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I like a lot of Cash songs, but my most favorite are The City of New Orleans (far, far better than Woodie Guthrie), The Orange Blossom Special, Mobile Bay (cannot find on CD), The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore (also hard to find), Sunday Morning Coming Down and Ballad of Ira Hayes.

Well, this is a new theme for TCM. Mondays in June they will be showing the Hollywood Hair Hall of Fame. http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1490820|0/Hollywood-Hair-Hall-of-Fame-Mondays-in-June.html

And Sam Waterston, later Deputy DA or New York in Law and Order.

Why do you call it Yellow Sun Records. The labels were yellow, but the records were black vinyl. I have a very old Johnny Cash record from them and it clearly is from Sun Records. Title is Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two: Story Songs of the Trains and Rivers. Probably purchased it around 1970. The picture is from e-bay. It came with a guaranteed replacement if it wore out. It did and I wrote to Sun several years later and they sent me a new one. I'm not sure either of them was actually a very good actor. But they did have a presence and offered acceptable performances. I don't think I have actually seen a Cash movie, but would like to. Murder in Coweta County with Cash and Andy Griffin does show up on DVD titles, but not sure I wish to purchase it. Alan Lane was the voice of Mr. Ed, not Johnny Cash. Lane wanted billing, but producers refused. The Sun link below does have narratives on Cash and others. https://www.sunrecords.com/

Maybe tcmsteven should start a thread re: his complaint.

This thread is about the lack of Vietnam War related movies on TCM during Memorial Day presentations.

If I do watch some of these movies that are too long or slow, I get great advantage out of the fast forward button. Otherwise, I wouldn't even start them. Might add I saw Exodus three times when it came out and read the book. If you think the movie was long, don't read the book. I like The Longest Day, but have not watched it in years because it is so long. I think the one thing that saves it is the way it changes from one character's story to another to another and so on. Eternity is much better than In Harm's Way because it has better actors (except for Sinatra) for one thing. Also has better screen writing. I think Harm's Way just bounces around and the character's are not really developed. Nor is the plot. Incidentally I don't really like Eternity, but it is a better movie.

I actually purchased the Harper DVD several years ago. Haven't watched it in a long time. I have seen both and The Drowning Pool is probably better for the reasons stated above. But not enough for me to record it and watch it again. I think Harper was better written and flowed better than Pool.

Hadn't they murdered almost everyone in Cabot Cove by then anyway. I watched a few episodes early on, but never really liked the show.

Nice poster, but I had difficulty reading the movie titles and actor's names for most. So it is hard to comment on the femme fatale characterizations.

I started to watch The Young Lions as I had not seen it in many years as I recalled. After watching about 15 minutes of it, I remembered why. It is way, way, way too long. One of the things I like about a lot of the movies from late 30's through mid-50's is that they were about 60-80 minutes long. On the other hand, I think any movie over 120 minutes is probably too long. My wife and I saw A Bridge Too Far at the theater. Afterwards, she has always referred to it as A Movie Too Long. And it is. Length is one reason why I have DVD's of many of the "epics" and really enjoyed them, but not more than one or two times. Now when I look for something to watch and I run my eyes over them, I think - Nah, too long. I think one reason is that once you have seen it once or twice or maybe three times, you pretty well know what is going to happen but the scenes, build ups, narratives, etc. just stretch out for too long. I also have similar thoughts about books. I seldom purchase books over about 350 pages anymore. Especially novels. If the author can't present it in about 350 pages, they aren't good writers.

If I recall, I think he was enroute with Dusty's car to plant the body at Martinelli's house. Somehow that either did not happen or else it happened "off screen" and then Bogart was back at Martinelli's office. If I recall Bogart had asked where Martinelli lived with the intention of placing the bartender's body there and then telling the police where it was located. Naturally he would need to be long gone from the house if that were to happen. Then again, trying to recall here, planting the body at Martinell's house and calling the police was what Bogart needed to get Martinelli out of his office at the club so he could crack the safe.

I always thought, and still do, that it was in the nightclub. For one thing, it is upstairs in the final scenes. Also, the waiter and Krause had too easy access for it to be out at the beach house. It may be a matter of different parts of different sets which really don't fit with the proper locations. It does seem that they go directly in from the club in the early scenes, but I still think it was always supposed to be in the back of the club. As for Scott, I enjoy her in just about anything I have seen her in. I think she was very good here.

They have just narrowed it down to one day and then the other days later in tribute to 75th anniversary of D Day. Four days was too much to begin with, especially since most of them were WW II movies.

I think there actually is a Bay City in CA, but not sure. I know that it was used several times as a non-LA location in The Rockford Files.

I'm in same situation. Since I don't remember, I'll give it another shot.

I liked that shot as well, but to me it didn't look like St. Petersburg (Gulf City) Florida.

Sorry if I didn't recognize the humor. Airborne does not use Geronimo anymore. When I was doing it we counted to six by thousands. If your chute had not opened by then, time to pull the reserve. Supposedly Geronimo was supposed to be the same time test.

I planned to just watch Eddie Muller's intro and outro since I have the movie on DVD,but got sucked into watching it again. I prefer it to many of Bogart's movies and Lizabeth Scott may be one reason. Also identify with the Army Airborne part. SPOILER BELOW Liked that Eddie pointed out that much of it was filmed in St. Petersburg FL. Because of all the daytime outdoor scenes and the well lit hotel and nightclub scenes, it is not as dark as many Noirs. That didn't hurt it a bit. Other than her singing, Scott gave a very good performance. The first time I saw it, I did not know which side of the line she was on until the very end. Due to good acting, writing and directing.

Actually he said Geronimo which is what paratroopers said as the exited the plane.

I think there are well over 50 total movies, maybe far more than that. I doubt there are that many rights issues for many of them. Here's one list of over 70, but some are TV movies or series. One of my favorites is Go Tell the Spartans (1978) with Burt Lancaster. I find The Green Berets silly.

I like this movie more than many of Bogart's. I think he and Scott do a great job in it. Marvin Miller plays Krause and is probably better known for his role in TV's The Millionaire.

That would be Decoration Day. It did not become Memorial Day until after WW II, although some places and groups did use the term Memorial Day instead of Decoration Day before then. It did not officially become Memorial Day until 1967.

I just checked both of these sites. They are either outright wrong or misleading at the least. There have been a tremendous number of movies about Vietnam War. I think it was maybe 65 last time I checked and that was a couple of years ago. As for lack of documentaries, no they has not been as many as have been done on WW II. But then again there have been dozens and probably more of which I am not aware. I have seen them in lots of DVD catalogs and on websites. As for My Lai, that was a terrible incident and there should have far more punishments rendered. But that was only one aspect of the war. One aspect of Vietnam and later wars is the lack of censorship of the media, reporters, writers, mail, etc. During Korea and WW II, mail was censored and the media essentially worked for the military or they were sent home. Vietnam War was on TV news every night. First war ever so covered.

While the WW II movies may be more popular since they seldom dealt with controversial subjects and almost always portrayed American soldiers in a positive light, there would still be many people who would view Vietnam War movies. If fewer viewers were a criteria, TCM would have to cancel about 50% of its programming. TCM is here to expand viewers exposure to movies or at least offer them the opportunity.