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Very interesting. I had not noticed them coming. Thanks.

Another thanks for the heads up.

Thanks!! Interesting.

No I did not but you have sure got me wondering what it is.

Really really good movie. Bette Davis eyes are something else. They say so much.

I want to see this movie. KEOMA sounds like a terrific Western. I love Westerns. Always have. There is no movie genre more truly American (even foreign made) than the Western. Come on TCM. Thanks for the more than vivid description and review cigarjoe. I can't remember if I ever saw KEOMA or not when it first came out. Sounds terrific.

Jessica pant pant pant Rabbit pant pant pant The Red Bombshell pant pant pant in anything and everything!!!!!!! The ultimate femme fatale pant pant pant. The cartoon equivalent of luscious Ava Gardner to me. Both are dish of dishes. OH............MY!!!! A lotta actresses would never have made it big if Jessica had appeared in 1930.

I enjoyed seeing THE YOUNG LIONS again. A fine movie with good acting and raises interesting questions in my opinion. My only gripe with the movie is the casting of Dean Martin. Other than Martin I think the movie was well casted. Wrong for the part and grates on me but then I have never been a Dean Martin fan especially not in a dramatic role. I think somebody like Glen Ford would have been much more believable in the part.

Bob Hoskins: Excellent modern day actor whom I greatly enjoyed watching. Mr. Hoskins would have been terrific as an actor in the Golden Age of Hollywood if he been born 40 years earlier than he was. I can easily see him in the crime dramas and noirs of the Golden Age. He also had a definite comedic streak as well. RIP Mr. Hoskins.

Wampanoaq Times, Dec. 1620 White man coastal invasion repulsed!!! Strangely dressed invaders forced back into the Sea!! Massive wooden canoes burned!! Samoset--Correspondent.

Yes, there have been interesting movies on all day today. SWEEPINGS is an excellent hard-bitten movie that pulls few punches.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946) is certainly a very fine and innovative French fantasy movie. Watched it last night for the second time. Simply amazing it was filmed while the Nazis were still in power over France. A lot of very artistic touches in the fine movie. Very easy to fall head over heels in love with the exquisite Josette Day.

I am looking forward to viewing The Viking tonight as I have never seen it. A young Donald Crisp seems intriguing to watch.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy because of the mesmerizing epic New Zealand scenery is truly beautiful to behold. I also cast a vote to The Red Shoes as being one of the most beautiful as well. 2001: A Space Odyssey is also gorgeous to behold backgrounded by the amazing music. A visual experience of A+ magnitude as are all three in my short list.

The Canuckidians should quit complaining forthwith!! You've got these and we don't!! I want one!!! Even say Canuckida on them with a weed leaf!!

Since when did you Canucks even get electricity and running water let alone TV channels?

Ah!! BLOOM COUNTY!! The most awesome comic strip ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bill the Cat for president. So sad when the strip ended. Like a death in the family to me.

Yea, I never thought Wayne was much of an actor but he was exceptional in a few such as The Searchers and Red River. I did not catch The Life of Jimmy Dolan.

Most favorite: SPIONE, a very rapid fire silent movie that confused me at times (I am easily confused) as to what was going on but certainly was the highlight of my week. I need to see it again so I can put some of the rapid fire scenes together in my withering mind. Love the German silent cinema!! "Haghi" the criminal mastermind seemed like a blend of Dr. Strangelove and Lenin/Trotsky as a personality and screen persona. Excellent movie that I hope to see again so I can pick out more of the nuances. Least favorite: All the ancient John Wayne flics from the early 30's. I know that it is very important and worthwhile for TCM to show them and I complement them for showing them but they bore me terrifically and I've just watched bits and pieces of them. Can't view more. Wasn't John Wayne a great physical specimen in his youth though.

basilrathbone.net: Great but very sad/moving website info on Mr. Rathbone and his WW1 experience. Thanks very much for posting it. I had not known of it before. This year being the 100th anniversary of the start of WW1 I think we should all reflect back on the War To End All Wars and the many millions lost and wounded in the tragic affair followed by the even more murderous Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-20. My own little hurts and whines and travails are so very very trivial in comparison to what that agonized generation on all sides went through.

