moviefan1951

Personally, I never ever get tired of watching the marvelous Dietrich. I'm not sure I'll get to watch my recording of *Knight Without Armor* today, but this weekend, for sure! I'm so glad TCM finally got to show this wonderful movie. B-)

> What better place for an article on "Rio Bravo" than the "Rambles." The Wall Street journal had a piece to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the relesae of this, what they call, America's favorite cult film. > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123802062186941663.html That's a terrific article, movieman! Thank you for sharing. I sure would love to read any "Rio Bravo" related ramblin'! B-)

Even better, I think, is the job security that comes with such an important position. He can count on this job for decades to come, I'm sure!

> The beauty of Elwood is that all this is perfectly natural. I think he wonders why everyone doesn't have their own pooka. We should all be so laid back and carefree and only want to be a source of encouragement for others. That's a great point. And it also highlights the importance of having cast Jimmy Stewart in the lead role, there weren't very many actors who could have pulled it off so beautifully. The only other one who even comes close, I think, is Henry Fonda. But Stewart had an almost dream-like quality that made him ideally suited for the role of Elwood. A great star shines in the movie, and the movie comes to life thanks to him. What a great performance, too!

I was just reading a review of the Cinefest event in Syracuse, it mentions a little-known Frank Borzage movie: Back Pay (1922), directed by Frank Borzage and adapted by Frances Marion from a Fannie Hurst novel, rounded out the 35mm show. An absorbing and emotional soap opera, it provided a showcase for Seena Owen as a small?town girl who yearns for the big city and fine things. As she confesses to the young man who loves her, ?I guess I have a crepe-de-chine soul.? (Later, when she?s living as the mistress of a wealthy New Yorker, he raises a glass at a dinner party and announces, ?Here?s to the wages of sin.? She responds, ?If sin has any wages, some of us are going to collect a lot of back pay.?) What a great line!

It sounds like such a wonderful event for film buffs. If only TCM could get the broadcast rights and show these gems to all the people who aren't able to fly to Syracuse!

Congratulations on the new job, movieman!

> You really make me want to see the movie again, which I will, on Saturday when it airs on the Fox movie channel. Thank you for the reminder! I really want to catch this again.

Ahhh, well, when you put it like that, I guess I'm also crazy... about classic movies, of course!

Hey, it was just an idea. Mostly because so many of you looked simply... *fabulous!* But to avoid putting anyone in an uncomfortable position, how about we let the guest programmers who post here, if and when they wish, post screenshots of themselves from the promos and/or intros? That way nobody will see their face in this thread if they don't want to? Fair enough?

Well, obviously they had very poor taste. And the fact that they'd lost money on "Citizen Kane" probably didn't help matters, either. The loss of all that footage from "Magnificent Ambersons" is a true tragedy of film history, without a doubt.

> Mr. Cutter is still at the "thinks your crazy" stage? Wait until he finds out you ARE crazy. I don't believe that to be the case at all, Frank. In fact I think she's extraordinarily intelligent and very, very knowledgeable about movies in general. Having said that, I wouldn't mind trying some of that legendary Kool Aid I keep hearing about.

> Maybe TCM will put the fan intros on the media page? Do you mean the "Media Room"? I think that's an excellent idea. In the meantime, I wonder if any of the guest programmers from the boards would mind terribly if we were to post screenshots from the promos?

> Attack of the Puppet People is better than The Crawling Hand, although admittedly Hand sets the bar pretty low. But how does it compare to "The Giant Claw"?

> Recieved my copy of The Beast of the City with Jean Harlow. Did you happen to notice whether it had closed-captioning?

> This place has been such a great place for me to learn to write all over again. Glad to hear that. I mean, to read that.

> I want to get the French version, with Charles Boyer and directed by Fritz Lang, next. The Fritz Lang version of *Liliom* is available as a bonus feature on the special edition DVD of *Carousel*. I am sure you will enjoy it.

> Seriously, though, these mugs are great. I have one here at my desk and work and one on my coffee table at home for when I watch TCM. I wonder which of the two is the "special edition" mug. Alas, I guess those "special edition" mugs will *not* be finding their way to online auction sites.

I have really enjoyed reading your thoughts on this movie, Rick, and hope I'll have more time to respond in more detail in the near future. I'm sure that just because only a handful of people post detailed responses, it doesn't mean that there aren't a lot more movie fans who read this thread. Regarding young Charlie's age, I was just going to say that perhaps chronological age isn't all that important in the scheme of things, as much as maturity. You could have a very mature 17-year-old who is very wise to the ways of the world, and you could also have a 25-year-old young lady who was very immature or very naive and inexperienced and easily taken advantage of. Of course, it makes more sense that young Charlie would be relatively naive since she'd grown up in a small city where nothing much out of the ordinary seemed to happen. The movie also serves as a great counterpoint to all of Hitchcock's "innocent man wrongly accused" movies, since in this particular one, the man who is or has been pursued actually was guilty as suspected. He manages to elude the law enforcement element, but he doesn't escape from universal justice.

> Besides, after Dodge City, Virginia City, San Antonio, Dallas, Carson City, Fort Worth and who knows how many more, maybe Warners was running out of city names to use as the title. LOL!

Oh, believe me, I do hope that I will eventually have a chance to read not just "Great Expectations", but several other Dickens novels, as well. I am somewhat familiar with them because I read children's adaptations of these novels when I was growing up. Besides "Great Expectations" I would also like to read "The Pickwick Papers" and "The Old Antiquities Shop" (I think that's what it's called). Did you by any chance get to watch the 90s remake with Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow?

Sometimes I wish I could have the patience to take notes while watching a movie, but it's just too much work. If anything, modern technology makes it easier to actually post one's thoughts online while watching a movie. Well, at least when you watch it on video. Taking notes while watching a movie at a cinema is another thing altogether. Guess you either have to learn to write in the dark or have a small lamp with you that hopefully won't bother other moviegoers. I do wonder how professional reviewers manage.

I guess my library is all out of Harvey for the time being, so I ended up putting it on my Netflix queue, instead. Hope I will get it sometime soon.

That's funny you should mention that, clore, I was just thinking that "Springfield Rifle" for some reason sounded very similar to "Winchester 73", so I guess you might be on to something. Even if it isn't the greatest western ever, I still would like to watch it, though.