ElCid
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2 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
Saturday, June 15
midnight. Du Cote de la Cote (1958). A short subject about the French Riviera.
According to TCM schedule, this is on at 11:30, before Saturday night's Noir Alley presentation of Pickup on South Street at Midnight.
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I think Strother Martin just fit a type that fell in line with the scripts.
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7 minutes ago, Bogie56 said:
How old was she when she gave it a One? I gave it two in 1968 when I was a kid which was the era when most movies were a four IMO.
Not saying, but within the past few years.
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When you get to June 15th, The Falcon in Hollywood is on and I believe it features the RKO studio. That's Saturday at 10:08 AM.
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10:08 AM, Saturday,June 15: The Falcon in Hollywood. Another good entry in the Falcon series and features dthe RKO studio unless I am mistaken.
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24 minutes ago, Bogie56 said:
Here you go. The entry from my film diary that I had just started that year. Two stars out of four means "fair" which is pretty harsh for I gave most films three, three and a half or four stars when I started the diary.
27. The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy Fri.Dec.6,68 ** 1958 1 Rafael Portillo
Ramon Gray, Rosa Arenas
My wife gave it 1, out of kindness and she is a big fan of SciFy, even bad SciFy.
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22 minutes ago, Bogie56 said:
Here you go. The entry from my film diary that I had just started that year. Two stars out of four means "fair" which is pretty harsh for I gave most films three, three and a half or four stars when I started the diary.
27. The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy Fri.Dec.6,68 ** 1958 1 Rafael Portillo
Ramon Gray, Rosa Arenas
My wife gave it 1, out of kindness and she is a big fan of SciFy, even bad SciFy.
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I remember years ago when motels and hotels would advertise that they had HBO. That meant nothing to me as it seemed all they ever showed was sports.
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3 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
The original studio version said "F-I-S-H". I have it in my (R.I.P.) iTunes collection. I think they just changed it up occasionally in live performances.
The tape I heard in Vietnam definitely used the F word. Not sure where it came from, but doubt it was bootlegged at a live performance. Maybe it was a recording made at a live performance for sale the way they often do.
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14 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
The Girls on the Beach (1965) - 5/10
Comedy fluff about a group of sorority sisters who try to figure out ways to save their financially-strapped sorority house from foreclosure. They enter various contests and organize a big party/concert where the Beatles are supposed to headline. They also spend plenty of time at the beach being chased by boys. Starring Noreen Corcoran, Linda Marshall, Ahna Capri, Lana Wood, Nancy Spry, Mary Mitchel, Gail Gilmore, Lori Saunders, Sheila Bromley, Martin West, Aron Kincaid, Steven Rogers, Peter Brooks, Bruno VeSota, Leo Gordon, and Dick Miller. The Crickets, Lesley Gore, and The Beach Boys all make appearances and perform a few songs apiece. There's a lot of eye candy on display, and some of the songs are good, but the story is as threadbare as it sounds, and the dialogue isn't any better.
Source: TCM
When is it on? Sorry. Just realized this is not one of the upcoming TCM movie threads. It is not on the TCM schedule.
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I just watched The Grass is Greener (1960) with Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons. Looked it up on ImDB and has a 6.6 rating. Personally I think it is better than that.
Actually should say re-watched as we purchased the DVD years ago and watch it every couple of years.
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5 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Heh, looks like Ann only changed her top after being photographed for this gem:
(this poster hangs on my living room wall)
Kitten with a Whip is a movie I would like to see again. Think I saw it on TCM years and years ago. Entertaining, but not sure I would want to purchase it. Peter Brown plays the deputy on Lawman which is broadcast on Starz Western channel daily.
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4 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
??? I thought I posted some AUDIO taken from the filmmaker's soundtrack, but probably because of the ADULT language, the old women mods got their GRANNY PANTIES in a knot and excised it.
Sepiatone
I purchased a CD set a while back, Vietnam: Songs From the Divided House, produced by the History Channel. Don't know if it came from a TV series or not. But, it has Fish Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin' To Die Rag, but Country Joe and the Fish. However, it is not the one where F is the same as used at Woodstock. It means F-I-S-H. So I guess there were two versions produced for distribution?
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20 hours ago, Michael Rennie said:
TNT & TBS. So many TV networks show back to back episodes of the same show. (11 "Friends" in a row on TBS.) Fix that and play a larger variety of shows. I agree with TopBilled 100%. Create Turner Classic TV (TCTV).
7 minutes ago, Janet0312 said:That's a great idee - TCTV. Boy, would I love to sit down to a TV show that isn't cut for more and more commercials.
I agree that this would be good, but how will it get paid for? Unless I am mistaken TCM might be financially solvent, but not by much. You also have to subscribe to a higher cost tier to get it.
I also imagine that the costs for broadcast rights to many TV shows may be higher than what TCM pays for old movies.
Most old TV shows are cut for long commercial breaks. I find it interesting that some of the networks now schedule the 30 min shows for 40 or 45 minutes to get in all the commercials they want. Of course if we could eliminate pharmaceutical and attorney ads (as in the good old days), we might not have a problem.
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On my Spectrum cable, I get at least half a dozen channels showing old TV shows primarily. Even more if I want to use the TV hooked to an antenna.
