moviefan1951
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> What are other good Hawks westerns? Anything TCM plays?
The ones you're probably most likely to catch on TCM would be "Red River" and "The Big Sky". That last one is not on DVD, so TCM is your best bet. I'm not sure if TCM plays "El Dorado" very much, but a brand new DVD is coming out in a couple of months which apparently is going to have some new bonus features. Even though Paramount is really horrible about double-dipping, and I should in good conscience boycott all of their re-hashes, this is one that I might be getting.
Well, that one and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", which of course isn't a Hawks western, but it's also being re-issued on DVD with new bonus features at about the same time.
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Dr. Pepper can sure be delicious, but it must be no fun when it's been spilled. Sorry to hear about your spillage problem, hope you can get it all cleaned up in time to enjoy a nice movie (or two).
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Hi Seeeker, welcome to the forums!
I agree with you that it would be nice, and I do hope that TCM continues to add the occasional foreign-language movie to the schedule in addition to the "Sunday Import" or whatever that's called.
Speaking of which, have you seen Marcel Carne's *Les Enfants du Paradis*, which TCM is showing on Sunday? It's a really magnificent movie. You may have heard of it by the English title, *Children of Paradise*. B-)
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The resemblance really is uncanny!
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> Great poster, moviefan! Is it from your personal collection?
Oh, no, it isn't. I wish! Well, it's just something I found when I googled "Rio Bravo" and I thought it looked nice. I certainly wish I could have put that together, I guess it might not be too hard to do it with photoshop.
But it's certainly a great movie, really it's my favorite Hawks western.
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> Now, what about this other one?
Very nice photo. Looks like it's from "The 39 Steps", which just happens to be one of my favorite Hitchcock movies. :x
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That really is the best advice, Chip. I got lucky when I recorded "The Bad Man" because I didn't really care for the intro or the outro, at least not to have them recorded, but they both got chopped off. It didn't hurt the actual movie, luckily enough.
TCM probably can't get it 100% right all the time, so it's always best to double check running times, especially the ones that Robert or Ben introduce, because with those you always have to allow for 3-5 minutes extra on top of the movie's running time.
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That really is a fascinating comparison. There really are interesting parallels between "Shadow of a Doubt" and "In a Lonely Place", even if one of them deals with beloved family members and the other one with actual romantic love. And I think that in both cases the person who feels so strongly about the person they don't immediately know everything about have to go through a great deal of denial.
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I love that photo of Robert Donat! :x
He was always very handsome, wasn't he?
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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-)
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> 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.
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> 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-)
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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!
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> 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!
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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!
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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!
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Congratulations on the new job, movieman!
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> 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.
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Ahhh, well, when you put it like that, I guess I'm also crazy... about classic movies, of course!
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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?
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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"?
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Well, the resemblance will probably be quite good, and he's a very good actor. Having said that, I do not think he'll be getting another Oscar for that performance.