NipkowDisc
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No, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS is a Passover film, NOT an Easter film. So it belongs on Friday/Saturday, not Sunday.
religiously that is quite true but ABC made an annual tradition by showing it sunday nites starting back in the seventies. at the beginning of Close Encounters of the Third Kind it is obviously a sunday nite when the power goes out because the ten commandments is seen on the Neary's family room TV.
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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!
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This version is bogus! Didn't you notice that the first part was in black and white. TCM just can't get anything right.
I was wondering. I and I be sure many others used to watch the wizard of oz as kids when CBS would favor us with their annual showings, but CBS did not go color until 1965.
therefore, how many black & white airings was there of the wizard of oz on CBS before 1965? hope that be a toughie.
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► Yes, but this is a special version. After Dorothy and Toto get blown all to hell during the windstorm they end up in Shirley Booth's living room in 'HOT SPELL'. I do expect complaints as 'Hot Spell' is a black-and-white movie and The Land of Oz was in full colour, but you can't have everything. The midgets are then inter-cut into 'Hot Spell' and, instead of telling Dorothy to "follow the yellow brick road" they tell her to follow the trail to the New Orleans cathouse "Madame Mabel's" where she can go to work servicing the adulterous Anthony Quinn. The midgets then drown Toto in a stewpot full of boiling crawdaddies. These aren't nice midgets! Jeez. What a bunch of ill-tempered muthas! And there's no Frank Morgan in sight . . .
yes, is this tcm's recent theater-released imax print or do millions of cable viewers in america get treated to an inferior print? give us the recent theater print, I say! why would we get an inferior print of The wizard of oz?
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wow, that be fast. a 75 year old film from theaters to TV in so short a time?
thank you, tcm.
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my favorite tcm pet movie comedy lust for life at twelve forty five tonite. kirk is a real hoot as vincent van gogh getting on paul gauguin's nerves.
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No Hot Spell. Move on.
but they won't show Hot Spell?????????????
hey jamesjazzguitar, this be my first bellyachin' in main discussion on my new computer.
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My wife, ALSO Mexican, just loves the old story of when Quinn, early in his career, auditioned for a movie role of a Mexican bandito(or something like that) and was told, "Your ACCENT is passable, but you just don't LOOK Mexican enough!" Don't know WHO was the suit that supposedly said that, or what the movie was, or even if it's really true!
She said she heard HIM tell the story on DICK CAVETT's show once.
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My wife, ALSO Mexican, just loves the old story of when Quinn, early in his career, auditioned for a movie role of a Mexican bandito(or something like that) and was told, "Your ACCENT is passable, but you just don't LOOK Mexican enough!" Don't know WHO was the suit that supposedly said that, or what the movie was, or even if it's really true!
She said she heard HIM tell the story on DICK CAVETT's show once.
Sepiatone
sounds like The Ox-Bow Incident.
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but they won't show Hot Spell?????????????
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I suggest that tcm programmers at least consider a showing of The Prisoner of Second Avenue starring Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft with fine comedic support from Saks not only as director but as Mel's bread-winning brother, Harry.
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I sure would like that, yes sir, I sure would like that!
and why not, tim holt is in it.
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I watch Svengoolie now most Saturday nights. I noted that last night he spoke about the fact that they had obtained a better copy of the film that was clearer and brighter, so even Universal sees the benefit of cleaning up the classics. I have no idea what Svengoolie's audience ratings are, but who cares. I enjoy him.
Yesterday I was at an event sponsored by the local channel that manages Me-TV and he commented that for the first time Me-TV outranked other stations including FOX in the afternoon slots. I guess that is all of us silver haired viewers turning into Rope Opera, Star Trek and Superman (who I love). I do so badly want Lois Lane's Nash Rambler convertible...how cool it is.
Anyway on Saturdays when I change out of my work suit, take off my gloves and hat, I put on my pedal pushers and sit down for a late afternoon and evening of TV, my way. Same goes for Sunday starting with Remington Steele and moving through the evening. It's just good to lock the door and go back to fifties and sixties, so much safer and saner.
well, it's tcm's fault. all they seem to care about are Gone With The Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, 2001: a space odyssey and pleasure cruises.
slackers!
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tcm be NOT cruel. lousy film selectors but not cruel.
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DANG, GORMAN----
You "DOAN" haffta be so crew-al!
Sepia-toan
i be-a likin' your grammar.
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that's a good one. freddie francis' lone contribution to the hammer frankenstein series.
the hypnotist kinda reminds me of ross martin.
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here is one. karloff be a real nice monster after all.
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And even then, it's only because someone hit the wrong button.
true, amc is a tax write-off for zombies.
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they had the first two national lampoon vacation movies on, chopped up of course but still enjoyable. european vacation is a lot funnier than it is given credit for. plenty of clever scenes like clark at the top of the eiffel tower characterizing a desire to relieve himself as a creative urge to produce art.
my favorite scene is when the griswold's are in the train compartment. an overlooked film. siskel & ebert trashed it.
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Wasn't she in Star Trek?
I think so.
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"would you like a watercress on white, Chris?"
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C O N N I E
G I L C H R I S T
I've always appreciated her. she guested on an ep of leave it to beaver and was purity pinker in the sequel to disney's treasure island, long john silver.
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They showed some of these last year...ones directed by Terence Fisher. I created a thread about that in the noir sub-forum on June 16, 2014. Here is what played that evening:
1. BLACKOUT (1954) with Dane Clark
2. MAN BAIT (1952) with George Brent & Diana Dors
3. STOLEN FACE (1952) with Paul Henreid & Lizabeth Scott
4. THE UNHOLY FOUR (1954) with Paulette Goddard
I think tonight's schedule had been planned for earlier in the year but then was postponed because of a memorial tribute...right?
yes, tcm did get a little creatively frisky tonite with the hammer noirs. have they ever shown barbara payton in the four-sided triangle?
Happy Easter???
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yeah, I woulda gone with Fred Thompson.