Bogie56
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Bogie56--on TCM, the movie "Come and See" (1985) is listed in Russian(?) as "Idi I Smotri" or as "Go and See".
Yes, Go and Look or Go and See is the literal translation but the film was titled Come and See for its release in English speaking countries.
In any event it is an incredibly powerful WWII film. I've seen it several times and then went and bought myself a copy. I've noted that it is a favourite of AndyM too.
It's in our local library system so I suspect it might be in other libraries too.
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I will second SansFin's recommendation for THE CRANES ARE FLYING.
I saw it when it aired as a TCM Import.
I thank SansFin for mentioning it on these message boards.
The Cranes Are Flying is pretty good indeed. This one may just blow you away though ... Elem Klimov's Come and See (1985).
It might be available in libraries.
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Friday, August 28
"Here's looking at you kid"
Ingrid Bergman. Born August 29, 1915 in Stockholm, Sweden.
1 p.m. Fear (1954)
2:30 Elena and Her Men (1956) … I haven’t seen either of these
8 p.m. Casablanca. I caught Casablanca on the big screen last weekend as part of an Ingrid Bergman tribute here in Toronto. Lots of weeping in this one. I even noticed that old Bogie had a wet cheekbone when his train was pulling out of Paris and he has tossed Ilsa's 'dear john' letter into the gutter.
midnight. Europa ’51 (1951). A non-dubbed English language version of this is hard to come by so I’m setting the recorder. Alexander Knox is good. From Strathroy, Ontario.
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Realizing Salo is not an option would Tcm show The Decameron, Gospel of Saint Matthew or Mamma Roma with Magnani?
I think Mamma Roma has been on. Not sure about Gospel.
I doubt you'll see Cantebury Tales either.
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Too bad. I havent seen that film in a long time. I know Salinger hated the film.............
No, My Foolish Heart is not great by any means. But it was another teaming of Hayward and Dana Andrews and would have followed Canyon Passage quite nicely. And in a month of Susan Hayward films it would have been nice to see another of her Oscar nominated performances.
You can see that TCM had all those good intentions as it was originally on the schedule.
It seems it is only available on a Spanish dvd at the moment. I should have recorded it 20 years ago.
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I think, aside from all the instabilty that came with it, people were ultimately relieved when Euros came along.
This pence, shilling, bob, thing is confusing.
Yes, but Britain does not have the Euro.
It's 100 pence to the pound so much like the dollar.
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"Quid" is a pound, correct?
Yes
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Per our friend Google, a bob is a slang term for shilling. So whatever a shilling is worth...
There were twenty (20) shillings per pound.
The shilling was subdivided into twelve (12) pennies.
The penny was further sub-divided into two halfpennies or four farthings (quarter pennies).
2 farthings = 1 halfpenny2 halfpence = 1 penny (1d)3 pence = 1 thruppence (3d)6 pence = 1 sixpence (a 'tanner') (6d)12 pence = 1 shilling (a bob) (1s)2 shillings = 1 florin ( a 'two bob bit') (2s)2 shillings and 6 pence = 1 half crown (2s 6d)5 shillings = 1 Crown (5s)-
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I was quite looking forward to seeing Susan Hayward's My Foolish Heart (1949) once again. She was nominated for an Oscar for this film.
Unfortunately, it has been pulled from both the U.S. and Canadian schedules of Thursday, September 3/4 at 5 a.m. in favour of They Won't Believe Me (1947). They Won't Believe Me was originally supposed to be on the 4th at 6:45 a.m. so there is some schedule juggling taking place.
The disappearance of My Foolish Heart is now one of those mysteries. It is a film that is now hard to come by.
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Thursday, August 27
Monty Woolley and no The Pied Piper (1942) ?
All is not lost. Watch Gracie Fields in ….
8 p.m. Holy Matrimony (1943) and
9:45 p.m. Molly and Me (1945)
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Thought I would bump this one up as it is similar to the new thread about film scores. Perhaps the OP would like to read some of this thread.
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Jack Palance was the best IMO in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968).
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"Is it possible dear for someone to hit you hard and for it not to hurt you at all"
- Shirley Jones to her daughter in Carousel (1956) explaining why she loves her wife-beating husband, Gordon MacRae
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"Ug."
