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Eastwood, Clint - directed Bird
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Action in the North Atlantic (on TCM next Monday)
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The Wednesday lineup was awesome! Monogram's Violence made the most of its unusual milieu, and it was fun to see Nancy Coleman's character struggle with a double identity and amnesia, not to say anything about the undercover agent who comes to her rescue.
Republic Picture's The Last Crooked Mile was a doozy - really enjoyed Ann Savage in this one, and there were many interesting twists and turns along the way as the characters look for a $300,000 loot cleverly hidden in a running board; complete with a visit to the roller-coaster and a frantic oceanside chase. It packs a wallop, and it's barely over an hour long!
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> imdb.com says the working title of the film was "Invasion of the Zombies," so that could explain the song. But it doesn't explain the film.
I don't know that anything could really explain the film!
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moirafinnie wrote an interesting blog about the 1958 western Saddle in the Wind - a great read!
http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/05/20/insomniac-theatre-open-all-night/
I haven't seen this western yet, but just because of moira's blog, I'm suddenly very interested in watching it. It's out on DVD, so I'll just add it to my Netflix queue.
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Warren William was in Cleopatra (1934) with Claudette Colbert
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Capra, Frank - directed It's a Wonderful Life
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Quinn, Anthony
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Yellow Rolls-Royce (The)
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> {quote:title=coopsgirl wrote:}{quote}
> The one that really befuddles me is Wendell Corey. How he ever got a single role much less a 21 year career is beyond me. I havent seen him do a good job yet and unfortunately hes in quite a few movies with people I like. He had absolutely no charisma and very little acting ability.
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I've actually gotten to be a pretty big fan of Corey in the last few months, although I can understand that his appeal might be limited. I think he brought a very interesting quality to his characters, the one performance I watched more recently was that of Capt. Peoples in Carbine Williams, opposite Jimmy Stewart.
I also remember enjoying him very much in The File on Thelma Jordan and I Walk Alone. Guess our tastes differ a lot on this one!
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Fritz Lang's *Man Hunt* (Fox)
This had been one of the most eagerly anticipated classic releases from Fox and it does not disappoint. The Fritz Lang classic has been carefully restored and looks in pristine condition in this newly released DVD, which not coincidentally has been timed to coincide with the DVD/BD release of Valkyrie.
The film's great cast includes Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine and Roddy McDowall.
Not only does the movie look and sound great, but it also contains some great bonus features, including a sound commentary by author Patrick McGilligan and the documentary "Rogue Male: The Making of Man Hunt", as well as the original theatrical trailer, restoration comparison, and artwork galleries. With an average price of around $10 from online retailers, it's a steal!
I made some screencaps and posted them in the Fritz Lang thread:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=113863&tstart=0
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Here are some Man Hunt screencaps, as promised
Bonus documentary:
The documentary itself is fairly entertaining, giving some background into the production of Man Hunt, which was shot, edited and released in about 3 months (apparently a record at the time for a major studio release) and about how it was important for Fritz Lang's career. He'd escaped from Nazi Germany himself just a few years earlier, and he very much wanted to show that he absolutely didn't have the least bit of sympathy for the Nazis.
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I'm sure it will be on DVD soon enough... you can catch it then, I hope
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Vigil in the Night
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Olivier, Laurence
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Anderson, Michael - directed The Shoes of the Fisherman
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> {quote:title=feaito wrote:}{quote}
> Thanks Holly,
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> Latin TCM's Lineup is very inferior than TCM USA's. Almost no Pre-Codes, no Silents and scarce films. There are mainly TV Series: Chips, A-Team, Dallas, Wonder Woman, etc. I was lucky enough to tape a lot stuff from TCM USA during my visits to the US, so I'm still watching that and I have over 1,600 films on DVD to see and revisit -I have bought and exchanged a lot! I wish I could attend Dewey's Noir Screenings. Well, at least two weeks ago I bought many Classic Noirs to watch
Fernando, you're lucky to have taped all that stuff from TCM-US, I agree! Today's morning/evening schedule is very exciting, because it's Bob Montgomery's b-day, luckily I had already recorded everything being shown today, except The First Hundred Years, which starts in about an hour. Have you seen it? The trailer looks very good!
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?o_cid=mediaroomlink&cid=111330
By the way, speaking of Dewey, did you hear about his new noir book? It is very exciting, you can find out more at http://www.iwakeupdreaming.com/
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> I find the most beautiful - Hedy Lamarr, Kim Novak, Capucine, Gene Tierney, Carole Lombard.
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> Those I would like to spend an evening with at dinner - Jean Arthur, Ginger Rogers, Claudette Colbert, Gail Russell, Myrna Loy, Judy Holliday. Beautiful and fun.
You have very good taste, Chris, but have you thought about adding a little international flavor to your list? How about Sophia Loren, Bridgitte Bardot, or Romy Schneider?
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Another excellent deal on ammy right now is the Budd Boetticher/Randolph Scott DVD boxset, which is marked down to $30.99, a great price for 5 movies plus bonus features.
http://www.amazon.com/Boetticher-Decision-Buchanan-Lonesome-Comanche/dp/B001ER4CNO
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They Won't Forget
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Rebecca
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Penthouse
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Very sad news from Los Angeles tonight...
