NipkowDisc
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I just noticed this channel on my cable line up this afternoon and was hoping you'd catch it, Nip. Days and days of VTTBOS? You gotta be lovin' it.
you bet!
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Flag the flick! tcm programmers will see it.
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My most favorite would be Young Mr. Lincoln.. just for sentimental reasons. But a more recent favorite that I must admit I enjoy as well, would be.. um.. a decidedly very "atypical" Abe performance.. (but I mean that in a good way)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrcffc_abe-lincoln_shortfilms
Jack Cass, I just got it!
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the great man beams aboard the 23rd century earth ship enterprise.
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I say the severely unappreciated Charles Watts should be a SOTM. We all know him as suspender salesman O.W. Schultz in The Spirit of St. Louis who tells jimmy Stewart's Charles Lindbergh that the atlas suspender company holds up the pants of the middle west. Charles Watts excelled at playing pompous businessmen and politician types. I love it in that ep of dennis the menace when Watts as the park commissioner announces that the new park swimming pool will be dug directly across from Mr. Wilson's house on elm street.
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decades, this wonderful new cable channel is countdowning to it's launch by goin' through the four seasons of voyage to the bottom of the sea. of his four tv shows the closest irwin allen ever got to doin' star trek. the stage is inner space and the hammer, the fantastic nuclear sub seaview. lotsa great acting from Richard Basehart as Admiral Harriman Nelson. they're in the 2nd season color eps now and sometime late tonight they'll be where me tv is. this is the channel to be a watchin' right now. vttbots rules! naturally I be a recordin' my favorite eps...
tcm could learn a thing or two from decades consideration of the viewer.
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I was right. Here is Kael's review:
"Rehashed humor. Bogdanovich tries to resuscitate screwball comedy; his chief source is the 1938 BRINGING UP BABY, with Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn-- an extended absent-minded professor joke that's a lovely piece of lunacy. The film's underlying assumption is that if you repress your instincts you can get so disjointed you can forget your own name.
"Bogdanovich takes the plot and the externals of the characters from BRINGING UP BABY, but loses the logic. His picture goes every which way; he restages gags from Buster Keaton and Laurel & Hardy and W.C. Fields, plus tosses in a lot of cornball devices. Ryan O'Neal and Barbra Streisand are asked to play Grant and Hepburn. O'Neal is embarrassing as he goes through the Cary Grant motions and mannerisms. Streisand comes off better because she sticks to her own rapid, tricky New York-ese line readings.
"As the financee, Madeline Kahn does a traditional bossy female caricature that is strident but sometimes funny. There are a couple of fresh moments (seconds, really) where Sorrell Booke trips Mabel Albertson and they wrestle in a hotel corridor. The picture works only fitfully and at a rather infantile imitative level. Apparently, that is enough to make it a box-office hit."
I still like it. irregardless of O'Neal mimicking Grant he is still good as howard bannister and Barbra streisand is enjoyable as the babe who thinks she is bugs bunny...and after her bubble bath she is real hot wrapped in that bathtowel.
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WIKI - Paul Mantz:
In 1945, Mantz flew a P-40 and directed aerial sequences in God is My Co-Pilot. Mantz piloted a Boeing B-17 for the belly-landing scenes in Twelve O'Clock High and the footage was reused in several other movies
(That scene is early in the film.)
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Mantz died on July 8, 1965 while working on the movie The Flight of the Phoenix, produced and directed by Robert Aldrich. Flying a very unusual aircraft, the Tallmantz Phoenix P-1 built especially for the film, Mantz struck a small hillock while skimming over a desert site in Arizona for a second take. As Mantz attempted to recover by opening the throttle to its maximum the over-stressed aircraft broke in two and nosed over into the ground, killing Mantz instantly. (Bobby Rose, a stuntman standing behind Mantz in the cockpit and representing a character played by Hardy Kruger, was seriously injured.)
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that'll do it.
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really enjoyed this island earth last nite on svengoolie. he said it was a good print and it looked it...but they did cut it off after 'the end' without the closing cast credits and accompanying star field. if I were host that would never happen. lost in space ep war of the robots followed and this is the first ep which really begins to establish the will/robot rapport. the mummy ep of vttbots that followed I found disappointing. seen it before of course many times. svengoolie's print of this island earth was nice with the still impressive 1950s technicolor hues but last nite's vttbots mummy ep the color hues were off a tad. space cadets will notice that sort of thing. wasn't terribly over the top neither. a 3000 year-old egyptian mummy takes a shine to crane and a pointless ep insues. why should an ancient egyptian mummy care if the seaview gets in on time to prevent a mid-east war? that pesky ol' mummy keeps getting up and accosting crewmembers. beats up two guys and erases their memory of their rucus with it. then the mummy's in the flying sub (which is never explained. guess it was just a good place to hide) and strangulates a hapless blue jump suiter.
