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Maybe next week the Summer Under The Stars schedule will be announced Maybe TCM is negotiating some nice surprises for the viewers.

MACBETH was the one with the characters speaking with Scottish accents. I did't realize that Roddy McDowall was in the movie. As for CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT, I didn't see any dialogue out of sync. I'd been wanting to see this one for a long time and it was truly deserving of all the hype. Welles's reaction as Falstaff when Hal (now King Henry V) rejects him was so beautifully moving. Orson Welles definitely was a master who understood how to use the medium of film. It was very interesting in THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO to hear Welles's own voice dubbing the dialogue of several characters. (this was mentioned in the introduction to the movie by the host.)

I actually had a situation where I was missing some paperwork at the DVM. After I was brutally rejected, I went home and was finally able to locate the needed document. When I returned before the office closed that day (I barely made it) I ended up speaking to the same DVM representative that had turned me away. When she saw me she said "Oh, you're back" . . . as if she was disappointed that her efforts to to thwart yet another had failed.

I will say that I thought Sophia Loren was very good as Aldonza in the movie. And while she's not a great singer her voice was pleasant sounding and what's more important (in my opinion) conveyed the emotion of the character.

In another thread I noted that Robert Aldrich originally considered Maria Felix for role of Lylah Clare. He sent ther the script, but the two were never able to reach an agreement so the role ultimately went to Kim Novak.

And sometimes a train is just a cigar . . . (I must give credit to Vautrin for this one.)

Thanks, Randy, for sharing this information. I think it would be fun if someone from these boards was chosen.

I love Claude Rains in THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD.

I'm always amused to hear my 10-year-old nephew talk about who he thinks is "hot."

As much as I enjoy Kim Novak as Lylah Clare (the movie is great campy fun), I think Maria Felix would have given a very compelling performance in the role.

I've never seen COMPULSION in its entirety, but I've seen parts of it when it's aired on TCM before. I like Dean Stockwell and the scenes I did see of the movie were very compelling. As you mentioned both ROPE and COMPLUSION were inspired by an actual crime, specifically the Leopold and Loeb case in Chicago in the 1920s. Both of those movies were fictionalized accounts. There was a movie in the 1990s called SWOON that presented the story in a factual context, actually calling the characters Leopold and Loeb (rather than the fictitious names used in both ROPE and COMPULSION) and actually depicting them as lovers rather than skirting around their relationship or presenting it subtextually.

Well, he would give an excellent pitch for HOT SPELL, but he doesn't want to do it someone should.

Yes, Andrew LLoyd Webber's musical about the Profumo scandal. I've read some good things about the show. It's too bad that it wasn't able to find an audience.

I enjoyed Helen Mirren as Ayn Rand in THE PASSION OF AYN RAND.

I was surprised to learn that Jason Schwartzman's mother is Talia Shire and his uncle is Francis Ford Coppola.

I agree that THE VERDICT is a great movie and that Paul Newman and James mason are very good in it. It's also one of my mother's favorite Paul Newman movies, but then again I don't remember her disliking any of his movies. Great story about being in NETWORK.

Yes, In STRANGERS ON THE TRAIN I never saw any subtext of an attraction of Guy for Bruno, but it was more of Bruno for Guy.

The color in THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD is indeed a feast for the eyes. It's one of my all-time favorite movies and one of the reasons is the brilliant color cinematography.

Season 2 of THE LUCY SHOW was shot in color. Under Ball's supervision, episodes were filmed in color beginning with the 1963-64 season, although they would continue to be broadcast in black and white up until September 1965. Ball realized that when the series ended its prime-time run, color episodes would command more money when sold to syndication. THE LUCY SHOW was Lucille Ball's second TV series. No episiodes of her first series, I LOVE LUCY, were shot in color.

Yes, Mercedes McCambridge is quite memorable in TOUCH OF EVIL with very little dialogue. Good point about Welles being able to pull favors. Both Mercedes McCambridge and Joseph Cotten were uncredited in their roles in the film.

Yes, that's the very contest I was referring to.

Bogie, I'm glad you mentioned that. Jean Simmons's voice reminds me so much of Audrey Hepburn's. I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice that. There are many elements of Audrey Hepburn's speech pattern, of course, that are very idiosyncratic.

I know someone who says that she can no longer watch the drowning scene in LEAVE HER HEAVEN now that she's a mother. She can't help thinking about her own son.

On THE LUCY SHOW Season 2 DVD sets, you have the option of watching the shows in color or in black-and-white. The episodes were filmed in color, per Lucille Ball's request, but most TV viewers at the time they were originally aired saw them on black-and-white TV sets. I never saw the shows when they originally aired so I like the color episodes since they were filmed in color.