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<< Tender Comrade (1943) 11:15am ET Lady welders pool their resources to share a house during World War II. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Patricia Collinge Dir: Edward Dmytryk BW-102 mins, TV-PG >> I'm trying to absorb the thought of Ginger Rogers welding a battleship. If she was at today's point in time, I bet she would have a role in "Junkyard Wars".

Happy Labor Day to you too and to everyone else on the board. Relaxing and BBQing outside is exactly what I am going to do. An entire 3 days of perfect weather !

Lol, is "Fritz the Cat" *really* porn? If anyone gets turned on by watching it then that tells me that person needs a date *bad!*

Too bad this Clint Eastwood classic wasn't made in 3D.

Most of the best feature length cartoons are made by Disney with Don Bluth following close behind. They hold the rights to their movies. As far as the rest, I guess because there are several cartoon channels on, they handle mostly the odds and ends. There are many forgotton cartoon shorts made during the 1920's to the 1940's and TCM should show them more often. There is Betty Boop, Little Lulu by Marge, Gabby, Flip the Frog and films made by Famous Studios during the 1940's to 1950's. I have a unique cartoon short which is mostly an educational film "Finding His Voice" 1929. It shows in a nice way how sound on films are created. The works of Ub Iwerks and Max Fleischer goes mostly unappreciated today. I remembered that PBS showed a lot of Betty Boop shorts during the early 1980's.

Lol, look what I found. This person on this trivia site is asking exactly the same question word for word - number 6 on the list. http://backyardtheater.com/forums/index.php?action=printpage;topic=4380.0

Here's looking at you kid.

That will be a rare treat for Marilyn Monroe fans. Let me give this thread a different twist, how about seeing a new movie intended for theatres on Pay-per-view *before* the initial release. I'm referring to "The Burning Plain" Sneak Preview which is offered at present on Directv Cinema. Question is why would anyone want to buy the more expensive tickets after seeing it? Plot: Multiple storylines of forbidden love and tragic loss link five characters in this dark romantic mystery. *Is this the future, see movies at home before its released to theatres?? News to me! * Message was edited by: hamradio

Hudson Hawk wrote: << They could even re-paint the water tower to read "Windmill Bros." >> That can work

Is that good or bad.....? Quote from Lev Andropov, Russian Cosmonaut (Peter Stormare) in Armageddon.

Hudson Hawk wrote: << That change-over resulted in the various studios having to construct their own electrical power substations, as the local utilities couldn't supply power in the amounts, and amperages, that all that arc lighting required. Even though stage illumination is a lot cooler and more efficient than it was back in those days, those substations endure and can still be seen on the studios' lots.>> Wasn't that *expensive?* I keep wondering about the present day windmill power generators and said to myself, couldn't this have been done back then? Its one of those simple ideas that stares you straight in the face and one could say, "why didn't we thought of that before?". After all the Dutch have been using windmills for centuries. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is one great example, the image below: On a hilltop in Rutland, Vermont, "Grandpa's Knob" wind generator supplied power to the local grid for several months during World War II. The Smith- Putnam machine was rated at 1.25 megawatts in winds of about 30 miles per hour. It was removed from service in 1945. *Smart IDEA !!*

I like this "Excalibur" better.

OJ in the "Naked Gun" movies shows that fiction does not always comes true We could only had hoped.

This question refers to the MGM Studios ca. 1930 photo Kyle first submitted. The 2 buildings near the center, what is the purpose and the reason for the "barrel vaulted" design? I've only have seen this roof design on some film studio buildings. I hate to be the roofer to plug any leaks on it.

My theatre only had 1 theatre policy trailer and it was the BIC lighter *No Smoking* ad. It was used during the 1980's but it was slightly different. The voices was nicer and the music was much better and louder. There was one also that said *Feature Presentation*. The girl lighter on the left said "you don't love me any more" on the *Feature Presentation.* Anyone remembered those?

If they do, I hope Don Knotts becomes a poltergeist and haunt that studio forever lasting!

I can see why you find it funny, "Saving Private Ryan" is not even on the "AFI's 100 Years, 100 Movies" list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI's_100_Years%E2%80%A6100_Movies (you will have to type the last part of the link in manually in the Address bar - I hate this internet bug) "Schindler's List" is number 9 "The Bridge on the River Kwai" is 13 "Apocalypse Now" is 28 "All Quiet on the Western Front" is 54 (Does "MASH" count, which is 56?) "Platoon" is 83 "Patton" is 89 This doesn't even make *10 !* There are several type of lists. aren't they a matter of opinion anyway?

I think he should take a crack at writing Hollywood scripts, much *better* ideas may be presented.

*Perfect timing!* I've just seen the commercial for "Halloween II". Is that a remake for the last remake or is that a remake for "Halloween II"? (or whatever) Message was edited by: hamradio

...fire torpedo number 2 !!

Yep, that was my point. After all that is you and me firing a nuclear tipped torpedo from the *USN Enough Aready*

My opinion for the remake.....

You know that is strange, MGM's main website only supports a newsletter. http://www.mgm.com/ The only discussion forum is the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/las-vegas/736664-mgm.html Maybe its more important nowadays. Go figure. Welcome to the forum, you can feel free to discuss MGM's classic movies here. Here is a nice DVD set called "MGM Best Picture Gift Set" http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7484452