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Who has seen this movie when it airs on TCM and what did you think of it? And while we're on the subject, let's talk about the remake that's been worked on for over 10 years and is still no closer to being done. The word is that the director, can't get anybody in Hollywood to greenlight it, even though they know it's a great idea, and the reasoning for this is they won't greenlight it because they don't know how they'll market it to 13 year olds. How is this logic? Just because a movie is rated PG-13 does not mean it's made directly for teenagers.

It would make sense. Such things as Frankie felt are best described by somebody who knows.

Now, is it just me...or does anybody else prefer Frankie when she is that way, instead of at the end? I DON'T like movies where in the beginning the girl is a tomboy and then at the end of it she's wearing dresses and hung up on boys and all that stuff, I don't like that, and it seems most movies with tomboys DO do that. Aye carumba, it takes me back to We Boys Together, the book that talks about movies used to involve male chums so close together and they never so much as looked at a girl until they were all grown up, which changed shortly prior to all those awful teen beach movies.

Who remembers this movie from the 80s? I know a lot of people say that it's bad, it's...I don't know, they don't like the actors, they don't like the acting, they don't like any of it. Other people say 'this scared me SO much as a kid, then I saw it as an adult and thought 'what was I so scared of?' Well I saw it for the first time at 19 and it FREAKED me out...and people always compare it to the British movie Threads...but I don't know, it seems Threads gets too much attention and the Day After not enough. You know, it's a very depressing movie, it's very dark, very bleak, and yet for some reason, I'd love to see it again. What's everybody else think? Has anybody else here seen it?

Who here who has seen the movie feels they can relate to Frankie? Growing up I know I sure did...I often felt the same things that she ranted and raved about, I just never thought enough of it to say anything about it. Oh but I can certainly relate to when she's screaming at people 'that's not what I meant, that's not what I'm trying to say at all!' and when Berenice told her she was too mean to live and she replied 'I know it!', that certainly brings back memories for me. Anybody else?

They are not the same, they are similar. If my memory serves, I do believe that Dr. Wells, who was in the '59 movie, was a character in the Circular Staircase, I can't be sure of the Bat because in the previous movies there was Dr. Vanreese, and a Dr. Moretti I believe.

This is one movie I don't think they've ever shown on TCM. Not in the years I've been watching anyway. I know it used to show on Cinemax a loooong long time ago from time to time...but I don't ever recall TCM airing it...which is a bit odd considering how many of Vincent Price and William Castle's movies they do show every year. Who's seen the movie? Did you like it? And do you think TCM should show it sometime?

Who has seen this movie? I caught it once a couple years back and taped it, and I liked it very much, unfortunately, I lost the tape. When it came on again a couple months back, I taped it again, and made an extra copy so I can't lose it this time. It's a good movie, I think, it's just too bad that TCM only shows it once or twice a year at best.

Except by the time Crane Wilbur made the movie, the plot had changed a lot. it was no longer a comedy/mystery, and Lizzie was no longer the frightened maid who set a bear trap for the Bat and ran and hid under the bed. I also liked how they changed the details about Dr. Wells so he wasn't just the county doctor who nonchalantly walks into the middle of what's going on. Here's something about the 1926 original though. It's said this movie partly inspired Bob Kane to make Batman...he just took the hooded figure and made him the hero instead of the enemy...but it seems to me the movie had something else that might've inspired him. Anybody who's seen the original will recall when the house goes dark, and a round light shines in with a bat in the center of it, and Lizzie screams 'it's the Bat!', but the butler goes out and finds it's just a moth in the car headlight. Note however it's very similar to the infamous Bat signal.

I wouldn't know about that. But it's funny, everybody remembers Dirty Harry...people think it's such a great movie...I didn't feel that way about Dirty Harry...I like Clint Eastwood, but did not care for the movie too much. I loved Walking Tall though.

Has anybody here seen this movie? I saw it last night for the first time and I liked it...but people don't seem to want to remember it, they want instead to remember the remake with The Rock. I like the original, what about everybody else? I especially think it's good because the real Sheriff Buford Pusser was a technical consultant for the movie...it's too bad they killed him because otherwise we would've seen him as himself in the sequel.

It always seemed to me, though, that Jim and Judy had the wrong fathers. Anybody else notice this? Like Judy's father would probably have no trouble telling Jim how to be a man, and Jim's father would have no problem being openly affectionate towards Judy.

I think Wizard of Oz is the ONLY film I've seen from 1925...except maybe shorts from Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin...oh but I loved it, I loved that it was so different, it was odd that the scarecrow and the lion and the tinmen weren't originally that, but just the farmhands in disguise, but that was funny, especially with the real lion...and all those stunts they did in the movie, especially near the end, WOW! My mother and I watched all that, just in awe at all the stuff they did and you know it was really dangerous stuff back then and they didn't always have stunt people to stand in for the stars.

