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  1. georgiegirl wrote:

    << It was a shame Marjorie Main got the shaft. She's a fine actress. Just look at her performance in Dead End as Bogie's mother. >>

     

    I found that scene very disturbing. The way she greeted her son, calling him a *dog* and telling him just *die* is something no mother should ever do. Couldn't she asked him why did he turned out being bad - what did we do wrong or something like that.

     

    Blood is blood regardless how ones child messes up. Look at real life such as Dillinger and Bonnie Parker during that same time period. Did you ever hear their parents saying something so cruel?

    If the producer of "Dead End" thought thats the way parents would treat their "bad apple" children in real life, well actual events proved him wrong.

  2. Re: "Ma and Paw Kettle Back on the Farm"

     

    Whats Indian for "tall Indian with big nose"? ha ha

     

    I like the geiger counter in the movie but I like my pretty yellow Electro-Neutronics, Inc CD- V-700 Model 6b better. The clicks I've heard, Ma and Pa should be glowing in the dark.

  3. Sorry to hear about his passing, I grew up with him. My family always tuned to him at 6:30pm every night. The B&W image is more memorable then the later color news. I remember him talking about JFK, Apollo, Vietnam, Nixon, etc. He is probually my oldest news anchorman in memory.

     

    RIP, and......... that's the way it is, July 17, 2009.

  4. I don't know whats worst, having no end titles or having titles zipping by at 5 times normal speed. TCM is one of the FEW channels outside Pay-per-view that shows the original movie tiltles - especially the end titles. ( on later movies )

     

    Most channels shows the end titles zipping by so fast, there is no way anyone can read them unless you record them and play them back at slower speeds. Some channels even crops the titles to one side while advertizing upcoming movies.

  5. Unfortunately William Demarest was even more limited in his Vitaphone role in "The Jazz Singer". I only saw him eating with Al Jolson in Coffee Dans His name is not even on "The Players" list at the beginning credits aka uncredited. ha, according to Imdb as Steve Martin.

  6. TCM thanks for showing the Vitaphone film "The First Auto" 1927, for Silent Sunday Nights. The movie was funny, witty and entertaining. This is my first time viewing it. If I knew it was one of the Warner Brothers Vitaphone movies at first, I wuold have recorded it. I'll have to wait for a rerun.

     

    One character stood out, was the guy with the cigar, whats his story? Who goes around with a hot water bottle down his pants? LOL!

     

    The race car driven by Barney Oldfield was neat, the engine was cool in that it used water pipes in its plumbing. I have seen an engine similiar to that one. My local fire department has a fully functional antique fire truck (display only), circa the early 1920's and the sound is identical to the race car but one would have to hear it for real to get the feel of it. It makes a very deep loud bass like sound that really hits you. Its hard to describe unless one hears one for real.

     

    The only thing I didn't like in the movie was the "engine fire" in the race car driven by Bob Armstrong. My goodness did a 5 year old did that animation, lol.

     

    There are some misleading facts in the movie such as there was no one inventer of the horseless carraige. The car has been an ongoing evolving piece of technology that has many people contributing to its developement. People such as Benz, Olds, etc.

     

    Another thing is that people just didn't rush out to buy the car made between 1895 to the early 20th Century. They had to be hand crafted and were *very expensive*. Only the wealthy could have afford them. Henry Ford with his production line assembly of the Model T made the car affordable for most people. People were using horses up to the mid 20th Century, mostly in isolated areas of the country. Many even in the cities during the 20's.

     

    The Amish are to only major "hangers on" of the horse and buggy. Have to admit they don't have to worry about the cost of gas.

     

    I heard Robert Osborne mentioned that actor Charles Emmett Mack was killed in an auto accident that occurred while he was on his way for shooting of a car chase for this film.

    How ironic.

     

    Any comments on the film?

  7. 3 movies. "Moonraker" (1979) when Drax seem to be at a lost of words when he encountered James Bond in space. He just sort of rambled. I always thought he was the first villian to be wrote off because he ran out of things to say, ha.

     

    "Notting Hill" (1999) when Julia Roberts said ''I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her". Need to date more I guess.

     

    Did John Travolta's entire dialogue help to sink "Battlefield Earth"? (besides ape-humans learning to fly jump jets in 1 day - stupid!)

  8. Well I am speechless. This has to be the most tasteless disrespectful thing I have ever seen. Having a picnic at a cemetery?? Must be one of those "only in California" event.

     

    Does this suppose to convey a message that the Addams Family and the Munsters are *normal?*

     

    Where are the ghouls from the Living Dead when you *need them?* (let them have a picnic if you get my meaning!)

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