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LEONES Y TIGRES Y OSOS--!AY, DIOS MIO!
OH MY is an abbreviation of OH MY GOD!
You beat me to it...........except.I was.going to use the abbreviated form ¡Ay Dios!
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My story is similar to others. With my first VHS in the late, I began to tape off AMC mostly, but Channel Z as well as others. I concentrated on old Hollywood classics. I also did 2 or 3 films per tape, as they were rather expensive for me, as much as I recorded. I had thousands of titles this way.
Much later, I started to record one film per tape, for the better quality, and started recording many of the same movies individually. Now it was not only AMC, but also FMC and TCM. Again, I racked up thousands of these bulky, space guzzling cassettes.
Some years ago, I finally got a dvd recorder, and started the process all over again. This was going well until the beginning of 2014, when I got a free HD upgrade from.DirecTv, with a free dvr recorder. Unfortunately, the system doesn't allow me to record with my dvd, nor transfer dvr'd movies to disc. So my recording of discs.has stopped, other than transferring from VHS to.dvd.
I have several thousand dvds I recorded. I store them in several bins, and have them first listed according to year of release, then alphabetically by year. The bins are like a grading curve, with few titles from the 1910s, somwhat more for the 20s, a giant spike for the 30s, 40s.and 50s, then somewhat less for the 60s, and less and less for the 70s, 80s, etc. I have parallel filing systems for foreign language films, for Linda Darnell.films, and because of that, for 20th Century Fox.films.
Additionally, I have kept all my vhs tapes, mostly in storage, including the ones with three films.per tape. This is because of many titles.no.longer being shown, or having a commercial release. All along, I have bought the occasional manufactured cassette, usually of recent releases, often from overstocked titles on Blockbuster. And before I started recording dvds, I bought many new films in this medium, including into the present. I have also bought many classic period films on dvd, includinv.many boxed sets. Now that I can no longer record dvds, I am buying more than ever, new films and old. I've yet to get into streaming, and since I like having a physical copy of the film, this may never happen. However, I have purchased a few Amazon films this way.
Recently, I started buying dvds of films not compatible for playing on the U.S. region dvd players. I bought a Bluray player because I was told they are region free. Not the one I got. But now my laptop has the Europen region mode as the default setting,.so I watch these there. As for starting over with Bluray, I think it will be the rare title I get, due to extras.
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I love watching all the usual suspects, even if played on TCM more than once (I may be wrong but there may be rights issues wigh the Paramount titles, and others are leased.to networks, etc.). A couple mentioned at least once here which I love, are A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN and TALL, DARK AND HANDSOME and its remake, LOVE THAT BRUTE (the latter two made the Asta Top Ten list a few days ago lol). I think that what makes a holiday movie just that is the hearwarming message it contains, whether or not the main theme is Christmas.
Another film.I like wat,hing this time of year (and throughtout the year) is A LETTER TO THREE WIVES, since in the Linda Darnell-Paul Douglss tussle, there are episodes around Xmas and New Year.
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There actually seems to be a movie believe it or not.
Filmed in Mexiscope??
Hilarious! I've never seen this obvious "churro". Lol.
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However, she doesn't realize that only she is playing the game; there are no other contestants.
This line is particularly funny!
Unbelievable, but true!
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BEYOND THE FORKLIFT
Another story with a restless woman feeling trapped in a small town. She senses her loveless marriage to her husband is stifling her; despite his job as foreman at the local lumber outlet which allows him to provide well for her. She yearns to run off to the bright lights of Chicago, where the internet connections work a large part of the time. In an attempt to appease her cravings to post her selected writings online in messageboards and blogs (or messageboards she'd like to make into her blogs), her husband has her work at the plant, as forklift dispatcher. Here the wifi is available, if spotty. The poor internet reception is the last straw, as her post counts are sorely lacking the numbers she'd hope to rack up. So tablet in hand, she sets off to the Windy City, and, hopefully, internet immortality.
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On FMC (all times eastern):
Tuesday, 12/22:
3 am: THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE (1946)...........................4:35 am: THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE (1953).........................6 am: SUSANNAH OF THE MOUNTIES (1939).........................7:20 am: THE BLUE BIRD (1940).........................8:45 am: MY WIFE'S BEST FRIEND (1952)..............................10:15 am: HALF ANGEL (1951)...........................11:45 am: MOTHER IS A FRESHMAN (1949)............................1:15 pm: HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS (1959)...................
