LornaHansonForbes

Of course, so is YES, WE HAVE NO BANANAS.

I'll Plant My Own Tree I’ll plant my own tree and I’ll make it grow. My tree will not be just one in a row. My tree will offer shade when strangers go by. If you’re a stranger, brother, well so am I. Come tomorrow all that I see is my tree, oh, Lord, what a sight. Let someone stop me and I will put up a fight. It’s my yard so I’ll try hard to welcome friends I have yet to know. Oh, I’ll plant my own tree, my own tree, and I’ll make it grow. My tree will not be just one in a row. My tree will offer shade when strangers go by. If you’re a stranger, brother, well so am I. Come tomorrow all that I see is my tree, oh, Lord, what a sight. Let someone stop me and I will put up a fight. It’s my yard so I’ll try hard to welcome friends I have yet to know. Oh, I’ll plant my own tree, my own tree, and I’ll make it grow.

Me too. I always get a little bit annoyed with the posters who admonish us for getting off topic. Sometimes we get so far away from whatever the hell it was we were supposed to be talking about that it's downright commendable.

Mwahahahahahahahaa. I think it would've helped the film immensely if, right before her big fight with Patty Duke, Susan had said, "Now I'm gonna plant my own foot right in your *** and call it my own" and then just knocked her lights right out.

speedracer: "Since much of the beginning was in German and I don't speak German, it wasn't an effective way of listening, since I can't listen to subtitles. I'll have to re-watch later when I'm able to pay attention." To me, the interview really "got going" when Wilder started talking in German. He seemed more effusive and at ease. Also, loved his use of the phrase "kick 'em in the nuts with both knees."

You should point to it and say "this could be you."

Yes. The one they are showing now is from 1949, the first serial they started in March was from 1943. I'm not sure if it's the same actors playing Batman and Robin, but Jane Adams plays Vicki Vale and there's a subplot about her brother being part of the gang. The villain is less lame than the 1943 Japanese Dr. Daka (although I do love J. Carrol Naish), but it's not one of the villains from the comics. At least the vitriolic anti-Japanese sentiment is gone from this one. It's also a better print than they had of the 1943 serial and the action moves faster and the stunts are better and things move at a faster clip than in the 1943 serial.

Her rendition of I'LL PLANT MY OWN TREE is truly singular.

How did PUSHOVER enter the conversation? (I dont mind, just curious.)

In "actress years" which means she was actually 43, possibly 44.

I'm actually really enjoying the 1949 serial they're showing now. Its a lot better than the 1943 one they showed before.

Right. Except I don't even think he got mentioned in the trailer, and you just see a dark outline of him from a distance. don't know what was up with that. If anybody could manage to be at least dignified in this thing, my money would be on Boyer.

I bet they let him keep it and he would camp around the house in it on weekends or for years afterwards. is it just me, or did they not even try to make Geilgud look Asian? seriously, I just cannot get over the last billing in the trailer: "and John Gielgud as Chang." I...just....i cant add anything to that.

"with JOHN GIELGUD as CHANG."

I also cannot for the life of me imagine the kind of mind-altering substances one would have to partake of in order to conceive LOST HORIZON as a musical.... (But I'd like to try them, that's for sure.)

It's been a loooong time, but I actually read the James Hilton novel on which both movies are based and I recall finding it weird, a little light on plot and rather coldly written in an impersonal style, kind of a slog to get through at something around (as I recall) 300 pages. I've also read GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS (also by Hilton) and would never in a million, trillion years have guessed it was by the same author it is so warm and grounded and has such strong, rich characterizations and tells a lot of story in just barely over a hundred pages.

Thank God the oxygen masks dropped after about an hour. Otherwise there'd've been no survivors.

to everyone who watched the clip I posted and was amused by Young(er) Robert Osborne's story about Bette and Lucille Ball on the plane, don't you just know the two of them chain smoked all the way to DC and when they landed, the first class cabin looked like it had had three dry ice machines running for the the whole flight?

she really was a damn good little actress- her work in THESE THREE is one of the best I have ever seen given by a child. And I enjoyed the NANCY DREW series TCM ran in the early spring...although Nancy seemed to break more laws than Dirty Harry when it came to solving crimes. did you know Bonita Granville "starred" in an early series of books for young adults wherein she solved mysteries a la Nancy Drew, only as Bonita Granville?

I guess there was more then one cheap bastard directing films. Go figure.

it is interesting that you mention that. I started listening to the Lux radio version of HITLERS CHILDREN the other night, but fell asleep.

I forgot to mention that I checked out the BILLY WILDER INTERVIEW yesterday and it was a delight. FYI- SPEEDRACER, I believe you mentioned Wilder's frequent use of ISN'T IT ROMANTIC? in his films, the interviewer mentions this and also mentions the humorous juxtaposition of the song with the scenery of the real-life ruins of Berlin in A FOREIGN AFFAIR. Wilder says he used the song because either Paramount owned it or the copyright had lapsed (can't recall which), and he could use it for free, so he often did. He mentioned that every time you hear it in one of his films, it's him being a "cheap bastard"

DAMN YOU! DAAAAAAMN YOU! PS- CONGRATULATIONS.

I have to admit that I am not a huge fan of the 1949 version of THE SECRET GARDEN, which turns the housekeeper and doctor into conspiring and rather cartoonish villains and wastes Herbert Marshall. Dean Stockwell is always good, but Margaret O'Brien is dreadful. The 1987 Hallmark-Hall-of-fame version filmed in part at Highclare Castle ( aka Downton Abbey) has some solid production values, but the acting from the kids is baaaaaad and the garden (while lovely) is far too meticulously groomed and manicured to be believable. The 1993 remake is curious...not bad, but curious. It's very authentic with the lighting and lack of make-up for the actors, but I recall thinking at the time that the garden in this version was too unkempt and wild and savage (however that is much as it is described in the book), but it's been a loooong time since I saw it, it's possible I was wrong.

I came across this nugget of gold on youtube. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, not for the parts with Bette's horrible daughter BD Hyman, but for the sympathetic 7-minute introduction they give Bette in the first part (this was done two weeks after she died in 1989) and the fascinating interviews they do with James Woods and ROBERT OSBORNE, who looks like he is about 45 (!) in the interview and tells a great story about a plane trip he and Bette took. Also includes some footage of an older Bette scaring the **** out of Davis Letterman, which is priceless. Again, Bette's daughter is the worst person ever, but everything else about this is worth seeing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXmlzeqZi9k