SansFin
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> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}
> And what did Van really know anyway that could hold up in court? By that time the jig was up and you'd think "Evans" would be hightailing it out of there, not risking arrest by visiting Van.... How did they know that Van even survived the bombed out bldg. scam?
I felt there were several reasons. There was fear that Hannon's continued meddling might lead to their capture. Evans could not have known at that time that the others had been arrested as it happened in another part of the city while Evans was following Hannon from the park.
Part of the plan may have been to wait for the butler to return and to kill him also as the butler may have witnessed the purchase of the doll which might have proven to be a lead which the police could have pursued to identify the kidnapper.
There was perhaps a measure of anger because Hannon had compromised Murch which forced Evans to carry out the kidnapping in person which meant the parents could give the police a description.
Evans knew Hannon was alive because Evans was watching the police activity at the park and saw him. The hand on the railing when Hannon and Lennox were walking to their car indicated they were being watched and the automobile pulling in behind them when they reached Hannon's apartment indicated they were followed from the park.
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I believe this may help set the mood for the holiday:
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*23 Paces to Baker Street* was a wonderful movie! I am very happy TCM brings us such quiet and rare movies.
I am awaiting *Cops and Robbers* (1973) as I saw only part of it when it was aired previously.
Sunday night's animation is a grand schedule! I have never seen and I know nearly nothing about them. What little I do know of them makes me anxious to watch them!
I will surely be groovin'
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> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote}
> She's from Odessa and was reminiscing about the restaurants
You must ask what is her favorite club by Arcadia Beach and what was her best night there. She will blush if she has had a life and is yet a lady.
> Did you catch 23 PACES TO BAKER STREET?
I have finished watching it just now. I liked it very much. Vera Ellen was fine. I have liked Cecil Parker since in *Indiscreet* (1958) he said: "I'm too old for this sort of evening. I always was." I found it odd that he was so very British and yet not aloof as most butlers in movies of that time.
I found it odd also that the title referred only to directions he gave a man in the fog. I believe I must have missed some great significance to that.
The exterior scenes were great and the fog scenes were incredible. I felt the interior scenes lacked character.
I am sad to say Van Johnson's performance seemed very pat to me. I felt as if he was very comfortable in his movements and abilities for a person so very recently blind that he isolates himself because of it.
The plot and pacing is very much of Hitchcock. I felt a connection with *Dial M for Murder* (1954) in that it unfolds in a quiet way and so the moments of action are heightened in comparison.
It may be my imagination that I have watched this movie before this. I did not know the ending and yet some scenes seemed very familiar. It would have had to be long ago if I had seen it.
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Is there no love here for Hammer's *The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires* (1974)? It has Peter Cushing as Professor Laurence Van Helsing and John Forbes-Robertson as Count Dracula. It is set in a remote village in China. It can be seen at:
Bela Lugosi plays The Vampire in: *Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire* (1952). It can be seen at:
Fans of pepla may like Gordon Scott in: *Goliath and the Vampires* (1961). It may be seen at:
My favorite modern movie of Dracula is: *Love at First Bite* (1979) with George Hamilton as Count Dracula and Arte Johnson as Renfield. A clip of it may be seen at:
"I bit her once in Warsaw ..."
They are fun movies even although they have nearly no relationship to the novel. I believe it would be inane to have many movies with scripts virtually identical.
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I have found a video which shows how to make a dress as worn by Morticia Addams:
I do not understand how it makes two complete layers when you fold it in half and trace a half-pattern but it looks easy and fun.
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> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote}
> The Irish pub looks like it was lifted straight out of Dublin, and I'm going for the chocolate cake from the Italian place.
It is sad to say I did not have the chocolate cake at Pomodoro Pizza. I had the tiramisu first and it spoiled me. It was absolute perfection!
There were days on which I ate all of my meals at Mick's. Their Chinese Beef and their Rosemary Lamb are excellent. Some afternoons a funny little old Muscovite wore a tam and tried to speak with an Irish accent when he tended bar.
I hope you visit there some day. I believe the cherries vareniki and lamb shashlik at Dacha are of themselves worth the trip. I promise to make arrangement to treat you to a meal there if you go. I must warn you that all the staff are insane but in a good way.
http://www.dacha.com.ua/en/seasons/summer#/kot_dachnij.jpg
I liked to sit beside the windows on the veranda.
http://www.dacha.com.ua/en/photo-album/panoramas
You must click 'Veranda' on the map to see views of it.
I would have eaten there much more if it were not so expensive and was not on French Boulevard.
I hope to remember to record *23 Steps to Baker Street* (1956). Vera Miles and Cecil Parker always make a movie fun to watch even when it is serious. I must wonder if the name was to take advantage of popularity of Sherlock Holmes movies.
