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> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote} > If you add up her RKO, MGM and Columbia titles, there are enough. I should hope so, PS, I should hope so! I don't remember which of her movies are from Columbia, but I hope they can get to show those again at some point, if they haven't already.

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > FF- I didn't know that Two Rode Together wasn't out on dvd. Darn! I will have to try and watch when it comes around on TCM. There have been lots of rumours, but nothing firm yet as far as Sony is concerned (they own the rights). Someone brought up the subject of it showing on TCM a while back, and I went back and it seems TCM last played in in Dec. 2007. Although there is no official U.S. DVD yet, it seems some online sellers offer an imported DVD from Asia, which is apparently region-free - but I really don't know how good the image quality might be. So it seems *The Fugitive*, *Wagon Master* and *Two Rode Together* are the last great John Ford movies not yet on R1 DVD - unless I'm forgetting some other movie of his?

Lucky you, Edgecliff! I hope both movies would be released on blu-ray soon - obviously they've already mastered them in HD. And the extras could be ported over from the DVDs.

So did you get a chance to watch *The Big Heat* on Saturday morning?

Ang, I'm really happy to realize you are a fellow Edward Arnold fan. I can't tell you how much I have admired so many of his performances, not only the ones you listed, but also stuff like *The Toast of New York*, *Idiot's Delight*, *The Devil and Daniel Webster*, and so many others. Have you thought about starting an Edward Arnold thread in "Your Favorites"? If you don't, then someone else should. Speaking of favourites, I finally got a chance to watch *Wife Vs. Secretary* over the weekend, what a lovely movie! :x Myrna Loy is excellent as Clark Gable's all-but-perfect wife, who doesn't have the slightest suspicion her husband could have anything but a professional interest in his secretary (Jean Harlow) until some funny stuff starts happening. But, lo and behold, the things that are going on with no small degree of secrecy aren't an affair at all, just Gable being a very careful businessman and trying to put a deal together and keeping it all hush-hush. Yes, even the trip to Havana and Harlow picking up his hotel room phone at 2am is very much part of their professional duties, heh! Harlow is incredibly subdued in this one, and her few scenes with Myrna Loy have an unexpected poignancy to them. I love them both! :x

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > Border Incident is really a film noir that takes place in the west, not really a western, but it does have Arthur Hunnicutt in it.... Very good analysis, Jackie! > > I do love Jimmy Stewart's westerns, although I do think I understand MissG's comments about his darker side having no redeeming qualities in Two Rode Together. If it's anything like the dark side he showed in Vertigo, one doesn't see so much the agony propelling Stewart, just a sort of vicious blackness. Wayne's dark side always has a boundary, and a cause. He is more like a hurt animal. He is definitely in agony, and so we can empathize with his character. We know that Wayne will come out of his black pit - Stewart has a nasty, mean quality that I find hard to watch, and I am not so sure he will be redeemed. But his acting is compelling and interesting nevertheless. It's been about a year since I watched *Two Rode Together*, and I do want to watch it again to comment on it a bit more deeply, but your analysis does strike me as right on the money, especially the part about this being one of Stewart's less sympathetic parts. I don't suppose that would have anything to do with the apparent lack of interest in putting this out on DVD? Re: "Silverado." Stella's story and the the way Kline sees her is a lovely part of the story. After you see it we'll chat some more about it. (I'm glad the point about the church was helpful.) Doesn't Dennehy make a wonderful nasty guy? I always thought Brian Dennehy was incredibly compelling, as a nasty guy as he is in *Silverado*, or when he was going for simpatico. I'm always wishing he could be in more movies, he didn't have a big part in that recent movie with DeNiro and Pacino but it was still nice to see him.

I definitely see it listed in the schedule, Flooluk. Are you in Canada perhaps? They have a different schedule there sometimes.

Jack White along with the Raconteurs came to Austin at the Austin City Limits Festival, and he had that Claudette guitar with him. we were on the ront row of that concert, and boy was it loud! he's definitely an accomplished guitarist! he had a few solos in that concert i had never heard befroe that, and it was amazing! That's a great story, Theresa!! You're so lucky you were there. By the way, I had never heard of ACLF, I thought SXSW was the only big music festival there.

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > Newspaper cap courtesy of Preston Sturges......it's from "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek"..... I'm surprised I didn't recognize it, Jackie, it's a great cap!

