hamradio

Thats why it took 20 years to make "Mississippi Burning". Who made "The Phenix City Story" were *brave* indeed! When we look back on this film, one must remember that people during the 1950's didn't see the type of gory violence and unsettling language we see and hear today. We today have mostly become desensitized to it.

Welcome to the boards. I wish you the best in your film making career. If you do become a film maker *TRY* to make a host of films that will bring back the thrill of going to the cinema again. We need someone that has an imagination and will do better then the trash we see today. Oh yes, *PLEASE don't do remakes !*

You be surprised but I've seen several unbuilt 1960's Heathkit B&W TV's sold on Ebay for hundreds of dollars. I built a 12" B&W back in 1975 and seen a lot of old classics on it. The one thing about watching old movies on a B&W set, you don't get that annoying brown tint you see once in a while on a color set. By the way if you think todays HD's were expensive, look at a cost for a B&W TV in 1954 - this is 1954 dollars! Note: Just *now* found out we don't have to worry about width size anymore. Edited by: hamradio on Sep 26, 2009 11:11 AM

I heard Robert Osborne said this film had a hard time getting past the censors but after a lot of editing it BARELY passed the code. By the tone in his voice Robert was even a bit disturbed by the film especially about the killing of a child. He said most of the South boycotted the movie.

I never remembered seeing or hearing anything during the first half of the 20th Century in which outlaws or gangsters targeted children. This would have been too much for your average movie going Joe back in the 1950's to stomach. This film is intense for a 1955 movie. Movie has a nice one liner (when you saw the old TV camera), "I bring you news from hell.

I am watching it at present and the little "turtle bowl" with the palm tree reminded me when I was a kid. I had one that was oblong and kept 3 turtles in it. They loved bacon. Lol. About the movie itself, did it meet the "code" back in 1955. It looks like a type of movie that only adult type of movie houses showed or regular cinemas would only show late at night. Nothing the parents of 1955 would take their kids to see. If my gut feeling is right, it explains why this movie is rare. Just curious, why is the city spelled "Phenix" instead of "Phoenix"? What I've seen, I'll take making moonshine anytime. I'll save you a jug, hic. Edited by: hamradio on Sep 25, 2009 10:11 PM Too woozy to type.

A rabbi and a priest walked into a theatre, the rabbi asked a for kosher hot dog and the priest blessed it.

CK this might help you. On the forums that has this bug, use only the photos which has the address that starts out with http. DO NOT type the . Place an exclamation mark just before the http and AFTER the jpg or gif that is (!http) and (jpg! or gif!) This is what I have been doing. Edited by: hamradio on Sep 25, 2009 12:08 PM (didn't phrase it correctly)

The lawyer could take on my corrupt *county* and do a sequel

Thanks movieman1957 and Kid Dabb for passing that info along. See my last photo which is an edited post.

Thanks I tried it on the Belated Happy birthday thread and it worked. Question is will it *still* work after the fix is done?

CelluloidJid wrote: << It's done! Hollywood has conclusively ran out of ideas! >> DUH, you think !? Maybe if Hollywood wait a few years until this poor girl turns 18, they will have a Barbie "ready made". http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1032029/Mummys-little-Lolita-The-11-year-old-girl-beauty-treatments-cost-300-month-make-look-like-Barbie.html By the way, who will play Ken, Matt Damon?

Hey that advise worked. Use omly the exclamation mark before the http and after jpg Edited by: hamradio on Sep 24, 2009 12:11 PM

What about this http://www.forimmediaterelease.net/pm/2792.html

He has hundreds of photos here. It will take him forever to repost all of them. Be nice if there was a type of "wildcard" code that would allow one to do so like in the old MS-DOS command. Maybe the Webmaster could somehow do it.

The poster I really feel sorry for is *mongo*. All that time, trouble and efford that was made into posting those hundreds of wonderful photos.

The movie "HEALTH" is great for TCM's health but *not* "Sicko". Anyone wanting that Michael Moore movie shown would simply be plain sick.

The TCM Webmaster could learn from the old expression "if its not broken, don't fix it!"

Boris Karloff has long since told us of the horrors of putting his makeup on in "Frankenstein". (Karloff thinking to himself - finish up already!!) Not related to Universal, RKO in which James Arness told the story of wearing the "Jolly Green Giant" makeup all day long during the filming of "The Thing". He got a lift by someone and while on his way to where ever he was going, a lady in a car waiting for the traffic light fainted when she saw him. To this day she has a fear of eating "Green Giant" food products.

I'm glad you see my point. Yes TVLand is intended for the old TV classics. But like TCM, TVLand might wind up showing "Two and a Half Men". "I Love Lucy" will always be the tops. It was the very first sitcom my parents watched in 1953 when they got their first Zenith tv set. Lol, in 1953 only 2 channels.

This what happens when TCM (including the webpage) runs *backwards*. Or maybe this bug is reflecting the channel.

Welcome to the boards. Mostly old folks like myself here. By the way you are right, 90% of the movies I've seen this year is *junk*. You're very wise for being only 13. You will do well here.

Well I might be in the minority but this shows how much I care about what TCM shows. I'm here mostly to get away from recent films, to look at the old original classics. When I was young, I didn't care about silents. Because of TCM, I now like them very much. Getting older and wiser I guess. If the rest of you want TCM to become "show anything you please" channel then go ahead. At this rate TCM will be showing "Girls Gone Wild" soon. I'm sticking to my guns.

FredCDobbs wrote: << Shirley Mills... Her first film, at the age of 12, was the independent ?no-code? film, ?Child Bride? (1938). Her nude swimming scene was somewhat scandalous, but it didn?t harm her career >> I've seen that movie and its very tame. What little nudity you see is from behind, at a DISTANCE, underwater. It would make a good film for TCM Underground. It is based on actual events. The most funny part is the school room scene. How does one expect to learn in that hillbilly dump of a school with pigeons pooping on your homework. Movie does have an happy ending. Footnote: Don't forget how young Loretta Lynn was when she married.

I also agree with you. I mean how *many* "A Christmas Carols" can be remade? It should be in the book of World Records for most remakes made! Hollywood has no imagination anymore and what is done today is crappy beyond belief. This is why I come to TCM once in a while, to look at the ORIGINAL classics - no remakes, no modern day movies. *Some people here just don't get it.* Do I have to yell it from a megaphone! Instead of remakes, how about retreiving old films from their vaults. Fortunately they have been doing so with some movies. A few will be aired this November i.e. "The Great O'Malley" with Humphrey Bogard. The *only* movie I know that DOES needs to be remade is "Its Alive" because of the very low budget the producers were stuck with, couldn't do much back then with the homicidal infant. As far as "King Kong" goes yes the original was the best, I don't like the first remake but must admit the 2nd wasn't too bad (or too good). I do like the fact the producers kept the original 1930's theme. But THAT SHOULD BE THE LAST REMAKE done of it. All these modern day remakes are enough to make one jump off the Empire State Building.