ValentineXavier
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Yeah, the different lengths might be the problem. Maybe they didn't have a WS print of the longest running time, but did have the 4x3 print of the longest running time, so sent that one, considering it to be the most complete.
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Thanks, guys! I guess TCM couldn't get it. The IMDb lists it as being released on Dec. 10th, 2010!
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Help yourself.
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Medak has made a few great movies. *The Ruling Class*, with Peter O'Toole, is one of my favorites. *The Krays* and *Romeo Is Bleeding* are also quite good. Perhaps he doesn't get the credit yhe deserves because he has done so much TV.
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> {quote:title=bOb39 wrote:}{quote}
> I sometimes have a tough time trying to understand why some folks get fired up over the things they get fired up on.
Some folks are just too twitchy.
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Well, I work on a college campus. I would say that a much higher level of alcohol consumption is socially acceptable among many of the kids here, than you will ever see in 30s films.
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About a week or so ago, I saw a film on the Dec. schedule that is no longer there. It was scheduled for 2am, Saturday Dec. 11th, aka Friday night. It was letterboxed, and the title began with "The Wonderful World of," but I can't remember the rest. Now, *Santa Claus* is scheduled in that slot, but previously, it followed the dropped film. Does anyone know the full title of the dropped film?
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Yeah, that's a good one, directed by Fritz Lang. I forgot about it.
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W. C. Fields usually played a lush.
In *Them Thar Hills*, Stan, Ollie, and Mae Busch get uproariously tipsy from drinking "water" from a well where moonshiners dumped their whiskey.
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> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote}
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A bookstore, a rainy afternoon, a bottle of scotch...
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I would like to wish a happy date which will live in infamy to everyone!
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> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote}
> i probably shouldn't use that reference any longer though. Someone may think that I was expecting a 3D airing.
You're right, I hadn't thought of that! It did occur to me that Cinerama was shown on a curved screen.
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In my experience, he avoids serious spoilers. I don't consider mentioning something that happens almost immediately after the start, or a character, much of a spoiler.
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> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote}
> I am very sorry to say I do not understand gift cards. It seems to me much like saying: "You are not worth the trouble of me looking for a good gift so I will make you go through the trouble of buying your own from a limited selection." I have received three and *was caught between having to add my own money to buy something I did not really need or leave some money on the card as a gift to the company.* Perhaps it is a thing I will have to learn into.
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To me, it is saying 'I didn't want to buy you something you wouldn't like.' A gift card to a favorite restaurant, or to a favorite store, takes care of the problem you mention.
I quite understand about not wanting company logos on clothes and things. I am mostly the same way. I would never have a T-shirt with a Nike Swoosh! If they want me to wear their advertising, they can pay me. I do like T-shirts from concerts, or organizations I like.
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> Does anyone know?
I've often wondered. I've noticed that generally, *General Discussions* tends to be hotter...
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> {quote:title=JakeHolman wrote:}{quote}
> Unlike many on this board, I believe Big Chuck was a great actor and he was mean and lean in this film. And, Eleanor Parker, WOW! What a woman and a great actress, too...
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> Stay warm...
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> Leiningen, you're up against a monster twenty miles long and two miles wide, forty square miles of agonizing death! You can't stop it!
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> The Naked Jungle
It would go well on a double bill with *Them*.
It's a decent film, but I had read the short story first, and thought the script could have been better. I've seen it on TV, but not recently. My favorite Heston role will always be Vargas, in *Touch of Evil*.
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> I think this thread title wins the honor of year's most creative. LOL
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While I heartily endorse the "Phooey," I had never heard the term "flatscreen print," only the more common 'full screen,' 'pan and scan,' or '4x3' print. So, to me at least, it seems a new term was created.
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> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}
> No one watches "Masterpiece" on PBS because Alan Cummings is hosting it.
No, but I have watched Alan Cummings films, because I saw him hosting Masterpiece Mystery.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
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> > He was NOT a killer in *The Ox-bow Incident*.
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> He killed 8 million people in Fail-Safe.
On that one, unlike the other one, you are correct.
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> I probably degrade Arness' performance as much as anyone's in this film - he probably turns in the most wooden moments on-screen.
Yeah, he never turned in another performance to equal his playing the part of a giant alien two-legged carrot in *The Thing*.
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He was NOT a killer in *The Ox-bow Incident*. He and his buddy vote NOT to hang the suspects, and Fonda tries to stop the hanging, but is overpowered. Later, he takes Dana Andrews' letter to his wife. The posse started out legal, with approval from a judge. Fonda tries to keep it legal, but fails.
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Well, in *Young Tom Edison*, he does work on the railroad, but I don't recall if the song was in the film.
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> You take the Harbor Freeway, to the San Diego
> Freeway, to the San Bernadino Freeway, go to the Slaussen cut-off.
> Get out of your car, cut off your slaussen, get back in your car
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Hell, (MI) is only about 30 miles from where I live, but there are various shortcuts...
> Seriously, I have no idea, but I would like to see it myself!
Me too!
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Since I dislike John Wayne, I am eminently qualified to render an opinion on which are his best films...
They are:
*The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance*
*Red River*
*The Searchers*
*Legend of the Lost*
*Reap the Wild Wind*
*The Big Trail*
Longtime Hollywood publicist shot to death in Beverly Hills
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> h2. Publicists pals skeptical
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> While the Beverly Hills Police have confirmed the bullets that murdered Chasen came from the gun Harold Martin Smith later used to commit suicide and are saying the PR mavens tragic death was due to a robbery gone bad, a number of Chasens friends and associates are skeptical.
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> Smiths drive-by shooting of Chasen from a bicycle (ridden 10 miles to and from his shabby hotel home) is odd in itself. It also seems unlikely Smith would have taken the time in the dark (at 12:30 a.m.) to collect all five shell casings as none were found at the scene.
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> Most troubling is the lack of theft. If this man was so desperate for money, why did he leave Ronnis purse on the seat next to her? said a longtime friend of the PR queen. That just doesnt make sense.
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Add to this that they initially said that the gun he killed himself with *wasn't* the gun that killed her. I'd have to say I'm skeptical too.