Leave it to the French to make the most touching *Marty* poster I have ever seen. I am definitely looking forward to Ernest Borgnine's Private Screenings! He's so full of vitality.

> {quote:title=coopsgirl wrote:}{quote} > Im not surprised that Frank is related to Dr. Grimes who is a dentist and we all know that is the most sadistic profession on the planet. Dr. Grimes nearly gassed one of his patients to death due to an old grudge and I would bet a wooden nickel that Frank gave him the idea. > ****, Angie!

Those are all great posters, Haley. The one for *Love in the Afternoon* I don't think I had seen before. Saul Bass was _very_ good.

Xavier, Professor Charles - Patrick Stewart in *X-Men*

> {quote:title=CelluloidKid wrote:}{quote} > I would love TCM to show _The Stripper_ (1963) W./Joanne Woodward! It was Nominated for Oscar for Best Costume Design!! So do you want Woodward to have her day in SUTS as well, or just want one film shown?

Olivia de Havilland

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > Hey, Ang, I loved that list, and how specific you got for each character. I would never have thought of you as a cold fish, either... > > I think Jean Arthur as Babe Bennett is pretty close to my personality. I am still idealistic, but have an edge that has been created by disappointments. > > And although it sounds impossible, I think I am equal parts of Helen Ramirez and Amy in High Noon. I get indignant at hypocrisy and am very emotional like Helen, but I have a cold streak - a hesitance to commit like Amy.... and an intolerance of guns. > > Oh, I don't believe I actually just compared myself to yucky Amy..... If I was to compare myself to any of the ladies on that list, it would probably be Sugarpuss O'Shea - I guess that comes closest of all.

Some really great photos there, Armand!

> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote} > And Lupe Velez. Lupe V?**** would be a great choice, but I wonder if TCM would have enough movies to avoid repeating all of the *Mexican Spitfire* series, which they already had on the schedule once. But even if her day of SUTS was more or less a repeat of that *Spitfire* day on the schedule, it might be worth having!

Kathy, The scary thing (at least for me) is that *Silverado* actually came out 24 years ago, and next year will mark its 25th anniversary - same with *Back to the Future*. Sure makes me feel old!

hamradio, sorry to hear about your brother's experience, glad filmlover is here to give you the lowdown. On a personal note, I'd just like to say that getting used to watching some movies on blu-ray, especially new releases, has truly spoiled me in a way I didn't anticipate. I am now a lot less likely to watch a new release in the theater, and would rather wait for the blu-ray. See, while 35mm film has the potential for greater picture quality than any HDTV set can possibly offer, that potential is only achieved when you have competent projectionists running things. When a movie isn't quite well-focused, you can lose a lot of the sharpness that 35mm film is capable of. Compared to that, the sharpness of a blu-ray disc is far, far more reliable. But don't blame technology - blame the greedy theater chains that don't bother to properly train their projectionists.

Well to me personally, accepting Henry Fonda as a Latino priest might have required a greater suspension of disbelief. However I can see how awareness of a specific actor can sometimes get in the way of people's enjoyment of a particular film...

Gershwin... ahh... Gershwin... :x http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYHZh-xnqhE

Ford's *The Fugitive* isn't what I would call a boring movie, but it's also certainly not fast-paced. I think I'd also fall asleep if I tried to watch it when I was tired. It does, however, offer some great qualities if you can watch it when you're well-rested, not in a rush to do something afterwards, and in a rather contemplative state of mind. I won't go too deeply into the plot, but it is one of the few movies that Ford shot completely on location in Mexico, I believe, and he even availed himself of arguably the greatest Mexican cinematographer of the 20th century - Gabriel Figueroa. He wasn't just great by Mexican standards - he was truly world-class. So the black-and-white photography is amazing; the movie also offers a relatively rare part in an English-language film for Mexico's screen goddess, Dolores del R?o, who wasn't working in Hollywood anymore by that point in her career (as opposed to, say, Katy Jurado, who was in *High Noon* and *One-Eyed Jacks* late in her career). Del R?o's marriage to MGM's Art Director, Cedric Gibbons, ended around 1941, and her affair with Orson Welles didn't last long, so after 1942 she made movies almost exclusively in Mexico. (She had _never_ acted in Spanish in her native country until 1943, at age 37!). Dolores del R?o.

*Local Hero* is quite a charming movie, Theresa. I am certain that you'll enjoy it!