roverrocks
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I like Ben M. He is a credit to TCM. He has personality and does a good job in his intros. One can tell he loves classic movies a great deal. Stay around Ben the Mensch.
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That Angus Lennie death scene in "The Great Escape" was very memorable. The whole movie was memorable. My father was a downed B-24 crew member and spent time in German POW camps. RIP Mr. Lennie.
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What is frightening is president Henry Fonda telling an american general in an american nuclear bomber to nuke nyc. that lunacy renders the whole film nuts. what fonda shoulda said to the friggin' russian premier was "hey, you stupid jerks jammed our radio frequencies so tough schlitz".
.......................and the human world explodes/vaporizes/dies in one huge murderous Armageddon smack down because of too much childish macho testosterone if the President had had your tiny thoughts.
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I have seen FAIL SAFE many times and find it chilling, frightening, riveting, and believable each time. Gives me goosebumps. The sound of that melting Moscow phone. This vivid movie will mean far more to those who grew up during the very frightening days of the Cold War. Those who actually did Nuclear War drills in school. Those who remember the fear during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Those who have read much and studied the frightening and murderous ways of the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact and Red China. Those who had Nuclear Missile silos only a few miles from where they grew up and who saw extreme low flying B-52 training missions just over the remote high plains hills in western Nebraska. The great BEDFORD INCIDENT is just as believable and frightening.
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Harlow in everything is "walking sex" just like Marilyn M. was but Harlow had a lot more sexy world-weary kick-butt personality. I can not resist either in the slightest nor would I want to. Pant! Pant! Pant! Harlow was and is a true Goddess to me. Pant! Pant!
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Poor pre-code Fridays, all alone and feeling blue. Watched by none of the most, only by me. La di da, and so it goes.
Sadly, I don't like Jean Harlow. Don't know why, but there's something about her. She may have gotten better as she aged, and she may have gotten better parts - although hoo chi mama, Red Headed Woman was hot stuff, nice ending too, no wimping out like they would have if it were made after the wan-ker Hays took over.
But she irks and I don't know why. She's no Ann Harding, Marion Marsh, Evelyn Brent, or Cathy O'Donnell. She paled next to Una Merkel and May Robson, and didn't even have the something that the very young Joan Blondell had.
Oh well, her flame will never go out, and that's all that counts.
"Sadly" I LOVE Harlow now and forever. Harlow had the "IT". The glorious "IT". Her movies had "IT". Love Blondell a lot too but Harlow was a one and only especially since she tragically died so young. Harlow, Dean, and Valentino by dying young are forever and a day young and all had the "IT", even more so since they never aged. Eternally young in all their movies and legend. Harlow...........................a glorious sexy charismatic legend to me.
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Well the clue said an actress of the 30s and 40s and Harlow died in the 30s.
OOPSSSSSSS!!!! I knew that. Good thing I pay attention!! Got overexcited about watching her movies tomorrow night.
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My wild guess: Harlow's gorgeous gams.
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I did like him as a child, but my tastes changed as I grew up (not putting down anyone who likes him). Kind of like Adam Sandler (to me)...........
Adam Sandler, I'll take Jerry Lewis in a heartbeat over Sandler's nontalent/nonfunnyness and I have not been a fan of Lewis since I was a wee twerp decades ago. I loved the antics of a Zero Mostel but I dislike the Totally Zero Sandler.
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I missed the first 1\4 of the film but I did enjoy what I did see. It did pack a lot into it's short length. The only thing I didn't like (weill I find it kind of silly) was that final chase scene. I mean The Judge didn't looks like he was a man in great shape (e.g. he smoked a lot). So one would hope cops could catch him.
Also The Judge was a better shot than any of the police. Even after getting him in cuffs this little guy is able to get the best of the cop. Oh, well I guess the director needed a final action scene. I keep hoping we would get a White Heat type of ending!
Yea, I agree. The chase scene/ending was quite silly. A little bit of writing work could have come up with something a lot better for the end of The Judge.
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September 11: A very poor day and night of TCM viewing in my opinion. I doubt if I tune into TCM at all today. Tomorrow will be eminently more delightful and watchful. A full 1000% better with wonderful precodes and especially Harlow, Harlow, Harlow.
