Big_Bopper
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"And if you are watching the Encore western channel to see 'Gunsmoke,' then it sure beats TVLand. There is no advertising whatsoever when the old western TV shows are screened. "
I have been watching Have Gun Will Travel at 630pm & am - It was a favorite of mine as a kid. Richard Boone is great. I just wish Encore showed older movies. I'm stuck with Encore cuz its attached to the TCM tier.
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its exploitation. hollywood had layabouts under 7 year contracts & had to make work for them. so these biopics are an excuse to use actors since they're paying them.
speaking of gripes,
what gets me is how many movies were destroyed by projectionists cutting stuff like the black footage between scenes. they ruined so many movies its uncountable. another problem, studios can't keep their little scissors under control - constantly trimming pix & throwing the footage away! Like Public Enemy is missing 10 minutes etc. Just about every movie is missing 10 min. or more. Its a freakin miracle if a movie shows up intact - its because it was preserved in england out of the hands of the studios.
here they show a print of THE STRANGER cut to 91 min. all the cuts are between dialog. ruining a beautiful 35mm print. same with the INVISIBLE MAN. the cost of restoring $$billions for no good reason mind you but its pitiful how narrow minded people of so called responsibility. MGM destroyed GREED & NAPOLEON & were partners with Paramount in cutting METROPOLIS. now that's a legacy.
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Since somebody brought up the subject TCM showed 2 blacklist pix Nazi Agent & 13 Women. There are so many. Did I say I was in favor of TCM showing them?
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TCM offered a night of his flix including Gun Crazy, Desperate Search, Cry of the Hunted, My Name is Julia Ross & So Dark The Night. I am appreciative of TCM efforts to showcase Joseph H. Lewis. He did a couple more interesting movies; One in particular The Undercover Man (Columbia 1949) is rarely seen (I taped it off TNT in the 90's) due perhaps to a name in the credits Robert Rossen. The Undercover Man has two of my favorite actors, Barry Kelley & Robert Osterloh.
the other Lewis pic is Mad Doctor of Market Street which he made for Universal.
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I was looking forward to that movie. when was it scheduled? they also cancelled BEFORE I HANG a great movie.??? how dumb can you be?
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I think she is trying to attract attention to the festival. as for how important it really is we will know for sure when we see it.
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Kevin Brownlow cannot get enough rewards for all he has done for movies & fans. Maybe Hollywood should hire him to do more great things.
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disclaimer
none of that was my opinion, my statement or my judgment.
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everybody makes statements, opinions, judgments every time they post. hollywood never even admitted there was a blacklist. i make statements, opinions, judgments yeah I do all that bad stuff you don't lke. oops I just saw somebody post so go bother them. they are bad too.
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S.F. Silent Film Festival: Uncut 'Metropolis'
G. Allen Johnson
Thursday, July 15, 2010
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Brigitte Helm plays the robot in the science fiction film "Metropolis." The 45 minutes lost after distributors cut it in 1927 have been found.
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"This is the most important find in cinema history," said Anita Monga, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival's artistic director - and she's not exaggerating.
In 2008, a 16mm print of the complete, 150-minute version of "Metropolis" - unseen since distributors cut Fritz Lang's science fiction classic by about 45 minutes shortly after its 1927 premiere - was unearthed in a cinema archive in Buenos Aires. That spurred more than a year of restoration efforts.
On Friday night at the Castro Theatre, the complete "Metropolis" will play in San Francisco, surely one of the biggest nights in the 15 years of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
"Until they find the missing 'Greed' footage," said Monga, referring to Erich von Stroheim's 1925 classic that was shorn of some six of its eight hours, "it is the find of the century."
The festival begins on a Thursday night for the first time. Tonight's opener is John Ford's first great Western, "The Iron Horse" (1924), an epic account of the building of the transcontinental railroad made when Ford's future star John Wayne was a high school lad yet to break into movies.
Sunday's closing-night film is "L'heureuse mort" ("Happy Death"), a comedy about an unsuccessful playwright who is swept overboard during a sea voyage and is presumed dead. When he turns up alive months later, he finds his work has been re-evaluated and he's now considered France's greatest dramatist.
"My top two picks of the festival are 'Rotaie' and 'L'heureuse mort,' " Monga said. "They're really revelations, and they're never seen. They're total discoveries for us."
"Rotaie," showing right before "Metropolis" on Friday night, is a moving Italian film about a poor couple who find some money and go on a spending spree, then get taken in by a con artist, a film Monga compares to F.W. Murnau's classic "Sunrise."
Other highlights: Film critic Leonard Maltin interviewing the children of director William Wyler after a screening of their father's boxing drama "The Shakedown" (noon Sunday); Pete Docter (director of Pixar's "Up") introducing a selection of short comedy films (10 a.m. Saturday) and a lifetime achievement award to silent film historian Kevin Brownlow (4 p.m. Saturday, with a screening of Frank Capra's 1926 slapstick comedy "The Strong Man").
The crown jewel, of course, is "Metropolis," which will be accompanied by a rousing score performed by the Alloy Orchestra and, as special guests from Argentina, the pair who found the lost footage - Paula F?lix-Didier and Fernando Pe?a, who certainly have earned their footnote in cinema history.
Through Sunday. Check website for showtimes. Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., S.F. (415) 621-6120. www.castrotheatre.com.
- G. Allen Johnson, ajohnson@sfchronicle.com.
