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Well lady, I don't know about YOU, but I SURE ain't got no 2,016 freakin' fingers!!!! (...though there WAS that one girl I once dated who said I was "all hands"!!!)

Eeh! Dan's the kinda guy I'm not really scared'a. (...well, NOT unless I turn my back on him anyway!)

Yeah, I know. I too remember being impressed with Dan and that movie when TCM showed it a year or so ago. (...still love that scene where the camera was placed inside that opened safe and the tension it created)

Sans my dear, you're confusin' me here with all this Math!!! LOL

Very true Tom, and I agree that Dan's performance AND the picture is one not to miss. However, for the most part, I still have to agree with James here.

No, not anymore. But actually as you probably know, the old "Carson Scale" in California was primarily used to measure how big a comedian's career was gonna be. (...get invited over to the couch after your first appearance, and baby, your career was assured)

Yep, I have to agree with ya here, James. If(not saying it should OR shouldn't be here, btw) the criteria for SOTM boils down to having a more lengthy "A-picture" filmography in which the proposed star IS "the star" of the movie, then in that case, Vic would have to go before both George and Dan here, I would say. (...though I think ALL of them could AND should maybe be honored with this thing eventually)

Yeah, I like "the looks" of that last one mentioned of course. (...BUT of course that cutie doesn't have a lengthy enough filmography to ever have this happen, as you know)

I dunno. Maybe from that scale they use out there in California to measure.... (...oh never mind)

Well, maybe you can..ahem.."finance" some kind of arrangement with TCM to help keep her at the top of that list, Mr.R? (...I'm certainly not adverse to seeing Susan get that honor before my boy Vic gets it, and just as long as both they and George AND Hedy eventually attain it)

Btw...speakin' o' which... "Well, my lovely. I'll wager I'M TCM's Star of the Month before that muscle-bound head-of-hair you seem to be so infatuated with lately!"

So rosebette, you're sayin' my guess was pretty much on target here then, eh?! Gotta say while I somewhat know what you mean, I've always liked CD'S script(and the acting by all), and always "really got into" the whole idea that the dramatic "friction" or "tension" in it was solely supplied by means of the verbal.

Wow, Ham! Now THAT'S a good one! How about a caption for "The Amazing Colossal Man" picture of maybe: "Who loves ya, Baby?! Well, I WILL if you'll run down to the store in that Mercury of yours and buy me every lollipop they've got! This quitting smoking is KILLIN' me here!"

However Tom, isn't this "conflicting message" common to all the better made War movies? Because, without this contrast don't you just end up with a simplistic Propaganda film?

LOL Yeah! Ya know, actually not a bad idea at all! And then all get together at Frenchy's Cafe situated halfway between each enemy's lines, and sing a rousing chorus of "Lili Marlene" while downing the local brew! Yep! I sure would've been up for somethin' like THAT instead if I were one o' those guys. (...probably might've ruined my chances of ever gettin' one o' them there Frenchy Croix de Gere thingies, though...but like I care about THAT!!!)

Good additional thought here, Mr.R. Yes, I suppose TBATR might also fit into these basic story lines...well, except as I recall the story in that one primarily focuses upon Bill Holden and his doing the fighting(and dying), and a little less so on Fredric March's role in doing the ordering of such. (...though March's final 'soliloquy' in this one that begins "Where do we get such men?", has always been one of my favorite final lines in any movie too...a war movie or not)

OH so sorry to have held a mirror up to someone. (...I always make SO many "friends" that way, ya know!) LOL

Hmmmm...interesting rosebette. I wonder if perhaps the lack of "action" sequences in this one might be the cause of that? As "Command Decision" IS pretty much a "boardroom drama". (...just venturing a guess here, that's all)

Not ME! 'Cause MY only contribution to this thread was to lightly poke fun at a certain Canadian friend of mine's "coulrophobia"!!! BUT, I have to say I DO find it rather ironic that the OP's initial post which was more or less just an innocent question about if "Conan's TCM presence is now over", was turned by you into a "serious" statement of your dislike for these Carson interviews being shown on TCM, and that you now have stated "people are now taking this too seriously". (...yep, ya see, SOMETIMES "sidetracking" ISN'T always done JUST by means of a humorous comment being inserted into a thread, huh!) LOL

Was it only me, or did anyone else here maybe think that this film and how its central theme of, "Commanding Officer must carry and to the best of his abilities conceal the personal emotion wounds of ordering men into battle to die", might have influenced the scriptwriters of both WWII-themed films, "Command Decision" and "Twelve O'Clock High"? (...well, I saw some similarities anyway)

Yep, and Esther Williams...though she wasn't a blonde, of course. Yep, I think Vic's contribution to "Million Dollar Mermaid" probably made that one the best of all of her movies, too. (...of course I suppose it COULD have been the kangaroo...naah...it was definitely Victor)

HEY TOM!!! Hope you missed this one! (...as I now know how much Jimmy really freaks you out in that one) LOL

Hmmmm....ya know finance, you're right. And sooooooooo.... HEY TCM!!! ARE YA LISTENIN' HERE?! HOW ABOUT VIC GETTIN' A SOTM TREATMENT, HUH???!!! (...I ain't gonna hold my breathe though...I know JUST how slowly the wheels turn around this place)

I think the main difference between how, in general, DeHavilland's on-screen relationships with her primary leading man Errol Flynn were resolved, as at first many times in their films her character also "has issues" with him before falling for him, is that UNLIKE in how these similar "relationship conflicts" were most often settled in the O'Hara/Wayne films, DeHavilland is most often ultimately "charmed" by Flynn, and whereas Wayne's characters were seldom if ever "charming". (...'cause ya know, a "REAL" American he-man shouldn't EVER have to "stoop" to being "charming" to win his gal, 'cause THAT'S "sissy stuff" that "of course" should STRICTLY be left to those European/British and/or Tasmanian men to do!!!) LOL

Very intelligent dialogue in this film. It would take pages and pages of this thread to post some of the more memorable in it. One of my favorites is when Adams discovers Jefferson hasn't gotten anywhere with his first draft of the document.... Adams: "You've had a week and haven't finished?" Jefferson: "No. I haven't even begun!" Adams: "My God, man. The EARTH was finished in a week." Jefferson: Yes. One day you must tell me how you accomplished that."