I will say I have noticed a change since about 3 years ago. Many of them used to show old TV shows from the 50's and 60's and now they are showing ones from the 70's and 80's. I guess they are trying to appeal to different demographics and will probably move to 90's and 00's. GetTV seems to be focusing primarily on westerns, but I don't watch it anymore, so not sure.
As for Murder She Wrote, it seems to be all over the place and sometimes for many hours at a time.
TNT and TBS (other "Turner" networks) seem to be gravitating toward reality shows, much as the other networks have. Very sadly.
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20 minutes ago, Dargo said:
OH, and one more note here about all the beautiful actresses there were back during the studio era...
I'll bet if you would have somehow seen even THE most beautiful of 'em out their withOUT makeup on and NOT all dolled up like they are in these photos, very very few of 'em would have left much of an impression on you after such an encounter.
(...any bets here?)
I think I alluded to that earlier re: make-up artists, photographers, etc. If you want proof, the next time you go to a medical or similar office pick up a People magazine and look at the candid shots.
As for the classic beauties, I think both they, their managers and publicists and the studios made sure that the publicity pictures were first class.
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7 minutes ago, Hibi said:
Oh, Goodie! Have wanted to see this oddity for decades! Hope I dont forget.
The TCM site has a feature where if you click on the movie on the schedule, you go to a link where you can request a reminder via email.
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10 minutes ago, Michael Rennie said:
TCM could do this just once a year. Here is what you get on TV Land: https://www.tvland.com/shows
What is your point? Are you saying TCM should show these type shows once per year? Or are you saying that TVLand only show series and no movies?
Regardless, there are plenty of TV channels and networks showing old TV shows. Not to mention all the internet, smartphone and whatever connections out there. There is ONLY ONE network that shows classic movies. Fox Movies does show some from 3 AM till 3 PM, but not a great selection.
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6 minutes ago, Dargo said:
LOL
Look folks. There were literally hundreds and hundreds of absolutely knockout beautiful actresses during the studio era, and with most of them never breaking into the A-List category and thus with these beauties seldom being mentioned whenever a conversation turns into something along the lines of "Who was the most beautiful actress back in the day" kind of thing.
You see, I was prompted to state the above after reading and laughing at James' clever comment about the beautiful "Ice Princess" Grace Kelly here, as I would guess James' preference between this A-Lister and another beautiful actress who would never quite achieve the same status, Martha Vickers, would be for the latter.
Am I right, James?
(...btw, "chin dent" or not, AVA was THE "sultriest" of 'em ALL...OOOOOH, yeah!)
4 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:You got that right!
You are both correct about Martha Vickers, AKA MacVicar in some movies. While she was good in The Big Sleep, I particularly enjoyed her in The Falcon movies she was in. She could "sit in my lap" anytime, even if I am standing up.
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NO!!! Turner Classic Movies is for MOVIES. Once you try to determine acceptable TV movies, it gets too confusing. Would also open up the flood gates for all those movies of the week, etc. the networks ran into the ground in the 60's through 80's.
What about Hallmark movies? They must do a few hundred a year.
Personally I like the TV movies that Andy Griffith made; Winter Kill (1974), Girl in the Empty Grave (1977) and Deadly Game (1977), which I have on DVD's. These were attempts at launching new series before he hit with Matlock.
There are sufficient existing outlets for TV movies. Furthermore, as more movies move into the "classic" range, there are thousands of regular movies that TCM needs to show, while continuing to show the movies they now show.
AND absolutely NOT to TV shows, to include the pilot "movies" for some. There are more than enough outlets for those now - and the number is growing.
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13 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
I assume the other Sheridan film you recently watched but didn't think was so good was Nora Prentiss. I.e. your comment of "but I just couldn't get into this movie".
As for Impact; not sure why that film is being mentioned but it is a good noir by United Artist. The cast is interesting with Coburn, Helen Walker, and Anna May Wong (and the two stars Ella Raines and Donlevy hold their own): "Critic Gary W. Tooze praised Impact as the quintessential B film: "As far as 'modest' film noirs go, this is one of the best. A simple plot idea is twisted to the max for late 1940s audiences."
Impact was mentioned in another thread; Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (or something like that). I had responded thinking I was on the Noir Alley thread. When I realized I had posted an NA comment on another thread, I just copied it to NA.
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Just watched this and had forgotten that it was sort of a promo for The Glass Bottom Boat, which followed. Of course, Nancy Bernard, 1966 Maid of Cotton didn't care. She got to go to MGM studios in Hollywood.
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Wonder how many of these guest star shots were to revive a waning career or to promote an upcoming one. Now they go on TV to sell God awful products.
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24 minutes ago, AndreaDoria said:
I watched Harlan County last night and was riveted through the whole thing. I think those miners are heroes, one and all, just for going into those mines and working like that to support their families. They had every right to safe working conditions and good pay.
[I'm so tickled to be back here. It took two years but I never gave up! After the board update I couldn't get my posts to "wraparound" so I couldn't get to the "submit" button. Today we updated our browser and now I can post here again. Life is good.]😂
Welcome back. Had an interesting conversation with a friend recently. She said someone she knew stated that if her father had not belonged to a union, she would not have been able to to college. My reply was that neither my sister nor I would have gone to college if my father had not belonged to a union.
Significant is that all of us were in the Deep South. A goodly number of the unions that existed 30+ years ago are now gone.
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June 15, 2:15 PM, Kansas City Confidential (1952). Not sure if this counts as Noir, but it is a good mystery from the period. John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Jack Elam, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand.