slaytonf

No lights necessary:

Some people just got it.

Oh, oh, 'collective,' so tinged with socialist taint. How 'bout 'community?' Has a much more heartland feel to it.

Anyone who resurrects a thread of mine and heightens my profile is aces with me! And you can open as many threads as your fingers can stand. Post away.

You can see it here: And here: https://ok.ru/video/283289258659 And if you want to pay money (gulp!), you can buy it here: http://www.zeusdvds.com/stamboul-quest-1934-dvd/ I can't vouch for the reliability of the site (but it's only ten bucks, so it's not a great risk).

. . . your computer's search engine. TCM's search function is erratic, inconsistent and unreliable.

Hope you like it!

This movie must've got in under the code enforcement wire. Or--maybe it didn't. Myrna Loy plays a great German spy during the Great War. She's successful, by her lights, because she doesn't fall in love. Then on a mission to Istanbul--she falls in love. Of course, nothing good comes of it. In fact, something really horrible does. Through her own machinations, one of the most shocking plot twists in movies, of any time, happens. Something that would challenge the blackest noir for honesttogoodness gut punches. And this is why I think it maybe didn't escape the falling curtain of censorship, because bracketing this hard edged nugget of a movie is this dreamy, wishy-pishy, romantic Hollywood happy ending bit of business of the spy in a mental asylum, to make the Bad Thing go away. But don't despair. One can easily avoid the brackets and enjoy all the nihilism of this terrific downer of a movie. One of my favorite of Myrna Loy's. On tonite, or tomorrow at 12:30 a.m. Pacific.

Well, I've read thru it, and read again. And I think the op isn't really saying anything. I'll admit I did have to force myself thru it. After the first handful of words, an overwhelming blanket of indifference enwrapped my brain. Oh, there is one thing I think I got, and my reaction to it is, treating people civilly is not puritan moralizing. It's common human decency, and it's what I'd always thought I'd been taught was the basis for civilization.

I'm starting to suspect all well known westerns have been blu rayed. I just checked Red River (1948), Stagecoach (1939), and The Wild Bunch (1969), and all of them are.

Yes, Shane (1953) had been blu rayed.

Giant (1956), and The Searchers (1956) have both been blu rayed.

gotcha.

Are you sure Black Sunday (1977) hasn't sown in this century? I know I've watched at least part of it, and I didn't start watching TCM until well into the 2000's. The same with Fun With Dick and Jane (1977).

Satyricon (1969) aired in 2009 and 2015 according to MC's list. Shaft in Africa (1973) was shown in 2014 and 2016.

Remake Funny Girl (1968)? How 'bout Beyonce for the title role?

Don't take these phony posters seriously. They don't deserve it. Their purpose is not to bring TCM back to what it "originally" was, but to change it into what it has never been, or never intended to be.

Just like the spam that hits the site all the time. Only more annoying.

Oh, you are so booooring!

But at least it will die a natural death.

Here it is.

If with the first movie by saying it's like The Great Escape (1963), you mean it takes place during WWII, and involves an allied soldier escaping from German captivity, then try 36 Hours (1965), with James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, and Rod Taylor (not sure if it ends up with Garner and Saint in a train, tho): http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91392/Stella-Dallas/ click on the READ THE FULL SYNOPSIS button for an extended description.

A record 350 pages of useless material?