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> {quote:title=chandler5710 wrote:}{quote}
> I've actually been working on Tyrone Power getting a stamp, as his centenary is in 4 years, and you have to start way ahead of time.
This is great to hear!!
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Hands down Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone sword fight in THE MARK OF ZORRO
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Has anyone ever read this??
An interview with Audrey Totter. It is from 10 years ago so I guess she was around 80 or 81. Either way the interview is great, and she is quite hilarious.
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Jeanne Crain was in STATE FAIR with Vivian Blaine
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> {quote:title=dickson wrote:}{quote}
> I really like Audrey Totter in just about everything she had done. A few years ago, TCM did a bunch on film noir movies and a couple of short specials, they interviewed Audrey Totter, Marie Windsor, Jane Greer and Colleen Gray. They talked about their days doing film noir movies. All sat around a table and talked. I have them on disk and just recently watched them again GREAT stuff.
I just looked this up and I think the special may have been on AMC, not TCM.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> We never discussed her on the noir thread, did we? We've discussed the others.
I don't believe we have (and we probably should). Thanks to KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL, I got a "hallelujah" moment about Coleen's abilities as an actress, and I absolutely loved her in NIGHTMARE ALLEY. Coleen has been in some pretty solid film noir only she never played a femme fatale role so she is overlooked, I believe she was one of the ladies interviewed for Eddie Muller's book on the noir dames several years back.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> What noirs was Colleen Gray in, other than NIGHTMARE ALLEY? I've never thought of HER as a noir mainstay. (in contrast to the other 3)
KISS OF DEATH, KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL, THE KILLING, and THE SLEEPING CITY to name a few.
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Merle Oberon was in DESIREE with Michael Rennie
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I look forward to seeing LADY WITH A PAST and WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD.
These pre codes are really starting to grow on me! Before, I really only sought out mysteries and gangster flicks that were pre code, but now, even a normal drama is good stuff. I really enjoy the dialogue - with no CGI special effects (thankfully), all you need is a solid script and good acting to make a movie great. Over the weekend I watched FIVE STAR FINAL for what was probably the 5th time and man oh man, it just keeps getting better. In some ways, the Hays Code really affected the films of the late 30s, 40s and 50s.
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I enjoy the Bowery Boys on Saturday mornings too, the only thing I want to add is that when the Bowery Boys films are done, I really hope they replace it with a serial. There are so many that I have never seen before that aren't available on DVD.
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Hmm, no "WHISTLE STOP" on the schedule?
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I too got my HALLELUJAH moment with Westerns (I will go into more detail later).
MFF, your comment about Zanuck is a little laughable seeing as how for a period he pumped out films for quantity not quality (even if the profit from those films were helping to finance the quality productions). I'm baffled that THE BIG SLEEP is being put on the chopping block for being confusing. When you can create a well appreciated work that is holding up well decades later, without a set in stone "right" interpretation to the film's events, it's genius. It's like looking at a Picasso and having a different interpretation of it than the person standing to your left. Does it make Pablo Picasso wrong since there is not one set in stone interpretation of the painting? Definitely not. And either way, the painting is still going to be worth a lot of money.
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I plan on watching THE MOB later on this evening.
In other news, I was had! DirecTV had Encore Mysteries showing 1942's THE GLASS KEY at 4:30AM. I recorded it and when I went to play it, it was a Tom Selleck film! What the!!! I guess I have to wait until January when TCM airs it.
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> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote}
> Just don't look at the IMDb cast list prior to watching as it gives an important plot twist away. I've tried several times to get them to change that, but as the listing accurately reflects the film's closing credits, they won't revise it.
I DVR'd but sometimes I have the habit of looking a film up before I watch it! Thanks for the advice. If I recall correctly, there are some DVD covers that give away plot twists.
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Something similar happened when Fox released The Alice Faye Collection Volume 1 with a completely awful washed out print of THE GANG'S ALL HERE. Also, an insert for the film ON THE AVENUE was missing which Fox would mail to people if they sent them a written request. I don't think they ever gave people a better copy of THE GANG'S ALL HERE, however, what they did do was release a Carmen Miranda box set with the better print on it.
