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> {quote:title=brandoalways4ever wrote:}{quote} > What does the cover look like? Sorry, the cover of what? Are you talking about the Coop DVD boxset from the Warner Archives?

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > Since Fred MacMurray is an insurance man does this little fella figure into the plot? > > That little thing would have taken a look at Mrs. Dietrichson and run the other way...

> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote} > Holly, I have a ton of films on DVD, but there is something about the shared experience that I miss whenever TCM is airing modern films. I guess I may be old school when it comes to that. My cable company has hundreds of channels and really, only TCM is worth watching from that assortment, most of the time. I'm sure folks who love classic films and TV have those on DVD and are watching them, but I miss the connection when we can watch something together, and it's from 1933 or 1941. Well, I like that shared connection, too; I just don't know what that has to do with what I was saying... sorry! What I meant is that there's a lot of movies that air on TCM that I wouldn't record because I've either seen them already, or because they're easily available on commercial DVDs. The ones that aren't on DVD I always want to make sure to record, whether or not I watch them as they're being shown. But some days are really hard on my DVD recorder, like those where there's eight movies showing one after the other and I want to make sure to record them all. At the end of the day, you never know when a rare movie being shown on TCM might not be shown again for several years, so having that recording at least gives you a nice little back-up, if you think you might want to watch it again someday.

I try to look at the bright side... the slow days give my DVD recorder a chance to get some much needed rest.

The cast is pretty good, too. Hope TCM can get its hands on this one someday!

Neal, Patricia

> {quote:title=rohanaka wrote:}{quote} > Here you go, little missy... though I have to confess... mine are not quite so "hot fudgy" as this... but the vanilla icecream DOES add that somethin' somethin' to them.... ha. > > Gee whiz, there goes my diet... Just kidding, Kathy, love those yummy photos.

> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote} > If so, the budget and economy suck!!! I'm hoping things turn around soon. I think we're all on the same page there, mark. Let's hope things improve soon, for all Americans, and for the world in general, because the financial meltdown really seems to have had an impact all over the world. And, with any luck, 2010 will bring more TCM premieres than ever before!

Coop fans - don't forget 2 Coop/Howard Hawks movies coming up this Sunday - _24 hours_ dedicated entirely to director Hawks. *Sergeant York* (1941) 9:30am ET True story of the farm boy who made the transition from religious pacifist to World War I hero. Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias Dir: Howard Hawks BW-134 mins, TV-G *Ball Of Fire* (1941) 6pm ET A group of professors takes in a nightclub singer hiding from the law to protect her gangster boyfriend. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers Dir: Howard Hawks BW-112 mins, TV-G

Hi Seneca, welcome to the forums! Your take in Rear Window reminds me a lot about the first time I saw this movie. In fact, I've been waiting for a while to watch it again, and hope to do so within the next week or so, hopefully that will allow me to comment more extensively on this, one of the Master's best.

As part of the "Great Directors" theme this month, TCM will dedicate all of Sunday's schedule to Howard Hawks. *SCHEDULE FOR SUNDAY, JUNE 14* *A Song Is Born* (1948) 6am ET A group of music professors takes in a singer on the run from her gangster boyfriend. Cast: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey Dir: Howard Hawks C-113 mins, TV-G *Tiger Shark* (1932) 8am ET A tuna fisherman marries a woman in love with another man. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann, Leila Bennett Dir: Howard Hawks BW-77 mins, TV-PG *Sergeant York* (1941) 9:30am ET True story of the farm boy who made the transition from religious pacifist to World War I hero. Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias Dir: Howard Hawks BW-134 mins, TV-G *Bringing Up Baby* (1938) 12pm ET A madcap heiress upsets the staid existence of a straitlaced scientist. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Walter Catlett Dir: Howard Hawks BW-102 mins, TV-G *Twentieth Century* (1934) 2pm ET A tempestuous theatrical director tries to win back the star he created and then drove away. Cast: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns Dir: Howard Hawks BW-91 mins, TV-PG *His Girl Friday* (1940) 4pm ET An unscrupulous editor plots to keep his star reporter-and ex-wife-from re-marrying. Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart Dir: Howard Hawks BW-92 mins, TV-G *Ball Of Fire* (1941) 6pm ET A group of professors takes in a nightclub singer hiding from the law to protect her gangster boyfriend. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers Dir: Howard Hawks BW-112 mins, TV-G *To Have And Have Not* (1944) 8pm ET A skipper-for-hire's romance with a beautiful drifter is complicated by his growing involvement with the French resistance. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran Dir: Howard Hawks BW-100 mins, TV-G *The Big Sleep* (1946) 10am ET Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl's involvement in the murder of a pornographer. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers Dir: Howard Hawks BW-116 mins, TV-PG *Only Angels Have Wings* (1939) 12am ET A team of flyers risks their lives to deliver the mail in a mountainous South American country. Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth Dir: Howard Hawks BW-121 mins, TV-PG *Air Force* (1943) 2:15am ET A bomber crew sees World War II action over the Pacific. Cast: John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Drake Dir: Howard Hawks BW-125 mins, TV-G *The Crowd Roars* (1932) 4:30am ET A race-car driver tries to keep his brother from following in his footsteps. Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Eric Linden Dir: Howard Hawks BW-70 mins, TV-G

So, I've been reading the Fleming biography, and I came across a passage that seems to perfectly capture the spirit of those wild, early days of filmmaking: In those days, knowing how to drive a car was as crucial to the makers of outdoor adventures as knowing how to ride a horse. Fleming wrote for a 1944 "Lion's Roar" article that in 1914 "we used to load director and principals in one car, cameraman and crew in another, and go looking for scenery that would look well as background. Sometimes we changed stories to suit the sceneary!" As he put it in "Action", cowboy actors brought "their own props from the bunkhouses and corrals," and autos were so rare "that few actors knew how to drive and not many cared to attempt it. As a result, those of us who could drive were invariably used to double for stars in those early thrill scenes when automobiles were in the picture." Cowboys left the studio an hour early so they could ride to location on horseback. "The natives were never quite sure whether it was a hanging party or a movie outfit that rode down upon them before the sun was high in the heavens. We frequently used them for atmosphere." One thing that comes across very clearly are the very special influences that helped Fleming on his way to becoming a top Hollywood director. From his days as a taxi driver and camera man came an excellent understanding of many kinds of machinery and how they could be operated. From his days working on Douglas Fairbanks movies, he learned a lot about the fast-paced action and the ways in which people should be photographed so that emotion came across clearly. There could have been no better education for a future film director in those days.

Here are some more posters from GG movies... the likenesses may vary, but I still think of GG every time I look at them!

Douglas Dumbrille was in Jupiter's Darling with George Sanders

> Still from Once Upon a Time in the West > > Don't you just love Henry Fonda as a bad guy? He's so deliciously evil! :x P.S. Congrats on your 18k posts!!

Douglas Fairbanks and director Victor Fleming during the making of "Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks" (1931)

Lockhart, Gene

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands - Lancaster's other noir next: Fedora

Wendy, Here's the photo I promised earlier.... Ben Johnson (1918-1996)

VCI has announced their B-western set "Big Iron Collection" with an August 4th release date. Titles included will be Crooked River, Colorado Ranger, Fast on the Draw, Hostile Country, Marshal of Heldorado and West of the Brazos (All 1950).

Ophuls, Max - directed Lola Montes

Julia, Raul

Thornhill, Roger - Cary Grant in North by Northwest