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The first photo doesn't have the ring of The Philadelphia Story. There were no cannons in it. And Ms. Hepburn's attire isn't from the movie. I suspect it's from another movie. The honeymoon movie doesn't sound familiar.

A couple of recent uses of this word to describe movies rankled. Now I know the meanings of words, especially in English, can migrate, even flip-flop. And I'm not conservative, let alone reactionary, about language. But there are some usages I have a set way of thinking about, and when I hear it employed differently, it jars (don't get me started about 'moot'). And 'cult' is one of them. A cult movie, as I have always understood it, was a movie out of the mainstream, that was energetically admired by a limited circle of enthusiasts. It was a self-aware admiration, and the cognoscenti derived an extra amount of satisfaction from the knowledge they belonged to a restricted brotherhood--siblinghood, a select group that existed on a higher plane of consciousness affording them the ability to appreciate the worthiness of things which the common herd were blind to. A secret society almost, with codes and cues, and obscure references, that, when recognized, formed an instant familial bond between two individuals. Most people would point to The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1972), or Eraserhead (1977) as examples. And, yeah, I guess I could go along with them, in the days of midnight shows at art theaters. But I'm thinking more in the line of Freaks (1932), or the early rediscovery of the other silent film comedians, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Today, when someone talks of a cult movie, or a movie that has 'achieved cult status,' they mean something entirely the opposite. They mean a movie adored not out of the mainstream, underground, but to the contrary, one that has become so popular it has gained a position in the mainstream cannon of movies. I guess the example most people would automatically think of is Blade Runner (1982). What I am saying in essence, is that enthusiasm has been confused with popularity. In these days when everything is mainstream, and there is no more underground, no more R. Crumb, no more rebellion in rock-and-roll (for how can you rebel when you are the establishment?), there can also be no more cult movies. And 'cult', orphaned of its meaning, has to go looking for a new one, or perish from the face of this Earth.

Good one. I've tried to recall one movie that had the toppling coins. I thought The Crash (1932) with Ruth Chatterton and George Brent had it. But I reviewed my copy of it and I was mistaken. There is a movie I recall that has as its theme the aftermath of the crash on a wealthy family. One woman from it ends up as a model in a ladies clothier, but I haven't been able to dredge the title up and check it.

You're aces in my books, CG! Truth is, this is the only snip of movie I know of that's made multiple appearances. I was hoping others could chime in. My guess is they'd show up mostly in montages or framing sequences. One other occurs to me now. It's a stop motion animated sequence showing the stacking up and toppling of coins, symbolizing an economic boom/bust cycle. It's used in two/three early soundies that revolve around consequences of the October '29 crash. Shots of the coins are intercut with faces first oogling, then cringing at the growing and toppling stacks.

Amen. Ever since the the revamp of the site the feature has been almost useless.

You can comfort yourself with the knowledge of the countless others you have saved from a similar embarrassment.

I have edited the title to include the movie's year.

This thread is from the days before I included the year of the movie with the title. I hope such regrettable confusion will no longer occur.

The plain drunken doctor is rife in movies. In westerns, they usually overcome their drunkenness for a good cause at a critical point in the movie (e. g. Stagecoach, 1939; My Darling Clementine, 1946). They also show up a lot in gangster/crime movies, usually as disqualified for some malfeasance, as the doctor-on-call for the odd mobster that needs a bullet removed. Drunkenness is as puzzling as the frequent atheism. Why it would be associated with the medical profession so often is a mystery to me. The only thing that occurs to me is that the medical profession was identified in the minds of studio-era moviemakers with the priesthood, or clergy. Ex-doctors were the equivalent of defrocked priests or ministers. For someone to fall away from the ministry, or lose one's faith necessitated some sort of character flaw, manifested in drunkenness.

Watching Crime Wave (1954) tonight I was happy to run into a familiar friend. A bit of police procedural stock footage of the usual suspects being rounded up for questioning. The movie isn't readily available for clipping, but I remembered this from He Walked By Night (1948). Here ya go: I'm not sure, but I think this was the movie it was originally made for. I am sure I've seen it in, oh, eight, ten other movies. It must be the most used bit of stock footage in movies. Yes?

Doctors have a prominent position in movies. That's not surprising, considering the role they play in society. And they naturally manifest in all manner of ways, from selfless idealist to self-serving sell-out. One way Hollywood characterizes doctors, as importantly if not as frequently as others, is as the alcoholic/atheist/alienate. I can't account for why this is so. You might think that the atheism comes from their science background. But I don't know of scientists in other fields being portrayed like that. Neither do they show up as alcoholics--mad maybe, aims of global domination maybe, but not alcoholic. These types (always men), their sardonic world view and detached cynicism oddly contrasting with the intrinsic humanitarianism of medicine, act as the foil for the hero or events in the movie in order to confound their atheism and validate religion and the agency of faith. A good example to see this dialectic play out is in Angel and the Badman (1947), but there are no shortage of examples.

