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Since you're new here, you mostly likely haven't seen other posts about this topic. In a nutshell, TCM says that they don't schedule shorts until a couple of days before they air so it's too late to add them to the printed schedule. They say they have to wait until the last minute because they don't know how much time they need to fill until then. While I do understand that reason, some of us have suggested that a shorts listing be added to the online schedule as soon as they schedule them. However, that hasn't happened.

I guess you could say my answer is a definate maybe-not. "Let's Be Happy" was produced by Marcel Hoffman Productions, an independent producer. That means that Allied Artists only had the distribution rights to it. In most of these deals, the rights were for an agreed upon number of years and then reverted back to the producer, or if he passed away, his estate. In some cases, the studio, usually a larger one, might renew the arrangement or buy out the producer completely, but I doubt that a small company like AA, who wasn't in the best of financial shape, would have bothered. So what I'm telling you is I doubt that the film was included in the sale to Warner Bros. From what I've read, Warners aquired the AA films when they bought Lorimar Pictures, which had previously bought the AA film library, to gain some of the bigger titles like "Cabaret" and classics like "The Bowery Boys" series. Even if they have "Let's Be Happy" they've shown little if any interest in releasing most of the AA catalog.

Mine always arrives by the middle of the prior month, so I'm guessing that since your copy is about two weeks late it's a victim of the mail eating monster that lives in the basement of the post office. I've never had an issue not arrive so I don't know for sure, but I would imagine that if you call the 1-800-TCM-1002 number for "Now Playing" they'd give you a credit for the missing issue. Of course, you can always click on "schedule" at the top of this page and print out the schedule for this month and the next two. It's not as nice as the magazine, but at least you can see what's coming up.

That was Richard Beymer who's best known for his role as "Tony" in West Side Story".

The outtake you mention is from one of the "blooper" reels I was talking about. It was from Warner Bros. and I believe it's one of only a couple that survive. If TCM had more outtakes in the vault I'm sure they'd dig 'em out. It certainly would make an interesting special to do an hour of outtakes.

I believe you're thinking of the 1965 Warner Bros. film "Two on a Guillotine" which starred Connie Stevens, Dean Jones and Cesar Romero. I don't know if TCM has ever shown it, but I seem to recall somebody had it on within the last few years. Might have been AMC before they went over to the dark side.

While today, studios keep just about every frame of film that a director shot so that they can be used as "extras" on DVDs, back then there wasn't much use for outakes and most of them were destroyed when it was clear they would never be needed. There are some exceptions. Many of the studios use to put together "blooper" reels to show at the studio Christmas party and some of the major directors who had the clout may have kept theirs, but I think in general its safe to say most outtakes are gone. Hell, if the studio chiefs were willing to melt down all their silent films just to recover the silver from the film stock and to save on storage, I can't imagine they thought twice about doing the same with outtakes which, at the time, had no commercial value .It's really a shame.

Butterflies, you really had me courious so I looked at that part of the movie and I agree with you that it's him. Must have been one of his first roles. Well, everyone has to start someplace.

Wow! You do like to make things complicated, but welcome to the forum anyway. Once First National became part of Warner Bros. it no longer existed as a distributor or a production company so Warner Bros. would be correct. Vitaphone was the company that made the sound equipment that Warners used to make the early talkies and since they didn't produce the films, again Warner Bros. would be correct. It would be the same thing with CinemaScope which was just the name of the process a film was shot in. So, for example, Fox's "The Robe" would be filed under 20th Century-Fox and not CinemaScope. Yes, 20th Century and Fox merged to become 20th Century-Fox so it's just like the Warner deal. You'll find another instance like this with Universal. They bought out International Pictures and thus became Universal-International. U-I continued that way for many years and I believe it was the late 1960s or early 1970s that they went back to just calling themselves Universal. Well, if you really want organize you're collection in this way, more power to you. As for me I go strictly by title in alphabetical order. Have fun.

Pardon me for asking, but who the hell is Rob Zombie?

The more I think about it,I seem to think that it had to be something like five or six lines to get a credit so that would explain it.

Sounds like you're talking about the 1937 Paramount film "Make Way For Tomorrow" which was directed by Leo McCarey. The thing is Edward G. Robinson wasn't in it. It starred Victor Moore and Beuhla Bondi as the old couple and Thomas Mitchell played their son. This terrific, but little-shown, film never has been released on VHS or DVD null

I checked a couple of other databases and I couldn't find him listed either. Of course, that doesn't mean he wasn't in the film. Unlike today, when just about everyone in the cast or crew who can breath gets on-screen credit, I believe back then the Screen Actors Guild didn't require a credit unless the actor had a certain number of lines. I can't recall how many it was.

