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Quite right, Mr. Roberts. Apologies. I had never heard of Q Ships. I've seen Q Planes (1939) with Laurence Oliver and Ralph Richardson.

Wow. I'll try and dig it up and take a snapshot of it!

I guess a letter could be considered a brush? When I was a student I subscribed to the American Film Institute magazine and I waited and I waited and no magazine. So, I thought I better write to them and complain. Charlton Heston was the chairman of the American Film Institute at the time so I cheekily addressed my letter to him. Not long after I received a tiny card sized letter from Mr. Heston himself who apologized profusely and said that he would see to it personally that I received my magazine subscription. And true to Moses' word, the magazine then started to arrive. You couldn't pry that treasured letter out of my cold dead hands.

Man and Bird on Wire Fade in on the Twin Towers. While French tightrope artist Philippe Petit crosses the wire from New York's north tower Tweetie Bird starts to cross from the south tower. Who will survive? Man or bird?

TCM is TV after all. But hey, the title of the thread included the words 'once in a while.' I'm sure they could make space for two hours a month for something like this. But hey, this is only a thread not a programmers meeting. There have been a few movies made for television that ended up being shown theatrically in other markets too. Scenes From a Marriage, made for Swedish television by Ingmar Bergman was released in cinemas in North America. Some great performances in that too. Bib Andersson for one. And it is released on Criterion which TCM seems to have some sort of deal with.

Thursday, June 11 6:45 a.m. I’m not sure which version of Orson Welles’ Mr. Arkadin TCM will be showing but I will be recording this anyway. It is followed by the ridiculous Man of La Mancha I’m keen to see Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973) at 11:00. It sounds vaguely familiar.

Magnani was terrific in Rome, Open City, Bellisima, The Fugitive Kind and Mamma Roma but nothing comes close IMHO to her performance in The Rose Tattoo. Magnifico!

That building in the background hasn't changed one bit. I live about a five minute walk from there most of the year.

There is plenty of evidence right in the Warren Exhibits themselves to refute everything you have said, I'm afraid. See Sylvia Meagher's book for starters. This has been known since 1964 when the exhibits were released. Not many bothered to read them though! The Warren Report on the other hand was a sad reflection of the evidence in those exhibits cherry-picked to dupe a trusting American public. A work of fiction, I'm afraid. Even the House Committee review in 1978 said as much. People outside of America did not buy into the lone nut theory. But then again, their press was not controlled by the U.S. government. And Jack Ruby? No conspiracy there either I suppose.

Funny you should say. I read that Tor was channeling the Barrymores for that particular performance.

"I'm Helen Cooper" - manners conscious Marilyn Eastman introduces herself in the midst of a zombie attack in The Night of the Living Dead (1968).

This is not a biography but a great film book, plain and simple. I would recommend Kevin Brownlow's The Parade's Gone By to anyone interested in the silent film era. Brownlow as many of you know has been in the forefront of film restoration and preservation for quite some time and produced a marvellous series for television called Hollywood. This book is so well researched and fun to read and has some great photographs. His description of the in-camera effects that were done in the silents is worth the read alone. Sunrise is a particular highlight. He covers all the well known stars and directors and then some. I had no idea how popular Reginald Denny was in the silents. What a long career he had.

Carl Anderson (1945-2004) did a terrific job as Judas Iscariot in Norman Jewison's Jesus Christ Supterstar (1973). Too bad he didn't get a supporting Oscar nomination for it.

Enjoy. We're just not ready for Zenobia in Canada I'm afraid. We're getting Racing Lady (1937) which has been on a zillion times.

But he ain't heavy .. he's my brother.

And rat fink was very popular. If memory serves they even came up with plastic rat fink figures in the early sixties. Greaser. Odd ball. hood - meaning teenage thug

In 2005 at the Toronto International Film Festival I caught a documentary about Orson Welles' time in Spain called The Well, or Brunnen by Kristian Petri. I'm not sure there was enough in the film to make it that worthwhile but it did have some interesting bits. It showed Welles' in his Ronda villa, scenes with him eating this local dish which was essentially a big bowl of lard (no wonder he was so big!) and his friendship with a famous bullfighter, Antonio Ordonez. And the story goes that Welles' cremated remains were taken to Spain and placed in a well in Ordonez' garden. Hence the title of this film. Flash forward a year or so and I happened to be in Seville, Spain which is not far from Ronda. And I decided to go on a pilgrimage there. Lovely drive and Ronda sits on top of a mountain with beautiful views. There is a street named after Welles just behind the bullring. When we arrived my wife was desperate for a washroom so we went in the first bar/restaurant we could find. I had occasion to ask the owner if he knew where Orson Welles was buried. He did. He knew Antonio Ordonez quite well. Ordonez was long dead at this point and his ranch was now owned by someone else. Anyway he was able to give me directions out of town and told me to look for a small bar and store next to the ranch. We headed out and were able to find the ranch and lo and behold there was this little well in the front garden under a very nice tree. I took some photos and we headed back to Ronda for the real tourist part of our trip. I asked many other locals who we met in Ronda if they knew where Orson Welles was buried. No one had any idea and had not even heard that he was buried nearby. In fact I could find no one else who had even heard of the bullfighter, Antonio Ordonez. So it just shows how serendipitous my wife's pitstop was when we first arrived.

I know what you mean. I wonder if is is often a case of bad choices on his part? Roles that he is not quite suited to?

Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo (1970) and his The Holy Mountain (1973) gained a certain amount of notoriety on the midnight film circuits in the seventies. Some found them vulgar and grotesque. Me for instance. I didn't particularly care for them. Though they did have their humorous moments. They were also a bit of a mess as I recall. Jodorwosky gave a wild interview for Playboy magazine about the time he was trying to get his Dune off the ground (I would like to see the 2013 documentary chronicling the Dune venture). It was an outrageous interview and Jodorowsky true to his form was very much into shocking people. He recounted that when reading the Fantastic Four comic book it conjured up pornographic images for him of sexual acts between Mr. Fantastic the stretchy guy and his wife the Invisible Girl. Quite a character.

I wonder how someone like Slavko Vorkapich felt about his Hollywood career and begin pigeon-holed as the guy to make up those transitional montages? I don't think he had much of a career in film, if any before he left his native Russia. Still, there was and is much more competition for the top jobs in Hollywood.

According to the illustrious imdb Registered Night Nurse IS in fact Tor Johnson's first film. And they were not joking when they were talking about him having hair in that film.

I thought Kristie Alley was pretty good in Woody's Deconstructing Harry (1997). Normally I'm not that big a fan.

Personally I have seen neither but I recorded them the last time around and they are waiting for me. My guess is that they are fairly regular on TCM.

Thanks Richard, Just watched the trailer for The Patriot. It featured "special sound effects" no less. I guess we could go on and on about the loss of these films. It didn't take them very long to lose all existing copies of these films, did it. Ernst Lubitsch and Emil Jannings no less.

Wednesday, June 10/11 Richard Carlson fans may wish to check out White Cargo (1942) at 5:15 a.m. Hedy Lamarr drives everyone mad with lust in this one.