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get to work, if I might suggest, on oliver nelson's six million dollar man music and john carl parker's score to that old cbs made for TV western 'cutter's trail' and how about john gart's filmation cartoon music. those are the projects to aim for.

a great, great and enjoyable film from 1979. directed by jonathan kaplan, son of composer sol kaplan who gave us so much memorable TV music from Star Trek. a 1970s planned community with it's kids outta control doing drugs and generally listening to popular rock and not giving a dam about nuthin'. new granada is on the skids. things just didn't pan out so say goodbye to any hope for local bowling. blossoming delinquency all over the place. the local rec center has a compassionate young teacher but what can she do? things get outta hand with matt dillon as smar tass kid richie white. very enjoyable film. so many stupid people from dumb unintuitive parents to a local sheriff who thinks he's the last name in law enforcement to a local entrepreneur concerned only with real estate values. alotta familiar 1970s rock music is heard.

wasn't that a 1968 film?

"but there is hope... when the world is ready for a new and better life... all these things will come to pass... in God's good time." -captain nemo

why didn't they use her in 'mesa of lost women'?

now there's a woman!

only film I know of that has a shot of an amazon gladiatrix sporting an impaled midget on her sword.

did you hear that? the nerve! the absolute nerve!... who does he think he is!

how old was claude rains when he played professor challenger in irwin allen's the lost world (1960)?

just read on IMDb that a new indiana jones film is slated for a summer 2019 release. to star harrison ford and directed by steven spielberg. time to come home, steven, and demonstrate to hollywood's younger ineptitudents how it's done. and please!..... no shia leboof or jj abrams. do it right for a change.

tonite my favorite tcm pet comedy feature. I was hoping they would run it again after just a week and a half ago. whatta hoot. yeah, there are some dramatic moments with van gogh and his family and whatta nutcase he turned out to be. comes to the dinner table with his brother's widow there and brings up her dead husband. he's just expressing his opinion. then tries to 'court' her in his nutso fashion. then takes to local landscaping in his snappy white sheepskin coat. his sister tries to suggest to him that it clashes with dutch apparel aesthetics. no luck. he doan have anything else to wear. then it's off to paris to crash with brother theo...who he insists on waking up at night for neurotic questions. then he shoots the canvas with some experts. then meets gauguin played deftly by anthony quinn. the comedy's coming. van gogh gets himself that nice yellow house then thinks art colony. brother theo pays gauguin to shack up with vincent the neurotic. gauguin arrives to a hearty man-handling and a loud "PAUL!" vincent shows him his bedroom adorned with flower pictures... "well, that's very friendly, vincent... very friendly." kitchen time... "well, I see you've been working." the mess gets to gauguin and vincent awkwardly drops some brushes out of a case. gauguin asserts there will be no more turpintine residue in the food. then they start comparing artistic styles. late afternoon painting but vincent needs input. the wind makes van gogh itchy so gauguin tells him to invent. next, fruit-picking in a pasture during a gale... "give it up, vincent! you can't paint in this gale!" "I've done it many times! tie down your easel!" gauguin heads back to the house eliciting from van gogh the most heartiest "PAUL!!!" a contrite vincent gets back after it's dark and tries to break the ice by offering gauguin a drink... "no thanks." van gogh suggests they make some effort to remain friends... "because paul when you look back, so much of life is wasted in loneliness. there's not one of us that doesn't need attachments." van gogh is saying this to a guy famous in history for abandoning his wife and kids for the sake of painting... "why don't you shuddup! if you have to slobber, don't do it over me!" old shoes. uncle tom's cabin. that's it! gauguin is outta there. nutso van gogh comes after him with a razor, chills out and proceeds to stare at a light fixture. van gogh makes his way home and grimaces intensely pressing his ear against a mirror. he's got this itch in his inner ear and decides the hell with his ear lobe. the next nite an adoring crowd of worshippers move him to collapse on his bedroom floor. tells brother theo to put 'em away. chills out in an asylum for a long time then tries to paint again. seems to come down with attacks of vertigo. winds up in a field declaring to himself "it's impossible...impossible!" and shoots himself dying later in the hospital with a grieving theo. then a closing shot of all his works. a life not wasted at all. what a great artistic comedy.

the other nite on tcm's monthy disney nite I couldn't watch the whole film because of that democratic debate on cnn. so I know I probably have it on a few vhs tapes recorded off cnn but I have a renewed interest in the film so last nite I grabbed it off veehd. a pretty good 700mb dvd quality file. so I be a puttin' it on a dvdr pretty soon.

when I first saw this probably three and a half decades ago on NBC I didn't care for it at all. it seemed flat and undramatic yet as the years passed and I grew older repeated viewings change one's perspective and I now find it a masterpiece. the special effects, the ship itself and the interior sets are outstanding but you are right about the automatonish behavior of the crew. one gets the impression that nemo and crew were wholely reconciled to a final act of suicide all along. at least Robert Wilke who plays the first mate got to say "sink that longboat".

It just occurred to me that except for tcm, there is no other cable channel I know of that airs Walt Disney's 20,000 leagues under the sea.

but lewis has been around decades longer in the public eye than martin and france loves him.

allison hayes grasping a doll in the climax of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. a great scene! http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/414379/Attack-Of-The-50-Foot-Woman-Movie-Clip-Till-She-Finds-Harry.html

jerry lewis certainly deserved it before steve martin.

at the beginning of the film warden tells prewitt that "maybe a hundred years ago a man could go his own way but nowadays you gotta play ball" and proceeds to standby impotently while an officer he personally detests abuses prewitt. later on we learn that warden doan wanna be an officer but would prefer to remain a non-comm... but isn't that warden doing the very thing he tells prewitt that he can't do? going his own way? even maj. holmes whom he detests thinks he should be an officer. he knows it himself but doan want it. so isn't warden trying to go his own way just like prewitt?

what next? car 54, where are you? with bimbos?

is dan ackroyd one of this piece of bleep's producers? boy, has he lost it. he never did take full advantage of his irwin mainway character which is a howl. snl fans would love to see an irwin mainway film or a herb whelch (bill hader) film.

I love that paul smith score with it's ominous tones. "but there is hope. one day when the world is ready for a new and better life... all these things will come to pass... in God's Good Time." -captain nemo

tcm never shows doris day in 'where were you when the lights went out?'

Hot!

Williams is a giant but I'm not too sure I disagree with that. many years ago I had a four LP album of morricone's great spaghetti western scores. I was awed by once upon a time in the west.