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and I would contend that colorizing improves the overall quality of the picture and makes it easier to see and that is why silents are tinted. while most posters disagree with me on this it is also true that tcm forum posters do not constitute the opinions of the vast majority of cable viewers in the u.s. and Canada. I contend that most American and Canadian viewers would agree with me on this issue. let tcm promote a one-nite airing of colorized prints of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House and Chain Lightning and let us see the public's reaction.

sure!

but if colorizing enhances the enjoyment of old stuff like I Love Lucy, maybe it should be pursued instead of written off. why then did CBS see fit to colorize these classic episodes? some years ago paramount enhanced the original star trek series with new special effects. nobody has objected to that. is it really wrong to enhance something by colorizing to increase people's enjoyment? I CHALLENGE tcm to show the colorized prints of Bogey's Chain Lightning and Cary and Myrna's Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House and then we'll see. let tcm advertise these presentations. they know people will watch.

way overboard! all Hollywood is churning out now is cgi fests for fifteen year olds.

nevertheless, it be so. my rationale has been validated by CBS.

the new I Love Lucy Superstar Special on CBS last nite. two classic episodes newly colorized. L.A. at Last where Lucy introduces herself to William Holden at The Brown Derby followed by the episode with George Reeves as Superman, both beautifully colorized. Looks like I be not the only one still believing in colorizing.

of course not. marjoe gortner's nutso national guardsman is irreplaceable. and what a sense of humor that guy had. no rap music in front of any store where he's a cashier.

would it be inaccurate to say that tcm would never show song of the south?

flowers for miss sashwaite

dead guy in the cassone?

just thought up a neat alternate title dead chickens society?

yeah, I did rather like it. wasn't a bad film at all. kinda surprised I hadn't seen it before.

rope is my favorite alfred hitchcock film. it's great! the technicolor, the window, the decor and arrogant brandon and nervous philip. they strangulate david in the name of space and intellectual superiority and arrange an afternoon dinner party just so brandon can drop clues and the whole affair falls apart because of limpy rupert their mentor. the ending with rupert unmasking their crime and then lecturing them about the senselessness of their act is priceless. I doan care what you guys say, this is a very brilliant and underappreciated little film. never miss it. this can be a tcm pet movie with my hardy approval. "You want space, move to Utah!" -Oscar Madison (jack klugman)

doan think I ever saw this until yesterday on tcm. it starts out kinda like a british version of beirne lay and mervyn leroy's 'torward the unknown' that came out the same year but all too quickly descends into lame science-fiction. sorry, but lois maxwell just wasn't all that hot. trooper kieron moore does what he can and donald wolfit is just properly stuffy in a british way. even the spaceship called stardust looked good...intil it launched. the silly looking special effects don't rate cinemascope and it's a shame that the filmmakers couldn't have gotten a loan from george pal of some of his special effects people. the smoke from the rocket exhaust is just laughable. save that kinda crap for toho. still, the film is an interesting curio from 1956. I'll bet wally veevers was real proud of this one.

I've never read a dam thing by ayn rand, I only know I've liked this film from the first time I saw it as a teenager. the conformist masses led by elsworth toohey who wanna hold on to classic greek architecture are obviously representative of communism. "The individualist creates. The parasite copies." so that's why I doan like the j.j. abrams star trek movies.

tonite at twelve forty-five. yeah, it's a pedestrian Korean war flick but what other film are you gonna find with all three of these guys? Sterling Hayden, Arthur Franz and Marshall Thompson. great cast. Thompson along with Franz did some memorable low-budget sci-fi work.

is Rand suppose to be Dominique Francon?

thank you.

maybe the reason some posters have a problem with this movie is because the kind of mass subservient societal control championed in the film by elsworth toohey is very representative of modern american liberalism.... please remember, howard roark and I doan think about you. "It has a name this ancient conflict, the individual against the collective. Hardcases like me, we move the world."

can someone find out the year, date and time hot spell was last shown on tcm? I'd say at a minimum... eleven years. (at least)

Timonium? not familiar with the alloy.

I've enjoyed this one since first seeing it decades ago on the old cbs late movie. opens good with jack nicholson working at a gas station who is disrespected by his employer as just another young hooligan so he falls in with adam rorke's bunch. rorke is plenty likable as motorcycle gang leader buddy. except for insisting that they all must do what he says without question, buddy has a pretty good camaraderie with his men. the fly in the ointment is conflicted Shill (sabrina scharf) who can't make up her mind to be florence nightingale or a bimbo. nicholson's poet goes the extra mile to cut through her bs but to no avail. women. buddy trying to even a score for poet wacks some shiv pulling swabby and kills him. the ending is a real suck job. I mean what was the problem? anyone coulda figured out the proper ending. first let me say I wouldn't have made irrepressible buddy such a louse at the end. dumb. anyways, after the conflicted shill jerks poet around yet again, buddy interjects and poet talks back to the man. a fight ensues with shill tossing a tire iron to buddy against a fool trying to defend her honor. so poet walks away like he shoulda done 45 minutes before and buddy tries to run him down with his bike. buddy falls over on his bike and is duly incinerated with the tire iron tossing shill aghast...and that's the end.... now what shoulda happened is after buddy gets cooked, poet should have continued to walk off with shill falling to her knees and pitifully sobbing while hearing the sound of poet's bike revving up and driving away leaving her to continue sobbing at the thought of just not losing one of her guys but both of them. poet-ic justice. that is the ending we shoulda got. "you're three quarts down!"

and well it should!

of mice and men with Fred Gwynne and al lewis.