TCM ran "Topper" within the last two or three months I know because I recorded it. Hopefully, they'll run it again.

Who says that big business has to make sense? I know it sounds strange, but it's true. When Turner owned TCM he had total control over everything, but with him selling out to Time-Warner, TCM has become just another part of a large conglomerate and it has to run by the wishes of corporate management. The other thing people don't understand is why TCM isn't able to dip into the entire Warner Bros. library, at will, and run any film the company has. It's too complicated to explain, but just doesn't work that way.

Hi Country, welcome to the forum. It sounds like you're thinking of the 1967 British film "The Trap" which was shot in Canada and starred Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham. I haven't seen this film since the 1970s. I would love to see it again, myself, as I recalled enjoying it a great deal. Although, it's listed in Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide as having been released on VHS, I suspect that was a long time ago and is most likely out of print. I'm pretty sure it has never been released on DVD, at least under that title, in the United States. I did see a used VHS copy of it listed on Amazon for $50 if you want to see it bad enough. It's sad that a lot of good films made and released by foreign or independent companies just seem to vanish.

I think it's fair to say that most films in the TCM library, that is the ones they own outright, will someday be rerun, but those they lease from other studios are a different story. Most of those deals are for a set number of showings over a specific length of time, be it just a couple of showings over a month or two or dozens over a few years. So it's really hard to tell about a specific film. Sometimes, for whatever reason, while they may still have the rights to a film, they may "rest" it for a while before showing it again. One tip be sure to check the schedules for late night and early mornings, as a lot of films are rerun at odd hours.

Welcome to the forum. There is no such think as a stupid question. Anyway, I have no answer for you, in fact I never knew TCM was available in Eastern European countries. Oh well, if this is indeed fact, I learned something new today.

Fred is correct. I've never understood why DVD players never had regular "RF" connections to begin with. I imagine there are many folks who have avoided DVDs just for that reason. Of course maybe the whole idea was to get people to buy new TVs. I've seen a few players that do have the connection, but I don't remember what brands. You might check with the larger electronic stores. With major brands selling for as little as 50 bucks or so, even with an extra 20 it's still a bargain. By the way, players have become much simplier to use since 1989.

Joanie, welcome to the forum. I don't know, myself, but here's a couple of websites you can checkout: thedigitalbits.com Lots of news about new releases dvdpricesearch.com Great place to compare prices and you can search titles to see when they might be coming out. You might also try clicking on "shopping" at the top of this page which links you to one of the biggest movie retailers in the county. You can do searches there too. Good luck.

Fred, you've got a interesting point, but like all channels TCM follows the "broadcast day" ,which usually starts at 6am, so anything before that is considered the day before. I guess it started back in the pre-24-hour a day cable days, when all tv stations use to sign off at midnight or 1am and went dark until they signed on again in the morning.Maybe even before that in the early days or radio. If just a few channels switched, I think it would be very confusing for the viewer who watches more than one channel or is trying to record different channels. For it to really work, all of them would have to do it.

I've been there so I know how frustrating it can be. However, you said you got the time from you cable system's tv magazine. That might be your problem. Many times the information sent by TCM is entered wrong by the magazine or newspaper so it's not TCM's fault. More often than not, people who enter the data don't know anything about about films. They may see a running time of, say, 118 minutes and enter it as two hours not realizing that with the intro and all, it will run longer than that. I'm not saying TCM never makes a mistake, but they've made a real effort about being more accurate. Your best bet is to either subscribe to "NOW PLAYING" TCM's" monthly program guide (unless you live in Canada, where it's not available yet)) or check out the online schedule which is the most up to date schedule available. If there are any corrections or last minute changes they will show there. In addition, if any of us find an error, drop TCM a e-mail (don't just mention it here) as I recently did. They really want to hear about these things. markfp2

I love foreign fims in general, but I'm not afaid to say that there are some I don't like. Try as I may, I've never been able to understand Fellini. My suggestion is to go to the local library and check out some books on foreign films and directors then just experiment by watching different kinds of films from various countries. Soon you'll start to get a feeling of what you like and don't.

If yo're looking for actual reviews of "classic" film written at the time of release, try boxoffice,com which is the websight for the theatrical trade magazine "Boxoffice". This is the magazine that just about every theatre manager in the country subscribes too. While you can't get reviews of every film reviewed in their 80+ years of publishing, they do have a selection of a couple of hundred that are very interesting.

"Sunday in New York" shows up on TCM's schedule at least a couple of times a year and I'm pretty sure, they've shown "Any Wednesday" before too. Keep an eye on the schedule.