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I mean if you had a run-down cantina, who would you hire to spruce it up? darth vader or jar-jar binks?

doan like the title. it's too goody-goody. it should be like the 2nd original trilogy film favoring the empire. should be star wars: the dark side awakens.

palpatine's love child?

I never like Rich but when he shows a good film, many will watch it instead of tcm. take next week for instance, Rich be favoring us with REVENGE OF THE CREATURE. if tcm woan show them, Rich will. is it his fault that tcm chooses to remain so arbitrarily repetitive against all rhyme and reason beating unceasingly into the ground the same exact ever unchanging catalog of films with no end in sight? it is not.

acid? strontium 90 be a lot more fun.

I too am glad that they showed the demon...twice! cinemaphiles doan think we shoulda since the demon even once. they like to talk about certain things beiong left to the imagination. hey, why even have cinema at all then? I personally think the silicates were well-conceived but they didn't have cgi in 1966. so whatta want? space cadets understand the limitations of the times and makes suitable allowances while the cinemaphile rejects something outright with no consideration of the filmmakers limitations. island of terror is good.

whatta mean horrible cruel thing to put on for mother's day. that foul 'gypsy' with rosaland russell. tcm oughta put on mother's day-ish fare like cheaper by the dozen or the ma and pa kettle films but no, instead they shove that awful film in our faces again. sheesh! tcm programmers must like the musical sequences. I can't decide what is more egregious. gypsy on tcm or cnn forgetting they're in the news reporting business and shoving anthony bourdain down their viewers throats. I've noticed this for decades. the inability of the news media outlets to discern between news reporting and the human interest fields. gypsy on mother's day? I'd rather sit through Queen Bee with Joan Crawford.

you hafta sit through the whole film to understand that the silicates' outer shell is inpenetrable. earlier eddie byrne took a wack at one with an ax which just bounced off and poor eddie byrne playing dr. landers gets his calcium phosphate sucked out. all you hafta do is give the lame special effects a pass and it is really quite passable fare. space cadets can easily do that while arrogant know-it-all cinemaphiles have trouble along those lines.

hold on... woody allen as patton!

lee marvin as bob wiley in what about bob?

GONE WITH THE WIND: Phyllis Diller as Scarlett. Jackie Gleason as Rhett and Arnold Stang as Ashley.

max was always gettin' the chief to lower that pesky cone of silence. max loved it but the chief hated it.

does hasselhoff speak german?

they sure haven't repeated Hot Spell in a long time.

I'm for it.

TopBilled, what's the story with hot spell? I'd love to see tcm's record with that.

that's a good one. good acting at a good pace. I can't watch the scene where cushing gets his hand chopped off. too squeamish I be. tonite's lost in space ep is "his majesty, smith". not sure but I think this is the ep where the good smith duplicate insists that everyone call him "daddy zack".

I'll bet they will show HOT SPELL on the tcm film festival cruise just to get back at me.

how many times can you prequelize the events of the first trilogy films in unending cgi fests? anyway, if the first order means the evil guys, more dark side of the force power to 'em... I would go to see it if it hadda dick cheney cameo.

Bugs and Groucho, whatta team.

there are alotta films tcm oughta stop showin' and alotta films they oughta start showin' (again)... like HOT SPELL.

the old chiller theatre on WPIX is what me and my siblings were watchin' as kiddies. it introduced me to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, It, The Terror from Beyond Space, Curse of the Faceless Man and Caltiki, The Immortal Monster to name a few. Chiller Theatre also favored us with the now lost K. Gordon Murray English-dubbed version of Black Pit of Dr. M.

I dare anyone aboard to bring up HOT SPELL to either osborne and mankiewicz. ask them why such a significant Anthony Quinn film is gone from the memory of tcm.

Virginia mayo as ma kettle?

yeah, I know, Thompson and Franz did minor low-budget fare but I doan judge good actors by that criteria. the reason that decent actors like Marshall Thompson and Arthur Franz get overlooked by outfits like tcm is of course because they did not consider themselves above doing science fiction. all leslie neilsen hadda do was star in forbidden planet to earn him countless showings of forbidden planet on tcm six decades later. hayden had the same hoy-faloy attitude as gregory peck and limited himself to films they he wanted to do instead of paying the dues. john wayne began his career with a decade of low-budget western oaters before stagecoach. the last decent film hayden starred in was king of the gypsies. must've known some gypsies when he was doing his OSS work.