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OMG, that would be so fabulous, Down! The movie sounds great as it is but with Rickles and Trump and Lewis, it would be a real winner, just like "Grumpy Old Men" or that "Mother" movie with Debbie Reynolds and Albert Brooks. Maybe Jerry could show The Donald how to wear his hair, like when Dean Martin cut Jer's into that famous crew cut look. The Donald would look years younger with a shorter do. Thanks for your always sage comments!

Well, I hate to be so hard on Sister Rose but she did seemingly set herself up as a "media expert" so I would expect someone hosting a series like this, particularly on a site which abounds with film aesthetes, to be less nescient on certain things about the movies she is discussing. I think she thought that by occasionally taking umbrage at the LOD's views, that this would make her appear to be more fair-minded about the films, but she seems like someone who has no background knowledge of said films and is just taking them at face value. She seems like a very nice woman, and well spoken, just not about movies of any vintage age.

Fab list, Mr. Gorman and thanks! "GODMONSTER OF INDIAN FLATS", eh? I have not seen it but your review reminds me of the incomprehensibility of "Equinox" which I love so I'll look for GOIF. Sounds like it should be on a double bill with "The Saragossa Manuscript".

Lucky you, Swithin for getting to take a demonology course. I only got to take a science fiction theology class at my university. I do like things about the Malleas Maleficarum days. Have you read Huxley's book, "The Devils of Loudon" which the Ken Russell film "The Devils" was based upon? Redgrave and Reed really brought that book to life!

"Conqueror Worm" is one of my faves and thanks for mentioning it, FL. The one movie where Vincent Price plays it straight thanks I've read to the direction of Michael Reeves. I love when Price hams it up, but in that movie he is frighteningly sadistic.

Sure, you can count "Sorcerer", Miss W! It would take a witch or a warlock and their interventions to get that truck out of that mess in my opinion. Very nervewracking flick to be sure.

Supposedly they did, acccording to lists online, Hibi. They were in the list of condemned films of the LOD in 1980. Why? I have no idea. I'm wondering why they condemned that wussy flick, "Ice Castles"?: 1980 FILMS CONDEMNED BY LEGION OF DECENCY American Gigolo Dressed to Kill Friday the 13th Little Darlings Used Cars The Competition Those Lips, Those Eyes

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I remember watching the John Wayne film, "Tall in the Saddle" once and thinking, "This movie has more western cliches than any film I've ever seen." I actually started writing them down as they occurred since I started thinking it was so funny. Things like "Head them off at the pass", "They went thataway", "He's a varmint". "Where's the victuals?" and so on and so on. Now don't hold me to the veracity of the above being in the film, since I could not find my original notes about it and haven't seen the film for quite a while, but it did seem all the dialogue was in cliches and it just made the film so much fun to watch. Some I wondered if they were first used in this film, though it did come out in 1944 I think so probably not. Course the film also starred Ella Raines which might have also made it enjoyable but still. What film do you hate or love due to its many cliches?

He has a new movie which is supposed to ideally come out in 2017, called "Big Finish". Here's the synopsis: "A showbiz retirement facility is threatened by a real estate mogul to build a casino resort in its place. A group of hilarious residents rally taking over the facility and put on the show of their lives to save the place they call home." It stars: Bob Newhart, Mary Tyler Moore, Debbie Reynolds, Don Rickles, Tim Conway, Garrett Morris and oh yeah, Joe Levitch. Or as he is more usually called, Jerry Lewis. It sounds like so much fun, I hope it really gets made!

Tonight that "person" will be chatting about "The Carey Treatment", "The Competition", "Those Lips, Those Eyes", and a couple others. I am salivating to see what is said tonight. I'm surprised there have been no references to Adolph Zukor or Will Hays and Famous Players/Lasky and their own campaign to ostensibly clean up the movies after the murder of William Desmond Taylor in the early 1920's. That was an earlier footnote to the LOD programs for sure, even though it was mostly a whitewash just to appear to be more sanctimonious for patrons that were church leaders and civic moralists, which they solved by banning Fatty Arbuckle films and dropping Mary's contract and pushing Mabel Normand into semi-retirement.

Nip, do you think Irwin would have cast Shelley Winters in a Ballard role?

Yikes! I'm a bit afraid since after reading theJ.G. Ballard symphony to symphorophilia, "Crash" and then seeing the movie, who knows what path this book could take. Hiddleston is terrific though, so thanks for the heads up!

