ValentineXavier

I've wanted to see this film for a long time, and was very happy to see that TCM was showing it. At 201 minutes, and being sort of avant-garde, it's not typical fare for any cable channel. I was sadly amazed to see that the film, with an OAR of 1.66:1 in 1.78:1. This resulted in lots of head croppings, and made it difficult to impossible to read the subtitles, unless the overscan on your TV is precisely adjusted, or you can set it to underscan. TCM has been very good recently with showing 1.66:1, and 1.85:1 accurately, with thin bars on the sides, or top and bottom, as appropriate, but they blew it this time. Please, TCM, reshow it correctly! Or, maybe I should just borrow the Criterion DVD. It's in 1.66:1, of course.

It's playing on Encore, and Encore HD, a few times over the next week or so. I think I'll watch it again!

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > Out of the 12 Angry Men, Marshall WAS the most irritating. He was supposed to be.

I like *Ball of Fire*, but I like the Howard Hawks/Danny Kaye version, *A Song is Born* just as much.

Okay, "only" wasn't the best word choice. The schedule has lots of other problems, but to me, LB designations are the next most pressing. But, I'm not Canadian... As much as I would like TCM to start their listing day at midnight, I doubt that it will ever happen. Starting the day at 6am (or sometimes 5am) has long been a standard of the industry. Think of it this way - if someone said that a film is on at midnight tonight, you'd know when it is. But, if the listings changed at midnight, technically, the film would be on at midnight tomorrow. That would confuse everyone.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > No, but DETOUR would have been great with John Gilbert and Garbo. Ann Savage would eat Garbo for breakfast. I think that Tom and Ann were perfect for their parts. I can't see anyone else doing it.

I was a young teen, and a fan of the comic strip, when I saw the movie on TV, a couple of years after it came out. I recall being greatly disappointed that Dondi's head was no where near the size it was in the comic strip.

Now, if they would only get the letterboxed listings corrected.

I was gonna watch it, but it was in pan&scan, not OAR, and I have so much on the hard drive, so I deleted it. I guess I feel better that it was missable...

> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}. I wonder which one TCM will be showing. I see on the July schedule that it's listed as being 89 minutes, but in a 75-minute time slot. So, unfortunately we may end up seeing the short version. Be sure to extend your programming to include enough time for the long version, just in case!

An ole what?

Oh, my gorshk!, as Popeye would say...

bring up the full monthly schedule for April. In the address bar at the top of your screen, delete the "4" and replace it with "5" for the May schedule, 6 for June, and now 7 for July is also available.

I've never seen the green tinted version. Tinted films are called "monochrome."

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > Studies have show that there is not too much connection between the amount of money one has, and the amount of money that one is willing to spend. Definitely true. I'm willing to spend millions, if only I had them...

> {quote:title=epstewart wrote:}{quote} > > But even that might be problematic. If I wanted to record two TCM movies in a row, the "end" of the first would overlap the "start" of the second, meaning the TiVo would have to use both tuners. If I also was recording something from, say, Encore HD at the same time, there'd be a scheduling train wreck My Comcast Motorola DVR lets me extend the recording time of a title by up to two hours. So, when I am recording two films in a row, and the second film is well under two hours, I just extend the recording time of the first film, and get both in one block, no muss, no fuss...

> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > OK, how about Chester Morris? He looks like a Neanderthal in Brylcream and the characters he plays are just so unlikeable. Yet he was the leading man in so many early 30's movies. Unlikeable? Neanderthal? When I think of Chester Morris, I think of Boston **** - friendly, helpful, and like a chess player that is always a couple of moves ahead of you.

> {quote:title=ThalbergFan wrote:}{quote} > Cheetah was being kind of a bully, setting that little 'fawn' floating out on the log by himself, forcing Tarzan to fight the big rubber gator to save doe and child. Maybe *he* was feeling neglected and was acting up for attention... She - Cheetah was a she. Said so in the credits. Much as I enjoyed the Weismueller Tarzan films as a kid, I liked Burroughs' Tarzan in the books much better. I think that if a good, modern film of Tarzan the Terrible was made, with the techniques we have today making it possible at last, it would be a big hit. It goes way beyond what most people think of, when they think of Tarzan.

Most of the actresses you name came to prominence in the 50s, when Hollywood started to go for the glamour of beauty, big time. Hedy came earlier, and she is very nice to look at. Certainly, there were other very beautiful actresses earlier. Merle Oberon, Myrna Loy, and Maureen O'Sullivan are a few of my favorites. But, back then, they seemed to put more of a premium on talent, and today, more of a premium on beauty, and a narrow vision of beauty, at that.

Thanks! I, too, would have prefered fixes to other problems before these features were added. I think that the feature I miss most from other boards I frequent is multiquote.

It's a magical film, made by a fine director who died much too young. Probably not something Fred would like, but who knows? Edited by: ValentineXavier on Apr 12, 2011 11:25 PM

I'm almost computer illiterate, so much of the new tool bar at top of the posts unknown to me. I wish there was a primer on it somewhere! So, I did figure out how to quote a post. But, I couldn't add any text outside the quote box. I was in "Rich Text," so I tried clicking "Plain Text," and got the familiar look of the replies, and was able to post text outside the quote. Am I missing how to get the coursor outside the quote box in "Rich Text?" I don't see what use it is, if you can't enter text outside the quote box. Or, is it not functioning properly?

Renee, thanks for letting us know that most of our major issues are being addressed. Please impress upon them that the vast majority of people here want the monthly schedules to have the synopses restored, and print in fewer pages. Even if this restored format only comes up when one clicks the PDF/print icon, that would be sufficient.

Some years back, I saw a film of Fred defying gravity, dancing around the room, that showed how it was done. It still looked difficult to do!

I'm a Coen Bros. fan, and can't call it epically bad, but their version of *The Lady Killers* can't hold a candle to the original.