NipkowDisc
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6 minutes ago, GGGGerald said:
You got it, man! You got it, man! You got it, man!
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why does tcm have to put a 4-star good movie like Dog Day Afternoon on so late at nite. some of us need our deplorable beauty sleep and the one vcr I have doan work anymore so it's no good setting the timer. tcm oughta put beaten into the ground crud like doctor zhivago and GWTW on at those hours that way most of us will miss them.
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he doan want his dam watch.
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goodbye miss Julie, you buxom babe.
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she was very sweet as the school nurse and chuck heston's love interest in The Private War of Major Benson which tcm will probably be too cheap to get a copy of for any tribute to this wonderful actress.
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8 hours ago, Swithin said:
Sorry to hear this. Her resume reads like a history of television: Surfside 6, 77 Sunset Strip, Perry Mason, The Rifleman, Maverick, Hawaiian Eye, Bonanza, Lux Video Theatre, Playhouse 90, One Step Beyond, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Jimmy Stewart Show (24 episodes), Marcus Welby, M.D., Code Red, Murder, She Wrote, so many others.
Btw, a bit of trivia: Her first husband was Leonard Stern, who (with Sydney Zelinka) was one of the three teams of writers who wrote The Honeymooners. One of his scripts introduced us to that great delicacy, "Kranmar's Delicious Mystery Appetizer."
I was just thinking of kranmar's delicious mystery appetizer earlier today
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16 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
I request North By Northwest and Doctor Zhivago every month.
you fiend!
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14 minutes ago, mr6666 said:
a relative?
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On 1/26/2019 at 3:54 PM, Swithin said:
I was wondering about that. Google has it listed as from the 1956 film. Since I don't know the film, I couldn't be sure. In any case, it's very doggy looking, but not as cute as this werewolf from The Return of the Vampire:
svengoolie said the werewolf makeup in The Werewolf was the same makeup from Return of the Vampire.
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23 hours ago, GordonCole said:
Hey, don't insult my favorite "crud".
Classic Mario Bava Giallo, with less zooms than usual. You may have missed Cameron's voice but don't tell me you missed his blonde hair dyed locks. Okay, he may not be able to make that pop in the mouth sound like Feld, but he was a great journeyman actor, NipkowDisc. For Bava fans who enjoy his usage of color in framing, this film is a knockout to view. I own it on dvd but watched the TCM version anyway.
Enjoyed your review though for its utter distaste!I missed the start but that sure felt like one of Bava's pieces of crud. I figured he might be the director.
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I think I woulda enjoyed maneater of hydra better.
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watched most of it. what crud. Cameron Mitchell's voice is dubbed even. I just could not cotton to some masked psycho beating up some poor blonde then torturing her. nothing entertaining just nauseating. hate these lousy euro-trash attempts at copying Hitchcock or whoever they were trying to mimick. the color film quality stinks and the women are not that pretty especially on that grade of film. why does the one woman drag the disfigured blonde's corpse out of her car trunk than drag it upstairs? let the police do that or better yet her stupid butler. he wasn't even in the same league with fritz feld.
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On 1/29/2019 at 3:53 PM, Gershwin fan said:
You can't record it on your TV?
I only watch FREE on-demand movies. if it's free than I'll watch it.
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23 hours ago, EricJ said:
Although it's not essential to knowing the Marvel Canon (everything you need to know from here on in is wrapped up in a five-minute flashback in the first "Avengers") Joe Johnston brought his colorful 40's "The Rocketeer" nostalgia to Captain America: the First Avenger (2011)--You go in expecting to snigger over 40's Golden-Age camp, and Chris Evans' 100% irony-free performance shows how Marvel's print stories could find the complex ethics in its heroes, and why he still had so many modern-day fans after the movie.
As for Marvel Studios, the official first company-made "one that started it all" was Iron Man (2008), also not essential to the group Avengers movies except for knowing who the character is--But I've always said the first movie is somehow one of the most perfect social allegories of what we were thinking in our new high-tech Iraq-traumatized post-9/11 00's decade that any movie could capture.
Avoid the recent Warner/DC movies, which wanted to kiss up to angry overcompensating hardcore teen fans who wanted their heroes bleak, "dark" and violent, especially after Chris Nolan was forced to direct "The Dark Knight", despite the fact he didn't really like comic-book movies either--If it says "Zack Snyder" on the directing credit, meet the darkest, angriest, most overcompensating DC fanboy of them all. That's probably why Patty Jenkins' direction on Wonder Woman (2017) got all the public mania for being the exception, made in the more traditional fan-sacred print-lore Marvel-movie style.
As for "Early pre-Marvel/DC", Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man (2002) (the others were ehh, and Sony's "Amazing" reboots were train-wrecks until Marvel reclaimed "Homecoming") taught Hollywood how to do the love of fan-lore right, and...even if Richard Donner's original Christopher Reeve Superman: the Movie (1978) came out of a 70's post-60's-Batman urge to play it all for camp, Reeve's performance, John Williams' score and Alexander Salkind's big-soundstage budget came along right at the moment that 70's movies were burying Nixon/Ford pessimism for more wide-eyed populism.
