HarryLong
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I recall this showing up on various Late Show screenings (remember them?) on independent TV stations (remember them?) at least into the early 1980s.
Let me be sure I understand: Universal has no record of even producing the film?
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Possibly his drinking made him unreliable?
(Gloria Talbot told in an interview of getting a contact high from the fumes when she did a plane cockpit scene with him & Lon Chaney, Jr for THE CYCLOPS.)
Or when all the male stars returned from the war, he was simply less in demand...
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>>I kept thinking about the fact that Ginger was one of Hollywood's top Republicans (along with John Wayne, Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan).<<
Certainly she was later (I seem to recall she was a very friendly witness for HUAC).
But I wonder what her views were in 1930?
I alway remember that Gregory LaCava (who dirtected her in STAGE DOOR) once said that the only way to get her to cry onscreen was to tell her that her house was on fire.
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>>The care of these films goes to the dogs once they fall into the public domain! I heard there isn't even a decent print of Detour available (if this statement is false, point me in the right direction PLEASE)
Unfortunately true. No company wants to sink a pile of money into restoring a PD film & then having it simply copied by the Dollar Store providers who can legally do so because the film doesn't fall under copyright. Such is the fate of DETOUR and RED HOUSE and countless others. I was in a discussion on another message board with the guy who runs Milestone, asking him if they might consider doing a resto on the silent THE BAT, as they'd done the same for the 1931 remake & that is essentially what he told me.
I've even seen budget discs that don't even try to hide the watermark burned in by whoever initially released the title.
I have, btw, dollar store discs of Max Fleischer's GULLIVER'S TRAVELS and the SUPERMAN cartoons that were probably created in just that way given how good they look.(I'm not immune to the lure of a collection of all the Fleischer SUPERMANs on one disc for a buck - but I never expected them to look so good.)
And if that copy of THE LOST WORLD looks good, I'd almost bet it's a port of the David Shepard resto that Image released some time back.
The best copy I've seen - and it ain't all that great - of DETOUR is the one TCM shows from time to time. Copy it next time it's on.
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>>"The Black Pirate" (1926) starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr. was not only a blockbuster but the only total color film of the silent era. This would make a great Silent Sunday Night movie.
Unfortunately I've never seen a color print of this. I think only the b&w version exists, right?
>>In this day of young people liking pirate movies, maybe this is a great way of getting them interested in silent movies.
I'm not sure they'd get past the extremely long opening titles setting up the film. I remember hwen this was screened in my film history class back in 1971 or so, the prof actually blurted out, "Is this a movie or a book!?"
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I thought some of us here had already been pretty forthcoming about that.
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>>Kramer was **** off at Babs because she seems to be taking for ever to do a film of " The Normal Heart".
If you know the play at all, you'll also know that it is now hopelessly out-dated. It was written at the very beginning of the AIDS pandemic. If I recall, the term AIDS had not even been coined yet...
>>I'm guessing BOYS IN THE BAND (1970) is unobtainable.
No. Check Amazon or Movies Unlimited.
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>>audreyforever wrote:
Ah, The Kiss Before the Mirror , I would love to see that one turn up.Believe it or not, it did play last year...I think as part of the Nancy Carroll birthday tribute.
Yeah, too bad they only showed it once.
There's a slew of James Whale titles in the Big U catalogue that ought to be trotted out.
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>>Why would a person not use the films of Leni Riefenstahl to introduce Americans to classic German films?
I could think of a few reasons...
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>>I got the silent version of "The Lost World" ... for $1.00 (duh).
Wow. How bad a copy was it?
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>>He was 72 in ?Spook Busters?.
That would explain why his participation in the fight scene is a tad... um... unenthusiastic.
And speaking of Middleton & Flash... I wish TCM had continued programming serials on Saturday morning. They only showed a few, darnit.
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>>I always thought he looked like Captain Marvel
I'm pretty sure I've read that Captain Marvel's look was based on MacMurray.
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>>I agree mr6666 Kurosawa is considered one of the best filmmakers of all time. It was his 100th birthday I think doing an retrospective of his career was extremely fitting & I applaud TCM for this. And really it was only one day a week (and only one of these days was 24/7).