Yea, Keel gives me the hives as well. Bleh.

Basil Rathbone: a picture of him as an actor and as a WW1 soldier. Also a picture of a very young Charles Laughton in WW1. Laughton did not serve with the London Scottish Regiment but another unit and was injured in one of the numerous WW1 gas attacks. Am also including a picture of Maurice Chevalier in his WW1 service with the French Army during which he was wounded by shrapnel, taken prisoner by the German Army, and spent two years as a POW.

"A Beautiful Mind" All "Die Hard" movies "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" (1991) "Braveheart" "Apocalypse Now" "Singing in the Rain" as well as most musicals not starring Rogers/Astaire Anything with Sylvester Stallone except "Rocky" #1. Most movies in the last 15 years. I won't even go see anything modern except an occasional movie like "The King's Speech" or "The Book Thief". "The Shining" Lana Turner Grace Kelly Randolph Scott Liz Taylor except for her youthful movies where she was so absolutely charming Tom Cruise- A big yuch Johnny Depp-A big yuch.

I'm nearing the end of a fascinating though often horrifying history book published in 2013 called "Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes To War" by renowned historian Max Hastings. Have learned in this book just today that an amazing number of superb British actors at one time or another during WW1 all served with a hard fighting British Army regiment named the London Scottish Regiment. Ronald Colman, Herbert Marshall, Claude Rains, Cedric Hardwicke, and Basil Rathbone all served with valor and distinction with this crack unit at some time during their WW1 service. Makes one wonder how many fine would-have-been great great actors perished during The Great War on both the Allied/Entente side and the Central Powers side. RIP all. RONALD COLMAN: Served as a Territorial Army (British reserve army) soldier starting in 1909. Called up and sent to France in September 1914 with the London Scottish. Suffered a severe shrapnel wound at the brutal Battle of Messines on the Western Front on Oct. 31, 1914 in an ankle. Probably kept him from being killed during the war. Colman was invalided out of the army in 1915 after serving with distinction. Colman limped the rest of his life and hid it well in moviedom and on the stage. The rest of his post WW1 life is a Hollywood legend. HERBERT MARSHALL: Marshall was shot in his right knee by a German sniper. He went through various operations but ended up having the leg amputated at the hip. Marshall was fitted with a prosthetic leg. Marshall went to great lengths in his acting career to hide the fact both privately and professionally of this severe wartime disability and I had never known it until today. His distinctive walk was a result of this disability which was little known. The rest of his post WW1 life is a Hollywood legend. CLAUDE RAINS: Served with distinction on the Western Front and rose from private to captain during his British wartime service. Rains was gassed severely in action and remained nearly blind in one eye. The rest of his post WW1 life is Hollywood legend. CEDRIC HARDWICKE: Served in the British Army including service with the London Scottish Regiment from 1914 to 1921. Once again his post Army life is the stuff of Hollywood legend. BASIL RATHBONE: When called up to service in 1914 he trained with the London Scottish Regiment as a private. Underwent officer training subsequently and was then commissioned an officer in the Liverpool Scottish Regiment where he rose during the war to a captain in Intelligence. Rathbone led daring nighttime and daylight intelligence raids to ascertain enemy German positions. After his younger brother John was KIA in 1918 Rathbone became even more daring in his intelligence patrols and was awarded the Military Cross for"conspicuous daring and resource on patrol". At points he and his intelligence patrols wore camouflage outfits designed to look like trees. After WW1 once again his life was the stuff of Hollywood legend.

Yes, I agree with you. Glad you finally do as well : GWTW is a "good" story. Just did not know why you had to travel from North Africa to Georgia to attempt to diss on GWTW yet again. I prefer Casablanca to GWTW too but will not diss on the great GWTW.