markfp2
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Thanks for sharing this. I was not aware of it. Yak was certainly on of the greatest stuntmen and I for one will be getting this one.
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I've never looked at the French schedule, but I doubt that it would be exactly the same. The MGM, Warner, and RKO titles that they own might be run, but any films that they lease from other studios like Columbia or Paramount would only give them the rights to show them in the U.S. Not to say that they couldn't try and get them from the European distributors but it doesn't mean they could get them. That said, TCM may run some great films in France that they can't show here.
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Ah, one of my favorites. The film is in the public domain so there are several versions of it floating around for $5.00 or so. However, stay away from those, the quality is awful. There is, however, a beautiful restored version available on the Anchor Bay label which is the best you'll find. It's more expensive, but well worth the price. It's available from most any on-line retailer and I'm pretty sure you can get it through TCM's shopping link.
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Excellent post and I agree with you 100%. The problem with today's films is that most of them are aimed at the teenage/young adult audience who like their films fast, loud, full of action and bloody. It also helps if they don't have to think.
No offense to those in that age group who spend their time watching classics on TCM. You are all very bright and stand well above your peers. In the long run, you'll get far more pleasure from films the the others will.
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TCM has played it before. I can't remember when, but I'm pretty sure it was in the last year or so.That means that there's a chance they will run it again. It's also available on DVD. In fact, I just bought it yesterday. A chain of media stores was going out of business and it was one of several that were on my "gotta get someday" list that I picked up for 50% off. Beautiful copy well worth buying even at full price.
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Interesting thing about the "real time" aspect of "High Noon". The story goes that when the film was first previewed the audience thought it was too slow. Film editor Elmo Williams came up with the idea of showing the clock ticking down the time to the arrival of the outlaws. It just added a sense of urgency to the story and the rest is history. Amazing what a little idea can do.
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I think there are two basic issues why no one has restored "A Walk in the Sun".
First, as I said in my other post, it's very possible that the original elements needed to do a restoration no longer exists. A reasonably good DVD could be made if somebody came up with a really nice original 35mm print, but it doesn't appear that there is one available. I've seen many public domain versions and they all seem to have been mastered from the same old 16mm print which is in very poor shape.
Secondly, even if the elements do exist in some archive there is the cost factor. It can cost a million or more to do a major restoration. The major film archives like the George Eastman House, UCLA, MoMA and others both here and abroad do a terrific job in restoring films, but they only have the resources to restore a tiny portion of their holdings. The best they can do with the others is try to preserve them and keep them from deteriorating any more than they have.
I don't know if it's been done, but since Fox was the original distributor they should do a major search of their vaults to see if they have anything on it. Then perhaps somebody would be interested in restoring it.
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This is very common if you watch for it. I've seen films with three or four different logos on them. The original producers sell the rights to one company who in turn merges with another and that one gets bought out by another who ends up selling their entire film libary to still another, etc., etc. That's show biz folks.
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Paramount had annouced that they would be releasing it on DVD last fall, but it never came out. I understand that it may be out some time this year. While I understand that sometimes there are delays in restoring films, I wish studios wouldn't announce release dates until they are sure the film will be ready.
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"A Walk in the Sun", which is a fine movie, has unfortunately fallen into "public domain" which means it's no longer copyrighted and anyone with a beat up 16mm print or a vhs tape can make and sell copies of it. While it was released by 20th Century-Fox, it was actually produced by director Lewis Milestone's independent company and Fox only distributed it. That probably explains why the copyright was allowed to lapse as the major studios are usually careful about that with the films that they own.
Since the company that produced is long out of business, it's very possible that the original negative and prints, needed for a restoration, no longer exist. This is really sad, not only for "A Walk in the Sun", but for the many other great films that have fallen into "PD limbo". No doubt TCM would be glad to run it if they could get a good copy to show.
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The 1955 Italian film "Miracle of Marcelino" is available in a restored version on DVD. You can order it through the shopping link right here at the TCM website (just go to the home page and click on "shopping" at the top of the page) or most other on-line retailers have it or can get it. It is the English dubbed version and not the Italian language version which as far as I know was never released here. I know the older VHS version was also dubbed. Thinking of this film has brought back memories for me.I went to a catholic school and remember all of us being marched down the street to the theatre to see this film.
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I'm pretty sure it was released on VHS at one time many years ago, but is no longer available. I can't even remember the company that put it out. You might try e-bay.
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Welcome, Barney. I think it's "Imitation of Life" too. However, Personally, I like the original 1934 version with Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers better. Universal has a double feature DVD with both versions on it so you can decide for yourself. You can get it from most of the on-line dealers for about $15.
