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I would like to add LIFEBOAT (1944) to my list of great war movies. A great war survival movie with a great cast of actors/actresses in this taut story.

Lancaster to me always looked like an Olympic athlete just ready to explode in a dynamic athletic performance. I can't think of anyone who seemed more athletic or or had more athletic charisma no matter what the role. Even in "Field of Dreams" late in his career one just knows he could have played MLB if he had wanted to when he was young.

The real question should be: Was there ever a bad episode from one of the all time great TV series? I don't remember one.

"A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" or " Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up"

No Mr. Dobbs I wasn't born until 1950 so I did not experience much of what you did. Interesting to hear about it. Just heard about it from older relatives. My grandparents had homesteaded our Nebraska ranch near Scottsbluff in 1912. I stayed a couple of nights in Ogallala this past summer when I was visiting Lake McConnehey (sp) and the Nebraska Sandhills area from Colorado. That winter of 48/49 is still the stuff of legend in the northern Great Plains. Nice hearing your experiences of the times.

Watched La Pointe Courte (1955) late last Sunday night. Fairly interesting French movie about two lovers pulling apart plus a rather more interesting glimpse of French fishing village life. Can't say it was a great movie but it was enjoyable to watch. Insomnia had me up watching it or maybe I was just thoroughly energized from watching the first episode of season 4 of Downton Abbey which I heartily enjoyed. What a soap opera D. Abbey is!!! About 103 separate plot lines.

Yes Mr. Dobbs, the great Blizzards of the Winter of 1948/49. My father was rancher in western Nebraska and he told me there was still patches of snow in sheltered spots up until early June on our ranch which is amazing. He as a former B-24 bomber pilot in WW2 rented a local plane and went up searching for any cattle left alive for our ranch and others nearby. What a massive winter that was over the northern plains.

I have two cars named after the fine 2006 movie "Cars" and one truck named after the terrible 1997 movie "Trucks". Car, car, and truck (my truck was built in 1997 too!! Zowie!!). I do so love movie names. Actually my truck has a number of four letter word names too when it breaks down but I can't post their names on a family message board but when it (Truck) gives up the ghost seemingly about once a year it (Truck) could easily be mistaken for having starred in that great 1958 movie "The Blob".

I really like Crawford and her persona in her young movies in the silent era and early sound era but like her much less in her older movies with her heavy heavy makeup and increasingly meaner (at least to me) persona. Liked her in black and white but not in color. A great actress and one of a kind.

Having loved the first three seasons and having been shocked by Matthew's death at the end of season #3, I am really really looking forward to the start of Season #4 this Sunday evening. Anybody else? http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDwQtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.pbs.org%2Fvideo%2F2365089408&ei=fMXFUtC2AbGyygGSvIDICw&usg=AFQjCNFnqa86v4PQ8elLR05lK6xtBCmZHw&sig2=y_OqGRITB1Zuyuh9QF-G1A&bvm=bv.58187178,d.aWc

Daniel Boone from long ago. Maybe that is where my wild places wanderlust spirit descends from.

Low key stay-at-home. Watch the bowl game with Duke vs. Texas and some of the TCM "That's Entertainment" shows and maybe play a card game or two with my wife who will undoubtedly stomp me as usual. Our Holiday celebration was going to the Moab, Utah area on Dec.28/29 for two days of 4x4ing on designated trails and hiking in the snow covered plateaus, canyons, and mesas where we were absolutely and quietly all alone with nary another truck or person in sight.

Yes, an excellent movie that I also would like to see again. I know it's been shown on TCM before. My father also was a bomber co-pilot over Europe in WW2. Flew 13 missions in a B-24 before being shot down after a Berlin bombing raid while returning over western Germany. Survived a year in the German POW camps. Eight others from his bomber also survived the war. One the nose gunner was killed on the German fighter attack. Accolades to all of The Greatest Generation who fought.

"Coming of age" movies where society is totally ridiculed and the young "know it all".

Bought two for myself: PATHS OF GLORY and RUSSIAN ARK.

WHOA!!! That is one fortunate feline being hugged to Ann Margaret's "bosom"!!! That WOULD ABSOLUTELY be a pretty darn good Holiday morning!!

Love that picture of Paul N. and Joanne W.!!!!

For all of us tired of the same old humdrum but wonderful Christmas movies on TCM, we DEMAND that TCM shows a real classic of innovative Yuletide cheer: Tim Burton's " The Nightmare Before Christmas". This is an emergency TCM!!! I am undergoing schmaltz poisoning from all these lovely holiday movies. I need something darker and fascinatingly weird. My inner dark humbug is coming out. Needs feeding!! Help us TCM!!

Emily Watson was indeed excellent. I enjoyed her in War Horse (2011) as well which was the last film I saw her in. A good actress.

I also saw The Book Thief today and also recommend it. I have always liked Geoffrey Rush. Sophia Nelisse was indeed extremely good in the movie. A beautiful and talented young actress. A sad and poignant tragedy of WW2 from a small German town. Nazi brutality was not glossed over. A great costume and period piece I thought. My father co-piloted B-24's and was shot down over Germany on his 13th mission but survived the war.

Fedya: The Unknown Soldier looks very good. I just googled it as I had never heard of the Finnish movie before. I see that their is an original and and a remake from the 80's. You get my vote for a movie to see from 1955. A very unknown war to most people. The Finns trying to thwart centuries of Russian/Soviet imperialism.

THE TIN DRUM, a fascinating German film from the book by Gunter Grass of the same name. The German descent into the Nazi Hell from the eyes of a not so nice child given a drum as a gift. Not a nice movie or a pleasant movie but one with a message.

My favorites in no particular order are: The Seven Samurai Das Boot Dersu Uzala Cinema Paradiso The Tin Drum

That's a GREAT photo mongo. Most excellent. Just set it as my computer background. Hope you don't mind.

Have a ****** ******** (&$%@@*** Christmas everybody! and a ******** %$^^^@! New Year!! Eat that with your bent rusty HOLIDAY forks and spoons!!! May your hams and turkeys be ********** and %%%%%%%%%%% and may your pies cause DELETED and much ALSO DELETED!! Other than that Season's Vitriolic Greetings for 2015/16 if we all live so long. Edited by: roverrocks on Dec 19, 2013 3:04 PM