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When did the Rita Hayworth version come out again?
MISS SADIE THOMPSON (1953) was the Rita H. version.
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Just got through watching FOLLOW ME QUIETLY (1949). Excellent fast paced film noir. Glad I watched it as I had not seen it before. Some really spooky elements into it: a dummy suddenly getting up and moving in a darkened room. Packed a lot into it's short length. "The Judge" was not a talkative person but he got his "message" through in a grim reaper manner. The lovely Dorothy Patrick was easy on the eyes.
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It's like I noted previously - you really are attracted to the topic of "gayness", aren't you?
Now, you're actively encouraging people to introduce the topic - so you can what? Pretend you deplore it?
You're quite the scamp.
I am more a scalawag. So So So tired of desperate drooling minds looking at every movie and every scene with two male actors involved for incredibly well-hidden gay subtexts. Buddy movies/scenes and pals movies/scenes and comrade movies/scenes are now called "bromances". What a stupid and utterly ridiculously demeaning term. Gets sillier and sillier and sillier. A scene with an anthill now would probably be analyzed for it's homosexual subtexts because it has a deep dark hole in the anthill when in reality (real reality) it is just an anthill. There is not an ounce of homosexual subtext in most movies. Maybe all movies that have scenes with two women that are friends (quite a few thousand movies) should be constantly analyzed for hidden lesbian subtexts ay every silly point. Desperate minds of a silly few.
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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.
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I am enjoying Aline M.'s movies today. A one-of-a-kind lady of great talent. Thanks TCM for today's movies.
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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.
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I'll try to find some gay subtext for every thread at this forum just to make you happy. To me it looks like the standard theory related to those that yell the loudest about gay themes is true in this case.
So Queen Victoria was in the closet? My oh my. Never thought about that.
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London (AFP) - Jack the Ripper, one of the most notorious serial killers in history, has been identified as a Jewish emigrant from Poland through DNA traces found on a shawl, claims a sleuth in a book out on Tuesday.
The true identity of Jack the Ripper, whose grisly murders terrorised the murky slums of Whitechapel in east London in 1888, has been a mystery ever since, with dozens of suspects that include royalty and prime ministers down to bootmakers.
But after extracting DNA from a shawl recovered from the scene of one of the killings, which matched relatives of both the victim and one of the suspects, Jack the Ripper sleuth Russell Edwards claims the identity of the murderer is now beyond doubt. He says the infamous killer is Aaron Kosminski, a Jewish emigrant from Poland who worked as a barber.
- See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/europe/story/jack-the-ripper-identified-jewish-migrant-poland-says-sleuth-20140908#2
Anyone want a close shave? lol.
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!!
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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.
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There's a thread here in General called "Pre Code Fridays." Should that be moved to the "Pre Code Movies" thread in the genre forums? Should every thread that fits one of those categories be moved over there?
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!!
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Interesting
I just realized you're from Montrose, Colorado. My sister lives north of Grand Junction, so I definitely know where Montrose is located.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.
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Good point. And when I created this thread, I considered that-- but since you are saying THE STRANGER is not a film that belongs to the LGBT community, then can't we say this thread does not belong there? And that it's fine where it's at?
I sincerely hope the LGBT sub-forum is not being regarded as a cyberia wasteland where unwanted discussions are placed out of sight and out of mind. It is meant-- like all sub-forums-- to house more specific, extended and in-depth conversations of topics that can easily be found under the general discussion category.
If we do arrive at a consensus that THE STRANGER is an example of quee-r cinema, then I am sure this thread can be moved over to the LBGT sub-forum-- but of course that means you would have to follow it over there, you would have to step into the alternative classic film disco for a few minutes and be gay-friendly.
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.
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People can often relate something in their personal lives with events, situations and characters in a movie, even when these things were not done intentionally by the producer \ director. How does that made them 'desperate minds'?
You have different experiences than others so you can't relate to those things. But why the need to insult others that do?
"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?
24 Hour Tribute for Lauren Bacall on TCM
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Ah, James Gleason. What a delight to see on the Silver Screen of TCM. Definitely should have a day. One of the great character actors. Love watching and listening to him. He must have been an extremely pleasant man.