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I feel certain I've seen it as recently as this year.

I was under the impression there would be no math on the TCM Message Boards ...

Hey, they kept on showing that "heebie-jeebies" promo about pan-and-scan v. letterbox for several more years after everyone on earth (except me) got a widescreen TV and even after Sydney Pollack and Curtis Hanson were both dead. So, I wouldn't expect a little thing like utter lack of relevance to cause the Bush Brothers promo to go away!

By the way, looks like that other picture Wayne/Ford/O'Hara did for Republic as payment to be allowed to make The Quiet Man was Rio Grande, which has actually played quite a bit on TCM, though somehow I've never seen it. It last aired in July, 2014.

Over the years, I've tried to look up most of the seemingly lost and buried movies on your site out of curiosity, but I guess I never actually looked up Beyond the Forest, which has such a rep as a "disappeared" movie, I just assumed it had never aired on TCM without ever checking. Well, congrats to those lucky folks who happened to be watching that one time in 1994! TCM's first year on the air. Can't recall this happening much lately, but once in a blue moon, TCM toots its own horn when it's able to show some film that has been buried for many years. One example that immediately springs to mind is The Iron Petticoat, which I'm not going to pretend is any great movie now that I've seen it, but it was a once-in-a-lifetime pairing of Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn and is interesting for that reason alone. I know TopBilled is also excited about the upcoming Republic Pictures spotlight night, as I'm not sure TCM has shown much of anything from Republic besides The Quiet Man in ten years or more. Not even John Wayne movies. A quick check of your site, and I see Sands of Iwo Jima last played in 2010 and Wake of the Red Witch in 2008. And every time TCM plays The Quiet Man, Ben M. or whoever the host is will always mention that Ford, Wayne and O'Hara all had to another pic for Republic first before they could make it, but has TCM ever played that movie? Anyway, I was starting to ramble there. My point, and I do have one, is I'm always quietly holding out hope that TCM is aware that part of their fan base is longing for an occasional airing of such rarities and accommodate us when they're able.

I can't believe I'm about to engage in scholarly repartee with Nipkow, but I just read a book in which I learned about Bligh's post-Bounty life for the first time! It's called Paradise in Chains and is about two epic voyages launched the same year, 1787, the Bounty expedition to Tahiti and the first-ever ship bearing inmates to found a prison colony in Australia. And what happened after each of those voyages, including the second, much less well known mutiny against Bligh. Good book. https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Chains-Bounty-Founding-Australia/dp/1632866102

I'm certainly intrigued by MoviePass. I'm a frequent moviegoer - by my informal count, I saw 64 films in the theater last year. I'm not quite on that pace this year. I've seen 23 films in the theater so far in 2018, but now that it's summer, that pace might pick up. And while I try to go to matinees as often as I can, honestly there have been plenty of single movies that have cost me $10 or more. To only have to pay that for a whole month, in which I might see as many as five or six movies, sound too good to be true. I'm a born cynic. I feel just sure there has to be a catch, like none of the movie theaters I usually go to will be participants, or there will be some sort of limitations to which movies I can see that I won't be told about until I have the membership. I too would like to know if anyone on here is doing this and what their experiences have been.

I almost feel like MGM was successful artistically in spite of Louis B. Mayer! But he knew how to surround himself with good people, I guess. Wasn't Thalberg near the end of his life fired from his executive position and reduced to "merely" a producer?

I saw quite a few of the TCM/Fathom Events theatrical releases that came out last year: All About Eve, An Affair to Remember, North by Northwest, Fast Times at Ridgmont High, The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde. I also saw a re-release of Close Encounters that was not a TCM thing but in a similar vein with a little intro doc. There have been more this year, but I haven't seen any of them.

I have the song The Ballad of Joe Hill by Phil Ochs from 1968 in my iTunes collection. It was the first I'd ever heard of the guy.

You posted a LOT of pics of Durbin eating food!

I don't have any specific answers, sorry, but Scott worked in radio and television in the Washington, D.C. area for almost 20 years from the mid-'50s to the early '70s. It certainly seems possible he made friends in the industry, although I assume all the shows you're talking about were shot in Los Angeles, so I don't know how much interaction he would have had with the people making them.

Well, there have been many different explanations for that over the years. I can't say how they're explaining it now, but at least one of the explanations when I was a kid was that they traveled through the same hyper-warp that brought baby Kal-El's rocketship to Earth.

I'm drifting into opening credits now rather than closing credits, but the Coens also have a fictional film editor they credit, can't think of the name right now, a job they've done themselves on most of their movies.

At the risk of revealing my comic book geekdom, Superman is a Kryptonian! Kryptonite is the stuff that can kill him. A less visually dramatic, but no less impressive, superpower people in the movies have is, when they want to visit a place of business on a crowded city street, they just drive up to the building and park right in front of the front door at the curb. No one in the movies ever has to go find a paid lot or park two blocks over and walk.

Well, I will say in my defense, many of those movies I'm thinking of are worth watching for reasons beyond the nudity (probably not Beastmaster), but I haven't forgotten the nudity, either ...

I wonder how that works on Netflix.

Ah ha ha ha ha ha killing spree ending!

Ha ha, I'm probably an expert on nudity in PG movies before there even was a PG-13 rating! I was at that age where this sort of thing was extremely important to me. You've got Susan Dey nude in Looker, Tanya Roberts topless in Beastmaster, anonymous female breasts jiggling for the camera during the panic scene in Airplane!, JoBeth Williams nude in Kramer vs. Kramer, Brooke Adams nude in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I could go on and on and on.

I recently watched Netflix for the first time ever, my experiences of which I've been intending to compile into a separate thread, and I was distressed to see the instant a movie or program is over, they cue up something else for you to watch, and within 20 seconds, that next program starts. So, credit-watching, a pasttime of mine since childhood, is completely impossible on Netflix, as far as I can tell, which I find very fascist. In the theater, I always sit and watch the entirety of the credits. One reason was to see the 173 million films on which Mo Henry was credited as a negative cutter, not a job important enough to make the opening credits, I guess, but I can't tell you how many zillions of films he(?)'s in the closing credits. Also, I like to scan those cast lists for the occasional performer who's been left out of the opening credits for one reason or another, and I love looking at filming locations and song credits.

Ha ha ha, so it does! "You turn me on/I'm a radio/I'm a country station/I'm a little bit corny/I'm a wildwood flower/Waving for you/Broadcast tower ..." Ahem.

Yeah, I was sorta surprised by the thread title. Pretty sure the amount of female nudity in Hollywood films is WAY reduced from the 70s and 80s, or what I would like to call my glorious years of childhood and adolescence, when every other rated R film I watched on HBO after my parents went to bed had at least one nude scene. Now, as an old man, I watch dozens and dozens of rated R films that don't have any nudity at all. There are so many other avenues to find that stuff now, most of which Lawrence mentioned, that Hollywood certainly no longer feels the need to include them as a selling point like they used to, and in this #MeToo era, actresses are infinitely less inclined to film them than their forbears of the previous couple of generations. OP, I'm pretty sure you're a troll or an artificial creation who will never post here again, but if you are real, and you have interest in discussing this, could you please cite some examples of what you mean?

Okey-dokey.

I loved watching this intro, although Mad, Mad, Mad is mostly a beat-down for me. Hate to have to disagree with the great Mr. Osborne, but I would hardly say this was "by far the funniest" film Spencer Tracy was ever in. I laugh way more watching Adam's Rib or Father of the Bride.

Thanks Lawrence and Dargo for refreshing my memory. Ham, I feel like what you're saying isn't true, but I guess I'd be willing to listen if you provided some evidence to support your claim.