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> I thought it was just playing after the last film of the festival that night.
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> Tonight *Terror in a Texas Town* follows *Lone Star*, but I really doubt that Chon Noriega picked that one either.
Actually if you look at the LIF microsite (http://tcm.com/lif), Terror in a Texas Town is officially part of the series, although like all the other movies shown at the very end of the day's LIF schedule, it probably won't have an intro with RO and CN.
As for The Nevadan, I totally agree with you regarding the Cinecolor process, although it might have looked better when it was first released.
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Dewey,
The last two days have been just terrific. The ending of The Pretender was just delicious, I think the audience loved it (in hindsight, the poster reproduction in the program might have given away just a bit too much - but I hadn't looked at it very closely before watching the movie).
Suspense totally lives up to its description as perhaps the biggest-budget movie Monogram ever made; the performances are great, and the singing & dancing number wasn't bad at all...
The Kay Francis double feature was also a delight. I had watched Allotment Wives on TCM last time it showed, but nothing compares to watching it with a large, enthusiastic audience! You know Kay's last line in that movie? I loved the audience's reaction!
I'm sorry to hear that ChiO wasn't able to stay another week, I think he would have had a lot of fun.
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I've set up a temporary message board for TCM viewers who continue to have trouble with these forums. If interested, just send me a PM.
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*Bob Hope honored on new postage stamp*
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, Associated Press Writer
Thu May 28, 12:39 pm ET
WASHINGTON ? Bob Hope is making one more appearance with the troops.
The comedian famed for his tireless travel to entertain American servicemen and women around the world is being honored with a 44-cent postage stamp Friday in ceremonies aboard the USS Midway in San Diego.
"I think that he would be thrilled, absolutely honored and love the thought of it," his daughter Linda Hope said in a telephone interview.
"It would also be an opportunity for him to get in a few jokes about the rise in the cost of postage," she added, recalling a comment he once made about people chipping in to buy a stamp to send in a complaining letter.
Hope made two appearances aboard the Midway in a career launched in the 1930s and including military shows from World War II to the Persian Gulf. He died in 2003 at age 100. His widow, Dolores Hope, celebrated her 100th birthday Wednesday night in Los Angeles.
"The trips were very profound for him and very meaningful," Linda Hope said. "He was very touched by the sacrifice that these young men and women were willing to make."
People would often come up to him in an airport and say they saw in the South Pacific or Korea or somewhere else, she said.
And in the days before instant communications, people would sometimes write in that they had seen a loved one in the audience of one of his shows and ask for a recorded copy, she said. "We tried to accommodate them when we could," she added.
Hope often joked that he was only in the entertainment business to pay his greens fees, his daughter said, but it was very energizing for him to be out there in front of an audience.
The post office has printed 100 million stamps featuring Hope and they are on sale nationwide.
Hope starred on stage, radio, television and film for more than seven decades and was the first person recognized by Congress as an honorary veteran of the United States Armed Forces, even though he never officially served in the military.
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Interesting points you make about Pride of the Yankees, CineSage. I'm a big Cooper fan, but I think you're right in that Robert Montgomery could have added something extra to the part that didn't come naturally to Coop.
As for Here Comes Mr. Jordan, it's always been one of my favorite movies about the afterlife.
And is it just me, or did there seem to be quite a few of those between the late 30's and the mid-40s? You had On Borrowed Time, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Heaven Can Wait, Between Two Worlds, and A Matter of Life and Death. Would this have been as popular a theme at the time, had it not been for WW2? I wonder.
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Johnson, Tor
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Executive Action
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I'd normally have posted this in the DVD forum, but I think there may be at least a few folks who don't frequent that particular forum who might nonetheless be interested...
Amazon has launched a DVD/Blu-ray Trade-in Program which allows customers to send in their used Blu-ray and DVD titles for Amazon.com Gift Cards. Similar to their existing Video Game Trade-in Program, you simply select the disc you want to trade-in, use the pre-paid shipping label to send it to Amazon, and then you'll have the Amazon Gift Card deposited to your account upon their receipt.
Obviously, this is a great program to allow DVD owners to trade-up to Blu-rays at a discounted rate
Anyone think they might be getting of their old DVDs via this program?
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Superman
If you're looking for an exciting adventure in a distant, faraway and exotic land, what you're looking for might be....
