cody1949
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Looking forward to this premiere showing of THE BRAVE BULLS on TCM, or any cable channel for that matter, tomorrow. For me on the west coast, Saturday, 7:30 PM.
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I remember him in an unusual story on Gunsmoke. He killed a man and is sentenced to hang. His father knows the sentence was just, but is afraid that he will die a cringing coward. A plan is devised to tell him that the rope around his neck will not operate properly and he will be spared. He believes this and goes to his death with courage. Certainly a different kind of story and a good one. The father,by the way,was played by R.G.Armstrong. Dick Foran was also in this Gunsmoke episode.
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A name that will live forever when we think of music and film. Happy Birthday,talented lady !
I should have added...... LOVE OF ANIMALS. God's gift to us.
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A name that will live forever when we think of music and film. Happy Birthday,talented lady !
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What a wonderful film ! Yes, nothing really happened, but seeing and listening to them was everything. Loved the score by Alan Price. 30 years ago I would have overlooked this film. Now that I am a senior and life has had its joys and heartbreaks,it was an emotional experience to watch this film. Perhaps the young people who love explosions and car chases will come to see something beautiful in this film when they become seniors and have experienced life in all its manifestations.
Very glad I checked the daily schedule this morning.
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Don't complain ! I and probably many others like it that way. I wouldn't care if they knew the schedule a year in advance and posted it. I always look forward to see what is coming in the months ahead.
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Thank you, Bogie56 and RMeingast for this good news about THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ. I will be looking for it on DVD or a showing on TCM in its original aspect ratio of course.
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Last night, Monday evening, I was looking on Comcast's ON DEMAND list of movies for TCM. There was DARBY O'GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE. I was very disappointed with the aspect ratio shown on its regular telecast Sunday evening. I was not expecting it to be any different from what was shown Sunday evening. Well, it was. Begining with the opening credits. It looks like it will be available for the rest of this week.
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Let me add this: This was an excellent film totally screwed up by the presentation shown on TCM tonight. Shame on them for touting all these years about seeing films in their original theatrical aspect ratio.
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I would like to remind people that there was no problem with the original theatrical aspect ratio when they showed THIRD MAN ON THE MOUNTAIN a few months ago. Why this time ? Too bad an expert like Leonard Maltin won't speak on this issue.
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My only complaint and it is a big one. Couldn't they have come up with a print in its original aspect ratio ? TCM should have played that short they produced many years ago. You know the one ...."would you like to see the Last Supper with 8 disciples or 12 disciples ?"
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Are there any people viewing this topic who aren't ashamed to admit that they were bored to death by BIRDMAN and BOYHOOD ? Here's my list of better films that came out at the end of 2014:
IMITATION GAME
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
AMERICAN SNIPER
GONE GIRL
THE HOMESMAN
A MOST VIOLENT YEAR
FOXCATCHER
The films listed above are in random order,not by preference.
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I really enjoyed John Frankenheimer's The Young Stranger last week with a young James MacArthur but then I always do. the following year MacArthur starred in a disney vehicle set in pre-revolutionary colonial America as an abducted white youth raised by indians who as part of a treaty agreement is returned to his white relatives.
The film is of course The Light in the Forest directed by Hershel Daugherty and also stars Wendell Corey, Joanne Dru, Fess Parker and Carol Lynley.
Any chance of tcm getting a hold of that?...
or do I ask too much?
I hope you are not asking too much, because I would like to see it also. Leonard Maltin would know, but he probably won't say anything until it is announced by TCM.
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Ray and Cody,
I was thinking too that perhaps it was a rights issue that was keeping the Monogram "Palooka" features from being released officially on DVD (by Warner Archives) or turning up on TCM. But last year Warner Archives released all but the last two of the 1936-37 Vitaphone "Joe Palooka" shorts on DVD. So, evidently there is no problem with the rights that is keeping the Monogram "Palooka" features tied up.
TCM has shown other Monogram series films from the same period (Bowery Boys, Charlie Chan, Bomba) so I wish they would get to the Palooka movies too. I agree with Ray that they're nothing special (I've seen a few of them) but still I'd like to see the rest of them, and anyway, they should not be kept supressed and out of circulation.
Thanks musicalnovelty. If anyone can get through to George Feltenstein at Warner Archive, it would be interesting what he would have to say on the subject.
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I have the Sony DVD of this serial. From what I saw this morning, I am glad I do.
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UCLA only makes films available to the public on-site unless the copyright owner distributes a UCLA-restored version.
I have never had any desire to buy any of the PALOOKA prints. I do have a trailer for one. Joe Kirkwood Jr. never captivated me as an actor. His dad ("put somethin' in the pot, boy") was an amusing second banana.
It is VERY possible that Monogram only had limited distribution license for the characters and that the rights reverted to the Ham Fisher estate or comic strip syndicate. As of 1971 (my earliest BIB book) the series ownership was listed as "?"
The original film, PALOOKA, fell into public domain. That's a very good picture (Edward Small/UA) with Durante as Knobby Walsh introducing "Inka Dinka Doo."
Thanks for your information, Ray. As a soundtrack and old movie enthusiast you are well known to me.
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Yes, I have nothing to add. I just wanted to know if you knew for sure that no collector has these films or if you were just assuming that because your thread was ignore.
Sorry, maybe I took your comment the wrong way. I subscribe to a monthly newspaper called Classic Images which devotes itself to movies of the past. In the magazine there are sellers of old movies. I have yet to see any offering of a Joe Palooka -Monogram film. I tried to find out from George Feltenstein of the Warner Archive if these films were part of their holdings as other Monogram films are, but there has been no reply.
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Are you assuming that no film collector has these films because they didn't respond to your post?
Too bad you have no information to add. A question following a question contributes nothing.
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Just bumping this back up to the top. It's amazing that there aren't any film collectors who have these films. Just as amazing is the fact that any copyright information on these films do not exist anywhere. It's as if they just vanished off the face of the earth and since they were second features,AKA 'B'films,who cares.
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Does anybody know who holds the copyright to the 11 Joe Palooka- Monogram films made between 1946 and 1951 ?
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THE PROUD REBEL is scheduled to be screened at the TCM Film Festival next month, with an introduction by David Ladd. I assume, therefore, that they have a decent print of the film for broadcast.
Thanks for letting me know. I believe we will have a winner here.
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Good to see THE PROUD REBEL on their May schedule. The fact that they have not shown it before makes me very hopeful that this will not be the public domain print and it will be shown in its original aspect ratio.
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A very disappointing month with one very important exception, the premiere showing of Robert Rosson's ,THE BRAVE BULLS on April 18. To my knowledge it has never appeared before on any cable channel.
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I wish TCM would show one of his earliest productions, THE PROUD REBEL. Not the public domain print that has been kicking around for many years,but an archive print in its proper aspect ratio. This is an excellent Alan Ladd film that co-starred Olivia de Havilland as well as his son, David Ladd.
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Yes indeed ! LOST BOUNDARIES was a very courageous effort for its time,1949.