NipkowDisc
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I can't top it, but I know who it is: ALLAN MELVIN
He also did some voice work in animated cartoons. I believe he was the voice of the sheepdog protecting Lambsy ("It's the Wool-uff! It's the Wool-uff! That's who it is!") from Mildew Wolf (voiced by Paul Lynde) in some 1969/70 Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
I reckon you're right about the 'Eggroll' movie being his only theatrical feature. I don't think he appeared in very many Tv movies, either. Just lots of series work.
Allan Melvin was the voice of Magilla Gorilla.
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oh? so if tcm ever found that they could no longer lease Gone With The Wind, that would be okay? since being great cinemaphiles rises and falls on film availability....okay.
I doan know, tcm has shown Rear Window here on tcm many times but they go the extra mile to get it released in theaters? why does their partiality to certain films rule out our partiality to certain films?
Rear Window for decades was locked away but not recently. today Hot Spell is. it is being shown nowhere that I know of. not on movies! or anywhere. viewing-wise it is not currently extant. so who's the say that I or anyone else who has seen and appreciates Hot Spell is out of line inquiring about it?
let me ask this...
if...IF tcm had a pressing desire to show Hot Spell badly and if they really wanted to...
COULD they get a hold of a print?
..or would they be hard pressed to acquire a print along with a bundle of other films? How do I know?! I only be-a askin'.
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How many times do we have to explain this to you????
TCM leases films. There are many different types of leases but most are bundles of films from various studios. Films that Time Warner owns (what some call the old Ted Turner library), are the easiest to lease (and I assume lease expensive but this could be false) while films from other studios are much harder to lease (Universal being one for sure).
Of course TCM expands with new additions; e.g. Laura from 20th Century Fox.
TCM of course also gets bundles of films were a film they use to lease is NO longer in the bundle. WHY? I have no idea.
Go watch the recorded version of Hot Spell you have since your constant thread on this topic are a PITA.
oh? so if tcm ever found that they could no longer lease Gone With The Wind, that would be okay? since being great cinemaphiles rises and falls on film availability....okay.
I doan know, tcm has shown Rear Window here on tcm many times but they go the extra mile to get it released in theaters? why does their partiality to certain films rule out our partiality to certain films?
Rear Window for decades was locked away but not recently. today Hot Spell is. it is being shown nowhere that I know of. not on movies! or anywhere. viewing-wise it is not currently extant. so who's the say that I or anyone else who has seen and appreciates Hot Spell is out of line inquiring about it?
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how do requests from viewers and their input enter into that? does tcm intend to draw from the same fixed film catalog...forever? okay. fine. ten years ago the film hot spell was a part of that catalog and now apparently is no longer? question, does the tcm film catalog do nothing other than contract? does it never expand with new additions or even, old ones?
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That is a lot of so-so performances.
hey, he's the duke of movies!
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Another film that gives me that "brain dead" feeling (my inability to understand what I'm viewing) are large passages in the final scenes of 2001:A Space Odyssey.
Yeah, I know....many people say this.
I find it a fantastic movie to discuss with others. Kubrick doesn't "fail", it's really very much up to interpretation. Bear with my choice of words;
The "voices" are the "gods" the creators of the universe. When the (Bowman) the old man dies, he is reincarnated into the star child and travels at light speed through space & time. The universe as a womb is just imagery. This baby will be the first to inhabit a new planet, a new history starts over again. With a link to our earth, mankind, meaning our earth is just a terrarium of the gods.
oh, so that's what all that means. old man bowman's palatial living quarters threw me off.
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how about tcm revisiting hot spell.
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american actor with the most lead starring roles...
JOHN WAYNE
142 of 'em. that's alotta corn dodgers.
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Well, it's a pretty damned stupid movie as it is, so you've got a point. They maybe could've made it into something of a cult item instead of the waste of celluloid it is.
Maybe I'm being too harsh - little kids probably find it to be pretty awesome.
what about that dance sequence? ride the bos om!
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Another film that gives me that "brain dead" feeling (my inability to understand what I'm viewing) are large passages in the final scenes of 2001:A Space Odyssey. I've heard others state, however, that one should read Arthur C. Clarke's book in order to fully understand it.
