NipkowDisc
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flowers for miss sashwaite
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dead guy in the cassone?
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just thought up a neat alternate title
dead chickens society?
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I almost didn't record it, but after reading a few reviews online I figured what the heck. And boy, was I glad I did. It's very well scripted (and performed). The characters question the goals of a space program and how much of a country's resources should be devoted to it.
The special effects were fairly primitive but probably better than what else was being done at the time.
yeah, I did rather like it. wasn't a bad film at all. kinda surprised I hadn't seen it before.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It certainly espouses a political view. Rand was a rabid anti-Communist, her political beliefs were reflected in the movie and probably more so in the book. The individual true to himself over the masses. I think she characterized her views as the art of selfishness which she practiced wholeheartedly in her personal life............
is Rand suppose to be Dominique Francon?
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there are (probably) only a few such people in today's world.
thank you.
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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."
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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)
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Do the real bikers who go to Timonium like this movie?
Timonium? not familiar with the alloy.
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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!"
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BTW, Your Hot Spell copy may be going up in value due to its rarity.
and well it should!
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of mice and men with Fred Gwynne and al lewis.
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Fatman and Little Boy with Sydney Greenstreet and Jackie Cooper
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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.
I mean if you had a run-down cantina, who would you hire to spruce it up? darth vader or jar-jar binks?
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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.
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Here's some footage from the Vanity Fair photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz from the set of STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWKENS.
Adam Driver's character in the movie is officially revealed as "bad guy" Kylo Ren.
We see him in a Vader-inspired all-black caped ensemble commanding a couple of snowtroopers "loyal to the evil First Order."
So he was the character swinging the three-pronged light saber in the first teaser.
Was the earlier leaked photo of him in an X-Wing pilot costume intentionally misleading or will part of the character's story (or backstory) be a turn to the Dark Side?
Next-generation bad guy Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) commands snowtroopers loyal to the evil First Order on the frozen plains of their secret base.
Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.palpatine's love child?
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So some days you like Rich, and other days you don't like Rich?
How about lassoo'ing the creepy crawlies by their ooglie googlie necks and throwing them into a vat of acid?
Presto chango, no more ooglie googlies.
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.
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So some days you like Rich, and other days you don't like Rich?
How about lassoo'ing the creepy crawlies by their ooglie googlie necks and throwing them into a vat of acid?
Presto chango, no more ooglie googlies.
acid? strontium 90 be a lot more fun.
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I take pride in falling into the latter category, though I generally love even the trashiest horror films more than almost any other genre. I'm one of those who is really thankful that they showed the demon in Night (aka Curse) of the Demon -- I think it's brilliant! I just didn't have time to watch the whole thing last night. Also, with a few exceptions, I find the director Terence Fisher's films to be rather stodgy. I think Ed Wood would have done a better (i.e. worse) job with Island of Terror.
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.
still, the film is an interesting curio from 1956.
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.
Is political correctness getting in the way of classic broadcasts?
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would it be inaccurate to say that tcm would never show song of the south?