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Okay then, "Hair Splitter"...Flint. Happy NOW???!!! LOL Yep, "Badge Engineering" was a very common practice among all the Detriot, ahem, Michigan-based car companies, alright. Btw, I owned an old "A-body" Chevy for many years back in the '90s thru the early-2000s. A 1969 El Camino that looked a lot like this one, also in this color of blue and including the white "SS" hood racing stripes. However, mine had the Rally wheels just like the one's on the Pontiac you posted that video of. And no, if you might be wondering here, I've never sported a mullet haircut. I've just always thought these car/trucks were really cool and nice looking...especially this generation of them. AND in keeping with the theme of slayton's thread here, the following 1968 Chevy El Camino, of which there are very few differences between it and my old '69, can be seen during the opening credits of one of Hollywood's greatest movies which features a lot of very cool cars...Bullitt...

That's 'cause you've got the strongest arm on the team, slayton! (...we ALWAYS put the guy with the strongest arm out there, ya know)

Actually, I've always thought all the various GM brands midsize "A-body" cars from the mid-'60s on through to the early-'70s were some of the best looking and tastefully designed cars to ever come out of Detroit, and not just from the Buick Division.

Really? Even IF they might be Left-Brain types??? Ya see, I've always been under the impression (and which btw is always much preferrable than ever being over the impression, and especially of you might suffer from acrophobia...but I digress) that Left-Brain people and regardless if they might generally be "right-thinking" are usually much too preoccupied with thoughts of facts and figures, and so just a simple "call to arms" has never been a sufficient means in order to "attract" them to do ANYTHING! Nope, I've always found that with those kind'a folks, you pretty much need somethin' like a cattle prod to get 'em to do what ya want 'em to do. (...oh wait...maybe that was Right-Brain types?!...eeeh, either way and like I was sayin' here, sometimes a cattle prod comes in mighty handy)

HEY Thompson! Here's another one of those "general rules of thumb" that distinguishes something as "noir". And that would be that ANY post which includes the words "tendrils" and/or "picaresque" in it and such as CJ's above posting does here, is about as "noir" as it can get! Also notice that CJ up there never once mentions Bela Lugosi in it, and so once again of course making his post even MORE as "noir" as it can get. (...and be sure to mention this to that girl at the bar you keep talkin' about here)

Yes, good point, Herman. The first generation FWD '67-'70 Eldorados (and which of course were actually based on the ground-breaking 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado) DO still have a modern and timeless look to them. (...in fact, I've always thought these modern Caddys with their sharp-edged bodywork, were meant to be a sort of "homage" to those particular Caddys)

I dunno why, but every time I've watched the mistitled The Courage of Lassie, it's gotten me 'right here'. Maybe it has something to do with my affinity for movies about returning injured war veterans like The Best Years of Our Lives, and although there's no dog in that one, of course. (...and yeah, I agree with Phil Packer and Shank Asu up there...My Dog Skip IS a very good film, and another movie that 'got me right here')

My, how "Zen", Sans! (...ya know, you'd fit right in with many of the folks around here in Sedona)

Nope, as much as I've always had a GREAT attraction to Cyd and thought her one of the best dancers to ever grace the silver screen, I have to say with a few exceptions such as the film MissW mentioned above here, I've never thought of her as being a very good dramatic actress. (...but even still AND even after all these years, I'm STILL jealous of Tony Martin...the lucky SOB)

LOL Yes Thompson, I suppose this MIGHT be true, however considering that Bela Lugosi was 6'1'' and thus reasonably tall, any movie HE was in STILL couldn't be considered a "noir", RIGHT?! (...I'm gonna get my "Bela Lugosi/not a noir" theory established in the minds of the cinephiles of the world if the last freakin' thing I do)

Yep, it's always been my favorite "guilty pleasure" flick of all time, anyway.

Another thing about Ryan's apparent change of heart is that during the scene in his hotel room with Thaxter, for a second or so it appears she had gotten through to him, but that is until he receives the phone call from the hitman, and then that seemed to re-wet his appetite for revenge. Did anyone also notice this? (...and re "the wrong guy dying" thought: The way I look at this is that the concept of "Karma" was what screenwriter Richard L. Richards and story originator Collier Young were really going for here)

Yes, BUT CJ, did this frenchie dude ALSO mention anything at all about how Bela Lugosi wasn't in any of the movies you just mentioned here EITHER??? (...Well. I sure hope he DID, or else my earlier posting in this thread would make even LESS sense than it already did!)

Although at 91, I doubt that Clint still rides these things much anymore, but... The above photos all taken during a time in which the British-made motorcycle (such as the Triumph and the two Nortons he's seated upon above) was still considered top dog. (...Happy Birthday, Clint...hope your "ride" through life continues on for many more years)

Actor Peter Palmer here playing the titular country bumpkin in 1959's Li'l Abner...

And THEN, and from what I remember from an old SNL skit, instead of "Rosebud", Kane's ACTUAL last words would turn out to be..."Roast beef on rye with mustard." (...anybody else here remember this one?)

Weee DOGGIES! Boy, y'all sure did love them ol' big'uns, didn't ya Tex?! So, what kind'a cars have you owned that could actually handle well on the twistier roads out there? THAT'S where the fun TRULY lies when it comes to drivin' cars, ya know. (...oh, and of course when ridin' motorcycles too)

Although maybe not "buff" but still a reasonably physically imposing sort, I'd say Ralph Bellamy played this type more than a few times early on in his career, and such as in the film His Girl Friday here... Back then, he seldom ever ended up with the girl by the end of these pictures and in which he'd play the second male lead, and was usually because his character was portrayed as being a little slower on the uptake and not quite as bright than was the first male lead.

Btw, and to answer Thompson's earlier question here: Yes, the general rule of thumb here would be that ANY black & white movie which features a scene in which you see a bat killing and eating a mouse, could be called a "film noir". Well, this is of course unless the movie might've starred Bela Lugosi. And THEN we're talkin' the genre of "horror" of course. But THEN, any movie that features the aforementioned "bat killing and eating a mouse" in Technicolor, could of course ONLY be called a "NEO-noir". (...but once again ONLY if it didn't star Bela Lugosi, and who thankfully I don't recall making all that many movies in Technicolor and so which would then make all this even MORE confusing than it already is!)

For some reason I've never been particularly impressed with either Rio Bravo or what is pretty much its remake El Dorado, Tom. But yes, Dino is actually pretty good playing the drunkard in the former, and in fact might even be a little better than Mitchum was in virtually the same role in the latter.

Well, Alex Trebek DID live on a few years after Bob passed ya know, yancey. (...but yeah, I get your point here, and yeah it's still a good point)

LOL You mean like maybe ones which might feature Dino singing a duet with Ricky Nelson?

Wait!" "Italian" actor "Tony KENDALL"??? What's up with THAT, paisan?! (...calling Bernie Schwartz...your new name, "Tony Curtis", is ready...that sort'a thing, I'd guess)

Although McLeod and Moore share no screen time together in it, in one of my favorite episodes of the TDVDS titled 'Empress Carlotta's Necklace', he played a fast-talking salesman who sells Rob one of the gaudiest pieces of jewelry you'll ever see but which Rob thinks Laura will really love. Sorry to hear of his passing. The equally as great The Mary Tyler Moore Show wouldn't have been the same or as great without MacLeod playing the Murray Slaughter character. (...R.I.P.)

Wait now, Randy! How do we know that any of these shots with the Yeti were actually done in Toronto??? And 'cause in none of 'em do I see a Timmies, let alone the CN Tower! (...and so this could've been filmed in L.A. for all we know here)