roverrocks

Most sequels are quite bad and some are downright horrific such as World War II. The only movie sequels I truly remember as really liking are The Two Towers and The Return of the King after The Fellowship of the Ring but they are really just continuations and segments of one really long incredible tale.

Oscar Homolka I beleve with the huge eyebrows.

I greatly enjoyed the sad gritty DAYS OF BEING WILD (1991) shown last night. Well acted IMO and had a real emotionally evocative quality to it what with all the silent thoughts from all the characters. Portrays a very lonely world where finding roots and love and happiness are tough. Good movie. As always movies in different languages and from cultures and places on the far side of the world give us windows into our own life experiences. Thanks for showing this fine film TCM.

John Wayne in most of his movies except Red River, The Searchers, The Quiet Man, and Stagecoach was not a very good actor to me. He was an incredibly larger-then-life big-man screen persona with great presence but except for the above movies he was not a good actor IMO though a favorite of mine.

Finance---Ava Gardner???? Please explain Ava with a good dozen or so photos. Did she have some sort of otherworldly appeal?? Maybe two dozen photos would help my tiny slobbering mind.

The only film you ever liked Powell in was "Life With Father"??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? That is undoubtedly the most amazing and shocking post I have ever seen on this forum!!! Wow is all I can say. To each his own. I am just very surprised.

Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby". So very good and just so depressingly sad after the "ring" accident. I don't think I want to experience such a traumatically devastating and emotional movie again. Eastwood just gripped my heart and ripped it apart in that movie. I don't even like thinking about the final third of the movie.

I most certainly miss " damn good actress". Summed those segments perfectly. Bring it back!!

Geminigirl: Glad you watched it. I agree with everything you say about "The Other" and especially about daylight viewing. Creepy film and unexpected ending!! This would be an excellent creepy movie for TCM to show if they dare!!

"Ooooooh...Kinky!" I could only wish!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!

My good wife just does not like movies much be they old, new, or in-between. Much prefers watching sports or attending church meetings or practicing her piano/organ. Busiest person I have ever seen BUT I just received an e-mail from her at work that she will voluntarily watch My Man Godfrey. Just getting her to start watching an old classic is the hard part. She gets tired of my"admiration" of fascinating actresses like Lombard. She does not get overjoyed by watching the handsome Gables, Bogarts, Powells, and Grants like I think she should. She just has different fanatical interests than my own fanaticism of Golden Movies. To each their own I guess but I keep trying to educate her to the glories of old time Hollywood.

I'm going to tie my wife up tonight with her eyelids glued open and make her watch "My Man Godfrey" so if you read of a mad woman chewing through thick ropes in front of a TV and murdering her poor husband (who means well!! really) with the TV remote and probably the TV itself then you will know my fate. Destiny and fate and maybe extensive blood loss await me in a few hours. My duty is clear however no matter whats dark fate is in store for me tonight!!

Wasn't really familiar with James Cardwell but upon seeing he died very young I read his bio. A sad impoverished suicide. So many thousands and thousands of Hollywood dreams never were realized and bitter disappointment led to tragic suicides sometimes. Kudos to all those who tried and yet failed in their Hollywood dreams. Only a very few were chosen by fate to make it.

Wonderful movie. My eyes got misty at the end.

Thanks mongo for all the hard work you go through to post all these wonderful photos. I look forward each day to your new ones.

I think this CENTURY OLD story from the State of Utah I read about online today on the Salt Lake Tribune would make a heck of a movie. A true story of a massive copper mine labor strike, scabs, killings, and massive police pursuit of one lone desperate man whom they never caught and whose fate remains maybe unknown and unproven would make a great plot. Here is a link to this story I read about today which is a doozy and is remembered as the worst days in Utah law enforcement history. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment2/57148093-223/lopez-lake-utah-salt.html.csp

I agree, sure looks like Kim Hunter....................

I am definitely looking forward to watching Mr. 880 tonight as i can't remember ever having seen it. Sounds excellent. Love lovable likeable Edmund Gwenn!! and never tire of seeing Burt.

Just finished watching "The Rising of the Moon" (1957) again. I think it is a terrific Ford film. Love the singing and the romantic Irish humor and wit about Irish life. Half sad and poignant and half Monty Pythonesque.

There is an entire world and I do mean the whole entire world of classic movies out there. Some sound and some silent. Some B and W and some color though I do prefer B and W at any age. Some good and some bad at any age. Some are a century old and some maybe 1-2 decades old. I personally enjoy the new wider range of worldwide classic movies be they of whatever language or subtitled in nonEnglish. They are a window on times and cultures and human experiences far far beyond my own narrow and tiny place on this Earth. As the world becomes a smaller and smaller place due to technology I like that our range of movie experiences grows wider and wider on TCM. I pick and choose what I want to see no matter from where it comes from. TCM is evolving as a learning and viewing experience as are our "modern" times on a far reaching basis. Fascinating "classic" movies can come from anywhere or any time period though the last few decades have seen few new movies worth watching as many of us believe. Keep picking and choosing wisely TCM so that all of us can pick and choose hopefully wisely and keep learning of the world until we depart. I like the changes as long as they don't turn into a full fledged commercial-driven and drivel-driven channel of mindlessness as most of the rest of the entertainment world has become.

Gotta be either "It's a Wonderful Life" or "The Wizard of Oz" for me. Probably "Wizard" and 25 times at least.

Another ending that surprised and shocked me totally was in "The Other" 1972. I did not see it coming. Haven't seen that movie since it came out but I sure remember the ending.

mr6666--- I could definitely see some hint in that clip of Ferris Bueller but not much. Guess the TCM intro Broderick is pretty much the real McCoy. TCM needs somebody a whole lot unstiffer to usher in zany madcap comedies of yesteryear.

The Sixth Sense (1999). I did not see it coming with Bruce Willis being something other than what he appeared to be. Totally shocked and chilled me even though looking back the movie was one big hint after another. Even when I see the movie again it still just shocks me. I was totally oblivious and still am at the end. Probably the biggest and lousiest letdown ending to me is in the completely anticlimactic silly ending of Red River (1948). The whole movie builds in a crescendo of upcoming violence and then the BS ending forced on Howard Hawks withers the otherwise great movie. Edited by: roverrocks on Nov 17, 2013 6:39 PM

So who is the more real Broderick: the dry, emotionless, staid, dull-as-a-board TCM intro person or the utterly ebullient Ferris Bueller of yesteryear? or are both just acting jobs? or are both neither like the real him? Rather hard looking and listening to him now and thinking he once played Ferris B.