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well, I ripped my restored hammer dracula DVD but I didn't feel I could do anything with it not wanting to merely make a 2nd DVD but rather a lower video bitrate DVD so not going to go that route. I managed to find a torrent and downloaded a new file, a matroska (.mkv) with a framerate of 24 fps so I think I'm gonna go the VCD route, that way I doan have to change the framerate. since DVDs play kinda edgy on my old DVD player I'm gonna go with a VCD so I can record the film on to a vhs tape. I can't use my TV's built-in DVD player because it plays only a few formats not including VCD plus my TV doan have any video output jacks so I hafta use my old DVD player which might go at any time. think I'll start looking around for a dirt cheap DVD player.

I think maureen o'hara has one of her all-time best scenes in "the rare breed" when she slaps brian keith in the puss and calls him a 'foul-smelling tyrant'. it's priceless.

he was also 'that itchy cop' in The Wild One.

john wayne himself said that he never acted, but reacted. he reacted pretty good.

six of my choices there. do I know?

the rare breed is worth watching just to hear brian keith's impressive scottish brogue.

my Maureen O'Hara film tribute list: 1. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) 2. How Green Was My Valley (1941) 3. Miracle on 34th Street (1947) 4. Rio Grande (1950) 5. The Quiet Man (1952) 6. Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955) 7. The Wings of Eagles (1957) 8. The Deadly Companions (1961) 7. The Parent Trap (1961) 8. Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) 9. Spencer's Mountain (1963) 10. The Rare Breed (1966) 11. Big Jake (1971) at tcm's discretion

I doan particularly wanna see McLintock! or Big Jake either. despite the interaction between maureen and duke in McLintock!, there is alotta the film I just have never cared for and Big Jake is just too overall bloody and violent but there are two great scenes always worth watching in big jake, when duke gives roy jenson a sawed-off right through a shower stall and then later siccing a killer dog on more of 'em down the hotel stairs. great fun them scenes are.

"I say what I say." -the manxman, moby dick (1956)

in the deadly companions when maureen and brian keith are camping out there is a single camera shot of miss o'hara's legs and boy what legs.

no, because tcm has never shown the uk version of william cameron menzies' invaders from mars but they dam well should! but you see, Dargy, tcm are slackers! constantly falling short of the mark of true cinema devotees.

maureen was duke's girl and doan you forget it! of course she made the big lug look good.

tcm had shown the uk version 'night of the demon' a couple of times which I really liked. they go back to the shorter u.s. version because it wasn't as good? (yes, for THAT reason)

you know, I think that gloria holden's manservant in draculas's daughter kinda looks like lugosi.

doan forget that big bee-like bug.

brig. general frank merrill with two Ls.

they simply doan know how, hamradio. clueless cgi-dependent simps.

aye, she was a grand lass.

ir was on svengoolie tonite. very good picture quality on me tv too.

yeah, tcm can give it their algorythym of approval with a record-blocking sugnal.

I doan think I've ever seen that let alone even knew about.

I just saw this on my home page and to think tcm had her on last nite in the hunchback of notre dame. I just happen to glance and see a black & white shot of her with her most familiar co-star john wayne and I knew she was gone. maureen is with duke. I feel like cryin'. http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-maureen-ohara-20151025-story.html

here is a screencap of the original british title of what most americans like myself have only known as 'horror of dracula' on our TVs throughout our lives. the screencap of course is from the restored BFI film which we shall probably never see shown on tcm. it's just that to me over the years tcm has never shied away from presenting themselves to the cable viewing public as these great uncompromising devotees of cinema. they coulda thought enough of the passing of the great Christopher Lee to have honoured him by showing the best possible version of hammer's landmark 1958 film featuring his unforgettable presence as count dracula...but they didn't. fine. don't. but don't tell me then what great uncompromising devotees of cinema you are either because there's a standard to be met. I honestly doan think tcm has met it very well. of course, that's just my opinion but why is it that hammer's restored dracula has never been shown here on tcm? those BFI guys must be really tough chaps.

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