NipkowDisc
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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!
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So now 3K stands for "Third Kind" and not "three thousand?" I am really falling behind in my text-messaging jargon.
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.
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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.
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Clark Gable and Gary Cooper were always rather competitive with one another, both on and off screen. They were almost born on the same May, 1901 day, Gable less than a week older than Coop.
And their deaths were relatively close to one another, as well, Gable dying in November, 1960, just 6 months ahead of Cooper. It must have been sad for film veterans when those two male icons passed away so close to one another. It must have seemed the end of an era.
The top male stars had started going on an annual basis in '57 with Bogart, followed by Colman and Power in '58, Flynn in '59. Then Gable in '60 and Cooper in '61.
They were undoubtedly competitive over their ducks too.
and Wayne in '79. He certainly was a top male star.
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You HAVE seen the one and only Bela Lugosi in the role, have you not?
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.
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the tcm slackers may not show this in it's full entirety.
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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?
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Wonder if they consider him a big enough star to offer a film tribute? Time will tell.
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
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Is he supposed to have been a good actor?
Pop icon, sure, but good actor?
Oh well, to each his own.
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?
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when was the last time tcm showed Tall in the Saddle with the great John Wayne?...
also with Ella Raines.
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Richard Johnson, who appeared on stage, screen, and television, has died at the age of 87. He was married for a time to Kim Novak.
With Julie Harris in The Haunting.Farewell Dr. Markway. You will never be a cold spot in our memories.
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I found Heston surprisingly effective as 'Chinese' Gordon.
and that marvelous Frank Cordell score,
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THE INCUBI OF PARALLEL X by Theodore Sturgeon...
GIANT BABES!
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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.
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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.
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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
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TCM could feasibly have Booth featured for SOTM, in a month with several performers, where none have enough credits by themselves, not enough even for SUTS. James Dean could also be included. They could each have one night.
sure.
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Clearly NOT enough for Star of the Month, well unless TCM gets Hot Spell and shows it 4 times per day, each day, for a full month!
Yea, that's the ticket.
I'm for it! at least as many times as The Third Man.
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to anyone's knowledge, is HOT SPELL being shown anywhere on cable?
"a simple question for simple people." -Curley Howard
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Well, perhaps you should take this cause to as many threads as possible. That may just kick-start things. Start with all the Top posters and lay your seeds. Go for it.!!
my single typing finger would suffer.
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doan forget James Mason as Captain Nemo.
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Well, how 'bout ME there, pilgrim?!...
"I mean, ya know I invaded and captured a sizable chunk of the known world back in my day, now doncha?!"
"And in fact if THAT weren't enough, I even wooed and eventually won a red-haired fair maiden's heart...and there sure weren't a whole hell of a lot of red-haired fair maidens in MY neck of the woods, ya know! SEE?!...
"And so, don't forget about little ol' Megalomaniac ME here, people!"
(..."and don't apologize if ya DID, 'cause THAT'S the sign of WEAKNESS, ya know!")
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they'd hafta show Hot Spell then, wouldn't they?
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let me just say this...
it has been my honest belief according to my recollection that hot spell has aired on tcm, if I be wrong, prove it to me because my personal belief that tcm should air hot spell again would change.
but until this is proved or disproved, I will continue to recollect hot spell as a long unseen commodity of tcm...
besides, if...IF tcm has never aired hot spell....they should.
maybe tcm can't get a hold of hot spell due to contractual issues which has been pointed out to me by some posters...
but I will NEVER believe that tcm should not be showing hot spell due to the film's significance as an early vehicle for Shirley MacLaine and it's cast but surely as one of Shirley Booth's few films.
you know, tcm not showing a lot of films is one thing because tcm knows that they will show up somewhere else like movies! or even amc but other than the web I have not seen hot spell aired anywhere else.
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Dracula Dies: Christopher Lee has Passed Away
in General Discussions
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Dead on right! Lee himself said that Dracula was a truly heroic figure having great qualities of leadership and irrevocably evil.