Dargo2

>Don't forget the pilots that look like John Wayne and Robert Stack! Nope, sorry Tom. (...none of the pilots were whistling in the show I watched last night!)

>They also reference NBNW in the James Spader show, The Blacklist on NBC. Yeah, you're right, Iz. I saw that too. (...Spader is amazing, isn't he!)

>You're an airline guy. Don't they generally show recent movies in-flight? Yeah, they do. (...though I HAVE heard they've recently started showing old B&W movies whenever there is supposed to be a lot of kids traveling on certain flights...word is the little tykes get bored and fall asleep...its a "win-win" for everyone on board, ya see)

>I guess the passengers were riveted.to the screen because the don't have TCM, and thus never had seen it. And yeah Arturo, that COULD have explained it, alright. I mean the average age on that flight DID look to be skewed fairly young. (...well, except for that one nun with the guitar sitting in Seat 14-C, AND that older lady who could talk "Jive" seated in the Exit Row, anyway!)

>I'm not that surprised. I would have been more surprised if the inflight movie was STRIKE ME PINK... LOL Yeah, but then again what's the chances of a Richard Whorf...err...I mean an Eddie Cantor flick bein' shown on an airliner, huh?! >....Was it supposedly circa 1959? And nope, the series is set in the present.

LOL Yeah, that's exactly what I thought too! And of course, my thoughts went directly to the on-going joke on these boards, and so I thought I'd share this here. (...figured this was the perfect audience to do this)

Nah, this thread isn't QUITE what you're thinkin' it's gonna be about...but I DID grab your attention here, didn't I?! I'm watching the CBS series "Person of Interest" last night and which in this episode features our stalwart hero Mr. Reese onboard a commercial airliner attempting to save yet another life by keeping at bay all the bad guys intent on killing the victim at 40,000 ft. And yep, lo and behold, guess what the inflight movie was that the passengers were watching on the big inflight screen, and which evidently was SO involving and were transfixed upon said big inflight screen that they missed seeing Mr.Reese kickin' the ever-livin' you-know-what out of the bad guys just a few short feet away? (...yeah, you guessed it...betcha my topic heading gave it away, huh!)

Yeah, Ray! And wasn't Richard Whorf there on the right good in that one TOO?!

I LOVED "Tin Men" when I watched it years ago, Andy! Good pick! (...and yeah, I agree with ya about it being funnier than "Diner", too)

Yeah...YEAH! Where's TopBilled when ya REALLY need him, HUH???!!! LOL

Ya know Hibi, it's times like this when I wish there was someone at "TCM Programing Central" here on the boards who we could ask questions such as this and get an reasonably quick response back from them. (...well, UNLESS there already IS someplace on these here boards that we can, and like finance bein' too involved crackin' one-liners around here, I TOO have been too busy doin' the same thing and don't know of it!!!) LOL

Are you folks absolutely sure this film hasn't been shown on TCM? Possibly during the time TCM was recently premiering some previously unavailable to them 20th Century-Fox films? I seem to recall watching this film within the last few months, and I don't get FMC. Hmmmm...but then again, I suppose I COULD have watched it on FMC during some DirectTV watch-for-free promotional time. (...it's tough gettin' old sometimes, ya know) Edited by: Dargo2 on Jan 15, 2014 10:01 AM

And alternates for my adopted state of Arizona other than "Psycho" shown on that map(not that that one is a poor choice at all) would be: "My Darling Clementine"(1946) "Tombstone"(1993...and not that I'm stuck on that whole "O.K. Corral" thing here, you understand) ...and in a slightly more modern vein... "The Petrified Forest"(1936...and of which while I fully realize the word "remake" is considered of the dirty variety around here, I've thought for years is long overdue for one) "

Yep, good point about Walken here, dark. (...in fact, he even seems that way when he's clamoring for "more cowbell", doesn't he?!)

When it comes to Mike parodying himself in a comedy, the 1951 Bob Hope vehicle "My Favorite Spy" comes immediately to my mind....especially a certain scene which includes the idea of 'lychee nuts'. And when it comes to big Mike in a dramatic role, he was never better than in his role as 'Moose Malloy' in "Murder, My Sweet".

Yep, finance. I earlier mentioned Kathy Bates as the woman who's always scared ME the most.

LOL Yeah, I suppose so! However, did you ever happen to catch "The Intercourse Story" when it played at the old Pussycat Theater chain back in the '70s??? (...the storyline wasn't much, but ooh-WEE were the visuals ever stunning!!!)

I'm noticing a "dichotomy" of thought going on in Tom's thread here about what constitutes this whole "scary actor" thing. While I suppose each of us would naturally find different aspects of an actor's perceived usual role-type to be "scarier" than some other aspect, in Salmi's case and in Dern's case, it seems to be more the idea that the roles they're remembered for were more based upon the fear of their character's "psychotic" demeanor and that they could "turn on you in an instant" than of the more physically intimidating sort such as Leo Gordon and (Sepia's earlier mentioning of) Mike Mazurki.

Yep!

I think that would depend upon which part of the '30s you're talkin' about here, because as far as I know, in the early part of that decade Francis WAS supposedly Warner's No.1 female star, but would be overtaken in that department by Davis by the end of that decade.

I actually thought your earlier observation about Eddie's 'dated-ness' was spot-on, finance. Yep, I too think "Ol' Banjo Eyes"'s shtick could be consigned to an era he shared with a contemporary and friend(and fellow black-face performer) of his, Al Jolson. (...and of course I just HAD to yet again mention how much Messrs Cantor and Whorf looked a lot alike)

I believe your bias might be showing here, ol' (hometown) boy!

And thus why Eddie would re-invent himself later on as Richard Whorf! (...never saw both of 'em in the same place at the same time, now did ya?!)

I agree, Hibi. The more I watch of her films, the more I think she could have handled almost any role Jack Warner had given to Bette Davis. (...well, as long as she wasn't dressed-to-the-nines as she often was, anyway)

>Heh Dargo, I lived in Orlando 1970-1972 and had to do the same "schlepping" of visitors to the park. I am amazed at how the entire area has changed because of the mega-park. I used to ride horses through the orange groves in Sanford before it was even a community, only 40 years ago. Ah, the smell of the orange juice factories! Hi Tiki! Yep, a very similar story in central Florida would occur just a few decades later after what would previous become of Orange County CA. I too remember as kid in the late-50s my parents driving our relatives from "Back East" on the 2-lane Artesia Hwy(and before the Riverside Fwy was built) from our home in the South Bay beach area of L.A. County to Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm, and once you'd hit the "Orange Curtain", you could pull over to the side of the road and pick a few oranges off the vast number of trees within vast numbers of orange groves which lined that old highway. (...and which would become vast numbers of tract homes by the late-60s)