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I'm pretty sure TCM are still running DVS encoded movies. I saw one running in the;last night or two. I think it's just another "bug" that needs to be worked out on their webste.
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Welcome! I see that this was your first post so I'll assume you are new to TCM. "Fort Apache" is shown fairly often on TCM along with other John Ford westerns. It use to be shown on AMC before they "made their pact with the devil" and went commercial and started running newer films.
Sadly, except for TCM , The Fox Movie Channel (which only shows Fox films) and Encore's Westerns Channel there doesn't seem to be much interest in showing older films. It use to be that packages of older movies were always being shown on local stations, but over the last decade or so stations are opting for more recent films instead. All I can say is thank goodness for TCM and DVDs.
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Fair enough. you just had me curious that's all. It's obvious that all of us on these boards have our own likes and dislikes and that's one of things that makes classic film lovers great, nobody judges anyone's tastes. Continue to enjoy what makes you happy.
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Everyone here is entitled to watch and enjoy whatever they want and I'm in no way finding fault with your pleasures, but it begs for me to ask the question. How is it you can draw line and not watch anything newer than 1949? Don't you think you're missing a great many wonderful films? While it can be argued that the '30s and '40s were, indeed, Hollywood's "golden age" there have been terrific films made in every decade since, perhaps not in such great numbers, that are certainly of the caliber of those in the "golden age". This seems to be like current thinking of many teenagers or young adults who say they won't watch anything older than 2000.
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Alan: TCM doesn't get all the $4.95 you pay, your cable company does. From what I understand, TCM would be lucky if they got fifty cents out of it. If your cable is telling you that it all goes to TCM your're being lied to. Things like this is why I dropped cable and went to satellite.
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"It Happened One Christmas" was a made-for-tv movie so it's highly unlikely that it would turn up on TCM. I believe it was on a few years ago on either The Hallmark Channel (I think they were called something else back then) or The Family Channel. Both channels use to run a lot of holiday tv films. Perhaps, one of them still has the rights to it, but just hasn't been showing it. That does happen a lot.
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Betty Hutton? That does surprise me. It sounds to me that since Hutton was a popular star under contract to Paramount, at the time, they wanted to put in for added boxoffice value. I'm sure DeMille put the brakes on that idea really fast. As to why it's not out on DVD, I guess we'd have to ask Paramount. While they do release classics at a pretty good rate now, they still have a quite a good backlog in the vaults. They're about to release "The Ten Commandments" for the THIRD time, but they're sitting on a lot of great films that have never been released on DVD. Gimme a break. As for S&D perhaps, it's in poor condition and needs restoration which takes time and money.
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Go to the very bottom of this page and click on "now playing guide" and that will explain it all to you.
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Well, it depends what horror films TCM has the rights to at that time, but whatever they do, I don't think you'll be disappointed.
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Having seen "The Quiet Man" numerous times, including an orginal 35mm Technicolor print, I can assure you that Sean never actually strikes Mary Kate with the stick. A few years ago while visiting Ireland and while in the small village of Cong, where much of the movie was filmed, I bought Des MacHale's book "The Complete Guide to The Quiet Man" which is a definative work on the subject. In regards to the so called "dragging scene" I'll quote from the book:
"And now we come to what is perhaps the most famous and best line in 'The Quiet Man' spoken by May Craig, just as a mother-in-law would chastise her errant daughter-in-law. As she hands Sean the two-pronged stick she picked up she shouts 'Mister, Mister, oh, sir, sir, here's a good stick to beat the lovely lady'. Mary Kate gasps at this. but the way Sean says 'Thanks' as he takes the stick is meant to convey to the onlookers that this time he might very well use it." The key here was that he only wanted the crowd to think that he might use it.
Interestingly MacHale also points out that this scene was not in the original screenplay written by Frank S. Nugent, but was later added to the film by John Ford.
If anyone is looking for a terrific and detailed book about the making of "The Quiet Man", this is available in the U.S. and is well worth getting.
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movieman is correct. The scene with Wayne spanking O'Hara is from McLintock not The Quiet Man. If fact is a was a central part of the artwork for some of the ads for the film.
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Welcome to the board! It's been discussed here before that just because TCM is owned by Time-Warner, which also owns Warner Bros., they don't automatically get to show any Warner film. TCM's library consist of all the Warner films made prior to 1948. Ted Turner bought them outright from Warners in the 1980s. Warner owns everything from 1948 on. If TCM wants to run a Warners film that they don't have in their own library, they have to lease it from Warners just like any other channel would. In some cases, the rights are not available because Warners has leased the films to another channel. I know it sounds strange that one division has to pay another division to show a film, but that's how it works.