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Is this the image you remember?

TCM has shown The Deer Hunter. Also Platoon, yes? And Born on the Fourth of July? And the Killing Fields, but I don't think during Memorial Day weekend. Again, I think the preponderance of WWII movies shown is due to the overwhelmingly disproportionate number of them.

Maybe it's because most war movies made during the studio era were about WWII. And though Xmas eve and day only are blocked with Xmas movies, usually all December is themed to those movies. But I agree Memorial Day is super saturated. There is, isn't there? But they are not getting those movies. Just the same retreads. And how do you know what the TCM audience wants? But perhaps TCM does, as they present these marathons unrelentingly.

Here are some explosion sounds I'm sure you've heard allover: But, hey! I've watched Mythbusters, and they don't sound anything like real explosions!

Perhaps the story (and movie) should be looked on more as an allegory. His journey along the metaphorical river of swimming pools being the vehicle for presenting in a indirect manner the life of a sonofa[femaledog]. And incidentally detailing how the conventional materialistic wasp (American) way of life is essentially empty and desolate.

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From Wikiland (emphasis mine): Contemporary use[edit] Although it has largely disappeared as a standard of high society and high culture, the Transatlantic accent has still been heard in some recent media for the sake of historical or stylistic effect. Elizabeth Banks uses the Mid-Atlantic accent in playing the flamboyant, fussy, upper-class character Effie Trinket in the futuristic Hunger Games film series,[2] and also for her character, Pizzaz Miller, on the Comedy Central show Moonbeam City.[citation needed] A comedic example of this accent appears in the television sitcom Frasier used by the snobbish Crane brothers, who are played by Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce.[3] Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer portrayed Thurston and Lovey Howell, a millionaire couple on the 1960s TV series Gilligan's Island; they both employed the Locust Valley lockjaw and cartoonish caricature of this accent to great comedic effect.[citation needed] In the Star Wars film franchise, the character Darth Vader (voiced by James Earl Jones) noticeably speaks with a deep bass tone and a Mid-Atlantic accent to suggest his position of high authority; Princess Leia (played by Carrie Fisher) and Queen Amidala (played by Natalie Portman) also use this accent when switching to a formal speaking register in political situations.[3] Many Disney films' villains speak either with a British accent (e.g. Shere Khan, Prince John, the Horned King, Scar, and Frollo) or a Transatlantic accent (notably, the Evil Queen from Snow White, Maleficient, Cruella de Vil, Lady Tremaine, Vincent Price's Professor Ratigan, Jafar, and Eartha Kitt's Yzma).[53] Mark Hamill's vocal portrayal of Batman villain the Joker adopts a highly theatrical Mid-Atlantic accent throughout the character's many animation and video game appearances.[54] Evan Peters employs a Mid-Atlantic accent on American Horror Story: Hotel (as James Patrick March, a ghostly serial killer from the 1920s),[55] as does Mare Winningham(as March's accomplice, Miss Evers).[citation needed] Actor John Houseman employs a Mid-Atlantic accent on The Paper Chase (as Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr., a Professor of Contract Law at the Harvard Law School),[56][better source needed]

I think he's in a touring show.

That was Joan Rivers.

You've heard 'em a million times. Especially if you ever watched Saturday morning cartoons. Seems like there was only one depository for sound effects, and the studios, big'n small, TV show makers, and animators all were required to get them from there. The one thing that unites them? They sound almost nothing like what they're supposed to. From a punch in the nose to a body hitting the ground to--thunder. Yeah, thunder. I searched and searched and just couldn't find that old familiar sound. Then a brilliant flash of insight: I searched 'Thunder sound effect in movies' on YT. And Here It Is: I mean, here they are. The last clap is the one I remember being the most employed. Thing is, I don't like any of 'em. Never did. As I said, doesn't sound like real thunder. Hearing it always took away from what I was watching. What I wonder is, why couldn't someone just go out and record real thunder? Maybe if the places they filmed were a facsimile of reality, and the the acting was a facsimile of reality, they felt sound should be, too.

It is termed the 'Mid-Atlantic accent.' It was an artificially invented anglicization of American speech. Beginning in the 20s or so, it was consciously affected by the upperclass, mainly of the Northeast, to distinguish themselves from the unwashed masses. Evidently, speaking the common accent was a source of contamination. It made its way into theater, and as Hollywood raided talent from Broadway, into film. The beginning of the 50s saw its decline, though a lingering residue can still be detected today.

You can find many of the songs identified along with their artists in th is very forum . Scroll back to previous threads and you will see the alost monthly query into the song that plays over the monthly montage. For example: music for April 2018 promo