NipkowDisc
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What's the first thing Prof. Barnhardt said to Klaatu after seeing him again after many years?
"Ren!"
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63. It's much easier to elude all of the military police at Walter Reed than it is to keep a young boy from following you.
yeah, but klaatu trusted bobby so he wasn't on his toes.
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Further observations include:
The landlady who is not courting and we wonder why. Ahem...
Klaatu's lie to Bobby about borrowing his flashlight: "I, er, em, the light went out in my room." Doesn't take him long to lie like an Earthling.
Hugh Marlowe plays a very convincing jerk.
The woman who apparently had nothing better to do than watch her washing machine. She pulls out the soaking laundry seconds when the power goes out.
I imagine that the kid who ratted on the taxi containing Klaatu & Mrs.Benson turned out to be a life-long squealer.
Great movie, though. I can't imagine anyone other that Michael Rennie playing Klaatu. He was so good.
the kid who ratted on Klaatu to the zone 5 military guy...
doan forget, he did receive a hardy "Thank you, son."
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It would be nice if TCM could air "THE BALTIMORE BULLET" (1980). A decent enough movie starring James Coburn + Omar along with Bruce Boxleitner, Ronee Blakley and Jack O'Halloran. At least it's a change of pace from those lengthy historical epics.
One thing, though, is that I don't know if there's a digital copy of "Baltimore Bulet" floating around. I've read on here that TCM needs digital copies of movies to air them and I'm not sure of any DVD release . . . ?
The first time I saw 'JUGGERNAUT' it was better than I expected it to be. Hopefully Turner Classic will give it another showing if they do an Omar tribute. I like 'DOCTOR ZHIVAGO' well enough to give it another watch when TCM inevitably airs it again.
ALSO: Just wanted to mention Omar starred in a 1980 Tv movie called "PLEASURE PALACE" with Victoria Principal and Hope Lange. It was directed by Walter Grauman, who died in March of this year. Not sure about a digital copy of this one, either, but I could send TCM my old 'U.S.A. Home Video' tape so they could make themselves one.
my idea to honor Omar would be a Genghis khan double header...
let tcm show Genghis Khan starring Sharif from 1965 followed by Duke in The Conqueror.
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nothing that tcm hasn't shown before so why should I praise them?
I will not.
but I will continue to watch such fare whenever tcm sees fit to schedule it because that's just the kinda guy I be...
tcm doesn't hafta thank me. that's what we old school hardcase trooper space cadets are here for.
now doan forget. the invisible man tomorry nite on svengoolie.
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It's a Don Knotts Edward J Montagne vehicle like The Reluctant Astronaut or Angel in my Pocket with Andy Griffith.
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RE: Post #3. I dunno. I've never thought 'HOT SPELL' was rare! It was released to video 30 years ago so anyone who really wanted to find it in, say, 1987 could have done so. I concur it should be on TCM some time, but there's no shortage of movies that should be aired on TCM and aren't for any number of reasons.
That said, there's still an unfortunate amount of movies that are damn near impossible to find a copy of. Especially theatrical and made-for-television from UNIVERSAL PICTURES. They're a stingy bunch!
mca/universal has yet to release Oliver Nelson's music to The Six Million Dollar Man. the skunks!
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why is hot spell so rare? you can download it for free at veehd dot com. watch it and then tell me it shouldn't be shown on tcm.
"I defy you!" -Phineas, Jason and the Argonauts
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tcm's entire film catalog is overplayed.
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...after you changed the title, which was a vast improvement in itself, question mark of no.
Where was the honesty in the original thread title?
( ... or are you reforming)
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reforming from what? being an irritant? certainly not! somebody has to be the comic relief around here.
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Here's the deal -- and of this I am •certain• -- the day after NipkowDisc shuffles off his mortal coil (i.e. becomes maggot food) TCM will come out with a schedule that features "Hot Spell" every day of the month!
You better believe it! When Nipkow is dead meat, "HAWT SPEL" is comin' on!!!
In the meantime he can just watch the copy he already has . . .
I shall thwart such an ignominious decomposition...
I'll be cremated!
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I love the way the film opens with Fredric March, Dana Andrews and Harold Russell flying home somewhat cramped on that plane and the ensuing readjustment to civilian life but it is downright excruciating watching Andrews subjected to emotional cruelty by the callous tomato he's married to. ruins alotta the film for me. shoulda been some payback there.
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Claude Rains as Jack Griffin is invisible and Me TV has got him. next week's svengoolie offering. imo this is James Whale's greatest film...and Una O'Connor is hilarious as an innkeeper's wife. a masterful blend of melodrama and comedy and a terrific film that time cannot diminish. such a film as this is far far beyond the capabilities of today's bankrupt of ideas cgi-dependent hollywood. so get ready for more juvenile summer crap like minions full time.
if I had Ron Howard's ear I'd tell him to do a remake of marooned since he handled apollo 13 so well. seriously...
the dregs responsible for 99% of today's hollywood output shoulda been writing for sesame street 46 years ago. hell, maybe some of them were.
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Okay, nobody has seemed to answer the OP's question, posed in the thread title. So I will answer it.
Only one TCM viewer is clamoring for HOT SPELL in the dead heat of July.
Just like we have one viewer clamoring for more Garbo.
Next question, please...
