CaveGirl

Love that Abel Gance film, and particularly the snowball scene. If only someone would find the spider pit sequence from Kong or "London After Midnight" I could die happy. At least they finally found back some years ago the whole version of "The Saragossa Manuscript" and put out the original long version, sadly after its main fan, Jerry Garcia had died though.

My best friend thinks Perry Como is still alive.

Dargo, I'm still in mourning for my favorite patient on TBNS, Elliott Carlin as played by Jack Riley. He was such a wonderful downer type and didn't he go to his high school reunion and bring a pink sweater to pretend like he had a date, and he would drape it over the chair next to him? A truly funny misfit.

Andy and the boys were all mean to her. She'd heard that Mayberry was a nice place but when the guys in Floyd's made fun of her attempts to do their nails, she called them out about it. I like the scene where they all sit on the waiting chairs and watch her as she straightens out her implements for any manicures that might be needed.

Pioneered the trend of hiding one's navel while in harem garb?

That was a really well done and underrated movie!

It's called the Mid-Century Modern up-cinch look, Sweetheart! Well, it really wasn't called MCM then, was just known as the Atomic style but many lights from that period are conelike and face up, or with a cinched in waist and have bulbs on the upside and downside.

I watched and was mightily impressed, Gershwinfan. It was one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. Something totally different about the way Fassbinder films things that make the scenes have a mysterious undertow. Being over three hours made it a bit difficult to stay up since it was on so late to begin with, but the journey was worthwhile in the long run.

That movie is killer! Shirley definitely has got something in every film and in that one, she shows all her most perverse abilities. Thanks, CigarJoe!

One of my favorite movies of all time, Mr. Zanuck! Tony Lo Bianco makes hairpieces look good and Shirley is tops. I always remember seeing the clip of Truman Capote on a talk show mentioning how he knew Martha Beck as he was growing up. Great story and love the music on the soundtrack. Thanks!

Love this photo of Mae Marsh one of my favorite silent screen stars! Warning: Very long to read! Well, I'm just going to have to be a big meanie and say, that I watched the whole documentary and was very disappointed. Now I'm all for the mission behind the film, to preserve and maintain film and I salute the efforts of those involved in this undertaking but the actual documentary was not well done in my opinion and could have been so much better, if it had been organized with more care. The old adage, "Edit, edit, edit!" could not have been more apt and all the printed expository information on the screen, with titles of film bits being shown was annoying. If one thinks that I am one of those people with little patience, who doesn't watch a movie longer than two hours or read a book with more than 167 pages, you are so wrong. I'm the type of overly patienced person who will look through fifteen boxes of old albums of 100 each, just to see what's there. I once spent hours going through hundreds of old magazines from the 1940's looking for movie star page advertisements which took me days. So I do not mind spending time in search of wonderful things, but this documentary was ill-arranged, and could have been cleaned up with a better organizational attack. I tried to read the name of every two second film clip they would show and started noticing that clips from the same movies were being shown over and over, but in dribs and drabs. Also the whole story of Dawson City and its evolution, almost demanded its own movie. Instead of mixing up all the parts of both stories, why not concentrate on each story one at a time and put the clips in some chronological order or at least, show all the clips from one movie at the same time, instead of in spurts that could cause someone to have an epileptic seizure. The wordings were showing up all over the screen and my eyes were about to fall out of my head by the end. I also think one could have written up an opening explanation of the Dawson City story at the beginning and then followed up in a Part Two with how the films were unearthed and what was found. Frankly, it all came out as a mish-mash to me, and could have been handled so much better I feel if it had been planned better and executed with some aplomb, and the ability to again "Edit" some of the story explanations that were showing up on the screen. Sorry to be an curmudgeon, but I was really not able to appreciate much of it due to the above issues. Like I said, I will watch any old thought lost film footage, and could view hours of it and not be this critical. At Christmastime I will watch all those hours of antique footage from the 1890's with Santa Claus coming in the windows to give gifts and am never bored or tired of it, but this documentary really didn't cut it as far as I am concerned. Okay, can you tell I did not care for it...haha! To me, this was like giving some seamstress the most valuable and expensive material in the world and they chop it all up and waste its potential to be fabulous. P.S. Give me the footage and I will recut it all and make a better and more concise documentary.

"The Princess Bride" and "Christmas Holiday".

I played that game only once and I don't really think so as I recall. It really concentrated on more famous films, though it did get into directors and incidents within films that were good trivia. Now for the group here, they would have to invent a super-duper dark state trivia master edition, as no one here could be stumped on hardly anything with all the ultra knowledgeable folks here like you and so many others, TB.

