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> {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > > "Your appreciation will depend upon your fondness for the Nazis." What a quote - speaking about *Confessions of a Nazi Spy*. One wouldn't use the word "fondness" in the same sentence with "Nazis" today. > > LOL, obviously, the reviewer was being sarcastic. True, but we often forget that at the time, some prominent Americans, such as Henry Ford, and Charles Lindberg, were "fond" of Nazis, not to mention some ordinary Americans. So, the reviewer probably had real people in mind.

I liked her well enough. She probably got that nose from kissing Eskimos.

Too bad they couldn't have done that to Custer. But alas - no cars, and no gas...

Conversely, I don't see how the Germans took control of France, given the French attention to detail...

> {quote:title=clearskies wrote:}{quote} > I do find however, some general volume problems with the background music being the same volume as the dialogue. Maybe I'm just getting old... If you have surround sound, try turning up the center channel, which carries most of the dialog. Another way in which modern tech can help compensate for aging...

Hey, Kyle... post the 'grow hemp for victory' poster, if you can...

I'm happy to answer questions when I can, as are many others. But, there is a resource you should know about, you would probably find it useful, and interesting. It is the Internet Movie Database. That's www.imdb.com. You can look up films on there, find the entire cast, and do searches.

I didn't find it surprising that Raft pulled out a gun. After all, he was a WWII vet, so most likely familiar with the weapon. Also, trucking could be a dangerous business, with hijackings and things. Still, I do understand what you are getting at. What I found out of place was Raft being too rough and tough with innocents, like the Mexican family. He didn't have to be so demanding, that he must have the book. He only needed to look at it. As I said in another thread, I liked the film a lot. Amazing cast, great lighting and cinematography.

Well, that's not a lot of detail, so I can't be sure, but perhaps the horror classic from 1968, *Night of the Living Dead*.

I've saved them all so far, but haven't gotten around to watching them. There's just so much good stuff on TCM! I've heard good things about them, and will return to discuss, when I've seen one or more of them.

I believe you're looking for Strother Martin.

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > In this case she would have been found guilty and fried. Deep fried. In Mildred's restaurant.

Well, every day is somebody's birthday. So, why doesn't TCM program every day as a birthday tribute? It would make the programmers' work SO much easier...

CJ, not having read Chandler, I won't contest your appraisals of how well the films reflect his work. But, as a film, I'll have to stick up for *The Big Sleep*. It's far and away my favorite Bogart film. A little over the top, perhaps. But I love the characters, the convoluted plot, and the humor. To Miss W., I agree that there can be comedy in noir, and there definitely is in *His Kind of Woman*. In part, it is almost a parody of noir, even though other parts are very serious. However, I find humor, but not what I call comedy, in *TBS*. Many, perhaps even most noirs have some wise-cracking humor in them. *TBS* just has a bit more than most. Certainly Dick Powell in *Murder, My Sweet*, and Allan Ladd in *The Glass Key* had lots of humor in the internal dialog, and also the spoken dialog.

My most recently watched noir is *Red Light*. It has an excellent cast, with George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Raymond Burr, and Harry Morgan, just for starters. Beautifully shot, with great lighting. If the writing was just a bit better, I'd give it an "A." But, I did enjoy it a lot.

Kyle, as we both know, before the site "upgrades," TCM posted links to the current month, and the following two months, in a format to print out a whole month. And, they still have the coming two months in that format, they just aren't posting the links. Your speculation as to why they are no longer posted may well be correct. But, any one with any sense knows that schedules are subject to change, more so the further out they go. Also, I'm sure that many people here liked having those easy links, and wish they would be restored. It couldn't be that difficult.

"Your appreciation will depend upon your fondness for the Nazis." What a quote - speaking about *Confessions of a Nazi Spy*. One wouldn't use the word "fondness" in the same sentence with "Nazis" today. Also, I noticed the ad for *The Return of the Cisco Kid*. I saw this 1939 version listed on cable, showing in the next 24 hours. I think it was on FMC.

> {quote:title=kaleman wrote:}{quote} > Is "Red Light" directed by Roy Del Ruth considered film noir? Having just watched it, I would say - most definitely! Great noir lighting. About the only thing not generally considered noirish that it does is the emphasis on the bad guy getting it from God, at the end. Even so, the physical aspects of the end are very noir.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > I can't really see where a probate case would make good TV viewing. Being Perry Mason, the probate case was just a starting point, or perhaps came up as a possible motive. Can't recall any titles at the moment, but on more than one occasion, Perry helped someone, sometimes a kid, who was about to be screwed out of an inheritance. Of course eventually, someone was murdered.

> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > This is going to sound wierd, but I used to have a car that wasn't a tramp. You had to handle Aloysious (yes, I named my car) I used to have a truck named Bob. That stands for bucket of bolts.

> {quote:title=TomJH wrote:}{quote} > > *I've also been cursed with intermittent freezes, followed by the sort of "jump" as described above, for over a year. I also see the same periodic green streaks on TCM's image. I get Shaw Direct, a satellite company in Canada. The Shaw techs and I did simultaneous recordings of the same TCM movie and they saw the same flaws in their recordings (the freezes) at the exact same second that I had them in my recording. > The type of problems you describe are most often caused by problems with the service hookup in your area, even low signal on the line to your house. However, since Shaw recorded the same problems with TCM, it would seem that in this case, it is probably a problem with their satellite reception, or perhaps TCM itself. I have had TCM from Comcast in the US for many years. I do see such problems, but very rarely, and more likely on channels other than TCM. When you see such problems, the best thing to do is call a friend on the other side of town, and have them check to see if they see the same problem. Then, call your service provider. Tell them your problem. If your friend had the same problem, tell them that, because it must be coming from the head end, and they don't really need to send someone out to your house.

I'm a Babylon 5 fan, and liked his role in it quite a bit. I'm sorry he had such a sad ending.

Two favorite over-weight baddies, not mentioned yet - Sig Ruman, and Walter Slezak.

I like Gloria a lot. In some of her best roles, she played a broken heart of gold - with a hard shell!

Well, one person's anemic is another person's coldblooded.