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the board is to discuss things. thats what I'm doing. We need to define a blacklist movie. its a movie with the name of a blacklisted person in the credits. as such GUN CRAZY does not count officially because the credits have not been corrected. in order for TCM to show a blacklist movie, the name on the credits has to go thru the tv screen. So when somebody says CHINA'S LITTLE DEVILS is for sale, It only reinforces my story since the name did not go thru the tv screen. thats my whole point. only pre blacklist movies count because the real names are on there. & So far I have yet to see corrected credits altho they say they are correcting them. So really there is no use argueing or making personal attacks. tcm chooses not to show them. they have their reasons.
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for somebody like you there is no way of proving anything so its not worth bothering to try. lets just say I said something & you didn't disagree you just didn't like what I said . fine
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I am not an expert on the blacklist - far from it - altho I am interested. Did it say "Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo" on the credits of GUN CRAZY? Just wondering cuz my previous post says they were going to give credit.
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I could be wrong but isnt this a debut on tcm of GUN CRAZY? What I meant to say & its my fault if I have been misunderstood, is that given a choice its easier to not show a blacklisted movie than it is to show it. TRY AND GET ME is a blacklisted movie. I dont think it has ever been on tv. Another rare movie WHIPLASH is a blacklisted movie. I taped it off amc in the 90's.
I understand that you want to prove me wrong & TCM does show them. Its just they are very much aware of it & do so as little as possible.
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There is a great train movie called TRAIN OF EVENTS which was made by michael balcon at ealing. it is a sort of DEAD OF NIGHT but on a train. 4 stories converge within each other. Stars Peter Finch (debut) & Mary Morris in one story. The problem is it was cut for US release to 69 min. & the original is 87min. so you will have a tuff time finding it.
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in order to reply, I hit reply & it sends me to forum home. then I must hit 2 more times before I can reply!
the thing about silent movies that always gets me is how much they were representative of the countries they were from. movies were truly free then & as we know now sound caused movies to be more narrow minded. I tend to go along with Kevin Brownlow's choices & productions as my favorites.
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I look forward to Silent Sunday since these old pix are like a whole new language. I have an interest in Russian silents since they brought a different political awareness to their pix.
AELITA
GENERAL LINE
STRIKE
OCTOBER
MOTHER
STORM OVER ASIA
BED AND SOFA
EARTH
and one I got from moma
FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE
in this movie a soldier gets blown up & is in a coma & when he wakes up the revolution has taken place. I'd like to see new silent versions on TCM (ussr reissued them with sound messing them up so they had to restore them all to original silent versions.
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here is another blacklisted movie i taped off TCM
The Boss 1956
News:
Blacklisted Writers To Get Credits -- Most Of Them, Posthumously
4 August 2000 | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news ?
The Writers Guild of America has corrected the screen credits of 14 additional films to indicate that they were actually written or co-written by writers who were blacklisted in the 1950s and early '60s. Half of the lot were written by Dalton Trumbo, who died in 1976. Among the films was the 1956 film The Boss credited to writer Ben Perry, who frequently fronted for Trumbo. Another film appearing on Thursday's list, Terror in a Texas Town (1958), was originally written by two other blacklisted writers, John Howard Lawson and Mitch Lindemann, but rewritten by Trumbo when the producer, Walter Seltzer, rejected the initial script. Other writers who will receive credit for films produced during the blacklist era include Carl Foreman, Bernard Gordon, Paul Jarrico, Ring Lardner Jr., Hugo Butler, Cyril Endfeld and Ben Barzman. Only Lardner and Gordon are still alive. ?
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thought I'd tell you TCM is showing a blacklist movie sept. 20 The Prowler with 3 people blacklisted
losey, butler & trumbo
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be nice if they showed some of these pics thruout the year. not just for halloween.
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Sure I make mistakes because my print of Blockade is missing the very beginning... nobodys perfect but my original title China's Little Devils is blacklisted since warners own it & it ain't been on... hmmm
Here's a couple more
The Master Race - RKO by Herbert Biberman- stars George Couloris & Lloyd Bridges
I recorded it off AMC & if it has been on TCM I am unaware of it
House Of Seven Gables - Universal by Lester Cole - stars Vincent Price & George Sanders
Lets not forget Among the Living - a great example of the writing of Lester Cole.
what I have been trying to say is given a choice its easier to not show blacklisted movies because of the controversy surrounding them. you can look long and hard to find blacklisted pics on tcm skeds. yet you'll see the same romantic dreck over & over. TCM leans towards the post 1948 period when these people were out of work . you can believe what you want to but I know better.
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"I think we?re getting about half a channel now. 1/2 is modern color wide-screen films for young people, and 1/2 is black and white classics for the old folks."
yes I have been trying to say this in my way how TCM has watered itself down to a big bore. the situation of having only one channel & then having that channel fail to realize its potential - it hurts bad because we use tcm in our minds to free our minds.
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i have another blacklisted movie: "Blockade" 1938 by john howard lawson. I taped it off a local channel in the 80's. it stars Henry Fonda & Madelaine Carroll. its a paramount picture so its owned by universal. not a great pic but an example of john howard lawson as a writer.
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for me to post on this forum - its heaven & i appreciate each & every one of your replies. whether you agree with me that's another story. I have not had access to TCM in the last year. I was not able to afford it. bear with me.
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The situation lies with the studios. They have all these old movies and as people get old the movies become obsolete. They are trying to drain every buck out of them but the clock is ticking. Young people have no interest in this stuff. There is nothing for old people! the radio does not play 60's music. Other than TCM old people are forgotten. its a crime.