- J. Carrol Naish as Chief Sitting Bull in Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
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Wednesday, August 26
I’m a Garbo fan so I’m glad to grab copies of some of these …
11:30 a.m. Susan Lennox (1931)
2:30 p.m. The Painted Veil (1934)
4:45 a.m. the Kiss (1929)
I’m not sure why the Garbo documentary at 3:45 a.m. is not available in Canada.
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I enjoyed 'The Thin Red Line' well enough, but I sure wish I could find out why Mickey Rourke's scenes were taken out.
This youtube clip of a deleted Mickey Rourke scene from The Thin Red Line already looks like it had been (unsuccessfully) cut to the bone. What's left of it hardly works.
My guess from hearing Adrian Brody talk of the experience is that director, Terrence Malick shot tons of material not certain what film he was going to make.
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"the Goons"
- a term used extensively in The Great Escape in reference to the German guards.
I guess Alice the Goon was the big clumsy bird that sailors spoke of.
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1921, "stupid person," from gony "simpleton" (1580s), of unknown origin,but applied by sailors to the albatross and similar big, clumsy birds(1839); sense of "hired thug" first recorded 1938 (in reference to union"beef squads" used to cow strikers in the Pacific northwest), probably fromAlice the Goon, slow-witted and muscular (but gentle-natured) character in"Thimble Theater" comic strip (starring Popeye) by E.C. Segar (1894-1938). She also was the inspiration for British comedian Spike Milligan's"The Goon Show." What are now "juvenile delinquents" were in the 1940ssometimes called goonlets.
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Is that where most of the theatre's peanut sales were consumed?
The cheap seats, yes.
The ladies with tiaras probably don't buy peanuts.
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He did a film in 1998 called THE THIN RED LINE, based on a James Jones novel about WWII in the Pacific Theater. It was actually nominated for Best Picture.
A friend of mine went to go see something else with her fiancee at the time, but they couldn't get in, so they went to go see THE THIN RED LINE instead.
I can still recall the two of them going on a 45-minute long co-rant about the film, which they retitled THE THIN, STUPID, BORING RED ****ING LINE. It was epic, I still laugh now recalling it.
Apparently it is nine and a half hours long and nothing happens in it except George Clooney shows up for 45 seconds three hours in. Then leaves.
The Thin Red Line is a very different kind of war film. I liked it. Some, including actor Adrian Brody did not. I think he couldn't get over spending months shooting the film then having his 'story' in the film reduced the way it was.
Don't get me wrong. It's not entirely successful. But it does have some great moments in it. And Nick Nolte and Woody Harrelson are terrific. Terrence Malick won the New York Film Critics Directing award for it.
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Tuesday, August 25
10 a.m. The First Hundred Years (1938). Good cast in this one. Virginia Bruce with Robert Montgomery and Warren William.
6:30 p.m. Kongo (1932). I haven’t seen this one. I love Walter Huston and I really loved Lon Chaney in West of Zanzibar so I am really curious to see this remake.
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"the Peanut Gallery"
- I still love to use this phrase. Originally the very back row in the top section of a theatre.
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Check out this link on the TCM Message Boards -- http://forums.tcm.com/index.php?/forum/138-tcm-program-challenges-archive/ You will find lots of old challenges and schedules. Also, every new Challenge posts the rules and regs for the specific Challenge and lets you know about the rules which have applied to previous challenges. We'd be thrilled if you would like to participate in the upcoming challenge.
Thanks Lydecker. But judging by the excellent past responses to the challenges it is a bit more complicated than
Frankenstein, followed by
The Bride of Frankenstein, followed by
The Son of Frankenstein,
isn't it?
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I'm weirdly excited to see The Conqueror. Not because I'm expecting a good film, but because I'm expecting such an awful film. Also because this film is so notorious, I feel that I have to see it.
John Wayne as Genghis Kahn? Of course, he'd be my first pick too!
The Dukester wasn't bad as the Centurian whipping Christ on his way to the cross too.
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Thanks, MCannady.
I suppose the primary reason I've always remembered that story of Goulet's was because, first, I remember him telling it so well, and secondly because BOTH subjects of his story had those unforgettably distinctive voices, and one can readily hear those unforgettably distinctive voices in one's imagination reciting those words in it.
I was once told by an impressionist that the key to doing Mason was to squeeze one's butt cheeks together and pretend to be constipated.
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"I've met a lot of hard boiled eggs in my life but you're 20 minutes"
- Jan Sterling as Lorraine Minosa to Kirk Douglas as Chuck Tatum in Ace In the Hole (1951)