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Saturday, June 20 10 a.m. Batman: The Doom of the Rising Sun (1943). Could be fun. 10:30 a.m. Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952) I wonder if she is wearing heels and make-up? 2:15 a.m. Vigilante (1983) This is the one for me. Never seen this Robert Forster, Fred Williamson film. 3:45 a.m. Mean Streets (1973) recorder alert!

Yes, I think I said that too about MM on 6/16

"Alternate naming wisdom." That has a ring to it.

Was it that the humour was too broad? The two adults pretending to be little kids? Maybe it was funny in 1952?

Other people must be picking up on Young Torless which is good to see. It was lambasted by the critics at the time. Some said Tor was too old to play the part of the teenager in this film. He has 63 at the time.

"I want more sand in the desert!" - Vittorio De Sica directing in After the Fox

For many years in Ontario, Canada we had a show called Saturday Night at the Movies on public television (TVO) and it was hosted by Elwy Yost, the father of Graham Yost. Once a year Elwy would do these junkets to LA to interview all of the old stars, screenwriters and cameramen, etc. and then they would play these clips in between the movies. Most of these interviews were done right in the homes of the stars. I caught his interview with Richard Widmark, and yes he seemed to be an incredibly well-grounded individual with none of the airs of a 'star.' As an aside, TVO did not have the funds to store this treasure-trove of interviews so at some point it was all donated to the American Academy of Motion Pictures, the Oscars. It would be great if TCM could get its hands on these interviews. Some of my favourites were with Stanley Cortez, Lee Garmes, and Preston Sturges' secretary (Sturges dictated all his screenplays). But he had all the biggies too like Henry Fonda, James Stewart, etc.

W.C. Fields on September 4! The Bank Dick It's a Gift You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

Friday, June 19 9:30 a.m. Gilda (1946) makes a come back followed by The Big Sleep (1946) and The Killers (1946). They are certainly being shown quite a bit lately.

Here are a few more American films directed by women in case any of the programmers should be dropping in to read this thread. From 1996 to 1999 Grace of My Heart (1996) Allison Anders starring Illeana Douglas The Line King: The Al Hirschfield Story (1996) Susan Warms Dryfoos The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) Barbra Streisand starring Lauren Bacall The Preacher's Wife (1996) Penny Marshall A Very Brady Sequel (1996) Arlene Sanford All I Wanna Do (1998) Sarah Kernochan Colors Straight Up (1998) Michele Ohayon Madeline (1998) Daisy von Sherler Meyer Polish Wedding (1998) Theresa Connelly Ravenous (1998) Antonia Bird Shadrack (1998) Susanna Styron Whatever (1998) Susan Skoog Wild Man Blues (1998) Barbara Kopple The Third Miracle (1999) Agnieszka Holland All of these films have received at least some good reviews. I don't think it would break the bank to get the rights to screen them on television. And it would be nice to support these 'living' filmmakers, some of whom are probably struggling to get their next films made. There are many films like this to be explored. It just takes a little imagination.

I think I found something on Tor in Godzilla. Sight and Sound issue 29. Actor Tor Johnson has pulled out of the Godzilla sequel, Godzilla Rides Again over a contractual dispute. Johnson who successfully portrayed the reptilian dinosaur in the original Godzilla was said to be very upset over the film's title change. "I was told it was going to be called Torzilla" bellowed Johnson, "but they lied to me." Executives at Toho are said to be distraught. Ishiro Honda the films director added "In Japan, Tor Johnson is big. Very big. He a God. That is why we call him Godzilla. We a love, Tor." A rash of ritual suicides have even occurred outside the Toho Studio gates. Meanwhile, Johnson has taken the opportunity to tour Japan as part of its Sumo Wrestling All-Stars.

Speaking of Japan, I had heard that Tor Johnson was actually the uncredited thespian in the Godzilla suit. I don't know if anyone can confirm this, or not?

Now that would have been a great programming in joke!

Has anyone mentioned June Allyson yet? Admittedly I'm too lazy to look back through this thread at the moment. She has to be the very definition of yuck. Ugly, horrible voice and irritating as all hell.

As part of the Orson Welles centenary, the BFI in London has special screenings of Touch of Evil lined up this summer. Here is a new trailer for the film ...

Surely Young Torless will have had more searches tomorrow than Susan and Tor. Never even heard of that one.

Herbert Marshall is my favourite in The Fly.

What no Waterloo films tomorrow? It is the 200th anniversary June 18th. Maybe we'll have to catch them next time around in 2115.

Thursday, June 18 9:45 p.m. Mothra. Part of TCM's cute bug fest. I saw this at a drive-in with my parents back in the day and thought it was great.

As I mentioned previously if one wanted to look at female directors and highlight films that have garnered critical acclaim but do not get the subsequent push on television then I think it best to look to films made in the last 30 years. Here are some I would like to see from just 1990 through 1995: American Dream (1990) Barbara Kopple Iron & Silk (1990) Shirley Sun Daughters of the Dust (1991) Julie Dash Paradise (1991) Agnes Donogheux The Man Without a World (1992) Eleanor Antin The Panama Deception (1992) Barbar Trent *good luck having a major tv company show this Oscar winning documentary The Ballad of Little Jo (1993) Maggie Greenwald Household Saints (1993) Nancy Savoca Lost In Yonkers (1993) Martha Coolidge When Pigs Fly (1993) Sarah Driver Angie (1994) Martha Coolidge Mi Vida Loca: My Crazy Life (1994) Allison Anders River of Grass (1994) Kelly Riechardt Tollbooth (1994) Salome Breziner Party Girl (1995) Daisy von Scherler The Perez Family (1995) Mira Nair Unstrung Heroes (1995) Diane Keaton

I got Ernest Borgnine's autobiography at a book signing so the signing part and meeting Mr. Borgnine and having my picture taken with him was really the highlight. I Don't Want to set the World on Fire, I Just Want to Keep My Nuts Warm is the full title of the book. His industry recollections are done in a journal format where he responds to a title with a few anecdotes. It is an amusing light quick read.

So many of the golden age French films of the 1930's are hard to find with English subtitles. Here is another I have been looking for: Un Carnet de Bal (1937) by Julian Duvivier.

There was a fish mongers on either Melrose or Hollywood Blvd. that had a tiny adjoining dining area that I used to go to for lunch when I lived in LA. It was nothing fancy. People would line up for fresh fish at the counter right beside the tables. I saw Nicolas Cage in there having lunch one day. On another occasion I saw Tina Louise. This would have been about 1990 and she still looked very much like Ginger.

Sea Hunt! I loved that show. My cousin and I used to imitate Mike Nelson and go over the side of a boat backward holding onto our swimming masks.

I've seen Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's Bedazzled (1967) over a dozen times. Love the humour in it and the well written dialogue. Eleanor Bron is fantastic. Great score by Dudley Moore too. I suppose I was initially drawn to the film in 1967 because it had Raquel Welch in it as Lillian Lust the Babe with the Bust. I recently watched Doctor Doolittle (1967) again. I hadn't seen it since its original release. It is incredibly bad ... and long. That is one film I think I can skip from now on. Unless I develop alzheimer's for pity's sake.