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I see they're playing Yellow Submarine right after Stagecoach. Now I really wish I could go to Baltimore!

He was certainly a versatile director. I've learned a little about him while reading the new Victor Fleming biography; Hathaway sort of apprenticed under him, as an assistant director in The Virginian. I can't help but admire the directors who got started during the silent era and went on to flourish during later decades. I'm also looking forward to the DVD release of Trail of the Lonesome Pine - great director, fantastic cast!

> {quote:title=movieman1957 wrote:}{quote} > "Stagecoach" is playing at the soon-to-be-gone Senator theater in Baltimore. No Dan Ford. Alas, I can't get there. A theater in the Bay Area just had a long retrospective in honor of John Wayne - alas I couldn't be there, either. http://www.stanfordtheatre.org/stf/calendars/John%20Wayne.html

Of the Jungle Jim movies on today's schedule, which one do you think is best? Jungle Jim, Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land, or Jungle Manhunt ?

So Dear to My Heart - County Fair Lamb next: Incredible Mr. Limpet

Gable, Clark

> {quote:title=movieman1957 wrote:}{quote} > Thanks for finding the clip I couldn't. Glad to be of help! You probably already know this, but that episode is also available on DVD from Netflix.

Newman, Alfred - composer, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Queen Kelly

> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > Holly, what we might have here, as Strother Martin says in COOL HAND LUKE, is failure to communicate. > > My perception, and please correct me if I'm wrong, was that the mention of Memorial Day and THE BIG PARADE, seemed unusually unnecessary for this thread. Bronxie, You got it all wrong. All I was trying to say, basically, was that a) it was a holiday; and there was a movie later on TCM that I wanted to watch, but that I hoped I'd have time to watch The Screaming Skull beforehand. That's all, really. It wouldn't have made much difference to me which holiday it was, or which movie TCM was showing that I wanted to catch. > Granted, other things might have interrupted your intended viewing, but, I have to honestly say that I felt you were more interested in letting us know it was Memorial Day and that you would be watching THE BIG PARADE, than in any real interest in THE SCREAMING SKULL. No, Bronxie, my interest in The Screaming Skull was actually even stronger than for the other movie.

> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > I for one would welcome your extended thoughts on PANDORA'S BOX, GUEST IN THE HOUSE, LOVE FROM A STRANGER, and any other movies talked about here and also introduced, amid an atmosphere of understood civility and smoothly flowing, uninterrupted conversation. This is fair enough, Bronxie. I am all for understood civility and smoothly flowing, uninterrupted conversation. If I have erred in some way, for whatever reason, I promise to try to be more careful and show you I mean no disrespect to anyone. My enthusiasm for classic cinema is as true and genuine as anyone else's. Sometimes, due to the stresses of everyday life, I may become a little too eager to try and participate in an ongoing conversation, and if in doing so I have caused you or any friends any distress, I am truly and humbly very sorry and hope you'll be kind enough to accept my apology. As I told Scott a while ago, a loved one recently underwent surgery, and I've been trying to calm down and relax a little bit more, because for a bit there it was truly a little stressful for me (and a little scary, too). Thinking or talking about movies has on more than a few occasion gotten me through some tough periods of my life. I don't pretend that I've had it worse than others, but there have been enough close calls to really make me try to live each day to its fullest. Movies are one thing that oftentimes make even the worst ordeals a little more bearable (and without resorting to addictive substances). Having said that, I promise to you that if you'll but give me but a little chance, I'll do everything I can to be a better participant, every single day. Holly

> {quote:title=filmlover81 wrote:}{quote} > For the role of Tommy Albright the obvious choice would be Hugh Jackman but what about Robert Downey Jr he can sing too and I'm sure he could easily do some dancing. > > For the role of Fiona Campbell part a Scottish or Britsh actress would be ideal but if they had to cast an American I was thinking maybe Anne Hathaway. > > For the role of Charlie Dalrymple either James McAvoy or Ewan McGregor maybe even get a part for both of them. I like your choices, Nina! And didn't Anne Hathaway do a decent English accent in Becoming Jane ? I think she could probably do an acceptable job with a Scottish accent.

