Dargo
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Ya know, I have wondered why TCM never replaced Rob Zombie with another Underground host after his departure.
Gee, maybe they should have that Karger guy doin' it???
(...nah, on second thought, I don't think he'd be a good fit for this one, huh)
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1 hour ago, ElCid said:
Read that 40 K would be equivalent of over $ 1 Million today.
The girl in the glasses reminded me of Dorothy Malone in The Big Sleep.
32 minutes ago, Moe Howard said:Me too. I ran straight to IMDB! Nope, she's Estelle Jewell and according to IMDB it's her only acting roll.
Yep, me three.
(...but Moe, I don't recall her doing any "rolling" in any scene she was in...nope, she was always standing or walking perfectly upright throughout this movie as far as I could tell)
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Wait, a sec. Lemme compare the two of 'em here, Bronxie...
17 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
...and now...
Oh Yeah! NOW I see what ya mean!
They're like TWINS separated at BIRTH!!! Especially around the nose area, huh.
(...how could I ever question you?!)
LOL
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2 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
MacDonald Carey, good actor with a rich "radio" voice, always reminds me in looks of THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, along with Troy Donahue. There is just something aquatic about their faces.
Hmmmmm...so Bronxie, I take it this is just an offshoot of that whole Rabbitittus thing of yours, RIGHT???
BUT, with some people looking like "fish" to ya instead of "rabbits" of course.
(...now, I think the specific clinical term for THIS one is actually "Ichthyoritus", but don't quote me in this...I never got past the first year of med school, ya know)
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2 hours ago, Thompson said:
The Birds which is on TCM right now might be the worst movie I’ve ever seen. The blonde actress is so phony so false that I think I’m giving up movies all together.
Yeah, maybe, but wasn't the BRUNETTE actress in it pretty darn cute?!!! Well, until she got her eyes pecked out anyway.
And which NOW brings up the thing I always thought was THE most questionable aspect about this Hitchcock flick. Yep, and even MORE so than the whole idea of birds attacking humans.
(...and THIS being, why in the world would Rod Taylor pick the blonde over HER???...what was WRONG with that guy anyway?!!!)
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10 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
No, but in the 3rd Voice it's strongly implied that she is a hooker.
So, a hooker, but with the proverbial "heart of gold"?
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9 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Julie London was in a few crime\noir films in the 50s: The Fat Man (1951) and Crime Against Joe (1956).
8 hours ago, cigarjoe said:And also in Noirs The 3rd Voice (1960) and The Red House (1947)
So James and CJ, of these four films you guys mentioned here, I'm only familiar with The Red House that featured Julie London, and in which I know she she played the small town "loose" girl in it and so wasn't really any sort of femme fatale in that one.
And so of the other three, does she play the femme fatale in any one of the other films?
(...because as I said, I've always thought she could've probably been well cast in that type of role)
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10 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Was there EVER a more fair-haired sultry lass than Julie London? In both appearance AND in voice?
For those here not old enough to remember her, the answer would be "no".
(...btw, did Julie ever play a femme fatale in any noirs?...she sure would've made a good one, if she didn't)
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11 hours ago, scsu1975 said:
Definitely this scene would have to go:
LOL
Ah yes. I still remember the first time you brought up the issue of those futuristic telephones in this flick, Rich.
(...I've got a mind like a steel trap, ya know...although I've noticed it's startin' to get a little rust on it lately)
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29 minutes ago, SansFin said:
When will you learn?
LOL
Yep, or as I'll bet your "fuzzy wuzzy" Capuchin is often moved to tell others: "I married Miss Right...Miss ALWAYS Right!"
(...and speakin' of which, it's nice seein' the guy on these boards again...so, about those Toronados of his...?)
LOL
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16 minutes ago, SansFin said:
I have watched of these only: Cave Women on Mars (2008). It was acceptable and it would not surprise me if it attracted a cult following. The women were not particularly scantily clad but they were far from overdressed.
Nope, you're right Sans. Looks like these martian cave women in this movie you mentioned are goin' for more the leather "goth" look than they are the mid-century hooker look in my favorite guilty pleasure flick of all time. The one that Shank Asu mentioned above...Queen of Outer Space.
