Arturo
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How can anyone Not count Tor Johnson?
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For me the performance from DODSWORTH that is the most powerful is Ruth Chatterton's.
Great movie and great cast. One last hurrah for Chatterton, who retired after this triumph.
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Tor for SOTM!!! That is such a stunningly good idea I'm thinking I may boycott the boards until it happens. Or maybe just start (launch? Create?) a thread titled, "Will Tor Johnson be SOTM for (excuse me, TOR) December?" I mean we haven't seen George Sanders yet, and that thread is kind of stale anyway. (no surprise).
Great idea! Tor Johnson was one awesomely huge star!
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In the Don Ameche for SOTM thread I mentioned his reinvention. After being s big star in the late 30s and the 40s, he did TV and the occasional film afterward. But in the 1980s,, he came back and actually became a star again. Must've been quite gratifying.
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That's the new Vole movie El Topo Gigio. Quick, who's going to get there first!!
I always thought he was a gopher, mainly because in Spanish Topo means gopher, and figured it meant the same in Italian.
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HCW was my fav of his Fox roles....
Of his films away from Fox, I think the best one was MIDNIGHT, although I don't think it was his best role.
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Yeah, and on the B-side...IF OUR LOVE DON'T FIT, YOU MUST ACQUIT !
(...I'm telllin' ya, this baby has "hit" written all over it...especially on and around law school campuses)
I'm sure I saw in Billboard that the B side got enough airplay in it's own right that the."45" was considered a double-sided hit.
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BORN YESTERDAY ON THE FOURTH OF JULY:
Blonde showgirl,.played by Judy Holliday, has been a kept girl to big time tycoon Tor Johnson for over 7 years. Tycoon hires disabled Vietnam vet Tom Cruise to help her maneuver through the VA bureacracy, in order to see if Tor, an army vet in both world wars, qualifies for any of their programs for shellshocked veterans. Judy becomes so adept at cutting through the red tape.maze, that she is asked.to testify as an expert witness at a congressional.subcommittee on vetersans affairs, and to her witnessing the shabby treatment many ill and injured.vets suffer.
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Behind the Green Notebook
With Marilyn Chambers, Nigel Green, Richard Greene, Lorne Greene, Shecky Greene, and Ray Teal. Special guest star Tor Johnson.
Hard-hitting, penetrating look at the call girl industry. Johnson gives a tor-de-force performance as a journalist who stumbles across Chambers’ notebook of clients. He spends the rest of his life looking for trends among her selection of johns.
I bet Charlie Sheen.was prominent among them.
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I'm crying foul! I was up the entire night doing searches for Young Torless and making notations and I simply cannot believe that it did not make the top ten Tor Searches.
Unless TCM did not update its web site and these results are stale?
How can we be assured that the top ten searches are the most current top ten searches? We need to launch a study right away.
Hey I'm just the messenger. But there can be no errors in this scientific data; why, disserrations have been written following the viewer.search trends reported here.
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On FMC (all times eastern):
Thursday, 6/18:
3 am: THE SHERIFF OF FRACTURED JAW (1958).................4:45 am: THE BROKEN LAND (1962)..................6 am: ON THE SUNNY SIDE (1942)................7:15 am: WEE WILLIE WINKIE (1937)................9 am: SUSANNAH OF THE MOUNTIES (1939)...................10:30 am: BOBBIKINS (1959)..................12 pm: THE SHERIFF OF FRACTURED JAW (1958).....................1:45 pm: THE DAY MARS INVADED EARTH (1963)...........
Friday, 6/19:
3 am: THE DAY MARS INVADED EARTH (1963)...................4:15 am: TOGETHER BROTHERS (1973)...................6 am: TALES OF MANHATTAN (1942)...................8 am: BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL (1956)......................9:35 am: ISLAND IN THE SUN (1957).................11:35 am: TROUBLE MAN (1972)..................1:20 pm: TOGETHER BROTHERS (1973)................
Saturday, 6/20:
3 am: PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953)..................4:30 am: THE TERRORISTS (1975)................6 am: TROUBLE MAN (1972)....................7:45 am: ISLAND IN THE SUN (1957)...................9:45 am:BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956).................11;25: MODESTY BLAISE (1966)...............
1:30 pm: THE TERRORISTS (1975).........
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You may have, since today's list is inexplicably exactly identical to yesterday's.Did I bust the search engine, or something? I'm waiting for the results with bated breath. I hardly slept a wink.
1. TORSAKING ALL OTHERS
2. THE TORGEOUS HUSSY
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4. THE BRIDE TOR RED
5. TOR MODERN MAIDENS
6. SUSAN AND TOR
7. TORDAY WE LIVE
8. TOR DANCING DAUGHTERS
9. ACROSS TOR SINGATORE
10. TORCH SONG
10. TOR BLUSHONG BRIDES
Oh well, no reason why this data cannot be used to determine trends among viewership patterns involving TCM.
EDIT: I forgot to post the list.
Btw, human error or intent can never factor into these list of pure scientific data.
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I'm working from home today, and had my tv on to TCM all morning. My dogs were in there the whole time. I wonder what they thought of the Lassie marathon?
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Another worthy candidate in that long list of worthies for Star of the Month is Don Ameche. Last evening's programming featuring several of his movies, including three from 20th Century Fox, where he spent a decade, offers a template upon which to build a month of Ameche movies. Obviously, it is doable, especially if enough of his titles from Fox can be leased. Additionally, several of the films done at other studios turn up regularly on TCM.
