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I missed maybe the first seven minutes when I watched. Is it established that the Russ Tamblyn character (Spoiler Alert!) is a narc right from the beginning? Because it came a little bit as a surprise to me at the two-thirds point of the movie, though he was so single-minded on getting inside with the drug kingpin, I began to have my suspicions. If you are supposed to know from the very start, I have to say it makes for a different viewing experience when you don't know!

Woah, wait, I'm sorry, don't you mean DISCUSS love? (and yes I know the backstory before you have to explain it to me)

Yep, me too. My understanding is Special Edition is more inside the ship, less Dreyfuss breakdown.

Ummm ... Peter Sellers RIP 1980?

Just looked over his imdb resume, and I was kinda like ... meh? Casualties of War was pretty strong, I think.

Of course, she had an affair with Holden in real life, I think, which may account for that. He was 11 years older than her, which may not quite cross over the "ewww, gross" threshhold.

I bristle a bit and want to say, "Hey, the posters on here don't need a plot summary of the Best Picture winner of 1947!", but given how rarely this film airs on TCM, maybe some of us do. One critic made me laugh by saying, and I'm paraphrasing: "Here's the entire plot of Gentleman's Agreement: "'Would this reservation still be good if my name were ... Greenberg?" 'I'm sorry, Mr. Smith, we seem to have just burned down.' There, that's the whole movie." Of course, now that I've seen the film, I know that it's about more than just the denial of Jews to rooms at fancy hotels, but it's an oddly narrow focus for a Best Picture winner. It's also odd that it took the one major Hollywood studio run by a Gentile to make this film.

I'd planned a long ramble, sort of a defining statement of purpose and how it's altered in my 13 years on these boards. I also intended a sort of commentary/lecture on behavior of these boards and the state of social media in general and finally a discussion on movies and how my tastes have changed during this time. All that seems like a lot of work right now. So, thanks to all the people who have been on this long, crazy ride with me. Moderators, please don't move this thread! I live my online life on the General Discussions board and wouldn't want to have to go somewhere else. To keep this topical: movies movies movies TCM movies movies movies movies Andy Hardy Esther Williams SUTS 31 Days Attack of the 50 Foot Woman Meet Me in St. Louis movies.

And their response was ...? I've only ever seen the movie on TCM, so I always assumed that scene was standard until reading your post.

Mu borderline extreme poverty prohibits any such expeditions, but I very much enjoyed reading these other ac counts.

As they were ... originally edited?

A very strong and I suspect often overlooked performance with all the light shining on Irene Dunne in that movie. Good call.

I think TCM typically has a pretty good record of showing films as they were intended to be released. I recently watched A Farewell to Arms with my mom on Amazon Prime, and it was quite different from the version I remembered watching on TCM some years ago. This version arranged the scenes to indicate Gary Cooper and Helen Hays didn't have sex until after they were married, and it was missing altogether a scene that made a strong impression on me from my original viewing, of Hayes borderline hysterically laugh-crying after they've had sex for the first time, clearly while unmarried. Either my memory is really faulty, or what I watched on TCM was the original version and the one on Amazon Prime was post-Code revisions.

When I was in college, there was a whole series of VHS releases called Faces of Death that I believe consisted entirely of people dying on camera. Maybe not traditional snuff films but in the same ballpark. Aimed for people who get their jollies by watching that stuff. I was always way too squeamish to ever rent one of them.

Easy to say, but they were probably unaware. I doubt someone is assigned to check all incoming prints for missing scenes, or who would have complete knowledge of such things.

Of course, TCM's long-running motto is "uncut and commercial free". I believe they themselves don't ever edit a film for time or content. But they can only show the prints they receive.

I don't think I pondered it that deeply, but sure, I'll accept that description! Feel free to split hairs anytime (although I don't have that many to split!).

As Dargo alludes to, Milestone was the director of that early Best Picture-winning war flick. It was an u;nderstandable screw-up, and I'm willing to cut her some slack. It may have read "Milestone" on the cue cards.

Dargo didn't say this but I'm quoting the quote from this thread by scsu 1975. I saw the trailer for the new Cruella, and I was sure Tucci was playing Emma Thompson's valet based on the brief shots of him, but turns out it was Strong.

It has been changed on this particular link: https://prod-images.tcm.com/Microsites/SUTS/2021/schedule.pdf

Oh, THOSE comments! Well, yes, I'm aware of those! I will read them. I was thinking like how you can set up a DVD so that the movie soundtrack is muted and the actors/director/writers/producer/film critic/film historian/whoever can talk about the movie you're watching.

Ah. I don't understand how to load "You Tube Commentary Tracks", I guess. Not something I've heard of before my entire life prior to your mentioning it. I only heard the music. Sounds like watching a DVD.

My God, they ran nothing but a black screen with "A CBS Special Presentation" on it, unmoving, for 107 seconds? What extraordinary, ungodly attention spans humans had in the '70s! I think now about trying to sit down with my brother's kids and show them something like Gone With the Wind the way TCM airs it with the overture, intermission, et. al. They would be asleep before the overture was finished!

The Best Years of Our Lives was produced independently by Samuel Goldwyn but was distributed through RKO.