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1 hour ago, NoShear said:
With WILD SEED (1965), which will screen tomorrow night on TCM, in his proverbial rearview mirror, Michael Parks starred in the following television series - at least two of its scenes predated a pair of similar ones which would later be seen in ON ANY SUNDAY (1971):
Yep NS, there's Parks' "Long Lonesome Highway" song that you hear him singing during the closing credits of this series.
(...as you may remember, it actually broke into the Top-40 Pop chart and got a pretty good amount of radio airplay for a while during the time of this short-lived series' run)
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1 minute ago, speedracer5 said:
I must be conflating the previous evening when Norah and Casey are talking with the next day when Ann Sothern is sitting in the diner.
Thanks. I suppose it makes a little more sense, but I still don't know how Casey bought the friend angle. Lol.
I think that that's just a plot point that one has to take at face value.
I know it does seem incongruous that a guy as bright as Conte's character was in this film wouldn't or couldn't immediately figure out that the ol' "It's my friend" line wasn't true, but without him at first believing it, then the later scene we've been talking about and where Sothern enlightens him would have had to have been rewritten a bit.
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48 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
Ah thank you. I must have misremembered. I recall though that he didn't try to prevent her from being arrested, right? If he really thought Norah was speaking on behalf of her friend, shouldn't he have informed the police that they had the wrong woman? If he didn't believe Norah, it would have made sense for him to not protest on her behalf. That's why it surprised me later when he it turned out that he believed her story.
And btw speedy, Baxter (Norah) then mistakenly believes that it was Conte who had set her up to be arrested at that diner and even though he had talked her into giving herself up to the police and to where they were then heading just as Reeves entered the diner's door.
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38 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
Ah thank you. I must have misremembered. I recall though that he didn't try to prevent her from being arrested, right? If he really thought Norah was speaking on behalf of her friend, shouldn't he have informed the police that they had the wrong woman? If he didn't believe Norah, it would have made sense for him to not protest on her behalf. That's why it surprised me later when he it turned out that he believed her story.
No, and because just before Norah was arrested at the diner in that scene, it was establisted that Conte had learned that it was indeed Norah who was the prime suspect the police were looking for.
(...remember when he first arrived there he walked to up to Ann Sothern who was seated in that booth, and it's she who informs him that it was Norah who is the prime suspect and to who Sothern then points to sitting at the next booth over from her)
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48 minutes ago, MrMagoo said:
THE FUGITIVE with David Janssen was a must see for me. I was 10-15 yrs old when it was on and as I recall it was always on at 10 pm which was often beyond my bedtime. I remember watching the final episode when they "wrapped it all up" and fingered the one armed man. I don't think that had ever happened before. You know, finishing off the series. MASH did it later.
How many shows can we name that had a "FINAL" episode that closed out the series? Was Seinfeld's final episode meant to wrap it up? Did Friends do it?
THE FUGITIVE had to be the first. Right?
I think you're forgetting the final episode of another and slightly earlier series here, Magoo.
Uh-huh, the one for Naked City, and where the producers and with a tip of the cap to this series' title, had all the actors playing cops in NYC's 65th Precinct performing nude. They were all seated behind their desks though, and so any action scenes were nonexistant in this one. Nope, no chasing down any perps on the mean steets of New York in this one.
Now, word is actor Harry Bellaver balked at this at first, but it's said once he got into the spirit of things, he found it a very liberating experience.
(...actually, you might be right, Magoo...I can't recall any previous series to The Fugitive doing a finale...good question)
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44 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
NBNW is a sound choice but I would still select The Birds. NBNW's plot could be too complex for some and The Birds' plot is so simple anyone can follow it. In fact one could say The Birds really has no plot (other than Birds get angry), and after that first gull attack, most of the followings scenes are action scenes of various ways the birds get angry.
In NBNW the mistaken identity alone could fool people; E.g. which guy is the real George Kaplan???? (uh, wake up kid,,,, there is no George Kaplan!!!).
The Birds has no macguffins: (well unless one views the entire concept of birds-gone-wild as a macguffin). NBNW has macguffin all over it.
Btw (and after my latest attempt of humor here..."attempt" being the operative word here of course), not a bad point up here I guess, but still I say the youngins out there would be more likely to get into NBNW a little more and a lot quicker, and basically because it takes a hell of a long time for The Birds to kick into action than it does NBNW.