Wednesday, 12/23:
4 am: HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS (1959).............................6 am: DAYTIME WIFE (1939)................................7:15 am: HOUSE OF STRANGERS (1949)...............................9 am: FROM.THE TERRACE (1960)...............................11:25 am: MADISON AVENUE (1962).....................................1 pm: ISLAND IN THE SUN (1957)...................
Thursday, 12/24:
4 am: ISLAND IN THE SUN (1957)................................6 am: THE INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS (1958)................................8:45 am: BRIGHAM YOUNG (1940).............................10:45 am: CALL OF THE WILD (1935).................................12:10 pm: SUSANNAH OF THE MOUNTIES (1939)...............................1:30 pm: THE BLUE BIRD (1940)..................
Friday, 12/25:
3 am: THE INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS (1958)..............................6 am: THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE (1953).............................7:25 am: THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE (1946)...........................9 am: CALL OF THE WILD (1935).............................10:25 am: SUSANNAH OF THE MOUNTIES (1939).................................11:45 am: THE MUDLARK (1950).................................1:35 pm: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1951).........................
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I'm not getting 4 and 9 (what movies they refer to)?
Number 4 is CHRISTMAS IN CONECTICUT........It was P I S S MARKS.......
No. 9 is the actual title which I decided fit well enough. It's actually a remake of the previous one, TALL DARK AND HANDSOME, and starred Paul.Douglas and Jean Peters.
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THE FOLLOWING UPCOMNG NEW RELEASES ARE REGION FREE IMPORTS ON BLU RAY:
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
THE BIG SLEEP
KEY LARGO
This is great. All favorites of mine, and others.
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1/26 WB Blu Ray release
THE WRONG MAN, Henry Fonda, Vera Miles
Thanks. I always liked this Hitchcock film.
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FOREVER UNDER
In which a young woman feels she should not be living in the boondocks of a Puritan hamlet in the midlands of England but feels she is cut out for greater things. She attends Oxford, where she majors in Film Studies. She sees herself as influential in all aspects of classic film, and after graduation, she attempts to do so with her selected writings. However, she soon finds her true calling, trolling message boards and becoming a first-class bean-counter. Her frustrations in her goals and personal life makes her feel like the Countess of this fiefdom, what with her ever-increasing post counts. King George Sanders, when she is presented in court, puts her in her place, with the classic line, "Madame, your threads are like your wardrobe, many changes but no surprises! And Please....put on some shoes when you come downstairs to be presented in court!".
The film had to have some scenes deleted after complaints were raised re. the content to the moderators and the Catholic Legion of Decency. It didn't live up to all the hype as to the supposed milestones in post counts.
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I caught most of FOREVER AMBER yesterday as I was waking up. It seems that the colors were a bit more vibrant than when I last saw it on FMC a couple of months ago. And the ending has part of the spoken denoument, which was added along with a similar prologue, denouncing the wages of sin, in order to appease the Catholic Legion of Decency. Cornel Wilde basically says, that haven't he and Amber caused enough sin and suffering. The film ends there, rather anticlimactically, since a further scene was cut out.FOREVER AMBER will be on FMC tomorrow, Saturday, 12/19 at 10:30 est, and Sunday, 12/20 at 3:30 am est.
Although largely forgotten today, in its day this movie, and the racy bestseller it was based on, were quite well-known, even notorious. Some years later, there was a play on the title in an episode of I Love Lucy. This is the one where Lucy decided to write a novel, and changes the names of her husband and the Mertzes but slightly, and describes them rather negatively. She settled on the title "Real Gone With the Wind".Incensed, Ricky, Ethel and Fred find the copy she hid and burn it. Not knowing she made multiple copies, a triumphant Ethel says, "We changed the title from 'Real Gone With the Wind' to 'Forever Ember'". Of course, audiences of the day would have gotten the reference.
I Love Lucy was the number one show on TV because of its innovative techniques, great writing, and marvelous players. It is timeless, capturing succeeding generations in it's thrall, unlike say, Hazel, with it's dated lowbrow humor, despite its star.
Anyway, I have not noticed this spoken passage since pre-AMC days, when regular TV broadcasts included it. I think they were removed when the first VHS videotape was released. All showings since, and all dvd copies that I have (I think), have this removed. Now I will have to check.
