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Forget the apartment door opening out...Walter Neff the committed bachelor is seen wearing a wedding ring throughout this masterpiece! Even in the closeup where he is holding the telephone in his left hand. It's so easy to see, I'm wondering if Billy Wilder was having a joke on us all. You'll see it immediately and constantly.

It's a Twilight Zone similar to the Ida Lupino, but it was with Ann Blythe, and her daughter (who aged normally) looked like her mother. The reporter sent to interview her dies to perpetuate her perpetual youth.

I'll have to have it, no doubt!

Please add (can YOU PLEASE post the photos?) 1. Cyd Charisse (don't use the "money-green " dress from "Singing While Wet" please. 2. Norma Shearer (how about the George Hurrell photograph). 3. Audrey Totter. 4. Marie Windsor. 5. Debra Padget Message was edited by: Ascotrudgeracer

"Wages of Fear."

1931 - "M" 1936 - "Fury" 1945 - "Scarlett Street" 1952 - "Rancho Notorious" (Greatest review I ever read of any film...reviewer (now I can't remember who) simply wrote: "Delirious.") 1956 - "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" Joan Fontaine had a look in this movie that HAUNTS ME!

Re Coppola: I read it in an interview he gave to film students. Might have been a lighthearted comment, but I absolutely remember him saying it...was astounded.

AMEN to this post! There must be a big enough audience for the great films of the past so that TCM doesn't have to start showing new ones. My opinion: the last great movie was made in 1964. There is even a theory that there has NEVER been a great movie made in color. I wouldn't go quite that far, but the best are B&Ws from 1964 and before.

All a matter of taste, of course, but I challenge anyone to top Fritz Lang. His work had a look that can never be duplicated, although many pretenders have tried.

Another gem...bet you haven't seen it and although TCM has it back there in the dustiness, will they ever air it? Why not an entire night of Nazi madness? Nothing to fear from them now; that partei basically died underground in Berlin April 30, 1945, despite the modern pretenders.

Meticulous as Billy Wilder was, I can't believe he didn't notice Fred's (Walter Neff's) wedding ring throughout the film, especially during the closeup on the pay phone, where he holds the phone in his left hand. Could this have been Billy's winking at the audience?

Do anyone who rates "The Godfather" anywhere on their Top Ten list, you should recall what FFC thought (aloud) after seeing the final cut for the first time: "My God, all I've done is waste millions of dollars showing bald men talking in dark rooms!"

I'm just wondering...isn't this the car Dorothy Malone drove in the film? Bob Stack's car looked different, according to my memory, but I'm often wrong. Just asking.

Hollyweird is so obviously dry and lacking talent, of course they have to rip off the past, but they can't pull it off, ever. Movies today are basically constructed by computers, and that's not art. The original was a masterpiece.

Yes, that's Stack's car in "Written on the Wind" ...OR IS IT? I seem to remember some mirrors that are not on this one. Maybe aftermarket? Got a still from the movie? But good work...THANX!

The sports car Bob Stack drove in "Written on the Wind." I defy anyone to figure it out...I sure can't. His sister (in the movie) had a nice red car, too.

My opinion: it's BETTER than "Singing..." I know Dick Van Dyke thought the whole thing was turned into an Ann-Margret showcase, but she was amazing, especially in "Got a Lot of Living" number. Somehow people overlook this masterpiece on their lists, but I challenge anyone who hasn't seen it (are there any?) to get up and mow the lawn after it starts...it's just too good and I purposely don't have it in my library because it's better to wait for it.

Some have said that the husband "ghosted" her work, but I can't imagine all those credits on all those films being all a lie. I've heard she was relentless and never far from any shooting set she was assigned to. After seeing "Kiss Me Kate" this morning, I'm just blown away (again) by that breathtaking color process. Today's technology can't come close.

No, I was just kidding...dry sense of humor IS ALLOWED. Natalie was a beautiful, talented genius and the color expert of all time

Natalie Kalmus was a man (pronounced na-TALL-ee).

With all the modern technology, today's color processes can't hold a candle to old Technicolor (I'm not telling you experts anything you don't know, of course). The richness of the tones, the textures and the actual colors of the Golden Age...exquisite. Much credit must go to Natalie Kalmus, who many think was a woman, but as we know, NOT!

"The Hitler Gang." The rise of the Third Reich depicted in terms of a Chicago-style "gang." All the Nazi heroes are here: Julius Streicher (who was executed war-crimes style after the war for the offense of practicing freedom of the press), Goering, Goebbels, Borman, etc. Think this might be the only film ever showing Adolf's ill-fated Beer Hall Putsch. Many who actually escaped the SS constructed this cult masterpiece in Hollywood, dressing Los Angeles locations to resemble Germany (Shrine Auditorium as the Reichstag). I've lobbied TCM for years to finally show it, but they won't, although "Hitler's Madman" and "Hangmen Also Die" come around often.

Bacall's greatest performance as a sexually confused heiress who makes like torture for Kirk Douglas, who somewhat pulls off a role as a musician (which is hard for any non-musician). Doris Day said this was the one film she DIDN'T enjoy making, due to Douglas' monumental ego. Beautifully directed and photographed. Please TCM, give it another shot.

I always thought of Tony Randall as a silly sap...until I experienced his stunning performance as a business and family failure in this masterpiece. He was CHEATED out of an Oscar nomination. If you haven't seen it, you must. This is an example of a film that if they tried to make it today, they couldn't. Riveting. And if you enjoy Southern California in the 1950's, you have to see it.

Any chance of getting TCM the Nelson Eddy version of this on soon? The network has it and aired it, but haven't seen it in some time. So well done!