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> {quote:title=AddisonDeWitless wrote:}{quote}As i sat waiting for the *interminable* Dirty Dozen to *FINALLY END so I can at last see* Five Graves to Cairo, my mind went back to this thread and I formulated an idea for *what could have been the greatest movie evuh*: The Dirty Doughgirls.
That deserves to be in the 20th Century Vole thread!
http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=152322&start=0&tstart=15
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Music of the season:
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The desserts at Pomodoro Pizza are superb:
http://pomodoro.od.ua/en/menu_en/desserts/
The seafood at Mick O'Neills Irish Pub is well-known:
http://www.ipub.com.ua/menu/beer_snacks_irish_pub/page1
I believe this url is for the page in English but I am not certain. You may have to click on the "ENG" icon at upper right of banner photograph.
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My esso is a writer. Such things are discussed at length on newsgroups because it makes writers feel as if they are busy with their work when they are in truth cat vacuuming and will discuss any topic which will keep them from staring at a blank screen waiting for words to come.
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The entire process of creating schedules and licensing movies to fit them must be very expensive.
It may perhaps be that the executives would rather spend that money on recreation now than to invest it in a thing which will not be used if the world truly ends on schedule on 21Dec12.
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> {quote:title=BigFaceSmallRazor wrote:}{quote}
> That is why the novel & the album are all but defunct. I just hope the same doesn't happen with movies.
I find the trend in publishing to be very interesting. There is very distinct polarization. The Kindle and Nook e-readers indicate a strong market for novels while a growing majority nearly never read.
A balance has been achieved that those who do read tend to read more than ever before and they want closely aligned series and trilogies to extend their experience.
The effect is that the number of novels read is rising slightly while the number of titles read is dropping considerably. It is also true that the number of people who read more than one novel a year is dropping while the number who read more than one a week is rising.
I must wonder if the similarity in movies wherein sequels and prequels have a rising popularity is actual or merely superficial.
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I have seen recordings of ten-minute-Shakespeare which were on AMC. They were quite amusing and interesting. I must wonder if it was their intent to condense that movie in the same manner and for the same reason.
I know of several movies which I feel might be good if they were ten minutes rather than two hours in length.
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> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote}
> My feet are killing me -- can Cap come over?
I am sorry to say that his method makes it so very intimate that it is not suitable for naive young things such as yourself.
He has said that he would die before he would even think of being intimate with another woman. I was sad that it took him so very long to realize it and I was amused that he thought it was his option.
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> {quote:title=SueSueApplegate wrote:}{quote}
> Get well wishes winging their way to you!
I thank you for your kind words. It is sad to say this appears now that it will be gradual improvement over a period of months.
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> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote}
> Hopefully, the trend will shift back to a theater, a shared viewing experience with others.
I am sorry to say it is doubtful such will occur except as perhaps a fad which will pass quickly.
The trend of humanity has always been towards separation. Early man lived in tight clusters sharing any shelter available. Neolithic houses were usually connected to each other. The vast majority of homes until the Industrial Revolution had one room where the entire family slept.
Separate bedrooms for most began in the IR and Victorian Era. The trend became a bedroom and bath so an individual's time alone was increased and their sharing of private matters decreased. The rise of personal computing and mobile devices has segregated even more as people seek a disconnect from physical contact with others.
The trend to cluster in cities may seem to belie this viewpoint but the growth of cities can be tied directly to improvements in design and technology which allows greater densities while reducing apparent proximity. The majority of community housing projects of large scale failed because they did not take into account the need for defensible spaces in graduated steps of: individual, family, small groups of families and groups of small groups. Each of these represents an individual's choice of which other individuals to allow to be near them.
I believe Facebook and Twitter and their ilk are successful because they increase our involvement with others while removing the need to actually come into contact with them.
I have seen new homes in which every bedroom has an adjoining bathroom, kitchenette and office/den space so that each member of the family will be living in their own little world.
I have noted also that there are people on this board who have stated they feel a bond when they watch a movie on TCM knowing that others who visit these boards are watching it at the same time. Many of these people are ones who also state that they do not often visit theatres because they can not stand the crying and fussing, the running up and down the aisles and the other inappropriate behavior and the children are worse.
I believe these trends will continue until the only "coming together" for movies is in "liking" it on a social media site.
> > Tyrannosaurus Rex which required a tonne of meat a day.
> Is this an old British spelling for "ton"?
It is SI term for a million grams which is a thousand kilograms which is approx. two-thousand-two-hundred pounds..
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I believe this is merely an evolution.
Movies remain static until the 1950s because they were the dominant entertainment medium and they did not need to change.
