HoldenIsHere
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I do remember the August schedule was avaialbe by May 7 last year.
Not sure why I remember that . . .
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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.
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Did any of our (American) brethren happen to catch MacBeth last night and can report which audio version TCM showed. The Scottish brogue version or the non?
And was Chimes the restored version?
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.)
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THE LONG LONG WAIT IN THE DMV LINE
Finally #125 is called. They present the forms they were given, only to be given an additional form to fill out on the spot at the counter. The disgruntled DMV representative also advises the Collini's that they are missing the proper title paperwork from their finance company to show they are the proper owners of the car. Cue the mad dash around town and through their belongings in the trailer to try and locate their title paperwork. They make it back into the DMV and through the line again by 11:59am.... just in time to leave by noon for their honeymoon road trip.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Funny, but I don't remember any stagecoach in it, Rey?!
(...only a train!)
And sometimes a train is just a cigar . . .
(I must give credit to Vautrin for this one.)
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I have no idea, HIH??? The favoured (Canucklehead spelling) four feature began last November 29, 2014 on TCM with the favoured four being Aurora Bugallo, Paula Guthat, Joel Williams, and Miguel Rodriguez. Apparently the first favoured four fans were all friends who knew each other from the website "TCM Party":
http://tcmparty.tumblr.com/about
Guthat yaps about her experience here (she founded and is a "co-host" of "TCM Party", and Joel Williams is also a "co-host" of "TCM Party" ):
http://paulascinemaclub.com/2014/11/22/so-im-going-to-be-on-tcm-next-saturday-1129/
And according to this article with tips on how to get chosen as a favoured fan, TCM is going to be doing the "Fan Favorites" thing a few times a year, each time with four chosen fans:
https://willmckinley.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/5-tips-to-be-a-tcm-fan-favorites-programmer/
TCM Message Board users may feel that they have their 15 minutes of infamy already and may not be interested in becoming a member of TCM's Famous Favoured Four Fans Forever Formation of elite...
Anyway, just FYI...
Thanks, Randy, for sharing this information.
I think it would be fun if someone from these boards was chosen.
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I love Claude Rains in THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD.
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Kids don't know diddly squat about "sexy".
They're all so hopped up on hormones, virtually anything can get them goin'.
I'm always amused to hear my 10-year-old nephew talk about who he thinks is "hot."
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I had read that before. It would have been interesting to see, especially as it would have been her American film debut, something she always chose not to do.
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.
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Holden, have you seen Compulsion ? Made in 1959 and directed by Richard Fleischer, it stars Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman as the John Dahl and Farley Granger characters who kill "as an intellectual experience". Such an evil and repellant idea.
Also stars Orson Welles as their lawyer (he's not very James Stewart -like, though.)
Anyway, it's a very similar story idea to Rope, which of course came out about 10 years earlier.
Both films are, apparently, based on an actual murder by two college youths in the 1920s.
And then of course, there's Raskolnikov.
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.
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Who should we elect to do that? Hmm ...
Well, he would give an excellent pitch for HOT SPELL, but he doesn't want to do it someone should.
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Last year, I saw Andrew Lloyd Webber's newest musical. It was a flop, and I loved it. It was called Stephen Ward.
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.
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I enjoyed Helen Mirren as Ayn Rand in THE PASSION OF AYN RAND.
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When the movie Rushmore came out, several friends who knew me in my youth said I reminded them of the character of Max, played by Jason Schwartzman.
I was surprised to learn that Jason Schwartzman's mother is Talia Shire and his uncle is Francis Ford Coppola.
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I think Newman's best work was in The Verdict. The scene where he has to go into the washroom and be away from people because he is having a panic attack and cannot breath is a truly unique acting moment.
Too bad it is not on as part of the Mason tribute. Mason is terrific in that one too. They had a good director in Sidney Lumet.
He directed me once. I'm exaggerating! I was an extra in Network in the studio audience when Peter Finch as Howard Beal has his new show and doing the "Mad as Hell" bit. I had a great deal of fun that day. A dream come true for a teenage movie fan.
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.
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This is one of those subtexts which seems pretty easy to imagine.
Some are more obvious than others. I always thought that Guy
in Strangers on a Train thought Bruno was just weird and wouldn't
have had anything to do with him if Bruno hadn't killed Guy's soon
to be ex-wife and got him involved.
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.
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Ha!
It is because WE TCM FANS are used to seeing real 3-strip Technicolor films, made from the late 1930s until the early 1950s, such as THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, THE HARVEY GIRLS, the 1950s SHOW BOAT, and the late 1940s Betty Grable musicals. Those were REAL color films, with ALL the colors in them, vivid yellow, green, purple, blue, orange, pink, and all sorts of other real and vivid colors, just like we see in real life.
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.
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I think they have been colorized electronically. I don't think they were filmed in color. Too expensive, and no one had any color TVs in 1952
Here are some color home movies, shot from behind the black and white film cameras.
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.
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Mercedes McCambridge as the lesbian chick is pretty wild too. Welles must have known how to pull a lot of favours. The film wasn't that expensive to make and had a darned good cast. Dietrich too.
Joseph Calleia is brilliant in the film as Welles' long suffering side kick
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.
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Is this what you were referring to when you thought someone might suggest Hot Spell?
I still want to know how much he wants for his copy of it.
Yes, that's the very contest I was referring to.
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Fantastic picture of her! She always reminded me just a bit of Audrey Hepburn. Especially that soft, proper voice.
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.
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Ah, yes, a clip from the EAST OF EDEN screen test.
Paul Newnan read for the role of James Dean's brother.