*Wayne Allwine, voice of Mickey Mouse, dies at 62*
Allwine got the role in 1976. He was only the third person -- Walt Disney was the first -- to voice the character. 'It's really not about me; it's about Mickey, and Mickey is Walt's,' he once said.
By Dennis McLellan
May 21, 2009
Wayne Allwine, a Walt Disney Studios voice-over artist who was the voice of Mickey Mouse for more than three decades, has died. He was 62.
Allwine, an Emmy Award-winning former sound effects editor and foley artist, died of complications of diabetes early Monday morning at UCLA Medical Center, said his voice-over artist wife, Russi Taylor.
The Glendale couple had a unique distinction: In 1991, Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse, married Taylor, the voice of Minnie Mouse.
"Wayne was my hero," Taylor, who began voicing Minnie in 1986, told The Times on Wednesday. "He really loved doing Mickey Mouse and was very proud that he did it 32 years."
Since Mickey Mouse first hit movie theaters in the cartoon short "Steamboat Willie" in 1928, only three people have supplied the iconic cartoon character's distinctive falsetto: Walt Disney himself, Jimmy Macdonald and Allwine.
In 1947, Disney turned the job over to Macdonald, the studio's sound-effects wizard. Allwine was hired for the job in late 1976 while working in sound effects under Macdonald and continued to supply Mickey's voice until his death.
Allwine made his debut voicing the world's most famous mouse on "The New Mickey Mouse Club" (1977-78) and went on to supply Mickey's voice for Disney movies, TV specials, theme parks, records, toys and video games.
Among his credits as the voice of Disney's top animated star: ?Mickey?s Christmas Carol? (1983), ?The Prince and the Pauper? (1990) and "Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers" (2004) and TV series "Mickey MouseWorks," "House of Mouse" and "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse."
Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert A. Iger described a "profound sense of loss and sadness throughout our company" over the death of the man who gave voice to Disney's most beloved character.
"Wayne's great talent, deep compassion, kindness and gentle way, all of which shone brightly through his alter ego, will be greatly missed," Iger said in a statement.
Roy E. Disney, Walt's nephew, director emeritus of the Walt Disney Co., said in a statement: "Wayne not only gave voice to the character of Mickey but gave him a heart and soul as well."
Allwine, who launched his Disney Studios career in the mail room a few months before Disney died in 1966, had been working in sound effects under Macdonald for more than seven years when he was sent to an open audition for Mickey's voice after an actor failed to show up.
The Glendale native had watched "The Mickey Mouse Club" on TV as a youngster in the 1950s and simply conjured up Mickey's voice from memory.
Allwine later said, however, that doing the famed falsetto of the perennially optimistic Mickey was easy for him.
"Actually, I was accustomed to doing vocal stuff," he told United Press International in 1997. "My father was a barbershop quartet singer. He was a high tenor with an odd voice and could go from lower range to upper range without cracking his voice. I inherited that."
Allwine always remembered what Macdonald told him after Allwine took over the voice of Disney's top animated star: "Just remember, kid, you're only filling in for the boss."
Allwine later acknowledged that in an interview for a ?Walt Disney Treasures? box DVD set.
"It's really not about me; it's about Mickey, and Mickey is Walt's," he said. "So what I do is I get to take this wonderful American icon and keep it alive until the next Mickey comes along, and it will one day. And that's also one of the heartbreaks of the character, of doing the job, because, you know, I'm three; there's going to be a four."
It was, he said, "a great honor to represent what Walt loved so dearly and what Jimmy kept alive so well."
Allwine was born in Glendale on Feb. 7, 1947. While a student at John Burroughs High School in Burbank, he acted in school plays and formed his own music group, the International Singers, which performed in clubs and at colleges throughout the state.
He later formed other bands and had a stint with Davie Allan & the Arrows, for which he played rhythm guitar on the hit "Blues' Theme."
Among Allwine's credits as a sound effects editor are "The Black Hole," "Something Wicked This Way Comes," "Mickey's Christmas Carol," "The Black Cauldron," "Splash," "Three Men and a Baby" and "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier."
In 1986, he shared an Emmy Award for outstanding sound editing for a series for Steven Spielberg's "Amazing Stories."
As a married couple, Allwine and Taylor received similar reactions whenever people discovered that they were the voices of Mickey and Minnie.
"Everybody goes, 'Oh, that's so sweet,' " Taylor said. "When we got married, we kind of kept it quiet because everybody was saying, 'Oh, Mickey and Minnie got married.' It wasn't Mickey and Minnie; it was Wayne and Russi. We wanted to keep it about us and not about the characters."
In addition to his wife, Allwine is survived by his children from previous marriages, Erin, Alison, Peter, Christopher and Joshua; and a grandson, Isaac.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
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> {quote:title=joefilmone wrote:}{quote}
> They will need state of the art FX just to make the original cast appear younger....
Well, if Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood could get away with it...
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Carmen Miranda fans, rejoice! The Fox musical Greenwich Village is at last getting its TCM premiere, as part of the Latinos in Film series.
The movie shows Thursday evening at 8pm Eastern.
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Joel McCrea was in Sullivan's Travels with Veronica Lake