clintonguyon
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Correction: It was the "100% WEIRD" TNT series. I LOVE this old hodgepodge of a movie!!
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Widescreen credits and pan-n-scan for " The Cool Ones"? Shameful. Is this the same print from the early-1990s TNT "Bad Movies We Love" showing? It seems so. If TCM can't pull a widescreen print from a 1968 Warner Brothers movie, who can?
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The snippets available "out there" make it seem like the most thorough and accomplished paen (ahem) to the 3 Berkeley musicals of 1933. The major studios seemed to make half-hearted and late-to-the-party stabs at Buzz's 1933 excesses but this film grabs his' innovations with both hands and goes to town with them rather shamelessly. And there are a few not bad songs: Are you Making Any Money (performed in one at the footlights like "Getting To Be Habit") and Dusty Shoes (a complete "Forgotten Man" and Brother Can You Spare a Dime" mashup replete with time lapse calendar dissolves and and the incredible lyric "This country is ROTTEN!) Who owns the rights? Did TCM ever show it?
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Time Warner New York in Queens also experienced this at the 55 minute mark (I have only just checked my own DVR of the print-- sorry for the tardy reply to this). What was experienced was a frozen blocky frame for about five minutes followed by about 4 minutes of NO AUDIO! Very frustrating! Was this a satellite glitch affecting a wide swath of customers?
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Film is offered on demand in Time Warner NYC area and I compared it last night to the DVD. Several odd things: the aspect ratio is more like CinemaScope than VistaVision, and the picture actually looks squished to fit the deeper letterboxing. Also the framing is off: the tops of the sets, the back wall of the sound stage, and lightning equipment is visible in various wide shots during the Dogpatch ensemble scenes, and boom mikes are visible during the scenes in the senator's office.
I don't recall the film looking like this when it was broadcast by TCM several months ago.
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I agree, it was a great book. BTW: it was expanded by the author and re-released in the late 90s. It's too bad Leisen is still such a neglected director. If his profile was higher, perhaps there'd be cries from preservations to search the Paramount film libraries for the excised pieces of his Lady In the Dark, as well as any remnants of Swing High Swing Low...
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I may some info regarding the condition of this film as shown on TCM: no original studio print/negative exists any more, apparently -- just a 16 mm dupe once owned by collectors.
According to an interview with the director in his biography "Hollywood Director", when the film was remade as When My Baby Smiles At Me at Fox, Paramount had to ship their studio print/negative to Fox when the rights to the property were bought by Fox for the remake. This was the practice back then, I believe, so the original could not be re-released when the remake was in circulation.
Fox then lost Paramount's print/negative (sorry I am unsure which was involved in the transfer).
Pan-n-scan COOL ONES ? Really??
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Guess I'll have to be happy with my identical VCR dub from 15+ years ago of the 100% WEIRD broadcast (on basic TNT cable) of this rare title. I've just lost my job, as many have during this horrific downturn, and am trying (in vain) to find reasons to keep the luxury of cable TV. There are very few surprises programmed on TCM nowadays, it seems. (I am still heartbroken over the failed LADY IN THE DARK broadcast from last year.) I have free TV on another set and am constantly delighted by THIS TV, ANTENNA TV, RETRO TV and HOT TV. Just saying...