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More of Asta's holiday titles are making the Top Ten:
1. I'LL BE SPAYING YOU
2. S*IT HAPPENED ON FIFTH AVENUE
3. THE NEUTER BEFORE CHRISTMAS
4. THE SLOP AROUND THE CORNER
5. THE BISHOP'S LICE
6. HUMP BY THE STABLE
7. CHRISTMAS FERAL
8. BONE FOR THE HOLIDAYS
9. HOWL ALL DAY AFFAIR
10. SNIFF ALL THREE MAGI
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I never avoided Boy on a Dolphin, but I never made the effort to catch up with it either. When I finally saw it recently, I was very pleasantly surprised and I owe that to you. Great widescreen location cinematography and, of course, Sophia Loren. Thanks again for keeping us up to date on these movies.
You're welcome Dougie, although sometimes I'm unable to post and miss a day or two, or when on vacation, a week or two.
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Arturo, I came across a website that had a writeup on Linda Darnell. You might be interested in it.
About her 1950 western, Two Flags West, it said:
'Two Flags West' was shot near the San Ildefonso reservation, some fifteen miles northwest of Santa Fe. Linda hated making westerns, particularly since she was allergic to horses. Gradually the crew came to refer to the picture as "Two Fags West," as tempers began to flare. "Cornel is seemingly trying to be halfway decent," Linda wrote, "but I still avoid him as much as possible. Joe Cotten is an awfully stuffed shirt, and a lush to boot, but Jeff Chandler is a dreamboat, good actor, and a real down-to-earth guy."
I gather from that comment of Darnell's that she was not too crazy about her Forever Amber co-star. I had never heard any reference to Joseph Cotten having a drinking issue before, and her comment further substantiated the impression that I had of Jeff Chandler as a person.
They seem to be getting along well in this shot, at least.
Tom,.as.to the "stuffed shirt" comment of Linda's re. Joseph Cottonm,I read.somewhere (a bio on Cotton?), that there were some in Hollywood who doubted Cotton's sexuality. When he was assigned to be in TFW with Linda, they wanted to see if he would respond to her in that manner. Apparently, he did not. I think she claimed, maybe in another anecdote, that his kissing was perfuntory, at best. Maybe this is where the "stuffed shirt" depiction came from.
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Thanks for that.link Tom. I recognized.the passage above as from her biography, "Hollywood Beauty"; almost everything in that article was from that book. The article was interesting, but it had some faults. Nice pictures accompany it, but the passages jump around, separate events are lumped into one paragraph, and there is little context in the way of dates.Arturo, I came across a website that had a writeup on Linda Darnell. You might be interested in it.
About her 1950 western, Two Flags West, it said:
'Two Flags West' was shot near the San Ildefonso reservation, some fifteen miles northwest of Santa Fe. Linda hated making westerns, particularly since she was allergic to horses. Gradually the crew came to refer to the picture as "Two Fags West," as tempers began to flare. "Cornel is seemingly trying to be halfway decent," Linda wrote, "but I still avoid him as much as possible. Joe Cotten is an awfully stuffed shirt, and a lush to boot, but Jeff Chandler is a dreamboat, good actor, and a real down-to-earth guy."
I gather from that comment of Darnell's that she was not too crazy about her Forever Amber co-star. I had never heard any reference to Joseph Cotten having a drinking issue before, and her comment further substantiated the impression that I had of Jeff Chandler as a person.
They seem to be getting along well in this shot, at least.
Linda made four films with Cornel Wilde: CENTENNIAL SUMMER (1946), FOREVER AMBER (1947), THE WALLS OF JERICHO (1948), and TWO FLAGS WEST (1950). Interestingly, all were costumers. In all but the last, Linda chases after Cornel, scheming to accomplish this, but doesn't get him. In TFW, it is Cornel who is after her, along with Jeff Chandler and Joseph Cotton.
There was at least one other projected vehicle for the pair, WALTZ INTO DARKNESS, based on a Cornell Woolrich story. It was to have been made in 1949, and would have been another costume drama. In it, Linda would have been a mail-order bride, arriving in 19th Century New Orleans, with Cornel as the plantation owner husband. He begins to doubt that she is the person with whom he had corresponded and contracted marriage. This intriguing noirish premise would have been a perfect vehicle for the two, too bad it wasn't filmed. The story was made into a movie in the late 60s,.a.French production with Catherine Deneuve; it took place in modern times in a.tropical French colony (Reunion?). It was also done about a dozen years ago as ORIGINAL SIN, with Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas; the location was Cuba in the 19th Century.