All the Muppet movies (prior to Muppets in Space anyway) should be out on DVD. The original ones especially...and they should be at an affordable price, so often I saw the tapes going for $50. But another one that needs to come out on DVD is A Muppet Family Christmas...I think it IS on DVD, but it, AND the VHS tape have cut out several scenes so the whole version could only be found on television, but THAT has not been shown for about 20 years either.

It's Mary Roberts Rinehart. I've read both the novel, The Bat, AND the play, The Bat, which she wrote with Avery Hopwood...of course they mention that in the opening credits for the 1959 film...the book is great, the play is downright hilarious though. However, I also read The Circular Staircase, and I found that to be a good one as well. However, if memory serves, The Circular Staircase was written about 1914, but The Bat was written in 1926.

I loved these movies both, I wish the Underground would show them again. I know Foxy Brown is the better remembered one but I always thought Coffy was the superior of the two movies. What's everybody else think of them?

I don't get it. The Nanny is a very good movie, downright nerve wracking and terrifying in some parts...why hasn't TCM shown it in the more recent years? They've shown it ONCE in all the years I've watched TCM, about 6 or 7 years back around Halloween and never again since. Why? Surely there are more people out there who like it. Aren't there? It would be good if they'd show it around Halloween this year...Bette Davis can scare anybody in that role, I think.

Is this supposed to be a good movie? I saw it mentioned in the movie "Suddenly" and TCM showed it once about a year back or so...but there's really not much mention of it. Has anybody here seen it who can comment?

Oooohhh I loved this movie the first time I saw it a couple years back...my mother and I dragged my older brother in to see some of it and he said 'already you can tell it's better than the 1939 one, there's no singing'. So true, so true...no offense to the classic but this was such a great movie because it was so different, it was SOOOOOOOO funny, we laughed about the whole time. I wish they'd show it again soon. Anybody else here see it with Larry Semon and Oliver Hardy?

Has anybody seen this movie? Nearly 20 years ago when Nickelodeon had Sunday Night Muppets, they showed the movie The Muppets go to the Movie once, and in it they recreated Gone with the Wind and the Wizard of Oz and the 3 Musketteers and all sorts of stuff. It has not been on TV since that I know of. To make matters worse, the movie is available on tape ONLY for the UK regions, not for America. I loved that movie and I would love to see it again, anybody else feel the same way?

Well I don't know one that can top it, but I thought it was good in the remake with Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott...it was interesting to see Jack Lemmon play 'the bad guy' for once, because when he was younger we saw him in all these pushover roles and you would assume at a choice between the two roles, he would play Matthew Harrison Brady, not Henry Drummond.

A few years back TCM showed the 1959 version of The Bat with Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead. This is one of my favorite murder mystery movies, and has been a favorite since I was about 3 years old...however, I'm a bit surprised that TCM has never, in the years I've been watching anyway, shown the two previous versions of the movie, The Bat Whispers from 1930, and The Bat from 1926, the latter of which was an inspiration to Bob Kane to create Batman. Has anybody seen these movies and if so, do you agree TCM should show them all? I think that would be neat, have a night they show them all in a row, to compare how the movie's plots and elements and story details changed over the years.

Oh yes of course, A Thousand Clowns, I loved that too, Jason Robards is great. He was also great in the stage play version of You Can't Take it With You...he's not better than Lionel Barrymore, but he's good in a different term. And Harvey, yes, how could I forget that? And Bringing up Baby...I don't know why people remember that so much more than Holiday given a choice between the two, of course the leopard angle I suppose would add something to it...she was great in both of them but I prefer Holiday.

I fell in love with the movie You Can't Take it With You within the first 10 minutes of watching it, especially when we see the Sycamores...everything happening so fast, boom, the daughter's dancing, boom the mother's typing plays, boom the father comes up from the basement with firecrackers he made. I loved that movie...and I also loved Harold and Maude, and Holiday with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Unfortunately however, I don't seem able to think of many more movies that involve 'free spirits' of that sort who do what they want, live life to the fullest and make having a good time a priority instead of conforming to what everyone else does and making money. Can anybody else recommend movies like that? And for that matter, isn't it odd that today you really don't see many if any movies like that made?

I looked at the March schedule for TCM and found that Rebel Without a Cause is going to be playing. I'm thrilled because as long as I've been watching the channel, it's NEVER been on. I just love that movie, some people think it's overrated, I say the opposite. I say it's very underrated...it's a great movie, and I especially love it when Jim and Judy and Plato run off to the abandoned house and pretend they're married and do all that crazy stuff at the pool. That's my favorite part of the movie, "Quick! Fill the pool!" Ha ha ha...anybody else looking forward to seeing it come on in March?