Arturo
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On FMC (all times eastern):
Thursday, 7/23:
3 am: WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950)......................4:45 am: JUST OFF BROADWAY (1942)..........................6 am: NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY (1951)............................8 am: A YANK IN THE R.A.F. (1941).......................... 9:45 am: THE GIFT OF LOVE (1958)...........................11:30 am: BOBBIKINS (1959)..............................1 pm: DECLINE AND FALL.........OF A BIRDWATCHER (1968)...................
FRIDAY, 7/24:
3:30 am: CINDERELLA LIBERTY (1973)........................6 am: THE GIFT OF LOVE (1958).........................8 am: BOBBIKINS (1959)..........................9:30 am: DECLINE.AND.FALL.........OF A BIRDWATCHER (1968)...........................11:25 am: JOHN AND MARY (1969).........................1 pm: CINDERELLA LIBERTY (1973).................
Saturday, 7/25:
3 am: JOHN AND MARY (1969)........................1:35 am: INFERNO (1953)...........................6 am: WEE WILLIE WINKIE (1937).........................7:45 am: ISLAND IN THE SUN (1957).......................9:45 am: TOGETHER BROTHERS (1973).........................11:30 am: TROUBLE MAN (1972)...............................
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On FMC (all times eastern):
Tuesday, 7/21:
3 am: MADISON AVENUE (1962)..................4:45 am: ON THE SUNNY SIDE (1942).................6 am: DAYTIME.WIFE (1939).................7:15 am: CLAUDIA AND DAVID (1946)......................8:35 am: MY WIFE'S BEST FRIEND (1952)..................10:05 am: BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL (1956)......................11:40 am: BLUE DENIM (1959)....................1:15 pm: MADISON AVENUE (1962).............
Wednesday, 7/22:
3 am: BLUE DENIM.(1959)......................4:45 am: DAYTIME.WIFE (1939).....................6 am: JUST OFF BROADWAY ........................7:10 am THE SECRET OF THE PURPLE REEF (1960)........................8:30 am: NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY (1951)......................... 10:15 am: FORBIDDEN STREET (1949).........................11:50: WHERE TUE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950)...................1:30pm: MAN IN THE ATTIC (1953)......
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Yeah, the characters were irritating at best, ALL of them. Plus, as with noirs and crime dramas, if you think about them too long ,you'll find holes in the plot and the logic as big as the Holland Tunnel. Just sit back and enjoy the ride.
PA. I believe the hotel is in Mexico City, not Acapulco. At least, the introductory shot of the facade was of one in the capital.
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And, she clearly needed the money to buy herself a better blonde wig.
That hairstyle is part of an homage to Marlene Dietrich's femme fatale image (Dietrichson). It was inspired by a Dietrich hairstyle worn a couple of years earlier, in one of her Universal actioners (SEVEN SINNERS?).
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You would think this was an occupational hazard, that must have happened occasionally. It would seem thst they would have some flunkie whose job was to make sure actors and.actresses did not wear wedding rings, if inappropriate, or other inappropriate articles.
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I love Natalie Wood. I'm looking forward to seeing Penelope again. I really enjoyed that movie when I watched it the last time it aired. It's a shame that this movie isn't on DVD. It's not even on "Print on Demand" on Warner Archives.
Right now my DVR is acting up. Hopefully the DVR can get it together by Monday so I can record the Natalie Wood movies. I'd really love to see Bob, Carol, Ted and Alice again too. TCM hasn't aired that one in awhile.
PENELOPE was.a.movie I saw when I was really young on The Fabulous 52, or a similar show; it left.a strong impression on me, but couldn't remember the title or stars. Thanks to TCM, I reconnected with this vivid childhood memory.
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They do have many Una O'Connor films. She would be a great star of the month.
From Random Harvest.
TCM has even shown the Fox film CLUNY BROWN, I believe, with Una O'Connor hilariously enigmatic.
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My very first movie experience was seeing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs back in 1953 and I know it first came out in 1938 but this was perhaps another re-release. The immense screen to my small eyes had a great impact. The wicked queen, the terrible hunter and the scary witch made me cringe with fear in my seat. As I got older somehow I was allowed in to see Anatomy of a Murder on a screen so huge at The All Weather Drive In on L.I. N.Y. I was drawn into the drama. Then there was those "trip" movies of the 60's that you had to see "stoned" so to speak. From the 70's onward I made sure to see as many of the Oscar nominee pictures I could and I enjoyed the experience of seeing things now in IMAX 3D. Popcorn and soda a must each time I ago. I love also going to the releases of classics I never seen on the big screen like GWTW and Singing in the Rain.
Great.story. I too love seeing classics on the big screen. This evening, I plan to see DOUBLE INDEMNITY, although I have see it on the big screen before.
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Tor Johnson for Star.of the Month......words to live by......a.goal to strive for.
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Just a mish mash of titles.with no.discernable pattern,.although this data CAN be used to discern TCM viewing trends and patterns.