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> {quote:title=moirafinnie6 wrote:}{quote} > Has anyone seen *My Six Convicts* (1952)? > It may have been on TCM before, but it doesn't seem to have been released on any video. Based on the fact that the TCM database has an article about it, I guess they almost certainly played it at some point: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=334&category=Articles

> {quote:title=brandoalways4ever wrote:}{quote} > I like that pic! Doug looks so handsome and cool in the mask. What I love about his performance in Mask of Zorro is how he starts out with two completely different personas - Zorro and Diego Vega - and then towards the end he has Diego reveal himself as Zorro, totally reversing his seemingly-boring hacendado character.

I don't know much about how he was as a father, although I remember having read recently the obit for his son. Are there any good McCrea biographies that you would recommend?

> {quote:title=brandoalways4ever wrote:}{quote} > I hope I don't sound silly but are there any shirtless pics of him? Is my memory playing tricks on me, or did he actually appear shirtless in The Fountanhead ?

Well, thank goodness at least someone was kind enough to post their thoughts about that GG movie, which I am really looking forward to watching on GG's glorious SUTS day. This article also makes it sound really exciting (at least to me): http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=508&category=Articles

He was kind of a scoundrel in Repeat Performance, too, but I think he turned down the charm factor, at least in the second half. I still think he was just right for the part, of course!

> {quote:title=molo14 wrote:}{quote} > I liked Victor Mature in *My Darling Clementine* and most things Biblical. I used to get him confused with Cornel Wilde for some reason. Funny you should say that, molo. Believe it or not, I am still getting Mature and Wilde confused, at least occasionally! I'd agree he was very good in My Darling Clementine and Biblical epics. I also liked him in some of the musicals he made at Fox. Many Victor Mature titles are still more likely to turn up on the FMC than they are on TCM, unfortunately. Over the years I have been able to record My Gal Sal, Wabash Avenue, Something for the Birds and, just yesterday, Cry of the City.

Well, I can totally understand someone not liking it if they're expecting a conventional noir, I guess. For me, what did the trick was probably that I enjoy watching anything related to WW2 that was actually made around that period, so even if it isn't something that I'd consider noir, I would still say it's a pretty good semi-documentary.

> {quote:title=goldensilents wrote:}{quote} > Or Rex Ingram's *Mare Nostrum* (another silent which hasn't aired on TCM in several years). I'm not familiar with it, but if they could show it again, I'd love to watch and/or record. Ingram is a silent film director I'm just starting to get acquainted with.

> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote} > Thanks for your concern, but things are still difficult. I think it's my anti-virus program - the little tray icon globe spins wildly whenever I load on this site. That's odd. A lot of other folks are having trouble with the forums lately, but I haven't heard anyone mention their anti-virus program, specifically. > I missed the earlier Rogers film, but will record the Scott westerns as I always do. > > Funny, Rogers and Scott on John Wayne's birthday. I thought it was a very odd programming choice. I think there was some other channel that had a John Wayne tribute today, maybe TCM tried to counter-program? Anyway, it's good to see you here, hope you won't be having too much trouble with forum access in the near future!

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > Something about the 6-9 hour (PST) during the week makes them crazy. Lynn, Have you experienced the same trouble on the Film Union site as you do here in the boards? I was just wondering whether it would make any sense for folks to try and have a discussion in one of the CFU groups (like the Westerns one or the "Directed by John Ford" one) at least during the times when the boards are not working properly. Just a thought.

> {quote:title=Dewey1960 wrote:}{quote} > I can honestly say that the Roxie noir crowd is perhaps the most respectful and reverential audience there is. They laugh when something is legitimately funny and cheer wildly when that particular emotional response is called for. I can definitely attest to that; discovering such a respectful audiences is always a very nice surprise, anywhere you go. I don't recall audiences so appreciative except for a handful of very special places, like a few arthouse theaters in L.A. and Seattle, and the Film Forum in NYC. And the mere fact that the Roxie audiences turn out in such large numbers for some of the rarest, most obscure titles ever to come out of Poverty Row also speaks for itself! I've heard long-time Roxie fans speak with great fondness about the "good ol' times" (apparently, when Dewey was programming on a full-time basis) when the theater offered a steady diet of classic films, noirs, etc. Many of them sound like they'd love to see that happen again, and that they'd be ready to turn out regularly for that kind of repertory programming. One can always hope...