markfp2
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Holly, I was going to get it too, but held off when heard that a region 1 would be out next year, however, I'm really itching to get a good copy so after you watch it please let us know what the quality is like. Thanks.
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Set your alarm or DVR, it's on TCM again on February 7th at 7:45am.
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It's a Fox film and gets an occasional showing on the The Fox Movie Channel. Could be why TCM couldn't show it. There doesn't seem to be any logic as to what Fox will or won't lease to TCM.
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Yes sir, I'm looking forward to it. Warner Bros. had delayed them for several years because of problems of locating good film elements since somebody apparently didn't take good care of the Allied Artists film library. Hopefully, that's been resolved and they'll look terrific. TCM just premiered IT HAPPENED ON 5th AVENUE another Allied Artist film of that era and it looked great, so lets keep our fingers crossed that the "Boys" will look as good.
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> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote}
> Call me a party pooper but the idea just seems a bit too precious for me. I can think of better ways to spend my money (while spending money) like giving to a film preservation fund. (which is the only charity I can still afford to support)
I think we were just doing some broad speculation. I really can't see TCM getting involved in selling checks, the market for them is dwindling. However, I like your idea of supporting film preservation. I'd love to see TCM do some kind of tie-in with that.
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> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote} Maybe TCM could consider issued themed debit/credit cards. I'd probably enjoy having a Breakfast at Tiffany's card myself.
Now, that's something I might go for. Hmm. I wonder if Time-Warner just happens to own a bank too.
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> > {quote:title=myidolspencer wrote:}{quote} I have no idea about the logistics, but maybe they could make a deal with one of the many designer check companies.
If TCM wanted to do so, that would pretty much have to be how it was done. There are strict regulations through the Federal Reserve as to check printing. I don't think just anybody can decide to print checks and sell them.
I was just reading an article the other day about how some of the major check printers are hurting because of people aren't using paper checks any more. I do most of my bill paying online and probably write only two or three checks a month now. I've still got a couple of boxes of checks so at that rate I won't need to order any for about ten years.
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> Not to worry. Other people have made such mistakes in the past too. It happens.
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> Kyle In Hollywood
Yup, it does happen a lot. While TCM has the reputation as the channel for commercial-free, uncut movies, there are a couple of others like IFC. Come Christmas, I imagine some folks will be wondering why TCM is showing HOME ALONE seventeen times in a row when actually it's The Fox Movie Channel that's having the marathon.
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Welcome to the boards. It's TCM's policy _NEVER_ to edit films and to always request uncut versions. However, they are at the mercy of the distributors as to what they actually receive. From time-to-time, they'll be sent an edited version by mistake. Perhaps that's what happened here. It's much the same when they receive a pan & scan version instead of a letterbox. Usually, when these things happen TCM will try and get the correct version and reschedule it in a few months.
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Welcome to the boards. It would certainly be nice if somebody saved the museum, after all Roy Rogers was an icon of westerns in his day. However, just for the record, Ted Turner no longer has anything to do with TCM, he sold his company, including TCM to media conglomerate Time-Warner a number of years ago.
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She did a great job. It's obvious she's an intelligent woman with a knowledge of films who was enjoying herself. I'd like to see more of her on TCM.
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Maybe it was a test to see if anybody was paying attention.
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Welcome to the boards. I just sent you a private message, Log in, and below where it says "Welcome snowwolf53" you'll see an icon of an envelope, just click on that.
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Welcome to the boards. If you want the database, just click on TCMDb in the banner at the top of this page the when the drop down menu comes up click on DATABASE HOME. That will get you there. Have fun.
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> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote}
> Maybe they're afraid audiences today would want to see a CGI Harvey?
Today's audiences would probably want it colorized too. Afterall, "nobody" wants to see a black and white movie anymore.
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> {quote:title=fredbaetz wrote:}{quote} ...or worse yet excerpts of William Shatner's album "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" ......The Inhumanity ...
WOW! I can't imagine anybody who could be that cruel.
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SLATTERY"S HURRICANE shows up now and then on The Fox Movie Channel. In fact, they ran it just a couple of days ago. Knowing FMC, it's a good bet it will be on many times in the coming year. Still, it would be good to see it on TCM though.
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They could get me to say anything, all they'd have to do is lock me in a room with endless showings of Adam Sandler films.I'd probably blurt out a list of my 100 favorite films and a secret bootleg source for DVDs of SONG OF THE SOUTH.
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I usually have too many favorites to pick just one, but certainly one of my top favorites is William Wellman's BATTLEGROUND.
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Welcome to the boards. These kind of things happen now and then. Most likely some issue with the distributor. Be assured that TCM doesn't change schedules just to change them. There's always a good reason.
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> {quote:title=mrroberts wrote:}{quote} We always have to consider what films are available and what the terms are at any given time.
In a discussion a few months ago, the general feeling was that perhaps parent company, Time-Warner, which has been doing pretty poorly because of the bad economy, may have done some belt tightening when it came TCM's programming budget. That would explain more reruns than usual, especially in the last couple of months of the year. Still, TCM has had some great films this year and has done some very creative programming.
As for Hitchcock, I can't complain, there's a lot worse films that could be repeated.
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> {quote:title=kriegerg69 wrote:}{quote}
>That's what's so much fun about that 1986 SNL skit "It's A Wonderful Life: The Lost Ending", where Uncle Billy remembers what happened to the money, and George and the townsfolk form a lynch mob, rush over to Potter's, and beat the crap out of him. Great stuff!
Wish I had seen that one. NBC should run that after their annual showing of the movie some year. That would be a riot.
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I think one of the big problems is lack of space more than anything else. Most of the libraries around here are small and simply don't have the room to keep hundreds or sometimes thousands of tapes, especially when most of them haven't been checked out in years. That's pretty hard to justify when patrons come in and can't find books or DVDs that they want because there's no room for them. Remember, in many communities, these are the folks who vote on the library budget and if they don't feel they're getting their tax dollars spent well, they may just vote it down.
Having said all that, I do think that titles not on DVD should be kept, perhaps not every copy of WUTHERING HEIGHTS, but at least one or two. The largest library in our county does just that. When the librarian there hears another library will dump its collection, she makes it a point to "rescue" those kind of tapes.
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> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote}... but I wonder if they are really willing to follow that example with their own movies.
Hopefully, if they see that the other studios are making money and it doesn't cost them as much as a full-blown DVD release, maybe they'll see the light and give it a try. We can only hope.
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> {quote:title=MaskedMala wrote:}{quote}
> Hopefully TCM won't do with the Bowery Boys series what they've done with the Jungle Jim series, i.e. show us only a fraction of the whole series
As I recall, it was issues with the distributor and not TCM's fault. They had to pull a number of Columbia B's from the schedule because SONY couldn't provide copies in the digital format that TCM uses. The Bowery Boys series come from Warner Bros. I doubt they'll be problems.