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But--but that's the most brilliant scene in the movie! No joke! Ok. let's get this straight. Prior to the TV eruption, Tommy's mommy is watching him crowned pinball king. Racked with guilt, she tries not to watch, getting only commercials for: baked beans, chocolate, and laundry detergent. As her psychic trauma builds, we see Tommy in a washer. Then his mommy busts the TV, seeking relief from her agony--and gets it, temporarily, with the soap suds (cleansing--see?). But her inner contamination busts out, first with beans, then with chocolate goo. She revels in her degradation. All very sexy. And that is something Liv Ullman definitely couldn't do.

Of course, the creepiest appearance of an amusement park in a movie would be Carnival of Souls (1962), where the heroine encounters her spooky tormenters: https://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/statehood_and_the_progressive_era/saltair.html And there's one in House of Bamboo (1955)--on a Tokyo rooftop!:

Ah, well, that explains it. It was right out there in the open for me to see. So naturally I was oblivious. Item: I am looking for my safety glasses. I look where I store them. I look near my toolbox. I look on all flat surfaces nearby. Nowhere to be found. Where are they? On the top of my head where I pushed them a moment ago when I was done cutting a piece of wood! Item: I am looking for my pencil. It is not where I store it. It is not near my tape measure. It is not on any flat surface nearby. Where is it? I am holding it in my hand! These are verified occurrences.

As Robert Osborne said, the story is the excuse for song and dance in musicals. So with opera. And so with rock opera. It isn't clear to me from how you put it, but I hope you think "Quadrophenia" is as good as "Tommy." Because though it's not as popular, I do. "Can you see the real me. . . .?"

Who better to have direct that most opulent output by that most opulent band than that most opulent director, Ken Russell? The saga of a boy's journey through psychic shock to religious iconism is saved from grandiosity of course by the genius of Pete Townshend and The Who's musical brilliance. In a similar way, Ken Russel's movie adaptation of Tommy (1975) is saved from visual excessiveness by rushing headlong into even more excessivness. Though I admire him greatly for his visually robust filmmaking, his movies for me can be tiring to watch. But I watch them all the same. And in this case, whatever the drawbacks, they are made up for by the music and the performances. And let us all be grateful it was made while Keith Moon was still alive. Nothing could have saved it then. Tommy (1975), not the last musical this month, on Tomorrow morning at 1:15 a. m.! Pacific Time!

Sorry to create the wrong impression, missw. There are lots of musicals I really like. It's just the ones on last night I've seen a lot and wasn't up for seeing them again--or so I thought. One thing I'd like to draw people's attention to that I think contributes to making this movie continually fresh to see is the direction. It's a surprise, as the director, Morton DaCosta, did most of his work for the stage, only directing six or so movies. This is undoubtedly his best. Not only does he do a fine job of capturing the energy of the musical numbers from the outside, he also manages to get the camera inside the dancing, moving it with the dancers.

Joseph Heller came up with the concept and coined the phrase. I say this to save people from wasting time and effort in a fruitless pursuit. I see no reason why information available in Britain would not be accessible here. I say this so that people will not be wrongly discouraged from a potentially productive investigation. No adaptation of Catch-22, and no movie or anything else of that name was made before 1970. Any speculation otherwise is wishful thinking.

Not intending to, only having TCM on as background murmur before hunting for something to watch, as I have no interest in tonite's musical smorgasbord, as it happens every time, on comes The Music Man, and I'm caught. What makes this movie so perpetually watchable--nay, enjoyable? No doubt it's a long list of things, but I have no time now, "Shipoopi" is starting. . . .

Bytheway, that is Benny Carter and His Orchestra playing. It's on the soundtrack:

From dictionary.com: catch-22 [kach-twen-tee-too] ExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com noun, plural Catch-22's, Catch-22s. a frustrating situation in which one is trapped by contradictory regulations or conditions. any illogical or paradoxical problem or situation; dilemma. a condition, regulation, etc., preventing the resolution of a problem or situation; catch. Origin of Catch-22 from a military regulation in a novel of the same name (1961) by U.S. novelist Joseph Heller (born 1923) Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018 I think out of desperation, you are grabbing at anything to assuage the ache for resolution. There was no adaptation of Joseph Heller's novel before 1970. Any use of the phrase would have run into immediate copyright enforcement. I don't see why a movie, or TV movie made in Britain would be any more likely to disappear under the sands of time than one made anywhere else. I am sure your last comment was shouted in jest, as the humor of one person after another posting that it is definitely not that movie must be equally obvious to you.

Oops. Didn't even think to look. My mind was just on providing a pic. Perhaps I should have cropped it. The movie is available on Watch TCM.

Here he is:

Do you think it could it be Sole Survivor (1970)?

PT 109 (1963).

Mine is Direct TV. When I click on the button I get the following: There was a problem verifying your account with your TV Service Provider Please try again But trying again never works. I have a Macbook Pro with OSX El Capitan 10.11.6. I tried Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. Nothing works.

There are many great video stores across America. You might try contacting them. Here's a site that lists some of them: http://mentalfloss.com/article/85304/18-awesome-video-stores-are-still-open-business You can search for more. I searched: 'best video stores in America.'

An Actor's Revenge (1963). You may wonder as you watch this excellent movie by Kon Ichikawa wether it is the Japanese incarnation of The Count of Monte Cristo. That's understandable, as almost any revenge fantasy can be identified with it. And this movie does have three offenders. But the revenger is not the direct victim, his parents were. And he's not a fabulously wealthy man of mystery, just a fabulously famous Kabuki actor (female impersonator). Wellanyway. The movie is only slightly infected with the flying martial artism that cripples so many later ones. It tells a bleak, cynical tale of an inherently corrupt world, filled with double-dealers, deceivers, and naive innocents. Where everyone is either a taker or taken, a thief or thieved, where the guilty and innocent alike suffer. Lots of fun. Ultimately, revenge is sweet--or would be it the one seeking it liked sweets.

This it (don't give up too soon, the guy doesn't star singing until 1:30)?:

John Lovitz in A League of Their Own (1992), channeling Ned Sparks. Not very well, though.

Lots of good music from this movie! And Hellen Mirren!

If I remember it has aired more than once. But I am not so fanatic to undergo the extreme agony of searching the schedules.

Attentive viewers will have recognized in the opening shots of the cafe scene with Jerry Mulligan and Milo Roberts, as the camera pans across the crowd scene, Benny Carter in the jazz band. One of the great alto saxophonists, Mr. Carter was also a band leader, and major composer, with a number of songs that have become standards, including "Cow Cow Boogie," "When Lights Are Low," and "Because of You." You will hear playing over it a leisurely rendition of "But Not For Me," but I can't say if it's him playing.

I also have no doubt Dalton Trumbo fully knew the meaning of the phrase, and deftly played for the maximum amount of irony, counterpoint, and sentiment, considering who gets hurt and how, and who derives pleasure at who's expense at different times in the movie, with the final scene belying the meaning of the phrase.

Seems to be you.