(...and like I said earlier, those kids out there just GOTTA have "action" in their movies now days, or else their little minds start wanderin', ya know)
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32 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
The Birds has no macguffins
Actually, The Birds has PLENTY of "MacGuffins" in it, James. Uh-huh! There's a whole flock of 'em in that flick!
Yep, if ya look real close you can spot both the Yellow-Bellied MacGuffin AND the Crested Blue-Throated MacGuffin peckin' at people throughout this movie! Well, starting at about halfway through it, anyway.
(...evidently you're not into Ornithology at all, huh)
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Rebecca is a great film to be sure, BUT I can not believe that there would be that many Millennials who would go gaga over any movie that's as ladened with the amount of dialogue in it as it has, and to say nothing about the little amount of action scenes in it.
C'mon now, YOU know how these kids are today, don't YA?! Too much talk and not enough action is pretty much anathema to 'em.
(...and thus the reason I say start the youngins out watching something by Hitch with some action in it...yep, NBNW would be the one I'd choose to sit their little uninitiated butts in front of first!)
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1 hour ago, speedracer5 said:
Yes. I thought that Conte was pretending to believe Baxter's story so he could gather material for his article. At no time did I think that he actually believed her. So when he acted shocked when she told the truth, I was confused and then thought "really? you believed that story?" I suppose I can see wanting to believe her because he was smitten, but he also immediately turned her into the police... how smitten was he?
No, actually speedy, Conte's character didn't turn her into the police. If you recall, George Reeves' cop character was tipped-off to the fact that Conte was meeting her again at that little diner by the bartender there. This was shown in a manner in which it appeared to be a total surprise to Conte.
(...Reeves even thanked the bartender for doing it as he and his fellow police officers lead Norah away, and with Conte ending up looking dumbfounded at what had just transpired as that scene fades out)
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13 minutes ago, Moe Howard said:
. . . . ummmmmm . . . you DID see Deliverance didn't you.
Maybe "pitchfork" means something other than what I think it does.
Tom's inference in this regard goes back a few years and when he started this thread. Moe.
It's in reference to the old saying, "squealing like a stuck pig" and after, say, it would be pitchforked.
(...and not in reference to what happened to the recently departed Ned Beatty in that movie)
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3 minutes ago, lavenderblue19 said:
dargo, everyone I knew at the time watched The Fugitive, especially all my girlfriends, we all had a crush on David Janssen. I still remember watching that finale.
So lavender, why do you think, and as I mentioned earlier in this thing, for a while I affected that quick little one-sided grin of his back then?
Uh-huh! I was hoping girls would get crushes on me TOO!!!
(...hey, it worked for HIM, right?!)
LOL
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7 minutes ago, txfilmfan said:
Well, I'm somewhere between AARP and Medicare territory myself, but I never saw the TV series in its original run either. I was just 3 when it went off the air, so 9 Central was just a bit past my bedtime. It didn't enjoy much of a syndication run in my area (stations seemed to prefer half hour shows, except Star Trek). I only saw a few episodes of it in the early 80s once more cable stations like WTBS came on line.
I do remember my parents reminiscing about it when they saw ads for it in reruns. I had no idea what this "one-armed man" business was about.
Then you too are probably too young to remember this Tex, but during the 1960s the ABC television network was perennially in third place ratings-wise, but The Fugitive was one of its few ratings success stories at the time.
The program actually became a bit of a cultural phenomenon for a few years and witnessed by the fact that the two-part series finale (and as previously mentioned in this thread) would garner the highest ratings ever for a scripted TV program episode up to that time. And of course, made David Janssen a big star on the small screen, but which unfortunately he was never able to parlay into any sort of big screen career.
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5 minutes ago, TomJH said:
Thanks, Dargo.
Wanna make him squeal like a pig!
LOL
Yeah, SURE! Hand me that pitchfork!
(...just make sure he doesn't have that .30-06 of his with him)
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Well, as John Lennon once said..."Whatever gets you through the night", RIGHT?!
(...or I suppose in Lorna's case here, whatever gets you through seasonal depression disorder, anyway)