slaytonf
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It looks like it's My Brother's Wedding (1983) by the acclaimed director Charles Burnett:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Brother%27s_Wedding
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I think I'm gonna have to watch Morocco tonight. No great ordeal.
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None of any of the above being crushes of mine.
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It's twice as nice.
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The pun was just an added bonus. Yes, she was the crushablest.
So we need a pic:
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Marian Marsh in Beauty and the Boss (1932).
Evalyn Knapp in Smart Money (1931).
Nancy Carroll in Child of Manhattan (1933).
Lilian Bond in The Old Dark House (1932).
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Some kinda woman.
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Gosh, completely forgot about this thread. But I agree with myself! She shoulda had a better career. And anybody who pulls a thread of mine out of the dark abyss gets my undying thanks! So here's to you, BrettBurn4321, whatever the significance of that name. -
Could also be Morocco (1930), with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83989/Morocco/
Click on the READ THE FULL SYNOPSIS link.
Here's the last shot. That's Marlene bringing up the rear:
https://vimeo.com/311883720
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9 hours ago, Hoganman1 said:
Well, since I started this thread I've learned a lot about movies based on the book THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME. I realize this site is for classic movies. However, my focus was on the Zodiac angle. I know it was 50 years ago, but I was hoping there are more people like me out there that find the case fascinating. I guess I should have found another forum. I know there are countless sites with people that are as interested in the Zodiac as I am.
This is a movie site. People will discuss topics in relation to movies. If there is no movie angle in a thread, the monitors-that-be will move it to the Off Topic Chit Chat forum.
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Island of Lost Souls (1932) is based on The Island of Dr. Moreau, by H. G. Wells.
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I dropped the ball on this one. And it looks like it's not available on demand. But you can see it on YouTube. There is an old muddy print which really detracts from the movie. I'll try to upload it somewhere.
A tasty treat for hard science fiction fans. A stunning display of mid-thirties futurism (eerily prescient), this overlooked epic is chock full of wonderful sets and special effects, from the tunnel itself, to people movers, television, video phones, and radon drills. Everything is streamlined. The cars are streamlined. The architecture is streamlined. The furniture is streamlined. Even the people are streamlined. There is a story, and characters, who wound themselves banging into the hard structure of the plot and tunnel, but you can safely disregard them. Though you do get some of your favorite actors: Madge Evans, Richard Dix, Helen Vinson, and Leslie Banks. But that's secondary. Just sit back and wallow in the drooly sets.
The story? Well, they dig a tunnel under the Atlantic. It takes years. People ebb and flow. You can probably figure out what happens building the tunnel, and at the end, and if they complete it or not.
I was able to upload it here:
I'm sorry about the aspect ratio. Some movies I can't get right. I think it has something to do with the conversion from digital to analog when I record a DVD of it.
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Marking an individual email as not spam may not work with later email from the same source. You may have to enter the TCM address as a contact in your list of approved sources.
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As part of my periodic reading of the works of Raymond Chandler, I had occasion to re-read The Big Sleep. Out of curiosity, I also watched the movie. None of the two were an ordeal. But I like reading the book a little better than watching the movie, maybe because it can be enjoyed longer. Chandler also has a good turn of phrase. The movie follows the book closely, except that some of the salacious and graphic elements are toned down. We only get to infer Carmen's nudity, not see it (naturally). And the pornography racket run by Geiger is only hinted at by one furtive man scurrying into the backroom of Geiger's bookstore. But I suppose audiences of the time would have been primed to pick up on that. Otherwise, the blackmail angle so heavily relied on in the movie would have seemed weak. And there was no vomiting.
The biggest changes were for the role of Vivian Rutledge, so Lauren Bacall's screen time with Bogey could be maximized.
We still end up with Carmen as the murderer, with enough ambiguity thrown in (though not much) to satisfy any discomfort on the censors' part arising from Marlow railroading Eddy Mars into getting killed by his own thugs to take the fall for her because he has the hots for her sister.
The aristocracy, no matter how degenerate or depraved are never called to account for their crimes. It's only the working stiffs like Eddy Mars, self-made men, capitalist entrepreneurs, presumptuous and ambitious, who are called to account. And there are knights errant like Marlowe who are there to make sure of that.
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"Swing for Sale" is performed by Caryl Gould, per IMDB. Here's the Webpage:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220654/soundtrack?ref_=tt_trv_snd
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You can try contacting TCM. On the homepage at the bottom there is a Contact Us link. Follow the prompts. You can also look in the TCM online store. The link to that is at the top of the homepage. The TCM store also has a Contact Us link.
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The make-up is still bad.
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5 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
correct me if I'm wrong but none of the old planet of the apes movies have any female gorilla ladies in um just male soldiers.
That's sexism, not bigotry.
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I was never an intern to a chef. But let me tell about another time I stumbled on a great meal. I was in Texcoco, a suburb about twenty miles east of Mexico City. Even though it is absorbed by the megalopolis, it still retains the character of a smallish country city. At least when I was there. The first night in town I didn't want to eat at my hotel restaurant, so I wandered along the evening streets looking for a place. Every once in a while people would pass me holding corn-on-the-cob. The husks were peeled back and served as a handle, and the cobs looked coated and dusted with something. Whatever it was, it looked good, or I was hungry. Where did they get them? Was it from a fair? I wondered down the street and came to a square. Just as I was entering, someone came around the corner of a building with a cob. I followed back around and found a woman in a small niche with a counter, grill and table of condiments. This was it! She was taking cobs still in the husk out of a bucket of water and placing them on the grill. When I ordered one she took a roasting cob off the grill and peeled back the husks. She coated it with crema (a Mexican sour cream), rolled it in crumbled queso, and dusted it with chili powder. I don't know if it was her invention or it was a local food, but it was the best corn I ever ate.
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I thought this was a thread for unrelated posts.
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I remember the best food I've had. It was always the result of chance finds. In Rome in Trastevere there was a takeout pizza shop that sold dozens of different pizzas Sicilian style on sheet pans. It was just a holeinthewall with no seats, but it was always crowded. I know it sounds weird, but they had an eggplant pizza that was the best pizza I've ever had. I'd get my slice, pay my lire (it was long ago), walk back along to the Tiber to cross it to my hotel past some sort of institutional building guarded by officers armed with machine-guns which was always unsettling.
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IMDB lists her as an uncredited blonde in The Bowery (1933). By the time she played opposite Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times (1936), she was a brunette.
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Crushing on that newly discovered by you actor/actress who died 10/20/30+ years ago
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Forgot another. Paulette Godard, who I first remember from The Young in Heart (1938):
Gulp!