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every dvd of hot spell I have I burned myself from files I grabbed. I do have store-bought DVDs like the first season of Gilligan's Island and the 2nd season of The Munsters. I also got a 2-disc Don Knotts collection. one disc has The Ghost and Mr. Chicken and The Reluctant Astronaut and on the 2nd disc The Shakiest Gun in the West and The Love God?

so they say.

how can you go wrong with a winner like this? when it comes to low-budget late 1950s sci-fi thrillers, marshall thompson is the man! my siblings and I watched this one all the time when we were kids. surplus radio electronics and ray 'crash' corrigan in his monster suit works better than lame millennial-catering cgi.

well there is this little insert superimposed on the first of six files of hot spell currently posted on youtube. it reads 'FLASHBACKDVD.com' so there is one outlet for ya. why should I buy it if I can grab it somewhere like offa youtube? I think hot spell is at least as good as god's little acre plus having something on DVD does not necessarily preclude the joy of seeing it on cable. I can't think of one good reason why tcm shouldn't be showing hot spell. hal wallis-produced and an early shirley macclaine film so why not???

and doan FORGET they just beat us over the head with GWTW again last nite,

I just burned two discs of hot spell made from those six files of hot spell just posted back on youtube, a low bitrate disc for my old dvd player and a high bitrate disc for my TV's dvd player.. besides hot spell on the high bitrate disc on the low bitrate disc I included some video of remote controlled drone footage also got offa youtube. this guy takes his drone up too far and loses control and the batteries give out. some great above the clouds footage. the drone looses power and plummets back to earth from launch point several miles away. someone found it and he got the video. pretty exciting!

if a film is in the mgm library than why should tcm have any difficulty showing it?

I doan pity myself for not seeing hot spell ever shown on tcm but rather wonder why such great self-professing devotees of cinema as tcm would ignore such a film as hot spell... produced by Hal B. Wallis written by james poe directed by Daniel Mann hot spell is certainly entitled to just as much recognition as tcm has given to God's Little Acre. are tcm slackers such incompetents that they can't even procure a copy of this rare film?

that's a good point. The Fixer figures prominately in that mgm lion power short that tcm has liked to have shown every so often. we hear about the four seasons of lion power and they list all mgm's upcoming films for '67-'68 including The Fixer which you point out has never been shown. tcm has always liked to paint themselves as these great devotees of cinema but fail to act like it. so why isn't tcm showing the fixer? I guess you will be as out of line about the fixer as I am about hot spell.

I remember them showing it quite regular many, many years ago but then it was suggested to me that it was amc and not tcm and that tcm has never shown hot spell. it's been so long now I can't be sure anymore if tcm has ever shown it. if tcm did show hot spell it has been something like eleven or twelve years now since it was last seen.

will tcm show the invisible man to pay tribute to claude rains who is that not one of their coffer films. tcm's coffer inventory is the determining factor.

our new Lukette Skywalktrix. maybe she'll even be asexual.

tcm claiming the mantle of great cinema devotees and then failing to live up to it. I note this java on the tcm home page that reads " southern writers, 15 movies". I take it tcm wants to do homage to southern screenwriters...like james poe? his name figures prominently in the opening credits of...you guessed it... HOT SPELL tcm gonna show that? no, of course not. will they at least show jack webb in The D.I. another poe-written film? if it's not too much trouble I suppose them yankin' the print outta their coffer. HOT SPELL among those 15 films? unthinkable.

I got it! she's the new Lukette Skywalktrix.

notice how pc requires a kickass militant babe to be at the center of the poster like she's the main character or something. a new supergirl tv series with a black jimmy olsen ain't enough.

I thought from the thread title you were gonna complain about me bringing up hot spell.

hot spell is back on youtube in six parts and a pretty good looking file too. the files I've grabbed in the past had so-so picture quality and a very low audio level. this one has great picture quality and more sound volume. think I'm a-gonna burn two DVD-Rs with this one. a low video bitrate disc that will play on my old DVD player without no freeze-ups and a high bitrate disc for my TVs built-in slot-loading DVD player. a good framerate to work with to, 29.97. so here's an excellent opportunity for yuze guys to grab hot spell and enjoy a film that tcm oughta be showin'. I always download offa youtube in the mp4 format. grab 'em, join 'em, encode 'em and then burn 'em. that's the ticket! save all that dvr jazz for the ploughboys.

for spanish audiences? and I've read the spanish version is better.

me: "alright for you, Mr. Osborne, but just how is buddy jr. ever gonna get his pizza parlor?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ermZqqAh3B0

I didn't know that, thanks. you know, it's not just tcm. nobody shows hot spell for some reason.

doan be a sap and push sap.

tcm discovers the 1958 hal wallis-produced film...what is that called again?...oh yeah!... HOT SPELL

the passing of fred thompson calls for an ileanna douglas-hosted essentials presentation of martin scorsese's cape fear (1991) which she was in. I think jessica lange is smokin' in that.