You're right, Sepia I shoulda bought it. What I love about rayguns is the sound too! That beep-beep-beep type noise was so great. Actually I portrayed Missy rather badly as it really is just kind of a joke between us. She has seen me buy so many strange things that now she just laughs it off when I spot a treasure I can't live without. One I did pass by on the same day as the raygun debacle was a roll of Tuck Tape endorsed by Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. I think there was a famous radio interview or commercial wherein they advertised Tuck Tape which got rather risque and is now a collector's item. I do have the boxed set of I think Season One of Palladin in "HGWT" so I hope you eventually get your holster derringer. I had one once since my dad would also buy me anything he was buying my brother as a toy, if I wanted it. Mine was tiny, silver with a fake ivory handle made of white plastic. Many people died when I would use that gun outside our yard!

I bet James Dean was on that poster, right, Pier?

I own an autographed copy of that book. I wonder what it is worth now. Sorry for being mercenary, as I did always enjoy Garagiola and of course his stories about Yogi too! RIP, Joe.

Speaking of serials, I wish TCM would show original "Perils of Pauline", also "The Woman in Grey" and anything with Mary Miles Minter in it, and also Wallace Reid.

Geez, it was so great to see Charles Middleton as Ming last nite in the Flash Gordon episodes. I have a book which details all his experience on stage in carnivals and such, and he made such a great villain. I really enjoyed all the serials shown, even though I'd seen most before and own a few of them. Thanks, TCM!

I'm still relishing the remembrance of that tribute show Spielberg did for Kurosawa, in which Akira basically dissed people who only thought of making sequels for money. Still funny!

I love hearing old radio shows, like those with Lamont Cranston and even Fibber McGee and Molly. Too bad one can't go back in time and experience that period of entertainment in situ.

I lived in a neighborhood with more boys than girls so had to hang with the boys, Dargo. Great choice in that Mustang!

This is wonderful! I've alway been partial to John, since he was the looker and got that from the Blythe family, and his father Maurice Blythe, as I recall who later changed his name to Barrymore. Ethel and Lionel got the Drew family looks, which were not as appealing but they all got talent. Which skipped a generation with Diana and John Drew Barrymore but returned with Drew herself. Glad you requested this and I only wish John's dada had been on film.

Dargo, just watched my dvd of this the other day, as I wanted to see the Rondo Hatton imitator again. I agree, that is one fun movie!

Oh, geez! This definitely looks like a room those really unattractive guys from the show "Pawn Stars" would have on their premises. What is amazing is that this Rick guy and his relatives are all creepy, so he hires more people that are creepy like Chumley, when he could have hired someone who looks like Grant Williams or maybe Lee Phillips which would make even I want to go to Vegas. You have called it so right on those grotesque chairs, Lorna which would have to be condemned before they were even burnt and destroyed!

Okay, so like I'm at this antique mall shopping with one of my old classmate friends, and I've already bought a leopard hat [not pillbox though!], a Benny Goodman cd with Gene Krupa on board, a pink rhinestone necklace and a magazine with Jayne Mansfield on it, and then I see it. What I have wanted my whole life but never got. Never got as a birthday gift, or a Christmas gift or even as a Valentine gift. Now my mother would say, I never asked for it which is why I never got it, just like she got off the hook that year when I wrote Santa a note and asked for doll furniture and then on Christmas day got a note back from Santa saying they were out of doll furniture that year. Yeah, nice right? My mother says I only wrote to Santa at 8:00pm on Christmas Eve and the stores were already closed as her excuse but I digress. So I guess I didn't ever beg for this, but I sure always wanted one. A RAYGUN!!!! I always wanted a raygun, after watching all those sci-fi movies with the neighborhood boys, and I never got one. So, I realized it might be a little late in the game but I still want one. The bad part was, that in this antique mall you have to call out your area on the speaker and get someone to come get the thing out of a glass case so you can see it. I could see the tag and it was a genuine, early 1950's gold ray gun and it was only 18 bucks! What a steal. I was salivating and thought of all the fun I could have getting it out of my purse at the grocery or when someone annoyed me. Well, to make a long story short, or shorter I started to ring the bell for the speaker to work and my friend, Missy makes this statement: "I am not going to allow you to buy that. That is a child's toy and you are losing it and you will thank me in the morning. Really now, you should have gotten over not having a raygun a long time ago and you need to collect your senses and stop before you go over the edge." Well, her guilt tripping me, made me not buy the raygun, since I could see she might be right. But deep down I still want and crave that raygun. I may go back to the mall by myself and buy it, but look at all the gas I'll waste and time and it is really bugging me, and my point is, who do I have to blame for this debacle? THE MOVIES! If I hadn't seen stuff like "Plan 9 from Outer Space" and "I Married a Monster from Outer Space" and "Buck Rogers Meets Ming the Merciless" I would never have even known about rayguns or how cool they were. Now it's your turn. What horrid addiction or compulsion do you blame on the movies that you have seen and which have corrupted you? Try to keep it tasteful if your blame is on an Anita Ekberg or Mamie Van Doren film.