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will anybody bring up hot spell on the tcm classic cruise? me: "Mr. Osborne" Bob: "yes" me: "how come turner classic movies never shows the 1958 shirley booth film hot spell?" ???

I quite agree and thompson was a great shiller.

my review of Ghost Ship... doan think too much of it, not at all. last time it was scheduled I started to watch it but became uninterested but last nite watched it all the way through. captain stone sets sail with a new young 3rd officer marian. stone seems like at first a nice seasoned guy and he likes marian. first sign he's nuts is stopping marian from killing a moth flying around a light. I guess captain stone and his authority only privileges him for swatting moths. later a hook comes loose and marian reminds the captain that he warned him about it. then a sailor comes down with appendicitis and captain stone can't make an incision so somebody else has to. later marian tries to be supportive of a captain he likes but stone says he wasn't squeamish just afraid to fail. then stone kills a sailor he doan like by locking him in the anchor chamber but I doan think the scene was shot right. you doan get the impression that the captain was purposely locking anyone in the anchor chamber. to me it looked like the captain was walking down a deck, saw a hatch that maybe some lamebrained sailor forgot to close and dog and did it for 'em. of course on hindsight you gotta figure the captain hadda know the anchor chain was being lowered into the chamber but you doan get that impression from the captain walking down a deck and seeing an open hatch. when the guy can't get the hatch open then you realize that he was locked in but purposely? the captain gets reported by marian to his superiors and there is a hearing and here's marian with lowered head while not one crewmember will back him up. no doubt about it this is a crew that deserves their captain. then this refined lady friend of the captain's shows up and gives 3rd officer marian a carriage ride. does she know that stone's nuts? then later on she talks with stone on the ship and he says some stuff like for her to keep away from him and he seems to recollect having done some ugly things. self-awareness of murder? among the crew there is this potmark-faced oriental looking sailor who has private conversations with himself which serves as the film's narration. (our hero) somehow or other marian gets knocked out in front of a cafe and winds up shanghaied aboard the ghost ship. a very nice captain stone tells marian in his quarters while enjoying a hearty meal that while aboard marian will have no duties. earlier in the film stone tells his employer friend in relation to marian that "I don't want him aboard my ship" yet somehow marian winds up shanghaied. again captain stone tells marian that another captain might harbor a grudge. marian deduces the captain is going to kill him but this ain't the crew to try and clue in about that. sparks gets a message that finally clues him in. tells marian he gets the deal and then the captain toddles on down a deck with him and no more sparks. marian looses it and blurts out what's going on but the first officer, a real nice fella, has him restrained and tied up in his cabin bunk and sedated even. then captain stone perchance strolls by an open porthole to hear what some of the crew are thinking out loud. that tears it! he heads back to his quarters. tears a plaque off the wall and breaks it in two and breaks out a dagger and heads to marian's cabin to slice him up for bait. so here's an enraged homicidally maniacal stone with raised dagger in hand to knife a helpless tied-up marian. our potmark-faced sailor-narrator shows up and there is a big knife fight. the mad captain stone gets in his licks but our heroic potmark-faced sailor prevails and the mad captain stone collapses on the floor of marian's cabin and expires. richard dix's performance is good but not memorable imo. a better choice for the role woulda been Barton MacLane who could scare the pants offa any audience if he wanted to. finally the title doan make any sense. ghost ship? what ghost ship? captain stone is homicidally nuts but he ain't spectral. you wanna see a tyrannical scary ship's captain? get a load of Barton MacLane as captain tarnowsky in unknown island. that's the one with richard denning, rubber ceterosaurs and a giant sloth. the sloth eats tarnowsky at the end. be sure to get a hold of the cinecolor print. might even be on youtube.

does anybody get dizzy watching edge of eternity?

I'm a-gonna watch it.

but older films have been disappearing from tcm, fxreyman. I named two with alan ladd, botany bay and two years before the mast. no longer are they shown on tcm.

I love them ol' bolex reflex cameras.

Dick Proenneke filmed his one-man alaskan odyssey with a 16mm wind-up bolex movie camera.

charles played by francis matthews is the voice of captain scarlet. he sounds like cary grant with more british accent.

dustin hoffman's straight time is a great film I wouldn't mind seeing either. once upon a time...eons ago...tcm had shown the alan ladd films botany bay as well as two years before the mast, both long gone from tcm... so why do some complain?

sounds like a great doubleheader to me.

you woulda thought they would have being such grest self-professed devotees of cinema.

And political correctness causes disney and others to ignore the fact that James Baskett won a special oscar for playing uncle remus and never mind Hattie McDaniel being in the film either.