1. TOR LATE FOR TORS
2. YOUNG TORLESS
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4. THE TOR ALSO RISES
5. THE TOR FROM ANOTHER PLANET
6. I WAS A MALE TOR BRIDE
7. THE TORK HORSE
8. GABRIEL TORVER THE WHITE HOUSE
9. SINCE TOR WENT AWAY
10. THE PRINCE AND THE TORPER
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Mark your calendars for Monday, September 21 -- that is the night TCM has set aside to pay tribute to Omar Sharif. This replaces a Carole Landis marathon previously scheduled.
The new schedule for that night is:
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) at 8:00
FUNNY GIRL (1968) at 11:30
FUNNY LADY (1975) at 2:30
TCM could have taken a little more time, done a few more films,.not used these overplayed.ones, and not have done it on the Carole Landis tribute. Unforunate planning and choices.
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If Tor gets cropped, he mustn't be wearing pants. I couldn't take Tor cropped in his pants.
What if he's wearing Toreador pants?
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Well during the silent era, Valentino and just about ALL male actors wore tons of eye make up, rouge, etc.And they really should've thanked Richard Harris, if not with a supporting role, then with a special note in the credits, because when it comes to guyliner, he was a trailblazer.
Do you guys remember when Kurt Russell used to wear eyeliner and tried to act like he didn't?
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Tor Johnson could play any part
Which helped the career he did chart
Success had him boastin'
Never boxoffice poison
America's big new sweetheart
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On FMC (all times eastern):
Saturday, 7/18:
6 am: THE SECRET OF THE PURPLE REEF (1960)...................7:21 am: HALF ANGEL (1951)......................8:40 am: FORBIDDEN STREET (1949)..................10:15 am: INFERNO (1953).....................11:40 am: WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950)...............
Sunday, 7/19:
6 am: HALF ANGEL (1951)....................7:20 am: THE FORBIDDEN STREET (1949).....................8:55 am: WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950)....................10:35 am: THE SONG OF BERNADETTE (1943)......................
Monday, 7/20:
6 am: ON THE SUNNY SIDE (1942)....................7:15 am: THE SONG OF BERNADETTE (1943)........................10 am: THE GIFT OF LOVE (1958)....................1:30 pm: BOBBIKINS (1959)...............
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I wish Jane Greer would get a Summer Under The Stars day.
I wonder if she has ever been chosen. TCM seema to have access to enough of her RKO and MGM titles to be do-able.
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Or Funny TORy--where he just had a cameo.
Then there's the episode where Barbra wanted to reteam with Tor again, as the fans felt they had plenty of sexual chemistry coming off the screen, so she hired him as her leading man in the remake of A STAR IS TOR-N. But then she realized there was only room for one megalomaniac on the movie, and since it was her movie.......well, Tor was dumped and Kristofferson was a poor substitute.
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I think this is done to approximate the original dimensions of the tv shows and non-widescreen movies, since most tvs today are elongated sideways, unlike the more nearly square screens of old. If you change the view to "Zoom", the whole screen will fill up, but might crop off the top and bottom of the image.I've seen that "side cropping" done on a couple of newer channels that show old TV episodes from the early '70's and such, and usually on older movies NOT shot in "panavision" or " Cinemascope". Both "H&I channel and COZI do some of this.
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I prefer seeing.ANY movie on the big screen. As a kid in the 70s, besides the kids films, some that made an impression at the movies included all the blockbusters, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, THE EXORCIST, JAWS, EARTHQUAKE, STAR WARS, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, etc. Another a bit later, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, had that amazing first scene with that huge round boulder triggered by Indy taking the gold Inca idol.
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You're Very Welcome, knew you'd come up with something great. You're very talented
(the post was in Rich's Tor thread)Ok right. I didn't go far enough in that thread to see it, I guess. Thanks for the kind words; maybe I can next do columns by Walter Winchell's Donuts, or Sheila Graham Crackers.
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Delbert Mann's remake of All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) was very good. And it had a fine cast with Richard Thomas, Patricia Neal, Ernest Borgnine and Donald Pleasence.
I never saw this film, but it sounds interesting, and reunited Patricia Neal and Richard Thomas, who had costarred in the tv movie, THE HOMECOMING (?), which became the pilot for The Waltons.
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LOL- Glad you took me up on the suggestion, great job as usual Arturo
Thanks for the idea. I was trying to find your post, to thank you.
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I suspect TCM will run DocTOR Zhivago now that Omar Sharif has died.
Both that.and another overplayed.David Lean/Tor Johnson film, TORRENCE.OF TORABIA, bubbled under the top ten.
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. . . which leads us back to Degrassi
Reminds me of John Cryer in some 1980s John Hughes movie, with Molly Ringwald, PRETTY IN PINK, I think.
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(the post was in Rich's Tor thread)
Hayley Mills
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Great clip Holden. THanks for sharing.