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Yes! America used to be good at making things...now we're only good at selling junk. When a nation loses its manufacturing base, that nation is on track to becoming a Third World Nation. That is fact.

Adolf on the cover of Reader's Digest, Time, all manner of "Man of the Year" awards; he was widely regarded as a humble genius who pulled Germany out of ruin...any wonder many people world over believed in the work his National Socialists accomplished? Hitler himself: he awakens one day, blinded, wounded, gassed in the trenches by the British, penniless in an army hospital of a defeated nation...from here he rises to become the most powerful man on earth! Many saw that as nearly supernatural. Not until Hitler went power mad on his quest to conquer the world did people see anything evil about him and the Nazis.

I know exactly what you mean when you say your health club was LAME on the music. In the 80's, for a short time, I HAD to work at a big chain, and for SOME STUPID reason they only played (loudly) that LA station with Rick Dees that would play that AWFUL Whitney Houston thing "I believe that children are the answer..." CONSTANTLY!

I want to know what that woman looks like.

"Gny. Sgt. Hartman" (R. Lee Ermey) said it. "Full Metal Jacket" (1987)

"Touch of Evil" now impossible to look at because I did so 30X. "Paths of Glory" another one for my list. It's like when AM radio would play a good song so much you grew to detest the tune. "Familiarity breeds contempt" maybe? Who here can still watch "GWTW" or "Casablanca"? I can't.

1. The writing! The stories! 2. 50's Technicolor superior to anything today. 3. Directors apprenticed for years before getting a film; they knew everything about making pictures. 4. Women were more attractive. 5. Art direction, set design: the older, the better. 6. No computers...filmmaking!

Anyone remember those? Looking back, I can't decide if Rathbone on "Squares" was tragic, cool or neither.

Always liked Nasal Rathbone.

This motion picture has the eeriest look to it. It has a disturbing effect on me...not sure how they did it.

My comments: 1. The film deserves "iconic" tag. 2. It disturbs me to this day. I was always wondering when I would have to defend wife and daughter from rapists. 3. Dana Andrews looks heavy into alcoholism by this time.

As "Irene Jansen" actress Lauren Bacall lived a sumptuous yet tortured existence in her Knob Hill San Francisco manse...no one forgets the glass elevator in "Dark Passage" (1947). A delicious Warner Bros. noir. Three years later at another studio, Bacall is "Amy North," a manhater/heiress who hardly struggles with her confused sexuality while ensconced in a fashionable Manhattan penthouse in 1950's "Young Man with a Horn." I'll take the SF. Edited by: Ascotrudgeracer on Jun 9, 2011 10:47 AM

This is Bacall's finest performance...but it makes nobody's list! I refuse to believe her claim: "I had no idea the character was bisexual." Doris Day said this was the only film she did not enjoy, due to Kirk Douglas' monumental ego. Kirk makes funny faces pretending to be blowing brass. Actors can't portray musicians unless they have a musical backround. Love this beauty of a movie...watch it every chance, never tire of it.

Larry Rio ("Slippy") had some great moves leading the jitterbug band. Anyone notice Robert "Bobby" Blake?

The picture is ON tomorrow morning; the star shucks his comic violin for comic trumpet (Benny always ridiculed the movie)...there is something CRAZY GOOD about it. Shall always be amazed how Delores Moran looks like Carole Landis! For a few years, I thought I WAS looking at Landis. America was winding down from the hell of war in '45; audiences were more than ready to laugh. Edited by: Ascotrudgeracer on Jun 7, 2011 9:39 AM Edited by: Ascotrudgeracer on Jun 7, 2011 9:40 AM

Father Patrick Peyton ("The Family That Prays Together, Stays Together") also produced some great TV; one segment featured James Dean in Biblical garb.

Father Patrick Peyton ("The Family That Prays Together, Stays Together") also produced some great TV; one segment featured James Dean in Biblical garb.

He had a perfect career! Four months after landing in Hollywood he's in a movie with Loretta Young. His top-rated western lasts decades; gives him all he ever wanted.

I hereby nominate an icky slated for airing Saturday: "Quentin Durward" (1955) Now really, doesn't that title make you want to buy a ticket? That was a selling point in '55? Compare it to the BEST title: "I Wake Up Screaming." Your turn, comrade posters...nominate!

"Return of the Killer Shrews" slated for release this year. James Best in the cast! IMBD has the story.

I heard Debbie bemoaning the fate of the studio after Kirk Kirkorian bought it. "They should have turned it into a tourist attraction, waited a decade, THEN make the real estate deal for the property," she said. "Would have made 20 times more."

Are you prepared to state Ken Cutis does not appear in this movie?

You can win money with "Shrews." Find somebody who thinks they know film (you know the type...people like me) and bet them the action hero of this jewel is Festus (Ken Curtis) from Gunsmoke. They will look at him and tell you that you're wrong...but you are right. The jewel of a flick is priceless and I love the carpet samples glued to the backs of the dogs (er, killer shrews).

May 3, 2011, star of "Attack of the 50 ft Woman" Yvette Vickers, 82, found dead and mummified.

Paul Maxey!