rohanaka
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OH Ms Favell..... THANK YOU so much for that wonderful article on my most favortie movie of all time. What a nice tribute to The Quiet Man, and to John Ford, as a director as well. I love how the author shows how some of the very things that critcs find to "bash" about the film are the same things that others find so endearing. What some see as a weakness or a detraction to the story, others find to be an entertaining and appealing aspect of the film. To each his own, ha.
I have loved The Quiet Man since the very first time I ever saw it. (Which was later in life than you might think.. ha. I was in my mid twenties!! But that was STILL a long, long time ago.)
Way back in the very early 80's I went to the theaters to see ET, and I saw the clip of TQM that is played in that movie. (where Mary Kate is caught hiding in the cottage (because she had come there to clean it up) and Sean grabs her and kisses her... and then she slaps him a good one before kissing him back, ha) I had NO idea what film it was and it bugged me everytime I saw ET (ha.. which was at least 3 or 4 more times) because I have always enjoyed the Duke (AND Ms O'Hara too) And keep in mind that this was way back before I could just go home and google it on the internet ,etc) And I guess back then I was too lazy (or too busy.... whatever you want to call it, ha) to go to the LIBRARY and look it up the old FASHIONED way,ha.
So it was maybe another five or six years later when I happened to catch TQM on either TBS or maybe AMC on St Pat's Day.... and when it got to that part of the movie.. and John Wayne lets out that yell before she screams.. ha. I sat up in my chair and yelled back, "FINALLY!!!" ha.
And I was a true fan, ever since.
Thanks again for your post. (OH.. and also for the GORGEOUS pics from HGWMV... that first one.. breathtaking)
PS: Miss G posted this youtube a while back, and I have held onto it ever since... TOO funny... I STILL say I want to go to a a party JUST like this!!! ha.
Edited by: rohanaka on Mar 10, 2010 12:53 PM
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I will look forward to it, little lady!! :-) It may be a few days (maybe even next week) before I can get to it.. but now that I have FOUND it..ha. I really do want to see it soon. I 'll check back in when I am able to at least START watching it.
(ha. PS.. Jackie.. I see we posted at the same time earlier..ha.. how many times has THAT happened??? ha) Thanks for the offer, though. If I had not found it, I'd have been in need of your secretarial services for sure. Ha.)
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duh... Hitchcock's 39 Steps... found it.. on youtube (where else??)
And after all this time of "wishing" . ha. It was just there for the watching right in front of my nose!! OH, when will I ever learn to look there first (before whining?? ha)
Glad to have finally come across it (and this way it can be watched on MY schedule.. and I am no longer subject to the whims of tv programming schedules.. ha. Who do those folks think they are putting movies that I want to see on at times when I am too busy (OR more likey too dopey to remember) to watch??) HA!!
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Hitchcock's The 39 Steps and North By Northwest
Oh good gravy, Miss G... how could I have forgotten North by Northwest?? I LOVE that movie. Good golly...
As for The 39 Steps... that film has been on my Wanna See list for so long.. it is starting to grow moss!! ha. (I keep MISSING it) I even tried to watch the PBS Masterpiece Theater version that aired recently... I know.. not "THE classic" but still wanted to see it... and I missed THAT one too.. I am a mess. ha.
One day...
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21,000?!!!
Woohoo!! Way to go, little Missy!
Time to celebrate!! (you know me.. I love any excuse for cake!!) This one calls for something extra special... how about some SPARKLERS!!
Congrats to Miss G... and here's to 21,000 more!! :-)
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Hiya Ms Cinemafan...
Hope you get to see The Fugitive (film). If you like action/suspense... it is pretty good. (at least we always liked it here.) I never was a huge fan of the series... but it has been years and years.. We more or less watched what my dad did when I was a kid, and as I recall, it was not on his list. ha. So it could just be thatI might have overlooked it back in the day.
Fury is an EXCELLENT film... and thinking of Spencer Tracy, it puts me in mind of another one, that was just on TCM not too long ago... also a "fugitive" story... The Seventh Cross... oh wow.
