LonesomePolecat

O'Rourke, Sgt Major Michael - Ward Bond in FORT APACHE

way older than that here's the first verse: "With only a touch I have the power Zim zaba rim BIM! To wither a flower I find delight In the gruesome and grim..." hint: disney Edited by: LonesomePolecat on Sep 14, 2012 3:08 PM

Like I said, the only movie I could think of was The Jolson Story, but if that's close enough, here's the next one: "I can be huge-- fill the whole house I can be teeny, small as a mouse Black sorcery is my dish of tea It comes easy to me 'Cause I'm the magnificent, marvelous....." Title? Movie?

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}The highlight of HIGH SOCIETY is that it's the only film duet of Crosby and Sinatra (They didn't duet in ROBIN AND THE SEVEN HOODS, did they?) That is very true-- "Well Did You Evah" and its containing scene is worth the entire movie. No they didn't sing a duet in ROBIN, but they did sing that great trio with Deano, "You either got or you haven't got style." For me, that's worth the whole movie as well.

*Stark Passage* remake from 2012: To escape the poilice, Humphrey Bogart gets plastic surgery, which turns him into Iron Man. (Get it?? Get it?) Edited by: LonesomePolecat on Sep 12, 2012 5:11 PM

Jolson Story, The

I know "Ma Blushin' Rosie" was a hit song for Al Jolson, though I think it's an older song that his films, the only film off the top of my head is THe Jolson Story...

From lavenderblue's list, the great George Gershwin (1898-1937): I love this man's music. I was raised on it by my dad, the piano player, who once did a one man show about Gershwin. Amazing stuff. And while we're on the subject of musicians with cinematic connections, here's one who died young, and in the war, too: GLENN MILLER (1904-1944) Edited by: LonesomePolecat on Sep 12, 2012 4:50 PM Edited by: LonesomePolecat on Sep 12, 2012 4:52 PM

Muppeteer Jerry Nelson's recent death (at age 78, so not the subject for this thread) reminded me of the untimely passing of the creator Jim Henson and one of the Muppet Show originals Richard Hunt, who both died in the early '90s. Jim was 53, but Richard was only 40. So sad to lose two of the original Muppeteers so close together. These guys made my childhood so happy. I owe them so much. JIM HENSON (1936-1990) RICHARD HUNT (1951-1992) Edited by: LonesomePolecat on Sep 12, 2012 4:55 PM

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}OK. Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in the great THE APARTMENT, then re-united in the mediocre IRMA LA DOUCE. This is a good example. Not that IRMA LA DOUCE is bad, but with that cast and director it should have been a lot better. Another film like that for me is HIGH SOCIETY. Not that it's bad, it's good, but it should be amazingly fantastic with that cast, music, and source material. I know a lot of you people love it, so I feel like I'm taking my life into my hands my saying this. I like it, I'm just disappointed with the adaptation and the timing and such-- it should have been so incredible, but it's not--it's good, perhaps even great, but not earth-shattering incredible like it should be with that cast. It's a disappointment to me that it's not better than the original (to me it's not even as good). I know a lot of you disagree, but this is America and I'm entitled to my opinion!

> {quote:title=SonOfUniversalHorror wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=willbefree25 wrote:}{quote} > > Good casts in junk movies? Evil Under The Sun and Murder On The Orient Express. Both Christie, both junk. > I disagree strongly regarding Murder On The Orient Express...it's a great movie, probably the best (and it was the first) of the Brabourne/Goodwin productions of Christie stories. Nominated for six Oscars and won one for Ingrid Bergman. I actually also think Murder on the Orient Express is awesome. Love it to bits. Death on the Nile isn't as good, but I like it too.

> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote}Please don't take this wrong, Iz., but I would definitely have remembered if TCM had shown Start. . . . at that time, because I would definitely have recorded it. At that time, they showed Silver Streak. To defend the wonderful LZ, TCM actually did show that movie when lzcutter said they did. Not only am I nerdy enough that I still have the Now Playing Guide that lists it (I never throw them away, but then I haven't been getting them very long), but I have it taped off TCM from that exact day. It's the only reason I've seen the film. I think they did show Silver Streak, too. So sorry you missed such a funny film that you obviously love. "I thought it was a costume ball!" And I'm really enjoying everyone's pictures of Cloris Leachman in HIGH ANXIETY. Such a great comedienne!

