cody1949

What would really be a treat for us TCM viewers would be a star who had a contract at Paramount in the 30's and 40's. Like Dorothy Lamour , Alan Ladd ,Fred Mac Murray, W.C.Fields, Susan Hayward, Bing Crosby , Ray MIlland, Gary Cooper , Bob Hope , Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Marlene Dietrich. Instead of TCM saving them to have us purchase their films from a future vault collection release,schedule their films for viewing on TCM. That's my peeve with TCM.

Not one but four. CEILING ZERO , THE MACOMBER AFFAIR , FROM THIS DAY FORWARD , and WHITE BANNERS.

Did anyone notice future star Alan Ladd in Chapter 3?

One good reason for TCM and Universal is that they would prefer you buy the DVD's of W.C.Fields rather than see it free on TCM.

EMPEROR OF THE NORTH POLE became EMPEROR OF THE NORTH because people didn't understand what the title was implying and took it literally. I still prefer the original title.

I never saw it,but wasn't A- film actor Burgess Meredith in a Universal B called SAN FRANCISCO DOCKS with Irene Hervey.

It seems to me that TCM is saving a vast majority of golden age titles from Paramount and Universal for their vault collections on DVD. If you want to see them you will have to purchase them. An example would be THE LAST OUTPOST from 1935 with Cary Grant. This has been out on DVD for more than a year. It has yet to play on TCM. The same will happen with SOULS AT SEA to be released on DVD soon.

Where is SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT from 1944?

So far I found 4 that I am happy to see on their schedule. For Lillian Gish, THE WIND : For Anthony Quinn,BLACK GOLD: For James Caan, SLITHER and HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT. By the way, HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT is a film he also directed.

Just realized that my wish list for Claude Rains has come to naught. Oh well.

For Claude Rains' day I would love to see CRIME WITHOUT PASSION, THE LAST OUTPOST,THE MAN WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD, and WHITE BANNERS. Well, how about two of the four? For Lionel Barrymore's day, how about the rarely seen King Vidor production of THE STRANGER'S RETURN ?

For Claude Rains' day I would love to see CRIME WITHOUT PASSION, THE LAST OUTPOST,THE MAN WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD, and WHITE BANNERS. Well, how about two of the four? For Lionel Barrymore's day, how about the rarely seen King Vidor production of THE STRANGER'S RETURN ?

For me there was no better swan song for John Wayne than THE SHOOTIST. It grows in stature for me each time I see it. This was his best performance. TRUE GRIT and ROOSTER COGBURN were too "cartoonish".

As long as you love animals I am sure Doris won't mind.

Do you love Mom and apple pie?

Did anyone notice that Ginger Rogers name was not in the opening credits. I wonder why?

Calvinnme mentioned that I WANT YOU was pulled from the June schedule. Perhaps this is because Warner Home Video has just locked up the rights to the Goldwyn library and they want to release it on DVD before any TCM screening.

Most of the time Maltin is on target. Two exceptions come to mind immediately. NIGHT AND THE CITY and APACHE.

Definitely worth seeing ! A film noir classic much better than Leonard Maltin would have you believe.

I would love to see a film she did with Melvyn Douglas in 1941 at Columbia called THIS THING CALLED LOVE. It was once on the TCM schedule and then removed. I read somewhere that it was restored by Sony; so I don't know what's making this movie unavailable.

Please don't put James Cagney in the same league as George Raft. Warner's could do without Raft but no matter what fuss Cagney could create he was an essential part of that studio. He went back to Warner's in 1949 only after losing money on his independent productions.

Leslie Howard in July. Hmmm. Perhaps we will get to see an old Fox film I have always wanted to see but has not been available. BERKELEY SQUARE.

Topbilled, you're contribution to this board every month is enormous to those of us who want to know what's coming months from now. Please allow me to correct you on Chester Morris' last **** film, however. It was Boston ****'s Chinese Venture in 1949.

It's difficult to pick the best. However,if I had to choose one I would pick Don'Red'Barry. He was like a James Cagney on the frontier. There were no automobiles or radio room microphones in his westerns. When Gene Autry went over to Columbia to produce his own series of 'B' westerns things vastly improved. Roy Rogers early ones were really good but fell flat when Herbert Yates the head of Republic Pictures went east and saw Oklahoma on Broadway. The Roy Rogers- Dale Evans era left me cold. At Monogram my favorite series was The Rough Riders with Buck Jones, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton. I especially loved the music score near the end of the films when they were rounding up the bad guys. When you see them now you realize just how cheaply made were the westerns at PRC. Buster Crabbe was good but he was working at the wrong studio.

If you are truly interested in comic genius, a full month of everything done by Laurel and Hardy would be most welcomed. Nothing personal, but I rank Jerry Lewis with The Three Stooges and Abbott and Costello.