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think we watched Knight Without Armour about the same time, Ro....sort of like we watched it together. What a great romantic "on the run" movie... when they are in the forest......mmmm, sigh
You are right.. I believe that one was a Bronxie recommendation either last spring or summer... I remember our chat... OH the forest scene...
Gosh the images in that film were just stunning. (that part where she is coming down the hill in her flowing white gown as the angry workers (are charging at her... and then they all just sort of stop and stare at one another.. before they overtake her... OH wow.) I hope to catch that film on tape sometime... very good movie
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OH little gal, I was counting on it!! ha. (did I mention I am going to need all the help I can get??)
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I know this is not really a "classic", but I thoroughly enjoy the Harrison Ford/Tommy Lee Jones version of The Fugitive. OH golly... talk about suspense... and that train wreck... wowsa.
Not to mention all the HILARIOUS one liners by Jones's character. One favorite that we quote around here all the time (especially if we are out at the lake and see someone fishing) is the line where everyone (except Tommy Lee) thinks Ford's character has died by jumping off the edge of a drain pipe into some deep water... and one police guy tell's Tommy Lee Jones, that he is "fish food".... so Jones replies, "Go get a cane pole and catch the fish that ate him". HA!! I love that bit.
OH.. and I just thought of one more that I enjoyed very much.. this past year I saw A Knight Without Armor for the first time... OH me. What a story...
Edited by: rohanaka on Mar 7, 2010 3:30 PM
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Item one on to-do list: make sure you have blank tapes!
Ha...I am way ahead of schedule on that one, little missy. After I read this thread and looked into the May schedule.. ha... I went on a house wide search to locate my few remaining blank cassettes.
(Alas.. with my supply running low.. I imagine the modern world of DVR's are only a matter of time for me.. but thank goodness I can still hold out a little longer. I am DREADING the day when I have to give up my old and worn out, yet still somehow comforting way of life... ha. Technophobia is such a debilitating thing sometimes. ha)
OH.. and here's a little bonus check for you kiddo... just to say THANKS for helping me keep on task. I am going to need all the reminders I can get.. I am such a lame brain about that schedule. ha.
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Woo Hoo.... I just took a look at a portion of May's schedule (will go back and look at the rest later) and have already set my "reminders" for two I have been looking for for what seems like forever... Cheyenne Autumn and Drums Along The Mohawk (double "woo hoo" on THAT one, ha) They may have been shown on here in the past, but I have never been able to catch them.
And I will add The Rising of the Moon to my reminder list as well..OH golly... May is TWO months away.. ha. I will need all the help I can get to NOT forget to check that schedule.
OH secretaries... (golly... I better stock up on candy!) :-)
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whoops, Ms Cutter...not Jackie.. but Ro..
But thanks for adding some more for me to watch for... I am going to see if I can find it, for sure. :-)
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OH wow, Miss G. You and the "Mud Man"
have really got me all interested in TPOSI, to say the least. I had heard of the title before, but it is one of those Fordies that I had never heard anyone mention much and had more or less pushed it aside to think about until I had seen all the ones I still had on my "Wanna See" list... but now my Wanna See list has a new official listing.
Golly... just the minute I think I can cross one off... you folks go and give me another one to add. ha. So many movies... so little time. :-)
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OH golly, Ms Favell... I love Little Women. It has been one of my favorite stories of all times. (My aunt gave me the book when I was about 10, I think.. I cried so hard while reading that.. ha.. you can still see the tear stains on the pages..ha. because yes.. I still have it. ha)
I've never seen the more modern version, but have seen both of the more classic ones several times. I don't know for sure which I prefer as I love them both... but DO agree about Astor.. and also.. have to say... my fave Beth is little Margaret... OH golly.. when she comes in all soaking wet with the Scarlet Fever.. and tells Jo to stay back... GOOD GRAVY I just about bust out bawling... and of course the scene w/the piano... where she has to go thank Mr. Laurence.. .oh good grief.. just hand me the whole box of Kleenex. (HA)
I always thought that little Beth March was just too good for this world. OH sob, cry, weep, sniff.. HA. I know... I am so pathetic. ha. :-)
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Oh gee..ha. Sounds like my "happy ending' was a better one than Sam's. ha.
Oh yeah! The Stephen King one
OH me oh my... WBS, I almost brought that one up myself... the one w/ the "Devil" Al... still gives me the creeps. aaaggghhh
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What a good show.... Oh man. I am going to have to rent some and re-watch them. I loved how they tied episodes together - especially the Al episodes in Vietnam - and then the ones with Sam going home....
I really liked the "Al" character (Stockwell).. and how he would try to interact w/ the people Sam was talking to or dealing with.. and of course.. they could not see him. He was so funny sometimes.. and also he would get so involved.. trying to warn them of danger, etc. And the way he would always pop in at just the right (or wrong) time.. it was an interesting twist to the story.
Probably one of the more "serious' episodes that really stood out for me was the JFK one where Sam changes history by SAVING Jackie. He felt all defeated because he couldn't save the president.. only to find out that is not why he was there afterall.. Wow... now that was an ending.
OH.. ha.. and PS: after reading your post, ha... I have to confess.. (how embarrassing..ha) As much as I liked this show... I MISSED most of the final season.. including the LAST EPISODE ha. (As I recall.. that was the same year I married the QT...ha. I was a little busier that year than usual. HA!!) I have NO idea what became of Sam at the end.. gasp :-)
Edited by: rohanaka on Mar 5, 2010 2:08 PM
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Howdy Jackie:
Glad to see another Quantum Leap fan over here.... you'd think we were the only two who watched the show
OH wow.. ha. I never missed that show. ha. It was so different and more entertaining (at least to me) than most anything that came on at that time that it really drew me in. This was way back in my "shoe store manager" retail days..ha. And since I was the manager, I got to make out the scheudule.. and I am embarrassed to admit.. ha.. I always made sure that whatever night that show came on (was it Thursday??? I can't recall now) I NEVER worked nights. ha. I had to either make sure I was working days or just take that one as my one day off a week so I could be home that evening to watch. ha. ( I know.. kinda sad, wasn't it?? ha.)
I still laugh every time I think of the episode w/ Buddy Holly where the REAL reason Sam was sent there was to tell the teenaged Buddy to change his lyrics to "Peggy Sue" instead of "Piggy Su--ey" ha. He'd been making up little songs throughout the whole story and ended up singing to a PIG at one point.. and Sam never knew who he WAS right up to the very end. ha. Golly... it's been a gazillion years since I saw that, but it still cracks me up. ha.
Ok.. ha.. sorry for that trip down memory lane.. ha. Back to little Dean. :-)
I'm afraid she was only fascinated with the bird.....
Ha... oh well. Like I always tell the kidling..ha.. different people like different things!! :-)
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Hiya Ms Favell...
Love that Dean Stockwell. :-)
What sweet pics you have posted (especially the earliest ones). What a cutie..ha. I never recalled seeing him in anything until Quantum Leap... and then I started realizing he had this WHOLE OTHER resume too. ha.
I always liked him in The Secret Garden. Ha.. the last time that was on... the kidling watched with me.... and when he and little Margaret start yelling it up.. ha... the kidling put her hands over her ears and said.. "Those children need to stop screaming like that, or they will get a time out!!" Ha.. my bossy little busy body. I wonder where she gets it. ha.
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You are going to eat your cherry pie AND LIKE IT.
THANK you Jackie for saying that. He's had so much saur kraut and sawdust... he just doesn't know what real food tastes like anymore. Ha.
PS folks... VERY interesting conversation... (ha.. I just realized what I wrote... interesting AND fascinating !! ha)
Anyway... I really mean it!! ha.. I have not been able to read back through all of it yet... and have NOT had any time at all lately to watch Impact... but wow.... what I have read so far.. you folks have given me a lot to think about.
