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"Night of the Living Dead" (the original) is the king of zombie movies. "The Serpent and the Rainbow" is a nice trying to tell us what a zombie is (loosely). I like it as well. About "I Walked with a Zombie", Mrs Gore once said.... oh never mind. If anyone wants to place their hard earned money in a paper shredder, you can watch "Zombieland" at your local cinema instead - no difference.

A real unique classic TV series. One of the earliest sitcoms I remembered. Whats funny is that I am now a little over 50 and I feel like at times I'm living in "The Twilight Zone". What a world. "The Twilight Zone" and the "Outer Limits" were to me a match pair that went well together.

I only know Sonny Coghlan from the "Frolics of Youth" shorts made between 1933 - 1934. He was a scene stealer. I have a few of them like "Pardon My Pups". I wish they did more with that charactor on those "Frolic of Youth" shorts - too few were made. Shirley Temple played his bratty kid sister Mary Lou, the only few times you see her playing a *normal* child role. Its a myth that she all the sudden was discovered in "Stand Up and Cheer". The only reason people took notice was that they fell asleep watching that boring turkey and she simply woke them up!. RIP Sonny

The horse "Whiskey" in the comedy "The Villian" with Kirk Douglas.

Thank goodness whoever designed my local theatre back in the early 1920's had forsight. It had a *large* Cinemascope screen. Use ! before and after the Tinypic web address link. Edited by: hamradio on Sep 30, 2009 1:46 PM

About "The Big Trail" (1930), it was shot in a process using 70mm film (beleive it or not) called "Fox Grandeur" which was first used in Fox Movietone Follies of 1929. Cost must have been very prohibited or they would have continued it. Just imagine if they *continued using* that format. What "Gone with Wind" could have been. Just thinking about it blows my mind that they had something so good but let it slip through their fingers. "The Big Trail"

Its a Korean version I bought NIB on Ebay. This is the only version I want. Its long enough the way it is, 222 mins Edited by: hamradio on Sep 30, 2009 1:00 PM

HollywoodGolightly wrote: << Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927) is in the "normal" format for most of its running time, but features a memorable ending with a "triptych" screen (3 screens lined up horizontally, a little like Cinerama would do years later). >> Its actually called Polyvision which has an aspect ratio of 4.00 to 1 I'm so glad I own that movie. I placed it in my DVD drive and took a snapshot of the Polyvision screen. If you look closely, you can see the 3 individual projected screens. So neat. By the way it is used in 1 video game called "Burnout Paradise" was released with the same aspect ratio when three 4:3 monitors are used.

Horse movies? Tons of them. I think TCM should scan down this list. They might have *missed* something. http://horseracing.about.com/od/booksandvideos/a/aamovies.htm

This is from http://thewizardofoz.info/faq13.html << 13.11. Where can I see a widescreen version of The Movie? You can't. Like most movies of it's time (including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, and numerous others), The Wizard of Oz was made with a 4:3 screen ratio ? nearly square, and very similar in shape to an older television screen. It wasn't until the 1950s that widescreen movie formats were introduced. So if you should ever see any sort of widescreen presentation of The Wizard of Oz, odds are the top and bottom of the picture are being cut off! For more information about screen ratios and how they relate to The Movie, take a look at http://hollywoodgothique.bravejournal.com/entry/7296.'>http://hollywoodgothique.bravejournal.com/entry/7296.'>http://hollywoodgothique.bravejournal.com/entry/7296.'>http://hollywoodgothique.bravejournal.com/entry/7296. >> Also check http://hollywoodgothique.bravejournal.com/entry/7296 In other words the so called widescreen version is a mutilated version. Blame HD. Fake widescreen is reminiscent the fake color (colorization). Its a miricle that some moron didn't colorized the first 15 min of "The Wizard of Oz". Edited by: hamradio on Sep 29, 2009 11:38 PM

Taxi Drivers - can't live without them.

scsu1975 wrote: << think Polanski has already done enough "private screenings" >> He will have a couple more screenings at airport security.

I am loving these Charley Chase Pathecomedy shorts. Thanks TCM for showing them. Great comedian!

Yeah, what actress today fits that "perfect" mold? If the young girls of today don't already have a poor self image of themselves. Here's a site that covers this topic perfectly. http://actress2009.blogspot.com/2009/05/incredible-shrinking-actress.html

*Welcome Seeking copy of Hollywood Revuew of 1929, Candids, and all you other photo threads.*

She's my cuz! -- Jerry Lee Lewis

Lol, funny title name. Edited by: hamradio on Sep 27, 2009 2:21 PM

I always love the wit and humor of Phil Silvers. My last movie I saw Lee Grant in was "The Swarm". I noticed how they printed "Campbell" on the poster. Would you consider this movie regular or Chuncky?

CelluloidKid wrote: << How sad .... Roman Polanski has had more career lows...than highs!!! >> Lol, in the business world that would be called *business!* Other people haven't had career lows? Churchill was referring to Hitler and the Nazi's lust for conquest of the world, not to a man on the run.

For me the only 4 I can think of are "The Wild Bunch", "Battle of Britain" "True Grit". "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", which has a song I still like to this date "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David who have produced several other tunes I like. LOL its playing tonight on AMC ! I like to get a little off topic but 1969 was a sad year with the deaths of Boris Karloff, Judy Garland, Robert Taylor, John Boles and Sharon Tate.

But if one is desperate.... http://www.oldies.com/collection-view/Alpha-Video-DVDs.html

Add "Zombieland" and "Cloudy, With a Chance of Meatballs" to the list. Why wait? (couple of others made this year could follow close behind) OMG is 2009 a year of turkeys?

Rutherford365 wrote: << As much as I like the Dick Tracy movies, you have to keep tuning in every Saturday if you want to see the continuing hour of the plot. >> That how it used to be back during the old movie serial days of the 1930's and 40's, one had to wait to see what happened to our hero, the following week. Not only Dick Tracy but Flash Gorden and Buck Rogers were also like that. I don't think todays fast pace society has the patience to wait like they did in the past. To be Continued.........

We should call this thread now "Oh that face that *pouty* face" if you get my meaning. My mom WAS a TCM member (don't ask who its only pun)