Arturo
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Cooper has said that the birds and blood were fake and just props used to amp up the entertain. Sounds logical. With all the lights and 99% of the audience being stoned and \ or drunk, who would notice!
Yeah that came later. But he had a story on how it first happened, and how it quickly got misreported or misinterpreted.
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Once again, a problem of TCM having to get ahold of a lot of Fox films.
Well that is not insurmountable; in fact, this month TCM seems to be playing quite a few Fox films,.more so than usual. And when Linda Darnell had a SUTS day in 2011, roughly half of the titles were 20th films. I'm choosing to think that TCM is trying to get a few rarities and/ or premieres for a monthlong tribute. If only this is so.
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Boy, my head reels to think that we are still in June, and it's more than a month away until August. I say ths because all the chatter seems to be about September and October.
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AUNTIE MAIMED:
In which a suddenly orphaned kid gets sent to his only.relative, a flamboyant older woman (or possibly a transgender) who lives in a New York penthouse. This auntie, played by Rosalind Russell, stumbles down her grand staircase during one of her drunken parties when one of her stacked heels breaks. She is out of traction for awhile, but still.manages to impart to her nephew her wisdom and lifestyle choices, positioning him for a life as.a.metrosexual in Greenwich Village. Tor Johnson provides Roz' true love interest.
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Speaking of Africa, wasn't he in that sequel to King Solomon's Mines: Watorsi?
There was another one, but I don't remember the full name, it starts.with the character's name......ALLAN QUARTORMAIN AND THE........
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I'm sure there were other desert movies (or Bronson Canyon) where he was an uncredited acTOR.
Well, he actually started filming PATTOR in the mid 60s, but between his diva temperament, and the heat sand and scorpions of the desert, production shut down. It was later.started.with another.actor.
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On an interesting note, I was adding the upcoming Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1965) [Tribune Media/DVR schedule name] to my personal database. My DB gets its info from IMDB, whose entry appears as Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965). Both are also called Kaijû daisensô (1965), which is the only way I was able to match them. Maybe TOR uses some of this alternate naming wisdom in his pursuit to populate useless lists. Just a hunch.
That must explain why neither TORZILLA VS. MONSTOR ZERO or INVASION OF ASTOR MONSTOR made the list. One movie with more.than one name has each title search register separately. Both did get enough hits one their own to bubble under the top ten though, coming in at 12 and 15 respectively.
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The recent spate of Japanese monster movies highlighted this lucrative side career of Tor Johnson. Several of fhe films.he made in this genre have had enough "hits" in thr last 24 hours to enter the Top Ten, including, interestingly his first.attempt at this AND the version remade for international audiences. Additionally, YOUNG TORLESS appears to have strong legs.
1. YOUNG.TORLESS
2. TORZILLA
3. WAR OF THE GARGANTORAS
4. GITORAS
5. LOVE ME.TENTOR
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7. TORGIRA
8. TORBRUK
9. TOR-FACED WOMAN
10. MOTHTORA
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Call Her Savage is very interesting--and another example of the casual racism of those 30's films--Bow is "savage" becasue she's half Native American? Really? But she's fun to watch...
She's also fun in her last film, Hoop-la, where she plays a chooch dancer in a circus sideshow who casually bets that she can make the owner's sheltered son fall in love with her.
Clara in one of her costumes:
HOOPLA was.another fun precode, and unfortunately, the end of the Bow comet. I haven't seen it in like decades.
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Lucille Ball for THE BIG.STREET.
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Yes, I watched Monkey Business (1952) not long ago and once again found its 'comedic' moments mostly cringe-worthy.
But Marilyn is gorgeous to look at in this one.
Marilyn's youthful enthusiasm is the best thing about MONKEY BUSINESS, outshining the likes of Cary Grant and Charles Coburn in this rather strained comedy.
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Oh.
Well, for the record, there is a guy named Steve Hayes who has a youtube show called Tired Old Queen at the Movies; he profiles a lot of terrific classic films and gives DVD reviews and is pretty funny.
Isn't there a thread on the Your Favorites Forum, where various reviews are posted. I've seen it, but never actually gone in to read and/ or view it.
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Oh yeah Hibi. I remember giving a "play-by-play analysis" on these very boards of this flick during the last time TCM showed it a couple years back.
