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Oh Ruuuuuuu-beeeeeee (...don't take your gun to town)

Well, all I can tell ya regarding the "quality" of "Macon County Line" here Sepia is that the IMDb webpage for this film shows a reasonably good "6.9 star" rating and some guy named Wayne Malin(yeah, okay, whoever the heck HE is) gave it a pretty good review on that webpage, also. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071788/ I have to admit I've never seen it, but the reason I questioned your use of the word "fiasco" to describe it was that I recalled hearing or reading some reasonably positive things about it back when it was first released and also recalled hearing or reading that it made Baer a good ch unk o' change to boot.

LOL Yeah, I have to admit that THAT was even worse than how finance sometimes doesn't bother to read a majority of a thread before replyin' to it, huh!

Wait! You're telling me there are actually parents who care about their children's public education in this country? (...not according to what I hear the numbers are of the parents who regularly attend PTA meetings, anyway!) LOL

Aah! Didn't know that, James. Thanks. (...and so in that case, I guess Winnie would be glad it wasn't nominated either, huh!)

I just noticed one of my favorite '40s movies didn't make the list at all: "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (...well, I suppose Churchill would be happy about this anyway!)

I certainly hope you people realize what could happen if this "balkanization" takes place, don't ya?! Uh-huh, nothin' but trouble and even MORE infighting goin' on around here. (...just ask Yugoslavia!!!)

LOL..."stuck in a cave"! Good one, James. Yeah, actually I'm sure the programmer(s) knew what this film was about and the dialogue it contained, but probably thought the audience would see the "bigger picture" as to how it doesn't exactly place Widmark's racist character in the "best of light". BUT as we know, there STILL are people in this country who wish to ban one of the greatest of American books ever written, "Huckleberry Finn", from being taught in high school English Lit classes because of Twain's use of the word. I would guess the reason this happened might have been that the Watts Riots of 1965 had taken place just a few years earlier, and so "feelings" were still a bit raw at the time.

Well, I suppose Pesci's WAY over the top acting and along with a host of others in it DID kind'a balance out Costner, huh?! Sorry, but while I like some of Stone's other works, I found "JFK" to be almost laughable, and hoped after watching it that people would remember that old adage to "Not get your history from Hollywood films" and wouldn't really think his one-sided look at the JFK "conspiracy" as "how it really was". (...and thus the reason I called it a "cartoon")

All this talk of the n-word reminds me of my first ever viewing of "No Way Out" back in the late-'60s and aired during one of those old "Matinee Movie" afternoon programs on one of L.A.'s independent TV stations...KTLA I think it was. I'll never forget how the host of the program came on the screen right after a commercial break about halfway through the film and said because of all the complaints the station had been receiving about Widmark's dialogue, they were going to discontinue the broadcast of it and switch to another movie. I don't recall what that other movie was. (...btw, as I'm sure we all know here, during the filming of this movie, Widmark was reportedly extremely apologetic to Poitier after each scene in which he spoke that word to him)

Hmmmm...if I didn't know better, I'd SWEAR you were talkin' about that Oliver Stone cartoon of a movie known as "JFK" here! (...though of course Kevin Costner's usual boring presence didn't help sell Oliver's little fantasy as "real history" either)

Hmmm...didn't know Lee Tracy was in "Stalag 17", ND!

While you made a very good point about the desirability factor of Loy over Doran(though I always thought Doran a very nice looking woman in her own right), I have to question your use of the word "fiasco" in your description of the movie "Macon Country Line", Sepia. You see, while it may not have helped catapult screenwriter and co-star Baer's career into greatness, according to the IMDb website it not only received generally positive reviews, but it also mentions the following: "The $225,000 film reportedly became the single most profitable film of 1974 (in cost-to-gross ratio) earning $18.8 million in North America and over $30 million worldwide."

And thus the reason why Eve is so happy to see Thornhill had somehow survived his trap when he made it back to her hotel room, and why Thornhill doesn't return her embrace after she runs up to him and embraces him. He has figured out that she had set him up to be killed, though of course he still doesn't know at this time that she is working undercover for the Feds.

The title represents a running theme through the film, finance. I guess you've forgotten the part earlier on when John Huston's Noah Cross tells as a warning to Nicholson's Jake Gittes while on the island of Catalina that he doesn't know what he's really getting into by continuing with his investigation into the death of Mulwray, and Nicholson replies that that is what his old boss the District Attorney would always tell him whenever he was investigating a case in Chinatown. Basically, the implication is that whatever the results of what happens in this story are caused by many complex factors and to which no simple and clear-cut answers exist, and primarily due to Jake's unfamiliarity with not only the culture within Chinatown but also within the bounds of high finance and its often unscrupulous dealings.

LOL Yeah, whole lot o' "character" there, alright.

So, no props for McNally's portrayal as the kindly hospital administrator and mentor to Sidney Poitier's young intern character in "No Way Out"? (...see?!...he could play "intelligent" characters too, ya know)

Could be, however I recall McNally often playing the leader of some outlaw gang, and which usually requires such a character to be the brightest of that kind of bunch.

It was a personal little peccadillo of his, jakeem. He was of the mind that his relatively small nose didn't project enough "character". (...and which I would assume meant he probably greatly envied Basil Rathbone)

John Hodiak and Stephen McNally, and probably because they were both great at playing intelligent but less than honorable types.

Having watched one of my favorite comedies again during the Cary Grant SUTS day the other day, I recall it being mentioned in "Mr. Blandings" that his yearly salary as an ad man was $16,000, and which according to an online inflation calculator comes to about $158,000 in 2014 dollars.

Yeah, and I hear just one of the things that so "endeared" him to his "Gone With The Wind" co-star.

Well, he was definitely younger looking without one. anyway. Though THAT might be because the last time I recall him NOT sportin' one was while he was commandeering a certain British naval vessel in a movie and when he was in his mid-thirties.

So, maybe kind'a like Cary Grant's "Mid-Atlantic" accent, which nobody else in the world really sounded like either? (...though in Benicio's case, just a little further south in the Atlantic Ocean, of course)

Whenever a topic such as this is brought up, I will usually state that I think "The Petrified Forest" could easily be brought up to date, because of its timeless story of bringing the Haves and the Have-Nots together and the sparks that fly with this interaction. (...and so I'll state this again here)