NipkowDisc
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A terrific movie with terrific stars that I never tire of watching. I'm in tonight 100%. Good thing we have two TV's as my wife (a true basketball nut) says she wants to watch the Utah Jazz play. Jazz vs. Harlow/Gable is 100% movie for me. Some times I think my wife needs her head re-straightened and cinched down tighter. If Gable/Harlow is on and my good wife doesn't want to watch the flames that result then I think she should have her woman-card revoked.
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.
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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
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We might have to bump Hot Spell.
or Gone With The Wind or Doctor Zhivago or Lawrence of Arabia or 2001: A Space Odyssey or...
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My goodness, his mom is COLD!! Caling him a dog and just die.
baby face martin, the eldest of the kettle brood.
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For me it's when the Dead End Kids, tricked the rich one into the basement of a building to rough him up. Remember the wall is several feet thick of brick and concrete. The lamp shade falling left me on the floor laughing.
that lamp cover falling was a bit of a hoot and accentuates the wallopin' they were giving gentlemanly little percy.
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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.
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Fred,
i will agree. I think you are right about the center-weighted action. Disney did make films with an eye on re-running them as part of his weekly TV series, so yes this makes sense. You cannot notice the cropping too much, unless you are looking for it.
Still, I agree with those who wish TCM had shown the print that was meant for widescreen in the theatre.
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.
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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."
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The only title last night on TCM that was cropped was DARBY O'GILL.
maybe they were using some old nbc print.
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Now, that's a wonderful word we need to hear more often. Is it a cousin to whinging?
that anything like grouse hunting in the vienna woods?
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A suggestion I have involves the schedule/order of the films. I think it would have been much more effective to lead off with the TV show episode featuring Walt and Pat O'Brien, discussing Walt's desire to make a film about leprechauns. Then, to go into the presentation of DARBY O'GILL. Even Maltin's wraparound supports this, because he said years ago he would watch The Wonderful World of Disney, and it would whet his appetite for the films that were being promoted in the weekly TV series.
It is a bit anticlimactic to broadcast this old episode after DARBY. Plus it is in black-and-white and a somewhat cheaply produced episode of TV. You would logically want to go from something like this to the bigger, finished product in Technicolor and widescreen showing how Walt's vision came to life in theatres. Not the other way around.
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.
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dead end oughta be shown preceded by street scene.
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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!
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.
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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!
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!
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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!
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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.
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Well McDonalds had to make a choice; Trans-fats were taking a beating in the media (and rightly so based on the scientific evidence) and McDonalds decided to go with the tide and use a cooking oil that didn't contain trans-fat. It would have been interesting if they offered both type of fries to see which the public would favor.
didn't really matter. their fries still turn to wax after about ten minutes anyways.
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Interesting performers part 2
Yesterday I mentioned five performers that are interesting in terms of how they come across on screen. I thought I would mention another five today:
1. Dane Clark. In some circles, Dane Clark is known as a poor man’s John Garfield. He and Garfield were friends, so he may have regarded that as a compliment. But he’s almost better than Garfield in some of his roles. Specifically, look at his work as a hateful artist in the Bette Davis drama A STOLEN LIFE. His exceptional performance outshines lead Glenn Ford. You will simultaneously be attracted to and repelled by his character in the movie. He is that interesting.
2. Miriam Hopkins. A lot has been made about Bette Davis’ rivalries with some of her female costars. Davis feuded bitterly with Miriam Hopkins, with whom she made two films at Warners. Perhaps the real-life antagonism stemmed from jealousy. But to some, Hopkins is the more talented actress. Watch Hopkins act circles around Davis in OLD ACQUAINTANCE.
3. Sterling Hayden in DENVER & RIO GRANDE, a western about the building of a railroad through Colorado. It was filmed on location, and it starred Edmond O’Brien and Sterling Hayden. Hayden had a tumultuous personal life, and maybe a lot of that is evident on screen. That booming but careful voice, the masculine yet pretty boy physique. Everything about him is a contradiction. But within that entangled mass is a man struggling to get out through the characters he plays. Even when he is coming across smooth and cool, he is entirely insecure. What makes a guy like that tick?
4. Leo Carrillo. There is a place called Pointe Dume, near Malibu. The stretch of beach at Point Dume extends into an area known as Leo Carrillo State Park. When one watches movies from the 1930s, it's not difficult to figure out why this guy was successful and has a park named after him. Watch him in two Jean Arthur films-- IF YOU COULD ONLY COOK and HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT.
5. Jon Hall. Usually, Jon Hall was not given roles where he could be taken seriously an actor. But every now and then, he had a fairly decent part to prove how capable he was. In the Edward Small western KIT CARSON, he is very effective. While Dana Andrews and Ward Bond are better actors, Hall more than holds his own alongside them. He seems to completely occupy his characters. There is nothing false about it. Hall’s power of concentration is perfect and a lot of award winners spend their whole careers trying to achieve that.
I always thought sterling hayden looked like marshall thompson.
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I assume that most of the time they are trying to convince media companies, e.g. Disney, NOT to make content they find objectionable available to the public. So their aim is censorship but NOT government imposed censorship. As I stated before I'm not upset or even disappointed that they do this (in many cases it is their job as an activist), but I'm very disappointed when media companies cave to their demands.
yeah! like McDonalds changing their cooking oil for french fries back in the nineteen seventies.
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Surprised TCM hasn't rerun the whole Bowery Boys series. They are about to rerun Bomba, which also cycled through a few years ago.
I was kind of hoping they would get a few other long-running series from Columbia for Saturday morning, like BLONDIE which I don't think has ever aired on TCM (it did air on the old AMC).
I'd love to see the old penny singleton-arthur lake blondie films. penny singleton was the voice of jane jetson even as late as 1992's jetsons the movie. incidently jetsons the movie was the last voice work for the great mel blanc.
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Personally, I would like to see Ben's picks replace Robert's. The gooey cloying stuff Bob picks doesn't interest me much.
maybe osborne doan know about divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood.
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stinks! two wonderful world of colors and darby o'gill? imo lousy. I'd rather see a doc on the set designs of the parent trap. that beautiful kitchen with a view of the rock wall interiors.
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Trust me. I've known some very tedious bores in my life and Ben doesn't even come close.
I agree. ben managing to stay above being tediously boring while introducing the same films over and over again is deserving of great praise.
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956) as many times as tcm has made people sick with GWTW.
Set sail on "China Seas" tonight at 9:30.
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hey, in band of angels he gets mad at yvonne de carlo.