wouldbestar

SAG agreed with you last night. Go, Jeff Bridges!

And he just kept it up. To you younger fiolks, he was Icepick on Magmum, P.I.

First off, Misters Conrad, Denning and Lundigan were fine supporting actors who will pop up in the films of those others who get their days so often they won't need their own. I always know when I see their names in the credits that somebody knows what he's doing. Also William Conrad was the original Matt Dillon on the radio version of Gunsmoke. I still remember the last part of the soliloquy he opened the show with; "It makes a man watchful-and a little lonely". I guess they didn't think he looked good enough for TV but they couldn't have gotten anyone better to open The Fugitive.

Kathie Moffitt is the all-time femme fatale in movie history (sorry, Marie). Who can believe such an innocent looking face as Jane Greer's could be so dastardly? As for Ms. Windsor-how could you all leave her off your lists? She should have been right up there.

Yes, he should come back and face the court. What he did was reprehensible. But I also agree with the victim who wants it resolved now and forever. If she can put this behind her and does not want jail time, so should "we the people". I think this has gone on this long because the LA courts have taken such a beating with the Simpson and Blake acquittals they think they have to be able to claim a "win" to save face. Polanski was willing to plead guilty and accept a plea deal back when this happened but from what I remember fled because there was word that the judge was going to overrule the deal and hit him with serious prison time. If I felt I could not trust the court, I might have run too. There was skullduggery on both sides. If Polanski owns up to what he did, it's time to move on. He's going to have to face a higher judge in the not too distant future anyway.

In a perfect world, yes. But the idea was that this is the real one and we have to learn to be and live in it the best we can. Mr. Stark?s going from wiping the floor in his wife?s apron to finally being a man and standing up with Jim is a highlight of the film. Judy?s father can?t relate to his daughter going from child to woman but he?s there and worried when she goes missing. Plato?s parents are never there for him-just the family maid-and she the one who mourns him when he?s killed. In Hood, only the boy with a strong father figure makes it out alive. Today, our culture seems to think they don?t count in modern family life but that?s not true. Stand up Dads; your sons and daughters need you.

Just watched the whole film. Thank you for downloading it so we all could see it. One thing-don't try it full screen. The picture is so fuzzy it will give you a headache. In this case less really is more. I guess the costumers thought so too as I saw what you meant by the lowering necklines. Edited by: wouldbestar on Jan 21, 2010 2:27 PM Edited by: wouldbestar on Jan 21, 2010 2:31 PM

Oh, wow! Just saw Two Seconds and can barely type this. Thank you for the heads up. Yes, it was very melodramatic but as usual Edward G. Robinson made it all worth while. Chaz Palmenterri was right on when he did that tribute to him. This was my first time seeing it and this is why TCM is tops.

I first saw it on TV in the early 60's after my teen-age years and often said that every kid should be required to see it with the folks the day they turn 13 and discuss it afterwards. Maybe then a lot of the problems that came up could be headed off. When Boys In the Hood came out, I saw a lot of similarities in the two even through the races, eras, locales, economic status, and cultures were the exact opposites. It might not be politically correct to say so but kids need fathers as well as mothers and these movies weren't afraid to say so. You can't overrate these two.

I have often seen that by the time the Oscars are awarded the film that seemed so great at Globes time has lost its luster. The Academy is more conservative in their voting and I think would honor a more traditional, live action film over Avatar. James Cameron might have bested Kathryn Bigelow Sunday but I suspect she will get her ex-wife's last word and take home that little bald man.

Does anybody know why we did not see Fay Spain?s face in The Godfather, Part II? We see her from the back in a dozen crinolines and high heels and hear her offering Michael (Al Picino) a tuna sandwich but that?s all. Her voice was unmistakable so you knew it was her. She wasn?t that old.

If you have assess to the old Roy Rogers TV show you?ll see him in a bunch of them. He also did a Walker, Texas Ranger episode with L. Q. Jones, R. G. Armstrong, and some other good old Western types. He seemed to enjoy the genre.

Don't know how the above got posted twice. Thought I finally this down pat. Edited by: wouldbestar on Jan 20, 2010 3:27 PM

I would love to see a day or better yet a month to the great movie villains. Most of them those who come to my memory are fairly recent-Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam, Claude Akins, Raymond Burr, Myron Healy, Michael Pate, Leo Gordon- but Basil Rathbone, John Carridine and others from the 30's and 40's should be in there too. Pate and Gordon were also writers for many of the shows they worked on and I believe Gordon was Oscar nominated for co-writing Tobruk. In the 60's and 70's many of them became TV stars in comedy roles and got some of the recognition they deserved. How about it!

