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Yep, good point, BF. And unless you have Mary being the one who's frustrated being stuck in Bedford Falls. (...and which coincidentally and as you might know is exactly the gender-reversed plot of the 1977 TV-movie It Happened One Christmas that starred Marlo Thomas)

Nice to see my old stompin' grounds here too, Nip. Gotta say though that IF your attempt here was to somehow prove to us the wonders of what the colorization process can behold, sorry, but you sure used the wrong one to do it. Ya see, the colors in this clip are extremely washed out and in many cases bleed into another object or person next to them, and many of the colors used on an object or person who's moving and such as on that city bus, look like they vary greatly as you watch them pass. And in fact, this video gave me the impression that this was a very early example of the process which you offered up to us here. I know this process has become much better and more life-like over the years. (...nope, gotta say I think I would've better liked to have just watched this clip of L.A. the decade before I was born and raised there in B&W, and because the colorization done to THIS clip distracted me from truly enjoying it to its fullest, and because once again the job done on this clip wasn't done very well at all)

I suppose it kind'a does Sagebrush, but as you can see and hear here...

LOL Yep, you're probably right, Dan.

Well Dan, if you think Sam Wainwright was "too dorky", then I suppose this would've made another character in this movie, Freddie Othello, and even worse prospect for Mary's future connubial bliss, doesn't it. You know, the character played by Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer who gets so jealous of George at the dance that he opens the dance floor up to the underneath swimming pool. (...btw and speaking of this, I just discovered via IMDb that Switzer's character name is "Freddie Othello" and after years of thinking that the reason the character who gave him the key in which to open the dance floor sarcastically says "What's the matter, Othello...jealous?" was only meant as a reference to the whole jealousy aspect of Shakespeare's play...yep, had thought he was only credited as something along the line of "Young man who opens floor")

Thanks, and to you as well, NS.

Peter Marshall: "Okay, Paul Lynde for the block. Paul, true or false. You can swim faster in the nude." Paul Lynde: "No, false...but it can help you steer." (...sorry Lawrence, couldn't resist...btw, Merry Christmas)

Are you saying here you have watched the new remake, sewhite? And if so, what did you think of it? (...or have you already placed your thoughts about it in another thread that I've somehow missed coming across?)

Here ya go, EPM. Somethin' tells me that this, and like it is mine, might be your favorite scene in 1964's The Creeping Terror... (...now PLEASE don't tell me that you've never seen THIS "masterpiece" of a movie EITHER?!...BUT, just in case you haven't, let's just say it makes Plan9 look like Citizen Kane by comparison...yep, it's REALLY that bad and might be THE worst movie ever made)

Interesting that you mention the word "Dickensian" here, NS. Ya see, for some reason Keith Moon always reminded me of Oliver Reed. (...and who of course played the Bill Sikes character in the 1968 film Oliver!)

I'm sure you know who's dressed as Santa there, right Tiki?

Not a bad point, I suppose. (...still though, I can see why Lucy might have coveted getting the role, as I'll bet she might've thought she would've been right for it, anyway)

Have to say until I read this here, I had never thought of her in that role. However, and now that this has been brought up, I think I'm going to have to disagree with you on this, Lorna. Considering the role calls for a bright, attractive but ditzy and obstinate type, and considering that this was in essence the type of character that Lucy would go on to play in her sitcom and become best known and remembered for, yeah, I think I can see her doing justice to that role.

I've always liked this film, and also since my first watch of it at about age 10 or so. (...although, I do have to admit I still chuckle a bit since I heard one contemporary reviewers of it said its title really should have been, I Was a Teenage Jesus)

And to answer the earlier question posed about if Bugs Bunny had any girlfriends...yes and no. He's had three, but none were ever featured in any of the classic W-B shorts and only in BB's printed comic books and for promotional material during the 1950s and 1960s. The first was named Lula Belle Bunny and then later came Honey Bunny. The third one, Lola Bunny, was/is an animated character which was created much later for the 1996 film Space Jam. (...at least that's all the info I was able to find about this...Doc)

Funny, but I had a Cousin Eddie. Now, HIS legs were very nice. In fact, when he started shaving them and after becoming Cousin Edie.... (...well, that's a whole other story I'll save for another time here)

Actually, I've heard he's a real jerk, Bronxie. (...oh wait, you were talkin' about your cousin, not Chevy here, huh...never mind then)

Any idea what city, Lawrence? (...Chicago, maybe?)

Now if THAT isn't a perfect name for a femme fatale in some noir, I don't know what IS!!! (...can't ya hear it now?...Mitchum sayin' somethin' like, "Against my better judgment, I always came running whenever that Jo Gabriel dame called me up on the horn.")

Naaah, way too muscular. Now HERE'S a set of gams that I always thought were perfection personified...

Never wanted a BB gun either when you were kid, I take it? OR, never sent away in the mail for some little toy doodad, and then wait with bated-breath for weeks until it arrived? (...well I did)

Wow, would've thought everyone in the country had seen it by this time. (...and considering that TBS has shown it continually all Christmas Day for some twenty-plus years now)

Really?! Have never watched 1983's A Christmas Story, EPM???

Dang! I forgot to record this weekend's Noir Alley presentation and missed this one because (and ironically in this case and considering the present talk of this film's score) my wife and I spent the weekend down in Phoenix in order to visit the Musical Instrument Museum. Turned out to be MUCH more interesting and fascinating than I would have ever imagined. It's a beautiful modern building with hundreds and hundreds of excellently done exhibits. Home - Musical Instrument Museum (mim.org) (...so James, have you ever gone?...or anyone else around here for that matter?)