ElCid
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Just now, Hibi said:
Yes, it was Vendetta. Unsure if it ever was released or not. I've never seen it ever being shown on tv. I think after a few films, Hughes gave up on her and she spent most of the 50s making horror flicks. I dont think she's bad in Vendetta, and she certainly was a looker.........
The Wiki article gives the impression she gave up on Hughes.
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1 minute ago, LawrenceA said:
Faith Domergue's first substantial film role was in Vendetta, which was filmed in 1946, but not released until 1950. She had three other film roles, including Where Danger Lives, before Vendetta finally saw the light of day.
Thanks, I found some info on Wikipedia about both that is interesting.
Now, more importantly, how do you pronounce Domergue? I have heard the d is silent and she got upset when people tried to use it.
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19 minutes ago, Hibi said:
Was that first film with Faith Domergue ever released? I heard this was rushed into release because the first film was a disaster, but I've never read anywhere whether it was ever released or not............
Are you asking if Faith Domergue's first movie was ever released or if Where Danger Lives was ever shown in theaters? And if so, WDL was released early because her first movie was so bad? If so, what was her first movie?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Domergue Wikipedia discusses Vendetta and WDL.
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14 minutes ago, universalkaiju said:
By the way, I took your advice and I found something out about It Came From Beneath the Sea, I put it in genral discussion if you want to see it.
Read it. Another movie that I enjoy. As with any movie, but especially SciFi, we need to suspend our accuracy and knowledge systems. My wife complains when we watch movies with cars, trains or about the military because I constantly point out flaws, mistakes and inaccuracies.
Keep up the questions and keep watching. 1950's and 60's SciFi are really good entertainment.
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14 hours ago, universalkaiju said:
Thank you, it was just something strange that I noticed and I thought people might find it to be interesting.
It was an interesting observation about something that I never noticed even though it is one of my favorite SciFi movies.
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1 hour ago, universalkaiju said:
I'm sure it was a set but what I mean by joke is that it looks like a ladder that has two metal bars, if he had to stop quickly then he'd probably knock himself out or a least he would probably bleed.
I doubt the movie makers altered the seats from stock unless the actual head restraints interfered with filming the rear passengers. Then why would they leave the metal framework?
Since this is a 1950's aircraft there is no telling how it was actually designed and constructed. Maybe it was built exactly as filmed. Need to remember that in the 50's, cars did not have any kind of head restraints (headrests).
http://www.rotaryaction.com/t.html is a website about aircraft in movies & TV. They identify it as a Sikorsky S-51 (HOS2-1 variant). Couldn't find a picture of the interior or seats, but I would bet this is exactly how it looked. It would restrain the pilots head, but also permit better vision to the rear outside areas. Below is a picture from the Sikorsky historical website. Hard to tell, but appears the head restraints behind the pilot are an open metal frame.
By the way, welcome to the Forums. Sometimes question such as yours may fare better in the General Discussions forum. Lot more people read those. I just stumbled on your question because it popped up on the View Unread Content.
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Watched Red Light. Enjoyed Eddie Muller's intro and outro. My wife and I both found Raft to be "wooden" and have found him the same in other movies. Virginia Mayo was very good, but not enough screen time. Raymond Burr did his usual very good gangster role as he did in so many movies of the period.
We watch Perry Mason on DVD at least 3-4 times per week and interesting that Burr could do that role so well and then be as evil/mean as he was in noir and mystery roles.
Next week features Where Danger Lives with Robert Mitchum and Faith Domergue. Not one of my favorites. Somewhat similar to Mitchum's Angel Face with Jean Simmons. To me in both, he is too serious, but also gets taken in too easily by the woman. While taken in in Out of the Past, it does not appear to be quite so easily. Or maybe he shows he knows it but just doesn't care.
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I watched it once and found it terribly boring.
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4 hours ago, universalkaiju said:
This is kind of a joke, but has anyone ever noticed General O'Brien's headrest in the helicopter in Them!.
Looked at the scene again and it is obviously a stage set and not a real helicopter at this point. So, it could be an actual seat from a copter or they could have removed the headrest portion from the frame for better filming of the rear seat passengers. Probably used same set for both helicopter interiors.
Possible the actual seats in the real helicopter used this type "headrest" to keep the pilots heads from going back too far. Headrest is actually a misnomer as the devices are to keep your head from going over the back of the seat in an accident, crash or turbulence.
Why is is kind of a joke?
I'm sure somebody can identify the helicopter and then find actual pictures of the pilots' seats.
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Always liked Carole Landis. Even have DVD's of Moon Over Miami and Topper Returns. Not a fan of musicals, but do enjoy MOM and Landis really makes it better. Too bad she did not have a bigger role. She was also good in It Happened in Flatbush and Having a Wonderful Crime.
For those who may not know, Fox Movie Channel shows old movies without interruption from 3:00 AM until 3:00 PM. Some even repeat during the same day. I Wake Up Screaming shows up often.
As someone said, she probably would have done well in a 1950's TV sitcom or even one of the "mystery" series, such as Mr. and Mrs. North or The Thin Man.
Regardless she was a very good actress and deserved better roles and more movies.
