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What an intriguing movie this was. There was no commentary by Ben Mankiewicz. I wonder if that means he hasn't seen it.

How did Breen miss that?!

TCM really should air ENCINO MAN.

****SPOILER ALERT**** Watching this scene again, I don't think that Walter's taking out the gun means that he doesn't believe Martha's declaration of love, but just the opposite. I can totally see validity to Muller's remark about their deaths being a suicide pact, with the intention of being together forever after death. The sensual look on Stanwyck's face (as Hibi mentioned) and the fact that she is the one that moves the gun against her and that she and Walter pull the trigger together (this is explicitly shown onscreen) make a strong case for Muller's interpretation. And, most telling, she identifies herself as Martha Smith (not Ivers) after she's been shot. I think the strange love of Martha Ivers is her love for Walter. She was shattered when Walter didn't support her when she planned to kill Sam. We see in that moment Walter's power in the relationship, despite his appearance of weakness.

This sounds very interesting. On what channel is it airing?

What about Dolly Madison?

Warner should have cast Audrey Hepburn as Martha Washington and/or Betsy Ross.

I second speedracer's recommendation of PENELOPE. Here's a clip of Natalie Wood wearing (and Edith Head discussing) the costumes in PENELOPE:

I was really surprised that 1776 was deemed worthy of digital restoration but I guess the movie must have its fans. It seems like a dud to me.

Absolutely things were "slipped" into movies during the time of the Code unrecognized by the "monitors," but I'm referring to something being shown that was expressly forbidden. Others have also noted that there were other instances of suicide being depicted onscreen as well. The Code, by the way, was self-regulation by the movie industry; it was not regulation by the government.

There's a close shot of them pulling the trigger together. There's a very sensual quality to it as someone has noted before.

I think you are incorrect. The purpose of letterboxing is to preseve the entire image of a film as seen in the cinema. Letterboxing is used as an alternative to a full-screen, pan-and-scan transfer of a widescreen film image to videotape or videodisc. In pan-and-scan transfers, the original image is cropped to the narrower aspect ratio of the destination format, usually the 1.33:1 (4:3) ratio of the standard television screen, whereas letterboxing preserves the film's original image composition as seen in the cinema. Letterboxing was developed for use in 4:3 television displays before widescreen television screens were available, but it is also necessary to represent on a 16:9 widescreen display the unaltered original composition of a film with a wider aspect ratio, such as Panavision's 2.35:1 ratio.

Yes, I really hope BLUE VELVET does not get bumped this time.

Yes, when TCM uses letterboxing for those CinemaScope movies, we are seeing the entire image as it was shown theatrically. The letterbox bars are used to preserve the original widescreen format of the movie.

I agree The "Crime Does Not Pay" shorts are quite amusing. I really appreciate TCM airing all the old movie shorts that they do. "Duck And Cover" is a good one too.

What? Tor Johnson actually received bad reviews for hs work in YOUNG TÖRLESS? Those reviewers were definitely just haters. He was so utterly convincing as a teenager and completely transformed himself into that role. He was credited in that movie as Mathieu Carrière, and if I didn't know better I would have sworn it was indeed a completely different actor rather than Tor Johnson ----- just as I would have swown that Pandora Spocks and Elizabeth Montgomery were two distinct individuals.

I know there are some TOOTSIE haters on this board, but I love the movie. I caught part of it on a channel called THIS (I think) recently, but (gasp!) it appeared to be in pan-and-scan stretched to widescreen. Sydney Pollack would have had the heebie jeebies if he saw that . Hey! What about "heebie jeebies" as an arcane phrase?

Degrassi is so much more than a television show . . .

Remember when Joey sold the "New Zealand Zappers" to his fellow Degrassi students?

Yes, PENELOPE is such a fun movie. I saw BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE a few years ago on TCM. It's a good movie annd Natalie Wood is good in it and so very pretty too. I love the opening.

There's a Fleischer Popeye cartoon called "Nix On Hynotricks."

TCM did a tribute to Jane Greer one evening a few years ago. I first saw THE COMPANY SHE KEEPS then. I like that movie a lot, especially Jane Greer's performance. I'm not sure if she was ever honored during Summer Under The Stars, but she should be.

Yes, I think clout definitely allowed the code to be skirted in a few cases. It was the clout of Edward Albee's play that allowed the code-imposed language barrier to be broken in such a blatant way in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? --- and of course in so doing led to the end of the code itself.

I don't like it when the vertical of shows created in the 4:3 aspect ratio is cropped to create a faux widescreen. The stretching of 4:3 shows and movies is even worse.