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I'm one of those people who doesn't know the difference. Don't get me wrong - I'd jump at the chance to see the musical on-stage, but it has never happened so far.
Could you give us a rough idea what makes the stage version so much better than the movie? Just an example or two would do, I guess...
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This article has the list, if you don't remember off the top of your head:
http://www.tcm.com/movienews/index/?cid=239081
According to the auteur theory in cinema studies, the director is the ?author? of a film and the person most responsible for a film?s distinctive qualities. This June, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will put that concept front and center as it celebrates the work of more than 50 top directors from around the world. TCM?s month-long GREAT DIRECTORS festival will featured nearly 350 films, including the works of classic directors like Frank Capra (It Happened One Night), Alfred Hitchcock (Notorious) and John Ford (Stagecoach); mavericks like Orson Welles (Citizen Kane), Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot) and Blake Edwards (Victor/Victoria); international icons like Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal), Federico Fellini (La Strada), Francois Truffaut (Jules and Jim) and Akira Kurosawa (Kagemusha); and modern masters like Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan), Martin Scorsese (GoodFellas) and Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters). Also included in the festival will be several memorable documentaries about and interviews with legendary directors.
?The enormous response we receive each August with our SUMMER UNDER THE STARS festival, which features a different actor or actress? work each day, inspired us to create this expansive showcase of the world?s greatest film directors,? said Charles Tabesh, senior vice president of programming for TCM. ?With this festival, we are once again able to utilize TCM?s tremendous roster of film titles to create an in-depth, authoritative examination and celebration of a particular aspect of cinema.?
Each weekday of the GREAT DIRECTORS festival will feature two directors, one during the daytime and another in primetime and late night. The daytime lineup will feature such directors as Victor Fleming (June 2), Fritz Lang (June 8), John Huston (June 11), Jacques Tourneur (June 12), Robert Wise (June 16), Blake Edwards (June 19), Otto Preminger (June 23), David Lean (June 26) and Sidney Lumet (June 29).
Weeknight primetime directors include John Ford (June 1), Frank Capra (June 2), Ingmar Bergman (June 4), Steven Spielberg (June 5), Preston Sturges (June 10), Akira Kurosawa (June 11), Woody Allen (June 12), Orson Welles (June 16), Francois Truffaut (June 18), Martin Scorsese (June 19), Stanley Kubrick (June 24), Federico Fellini (June 25), Norman Jewison (June 26) and Cecil B. DeMille (June 29).
Each Saturday and Sunday, TCM will present 24 hours of one director?s work and will include Saturday 8 p.m. installments of THE ESSENTIALS showcase, hosted by Robert Osborne and Alex Baldwin, and Sunday 8 p.m. editions of THE ESSENTIALS JR., hosted by John Lithgow. The weekend directors include William Wyler (June 6), Michael Curtiz (June 7), Billy Wilder (June 13), Howard Hawks (June 14), Mervyn LeRoy (June 20), Vincente Minnelli (June 21), Alfred Hitchcock (June 27) and George Cukor (June 28).
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Even before TCM dedicates most of the day to Fritz Lang movies on June 8th, there's two movies of his on the schedule:
_May 29th, 3:30pm ET_
*The Big Heat* (1953)
A police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster's moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby Dir: Fritz Lang BW-90 mins, TV-14
_May 30th, 8am ET_
*Hangmen Also Die* (1943)
When a Nazi officer is assassinated, Czech patriots band together to protect his killer.
Cast: H. H. v. Twardowski, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee Dir: Fritz Lang BW-134 mins, TV-14
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Eastwood, Clint
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Fosse, Bob - directed Cabaret
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Cyd Charisse was in Party Girl with Robert Taylor
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Zero in Conduct
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Chris,
I didn't get a chance to watch this last night, but I imagine it must feel great for a Western fan like yourself to watch Gail in her prime. Did you like her in her later roles, like Seven Men From Now ?
I remember from watching documentaries of that one that she hit a rough spot in her career in the early 50s, but that the Duke stood by her and helped get her cast in that Budd Boetticher western. What a great guy he was to her!
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Walk Proud
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"Silk Stockings" is on TCM today at 2pm
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Cooper, Gary
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Undercurrent
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Thanks to Dewey for including a whole day of Kay Francis B noirs in his festival...
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Astaire, Fred
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Stokes, Jerry - Joan Bennett in Man Hunt
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