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last nite in honor of jerry lewis, I watched a free on demand presentation of the family jewels. my favorite parts are the gas station and eddie's airways.

I doan know... jack lemmon = harold lloyd!

I doan mean to say I have the dvd, I doan. I do have a high quality video file tucked away someplace. lookit them stats on the right. photographed by loyal griggs, the guy who shot shane! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Spell_%28film%29 and tcm doan wanna break out this terrific film? whatta they a-waitin' for? edna edison's cheese souffle?

why cannot tcm ask whoever has leasing rights to hot spell to lease them a print?... is it too hard?

already have it... I just wanna see it shown on tcm. they have no excuse not to be showing it.. ten years ago, tcm was showing it quite regular. hot spell is a perfect example of tcm not conducting themselves like the great cinemaphiles they claim to be. there was no reason for them to stop showing such a film as hot spell, yet they did. why?

I have a question, and to further prove my brilliant point I will ask this. anthony quinn is SOTM in april. since I doan look ahead like many others here do, I will bet that Hot Spell is nowhere to be found in the april schedule. be I be right?

I have seen that charming film. vera miles is a babe.

hey, in band of angels he gets mad at yvonne de carlo.

saw it once and did not like it. Gable's "acting" modus operandi is getting mad at Harlow. did the same thing to colbert in it happened one night. Gable's acting is getting mad, usually at a woman towards the end of a film like vivien leigh in GWTW. 1935's motb excepted of course. that one he gets mad at charles laughton.

there it is! evidence from this very site that Hot Spell is being unduely ignored by tcm. why? can't these great cinemaphiles get hold of a print? what's the prob? indifference? http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/78457/Hot-Spell/user-reviews.html

or Gone With The Wind or Doctor Zhivago or Lawrence of Arabia or 2001: A Space Odyssey or...

baby face martin, the eldest of the kettle brood.

that lamp cover falling was a bit of a hoot and accentuates the wallopin' they were giving gentlemanly little percy.

wouldn't mind seeing Bon Voyage or Follow Me, Boys sometime. but I guess tcm would need some kind of special dispensation for a double bill like that.

probably woulda cost more for tcm to get a hold of a widescreen print of darby o'gill so that's a non-starter for tcm right there. my advice is to not expect too much from a group that has forgotten hot spell (1958) even exists.

funniest scene in the whole picture is when bobby jordan says to dave's materialistic blonde girlfriend... "yeah lady, I guess he ain't comin' in."

maybe they were using some old nbc print.

that anything like grouse hunting in the vienna woods?

I must say I'm glad I came in forty minutes into it and thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the movie. arthur sharpe is so charmingly folksy. him and dennis o'dea as king brian make the film so magical. I do agree it woulda been better to show the darby o'gill short before the movie. pat o'brien was..well, pat o'brien but disney's "acting" was stiff. I turned it off when that putz disney passed on the pot o' gold that the leprechaun cobbler offered him.

dead end oughta be shown preceded by street scene.

so in the future, please make a little bit more of an effort to do right by your viewers. it would be just so nice if you would.

tcm, if you can't do something well...then don't do it! poor selections are only gonna be painful to those concerned. us, your increasingly disatisfied viewership. make better choices..... PLEASE!

the only thing that sounds interesting is that fighting prince of donegal. tcm oughta knock of the cr ap and give us a whole night's worth of vintage goofy cartoons. I wanna see the one where he drives to work on the california freeway. tcm programmers have made poor selections here...and we can plainly see this. tcm... REVEILLE! outta your cots and grab your socks! darby o'gill indeed...HORSE RADISH!

after the beginning of jungle woman decided not to watch when svengoolie made it clear we were gonna be getting a lot of that recycled clyde beatty animal trainer hs again. svengoolie is lame (I could outdo him) commander usa, elvira or uncle floyd would be better...a lot better.

didn't really matter. their fries still turn to wax after about ten minutes anyways.