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Aah, that's okay, James. Actually, I thought your earlier point in rebuttal to zivap about the existence of Israel being "controversial" WAS very valid. Uh-huh, I mean IF it WASN'T so freakin' "controversial", then why the hell have so many thousands of people been killed and CONTINUE to kill each other almost DAILY in that part of the world where apparently people for WHATEVER freakin' reason seem SO freakin' "proud" of their various "ancient tribalistic heritages" and while living AND dying once again in such close proximity to each other, RIGHT?! (...uh-huh, yep, to reiterate...I thought your point was well taken, alright!!!) LOL

Wow! Sure is a whole lot o' fire bein' started by somebody in this one, Kid! Saaaay, "fire" bein' "started"?! WAIT! The kid in this one pic you posted here... ...wouldn't happen to be a certain little girl who drew up...err I mean GREW up and became "essentially" a co-host for a TCM series, now would IT?! (...yeah...this one is 1984's FIRESTARTER, ain't it)

Nah, finance. I don't think of you as "rude"! Nope, I think of you as "BRIEF"!!! (...yeah yeah, I know...that's why you've got 43,000 posts and countin' around here, huh!)

Yep, true...as Messrs Chase and Pryor here will demonstrate... http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f02d0b8cca/word-association-from-nino

You're welcome, Swithin. Btw, while watching that video you posted(and of course hearing Ethel hittin' the cheap seats), it showed that photo containing Jack Klugman, and thus have discovered he was the original Herbie in the Broadway production of that musical. (...I didn't know that before...thanks!)

Yeah, not bad, Kid. But sorry, I'LL take Ann Miller here swingin' those gams o' hers around in the "Too Darn Hot" number in that same film over that ANY ol' day o' the week!

Sooooo, I take it nobody but ME around here is hearin' a fractured version of this Supremes sung title theme song from that '65 Vinnie Price AIP flick in their heads and when they read Dr. Goldman's name, HUH?! (...note to self: ask that nice doctor o' mine for some stronger medication on my next visit)

Well, seein' as how nobody attempted to answer ham's earlier question of: I'LL tell ya, ham! Those two mischievous magpies were "offending" Dimwit the moronic hound dog here... ...EVERY freakin' chance they GOT!!! Yep, poor ol' Dimwit. I used to feel SO sorry for that dumb canine every Saturday morning back in the day! (...didn't stop me from LAUGHIN' though!!!)

LOL Well said, Holden!

Well...okay. BEFORE we segue from a discussion about "movies from a Jewish POV" and into a discussion of the "right of Israel to exist" or somethin' along those geopolitical lines here(and I think we all know how a discussion like THAT is going to turn out, now don't WE?!), I've got one little question that been botherin' the heck out o' me ever since I saw the name "Dr. Goldman" on this here thread topic's title. And so here goes: Okay, is it only ME or has anyone ELSE around here gotten a little "ear-worm" in their head and started singin' to themselves somethin' along the lines of "Doctor Goldman...and the Bikini Machine" whenever they read the guy's name??? Now OF COURSE I know that it was REALLY Doctor "GoldFOOT" and not "GoldMAN", but STILL! (...yeah yeah, I know...they say somethin' like this is a form of O.C.D...but HEY, I gots'ta KNOW if I'm alone here or not!!!)

No, BUT there's little doubt now that when it came to either getting a case of "The "Heebie-Jeebies" OR "The Willies", Sydney will now and forevermore be remembered for contracting the FORMER and NOT the latter whenever something creeped him out. 'Cause of course we NOW have documented PROOF to support this contention, AND of course this PROOF is seemingly endlessly shown on TCM! (....and so let NO man, OR woman for THAT matter, forget this!!!)

Hmmmm...well...I'm certainly glad Fred here added the qualifier "just" to his comment "about everyone" and thus by implication not meaning "everyone", 'cause it certainly seldom "seems" that way to ME that people are being "rude" when they disagree with me in text form. Well, at least around THIS place on the whole, anyway. (...but then again, this certainly doesn't surprise me that he stated it often "seems" that way to HIM) LOL

WHAT?! Never heard of "drug mules" have ya, TB???!!!

Not really...

Yep, good catch on all the plot holes, Lorna. I also noticed them. For supposedly "a smart Nazi", Orson really wasn't, was he. (...and re the "Grok" thing...wasn't that Joe E. Ross' caveman name on "It's About Time"?)

LOL Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is the '34 version of "The Scarlet Pumpernickel...err..I mean Pimpernel".

Ahem...now Vautrin. I HOPE you got that the punchline to that old joke was meant to imply that little Werner missed hitting the school three times that week with ROCKETS by "a few hundred meters", not that he failed to attend classes. (...okay, okay...so maybe it was the way I told it...sorry)

LOL Yeah, and apparently Winnie wasn't a real stickler when it came to those split infinitives, EITHER!

LOL OR, as the old joke goes: (...somewhere inside a German high school classroom circa 1925...) "You KNOW Herr von Braun, you've missed school THREE TIMES this week ALREADY!", says his teacher. Little Werner replies: "Yah, I know Herr Teacher, but these last few times, ONLY by a few hundred meters!"

LOL I thought this very same thing too when I first read this thread the other day, slayton. (...though MY thought didn't end in a preposition like yours did here!!!)

EXACTLY, James!!!! (...and NOW...oh when oh when will people STUCK in the freakin' past get over their old and outdated ideas and STOP gettin' all p*ssed off about "political correctness" when it comes to using phraseology that's gender neutral, HUH?!...My GAWD, what a freakin' tempest in a freakin' teapot here!!!!)

Hmmmm...I dunno dark, but that sounds kind'a "sexist" here if ya ask me! Uh-huh, kind'a like it's a "step down" for a male to be called an "actress", and yet a "step UP" for a woman to be called an "actor"! (...oh when oh when will we all get past this demeaning of people born without a p-e-n-i-s, HUH?!) LOL

First, I could be wrong, but the narrator sounds more like Jack Parr than it does Cavett. Secondly, read the following from IMDb's INTERNATIONAL HOUSE (1933) trivia webpage, and this goes a long way in support of what Richard Kimble earlier mentioned... During the filming of one of W.C. Fields' scenes, a mild earthquake struck Los Angeles. The earthquake was supposedly captured on film. In the film clip, Fields and his co-stars are speaking their lines on the hotel lobby set, when the picture begins to shake as if the camera is vibrating. A chandelier on the set begins to swing back and forth, and a lamp suddenly falls over. Fields calmly ushers his co-stars off the sound stage, telling them to stay calm and walk slowly. The "earthquake footage" of Fields was played in newsreels across the country in the weeks following the 1933 quake. Nearly forty years later, however, director A. Edward Sutherland admitted that the "earthquake footage" was a hoax concocted by Fields and himself. It was done by rigging wires on the lamp and chandelier, and shaking the camera to simulate an earthquake. Sutherland claimed that he and Fields were amazed when the "earthquake footage" was accepted as genuine by newsreel distributors. "We shared a big laugh and an even bigger drink," the director recalled. To this day, the fake "earthquake footage" is occasionally broadcast and accepted as genuine by entertainment TV shows such as "Access Hollywood." The footage appears in the film Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983). (...and not that you'll see my response here Fred and/or reply to it, but maybe some others here might find this interesting) LOL

I dunno, Tom. That sounds much too like standard English phraseology for Curtiz to have said something like that. (...nope, I'm thinkin' he PROBABLY would have said somethin' more like: "Bring those future kook bums out of here! And keep them away from those empty horses over there too!")

Haven't watched this movie since its first release, but yes obrienmundy, I remember it being very entertaining and also liking it quite a bit.