I also was considering ordering the Douglas Sirk collection, I liked THE TARNISHED ANGELS and the print TCM showed was beautiful. I have the Criterion of WRITTEN ON THE WIND and the only box sets of his work seem to be in region 2.
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Wow, I finally figured it out! This was the film! The last time TCM aired this I was sick with the flu/food poisoning and in bed. I remember this being on my DVR and I decided to watch it. I was super high on meds and my vision was blurry and I remember seeing the main character and thinking his hair looked like a helmet (that's how Basehart's hair looks when you watch this film via a blurred lens) and what stuck out to me was when Totter's boy friend called him a four eyed geek or whatever. Man, thanks TCM for playing this movie again and jogging my memory. A few months back I was going to post a thread in "Information Please" for this film but I didn't have much to go on.
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> Reactions to the January 2011 schedule -
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> *"I am blown away by this schedule."* - LoveFilmNoir
> *"Wow! I can hardly wait for January!"* - Scottman
> *"TCM is completely outta control!!! Where do I start, wow!"* - markbeckhuaf
> *"Yikes!"* - FredCDobbs
> *"oh my GOODNESS...THANK YOU TCM!"* - MissGoddess
> *"This is an extraordinary schedule, perhaps even better than November."* - JonasEB
> *"January is consistently among the two or three best months all year on TCM. This is no exception."* - SweetSmellOfSuccess
> *"I am absolutely delighted with January's schedule."* - countessdelave
> *"This is one of the best months in memory."* - filmlover
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> Can we safely say that "all is forgiven" for TCM's "Jacques Cousteau Month"?
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> Kyle In Hollywood
Kyle, I am in tears with laughter. Your post reads like a TCM fan ad, and seeing everyone's initial reaction to January 2011's schedule in one post really does show how pleased the masses seem to be on this one (and history has shown that you can't please the masses). Either way, this schedule definitely has something for everyone. Good job TCM (and high five to that programmer that I know exists that exclusively loves film noir and crime dramas!)
P.S. I was one of the people that was okay with the Jacques Cousteau tribute
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> > As long as it isn't uni-brow. lol
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> I think your joke undermines the importance of a discussion on low art and high art.
Dude, put a lid on it! Do you ever know when to just cool it? It was a harmless light joke amidst a conversation that was starting to get too off topic and borderline personal attacks. What's your problem? You really have an issue with passive aggressiveness on these boards! We are all just having a simple discussion, it's okay that you don't like the film. However, you don't have to put labels that some may find offensive to describe the humor of this film and the types of people who watch it. Give me a break. The silliest thing you have written was your comparisons of the studios and putting MGM on some kind of pedestal. If the movie studio logo at the beginning of a film is your deciding factor of what you will watch, that's fine and it's probably your loss.
It seems as if you go out of your way to disagree with the majority for the sake of argument, that's quite alright with me, but it can get to be tiresome and rather annoying seeing as how your posts take up 60% of this board at the current time. Some of your comments about low/high brow humor or whatever is offensive even if a person doesn't choose to be personally offended. Yet, if this thread dealt with race or sexual preference, you'd be first to point out that many people were making offensive statements. Misswonderly's quip was rather funny but I guess maybe it was "low brow" to you. Maybe next time she'll don an Orry-Kelly gown and release her quip through MGM so that it will have your approval. You don't always have to be the "different" one or go fishing for arguments. Sheesh, retire that act ASAP.
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I almost choked laughing at that spring. I assumed the sound effect was made silly on purpose, and it worked for me. It sounded like a special effect that was later used at some point in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. I too noticed there was no music but it worked for me, and man oh man, everyone sang that song but when Jean Heather sang it I couldn't stop laughing.