Carry on, kids!! :-)
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Hello there Mr. Hatfield (ha.. aren't YOU the one who always says you are a gentleman?? ha)
So your mom's side is the evil one, eh? Maybe I'm related
Ha.. yes.. you are the long lost nephew of my evil twin half cousin.. ha. (oh gee.. now I will have to say hello to you at the family reunion... )
I'm not so sure. Grey! Woohoo
Oh brother....( I mean.. oh long lost nephew)
That actually gets me, too. Just don't tell anyone.
Ha... your secret (you know.. the secret about how you get all emotional and broken up when Ethan hugs Debbie and takes her home... that secret.. yeah.) is safe with me!! ;-)
And that scene wouldn't work unless we, the audience, were unsure of what Ethan would do. He tried to kill her himself but Marty stopped him. Then he said he didn't care about Debbie's fate, only Marty did. So here we are at the climax, wondering, will he give her a chance?
Oh golly... that 's it in a nutshell... and now I am boo-hooing just sitting here thinking about it.
And PS.. don't ask APRIL to tell you how it ends in the BOOK. (But then again, You'd probably like it, Mr. I hate happy endings)
I just rewatched Stagecoach and I came away believing Hatfield was a sincere gentleman when it came to the "ladies." His covering up a girl with his jacket led me to think this.
I think you have him right.. especially when it came to "ladies"... women or girls he thought of as being respectable. Do you think he would have covered up someone like Dallas??? Now that is a harder one for me to answer.
So was Ethan's decision to kill Debbie premature? Had he given her a real chance? Ethan and Hatfield were basically jumping to conclusions. Wrong conclusions
No.. I was talking about Hatfield's choice being premature... Ethan had all the time in the world to study and thinnk over his choice.. but still they both ended up being mistaken... and fortunately fate stepped in and stopped both of them, if you think about it.
PS Little Scotchie... You talked with him for two and a half hours???? Have you two picked out a china pattern yet??
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Helllooooooooo Mr. Grey...
You know more about him than everyone else!
Ha.. maybe he is my evil twin half cousin on my mother's side.. ha.
I partially agree. At the outset, Ethan was all about getting Debbie back.
You are right about that. I should have said it a little plainer. At the beginning.. she was just a tiny thing and he was trying to save her. And you are also right that as time goes by he is more about going after Scar... but I also think he wanted to find her too. (and not to save her then)
It was Marty who never gave up on Debby. Marty is not only the one who rescues Debby, but I also think he rescues Ethan... in a way.
All true. And I think Debbie rescues Ethan as well... or his love for her does. The minute he sees her... REALLY sees her.. oh golly.. that is still one of the most powerful film moments I can ever recall. I love that scene so much and it is THE moment for me in that film. "Let's go home..." OH me.. .where's the kleenex...
It's very similar to Hatfield (John Carradine) looking to mercy kill Lucy (Louise Platt) in Stagecoach. He rather kill her then let the Apache kill her. But Ethan and Hatfield end up being wrong.
That scene in Stagecoach always gets me. It sickens me to think that he was taking her life into his hands that way (with a newborn baby right there in the same stage coach with them) but I also see his motivation and he was trying to be the gentleman maybe that he always wished he had been. It was perhaps an "honorable" motivation... but not the right choice either... and even if it HAD been (which I say again it was not) it was WAY too premature... the stage was still moving and the had not gotten down to the "last man" yet. Anyway.. as I said.. that scene always gets me.. ha. Talk about FATE. A split second's difference and he'd have had a LOT to explain when the Cavalry guys showed up...
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! (WAS his name Klaus?? ha. I was just being a smart mouth!! ha)
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ha.. I just figured out.. your first line was from THAT movie wasn't it???? ha. Do you realize how LONG it has been.. It's been so long since it came out... I am not even sure I have even SEEN it. ha I always confuse it with Spys Like Us... ha. (I know.. I am hopeless) ha.
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Ha... maybe he is your Saur Kraut delivery guy....
have really got me all interested in TPOSI, to say the least.
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Ok.. ha. I give up.. I can't seem to post any images to this thread.. it could be my technophobia is setting in.. ha. So instead I will just say.. The Quiet Man ROCKS!! ha.
Edited by: rohanaka on Mar 10, 2010 12:59 PM