You should be...

I would have lost though in "Trivial Pursuit: The Silver Screen Edition", TB. Speaking of movie mistakes, I remember once we were playing Trivial Pursuit, and the movie question was "Who addressed the U.N. while wearing a gun?" and my friend, Ann said "Uh, maybe John Wayne?" I always thought that mistake was funny. I think it was really someone like Yasser Afafat.

And the November 1994 schedule was available on the 17th of August that year. I can also tell you when the Ides of March occurred in the year 1769 and what day of the week Elvis Presley was born. Just call me Rainwoman, TB!

You mean you didn't get to see the little creatures which remind one of paisley designs, swimming in the dresser drawer? That's really too bad, Lorna.

You can't buy charm or probably learn to be charming either. Flynn had it in spades, which is why he was often in like Flynn!

I did, I did, I did!! You are an excellent proofreader, corrector of egregious mistakes and friend, TB! Thanks so much for your intervention. I'd blame bad liquor but it really is just an addled mind with too many movies in it.

When the ghosts and goblins come out to play, as the Celts thought during their festival of Samhain, there was probably no need for overkill to try to make people even more frightened than they already were, viewing cauldrons and such. But in our time, the need for scaring up some emotions is more desired. Most live a rather civilized existence, without worrying that their abode will be invaded by spirits from a crypt who are out for diabolical dealings. Hence, the horror novel began and evolved into the horror film, which makes its place in shocking the senses and waking up feelings that should occasionally be unearthed, that are not as tangential to our world. Unfortunately though, my search for the film that will finally scare me has gone on way too long. Never scared as a child by any horror film I ever saw, due perhaps to seeing all the famous horror films in existence, since my parents did not believe in censoring such things, the search goes on. Always in the back of my mind was the knowledge that a film is not real life and that these people are acting. Only perhaps a film purporting to be real life footage, like "The Blair Witch Project" could have been impressive, but it was obvious from the beginning that this claim was bogus. Now if I did find hidden footage in a cabinet somewhere like that in the film "The 4th Man" or was privy to things filmed by someone like the serial killer, Harvey Glatman I might finally be frightened, but the normal panoply of horror films produced by Hollywood and beyond, just leave me cold. I enjoy their efforts, I give an "A" to inserted images as in "The Exorcist" but still am unmoved. Nevertheless hope springs eternal so I ask that any here who have horror films they believe are beyond the pale, please submit them if they would make good material for my annual Halloween fest. Frankly, I found the cheapie, B-film, "The Strangler of the Swamp" more frightening with the images of Charles Middleton a lot more scary than most famous horror flicks. I do find things like "Black Christmas", "The City of the Dead","I Vampiri" and "The Night of the Eagle" to have their moments but they still don't really give me goose bumps. Please submit the most unearthly and spine tingling nominees for Halloween's best, with my gratitude for any really obscure but spooky offerings.

Sakall was good in CIC, and Greenstreet showed his comedic abilities too. Great movie and always a perennial seasonal favorite. I like your choices and I just wish once, that Cuddles would have played an earthy villain, who would kill over perhaps missing out on some Lemon Meringue Pie or other tasty victual. Wouldn't that have been great to see, Zea? Imagine S.Z. pulling some heat out of his portly vest area, and pistol whipping someone like Elisha Cook Junior for getting the last piece of Yorkshire pudding at the diner or some such gastronomic sin?

I like Bacall. But your take is true. We can forgive some failings if other abilities are redeeming I feel, and Bacall did have those other qualities to be sure. Thanks, James!

What a movie! Thanks for not showing any of the outside wharf scenes, Swithin. As much as I enjoy phallic symbols, I still have nightmares about the ones in "Querelle". I will say Franco Nero was never better in any role!

Maybe it's a good thing? Just like one should try champagne before escargots and so on...

SEW, I'm gonna guess that the Ray and Fassbinder films were the most unusual to see, from that list being less widely circulated. Of course, "Greed" is not always so available but still more accessible. I don't know that I would put Fassbinder ahead of your amazing list of film directors to see, like Bergman, Fellini, Antonioni, Herzog, Bunuel or Kurosawa, since I saw all of them many times before I ever saw anything by Fassbinder and I think that was a good thing. I think his work is better left for later in one's film viewing habits. If I'd seen "Querelle" when I was twenty, I might have been flabbergasted by its rather squalid excesses, but I could take such intrusions into normalcy at a more mature age.