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> {quote:title=Arturo wrote:}{quote}
> Probably my favorite Dan Dailey film is CHICKEN EVERY SUNDAY, a good old fashioned heartwarming story of the trials and tribulations of a turn of the (last) century family. Great cast headed by an excellent Dailey and Celeste Holm.
From the films I have seen of his, I think I like him best in this and MOTHER WORE TIGHTS. I love CHICKEN EVERY SUNDAY and I think this film would have made a great sitcom in the 50s-60s.
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> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:}{quote}
> I wouldn't use "high brow" in this context either. After all, someone in this thread referred to an opera singer as being high brow! Believe me, the sophisticated study of cinema is way more high brow than a peasant artform like opera! But I exaggerate to make my point.
Swithin, I agree. The only reason why I originally asked MyFavoriteFilms to explain himself was because he had no problem calling MURDER HE SAYS gutter and low brow humor (and yes, your opinion while honest is actually quite bias and offensive) yet I think he was one of many who enjoyed the Thelma Todd shorts in August....or is that humor high brow? Or are people's definition of high and low brow shaped by who was responsible for wardrobe for the film? If Marjorie Main was dressed by Orry-Kelly and the story took place in a Brooklyn walk up, would it's brow have been higher?
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> My apologies, LFN baby, you did talk about your revised opinion of Betty Hutton on that thread, right after my o.p. on it, I think.
> She is an acquired taste, I guess. *I think the reason all that energy and "over the top"enthusiasm doesn't get on my nerves is because it feel authentic, like that's just the way Hutton is.*
While I still prefer Betty Hutton in appropriate doses, the bolded part I agree with! When I realized that (my hallelujah moment) after seeing her in interviews etc, she started to grow on me.
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Miss wonderly, I posted in your thread about Betty. She is probably the perfect example of someone who I had a hallelujah moment about. I wake up to one of her Capitol recordings every morning. I love her singing voice.
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> What I don't like about it is that it's a rehash of the stereotypes we find in films like TOBACCO ROAD. Also, it seems inferior to THE EGG AND I, which at least showed wealthy farmers and a middle-class couple trying to blend in with both the upper and lower groups.
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> This film is just so one-dimensional and I think it caters to a gutter-type humor. It lacks sophistication, or at least sophisticated writing and truly sharp performances. It's mediocre cornball (at best).
So if a film has dark humor, it's fine if the people portrayed are wealthy or at least middle class and if they are poor they are trash? I don't think sophistication is necessary in comedy. Sometimes it's the lack of the sophistication that makes comedy work. Did you like *Arsenic and Old Lace*? That film dealt with dark humor although the aunts weren't poor, but moreso lower middle class ladies that rented rooms for income. I'm not trying to change opinions here, I just can't help but think that films should never be taken for what they are.
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> I have to agree with MFF that if one has seen even parts of the movie one shouldn't have to say what 'low brow' means and doing so might offend some people (using a term like 'hicks' for example). Because of the unsung heros thread and the discussion on Fred I went to watch the movie. But after I heard Bob give his preview and his comments about Marrjorie Main's role being like the Ma Kettle movies I was turned off since that just isn't my cup of tea.
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> Fred did a lot of 'high brow' comedy in the 30s with Lombard and I was hoping this movie was along those lines. I had the movie on but was in and out of the room instead of parking myself on the couch
I understand your opinion of Marjorie Main, but from what I saw, it was a Fred MacMurray picture and there was enough going on with other characters for the focus to be on Marjorie Main. I think the picture is a silly movie with dark comedy and should be seen as such, nothing more. I'm not too into Ma and Pa Kettle-type films and I doubt MURDER, HE SAYS would have been something I would be interested in if it were shown on TCM often, but I do have to say I liked Fred in this and Helen Walker was pretty good also.....although Jean Heather may have been the funniest person in the cast.
Tom Bosley 1927 /2010
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How sad indeed! I was just watching him in his first film role over the weekend playing Columbo in LOVE WITH A PROPER STRANGER.
I absolutely loved him as the semi-bumbling sheriff of crime infested Cabot Cove, ME on "Murder, She Wrote"