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I get it.

she had to to keep marshal Dillon revved up.

where were they when Gerald Fried's music score to The Flame Barrier (1958) was disintegrating into oblivion? nowhere 'cause they've never even shown that film. I guess it's irrelevant because it sci-fi related. cinema does not begin and end with film noir.

tcm would avoid that if it means busting their guts to get a hold of a lot of his films. look at hot spell. they obviously are unwilling to extend themselves to get it.

Lee also had a cameo in Tim Burton's awful Dark Shadows from 2012. Johnny Depp was good as Barnabas Collins but his goth make-up ruined the film along with Tim Burton's usual bizarre eccentricities.

which is better? Gunfight at the O.K. Corral or Hour of the Gun? surely James Garner is more solemn as Earp than Lancaster.

Barry Sullivan waiting to get shot down like a dog...brilliant? ... but that summer evening thunderstorm on the boardwalk was certainly atmospheric.

Dead on right! Lee himself said that Dracula was a truly heroic figure having great qualities of leadership and irrevocably evil.

I very much hope that tcm will honor Christopher Lee with an airing of the 2012 BFI restored print of Dracula (1958) if tcm can run Jacques Tourneur's Night of the Demon than they can run a restored 2012 print of Hammer's Dracula without the americanized "Horror of' bullcrap in the title. with the original british title the D in dracula is embellished nicely ... but I expect tcm will show their older incomplete americanized print because they be slackers! ... and never quite willing to show the proper respect and do justice to the horror and sci-fi genres which are also a part of cinema just as film noir is, no more no less. slackers, I say!...slackers!

well, I first saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind abbreviated like that in the pages of STARLOG magazine in 1977 many months before it's theatrical release so I guess it's Kerry O'Quinn's fault.

last saturday evening's latest showing of Close Encounters of the Third Kind seemed to be edited. missing was the scene with roy neary taking a shower in the bathtub while hilariously commenting on the waterproofness of his wristwatch. that scene has been in every cut of CE3K I've ever seen but not last saturday nite. my guess would be that they just aired the print they had which was already edited since I doan believe tcm would even extend themselves to shorten a film.

and Wayne in '79. He certainly was a top male star.

Lugosi as Dracula has always been grossly overrated. Lugosi as Dracula had great international impact and I think film critics have confused the historic relevance of Lugosi as Dracula with his persona as Dracula which at best is mediocre. Lee projects. what the hell does Lugosi project? an Hungarian accent? I like Bela Lugosi but he was not all that effective as Dracula.

the tcm slackers may not show this in it's full entirety.

not really an event. just said that to sound muckety muckish. actually, it's just a couple of questions off the top of my point. as we all know, tcm ran one of my favorites tuesday nite at eleven forty-five, dog day afternoon, a four star film. now if joel schumacher had subordinated his ego and had sidney lumet who directed this direct falling down with michael douglas, it woulda been a megahit on the caliber of dog day afternoon... but he didn't and so that is why nobody even remembers falling down today. but anyways, my trivia questions, first, the big one... in the bank mulvaney has a small black & white portable TV on his desk. what year, make and model is it? here is another one totally unrelated to dog day afternoon... name two films where Anthony Quinn and Earl Holiman play father and son?

Dracula Today aka. Dracula AD 1972 is not chronologically accurate. (I hate those last two Alan Gibson films) you got this stupid storyline that has the original dr. van helsing's final confrontation with the 'demon vampire' count dracula (great term) which takes place in 1872 and the story picks up a hundred years later in early seventies mod london. the prob? hammer and Gibson forgot the 1958 film... after jonathan harker is settled in his room after meeting count dracula, he opens his diary and begins writing. the year?... 1885

only the greatest screen dracula cinema will ever know is all..... will tcm show the newly restored 2012 print with the full sunlight disintegration at the end or can we expect an older print?

when was the last time tcm showed Tall in the Saddle with the great John Wayne?... also with Ella Raines.

Farewell Dr. Markway. You will never be a cold spot in our memories.

and that marvelous Frank Cordell score,

THE INCUBI OF PARALLEL X by Theodore Sturgeon... GIANT BABES!

nuts to goin' to see jaws in the theatres. jaws and jaws 2 are on amc this afternoon at three thirty and six thirty. whatta remarkable thing. jaws be on tv already.

if my timely allusions to this rare film have spurred curiosity in those who have never seen it. it is out there. in 9 parts, mp4 format, at veehd dot com.

Hot Spell is available on dvd from some outfit called bongo bird. I found the review at the top amusing. http://www.ioffer.com/ratings/bongobird/hot-spell-1958-shirley-booth-anthony-quinn-523997563

sure.