I never liked williams' superman score. there were portions I liked but the main theme has always fallen flat on my ears. Goldsmith does a much better job with Supergirl.
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I think they ruined the fugitive at the end with that bs about the guy being in the kimble home and witnessing helen kimble's murder by the one armed man. I think it was a mistake to throw that in. it requires us to accept this war hero-coward lets kimble be pursued for years by Gerard and the police rather than blow his image so he lets kimble go thru hell.
I thought it was dumb to put that in. the rest of it I got no problem with what with Gerard saving kimble's life.
a better ending woulda been kimble having to kill Johnson to save his own life but in doing so destroys any chance of clearing himself...
maybe having the dying Johnson incriminate himself and Gerard hears it and he clears kimble. the series didn't really have to end. I woulda continued the series by having kimble go back to the women who left the most impression on him during his 4-year sojourn. maybe carol rossen in ep 'middle of a heat wave'. but can anyone really see kimble picking up his pediatrician practice after what he's been through?
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2 hours ago, fxreyman said:
Back in the sixties when The Fugitive was on TV, I was a little too young to be allowed to stay up long enough to watch the series. However during the summer months I had no restrictions and I was able to catch up with the previous season's episodes, or at least some of them.
In 1973, Janssen starred in the CBS television film, Birds of Prey, where he portrays Harry Walker a one-time Army pilot who flew for the Flying Tigers during WWII. Now he flyies a helicopter reporting on traffic for a Salt Lake City radio station. His ex-squadron mate, Mac McAndrew (Ralph Meeker) is the local communications officer for the Salt Lake City Police Department. Harry observes an armed robbery of a bank in downtown Salt Lake City and decides to go after the robbers who eventually get away in a faster helicopter. Thus the chase begins.
When I was 14 and a little older I was able to stay up long enough to watch Janssen's excellent portrayal of retired cop Harry Orwell (Harry O) which was on ABC as well. This was a great show and Janssen's Harry O was often acerbic and well meaning especially to those he helped who could not afford to help pay his expenses. The great Anthony Zerbe portrayed Lt. Trench.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eMyHO0Jd4s
In 1978, Janssen returned to series TV (sort of) as the narrator for James Michnere's epic television mini series Centennial. He would go on and appear in that series' final episode where he played the adult Paul Garrett, owner of the Venneford Ranch near the town of Centennial.
oh yeah, I've heard of that one and I'll see if it's on youtube.
every time I think of janssen I think what a loss.
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7 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Hey Dargo, I just saw this under another thread and I wonder if you go to this Sedona film festival:
N THE CONGRATS ALL AROUND DEPARTMENT: Media Whiz and former actress Merrie Spaeth, star of The World of Henry Orient and TCM Film Fest Guest in 2014, was awarded a Top Women in PR award in New York City last Friday. In attendance was Director Alexa Foreman, Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor, whose documentary is now going to screen at the Sedona International Film Festival this month....
rats!......
I've never been west of Pennsylvania.
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I think mixing in some serious drama in spots hurts this movie. it shoulda been a comedy straight throughout.
and then we get this awkward punchline with edna mimicking mel at the end. I turn it off rather than sit through that.
and what are mel and edna struggling in nyc in a cramped 14th floor apartment when his brother and wife are living in a big country home like that?
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I have always believed that many movies should not be colorized where the B&W cinematography is part of the overall feel of the movie...
of course! that goes without being said.
I like the early part of poltergeist but when they bring the fat dumpy little clairvoyant into the picture and we here the new age crap about the big bright light that's when the film starts to weaken itself as a supernatural thriller....plus the whole premise of the film is a rip-off of twilight zone ep 'little girl lost'.
I mean they shoulda thrown in more stuff like the spindly ectoplasmic spidery apparition that scares jobeth Williams in the hallway.
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34 minutes ago, Dargo said:
My question would be why you even care, Nip?
If you wanna see a "haunted house" flick, then why not view a vastly superior one that Robert Wise made back in '63.
Oh, that's right, sorry. The Haunting hasn't been colorized as of yet, huh.
LOL
(...well there IS that vastly inferior remake of it they did in color back in '99, I guess...wouldn't recommend that one though, and 'cause just like Poltergeist, they used WAY too much damn special effects in it, and which just suppresses the audience's own imagination as to the eerie goings-on taking place within said haunted houses)
the haunting is a film I would not like to see colorized because of the shadowy camerawork. I watch mainly because Julie harris' performance becomes a hoot.
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the classic illustrated comic book art sucked just like gold key.
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2 am in the morning! hey, even we deplorables need our beauty sleep. is it too much to expect tcm might show something like this at a decent primetime hour like eight, nine or ten?
then there would be no problem.
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it has finally taken years for me to figure how nutty mel's snow shovel idea is. he's gonna wait for the winter snow and at approximately six on the dot he's gonna drop a sheetful of snow off his porch to coincide with jacoby coming home from work?
he's nuts!
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Albert Finney
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he reminded me a lot of peter finch.