I'm an honest man. that's why I put the question mark in the thread title.
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Oh, it wasn't a "teaser" subject for me, since I knew it would be about "Hot Spell". I was just interested to see how he was going to talk about it this time.
NipkowDisc, I'm curious...let's say TCM actually did air your longed-for movie. What would you do then? I mean, after the thread you'd start that would presumeably state how delighted you were that they finally showed it.
But, after that, you'd have nothing else to shoot for.
but I do...
the superior UK version of William Cameron Menzies' sci-fi classic Invaders From Mars and of course the restored bfi print of Hammer's Dracula
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Well, you may have known but it was still the intent of the OP to be non-committal and then ha-ha gotcha.
I fear, misswonderly, that you take the OP far too seriously. The whole HS thing has turned into a gag. Many OP's stuff are gags. I'm beginning to suspect that OP is a serial leg-puller. He is successful in this no doubt due in part by a cool imperturbability that is annoying but that I secretly admire. Surely you realize that showing HS on TCM would be a disappointment to him. A protracted run here on the boards for any of the causes he ostensibly espouses is sheer delight. An actual airing would end the fun. But he wouldn't be disappointed long. Think you not that OP has a long list in waiting? I predict something like Horrors of the Black Museum or maybe one those old Mabuse flicks. I don't see OP sitting around twiddling this thumbs wondering what to do next. In all fairness, if OP is trolling, it is fairly soft-core and fairly innocuous. I've certainly seen worse. It just gets old.
No, I actually do want tcm to air Hot Spell...
in it's original VistaVision format if it's not too much trouble.
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he was very good in crack in the world.
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great cinemaphotography and directed by Francis D. Lyons who directed Cult of the Cobra which was on svengoolie last saturday.
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I still say, that if TCM ever did have HOT SPELL, they cancelled the contract for it, destroyed their copy of the movie, removed all references to it in their computer files and threatened to fire any employee who even mentions its title, just to drive a certain somebody on these boards nuts.....and it may just be working.
no, I came here nuts.
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Didn't I see that on Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory?
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the svengoolie offering last saturday. I have never watched it before last saturday. I always passed on it for some reason. then again it was never on too many channels in my viewing area either. a pretty sub-par feature if you ask me. marshall thompson who is usually pretty square jawed heroic in these things is a pretty wishy-washy sap here. some G.I.s including daktari, nanny's professor and richard kimble get into a local snake-worship temple courtesy of some roadside snake charmer who needs a few bucks. no cameras mind you. out comes the flash-equiped brownie and a ruckus ensues with ed platt primed and ready with "one by one you will all die!" a few months later lovely faith domergue as the cobra babe shows up in the states to exact revenge. what has she been doing all her life I wonder. putting the bite on boyfriends who doan make the grade?
the only sap who I enjoyed seeing getting his payback was jack kelly. jim garner could be ingratiating on maverick all he wanted but kelly was just irritatingly muggy. kimble the italian gets his bite in his own bowling alley. william reynolds figures the whole revenge deal out and confronts the cobra babe in her apartment. what's he do? waits for her to change so she can come out and bite him. smart. thompson snoozes on her couch in her place but she doesn't put the bite on him. falling in love with him I guess. big showdown in the theatre. daktari takes on his girl with a chair and chucks her out a window. the only imaginative scene in the whole film ensues with a shot of the cobra babe glowing on the street below as she metamorphosizes back to human form with the lovelorn daktari with bowed head at her side.compared to this The Thing That Couldn't Die is a masterpiece.
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Going Berserk
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has HOT SPELL ever aired on tcm? I remember it airing on tcm many times. the only way my recollections of HOT SPELL airing on tcm could be in error is if I have somehow mistaken amc for tcm but this will have to be proven to me. until then I will continue to believe that HOT SPELL has aired on tcm.
my friends, you have read my sworn testimony...
can you prove it didn't happen?
that's my criswell impression.
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Jane Greer, unfortunately, didnt have the career she deserved. Her boss at RKO, Howard Hughes, was interested in her, but she wasnt in him, so he often put her in run of the mill stuff and really didnt promote her career. Past is definitely her best film, but she did appear in some other good ones (usually on in the early morning hours on TCM) Steal is one of them too.
all I will say is that I prefer jane greer in man of a thousand faces as the most supportive of women to a homicidal babe. that's the real jane greer.
if I had Ron Howard's ear I'd tell him to do a remake of marooned since he handled apollo 13 so well. 
the only sap who I enjoyed seeing getting his payback was jack kelly. jim garner could be ingratiating on maverick all he wanted but kelly was just irritatingly muggy. kimble the italian gets his bite in his own bowling alley. william reynolds figures the whole revenge deal out and confronts the cobra babe in her apartment. what's he do? waits for her to change so she can come out and bite him. smart. thompson snoozes on her couch in her place but she doesn't put the bite on him. falling in love with him I guess. big showdown in the theatre. daktari takes on his girl with a chair and chucks her out a window. the only imaginative scene in the whole film ensues with a shot of the cobra babe glowing on the street below as she metamorphosizes back to human form with the lovelorn daktari with bowed head at her side.
Self banning Dukes of Hazard ,wrong!
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yeah, and what about The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo. spin-off series of B J and the bear which sports a theme song sung by Frankie Laine.
Heap o' Strong!