NipkowDisc
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Thanks for posting this article.
COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA was a movie that I'd wanted to see for awhile.
When it finally aired on TCM a couple of years ago, I was blown away by Shirley Booth's performance in that movie.
It was another example where an actor seems to be a real person living in the fictional scripted world of a movie.
I had similar reaction to seeing Anna Magnani in THE ROSE TATTOO.
Interstingly, bith of those movies also featured Burt Lancaster.
doan forget about that Shirley Booth film with Anthony Quinn. must be a real toughie for tcm to get a hold of.
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My understanding was that HOT SPELL has never aired on TCM.
incorrect. prior to it's disappearance from tcm now more than ten years ago tcm had been showing hot spell regularly.
I know this because I watched hot spell every time tcm would show it.
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well, I be a not goin' to see a film in theatres that is constantly shown on TV.
that female great white (whatshername?) that's been in the news of late. maybe she oughta be caught and put up by some org like the sierra club until she delivers then they can hold a baby shower for all her little ones with a big swim-in for the sierra club and other orgs like greenpeace or anyone who wants to go swimming with momma carcharias and her little ones.
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not that it already has not. tcm oughta be showin' a lot more films than they are. I mean how many times can you creatively present the exact same unchanging film catalog???
when does enough become enough? they beat The Third Man over our heads at every opportunity because it is one of their favorite films...but nary a sign of Hot Spell which probably hasn't been seen on tcm in well over ten years now.what is this? cheapskateness taken to infinity. sheeesh! what skinflints. anyways, here be my idea for a great double feature...sometimes a great notion with Henry Fonda, Paul Newman and Lee Remick. the saga of the Stampers of Oregon, a family of old school hardcase loggers.followed by...over the edge which has become a cult classic. a planned community of failed yuppies who have forgotten about something...their kids. now angry indifferent malcontent drug-dealing punks. a whole lotta fun with this one.
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Sweet Smell's J.J. Hunsecker.
yeah, that guy is absolutely venomous through and through.
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go to today's full schedule and click on the description for The Cowboys. they got a leonard maltin review to an old Roy Rogers/Smiley Burnette oater.
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Michael Keaton as Batman (1989)
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back in theatres for it's 40th anniversary?...
it was just on amc two weeks ago!
along with Jaws 2, Jaws 3 and Jaws: the Revenge.
to quote Bruce after he ate quint "I think I'll pass."
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After watching much of this movie again, I am still of the opinion that this may be the most overrated film ever made. I got a kick out of Cagney, but that's about it. William Powell was absolutely dreadful
I quite agree. it was good like the first four or five times but after successive watchings it loses more and more each time. it is overrated...especially jack lemmon. doan get me wrong. I like jack lemmon but after successive watchings, his character becomes more and more silly. why should pulver care what Roberts thinks of him? and the idea that pulver is gonna get some guts because he's moved to grief by the death of Roberts is silly. why get mad at cagney? it was Roberts idea to put himself in harm's way like that. heck, the captain wanted to keep him there. seriously, the more and more times I sit through this the more dumber it gets. seriously overrated.
p.s. I agree that cagney is the one consistent bright spot no matter how many times you see this.
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tcm had colorized week and showed some colorized stuff like king kong or chain lightning, the closest thing bogart did to science fiction.
bogey up there flying the J2 through all that meteor dust...colorized.
tcm oughta give it a whirl...but they won't. helluva shame.
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Since many of the films shown are relatively short films (say under 90 minutes), I agree that in most cases this leaves time for commercials and commentary without cutting content. But I believe others have said that content is removed when this is not the case. This is the basic problem with a fix time slot for a program like this: either the host has to limit the movie selection or they have to limit their comments or they have to edit out content.
But yea, since the program's focus is mostly on Universal horror or 'B' sci-fi instead of epics etc.. no content has to be removed.
I'd rather see a commando cody and less svengoolie
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Buy the DVD.
I doan buy nothin'. easier to get it other ways.
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tcm programmers' favorite orson welles thriller? gotta be. they're sure showin' it aplenty.
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I agree
Exposure to all film genres and time periods is what makes TCM the best film channel around. (of course no commercial interruptions counts)yeah, but they keep exposing us to the same films. like tonite for instance, The Third Man again?
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a great early science fiction film tomorry nite on svengoolie. boris Karloff is this scientist with curly hair named Ruka who likes radium. he blasts a boulder with his radium beam gun and soon he and radium are inseparable.
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"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
-- UBS Evening News anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch) in "Network" (1976).
I think we need a guy like that in the WH...
a true grassroots everyman.
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from Emperor of the North...
"so like I was tellin' ya...there was a time when a garbage dump had class". -A.No.1
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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."
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I am sure TCM will get around to showing it. Eventually.
yeah, maybe for Shirley Booth's 100th birthday.
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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!
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I was going to ask if TCM has ever shown the 1924 silent with Colleen Moore, but apparently it's lost...
I like the look of that 1924 poster. some big dumb lug sees his babe and takes her.
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It is worth clarifying that Charter Communications has acquired Time Warner Cable, not Time Warner Inc.
TCM is owned by the latter corporation and despite the overlap in naming, Time Warner Inc. is no longer directly affiliated with Time Warner Cable. As a result, Charter Communications will be unable to exert any influence over the broadcasting practices of any Time Warner-owned channels (such as TBS, TNT, CNN, TCM and others).
So the OP's concern is basically a non-issue right now.
tcm's chronic showings of Gone With The Wind and stella dallas are save.
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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.
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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.
when does enough become enough? they beat The Third Man over our heads at every opportunity because it is one of their favorite films...
It must be said...
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