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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.
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.
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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.
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Robert Keith was Brian's father? That I did not know. In this case talent did run in the family. The Mask is one of the best Twilight Zone episodes and he had a very good role in Drumbeat, a Western I heartily recommend. I'm forever learning something new on the Boards.
he was also 'that itchy cop' in The Wild One.
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No doubting that, I am just saying it's easy to look like you can act when actually cast next to an actual actor, like Maureen O'Hara.
john wayne himself said that he never acted, but reacted. he reacted pretty good.
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TCM will be airing a 24-hour memorial tribute to Maureen O'Hara on Friday, November 20.
The titles included, as per http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=est&sdate=2015-11-20, are:
JAMAICA INN (1939)
THE DEADLY COMPANIONS (1961)
SPENCER'S MOUNTAIN (1963)
McLINTOCK! (1963)
THE BATTLE OF THE VILLA FIORITA (1965)
BIG JAKE (1971)
THE WINGS OF EAGLES (1957)
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1939)
THE QUIET MAN (1952)
AT SWORD'S POINT (1951)
SINBAD THE SAILOR (1947)
THE SPANISH MAIN (1945)
six of my choices there. do I know?
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Nice list. I think THE RARE BREED is a fun western, it's a guilty pleasure to watch. I haven't seen LADY GODIVA...she had some interesting things to say about it in her autobiography.
the rare breed is worth watching just to hear brian keith's impressive scottish brogue.
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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-
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I think it's pretty safe to assume Maureen's will be a 24 hour* salute, so hopefully they'll find a slot for THE FALLEN SPARROW.
*(...All the films she did with John Wayne and John Ford are givens- although I would be rather relieved if they did NOT show McCLINTOCK! and BIG JAKE is a rare "off" performance from her...) I think it's likely we'll see A WOMAN'S SECRET and THE BLACK SWAN too.
Both MR HOBBES TAKES HIS VACATION (a surprisingly acerbic comedy she did with Jimmy Stewart in 1962) and SITTING PRETTY (with Clifton Webb in 1948) recently made their TCM premieres, so hopefully they'll be re-aired.
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.
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And here I would have thought with that new more comfortable chair you now have, you'd be a bit more mellow, dude?!!!
LOL
"I say what I say." -the manxman, moby dick (1956)
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Tonight I watched for the first time THE REDHEAD FROM WYOMING 1953, and THE DEADLY COMPANIONS 1961. In the first western Maureen plays a dance hall girl who comes who runs a saloon. She tries to help the sherrif keep the peace before a range war continues between nesters, rustlers, and cattlemen.Maureen`s beauty is shown in Technicolor with acclaimed DP Winton Hoch, I enjoyed the second western more because of the chemistry of Maureen and Brian Keith. Sam Peckinpah`s first directorial effort, Maureen plays a widowed dance hall girl who supports her young son. Ex army officer Brian Keith accidentally kills Maureen`s son in a shootout. Feeling guilty Brian insists on accompanying Maureen to the site where her deceased husband is buried. She wants her son to be buried next to his father. Along the way they fight Indians, and two outlaws formly associated with Brian. The pairing of Maureen and Brian was no fluke. Brian was a good actor, and he offers strong support next to Maureen.
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.
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So, pretty much like of the UK version vs the American version of INVADERS FROM MARS then, eh ND?!
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.
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I think it's interesting you mention this, because it is true when a movie actor dies there is a sudden resurgence of interest in their contributions to culture. The public wants to grieve, wants to be reminded, and to those who haven't been exposed to the actor's work( and in O'Hara's case, the work we don't already know about) to get educated. For me, I have been on a Maureen O'Hara kick since her Honorary Oscar win last year, so while I will miss her physical presence in the world, I am not compensating for appreciating her contributions at all.
I think her film work speaks for itself, but if it can be said, Maureen O'Hara was a professionally trained actress on stage and screen, and it is a shame that Hollywood reduced her, or in her case, tried to reduce her. Still, it must be said, as I am not a huge fan of John Wayne myself, that because O'Hara could actually act, when they were paired together, she made him look good, and they had good chemistry on screen.
I do wish that she lived until 102, as she wrote about in her autobiography. I am glad she lived a full life and got to see her contributions to cinema recognized before she passed away.
maureen was duke's girl and doan you forget it! of course she made the big lug look good.
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Just checked the DVD box -- 95 for the UK version; 82 for the "truncated" U.S. version. Both are on the DVD. That's a big difference in running time. I'll check the DVD when I get the chance. I think some of the seance is preserved in the U.S. version.
Wikipedia: "Cut scenes included a visit to the Hobart family farm, a trip to Stonehenge, and snippets of the séance scenes and conversations between Karswell and his mother." This seems to be as EveCairo reported.
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)
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you know, I think that gloria holden's manservant in draculas's daughter kinda looks like lugosi.
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And don't forget the armadillos here, Sepia!
(...or as I understand Texans refer to 'em: "Moving Speed Bumps")
doan forget that big bee-like bug.
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Chandler's death was due to loss of blood from hemorraging from a damaged artery while undergoing surgery for some damaged spinal disc. Anyway, the docs really "screwed the pooch" and it did result in a major lawsuit.
The first movie I recall seeing Jeff Chandler in was his final...MERRIL'S MARAUDERS.
Well, of course I've seen many since, and always thought he was pretty good as an actor.
And sure, does deserve a night or day to himself.
Sepiatone
brig. general frank merrill with two Ls.
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they simply doan know how, hamradio. clueless cgi-dependent simps.
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RIP
aye, she was a grand lass.
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ir was on svengoolie tonite. very good picture quality on me tv too.
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Many of Louise Brooks' films have resurfaced in recent years. There is one in particular however that has not. I am talking about BEGGARS OF LIFE [1928] with Richard Arlen and Wallace Beery. This film would make a wonderful premiere on TCM if only they could get the rights to screen it.
yeah, tcm can give it their algorythym of approval with a record-blocking sugnal.
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Palmerin--imdb'ed Anthony Quinn's Hunchback (1956)--was not even in Top 4 results--Anyway, Quinn's performance seems to have been good but but not up to the great versions Laughton did in 1939 & Lon Chaney Sr. did in 1927 (?). Gina Lollobrigida won an International Best Actress Award (Bambi) for Quinn's version. So there is merit to it. Would be interested to see it on TCM.
I doan think I've ever seen that let alone even knew about.
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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
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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?
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Thanks jr, for mentioning that. It sounds like they are offering a lot of public domain titles which can also be found on the Internet Archive pages.
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