There are a lot of Fox films on that list -- the TCM wars with Fox are fairly famous. It's usually a shock when TCM actually shows a Fox film, rather than the other way around. High Anxiety really belongs on TCM, though. Only TCM fans would get all the jokes and references in that film, especially of lesser known or older Hitchcock films. (Does he have a reference to every single Hitchcock film, or just some of them?) Most people these days don't even get the parody of The Birds -- Phillistines! There are lots of films TCM needs to show. For an extensive list, see the premieres on the recent programming challenge schedules.

Diamond, Sam - Peter Falk in MURDER BY DEATH (1979)

Mazeltov and well deserved, Capuchin. Great schedule and awesome films. Can't wait to see your challenge. I for one have tons of ideas for next time. And I already love what you've leaked here. I'll start thinking of movie characters to be guest programmers. Yay! Congrats to us all -- pats on the back all around -- and thanks so much for the countess for running a great challenge. "L'amour, l'amour, tojours l'amour!"

I too am wondering if you mean the movies aren't as good as they should be based on the great cast (like the 80s movie CLUE) or that the movie has a great cast and is good or great but isn't as well known as it should be (like REMEMBER THE NIGHT). Which shall we discuss?

Richard Deacon, a.k.a. Mel Cooley

James Stewart was in ANATOMY OF A MURDER with Eve Arden

This could have been posted by any one of us-- we all wish they would feature some character actors for SUTS and SOTM. Beulah Bondi would be a fantastic choice.

aimalac, you totally made my day by "voting" for me! I too cannot decide between all the awesome schedules so I'll have to come back later...

Everett, Vince - Elvis Presley in JAILHOUSE ROCK

Has this thread made anyone else feel paranoid? Perhaps it's because I've been a "lay low" kind of person my whole life, but now I'm just going to say to everyone just in case: I think all the TCM posters are awesome and way smarter than me and I love these boards, and I love hearing your opinions and thoughts, and I sure hope I never offended everyone when I tried to be funny or smart myself. It was never intentional if I ever did offend anyone, so I hope you'll all forgive me if I did. Speaking on the recent topic of arguments coming out of people's faulty memories, I've noticed in my life lots of fights coming about because of someone not remembering something correctly. I have recently learned to mistrust my memory when I found out something I was sure happened in my childhood didn't happen (a historical event--I could tell you if you want to know, but I kinda feel stupid about it, even though my sister has the same memory, so obviously it isn't my memory's fault). But I have always been an "insufferable know-it-all", and this recent memory thing has reminded me not do what Yul Brynner says in THE KING AND I: "And it puzzle me to learn that though a man may be in doubt of what he know Very quickly will he fight, he'll fight to prove that what he does not know is so!" To answer your initial question about flamewars, TCMAdmin, for myself I just want to quote Jonathan Winters in one of my favorite movies THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! (and, again, forgive me if I'm remembering this wrong): "Can't we all just learn to live together?"

I love scenes that are dripping with subtext. It's especially interesting when the actual text seems trivial, like the scene where Frank Sinatra meets Janet Leigh in MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, and what's interesting in the scene is the subtext. I was also watching ROPE recently and noticed that in the scene when the maid/cook first comes in, they use every idion related to death and murder that they possibly can, now that you're conscious of it.

Valentin, George- Jean Dujardin in THE ARTIST

You know, it's funny, but I tried yesterday to get on and just quickly put LURED back as my "Essential," which it was in my first draft, but the website wouldn't let me on the entire day no matter what server I used. I guess it was "a sign" that someone else needs to moderate the next challenge. Well I believe I commented on all the schedules in the previous thread except SansFin, the last schedule: SansFin- I LOVE VINCENT PRICE AS SOTM!! He's also one who has been on my SOTM list for a while. Awesome schedule, great themes, lots of great movies. Lots of clever titles like "In Seine" and "optical aleutian". I have always wanted to see THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. And is THE MAN CALLED FLINSTONE a movie of the classic animated tv series? Because that is so cool. Great schedule. As for the vote, since apparently I can't vote for Fedya, who totally blew my mind with Peter Lorre and that brilliant "blaxploitation" bit (I am still in awe over that one), I'll have to re-read the schedules again and ponder this matter a bit. Good luck to all. Great schedules all around.