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> {quote:title=visualfeast wrote:}{quote} > Thanks for all the glam pix of Kim Novak...they reminded me of a day some years ago. I was wandering through a hardware store in Carmel when I came upon a blonde, sitting on the floor sorting through what appeared to be plumbing supplies. She looked up and smiled, I smiled and continued on my way. Just another day in Carmel...with Kim Novak, and she was as glamorous then as she ever was in her films. You think she knew you recognized her?

> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > I guess I'll "have" to see FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN as the companion piece. They're great to watch together, imho. It's too bad the Criterion DVDs went out-of-print, but I think that the movies were later reissued by some other company. Not sure about that, tho.

I'm not generally crazy about video companies artificially enhancing older movies with 5.1 sound when the movie was released in mono or just plain stereo. But we'll see how it sounds, and I take it you can switch back and forth to listen to plain stereo? Oh and did anyone else know that a complete *Little House on the Prairie* is coming out soon from Lionsgate? Little House on the Prarie has been loved as a book series and television series for decades. Now a very complete box set is arriving from Lionsgate. The new box set will contain 60 discs which will include all the episodes from the nine seasons of the show along with the three movies that followed and three additional discs of special features. No word on what those features will be, but it sounds like plenty. That's a lot of Little House. The box set arrives on November 4th.

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > That not everything posted on IMDB or Wikipedia or various other web sites is 100% factual, correct or even plausible? That's the one that most people don't seem to understand or remember.

*Saving Private Ryan* nw: foolhardy

Christopher Guest was in *This is Spinal Tap* directed by and featuring Rob Reiner

> {quote:title=judycwrite wrote:}{quote} > I was just reading about his death. Apparently he was working on Avalanche Express (?) I think that's correct. He and his family, I think with new wife, were just coming back from playing golf and he felt a pain in his chest. He pulled the car over to get out and walk it off. Within a few feet of the car he collapsed and died on the side of the road from heart attack. > > At least it wasn't something long and protracted. Well, yeah, I hope he didn't suffer much. Also kinda wonder if he'd been able to get more preventive care had they known as much about cardiac stuff back then.

*The Bank Job* nw: premeditated

> {quote:title=CineSage_jr wrote:}{quote} > I think that after is wife, Mary Ure (WHERE EAGLES DARE) died three years earlier, Shaw lost that "lust for life," and was never the same. Her premature death very possibly contributed to his. I've seen that kind of stuff happen before, it's always very sad when something like that happens.

ask, I think it's you who doesn't get it. There's a pretty huge difference between getting your foot in the door and being "discovered". Harrison said many times that he came very close to wasting away on TV roles (even after his first film appearance). He had not been "discovered" by 1973 because he was pretty much a nobody.

I don't know where you found so many wonderful Hitchcock stills, MissG, but if you've got any more of them, keep 'em coming!

*Marie Antoinette* (2006) nw: undermine

Eve Marie Saint was in *Superman Returns* with Parker Posey

> {quote:title=LandLfan wrote:}{quote} > I also loved Brian Keith's California ranch in The Parent Trap (1961) and I thought the treehouse in Swiss Family Robinson (1960) would have been the coolest place to live (especially with Tommy Kirk around!) > > jon Didn't they build a replica of the Robinsons' treehouse in Disneyland or one of those Disney parks?

Mercedes McCambridge was in *Giant* which also features Sal Mineo

> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote} > *The Man Who Knew Too Much* star and director (1956) > Oh, I like that one. He must have loved posing for the camera. (Hitch, I mean)

Well, if there are any Bertolucci fans who didn't already get the Criterion edition of *The Last Emperor*, amazon has just reduced it down to $31.49, almost half the original retail price of $59.95. Not a bad price for a 4-disc set loaded with supplements.

Awesome still! :x Hard to believe we're just one year away from the 110th anniversary of his birth.

It's a great movie, I think I got to see it in a theater once. Now I'm dying to see it again because I recently watched (endured?) *Force 10 From Navarone* which is pretty much a sequel in name only.

Exactly.

> {quote:title=movieman1957 wrote:}{quote} > CineMaven: > > "Doctor In The House" was really my first exposure to British comedies. I thought it was great fun. I learned a good deal of English slang from that show. I don't know what possessed my local channel to show it because no one in our area was showing anything like it and this was back in the early to mid 70s. > I also have very fond memories of *Doctor in the House* (like you I discovered it on cable a long time ago). I especially loved Dirk Bogarde's and James Robertson Justice's characters. For some reason, I also remember it shot in great Technicolour, but that could be just my imagination. I haven't seen that movie in decades.

I agree with MissG's and CM's comments, and I for one think it's great that the old movies didn't really need to spell everything out for the audience, that there could be a certain measure of ambiguity about certain things and the filmmakers could trust enough in the audience to fill in their blanks with a lot of the details that didn't matter all that much. The way it is, we can imagine all kinds of things about the stuff that was not shown on screen.

> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote} > Yes, as he is in several other movies where he doesn't bother to put on any singular American > accent, and is much more effective that way. He sounded ridiculous saying "baby" all the > time, lol.... That's a good point, I hadn't thought about that. Maybe it was the director's idea.

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > Episode VI was the one I didn't like. I hate the redone Jabbas palace music scene and the only thing I see different after that is the Death Star explosion. This was a film that should have been left alone. I still have my original VHS tape of Episode VI and watch it instead. With any luck, when the movies are released on Blu-Ray, viewers will be given a choice of which sequences to watch. It's the only way GL is going to make everyone happy, I suppose.

*Fail Safe* nw: pontificate