Film_Fatale
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*Mrs. Miniver* is a very good choice as well!
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Oh I'll bet you could melt the tundra
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I rented *The Adventures of Captain Marvel* not too long ago. The next one I want to check out is Columbia's old *Batman* serials.
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I knew he could never resist. B-)
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Coming this Monday, August 4th:
*The Hollywood Revue (1929)*
Sketches and songs give MGM's silent stars a chance to show their stuff in talking pictures.
Cast: Jack Benny, Buster Keaton, Joan Crawford. Dir: Charles Riesner. C-118 mins, TV-G
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I enjoyed watching the 4 movies on the Eclipse box set very, very much. You just can't beat the Lubitsch touch.
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Did they show it in 70mm?
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Well, I did a little research. There's actually many similarities between both movies. While the plot of *The Great Man Votes* revolves around a mayoral election, there are more things in common than you mentioned. Both of the lead characters are drunkards who have lost much of their drive and ambition, and have only the solace of their children. They also both happen to have ended up with dead-end jobs and there is an influential female role (a teacher in the earlier film, a TV journalist in *Swing Vote* ) who helps move the plot along.
I can only assume that the makers of *Swing Vote* didn't want to acknowledge the source of their inspiration, either to avoid paying royalties to someone or simply to make themselves appear original. But giving credit where it's due, they have done a good job of updating the basic premise and making it reasonably credible in the context of the deciding vote being for the presidential election. After Florida 2000, it really doesn't seem that far-feteched.
P.S. For what it's worth, the movie was released on VHS by Turner Home Entertainment.
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I like it very much and I think it's one of Wilder's best movies. But it's kind of sad sometimes to think that this was practically Cagney's last movie (if you don't count his appearance in *Ragtime* nearly 20 years later).
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> {quote:title=CelluloidKid wrote:}{quote}
> Very Happy....I know what I want for XMAS!!
So sorry there, but methinks Santa already knows you have been a very naughty little kid this year.
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I like it quite a bit, too -especially when people post about it in lowercase.
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I think this has been completely debunked. There's already 2 threads on this in "Hot Topics" - the first one was started around July 24.
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> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote}
> A KISS FOR CINDERELLA (Paramount, 1925) Esther Ralston, Betty Bronson, Mary Brian. Directed by Herbert Brennon. William K. Everson listed this as one of the top films of the Silent Era. The movie exists, but unlike Brennon's earlier PETER PAN (Paramount, 1924) is not on DVD, and doesn't figure to be anytime soon, if ever?
Was it ever released in any video format, before DVD?
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Hadn't this already been established before someone started a duplicate thread basically rehashing everything that had been said?
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> {quote:title=visualfeast wrote:}{quote}
> I always thought that Virginia Huston and Carole Lombard looked a lot alike.
Got photos?
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Now let's hope TCM programmers can make this happen! B-)
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> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote}
> Here you go Bronxie, the perfect house for you to cool off:
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Awwwwww :x
Thanks for posting that!
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8/3 6am ET
*The Great Sinner* (1949)
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Ethel Barrymore. Dir: Robert Siodmak. BW-110 mins, TV-PG
A flawed but interesting movie that sadly has never been available on home video, IIRC.
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Do you even bother reading the thread before you post?
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An excellent little movie about an Egyptian police band visiting Israel, *The Band's Visit* explores cultural differences in the Middle East in a way that I think should be compelling even to those of us who don't know much about these cultures. It also won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes.
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I'd say it's more than just watching it on a big screen - it's watching it projected in 70mm in a large screen, if possible. Very few theaters in the world still have 70mm projectors, from what I've read.
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That might be, but this thread is about asking TCM to play *The Great Man Votes* again.
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CK,
There was already an existing thread about *London After Midnight*, which gagman66 started.
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Bumping this because someone just posted a duplicate thread.
So what's the latest on *London After Midnight* ? B-)
"The Great Man Votes" (remade as "Swing Vote")
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And I would give you an F for originality.