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Sure am glad you don't ask tough questions. There are a thousand different sets any one of which I would be in 7th heaven to time travel to. This is like looking at a table with a thousand different sizzling filet mignon steaks to choose from. Guess I'd go to the splendor of the desert with David Lean and watch the incredible filming of Lawrence of Arabia for #1. #2 would be to watch the filming of Top Hat with Rogers and Astaire.

I am enjoying Aline M.'s movies today. A one-of-a-kind lady of great talent. Thanks TCM for today's movies.

The best part of Planet of the Apes to me is all the fabulous southern Utah scenery on and around Lake Powell at the beginning. I love the the stunning Utah desert where they filmed. If you haven't been to southern Utah get there. I love it. As for the Ape franchise movies, they do little for me.

So Queen Victoria was in the closet? My oh my. Never thought about that.

Interesting if true. I always figured it was supremely prudish Queen Victoria sneaking out at night with a medieval broadsword to off a few prostitutes. Guess this puts my insane theory to rest. Any gay subtexts to this whole infamous murder mystery of well over a century?? Come on folks spit them out!! Inquiring minds want to know!!

The movie that defined the 1990's for me and probably the 2000's/2010's as well is THE MATRIX (1999). A vivid mesmerizing movie of where increasingly sophisticated electronics/computerization/control-of-the-masses is leading humanity or has already led us to. Questions what is reality and who's reality is it and would any of us know reality if it actually bit us on the behind. Life continues to "grow" or "evolve" into an overwhelming matrix of some kind. THE MATRIX (1999): Frightening in it's implications and prophecy/augury.

The LBGT sub-forum was added recently as a special little place where the movie longings and movie lifestyles and movie insinuations and movie conjectures of an "offbeat" group could be discussed and thrashed and slobbered over and fantasized about in their own special world but one where anybody if they so desire can enter into. If you want to add Pre Code Fridays into the Pre Code Movies sub-forum be my guest as I will find what I'm interested in no matter where it is started and I am very interested in pre code movies. As I am not interested in fantastical homosexual conjectures then by putting them into the LGBT sub-forum you will get no comments from me. Put them into general discussions and the fantastical conjectures of some minds are open game. Back to today's NFL games for me now plus some tennis. Go Denver Broncos later tonight!!

The Grand Junction area is a great place to live as Montrose is as well. The awesomeness of the Four Corners area. An outdoor enthusiast's heaven in all directions and in all seasons.

Feel free to have this whole thread moved to the appropriate LGBT sub-forum. That is where this thread's wild-eyed conjectures and grasping-at-straws should have been in the first place. One never knows........I might move over and I might not to further the "discussions". Anything and everything is fair game in the appropriate sub-forum. Therein feel free to discuss the "hidden" LGBT intentions/meanings/relevancy in any and all films ever made to your heart's desire.

"Desperate minds" I meant and "desperate minds" I still mean. If you are insulted so be it. The homosexual community is in continual forlorn-hope maximum overdrive to find "desperate" signs and celestial displays and hidden icons in everything including movies. There are plenty of movies with homosexual intent and partially hidden signs but 1946's THE STRANGER is not one of them and neither was/is MARTY. Way to much grasping-at-"desperate"-straws out there. Most of the time straw is actually just plain old straw. By the way isn't there a new separate LGBT sub-forum to be used to discuss these longings and conjectures?

I've seen THE STRANGER twice (good movie) and saw 0% homosexual overtones. It's a movie about an evil hidden Nazi in the midst of an average nice small all-American town made a year after the most virulent horrifying war in history which was full of sadistic racist fascist murder. Nothing more, nothing less. Hidden Nazis have been searched for and found every year all across the globe and are still being found occasionally today nearly 70 years after VE Day. Zero homosexual overtones. Less than zero except in a few desperate minds.

I have seen the Rita Hayworth version and don't think it hold's a candle to the Crawford/Huston version. Rita H. is not a favorite actress of mine. Gorgeous actress but not in Crawford's acting/screen persona league IMO. I haven't seen the 1929 version and would very much like to.

A truly excellent film. Not just "good" but great. Huston and Crawford are terrific. I can't imagine anybody else in their roles. Probably my favorite Crawford film.

Intriguing and haunting movie : The Spirit of the Beehive (1973). I'm quite glad I watched this fine Spanish film today on TCM that I had never heard of before let alone seen. Tremendous acting jobs by the two young girls playing sisters. As good of child acting performances as I have witnessed in a movie. Quite haunting look at their 1940 childhood in rural post Civil War Spain after a traveling cinema shows 1931's Frankenstein to the mesmerized audience who seldom see any kind of movie. A movie about childhood and the power of imagination all unknown to the emotionally distant parents (from the little girls and each other). A movie I would like to see again to capture all the nuances I am sure I missed with the first viewing.

