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On 6/7/2019 at 5:25 PM, TopBilled said:
I wish I could find a better photo, but this is the house featured in THE SECOND WOMAN (1950) starring Robert Young.
I watched that movie once and thought it was strange. The movie, not the house.
9 hours ago, Fedya said:Ah, hollyhocks:
Of course, this is from Mr. Blandings Build His Dream House. While the above is a classic scene, it should be noted that it is a real house and is in a California state or national forest. Last time I checked, it was used as a headquarters building.
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Just noticed this is on at 5:48 PM today. Saw it a while back and it is interesting and one aspect is to consider the change in the Textile and clothing industries in the US since it was made.
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1 hour ago, speedracer5 said:
I never tire of I Love Lucy. I liked The Munsters more than The Addams Family. There was a period when I was in high school where one of the channels (The Family Channel, maybe?) played Leave it to Beaver and My Three Sons. I used to enjoy watching those. If I recall, I liked Leave it to Beaver more than My Three Sons. I love The Andy Griffith Show, though I've really only seen the black and white Don Knotts episodes and a handful of the color ones. The show wasn't the same without Knotts. I never watched Gomer Pyle though. They took my least favorite character on 'Andy' and gave him his own show. I would have loved a Barney Fife show.
Beaver, Sons and Griffin are on some of the Over the Air networks, which are also carried on some cable channels. Beaver and Sons are usually in the morning.
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Posted in the wrong thread, so I re-posted where I intended.
I think Ann Sheridan in Woman on the Run is a very good example of what Noir can be and how well she can act. This is the one where she wears a bulky raincoat for most of the movie - hiding all the oomph.
I looked up Impact and it sounds good. I think I may have seen it years ago.
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I think Ann Sheridan in Woman on the Run is a very good example of what Noir can be and how well she can act. This is the one where she wears a bulky raincoat for most of the movie - hiding all the oomph.
I looked up Impact and it sounds good. I think I may have seen it years ago.
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I recorded it and watched it. One advantage is being able to pause it and zoom in to see just what they did show.
On the other hand, I did not think the picture quality was all that good.
As for the movie itself, I like Ann Sheridan, but I just couldn't get into this movie. Guess I am one of those who thinks it is not Noir either. To me, it was another run of the mill romantic drama/tragedy. About half-way through I started using the fast forward button.
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12 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
It was rich to hear Mike Pompeo criticize China for not allowing Unions when America has such a sad history of trying to destroy them themselves.
What a great film.
Removed by TheCid.
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Saturday, June 08, 10:00 AM, The Falcon In Mexico. This is one of the more entertaining movies in the series.
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2 minutes ago, cigarjoe said:
That's the way you got to do it, just put the Bogart/Bacall version out of your head. I just wish they would have done it as a period piece like Farewell My Lovely (1975).
Mitchum's Farewell My Lovely was excellent movie. By far the best version ever. I wonder if Big Sleep had to be moved to England and done as a current 1978 scenario to get financing or support over there?
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4 hours ago, cmovieviewer said:
Leaving a reminder here that because of the Doris Day memorial tribute this coming Sunday June 9, the late Saturday June 8 showing of Noir Alley with the film Nora Prentiss (1947) is the only showing we get this week. (WatchTCM might be the remaining hope if you miss it.)
Thanks, I'll have to record it Saturday night.
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19 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
Yea pretty much if you ignore the time update to the then present and location switch to the UK. The scenario goes that Marlowe joined up and then stayed on in the UK after WWII, and started a London based PI service. American Gen. Sternwood married an English woman sired two daughters the younger one Candy Clark was sent to the US to live with her aunts and for her education after the mother died, if I remember right. That explains the one "English daughter and the one American one.
Other than that it does follow the book better, has no Marlowe-Sternwood romance, isn't hampered by the MPPC, and makes more sense.
All this talk about The Big Sleep (1978) resulted in my pulling it out and watching it. Actually, it was better this time than when I watched it before. Maybe because I just enjoyed the movie and did not subconsciously try to compare it to Bogart version.
Hard to believe that the Candy Clark in Sleep is same one in American Graffiti five years earlier.
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On 6/5/2019 at 1:35 PM, Defenestrator said:
Does anyone wonder if today's TCM movies were intended toward the theme of our commander-in-chief visiting England at this time? Some of today's titles:
A Wicked Woman (didn't he [Trump] refer to Hillary in such a way during a debate?)
You made it political, so it is Off Topic category.
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On 6/5/2019 at 2:17 PM, Hibi said:
I saw the Mitchum Big Sleep adaptation recently and boy was it bad!. Although it stayed pretty close to the original plot updating it to 70s London just didnt work. Candy Clark's scenes were edited though.
Did you see a DVD or on TV or streaming? I have the DVD, but do not know what of Candy Clark's scenes would have been edited.
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22 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
For me I read Chandler's novel before I ever saw the Bogart/Bacall version, so I was disappointed with the film not following the novel. Now I'd would have preferred that Mitchum's The Big Sleep would have been a period piece like the earlier Farewell My Lovely, but it is what it is. If you've never read novel or seen the Bogart version, you might just buy the story as they did it.
And who knows, that with out the Code they just may have been able to follow the novel as they did in 1978, and it would have been possibly a contemporary film a year of two after the novel was published say 1940-41. Just like the 1931 Maltese Falcon was more risque than the Bogart Version.
Are you saying the Mitchum version of The Big Sleep is closer to the book? I have it on DVD, but haven't watched in quite a while as it did not seem to be as good as the Bogart version. Maybe Bogart's was a better picture, but Mitchum's was closer to the book?
On the other hand, I think Mitchum's Farewell My Lovely is the best version of that movie made. Not sure how true it is to the book, but it is an excellent movie.
Apologize for not knowing the directors, screenwriters and producers since they really make the movies and I'm too lazy to look it up.
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1 hour ago, MontyCliftLover said:
I think Marilyn and Vivian Leigh were both more beautiful. However, I do think Hedy is more beautiful than Elizabeth Taylor.
It's all a matter or taste or opinion. Personally I never thought Marilyn or Vivian looked that good. Same with Liz Taylor.
It is also very much a question of lighting, make-up and the photographer's skill. Not to mention clothing and hair styles of different periods.
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I was a lieutenant in Vietnam in 1971 and borrowed a tape of Woodstock recording from an enlisted man to record. I had two recorders set up on a table in officers "hooch." There were a couple of majors who lived there. When Country Joe and the Fish came on with the "Fish Cheer" song, they both came out and asked if they were hearing correctly. [For those who may not know, the word started with F, but was not Fish.] I told them they were. They didn't say anything, just went back to their rooms.
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"Character actors." Also, only people who have not been honored in the past 10 years.
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15 hours ago, Dargo said:
Don't forget his role as Dr. Zorba in the '60s television medical series Ben Casey here too, dc1.
(...for years that's how I would first think of Sam Jaffe, as I remember thinking to myself during my first viewing of Gunga Din as a teenager and just after the run of the Ben Casey series was over, "Hey, that's a young Dr. Zorba playin' Gunga Din there!")
If I recall correctly, Jaffe was married to one of the co-stars, who played a much younger nurse or doctor. Supposedly she had been a Miss South Carolina before going to Hollywood.
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1 hour ago, Looney said:
Okay so back to the office in DEAD RECKONING (1947). I thought it was a bit confusing, but I figured it out. First it looks like Bogart is going into a house to get to the office, but when he is in the office he passes the door he entered through the first time he was brought into the office. He enters through a side door and passes the door he was first brought through. So the office, nightclub, and what looks like a house are all part of the same structure. The house looking part is just the back of the nightclub.
I'm going to have to pull out my DVD, but I don't think this is correct. Bogart asks her where is his house when they are driving with the body in the trunk and she replied at the beach. Not back of his club. I think what is confusing is that after she replies, they do not show them going to the house. I do think there is a quick shot of a house on the beach though.
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2 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Who could forget THIS fashion stinker?
We CAN'T!!! It came true!!!
I remember this ad from Playboy! Or maybe it was an item on the new fashion?
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1 hour ago, Sepiatone said:
Sure, but those others made movies in response to ELVIS making movies and at first tried to cash in(no pun intent) on it, plus, most of them too were at a higher level of fame than Cash was when he made his first foray.
And true, a lot of popular singers made movies, for better or worse. And those movies succeeded mostly because those singers' FANS didn't care how good or bad the flick was.
Sepiatone
Not disagreeing with Elvis' movies being far more popular. But I'm not sure the others made movies because Elvis did it. It was just another entertainment venue to try. Just as some went into TV and tried series, which I don't believe Elvis ever did.
Maybe Elvis went into movies because Frank Sinatra did it?
Elvis' foray into movies had more to do with the entrepreneurial talents of Tom Parker and his goal of making as much as he could marketing Elvis. But Elvis was far more successful monetarily than any of the others probably could have been.
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16 hours ago, laffite said:
A bit of hyperbole there, Cid ... with the simple idea that folks here think a lot of him. If I need to clarify, then I will do it. Here goes. I really don't believe that he is the greatest man on the face of the earth. Honest.
As I implied, I do not believe anyone said he was "the greatest man on the face of the earth."
It's just that most of us appreciate what he says and lend great credence to his commentaries.
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1 hour ago, laffite said:
That's what I thought. I don't get TCM and cannot watch Noir Alley and have never seen or heard Eddie, but to read about him here would lead me to believe that he is the greatest man on the face of the earth.
Eddie's comments are often the best parts, or at least most informative, for some movies. Although his commentary is excellent and well founded, I doubt anyone believes he is the "greatest man on the face of the earth."
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5 hours ago, TopBilled said:
To be honest, this seems like one of their weaker "themes." I assume it's being done as a tie-in with a book.
What's next? The Hollywood Clothing Hall of Fame?
Or how about the Hollywood Non-clothing Hall of Fame? Of course that one get a little tricky.
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Architecture in classic films
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Miss Daisy's house in Driving Miss Daisy. In Druid Hills section of Atlanta GA. Was surfing TV a little while ago and it was on one of the channels.
I think that Morgan Freeman should have received an Oscar for his performance. He really nailed it.