Capuchin
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I used to like the 3 Stooges a lot. My taste for slapstick has waned over the years.
But anyone who thinks Laurence Olivier and the Stooges are polar opposites have never seen his early movies. In *The Divorce of Lady X* he shows he can wrestle a bed with the best of them.
Check him out in *Too Many Crooks,* *The Temporary Widow,* or *Perfect Understanding.*
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What I've learned from a Maltin intro is that my tolerance has fallen to a new low.
After 30 seconds, I switched the channel and switched back when I was sure he'd be gone, preferring to miss a few minutes of the movie I'd waited months to see rather than endure his smarminess.
That is a drastic change -- I used to be able to watch a full minute of him before feeling I was engulfed by slime.
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I'm surprised most people don't know who Bob Fosse was.
His work in movies wasn't extensive (acted in 9, directed 7, wrote 4, choreographed 9 ), but I don't think he ever did anything mediocre --
*Kiss Me Kate*
*The Pajama Game*
*Damn Yankees!*
*Sweet Charity*
*Cabaret*
*Chicago*
*Star 80*
*Lenny*
*White Christmas*
*All That Jazz* is his masterpiece and is really the only movie of its type (a scathing autobiography).
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I love *The Bishop Misbehaves* -- it's so typical Gwenn!
*It's a Dog's Life* looks like it might be interesting.
*Shanghai Express* is a definite watcher -- Marlene being Marlene.
I'm going to have to catch *Thieves Fall Out* because I'm a sucker for comedy capers.
I don't think I've seen *Two Heads on a Pillow* either -- there's another movie with an almost identical blurb, and since I like that one, I should like this one.
I've always thought *British Agent* is a bit talky, but who can resist that cast?
*The Naked City* is a low-key procedural that somehow found its way onto my favorites list.
*The Journey* is the type of movie I don't normally like, but it rises above its genre and is quite touching and a touch horrific at the same time.
I approve and applaud *Penguin Pool Murder* on Saturday morning, but I wonder why they didn't continue the Philo Vance series with *Garden Murder Case* which is the only other PV movie I remember TCM ever showing.
*The Spiral Staircase* is one of those few mystery movies where it doesn't matter how many times I've seen it, somewhere along the line I begin to suspect someone else is the murderer.
*The Male Animal* and *Young Ideas* are a great way to end a Saturday!
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*How to Steal a Million*
Audrey elevates everything she's in, but this film transcends the usual comedy-caper-romance genre by several orders of magnitude.
I also have to put in a word for *Laura* -- isn't it time for Fox to loosen its grip and let this be shown the way it was meant to be seen?
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That's good to hear! One of the reasons SansFin made me promise to check these boards every day while she's gone is so she/we wouldn't miss the Challenge.
I hope you've chosen some devilish challenges for us!
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Since finding this forum, I don't have a 'why don't they get it' feeling about any one movie (while not everyone here loves the same movies I do, they at least understand them), but that describes all classic movies when dealing with real life peeps who see value only in CGI, surround-sound, dull colored modern movies.
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> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote} I'm really enjoying today's Walter Pidgeon fest! Digging on his Nick Carter role now!
That's it, rub it in.
I had the timer set to record it, but a power outage fried my DVR sometime this morning. It's one of the few Nick Carter movies I haven't seen.
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> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=Capuchin wrote:}{quote}There's a Japanese tv series I knew I wouldn't like. It's anime, it's gory, and it's little girls. Someone had to bribe and force me to watch an episode. I fell in love with it! .....
> What is it?
Gunslinger Girl
See, even the title turned you off from ever wanting to see it.
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I can see setting it up to be done after you've passed away rather than doing it while you're living because people would know it's a one-off and wouldn't keep pestering you to do it again.
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> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}
> This article about TCM's presentaion of *The Mysterious House of Dr. C* earlier this year may help explain what's going on.
> http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/374106%7C0/TCM-Lost-Found.html
Thanks!
I didn't watch all of it, but it looked to me to be the same movie without the narration. I wish I still had the capacity to watch them side by side so I could note what else they did to make it more attractive to Americans.
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On a tangent -- in many movies, someone refers to "a ton of money."
If you've ever wondered how much that is:
In pennies -- $3,628.72
In nickels -- $9,071.80
In dimes -- $39,999.50
In quarters -- $39,999.50
There are 907,180 bills to the ton, so depending on the demonination, it can range from $907,180 in $1 bills to $90,718,000 in $100 bills. Such a quantity occupies 36.1765 cubic feet.
The most common briefcase measures 12.5x16x2.5 and holds 6000 bills weighing 13.2 pounds. According to one source, there is no "standard size" briefcase currently made that will hold $1,000,000 in $100 bills.
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Thanks for the heads-up about *Underworld, USA.* I might have passed on it because the synopsis doesn't appeal to me.
I'm curious about *Dr. Coppelius* -- wasn't there a very similarly themed movie recently? (Oh, that's going to drive me crazy -- I think it was an opera, or at least a musical, but I don't have a clue on how to start searching for it.)
The Sophia Loren day looks interesting. Both *Lady L* and *Ghosts -- Italian Style* are a hoot.
*The Devil's Disciple* is one of my favorites. I've always wondered why such a brilliant movie with so many great stars is so often overlooked and underrated.
Is *Tish* (on Thursday) really any good?
*I Married an Angel* is the only one I have to record for SansFin this week.
I'm happy to see they're showing two versions of *Back Street* consecutively. I've long wished they'd highlight remakes that way, and I see them doing it more and more lately.
(There are, as you pointed out, many great movies this week -- the ones I've mentioned here are ones I haven't seen lately and/or don't have copies of.)
Bravo TCM!
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> So many films in the '30s and '40s mention amounts in thousands of French Francs, but they almost never mention any conversion values to dollars.
I'm afraid I don't know of any online converter. I don't recall when/where I ran across it, and I don't know how accurate it is or in what year, but I've always thought 5 francs is about a penny.
For my writing, I'm always researching what things used to cost. What fouls me up in French money is that a livre is divided into 20 sous and each sou is divided into 12 deniers. That seems rather straightforward, except that a "livre tournois" is worth about 80% of a "livre parisis," and almost every text only says "livre" without any indication of which one they're talking about.
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I'm more likely to put it into my will that someone has to watch certain movies before they can claim any inheritance.
I've heard of someone stipulating that their three nephews had to compete in a Jeopardy-like trivia quiz, and the estate distributed in shares according to how well they did. (I heard about it because of the court case where one of them was contesting it.)
I wouldn't want movies shown the day of my funeral. Movies isolate me, making me part of them rather than part of the reality around me. As such, I don't see them as a way to bring grieving people together.
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I don't know how many movies it was, but some years ago, I watched TCM nonstop for about 30 hours. I was in the hospital, and watching classic films was the only way to take my mind off the discomfort I was feeling (it wasn't really pain, so I didn't ask for any meds). My chronic insomnia also played a part.
It wasn't until they compiled the nurses' observations that they realized I hadn't slept and knocked me out.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}I would need at least ten Harvey Wallbangers to get through anything starring June Allyson.
That might actually have a positive effect. I believe it was Flip Wilson who said you should marry an ugly woman because you know what you've got, she isn't going to change, and if you have a few drinks before going home, she starts looking pretty good.
I don't exactly share your views about June Allyson, but I could substitute any number of stars to make it true for me.
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The best 'fight' movie I ever saw was *The War of the Roses.*
From *Rhubarb* to *It Happens Every Spring* to *Angels in the Outfield,* there are a lot of baseball comedies I like.
If someone came up with a funny movie about boxing, I'd like to see it.
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> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote}Couldn't disagree more. Remakes bring attention to the original and they do NOT 'touch' the original.
I'm afraid I have to disagree. If the remake is lousy, it taints the name.
I suggested someone watch *The Thomas Crown Affair* with Steve McQueen. They shrugged it off because they'd seen the remake, and they weren't in the mood to watch another hooker going after a playboy.
I'm sure they would have loved the original, but the casting of the remake means they'll never bother with it.
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> {quote:title=MikeBluett wrote:}{quote}Boy, is that ever irritating! Just becuase I live in Canada I get different TCM programming. It appears that TCM is responsible for what we see in Canada; otherwise, their would not be a Canadian schedule on the TCM site. Does anyone have any idea why they HAVE to do this?!!!
It's a rights issue -- Canadians don't have the right to see good movies. (Sorry -- couldn't resist!
)Some of it goes back to movie theater chains. Those in Canada preferred to buy all Canadian rights to movies rather than paying rental fees (it was about the same for an initial release, and they had the option of showing the movies again in matinees/revivals).
Some more of it goes back to the early days of television, when Canadian companies bought the rights to air movies in Canada irrespective of what was shown on American TV.
It's all because no one back then thought there was any lasting value in a movie after its initial release (After all, who could possibly want to watch an old movie?), so the various rights were incredibly cheap.
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Will movies have to start having disclaimers as stunts/prank shows do?
Two guys were arrested for imitating *Weekend at Bernie's* by toting a dead friend along on their bar crawl.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_18907533
Would it work as a defense that I only robbed a jewelry store and smoked dope because *Jewel Robbery* made it look elegant?
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I don't know how early a schedule you saw. I downloaded the Sept. schedule on 6/15, and *The Great Plane Robbery* isn't on there (I, too would have been looking forward to it).
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Sometimes it's just the delivery -- I can't imagine anyone putting across the annoyed-whiny-indignant "Oh . . . very good, sir" with such eloquence.
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Are you saying Hayao Miyazaki never made a great movie?
Robert Osborne's Return
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I've been missing Mr. Robert as much as anyone, but his absence was particularly acute last night -- he would have made the intro to *The Constant Nymph* wonderful.
I wouldn't put too much thought into the length of his stay in the hospital -- for my last heart valve replacement, I was in and out in five days, but when I had my tonsils out, they kept me nearly two weeks. It all depends on how fast your vitals, blood chemistry, etc. bounce back.
I've been counting the days, and I'd really hoped he'd be back starting next week, but what we really need is for him to take care of himself, even if it means he doesn't come back to us quickly.