I am kinda sorry I missed The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.

only ones I might set my vcr to record are The Mummy and Bedlam. Karloff's really empathetic in that one.

I didn't watch any of tcm's disney fare last nite but later on I turned to tcm and escape from witch mountain was on and the two kids were playing with ray milland and donald pleasance watching them on TV monitors and the little girl was making some puppets dance and I thought their movements was more realistic looking than today's cgi. older is better.

I shoulda used a z?

colourised works!

well, as I said in another thread, I downloaded hammer's 1958 restored dracula and made it a VCD. played good too and no freezes but it was a little on the dark side but I did get it on a vhs tape. later on I put in my DVD of hammer's restored dracula and the picture quality knocked my socks off. the file I burned it from was a BDRip and boy what imagery. that fantastic technicolor that hammer used. vibrant colors everywhere from within chateau dracula. I say that because castle dracula in the 1958 film looks more like a bavarian chateau. colors, colours everywhere. from the wall tapestries and even the chairs like the one in jonathan harker's guest room. a 57 year-old film never looked so good. of course I have the BFI restoration print and not that cruddy americanized print tcm insists on occasionally showing. now, just some thoughts. this harker guy played by john van eysson is really dumb. he initially crosses over a mountain torrent to enter chateau dracula and while doing so passes right by the crypt room's metal vault door and doan even go down to see if it's accessible. maybe he felt it woulda been locked. once in the dining area he opens a letter from dracula, eats some food dracula has left out for him, throws a log in the fireplace, sits down to open his diary, knocks his plate on the floor, bends down to retrieve it and vampire babe valerie gaunt shows up in her evening attire. proceeds to ask harker if she will help him and harker seems perplexed. why? he knows where he is and what dracula is so the babe's a mystery to him? then count dracula, the great christopher lee shows up, and is as gentlemanly mannered as can be. some of the few lines of dialogue lee is ever afforded in these hammer dracula films. he shows harker up to the guest room and exchanges some verbal niceties with the man and leaves harker to his business. harker awaits daylight in his guest room to destroy the count the next day. the door being unlocked during the night attracts his attention and then harker makes his biggest mistake. he leaves his room. he sees a shadow in the library. must be vampire babe valerie gaunt who unlocked his door. he goes down and she rushes to him from behind the library door to again plead to him for help. she wants to get away from dracula but what's the point? she doesn't feel she can tell harker that she herself is a vampire but wants his help nonetheless. harker chivalrously agrees telling her not to distress herself. then she starts eyeing his neck and goes for it...then dracula appears and gives her a hearty hiss. he rushes down and manhandles her to the floor. a bit harker tries to assist and dracula throttles the weak fool. two questions about this 19th century english genius jonathan harker. he'a a colleague of van helsing's but completely fails to surmise that valerie gaunt, the babe in the gown, might be a vampire? what did he think she was doing at chateau dracula? she first introduces herself to harker in the dining area after dark he and can't figure out the rest? maybe her hotness clouded his academic judgment. the later dracula films are not so well-mounted as this first one. next film dracula gets resurrected gruesomely and victimizes a vacationing foursome, third film he wastes time with a catholic clergyman and his niece, fourth film he gets resurrected yet again by some british libertine thrill-seekers and the fifth film deals with nearby village rustics who decide not to tolerate him anymore after centuries of passive indifference. in that one the count fl og s his manserveant (who likes it) and knifes an unfaithful vampire babe to death? gets shafted by a metal rod and juiced by lightning and those two last alan gibson films I doan even want to think about. but dracula a.d. 1972 aka. dracula today is watchable just to hear some forceful dialogue thrown at cushing by lee at the end. it's just a dam shame that hammer never afforded christopher lee more lattitude to do more with his dracula persona. what might have been.

I know a paramount film tcm oughta show... HOT SPELL

I wish tcm would show john payne's allan dwan-directed korean war film 'hold back the night'.

it is one of her early films so why wouldn't she?

I'd like to see maureen o'hara as mrs. miniver but it's tv fare. tcm oughta do us all a favor and just forget there too arbitrary no tv fare rule. I wanna see maureen o'hara as mrs miniver.

if she was ever a guest co-host.

what do I mean? tcm claims to be great devotees of cinema but have failed to conduct themselves as such. they should have tried, to have made the effort, to get the BFI restoration of hammer's dracula from 1958, but apparently were not interested in doing so...horror being one of those lesser genres. is that it? yeah well, not everybody out here is head over heels puppy dog in love with the third man or gone with the wind either!... "cinema is vast. I'll explore! maybe find another space cadet not unlike myself."