(...wish I could find it to re-post, but you know how screwed-up the search function is around here, doncha)
Did you film yourself watching it also?
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-I'm really surprised TCM hasn't aired THIS before, but @ NPG....
tonight, 6-18 for Bugging Out:
8:00 pm ET
Color
94 min
TV-PG
horror
Fly, The (1958)
A scientist's experiments with teleportation produce a deadly hybrid.
Dir: Kurt Neumann Cast: Al Hedison , Patricia Owens , Vincent Price .
LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Kurt Neumann. Al (David) Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman.
"Improbable but diverting sci-fi (screenplay by James Clavell!) about scientist who experiments with disintegration machine and has his atomic pattern mingled with that of a fly. ``Help me! Help me!'' Two sequels--RETURN OF THE FLY and CURSE OF THE FLY. Remade in 1986. CinemaScope."
Article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/75222/Fly-The/articles.html
Probably because it's a 20th Century Fox film, but it seems that this month TCM is showing quite a few Fox films.
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They could at least have shown Waterloo Bridge.
Or maybe a film.that features The Kink's "Waterloo Sunset". I know I've heard it in at least one film, but cannot recall which. Probably British film(s).
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Didn't Alice Cooper or Ted Nugent or someone of that ilk bite the heads off chickens in their act?
( Actually, I kind of like Mr. Cooper. Maybe it was Ozzie Osbourne?)
Alice Cooper always denied fhe story, but I don't remember what was his benign explanation that was the source of this rumor.
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THE MAGNIFICENT DOPE has always been a favorite of mine, quite amusing with a game cast that includes Henry Fonda, Lynn Bari, Edward Everett Horton, and the standout imho, Don Ameche. His urbane delivery of his lines as well as his impeccable timing lifted many marginal films, of which this one was not.Ameche gets my vote, because he made around 60 films--if TCM could get rights for 25 of them, that's enough for a Star of the Month.
Monroe only made 28 films total, & only 10 or 11 films had her in true starring roles.
If there's enough support for Ameche as SOTM, TCM may decide to make him a SOTM.
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It can be done! Yes Susan Hayward, one of a number of worthy beneficiaries of SOTM tributes who seemingly are handicapped by having done movies while under contract to studios like Paramount or 20th Century Fox, or in her case, to both. So with Shirley Temple coming up, there really is nothing that can prevent Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour, Linda Darnell, Gene Tierney, Betty Grable, etc. etc. etc.The schedule is up!
It appears that Susan Hayward is September's SOTM.
¡Si se puede!
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Ons.of the ironic things about Widmark, who early on specialized on psychopaths, sociopaths, and just generally creepy characters, was nothing like that in real life. Shows what an amazing actor he was.
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Shirley Booth didn't have the primal presence that Anna Magnani had, but both actors had a quality of realness (for lack of a better word) that moved their performances to a level beyond "acting."
Shirley Booth didn't have the primal presence that Anna Magnani had, but both actors had a quality of realness (for lack of a better word) that moved their performances to a level beyond "acting."
Booth and Magnani definitely gave some of the best performances in films in the 50s.
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IshTOR.
IshTOR.
Didn't Tor decide.to.retire after.the debacle sorrounding the filming of this botched epic.
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Do you mean the 1980s?
OMG. Thank you. I have corrected my post. I guess I need to review after I post.something.
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I believe Peggy King was the singer on Gobel's TV show. She is now in her '70s or '80s, and lives in my condo. Is that a brush with greatness?
Is this the same.Peggy King who made her first movie when Linda.Darnell.made her last.movie for several years in 1957's ZERO HOUR? She was a looker but wasn't the most convincing with her dialogue. Hope she was a better singer.
PS......yes, I would post that on the Brush With Greatness thread.
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FXM is the name of the channel not FMC so if your looking for FMC it's not there on your TV Guide. ON Dish FXM is included on BlockBuster at Home along with Sony, MGM and HDNET Movies. And as a side note, FXM is not an HD channel on Dish either plus they run commercials most of the time so it's not commercial free.
Thank you. I thought I had answered Holden re. this, but I don't see my response. I still use the old name, for brevity's sake, since.what I post.is the schedule for their daily12 hour classic era films, known as FXM Retro, which has the movies shown without commercials.
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What I think happened is that the oscar went to her head. She wasn't quite the same.afterwards,.maybe she started to take herself too seriously.