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Thread titles such as this one should contain a date or day. This was actually about movies on yesterday (Jan 5)
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As an aside, SC ETV has a program on most Saturday afternoons called Six Gun Heroes. It was made by SC ETV in cooperation with Sunset Carson some time in the 1980's. They took old Western movies, many from Republic, and trimmed them to 60 minutes. Carson did a brief intro to each one.
The series is available elsewhere apparently.
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23 hours ago, papyrusbeetle said:
This magnificent "Depression-era" film brought a reality to the screen, when we saw the "Gypsies" working in a Broadway Musical.
There are also a LOT of "scanty" clothes as the chorus girls and boys constantly rehearse.
(And, newer, rougher films like ALL THAT JAZZ and THE PRODUCERS [original] borrowed the mob scenes of dancers on stage trying out and rehearsing.)
The wonderful thing about the film is that it marries GRUNGE and GLAMOUR---one couldn't exist without the other.
Best of all is Bebe Daniels with George Brent---tense, and real and gorgeous.
It is interesting how many TV shows from the 50's through 70's had scenes where women were in rehearsals or bathing suits for no real reason.
Of course, there is the question of why do women/girls wear scanty clothing, dresses that fly up when dancing, cheerleader outfits that are very skimpy, etc. when their male counterparts where regular shirts and pants. Even today. Look at "cheerleaders" on TV competitions or at local high schools. The males are fully covered and the girls aren't.
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5 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
I've noticed over the years as the amount of advertising time has increased per half hour of TV programming, the shows continue to shrink in running time to accommodate it. I watched an episode of Yancy Derringer on the GetTV channel this weekend, and noticed that it ran for 40 minutes to allow for the greater amount of ads in today's market. I prefer that to the usual tactic, utilized by MeTV and others, which is to edit down the shows in some way to make it fit the hour/half-hour time slot. This usually means editing the beginning and end credits, as well as content from the show itself. It's unnoticeable many times, but sometimes it makes for terrible story jumps and ruins a show's pacing.
The only drawback to the more than 30 minutes scenario is when you try to record programs. Very hard to determine exactly when they start or stop. I recorded some late night programs on Get TV a while back and on some nights, there would be 7-10 mins. of commercials between episodes so I would stop recording five minutes before technical end in order to record more programs. Next time there would be no commercials between episodes as they loaded them in during the program. So I missed endings and end credits of a few programs. Then they quit showing them in favor of their current mostly Westerns and variety shows format.
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Grit! is available on both cable and over the air where I am. However, the local stations tend to change their sub-channels fairly often.
One thing about the sub-channels (and regular ones) is that they have a lot more advertising than they used to. In order to accommodate it, they will stretch a 2 hour movie to 2.5 or 3 hours. Same with some 30 min. TV shows. They will stretch them 5-10 minutes turning them into 40 minute programs. The other problem is the very long promos for their own programming and regular channels. We have ones that has a five minute promo every half hour on its own news and weather on same channel.
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2 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Since the NC-17 rating didn't exist until 1990, it had to have been issued for this movie at a later date. It was issued an "X" on original release in the U.S. From what I can tell researching the matter, it has never been rereleased or resubmitted to the MPAA, so the NC-17 was likely not issued for the movie, but substituted for the original X by whomever wrote the TCMDb entry.
I remember seeing Midnight Cowboy at the Ft Bragg, NC post theater in 1970. It was the first X rated movie to be shown on military bases. Now it would barely merit a PG.
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2 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
Tuesday, December 19
6:15 p.m. The Best House In London (1969). Probably not great but it is London and it has David Hemmings.
Here's the synopsis from TCM. Interesting that in 1969 it had an NC-17 rating. Which would be a PG-13 now?
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/68491/The-Best-House-in-London/
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Just now, TopBilled said:
They're on FilmStruck, which I noted in the post you quoted.
Yeah, I caught that and changed my post. Never heard of FilmStruck so I was confused and then realized these are posts re: other sources of classic films besides TCM. My mistake.
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1 hour ago, TopBilled said:
Monday December 18, 2017
George Sanders on FilmStruck
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT with Joel McCrea
A SCANDAL IN PARIS with Signe Hasso
LURED with Lucille Ball
JOURNEY TO ITALY with Ingrid Bergman
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http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/1375451/TCM-Remembers-2017-TCM-Original-Production-.html
Or go to TCM.com and scroll down to Movie News and Remembers is one of items you can select.
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Watched my "new" DVD of The Big Steal yesterday. Noticed that while box looks almost exactly like the old one, there are a few changes. Content is the same, but some descriptions slightly rearranged. Also, new one is copyrighted 2017 whereas old one was 2007. Also new one is from Warner Archives whereas old was from Time Warner.
Maybe they are going to release more of the DVD's from the old Noir series sets. Maybe already have. Many of the sets would have six or more movies with two movies per DVD and only way to get them was as part of sets.
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1946 version is on this Sunday at 10AM on Noir Alley.
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Tomorrow's feature is 1946 The Postman Always Rings Twice.
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8 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Man you must lack any sense of humor. Of course I understood that!!! My JOKE was that it was a very good movie BECAUSE of what Ann Sheridan wore. Next time I'll use more than one emoticon.
Use all you want, but your comment inferred that the only thing that made it a good movie was because of what she didn't wear. Perhaps if you had contradicted my comment?
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I think I have seen Man Bait. The description sounds familiar, but it has been a long, long time. Probably on TCM or Fox Movie Channel. Barely remember it.