Watch Dodge City. Cabot was Jeff Surrett. I have heard or read negative comments about him many times over the years.

Hello, Maryville! Spent some time on vacation there back in the 60's. Knoxville, too. Most delicious water I ever drank. My first was Alice in Wonderland or Bambi. I also saw Showboat about that time and I think that's my first live action film. I still love Ava Gardner's plaid and teal dress in the beginning scenes. I got bored before the end and went up to the nursery. Yes, I said nursery. This was the Florida Theater in Jacksonville, FL. They had three floors and two balconies and on the third they had a nursery/playroom where our folks could drop us off and go see the movie. As long as they showed the ticket stub, it was free. There was always a lady in a nurse's cap and uniform meeting them at the door. After a while, they knew me so well that I could go up there alone with a stub and get in. Each floor had its own concession stand, too. If you ever saw the Tampa Theater on AMC when they featured the old movie palaces you know what it looked like. The Tampa one was vertical, the Florida horizontal and larger but the decorations were the same Not only are movies different today but the experience as well. I hope those of us around then realize how blessed we were.

I can't believe there is remake. How dare they! This was the first 50's movie I saw where the teen-agers wern't delinquent punks out to off the old folks and generally raise hell. They actually save the world even if it's just so they can keep driving fast and make out. It's a sweet and touching film as well as scary. Can the remake say that?

Thank you TCM. It's been a while since I've seen it and appreciated getting to do it again. It is still one of the best even if it's hard to accept Linda still wanting to marry the man who beat or had her beaten up. I'm sure that's the way things were looked at back then and might still be someplace today. One thing I've never seen addressed in any of the forums visited so far is costuming and it's importance. I bring this up because it and the score are things I really look at in judging a film. The ones Carolyn Jones got for this one were perfect for her. I saw other actresses wearing the red and black net one as well as the dark blue and white dress Mary Sinclar wore at the end of Arrowhead on Bonanza episodes. The red one was very ill-fitting on the woman. They were worth the money you can tell went into them. Watching the fifties Warner westerns are a hoot because there must have been only a half-dozen dresses for the ladies to wear. There is a black and plaid traveling outfit and light print dress with dark brick a brack that every woman who set foot on the place must have worn . One more thing-I don't recognize the actor who played Lee but did see the name Brian Hutton in the credits. Is this him and is he the Kelly's Heroes director? If not, who? Thanks for hearing me out.

Just discovered this thread. First saw Westward the Womenon CBS back in 1967 or 68 and have lost count of how many times by now. Looking forward to April and seeing it again. There is a real incident like that in history. In colonial times, the French government sent boatloads of women to Canada to marry their colonists there. They were called "casket girls" because they were given what we would think of as hope chests filled with whatever they needed to set up housekeeping I also saw somebody mention Katy Jurado who was one of my favorites as a girl. To me she was ther real heroine of High Noon and most of what she appeared in, even Arrowhead. I know she died a few years ago. Was shocked to see Karen Steele had too. Thanks for a thread for us ladies.

Thank you for giving us the connection between Kay Francis and the Katharine Gibbs Secretatarial School. I caught her real name Wednesday and wondered if this was just a coincidence or an actual connection. I remember being a "Gibbs Girl" was a big deal when I started working back in the 60's.

I actually found the book last year in my library's tossing out pile and found it delightful. Wales seems to be the forgotten part of GB so his childhood memories were very much appreciated by this frustrated traveler. I also liked that although some scandalous conduct was written about it was done in a gentlemanly way. The differences in how the British and Americans look at theater and movie acting were also interesting. I recommend it highly.

Thank you for the heads up. This is something we really need to know. I usually stick to the autobiographies because if we later find out it's baloney we know who to fault. Yes, I know about ghostwriters but you have to trust somebody and I will go with the subject until I learn otherwise. Can anyone be truly honest about themselves?

I second the motion. Everything already said is true of me too. This was the second Attenborough film I ever saw-you can guess what the first one was-and I realized he was more that "Big X Bartlett". The fact that this story is true totally unnerves you. TCM needs it.

Thank you for including Veda Ann Borg. She was robbed of an Oscar nomination for playing Nell Robinson, the blind pioneer wife in The Alamo. She was always great in and out of the Ford/Wayne stock company. Like in the movie she gets a Hip, Hip, Hooray from me.

Has anybody rung up more film and TV time than John McIntire? I can see it all stretched around the world at least twice and he never phoned it in.