A principle of evolution is that any species will adapt or die when a new competitor for resources is introduced. Movies did this when television began to intrude into their market. The marked shift in movie-making in the 1960s was the change most obvious. The alteration made them more attractive to the demographic with the highest disposable income and the least reason to remain at home every night.
I believe there was a similar situation in the 1980s as video games began to prey on movies' prime fodder. The response then was to begin to become more video-gamey than the video-games.
I hope you will all please understand that such evolution takes time and we are only now seeing the greatest fulfillment of that trend.
The introduction of streaming, large home televisions and YouTube has been very sudden in evolutionary terms and so confusion reigns as the traditional connections of studio-director-distributor struggle to survive.
It is becoming obvious that their methods have atrophied and have become an unsustainable burden to the active life of film making just as some dinosaurs evolved defensive horns which protected them but hampered their movements so very much they could not quickly move to better feeding grounds during times of drought or flood.
I believe the independent movie movement is a mutation whose time has come. It can be more responsive to its demographic because it does not have the lead time, high costings or other burdens of the traditional system. It is the bird which can survive on seeds being the logical offspring of the Tyrannosaurus Rex which required a tonne of meat a day.
All growth and change is a time of pain. The old order is struggling to survive and will grasp wildly for any food and fight viciously to protect its territory. The new order is feeling its way blindly as it learns what it needs to survive and what it needs to teach the next generation so they can grow.
Some here are yet so young that they may live to see the time when most movies are made by a collaboration of screenwriter, director and actors who have never met, whose works are rarely seen on screens larger than a family television and with their income supplied by pay-per-view, internet subscriptions and pop-up advertising.
It will be a time when having a few tens of thousands of viewers means financial survival, meaning they can continue to cater to the tastes and expectations of their select viewership.
It will be a time when viewers will have their choice of a dozen new movies each day and they will look back at the time when movies needed to attract millions of viewers as the age of the dinosaurs.
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> {quote:title=SonOfUniversalHorror wrote:}{quote}
> Many in this thread are talking such ridiculous nonsense simply because they either didn't get the right equipment or didn't have something hooked up correctly, etc.
Not all televisions are created equal nor are all DVD players or Blu-Ray players created equal.
They must all meet minimum standards so that they are compatible. Most go beyond the standards but which performance issues are better than average varies greatly.
Picture and audio quality will vary greatly in different matches of televisions and players. The picture quality will be good even when the television does not recognize the enhanced portions of the player's output and it is not receiving appropriate levels for which it was optimized. The picture quality will be fantastic when the player provides what the television needs and can use above and beyond the technically required minimum.
This is evident in the display at any store. Televisions of similar size and quality will not have identical pictures. A good store will allow the customer to switch the inputs so they can see what the picture is like with various popular players as well as the local cable system.
The picture quality on our thirty-two-inch-class television with an upscaling DVD player is much better than the sixty-inch television and Blu-Ray player we had when playing a standard DVD. I can assure you that all cables were of highest quality and properly attached as Capuchin is not a videophile but he has been using such equipment since his time flying reconnaissance in the USAF.
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I believe the size of the television plays a major role. Most of our home-recorded DVDs look sharp and crisp with good contrast on our primary television which is thirty-two-inch-class and it does not matter greatly if they are played on the Sony upscaling DVR through the special cable or Magnavox disposable DVD player with simple RCA plug video.
All of our movies looked blocky or choppy or washed-out on a sixty-inch flat panel and it did not matter the source. Only Blu-Ray disks gave an excellent picture. It is fortunate the television died quickly and the retailer could not replace it with the same model and so refunded our money.
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> {quote:title=AddisonDeWitless wrote:}{quote}
> The "f*** you up for life" thing has always stayed with me even though it has been maybe 20 years since I saw it.
Truly classic things stay with us forever.
I must have seen the movie once when it was released. I am not a fan of either star and I am not a fan of foul language in movies. That line has stayed with me to the extent that I recognized it as a movie line. I consider it a classic line even although it was in a less-than-perfect movie.
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A glorious example of Western sophistication and elegance:
I believe this is a wardrobe malfunction waiting to happen:
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Is this what you mean?:
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I am never sure if anyone is truly dead at the end of *Les Diabolique* (1955)
Off Topic: Favorite Music?
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> Halloween songs! We can't forget this gem (this is also a video of classic movies, so it's TCM-relevant
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> Boris Pickett and the Cryptkickers -
I hope this is not off-topic:
On the page with the video of the Cryptkickers is a link to "One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People Eater."
I do not understand how such a monster might survive as there are so very few Purple People for it to Eat.
I hope this is appropriate to the season: