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The Blue Gardenia, 12:30 PM Monday. Not to be confused with The Blue Dahlia. Gardenia is another very good noir movie and features Raymond Burr in one of his many bad guy roles of the period. He had a lot of them. Somewhat different from many noir/mystery movies of the period, but well worth watching. Dahlia is good also.
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1 minute ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
It was my understanding that Windsor just said that to 'test' the policeman (McGraw). I.e. he still believed she was the widow and this was just another gimmick by her, as a cop, to see if he would take a bribe.
Therefore she wasn't tainted at all and died in the line of duty.
That's the way I remember it. There was suspicion that McGraw could be crooked.
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As I said earlier this is the movie that made me appreciate McGraw and Windsor. I really recognized them in movies and TV shows after that. McGraw had memorable role in a Route 66 episode and Windsor was in one or two Perry Masons. Windsor was also excellent in a early part in Hearts of the West. While not a classical success, her role in Swamp Women is memorable as well.
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2 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
The remake is pretty ridiculous, it spectacularly wastes the talents of J.T. Walsh and M. Emmet Walsh, and has way too many implausible and predictable train action sequences too boot, seen it all before, all that adds roughly, about a half hour of runtime. 5/10
Will have to disagree with you on this one. Not everybody can the main characters in a movie. Walsh and Walsh had good roles and plenty of screen time.
As for too many implausible and predictable train action sequences, can you be more specific? I have ridden passenger trains and did not find the sequences to be that far out, considering it is an action movie. Actually more realistic than The Narrow Margin. Also, you may not have noticed but at least in NM, they used the same train or type train. TNM begins with a long, luxury train which at times is shown as a very short secondary train.
The Narrow Margin is the better movie, but Narrow Margin rates much higher than 5/10.
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Didn't watch The Narrow Margin as I have two copies, but I did record Eddie Mueller's intro and outro. Both very good.
I agree that the ending for His Kind of Woman is really not that good. Eddie explained how it got changed by Howard Hughes and not for the better. The ending fight scenes are way too long and I usually fast forward through them. Fortunately Hughes couldn't get Narrow Margin ending changed.
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Reminder: The Narrow Margin (1952) with Charles McGraw and Marie Windsor is on Noir Alley, midnight Saturday and 10 AM Sunday. Not to be confused with the 1990 sort of remake, Narrow Margin with Gene Hackman and Anne Archer, which is also a very good movie but somewhat different.
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Just a reminder that The Narrow Margin is on Saturday at Midnight and Sunday at 10 AM. This is a really good noir. In my opinion, one of the better ones. I had probably seen Marie Windsor before, but seeing TNM several years ago really brought her to my attention. Have subsequently recognized her in many movies and TV shows since then.
Same for Charles McGraw. The rest of the cast does a good job as well.
TNM should not be confused with Narrow Margin, the 1990 sort of remake with Gene Hackman and Anne Archer. NM is also a very good movie and takes advantage of being made 40 years later. The train scenes are far more accurate.
Don't miss The Narrow Margin.
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Got mine yesterday. Did a quick scan of topics and deleted it. Too much trouble to open all the items to find out not interested in them.
Make sure TCM is in your contact list or you won't get it. No-reply@tcm.com (I think.)
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5 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
i'm miffed that neither MYSTERY STREET nor CRY DANGER has shown up on TCM OnDemand, they've been good about making the NOIR ALLEY installments available.
I was thinking of skipping THE SCAR tomorrow because I'm so tired of the sound sync issues.
According to TCM.com schedule, Hollow Triumph is the Noir Alley movie for today and tomorrow.
In fact, I don't see The Scar listed today or tomorrow. And what sound/sync issues?
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Apr 27, 10:30 PM, The Las Vegas Story. While Brad Dexter is in this movie, the real stars are Jane Russel, Victor Mature and Vincent Price. Of course, Dexter does a good job of being a sleaze. Hoagy Carmichael and Jay C. Flippen are good as well.
Russel's role is somewhat similar to the ones she played in Macao and His Kind of Woman.
It last 90 minutes, which I think is a good length for this type movie.