Ameche was a consummate professional, with his sonorous yet brittle speaking voice perfect for comedy or drama. He had a long career, punctuated by a late in life return to starring roles in the 1980s. Come on TCM, you can't go wrong with the man whose name became synonymous with the telephone.
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The Wagons Roll at Night of the Following Day.
Circus owner and TCM fanatic Humphrey Bogart kidnaps librarian, Pamela Franklin and forces her to research the trends of all screenings of Tor Johnson movies.
Don't forget the sequel, THE SNAKE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, where Bogart, sentenced to an insane asylum, escapes from there due to the director's experiments with the patients; Vincent Price is the director at the institution, and Bogart decides to break out with fellow with fellow inmate Olivia Dehavilland, who he helps recall the traumatic expereiences in her life. He leaves her as he again hunts the librarian played by Pamela Franklin, since her research for him is not yet done.
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okay, right off the bat i find this;
which is too chic for words.
This is the hat I was referring to, similar to other other one but darker.
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TOPPER TAKES A TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL:
Roland Young returns as the hapless Cosmo Topper, deciding to give in to his wife's nagging requests to return to the town of her birth, to see it one last time. Mrs. Topper is again portrayed as the silly, simpleminded yet singleminded socialite by Billie Burke. Also in the cast are Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, as the harried if insightful chauffeur, and Constance Bennett, as the funloving, pranksterish ghost Marian Kirby, always needling Topper with her levity and mirthful ways. Unfortunately, Cary Grant's policy of not doing sequels precluded him from doing this, but in the casting coup of the year, Tor Johnson stepped in quite comfortably as the dashing and debonair ghost, George Kirby. One of the top hits of the year.
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The funny thing about that scene to me is the fact that the hat she is wearing is really kind of goofy...or it would look so on nearly everyone alive but Gene Tierney, who (of course) pulls it off impeccably.
You or I or almost anyone else would look like the gay Gordon's of Glouchester Fisherman in this hat, but Gene? Fabulous.
I wonder if Oleg did it for her...
The funny thing about that scene to me is the fact that the hat she is wearing is really kind of goofy...or it would look so on nearly everyone alive but Gene Tierney, who (of course) pulls it off impeccably.
You or I or almost anyone else would look like the gay Gordon's of Glouchester Fisherman in this hat, but Gene? Fabulous.
I wonder if Oleg did it for her...
Tierney's hat is a revival/update of the cloche, the ubiquitous 1920s helmet-like hat worn by women. I remember reading something a long time.ago that it resembled the cloches of 1928-29 (or something like that), in the wide brim it had. Elsewhere in LAURA, she wears another similar hat, in a dark color.
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I feel The Sound of Music is a film noir. After all, Captain von Trapp is an alienated figure, full of angst, isolated from society. The nuns are the gang from which Maria flees, the seven children the new gang Maria forms in order to subversively control their father.
And look at all the night scenes.
The song of the Lonely Goatherd is the equivalent of Maria singing a torch song in a seedy nightclub.
Yodal-ay-hee-hoo.
Yeah, but does it have a murder?
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Ok, so the spotlight.on the great classic Tor Johnson-Joan Crawford love team by TCM paid off handsome didvdends, as many of their boxoffice hits made the daily listings.
1. TORSAKING ALL OTHERS
2. THE TORGEOUS HUSSY
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4. THE BRIDE TOR RED
5. TOR MODERN MAIDENS
6. SUSAN AND TOR
7. TORDAY WE LIVE
8. TOR DANCING DAUGHTERS
9. ACROSS TO SINGATOR
10. TORCH SONG
10. TOR BLUSHING BRIDES
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Arturo, have you seen two more beautiful people? I loved them together.
I agree, although I think it's.a shame they never made any made any films.once Linda became.an adult; she was between 15 and 17 when they did their four films. Despite several near misses, they never did anymore after.he came.back from the.war,.and her image.had changed.from a sweet young thing to that of a femme.fatale. That could've beeninteresting.
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Well, if seems TCMs recent theme, Tor Johnson, Swashbuckler has seen several of those films spike into the latest Top Ten:
1. THE TORSICAN BROTHERS
2. THE MARK OF TORRO
3. PIRATES OF TORTUGA
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5. THE FOXES OF TORROW
6. THE FLAME AND THE TORRO
7. THE TORSICAN BROTHERS
8. PEYTOR PLACE
9. THE SISTORS
10. TOREVER AMBER
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What no TORTIGO?
Surely one of the blank entries is for TORTIGO.
And what's up with FROM HERE TOR ETERNITY appearing twice on the list?
I know right? When you base premises and conclusions on a list the has blank spaces and duplicate titles, how.valid can that be?
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I have almost every single one of those scheduled too. Hard to tell if That Night In Rio will fit into my "Jungle" category, along with White Cargo. Only one way to find out.
THAT NIGHT IN RIO is a musical, and as such, takes place mostly in a nightclub/casino. It is a remake.of.FOLIES.BERGERE, and has a game cast.which lncludes Don.Ameche, Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda.....plus glorious Technicolor.
Tor's Top.Ten Titles Searched Today
in General Discussions
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Sorry, the tabulations were late this morning. It seems that the moderators were trying to determine if there was "ballot stuffing" for a title that came out of left.field, YOUNG TORLESS. But they gave it a go.
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2. YOUNG TORLESS
3. TOR VADIS
4. THE SCARLETT LETTOR
5. THE.SHANGHAI GESTORE
6. WUTORING HEIGHTS
7. TOR WITHOUT PITY
8. TOR A FISTFUL.OF.DOLLARS
9. THE GUNFIGHTOR
10. TORACCO ROAD