fan, but I've grown to appreciate him quite a bit more now that I have seen him in more westerns. I definitely would like to watch *Hangman's Knot* at some point.

> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote} > Maybe Kennedy was just fond of the sounds of certain names, like John Ford, who used Quincannon and York in his cavalry films. That's about as good a theory as anything I could come up with, clore. And thanks for your comments on the BK bio. It does sound like something I might pass on, unless I happen to find it in the library.

In an unrelated ramble, did anyone else watch or record *Captain Pirate* with Louis Hayward earlier today? It was a TCM premiere, apparently. It looks like a pretty good swashbuckler, although the colors seem a tiny bit faded, for a 50's Technicolor movie. It's great to see that TCM's agreement with Columbia is still yielding quite a few TCM premieres, even though they are sometimes shown at odd hours of the day. B-)

Jackie, I watched *Seven Men from Now* not too long ago, on DVD, and thought it was absolutely awesome. Not 100% sure but I think the DVD may also include the Budd Boetticher documentary that has also been shown on TCM. I think it's called "A Man Can Do That: The Budd Boetticher Story". Lee Marvin is really good in it, too (Wasn't he always?)

As a huge Powell-Pressburger fan, this poster is utter and complete delight, Kyle! B-) ?Muchas gracias!

> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote} > More and more becoming a Russ Tamblyn fan, he's got that sweet boy/hunky guy thing simultaniously going. And he knows how to work it from sweet (7 Brides) to cynical (Haunting) to bad boy (HSConfid) just an underrated huge talent. > Totally agree with you there, TikiSoo! I've loved him in almost everything he has been in. Did you by any chance watch *Gun Crazy*, where he's credited as "Rusty Tamblyn"?

Do you think it was some kind of in-joke, clore?

Good point! B-) It reminded me of this cartoon...

> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote} > One might not like Gloria Grahame and miss that thread, but many folks like the FrankGrimes Torture Thread so here is a repeat: > Um... I agree with CineMaven.

The roller-skate number with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers comes relatively late in *Shall We Dance*, but it's absolutely beautiful. If anything, it seems to me a bit shorter than Gene Kelly's in the earlier movie, and it almost makes you wish it could have been a bit longer.

Found the original trailer for *The Red Shoes* B-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45AvQ9MR0CU

I really liked what Robert Osborne had to say about Gene Kelly's tap-dancing/roller-skating number in *It's Always Fair Weather* at the end of the movie - that one would suspect that there was a "trick" with the roller skates to make it easier to tap dance while wearing them, except for the great ease with which he switched from the tap dancing to the roller skating. How he accomplished to do so with so much ease is hard to imagine. And as RO also pointed out, this whole thing is done so beautifully and with so much artistry that it's easy to overlook the beautiful song that accompanies the number.

Yes, I found the blackouts you mentioned. I really don't know if TCM could have done anything about it, or if the material they were given was in that condition to begin with.

Well, that's a pretty good double feature.

> {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote} > Though it is unsubstantiated, I was just reading some insider threads and there is a strong rumor that the Blu-ray edition of *Mary Poppins* will come out in 2009. That would be wonderful, even if it comes out at a later date.

> {quote:title=calvinnme wrote:}{quote} > This is what is left to be put on DVD of pre-code Cagney. They're pre-code in the sense of the era but not necessarily content. The films below the dotted lines are the ones not on DVD where Cagney is just in a supporting role. Above the dotted line, he's the star. There's definitely enough good stuff here to have a set of "Early Cagney". > That would be such a great set to have... not sure they will think it has enough commercial potential, but it doesn't hurt to dream.

> {quote:title=mishima wrote:}{quote} > I just watched "mongol" last night on DVD and I really enjoyed watching an epic type movie without all that computer generated shock and awe. Wonderful story line about Gengis Khan's early life but is this the first in a line of a three part series? If not it would be a shame not to follow up with the real life world epic of the conquest of the East by Gengis Khan. Well, I read they wanted to make it the first in a trilogy. I'm not really sure if they have the financing all lined up or not, but I hope they will go ahead and make the next two movies in the planned trilogy.

Gene Kelly's roller-skate dancing sequence is finally coming up! B-) (It is also available on YouTube: ) P.S. Now it's Dolores Gray singing "Thanks a Lot but No Thanks". One of the greatest numbers ever - it was even included in *That's Entertainment! III*. For I am just a faithful lassie Waiting for her faithful lad And there's no gift, however classy, By which this Lassie can be had.

*Wings* ('27) *The Nightmare Before Christmas* ('93) *All About Eve* ('50) *A Majority Of One* ('61) *No More Orchids* ('32) *Boomerang!* ('47) *Dead Of Night* ('45) *The Eagle And The Hawk* ('33) *The Cheaters* ('45) *Cluny Brown* ('46)

So I take it nobody else here is watching *It's Always Fair Weather* ? I love the number they're doing right no... with the screen split three-ways, to show the three different leads... and then they cut back to Gene Kelly! B-)

They're doing the "Baby, You Knock Me Out" number now... what a great number, one of Cyd Charisse's best. And that crazy choreography with all the boxers dancing around. It's awesome. B-)

Well, the tcmdb.com file says it should be a mono movie, so I'm stumped. Maybe someone at WHV reprocessed the soundtrack. Generally speaking, however, I always thought that stereophonic sound started being used in the movies in the 50's. P.S. I checked some reviews of the DVD release of *It's Always Fair Weather* and they apparently did a 5.1 surround remix for it. It's possible TCM is just using the same video transfer that was used for the DVD.