I guess irwin allen mummies are just naturally ornery. nelson finally dispatches it with an electrified hose. smartly done.
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I watched PROPHECY about 3 months ago and I recall exactly what scene you're talking about, NipkowDisc.
And don't forget: Richard gets his hands bitten off in 'THE THING'. He also had a substantial part in 'BEING THERE' (1979).
I remember Dysart also having a small part in PETULIA (1968). He's easily recognizable despite the brevity of the role.
Along with Geoffrey Lewis, Gregory Walcott and June Fairchild, another 'Clint Co-Star' bites the recent dust. I liked 'PALE RIDER' a lot.
oh yeah, I forgot about the thing.
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Well?................................
Do we get a Richard Dysart nite with primetime showings of The Hindenburg, Prophecy and Pale Rider or doan we?
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So ND, and here I would've thought you especially would have appreciated my earlier picture of Jeff Morrow as "Andrew Jackson"?!!!
(...guess I "doan" know your sense of humor as well as I thought, eh?!)
I'm sorry, Dargo. I thought that was very clever. obviously, Exeter looks like Heston's old hickory in The Buccaneer rather than in The President's Lady.
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That ship model looks like it was casted in a waffle iron.
yeah, I've always liked that. a way ahead of it's time sci-fi film with it's star trek-like star fields and the neutrino beam-equipped interocitor.
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That ship model looks like it was casted in a waffle iron.
yeah, I've always liked that. :lol:but it is a way ahead of it's time film in no small part to those neat star trek-like star field effects amd who doesn't love the interocitor with it's neutrino beams.
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I thought he was very good in John Frankenheimer's Prophecy (1979). in that he mercilessly gets bitten in half by a freakazoid bear-sausage while trying to crawl beneath a chain-link fence.
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Barabbas next wed. at eight...but they've shown it once this month already! this be what I be bellyachin' about. it makes more sense to tcm to beat an oft repeated film into the ground then to do right by Anthony Quinn and show two not seen films like Hot Spell and Attila...
that ain't doin' right by Quinn as sotm. no sir.
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the exorcist
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"Don't waste your time trying to pull in that tcm website, Exeter."
"I suppose you're right, Meacham."
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THIS ISLAND EARTH but with no osborne sit-in with the still living Rex Reason.
that's the way tcm wants it? okay.
just seems to me that the great science fiction genre deserves better especially from such great professed hollywood devotees as tcm.
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The Green Berets was the only Hollywood movie about Vietnam made during the war. Unless you count Tribes (1970), with Darren McGavin, which took place entirely in boot camp IIRC. So there are a lot fewer choices.
a good Vietnam movie choice imo is first blood.
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After all these years, it's still kickin' ....
truly wonderful news! when I scrolled ahead on my TV schedule to see The Ten Commandments was nowhere to be seen tonite my heart sank with fear. was ABC prepared to finally end a long standing decades- long tradition? so I scrolled ahead to sunday nite and there it is! tomorrow nite at 7:00...
The Ten Commandments is back on sunday nite where it belongs! sunday was always america's family nite around the TV. that's how The Ten Commandments should be watched. by families around the living room TV on sunday nite. I never liked The Ten Commandments on saturday nites. it just didn't feel right
give 'em hell, chuck!
I told ya! putting it back on sunday got it those ratings.
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that's lucy?
it looks like potsie webber after drinkin' dr. jekyl's potion. 
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Actor James Best, who played Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in "The Dukes of Hazzard" television series (1979-1985), has died at the age of 88.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/entertainment/tv/media-scene-blog/article17597600.html
a good actor. gets shot by a james dean lookalike in the western firecreek.
Take her down, Chip. Right, Lee
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it was Irwin and his bucket.
the first season black & white eps are pretty decent and a lot of the 2nd and 3rd year eps too. best thing about the 4th year is the neato revamped opening music. love it. you know, Dargo, with all of it's shortcomings in the special effects department, vttbots is still hundreds of leagues ahead dramatically and in terms of inspiration of modern politically correct chum like SeaQuest DSV. no comparison. the old a-1 guys like Irwin allen knew what they were doing in terms of drama and escapism and today's Hollywood dregs are laughably clueless...so clueless that they can have no conception of just how clueless they are. no amount of cgi can long compensate for no feel of story, drama and just how to execute it in front of the camera. you know why later attempts at TV sci-fi by steven Spielberg's amblin crowd like seaquest and amazing stories fell flat? 1. because Spielberg now being a big shot felt he did not have to be directly involved. Gene Roddenberry always wanted direct involvement in star trek. 2. now being a big man he turned his attentions more and more towards a profit-minded assembly line approach, delegating areas of creativity to subordinates like Kathleen kennedy. it always happens. guys like Spielberg eventually lose sight of their basic mojo. Irwin Allen always held on to his. often times silly, but it was there. 