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Yeah! Decided to give Suddenlink one more chance.

Thanks, James. (...and there's your answer, Hibi)

I'm not sure, Hibi. All I know is that I switched to cable("Suddenlink" here in AZ) from DirectTV a few months back, and now get MeTV in channel 131 and MOVIES!(and what "Svengoolie" is on) on channel 139. (...and we were going to switch back to our original internet provider and DirectTV because Suddenlink's internet service kept going off and on, but now it appears they've fixed the problem, and so for the meantime we're stickin' with the present arrangement)

Well, seein' as how "keeping Stats" seems to be the latest trend around here... NEWS FLASH: So far in this baby we have TWO votes for Connie, ONE for Sandra, and ONE vote that they're pretty much the same! OH, and yeah...one vote who wanted to know if Eddie Fisher found Connie anything like Debbie Reynolds...that was my vote. (...stay tuned...more "news" to follow as more "stats" come in)

The confusion lay in the OP's failure to include the "MOVIES!" network(the sister station to "MeTV") in the title of his "News" flash here, TheCid. The MOVIES! network primarily shows many of the same studio era films which TCM presents, but with the inclusion of commercials, though THANKFULLY(and as I noted a few pages back) with those commercials inserted far less often into a film than AMC does.

I gotta admit I got a good laugh out of it too, clore! (...and I'm glad to see TB took this little joshing well)

You DO know why this is, doncha TB? It's 'cause film should always be stored in a cool space. And unfortunately word from across the pond is that those "cool spaces" were equipped with air-conditioning supplied by the Lucas Electrical Company of Great Britain. Uh-huh, THAT'S right...the same company that supplied the electrical systems for all those old British cars and motorcycles back in the day. (...and I THINK we ALL know how "reliable" THOSE systems were...yep, once the "smoke" "escaped" out of the wires, it wasn't good anymore!)

Gee, I wonder if Eddie Fisher might've thought the same thing?

Oh, she was topless in this film alright, Holden. And, I gotta admit I was a little turned on by it too! (...well, until she started jerking around to that jazz music in the weirdest way, and then for some reason I lost a little interest in her!)

And which I often prefer in films myself, slayton. However, my opinion is that all those "qualities" come best when done in moderation, because TOO much of those "qualities" CAN result in a "jumbled mess" of a narrative, and the idea that just because many is not most viewer of a "cryptic" film such as this will find it "intriguing" to attempt to make some sense of it, doesn't, in my view anyway, automatically make it a "great" movie.

Ooooh-KAY! But don't say I didn't warn ya here, dude. (...you little "instigator", you!) LOL

Well then TB, here's ya a little "helpful hint"... The NEXT one o' these you post, you MIGHT consider asking it as an "open question", and little less so as a definitive "News Item". (...'cause I HOPE you see by now how doin' that latter thing in THIS baby kinda sorta had you needlessly defendin' yourself, and when I actually think you were onto somethin' here)

LOL Yeah Kay, I think that was the line, alright.

Hibi, on 24 Jun 2014 - 09:13 AM, said: Well stayton, I DID just call this flick a "Rorschach Test", now didn't I?!!! (...though yeah, I DID misspell it the first time)

Don't worry, Ma. Anybody that dares call YOU a 'dame' will have to come through me first!"

HEY! Can I get in on this TOO??? Wherever there's a need for a really bad pun or a lame joke...I'll be there, Ma!

Well, I suppose in a way, the finished product as it stands CAN act as some kind of "Roschach Test" anyway, eh?! (...though of course just as in that test, even the "answers" to it are still open to a number of possibilities and interpretations)

Yep, and the Phillip Morris Co. evidently liked it too, as it helped make a particular brand of their product the best selling in the world! Me?! Well, give me Jerome Moross' "The Big Country" theme, though Elmer's "Magnificent Seven" theme DOES come in a good close second in this..ahem..horse race. (...and, I still say all western movie score composers owe a slight debt of gratitude to Anton Dvorak and to parts of his "New World Symphony", as I've always felt these symphonic motifs began there at the turn of the 20th Century)

And I would never join any group of people who wouldn't place me on ignore. (...or somethin' like that anyway)

One of my favorite parts in it is when the husband of the woman who Robards is puttin' the moves on suddenly shows up, and how he then fast-talks his way out of getting pulverized.

The link worked fine, GayD. Thanks for posting this very interesting inside look of this film's production. Ronan O'Casey's recollection seems to have explained the reason this film has confused many if not most since the day of its release. (...it was just never completed, AND it seems if one confessed to not either liking NOR understanding it, "they just didn't appreciate how 'great cinema' can ask us to think of reality in different ways"!!!) LOL

Yeah, well, speakin' o' which....when you figure out what the lame THE STORY OF MANKIND "paid tribute to" lemme know, would ya, TB?!! (...well, other than Irwin Allen's ability to get a lot of big names to say some really lousy dialogue, anyway)

You might be right about that. And regarding this "culling" which the MOVIES and MeTV network might be doing from the TCM "herd"...I have to say since I switched from DirectTV to cable a few months ago and am now receiving both of them, I have been using them as my new "fallback" option when TCM is showing a movie that I'm already well-versed in, or for whatever reason have little interest in viewing.

I guess that that was my point, ND...In supporting roles, Franz might have been just fine, but in a lead role??? (...and thus the reason I made that pointed little joke there...though this DOESN'T mean I'd automatically pass on watching that movie if TCM would show it, as per your request...who knows?!...Arthur COULD surprise me and hold my interest in it)

Hmmmm...can't say I've ever seen this one, ND. (...so tell me...does Arthur Franz light-up the screen like he always does in movies???) LOL