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Re: MOVIES THAT SELL OUT IN THE END 'Red River' (1948) Why do I get the feeling that Wayne probably insisted on that ending - over a far more dramatic and plausible one? I can just hear him bellowing "I'm not gonna be the bad guy at the end, g--dammit!"

I understand those southern folk (mountain folk too) have traditions of very youthful couplings. I've heard it said that past the age of 16 an unmarried "girl" is worried over in some communities.

You mean that crooks and bad guys don't actually dissolve into tearful guilt-ridden sobbers all of a sudden in real life? I'm pretty sure if the movie had had a realistic ending - Smith carried out followed by business as usual in the Senate - the movie would not have been allowed to be seen.

Don't be naive. 12 is the age, generally speaking, where children begin to transform into adolescents. By 13, most are capable of reproduction.

I'm gonna write to Bjork and ask where I can get one of those Swan dresses for my lady friend - it's fabulous!

Tina sure was hot in 'God's Little Acre'. But, yeah - beware of redheads.

I think that's a sombrero.

I don't know to what exactly you're referring by "studs", but there are many good-looking homeless men. You just have to clean them up a little to realize it.

Family is one aspect of the dirty end to which I referred. If men were also blessed with pregnancy, they too would have evolved different instincts than what is common to their wiring. That men are wired to be easily stimulated is a great aid to women in terms of survival and value - even though modern women in this part of the world may now have a tendency to bemoan that wiring in men.

Wealth attracts women. Physical beauty attracts men. I know that for men, it's wiring. For women, I'm not as sure - they've had to evolve some different survival instincts, some different societal defenses. Generally speaking, throughout the world and throughout history, the "weaker sex" has gotten the dirty end of the stick most of the time.

best wishes for a Twisted Christmas!

Perhaps a couple of quotes from Mason himself may shed some light on this: To be a successful film star, as opposed to a successful film actor, you should settle for an image and polish it forever. I somehow could never quite bring myself to do that. and I'm a character actor: the public never knows what it's getting by way of a Mason performance from one film to the next. I therefore represent a thoroughly insecure investment.

Have you tried refreshing the page if it's blank? Works sometimes. Anyway, the films are: The Day the Clown Cried (1972) Skatetown, U.S.A. (1979) C***sucker Blues (1972) Song of the South (1946) Don's Plum (2001) Frat House (1998) The Fantastic Four (1994) - Roger Corman Production The Brave (1997) Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987) Nothing Lasts Forever (1984)

You really wouldn't watch 'The Day the Clown Cried' if it were to receive a showing on TCM?? I find that difficult to believe.

Well, excuse me all to hell.

Well, they "censor" in the sense that there are movies they won't show. Antonioni's 'Zabriskie Point' (1970) comes to mind. And they will show prints that have been altered by other parties. But, they themselves don't alter the films they show. And as far as deciding what they show or don't show - well, absolutely every broadcaster does that - not sure if that qualifies as censorship. We ourselves decide what we will or won't watch so it seems we're all censors by that logic.

With all the news recently about 'The Interview' being yanked, and our much discussed thread regarding 'Song of the South' behind us, I thought this article might be of interest. https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/news/10-movies-that-hollywood-won-t-let-you-see-215324034.html

I thought Johnson was outstanding in this. Coming just after his 'Stanley Sweetheart' movie debut, I would forever after be a fan. True, he was doing his best Brando back then, and that was probably a large influence on how much I enjoyed him on screen.

I was watching Hitchcock's 'Psycho' again today and just wanted to mention the brilliance of Bernard Hermann's all-string composition. The perfect accompaniment for that dark black and white masterpiece.

What the hell does that mean?

Perhaps "corrective western" might be a more appropriate term. "Printing the legend" is sometimes just another way of mis-educating.

If there is such a genre, 'Dead Man' (1995) would surely be a principal example of it.

It's a very unsatisfying movie to me. The first time I saw it, I actually moaned out loud at the ending. Infuriating. That said, there are few movies of that era with more wonderful visuals than what we get from 'Mark of the Vampire'. For those, I love the movie up until its last five minutes.

Best moment in the movie is when the Good Witch tells the Wicked Witch "be gone, before someone drops a house on you too" and Margaret Hamilton looks to the sky in fear, shrinking down slightly. I laugh at that every time. My favorite moment.