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Robert Montgomery was in Ride the Pink Horse with Wanda Hendrix
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Cloak and Dagger
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Quinn, Anthony
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Fun Facts about Robert Walker:
* Married Jennifer Jones (then Phyllis Isley), on the one-year anniversary of the day they met. They separated on 7 November 1943, and she filed for divorce on 21 April 1945.
* Was the original choice for the male lead in *Meet Me in St. Louis* (1944). It eventually went to Tom Drake, despite protests from Judy Garland.
* In December of 1948, he made national news when he fled from a Topeka, Kansas, psychiatric clinic and smashed up the local police station after being arrested for public drunkenness.
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I don't believe either one was nominated, no.
Anyone who has Fox Movie Channel can catch this movie on Wednesday, April 21st, at 6pm ET.
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Not having seen the movie, I still think Conte could have brought something to the movie that Glenn Ford couldn't. To me, Ford always has that "happy go lucky" look to him, even when he's not smiling, whereas Conte I find much more believable in noir and dramas.
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Good article in Home Media Magazine about why the studios may be reluctant to develop apps of their own with which they could sell or rent movies directly to the consumer:
By : Erik Gruenwedel | Posted: 16 Apr 2010
Despite the rush by third parties to create apps for the Apple iPad tablet computer, home entertainment studios remain largely spectators to the evolving technology.
A burgeoning byproduct to the success of the iPhone, an app represents a Web application that is accessed via a browser over a network such as the Internet.
To third parties, apps represent a proprietary calling card for commercial and altruistic aspirations on Apple?s coveted platform, which includes iTunes and the App Store. The App Store currently has more than 150,000 apps, of which about 75% are gaming related.
There are about 3,000 apps unique to the iPad, although existing Apple apps can be downloaded to the iPad, with varying success.
Among the major studios, launching studio-specific iPad apps appears to be tentative ? or nonexistent.
Sony Pictures will soon bow an app for the iPad earmarked to promote upcoming theatrical releases, according to a spokesperson. Separate apps for Sony-produced TV shows ?Wheel of Fortune? and ?Jeopardy? are also pending.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment spokesperson Lea Porteneuve said iPad users could access the studio?s existing pocketBLU app, which heretofore allowed iPhone/iTouch owners to control their Blu-ray Disc players and engage in Web-based content via a Blu-ray movie.
Phil Leigh, analyst with Inside Digital Media in Tampa Bay, Fla., said studios would favor making content available through iTunes for incremental transactional revenue rather than for free through an app.
?If the studios want to provide movies and TV shows for the iPad, they want consumers to buy or rent it through iTunes,? Leigh said.
He doesn?t envision studios rolling out apps that allow consumers to rent or buy content directly due to the cannibalistic effect on iTunes, packaged media and other established distribution channels.
Leigh said he remains intrigued whether Hulu will be successful in offering an iPad app, which is widely considered to be an ongoing project for the repurposed TV programming Web site co-owned by Disney, NBC Universal and News Corp.
With Apple not supporting Adobe Systems? industry-standard Flash video platform, companies such as Hulu must create apps that allow iPad/iPhone users to view video content.
?Since Hulu is an ad-supported business model, Apple might be reluctant to allow a direct competitor to iTunes on its platform via an app,? Leigh said.
However, Apple did create an app for YouTube videos, underscoring the social network?s clout, according to Leigh.
Blockbuster is working to develop a specific iPad app that mirrors its iPhone app that allows users to manage by-mail rental queues and locate in-store rentals.
?We want to work towards allowing customers to download and watch movies on [the iPad] similar to what they can do right now through the other Blockbuster On Demand offerings,? said Blockbuster spokesperson Michelle Metzger.
Netflix, of course, scored a coup of sorts when its app was offered during the initial launch of the iPad, and for a time ranked among the top three downloaded free apps. The online DVD rental pioneer also is working to develop an app for Android-based devices and created by Google.
A Redbox spokesperson said the kiosk vendor is working on assorted apps for mobile devices, including the iPad.
Colin Sebastian, analyst with Lazard Capital Market in San Francisco, said content creators ? while treading carefully with apps and emerging platforms over the Internet ? at the very least need to have an interactive presence to engage consumers.
?Maybe you have a ?lite? app that has content related to a movie or TV show, but at the same time you are generating a consumer lead and continuing to engage your audience,? Sebastian said.
He said the business models online remain ?prickly,? but consumer technology and media companies are employing apps as promotional vehicles on the iPhone with content related to a franchise or new project.
?From Netflix?s perspective, they want to reach their customers wherever they are,? Sebastian said. ?And whether that is through the browser, the Xbox, iPhone or iPad, is immaterial.?
He said the percentage of free apps would continue to proliferate compared to fee-based apps, despite the fact consumers are comfortable paying for access.
?The trick is figuring out how to monetize an app, which can be more successful than an advertising revenue-based model,? Sebastian said.
Indeed, Warner Bros. Digital Distribution earlier this month launched the interactive game ?Sherlock Holmes Mysteries? as a $2.99 iPad app to coincide with the DVD/Blu-ray Disc release of Sherlock Holmes, starring Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr.
Leveraging the iPad?s 1024x768 screen resolution, users are subjected to 11 immersive 3D environments as they work to solve a virtual case in the gritty side of the 1890?s Victorian London.
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You're welcome, cubswin! I'm really looking forward to these two titles, the first P&P to make it to blu-ray here in the U.S. - we're already months behind the UK in that regard.
And I do agree with you regarding The Night of the Hunter - let's hope Criterion can release that on DVD/BD someday.
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Those would be good selections, too.
The only one I would hope they didn't show is Life is Beautiful.
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That's a good point - I hadn't thought about that. I wonder why they got him, I believe he was still at Columbia at the time.
But Ford had worked for Fox before, in Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence, way back in 1939. That's the other Glenn Ford movie that Fox shows sometimes.
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Well, if they do this next year I would hope they can show Exodus and Schindler's List, and also The Diary of Anne Frank.
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Oh, thanks for letting us know, clore. Too bad their print isn't in better condition, but I would like to watch it even if the print isn't so great, I remember hearing folks mention this movie among the westerns they wished TCM could show some day.
I'll try and post screencaps somewhere for those who can't watch it or don't have FMC.
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I'm pretty sure they have, mrroberts - and the TCM database has an article on it, too. So it must have been shown at some point.
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Granger's autobiography is titled "Include Me Out: My Life from Goldwyn to Broadway" and is selling for about $10 online.
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Peter Lorre
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Ives, Burl
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Nancy Olson was in Pollyanna with Karl Malden
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Clark Gable
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Garson, Greer
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Michael Crawford was in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Buster Keaton
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Greta Garbo
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Darwell, Jane
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I'd been looking for this movie for almost a year before the latest showings on FMC. So to me, these are relatively rare.
If it was one of those movies that TCM has on regular rotation, then it definitely wouldn't be rare.
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Ingram, Johnny - Harry Belafonte in Odds Against Tomorrow
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