This makes me feel somewhat better, if that is the case. That way I can put the blame on Kubrick's inadequacy as a filmmaker for causing my confusion.
last nite I lived dangerously and watched The Fifth Element on syfy.
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I'm assuming most of us see NO difference between a soundtrack and a score!
IF there's a distinct difference, we should clear the air on it before proceeding.
Since I too, am guilty of listing both at the same time, I'll leave it to someone else to deliniate.
Sepiatone
a pointless deliniation. soundtrack or score, what's the dif? to most the difference is irrelevant. always has been to me. for years jerry goldsmith's star trek: the motion picture score was incomplete and in recent years we now have the complete soundtrack.
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an all too short but incomparable track. Goldsmith's genius is dazzlingly superlative...
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I like powerful majestic music like Jerry Goldsmith's unforgettable Star Trek: The Motion Picture or strong inspirational music that projects the courage, intellectual fortitude and legendary foresight of a great military man...
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It just shows what little you know of the future my simple friend.
Though understandably you are all interested in the future for that is where you will spend the rest of your lives.
- sent from my interstellar space craft
didn't criswell say that?
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doan like today's (sunday) film schedule at all. so with tcm's usual letdown I look elsewhere. on movies! I find Raiders From The Sea, an underwater heist film followed by two stalwarts later on, Flight of the Phoenix and Major Dundee. there ya go! good stuff be out there. ya just gotta look for it.
if this be the way that tcm wants it...
well sir....
let it be so. tcm can put hot spell on anytime they wanna but first....
they gotta get their cookie racks outta the cupboard.
It's okay, I'll wait.
if there is one thing I will not abide it's slackness in film selecting. no sir.
I not a bein' a puttin' up with it.just a plain ol' graveyard ghost...that's all in the world I am!
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I'm forever surprised by how engrossed I become in this film. Years in between viewings I wonder what all the fuss is about but as soon as I sit down to watch it I'm caught up in it all over again.
Marvellous production. But my favourite film of 19339 is still The Wizard of Oz.
mine too. dorothy doesn't shoot anybody in the face.
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what is boring is tcm's unchanging film catalog.
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Thanks! Looking at the plot I didn't see anything that showed that for sure but I'll keep digging (or just watch it). Any other ideas are appreciated.
that's HOW THE WEST WAS WON you're thinkin' of.
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You'd be complaining about it, wouldn't you?
that would depend on how exhilaratingly realistic the 30 foot babes would be.
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well, another rotten saturday for programming so maybe later on tonite I'll watch hot spell. got two discs. the older one with hot spell and my two favorite all in the family eps and the one I just burned. gonna look at the new one...
these new concave curvatured ultra hd TVs, what's the point? cinerama? I watch cnn all the time and when someone wants to illustrate something geographical or the weather, they got this real nice 70" or 80" flatscreen TV with this really thick polished aluminum frame. real real nice and it ain't curved neither....I do know that hot spell is out there available as it is, on dvds but lets be clear and let us keep our eyes on the potato salad and iced tea. tcm was showing hot spell regularly ten years ago. they have no reason that I can think of why they cannot show it again. doesn't tcm think some viewers may wonder about films they were formerly showing and without any explanation to their viewers...just stopped showing? suppose we were talkin' about gone with the wind or lawrence of arabia or the bridge on the river kwai and they took a powder from tcm's schedule without any explanation from tcm?
"how would it be?" -Capt James T. Kirk, The Alternative Factor
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doan tread on me.
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There he is, NipkowDisc, finally having made it to one of nature's colossal wonders of the World: the GRAND CANYON! The sun rises, as he peers around, almost as if standing on the brink of eternity, sharing this moment alone with God.
And what is he thinking?
"Why doan they show Hot Spell?"
That's right.
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what a come down for the great basil rathbone. he goes from clever dialogue with errol flynn, claude rains and olivia de haviland to "I don't bargain with mortals. I destroy them!"
oh brother.
those irritating midgets harassing the princess. what the hell did they want?
and the dragon was just so laughable. well, at least we learn that medieval sorcerers had TV.
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