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from The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three (1974)... Rico Petrone: "wait a minute, I think I just figured out how they're gonna get away." Lt. Zachary Garber: "How, Rico? Rico Petrone: "They're going to fly the train to Cuba."

yeah, maybe for Shirley Booth's 100th birthday.

I watched HOT SPELL last nite on dvd. guess who the cinematographer was? Loyal Griggs who shot shane and tcm woan show this?... slackers, I say...slackers!

I like the look of that 1924 poster. some big dumb lug sees his babe and takes her.

tcm's chronic showings of Gone With The Wind and stella dallas are save.

sylvester stallone in first blood from 1982. while not a war film in the strictest sense it certainly touches on Vietnam vets and in a positive way; that they were unfairly demonized by the left when they came back. Sylvester stallone deserves credit for not only creating the character of John Rambo but addressing the unfair trashing of the Vietnam vet straight on... and I bet that Rambo could beat the crap outta billy jack.

yer darn tootin'!

The Out-Of-Towners (1970) The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)

that's the best one so far.

no, I was jus' bein' clever.

CBS obviously believes in colorizing old stuff in some capacity. so... "well, it proves one thing, mr. hooper. that you smart college fellas doan have education enough to admit when you're wrong."- quint

yeah... 64 years ago.

"sounds like a ghost story to me. -A No.1 (Lee Marvin)

CBS must think colorizing works. that be good enough for me.

anne meara passes. she was hilarious in the few moments she had on screen in the original out-of-towners.... "if you carry a purse in this town, you're a marked woman." -anne meara. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/ap-newsbreak-actress-anne-meara-mom-ben-stiller-31276160

CBS's too. they did colorize those two I Love Lucy episodes... I certainly did not make them do it... I got it!... it was their colorizing bias.

my basic point has always been does colorizing some old black & white films improve the overall visual impact of the film?... I say it does. now just ask yourself this. when king kong reaches into the apartment building and pulls out that sleeping babe in her jammies and drops her, is that better in color or black & white? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N0sQRCyx_w

a great film and a great performance by more.

a good point but I didn't wanna trash doris day musicals straight-out.

those guys need no make-up to play Klingons.

and before that Marjoe Gortner was in pray for the wildcats with Andy Griffith, William Shatner and Robert Reed.

is tcm gonna run earthquake a few more times?... 'cause it be alright with me. always a hoot seein' marjoe gortner as the psycho-guardsman and cop george kennedy punchin' out a fellow cop because he doan care about zsa-zsa gabor's hedge.

what is this? programming for eclectics? only decent film on today's schedule is the poseidon adventure. (maybe beyond the poseidon adventure too if you like seein' veronica hamel wack some guy in the throat with a hatchet) not everyone is gonna go bat-guano nuts over doris day musicals. counter-intuitiveness is having a good run here at tcm.

NOW HEAR THIS... this past Sunday's I Love Lucy Superstar Special on CBS beat out the mad men finale on amc. and doan forget, it was colorized.