I agree with both of you. This would have been Kurosawa's 100th birthday & he is one of the major directors of cinema. The salute was appropriate & still left 6 days a week for other programming... or does TCM have to show only what YOU want to see all day every day?
My least favorite genre is the Western & it seems whenever TCM does its Western month it's two 24-hour slots of programming a week. (If only they's devote that kind of coverage to horror films in October!) But I understand that there is an audience for them & I just watch DVDs or do other things when they're on.
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>>My only caution buying from the "bargain bin" is when you find early films or public domain titles, you often get really awful quality, almost as if it was duped from a VHS tape.
Yes, that can be a hazard, but there's also a lot of "brand name" releases in those dump-bins when a label closes out titles that aren't selling, or is on the verge of relasing an upgrade, etc.
My last splurge at Big Lots yeilded some of the Val Lewton double-features, some Busby Berkeley films, a special edition of HELLRAISER, a Garbo silents set & lots of other nifty stuff.
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>>So I am guessing that Nader and Hudson were companions for awhile. I don't know too much about it.
No, they were just friends & co-workers at Universal. Nader's lifetime companion (as pointed out in a couple other posts) was Mark Miller & he & Nader were monogamous. Nader even stated in one interview that the reason Universal let his contract lapse (& may have fed innuendo to the scandal mags of the time) was because he wouldn't have sex with the studio's executives.
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>>Who's on first? What's on second. I don't know they're buying MGM......
Ha! Exactly.
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>>I think that if Joe Stud movie star tells the world he's gay, people in the Bible belt will not go see his movies anymore. That's the reality of it. (I am not slamming religious people, but I am just saying that in some areas of the United States, conservative values do prevent a level of tolerance.)
Yeah, it really would depend on the image the star has made for him/herself. Being out hasn't hurt Ian MacKellan's career, but if someone who's persona is entirely based on being a womanizing action-hero would come out, it'd be pretty well ended even today.
And as another poster noted, homophobia is hardly unknown in the world; it's not just the US.
As to Martin, this is obviously a grab at reigniting his career by getting his name back in the news. He's strictly in the RickyWho? category. When I saw the headline yesterday, I had to think for a minute as to who he was.
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>>One thing that makes the Marx Brothers? material so good is that it was usually tested out before audiences on stage. The routines were perfected and the silliest gags were then used in their movies.
I don't think that was the case until after their move to MGM... and only for the first two movies there.
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In HANDS ACROSS THE TABLE, he looks so scrumptious you want to eat him with a spoon.
Thanks for this thread; I thought I was the only one who thought Fred was downright delectable.
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>>TOMORROW IS FOREVER...it almost never airs on cable...this may be a premiere for it, at least on TCM.
Actually TCM has shown it several times.
And I forget every time to record it.
Maybe this'll be the charm...
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I'm not sure I'd cry big, salty tears if BB went out of business. True, I am a member (is that the right word?) of their online service which has the benefit over Netflix that I can take my mailed discs to the store & get a freebie rental from the store for each online DVD I return. And I primarily tunred to BB because the other chains in my area haven't as good a selection or have gone out of business (or, in the case of Movie Gallery, in the process of closing). The few Mom & Pops that weren't driven out of business by BB have poor selection.
But it's true that BB has charged outrageous fees and indulged in some slightly sneaky practices (remember when the No Late Charges they trumpeted so loudly turned out to mean that if you hadn't returned a disc within a certain timer, they'd charge the full price of it to your credit card?).
If they go under, I'll probably just start up a Netflix account. Most of my friends tell me I should already be signed up with them...
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I have heard a rumor - well, actually abit more substantial than a rumor but far from a confirmed fact - the LOST SOULS is being on & restored.
It will not be coming from Universal, however.
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>.Oh my goodness! My first issue was #94 in 1972!
My first was #8 in... oh, never mind!
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I find the idea of a Charles Middleton: Star of the Month perversely amusing.
But TCM might do something along the lines of what they do in August & do a month of character actors, giving each a day or a half-day.
Casablanca or Citizen Kane
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>>Best film in which Bogart and Bergman appeared together: CASABLANCA
Well, at least on _that_ there can be no discussion...