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1. MEET JOHN DOG
2. THE TWELVE DANES OF CHRISTMAS
3. SANTA'S DOG IS MARKING ROUND TOWN
4. **** MARKS IS DOG ETIQUETTE
5. ASTA'S WONDERFUL LIFE
6. A CHRISTMAS CANINE
7. THE BELLS OF ST. PAVLOV
8. NOT TALL OR DARK, BUT HANDSOME
9. LOVE THAT BRUTE
10. MUTTS GALORE ON 34TH STREET
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FOREVER AMBER will be on FMC tomorrow, Saturday, 12/19 at 10:30 est, and Sunday, 12/20 at 3:30 am est.FOREVER AMBER will be shown again on FMC, around the 19th or 20 th of this month. There are at least two showings. I will post the times later.
Although largely forgotten today, in its day this movie, and the racy bestseller it was based on, were quite well-known, even notorious. Some years later, there was a play on the title in an episode of I Love Lucy. This is the one where Lucy decided to write a novel, and changes the names of her husband and the Mertzes but slightly, and describes them rather negatively. She settled on the title "Real Gone With the Wind".Incensed, Ricky, Ethel and Fred find the copy she hid and burn it. Not knowing she made multiple copies, a triumphant Ethel says, "We changed the title from 'Real Gone With the Wind' to 'Forever Ember'". Of course, audiences of the day would have gotten the reference.
I Love Lucy was the number one show on TV because of its innovative techniques, great writing, and marvelous players. It is timeless, capturing succeeding generations in it's thrall, unlike say, Hazel, with it's dated lowbrow humor, despite its star.
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"Not only was first choice Taylor available by then, but she also was of a similar size to Leigh, which meant the costumes.didn't have to be redone."
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Maybe from the waist down, but Liz looked a lot bigger in the chest than Viv.
Well, they might've had to be let out a bit here or there, but the point is that a new set of costumes did not have to be made.
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On FMC (all times eastern):
Friday, 12/18:
3 am: THE REWARD (1965).............................4:35 am: I WAS AN ADVENTURESS (1940)...........................6 am: HEAVEN WITH A BARBED WIRE FENCE (1939)...........................7:05 am: BRIGHAM YOUNG (1940)............................9 am: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941)............................11 am: CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE (1947).............................1:25 pm: THE REWARD (1965)...................
Saturday, 12/19:
4 am: TROUBLE MAN (1972)............................6 am: THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME (1961).................................8 am: CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE (1947)..............................10:30 am: FOREVER AMBER (1947)...............................1 pm: BOY ON A DOLPHIN (1957)...................
Sunday, 12/20:
3:30 am: FOREVER AMBER (1947)............................6 am: BLACK SHEEP (1935)...............................7:30 am: THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND (1936)...............................9:15 am: BLOODHOUNDS OF BROADWAY (1952)................................11 am: BOY ON A DOLPHIN (1957)............................1 pm: PRINCE OF FOXES (1949)................
Monday, 12/21:
4 am: PRINCE OF FOXES (1949)...............................6 am: THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND (1936)................................7:40 am: BLOODHOUNDS OF BROADWAY (1952).................................9:15 am: THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE (1946)...............................10:50: THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE (1953)...............................12:15 pm: SUSANNAH OF THE MOUNTIES (1939).................................1:35 pm: THE BLUE BIRD (1940).....................
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I'm not sure I get the jist of this thread....
Would IRISH SETTER BOULEVARD work?
You have a setter with ambitions of being a big shot hunting dog among his peers, but is delusional to the fact everyone sees he is a "has-been". He tries shooting others around himself to elevate his position, but in the end just gets taken to the looney bin.
(or am I confusing this with the 20th Century Vole thread?)
Tiki, this is good. However, it is more like what is posted on the 20th Century Vole thread. Here I try to spoof the silly notion that the daily top ten most.viewed movie titles has some actual significance.
There was another thread, with this type of movie spoof, I think it was Asta For Star.of the Month.
Now let.me see if I can do a list.
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One of Dana Andrews' more curious productions (and a film seemingly all but forgotten today) was 1954's Elephant Walk. Much of the film's on location Indian locales had, apparently, more interesting action behind the scenes than what is, ultimately, left on the screen.
Co-star Vivien Leigh was having quite the affair, apparently, with fellow co-star Peter Finch (where was Dana all this time?), as well, as unfortunately, suffering from some increasing issues with her mental health. (Finch, by the way, was a "friend" of Laurence Olivier, Leigh's wife, but I guess that's another story).
