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I've watched this one a couple of times myself and you're right, Bronxie. Mitchum looked not only "bored and tired" but by 1975 was too old to then play Marlowe at age 58, and of which he looked every bit of if not older. And while watching it those two times, I also thought how lucky Dick Powell was that in 1944, Mitchum would still be a relatively unknown actor for a couple more years and so Powell, who I do believe is excellent in the '44 version, would get the part for which Mitchum was really born to play. (...but once again, when he was 30 years younger...or heck, even say 15 years younger)

SO glad you started up this thread here, Kid! You see, I've had the following on my mind about this very sort'a thing for almost 60 years now. Yeah, yeah, shows ya just what an old f@rt I am, doesn't it. Well anyway... When they changed the actress who played the original Pickles Sorrell (Buddy's wife) on 'The Dick Van Dick Show', I JUST could never quite get that into that program as I had before! I'm kiddin' here, of course. (...although I sure wish I was also kiddin' about bein' that "old f@rt" here too!)

Aah, and so in THIS vein: Wisconsin (1930) - An early sound documentary about dairy farming in this upper midwestern state. And THEN you have... WisconSIN (1974) - Filmed in Milwaukee instead of Chatsworth California, a low budget film about... (...well, I'm sure you can guess here, now can't ya?...and it sure ain't about "dairy farming" anyway!)

Yes, you're right here, slayton. It probably IS the one with the zombies in it. You see, I've recently discovered that the 1987 version of I Love You actually concludes with a scene in which Barney, the aforementioned annoying purple dinosaur, purposely kills someone by kissing them with his big plague infected purple lips, and similarly what takes place to the 1918 version which LS up there just described the plot of. (...and so we can at least rule that one out here, anyway)

Ah HA! I KNEW I had seen him in this role at sometime! (...thanks)

Yes EPM, Ron Masak would've made a great Lou Costello in a movie. In fact, I thought he HAD maybe played the comedian in some film or TV show somewhere along the line, but after just now going over his filmography, it appears I only imagined this.

If I recall correctly, isn't there a scene in the film Shakespeare in Love in which this sort of thing is parodied? I remember it being during a scene in which just before one of the Bard's new plays is being introduced at the Globe Theatre, one person walks on stage holding up signs to the audience which he drops one after another and which reveal the various people responsible for the play's production. (...anyone else remember this?...I've only watched this film once, and frankly, once was enough)

While watching a bit of Abbott and Costello in Hollywood this morning on TCM, I notced that the young female lead in it, Frances Rafferty... ...began reminding me of Louise Fletcher...

Absolutely to the first comment here, chaya. (...but can't believe you can't re your second comment)

C'mon now, Sepia! What's with the "confused" emoji here again today? Yes, even though the narratives play out in different ways, both these Christmas-themed movies feature the idea of some presence of an afterlife figure who enlightens a person that is extremely troubled and who then becomes joyous about their life. (...what is it?...haven't had your usual consumption of coffee so far today or somethin'?)

Now for ME, there always seems to be one particular point in two OTHER of McQueen's flicks that tends to wake me up out of a deep sleep somehow. The car chase scene in Bullitt and the motorcycle chase/fence jumping scene in The Great Escape. (...but I understand I'm not the only gearhead out there that this often happens to)

Aaah, yes. The earlier British version of It's a Wonderful Life. (...I should have known)

Okay, and on a more serious note here...I give up. What movie IS that from anyway? (...sounds as if it might've been said in some British film...am I close?)

Hmmm...I dunno. Good question here, Sepia. Might it be in the movie Sayonara ??? (...now PLEASE don't ask me to explain THIS one here to ya now TOO ol' buddy, and 'cause the explanation for THIS one would be VERY politically incorrect now days, ya know!!!) LOL

I actually will occasionally say the following lines to a bartender or a server when they first ask me what I'd like to drink. Yep, I really do, and if my wife happens to be with me at the time, she'll usually roll her eyes at it: "I'll have a flaming rum punch. No, no, it's not nearly cold enough for that. Ah, I've got it! Mulled wine, heavy on the cinnamon and light on the cloves. Now be off with you lad (or lass as the case may be) and be lively!" (...this of course never fails to elicit the most confused expressions upon their faces, and so I then enlighten them to the fact that the angel character Clarence in the movie It's a Wonderful Life says this at one point in the film, and I then just order my usual dirty martini or a glass of Hefeweizen)

The commonality of watching a hoard of people madly dashing into a large building. (...that's all)

And of course, offered up here under the heading: "Who ya gonna call? The Special Effects Guys!"

I dunno. Maybe because all the actresses in that movie might had previously taken voice lessons from June Foray? (...just a guess here, of course)

Ya know and come to think of it, I did enjoy that Theology 101 class I took back in Junior College. (...hmmmm...don't know why I just remembered this)

I also see more than a slight resemblance between young Mr. Segal there and with young Mr. Plummer here too, Tiki...

And then of course, the biggest hit recording of 'I Remember You' was done by Australian singer Frank Ifield in a yodeling country music style and was released in 1962. It made it all the way to No.5 on the Top 40 Pop chart. (...I always liked that recording...beautiful song)

Just be glad you never said this sort'a thing to Lugosi's face, Swithin...

Little known fact here: The agents for Paul Newman and Steve McQueen would remember that very poster and then use a variation of it to resolve the squabbling for top billing in The Towering Inferno which those two actors had gotten into a few decades later... (...well okay, so this might be more a case of a guess on my part than it really is a "little known fact", but still....)

Eeh! You no fool ME! There'a AIN'T no Sanity Clause!

Wow! Absolutely terrific post up there, BF!!! But I must say that we sure have gotten off the subject of Alicia Malone here, haven't we. And so allow me to now say something I've been meaning to say since I first saw this earlier posted still shot of her wearing those blue pants here... ...and this being that it looks as if this image might've been artificially stretched wide or perhaps compressed from top to bottom. And pretty much because I don't recall Alicia ever looking THIS wide in the hips (and/or overall in fact) and can't imagine ANY pair of pants making her seem this heavy. (...that's why)