That is a very sad end to her story. Very sad.

..................plus her sexy come hither look over her shoulder at Maurice C. when in her undies at the end. Ooo la la!!

Getting away from lettuce and mustard greens for a moment, I will put forth five of the most unforgettable and individually personal literary memoirs of WW1 I have read and have in my home library. The first is a vivid compilation of the sad and poignant poetry of WW1 by a large number of it's participants/victims/survivors. The other four are the brutal personal memoirs of several individual soldiers: Germany (Ernst Junger), Britain (Robert Graves), and France (Louis Barthas). In addition to the five books I will list I have that most horrific novel of WW1 which was made into the great 1930 film "All Quiet On The Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. Remarque was a German WW1 veteran whose great novel should be read even if you have seen the film. Both are unforgettable. Remarque wrote many novels. #1) "A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Illustrated Poetry of the First World War" of which the selections were made by Fiona Waters and the photographs by the London Daily Mail. #2) "Storm of Steel" by Ernst Junger a four year German veteran of the War to End All Wars who was also a great German author/thinker and survivor of WW2 service in the German Army. Junger, a very controversial man/author, lived to be 103 years old. Ernst Junger was a man meant to be a warrior. #3) "Copse 125: A Chronicle From the Trench Warfare of 1918" also by Ernst Junger. #4 "Good-bye To All That" by Robert Graves a British author and poet who was a survivor of WW1 and lived to be 90. #5 "Poilu: The WW1 Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker 1914-1918" by Louis Barthas (French soldier) and translated into English by Edward Strauss recently in 2014. Barthas was a barrelmaker by by trade in southern France and after his four horrific years of Western Front service he returned to the same. The word poilu means "hairy one" and is a slang word for a French infantryman dating all the way back to the Napoleonic Wars and massive citizen armies.

The Hodiak and Moreau days are my favorites so far. I had not seen "A Bell For Adano" before and enjoyed it a lot. I thought the ending was very good with Hodiak leaving at dawn to the sound of the new bell with nobody in town knowing he is going. Sure like William Bendix a lot in whatever movie he is in too. Moreau is just a great actress with a great range. I always really liked her small vibrant role in "The Train" opposite Burt Lancaster as the world-weary hotel owner. That role is my earliest recollection of her in a movie I saw on the big screen decades ago. Great actress that had a fine day on TCM.

Good question. Here is an internet article I just read. !!http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDIQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fskeptics.stackexchange.com%2Fquestions%2F15936%2Fdid-hitler-borrow-his-mustache-from-chaplin&ei=VFHxU7X0G4TyoATBiIK4DA&usg=AFQjCNF-yAyZXzoqR62j2zEUdpnTkDY_QA&sig2=Lp6XKVTMH7THSb8-c29gUA&bvm=bv.73231344,d.cGU

You be the judge. Abe Lincoln certainly looked much better with facial hair. !http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftriviahappy.com%2Farticles%2F18-historical-figures-without-their-famous-facial-hair&ei=rPHwU9_uB9K9oQTO8YGQDw&usg=AFQjCNFQsxVEvm3YJTPEtCH4gAPgaqd-TA&sig2=gdniweWJUXTI7DnO39Ax7g&bvm=bv.73231344,d.cGU&cad=rja!

I don't think so. Alexander's only fault/problem/bad luck/sad fate was that he died so young. The real question is what would the ancient world and thereby the modern world to an extent have looked like politically/culturally/ethnically if he had lived and ruled and conquered for 30-40 years beyond what he did and had sons to carry on his empire. !!

PICTURES or she never existed. Nice juicy pictures. Tasteful of course.

So which "Macedonia" be it Greek Macedonia or FYROM claims Alexander the Great or do they both do so? Gotta have been the greatest "Macedonian" of all time.

Jody Gilbert RIP. Good article on her. Interesting actress. !!http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CD0QFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmorethanyouneededtoknow.typepad.com%2Fthe_unsung_joe%2F2009%2F09%2Fjody-gilbert.html&ei=ltjsU_H-McSEjALOkoHADQ&usg=AFQjCNGYWhGCAoano53IvgdhwBlJ8tZTqA&sig2=phsFGQthHYEiPKao-G1vfw&bvm=bv.72938740,d.cGE&cad=rja

For WW1 from the naval aspect read these fine definitive histories: 1) Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War (1991) 2) Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War (2004) Both are long fascinating histories by Robert Massie with #1 covering British/German naval politics/ship building in the decades up until the start of WW1 with #2 being #1's sequel covering WW1 British/German naval activities/warfare/politics worldwide. There could be dozens of movies made from these two engaging historical accounts both of the amazing personalities on both sides and the deadly sea warfare which killed and maimed many many thousands of sailors and civilians.