Leigh was replaced by Elizabeth Taylor for this extremely lavish Technicolor production, the highlight of which was an elephant stampede (still pretty impressive special effects) through Taylor's home.
I saw the film for the first time a few months ago. Some lovely on location photography but not, ultimately, much of a story.
Dana plays the plantation overseer who takes a liking to Finch's young bride, the very beautiful Miss Taylor, of course, who has found that her husband is a bit of a challenge to live with. I quite liked Dana's performance in the film but he was overshadowed by the colour photography and Taylor's beauty and, I guess, all the melodrama taking place on the set of the film, at least, pre-Taylor's arrival.
If this lobby card (love that frozen movie star school scared expression of Taylor, by the way) is any indication, the Paramount publicity department in 1954 was not exactly going overboard in promoting Dana's contribution to the film. No surprise, of course. His best years as a marquee name were somewhat behind him by now.
I enjoy ELEPHANT WALK,.what with the beauty of the locales.and leading lady. But I agree, that the backstage story is more compelling tham what's on the screen.
I read somewhere that Liz was the producers' original choice, but was unavailable due to pregnancy. I also read that Hollywood was aghast when Vivien accepted a role in what was obviously a programmer (I guess they didn't know at first about a reason she chose the film). Anyway, after.Leigh's breakdown, Paramount got a lucky break. Not only was first choice Taylor available by then, but she also was of a similar size to Leigh, which meant the costumes.didn't have to be redone. Additionally, this, as well as her skin and hair coloring also being similar to Leigh's, meant that far-off shots of Leigh could be left in instead of being reshot.
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SGWM.seeks platonic/work.relationship. Geeky yet temperamental Film.scholar.seeks research librarian familiar with film.studies and history. Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment, to a demanding set of specifications. Able to prepare Word.documents.from hand written notes, for blog entries, columns, and selected writings. Must be willing to do all research as required, at a moment's notice. Must have writing.as well.as.research skills. Must not mind.having writings plagerized, er, not getting credit as partner will take full credit as.needed, as.well as claim intellectual authorship. Must have capability to operate hand held recording devices, to record associate delivering verbal musings, critiques, etc. as well as the ability to post these videos online. Must be able to multi-task, constantly praising partner as an important imparter of influential information on specific websites, agree to all postings on said sites, bash any opposing viewpoints in print, and send streams of spam written in Korean script, all at once. Must be able to tabulate post counts, and significantly contribute to said counts with spurious postings. Must not mind partner's trolling tendencies online, nor occasional tongue-lashings born of frustration and poor-sportsmanship. A unique opportunity and partnership.
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In MY DARLING CLEMENTI.E, it.appears to be Linda's voice; she had a fair singing voice. However, I know she was dubbed for the musical CENTENNIAL SUMMER. I'm not sure if she did her own singing in HANGOVER SQUARE or THE GREAT JOHN L.Yup, brunette or blonde, Darnell was still a knockout.
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[media]Would you know if that was Linda's own's singing voice in this scene, Arturo?
One of my favourite scenes in this film is when Ward Bond whinnies like a horse at Darnell as she walks past him and she responds by throwing a pitcher of beer in his face.
Later, in the early 60s,.husband No. 3, Merle Robby Robertson, having taken over managing her career, urged her to do.a.nightclub act. She prepared.for it, but felt inadequate, thinking that her singing voice.was.****. Despite being terrified of.live audiences.with what she felt.was.a substandard.show, and which caused her to resume.drinking, she got.decent.reviews.and did well.around the country. Unfortunately, the drunk Vegas crowds did not care for the show, and she never played there again after her two week stint. She would discard the act after.separating.from her husband.
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I've Got A Theory About The Wizard of Oz . . .
in General Discussions
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You may right Tom. Growing up, we saw the annual showings of TWOZ, usually with cousins at our grandmother's house. This was great because she had a color tv and we didn't. Everyone I knew would watch it.
Later, when I was around 21, I went over to watch it at.the family home of a girlfriend. She made popcorn and invited a neighbor to see it. I was shocked, SHOCKED! to find out the neighbor had never seen it. She was a teenager from an immigrant Mexican family, but so was I and most of the people I knew who watched it. I just thought everyone would see it in its annual showings, and found it hard to fathom that it was not so. Anyway, because of these annual events, despite no universal viewing, the premise of this thread may be true.