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Yes, the character Greer plays in The Big Steal is that of the girlfriend to a dishonest swindler, played by Patrick Knowles. This is similar to Liz Scott and her character in Pitfall (but at the end of that film Scott is behind bars). But like Greer both actresses are known for their femme fatale roles than these girlfriend-of-a-cad roles.

I really enjoy both but Out of the Past is the better film IMO. Note that William Bendix would work with Mitchum, 3 years later in Macao.

You didn't miss anything. With regards to the Mitchum Crossfire, this was followed up by Out of the Past, making Mitchum a major star.

Yea, I made another spelling blunder. I'm just going to put you on ignore but I only do that with you!

I wish I had seen the discussion on Psycho. As you know the "T" in LGBTQ is for transgender and not transvestite. The two are very different. Anyhow, trying to claim Psycho is problematic as it relates to transgender or transvestite is WAY off the mark. The Castle film, Homicidal would have been a better choice but even that film really doesn't cover either someone that claims to be transgender or a transvestite. (and yes, I do say "claims to be" because to me gender is biological and physical and not defined by what is in one's mind).

To me your post was confusing as well: so it would be odd for a detective 40 years earlier to think of the case in that term. I guess it all comes down to how literal one wishes to interrupt "in that term"; yes the term hate-crime wasn't used, but clearly the police captain was able to think about such crimes; violence toward someone only because of their race\religion\background. The captain goes on to explain how his Irish grandfather was beaten and killed in America just for being Irish. The captain also admits his shame in being so slow to pick-up on the motive given what happened to this grandfather. So the captain clearly was able to "think of the case" in the terms of the senseless-crime-based-on-background, based on his personal experiences, but of course wouldn't use the actual term "hate crime".

Power and Fontaine:

I agree about this "everyman" quality that Power was able to bring to his screen persona. I also find interesting that your two favorite Power performances are ones where the character he plays are anything but an "everyman" type of person. Of course in Mark of Zorro, he is play-acting as a spoiled, I-love-fashion, etc...type of character, and as Zorro a hero. I.e. there are only a few times in the film he isn't playing one of these two "roles", neither being an "everyman". In Nightmare Alley, he knows he is good-looking, charming, and that he has-a-way-with-words, and creates a character persona of the charming swindler. That isn't much of an "everyman", well, expect if one is a used-car salesman. Well made and very good films. For "everyman" type performances I really liked This Above All with Joan Fontaine and The Razor's Edge (but with the latter, my wife still keeps asking; how could a guy that has-it-all, be so uninterested in success (as defined by conventional standards).

TCM's management is thinking the same thing; they don't need to be lectured.

The Hotel Del Coronado is worth seeing. There is a fair amount of Hollywood history on display there. I tend to take the Italian relatives down to San Diego to see the hotel and Little Italy in downtown S.D.

In the book which member (or ex-member) of the Army was trying to pick up the victim? OR was it the victim trying to pick up one of the Army men and that is the motive for the beating? I.e. a gay guy making a pass at a non-gay guy?

But historically these type of post are driven by seeing a few films, typically post 1990 films or foreign films on the schedule (or whatever means they use to determine what TCM will be showing), and overreacting to that with; all hell is breaking loose. I.e. the majority of films shown for any given month are American studio-era films and thus TCM is sticking to their branding. Of course some months, like Oscar month, do lead to more posts 1990 films, and other months may feature more foreign films due to a theme, but actual data has confirmed that TCM is showing around the same percentage of American studio-era films today, as they did 10, 15, 20 years ago.

Great to see you're be going to Larry Edmunds Hollywood shop. I love that place and it was part of the reason I really got into studio-era movies. Before TCM, I would see a movie on the local T.V., get into a new actor and head up to the shop to purchases a book or two about them, and still photos (actual studio promo ones when I could find them, with an official studio stamp - used by permission only). I was going about once every 3 - 4 weeks. I haven't been there in a few years, and during Covid they did hold a fund raiser which was covered by the L.A. Times. Anyhow I assume it is still the same great place and you will not be disappointed (can't say the same thing for the Hollywood sign,, oh well).

I agree that that synopsis is very misleading. As you note the police captain is just doing his routine job (and he admits to the Mitchum character early on he isn't no longer really interested in his job, but is just going through the process \ motions). That fact is the reason the captain is slow to catch on that the murder is a hate-crime. I.e. why the motive passed him by until he was over halfway into his investigation. That bogus crusading line implies he suspected a hate crime early on and that was his motivation for solving the case. NOT.

Uh, you already replied to my post. You didn't need to reply again just to show how stubborn you are. Trust me, I get that after our previous exchanges about West Side Story and so called "remakes" in general.

There are two ways; The simple way is to click the "quote" icon right below the post. The other way is to highlight text and wait for the pop-up "quote section". This will create a reply with just the highlighted text (useful if one is trying to reply to a long post or a post with pictures,, and one doesn't wish for the entire post to display).

Ah, we think alike! I was going to post that Blaine was a tragic character. I even had a silly post-storyline; Blaine gets captured trying to flee Casablanca using phony transit papers and is shot trying to escape.

Mrs. Stone is another tragic character played by Leigh:

TCM just showed The Heiress as part of Oscar month. Fine, well produced film, with solid direction by William Wyler and as noted great acting by Olivia DeHavilland (one of the top 5 best performances by any actress in an American Film IMO). Of course I'm a sucker for Olivia DeHavilland; she is the first studio-era actress I really fell for that got me into studio-era films in the first place. I started out by watching the Warner Brother actors like Bogie, Cagney and Flynn and that is how I discovered Olivia. After I saw The Strawberry Blonde, I was hooked.

As for weird logic; my guess is that no matter what they would have complained about this Spielberg adaptation; If the setting, content, part of the storyline was much different than that of the movie, they would have complained it should be like the 1961 movie version of the play, and if it was similar (like it is), they instead complain that it is too much like the 1961 movie version and thus there was no reason for it to be made!

Spielberg was NOT making a reboot/remake of the movie, but instead a movie version of the original play. The original 1957 Broadway production, conceived, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins and produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold Prince, Therefore in that regard the 1961 film version is no more "original" than the Spielberg film version.

While I see where you're going here I never had must sympathy towards Rocky in Angels with Dirty Faces. But along those lines, I did have a lot of sympathy towards Roy and Marie in the film High Sierra:

Yes, but mostly later in his career; E.g. the doctor in Peyton Place.

As you noted the MOVIES-TV print is really poor. Often that doesn't impact my enjoyment but it did in this case. I did like the performance of Lloyd Nolan as the snake.