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Just now, Hibi said:
I wonder why they never showed any scenes with Powell's alleged co-conspirator? I thought they could've beefed up Rhonda's part more. Maybe have her visit him in prison. And all the talk about the money being in the basement of the "old house". Yet they never showed the house. Could've showed her going to the house and retrieving the money, rather than saying it was there. Budget concerns? Seemed a bit too focused on the trailer park....
Actually when I view this movie, I get kind of confused about the old house and how the police are supposed to know where it is and where to look for the money. If they already know location, why didn't they search it since they searched Rhonda's trailer several times?
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I watch it on cable 95% of the time. May record something to DVD-RW if comes on late or will be away from home. So, voted for first two choices.
On the other hand, we have a lot of movies/shows that TCM shows for which we have DVD's. We learned of them through viewing on TCM originally. So is that another choice? Maybe under other, but I did not check that.
We do not watch anything on smart phones, computers, smart TV's, apps, etc. Just cable and DVD's.
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20 hours ago, Hibi said:
Talk about a little "tank!" What an ugly car.
130,000 people did not think so in 1949. This was a 20% increase in sales for Nash and they outsold Chrysler, De Soto, and Studebaker among others. Nash was considered a mid-price car.
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
More Deceptive Advertising! Rhonda wore nothing like this in the film. Speaking of her character. SPOILER!
I often see the posters or DVD covers for many movies from this period. Very misleading. Similar to the covers for pulp fiction.
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13 hours ago, revrnd said:
Thanks for all the great replies gang. I checked the IMCDB & this is the pic they showed:
(which isn't a great pic) After posting here, I Googled (1950 Nash Ambassador Six Super Brougham 'Airflyte') & fopund a lot of decent pics of the car in question, even 1 from the movie:
Being born in '61 most of the cars seen in this era were long gone from the roads. I do recall the Nash Metropolitan in pics.
The other cars that bewildered me was on the Sat' night movie shown a couple of weeks ago (not Mystery Street). I had never seen the sedans that were being used as taxi w/ suicide doors.
Most of the vehicles I'm familiar w/ from the 40s & 50s are Chev & Ford pickups & large trucks, plus the '55 & up Chevs which are well known cars.
During that period De Soto's and even Packards were used as taxis because they had large back seats. You will frequently see De Soto's as taxis in movies from the 30's and 40's and maybe even early 50's.
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50 minutes ago, spence said:
Back in those days a NASH & an EDSEL were considered laughing stocks
Actually the Edsel did not come out unitl 1958 and was actually considered a fairly good car. However, the timing was wrong as there was a recession and America did not want another mid-priced car, especially one that was not that different from Ford and Mercury. The unique grill didn't help.
As for Nash, at the time of this movie they were fairly popular cars for the independent brands. They eventually evolved into Ramblers and then American Motors.
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3 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Ah, The days when you had to have a towboat accompany you so you could park your car.
im reminded a little of THE FLYING WOMBAT from the charming 1938 Janet Gaynor comedy THE YOUNG AT HEART.
Actually the Nash's of the period were even more difficult to park. In the pictures, note the front wheel wells. Almost completely enclosed. Very limited turning circle, but Nash kept them because they made the cars distinctive. (Compare to car picture at left)
The cars were considered very advanced for the time because they were more aerodynamic than other "boxy" cars. And it was often referred to as the upside down bathtub style. Packards were somewhat similar, but better looking.
Lot of police departments used these cars so they often show up in Noir, mystery and drama movies from the period.
Eddie had an interesting bit of information about the car during the outro.
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Back to Noir. 12:15 AM (Midnight Saturday) and 10:00 AM Apr. 22 (Sunday) Cry Danger is a very entertaining one. Dick Powell gives his standard credible performance, but some others made a bigger impression on me. Richard Erdman, Regis Toomey, Jean Porter and William Conrad.
The "cyclops" instrument cluster on top of Erdman's car's steering wheel is unusual. It was a Nash style that eventually went away.
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8 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
I'm still out "jury-wise" as to whether or not I actually believe the world of espionage the way it was portrayed in Fleming's Bond books and in the Bond movies EVER actually existed. I tend to think, "not really".
If we're now to base the character on "reality" we'd have to accept a retired Bond now in his mid to late 80's, and possibly enduring a debilitating illness, or an addled old age. Perhaps at one point replacing M at his job and eventually retiring and now living in some assisted living facility, on some bland or liquid diet and diaper laden. And/or the NEW "hero" spy being.......
"Bond, James Bond III"
A non drinker/non-smoking vegan who possibly "Vapes" and drinks a lot of "cleanses" that might be "shaken, not blended"
Sepiatone
I liked the other Bond actors except for Brosnan. Never have liked him. Although Roger Moore was more humorous than Connery and took the character to a different perspective.
Craig actually sort of returns the character to a more serious vein ala Connery. And I do believe stories about spies currently is very timely. After all we have the CIA for some reason. Although, I do not believe the real espionage people are anything like what you see in Bourne, Bond, Atomic Blond or others. I do remember reading the Bond books and also The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Also saw all the movies. I think le Carre was probably closer to actual "spy" life than Fleming, etc. BUT, we pay for entertainment, not reality in these type books and movies.
The reason the James Bond movies work as new ones is that they are well written, well directed and well acted for the most part. Whereas a lot of others, such as Star Wars, Terminators, etc. are just rehashes trying to milk the name.
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33 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Just go to the original post in the thread you created, click on "edit" down at the bottom of the post. Once you are in edit mode, you are allowed to edit the field where your thread title appears.
Good advice. Many threads morph into something entirely different from the original title. Original posters may want to periodically see if they need to change thread titles.
Bogie56 might want to consider a title change to his Trump's Biggest Whoppers in Off Topic. It has pretty much evolved into a general discussion of Trump and the government in general. It has also become a favorite location for jakeem to post huge number of copies of posts from other sites, to include large type and graphics.
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23 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Midsomer Murders (all 19 seasons) have been added to Britbox. Britbox also now has several seasons of Agatha Christie's Poirot starring David Suchet, with the much-touted final episodes from 2013.
What's Britbox?
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Mine would be Rockford, Law and Order, Hill Street Blues, Perry Mason, Cagney and Lacey, In Plain Sight. Watch an episode of Rockford on DVD weekly and at least two Perry Mason's weekly. Watched the episodes of 77 sunset Strip on TV this past year. Most are fairly entertaining, but not one of the better detective shows.
Watched Honey West and Decoy on OTA HD stations a couple of years ago. Pretty entertaining.
While Rockford, L&O and PM are on TV, they are beat to death with commercials now.
Never liked Columbo. Too silly and Mr. Monk and Miami Vice fall into the same category for me. Never liked any Sherlock Holmes movies or TV shows.
A really good recent Canadian series is Motive. Sometimes shows up on USA network or one of others. Recently got into watching Midsomer Murders on PBS and they are quite good.
Original Silk Stalkings was a pretty good one. Unfortunately it is no longer available on DVD, except for season one. It was an early offering by USA Network.
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Hearts of the West (1975), 6:00 ET, Saturday is a very good movie. Beau Bridges, Andy Griffith, Blythe Danner, Alan Arkin and a host of good actors. Set in 1930's Hollywood about making westerns. Watch this and you will never view a 1930's western the same again.
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On 4/4/2018 at 12:42 AM, sewhite2000 said:
All I can think about is this person who said they were 16 back in 2003 is 31 now. All this endless bumping of threads 15 years old or more that has been going on for months now is freaking me out. Sorta interesting to see what people were saying a generation ago, but don't the people on this board now have enough ideas of their own to generate?
My opinion is that all threads should die after 24 months. Or maybe just reduce them to the last 12 months if most recent post is within 6 months.
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Narrow Margin (remake) used The Canadian and the scenery was spectacular. Not sure what you mean by "vignettes overheard." Which "visual impressions?"
Running around on top of a moving train is a Hollywood staple. Some of the best movies have featured that type action. Lots of things done in movies do not show the "high percentage of fatalities." Incidentally, a car of that period trying to keep pace with a high speed passenger train at night on country roads would surely have resulted in the car crashing in short order.
Will have to watch NM again for the helicopter chasing train scene as I do not recall that. There is the scene where the two hit men arrive on a helicopter, but that is at Anne Archer's home and the train shows up later in the movie. I think it was shot down by Gene Hackman, but not sure. However, helicopters chasing vehicles and trains in the mountains is another Hollywood staple. If the pilot is paying attention and flying the aircraft, it won't crash. The passenger is the one doing the shooting, etc.