LornaHansonForbes
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...and I guess I will just come right out and say it:
I do not like The Narrow Margin.
At all.
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I have never seen KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL, but if you miss it, or if you don't want to wait, it is in the public domain and you can find it online.
The two I'd recommend out of tomorrow's line-up are The Strip, largely because the music is terrific although the film is not bad, and The Locket, which is on late- but is a really intriguing film in terms of its narrative (it's plotted like one of those Russian dolls you keep opening up and finding another, smaller one inside.)
The only SKIP! on the list is CLASH BY NIGHT, which has a wonderful cast and a ceaselessly talky, ambitiously action-free script by Clifford Odets. It is a film that practically dares you to watch it.
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Oh good.
The post below this contains a link (in fact, I think two) to a broadcast of the Molle Mystery Theater episode FEMALE OF THE SPECIES starring Lizabeth Scott.
Below it is a copy-and-pasted plot summary, minus of course how it ends.
I really recommend if you have a spare thirty minutes to listen to it. It's really good.
It's really great, as I said before- sort of a play on SNOW WHITE, minus the dwarves. It is also a wonderful performance by Scott- who when she's not required to play it with her face, really relaxes into her performance and relies on that magnificent voice.
ps- she makes her character in Too Late for Tears look like Saint Bernadette in this one.
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http://retro-otr.com/2013/12/molle-mystery-theater-female-of-the-species-460607/
Eva Lester proves that old quotation that the female of the species is more dangerous than the male. A smartly dressed woman takes her story to a swanky law firm. As Eva tells her tale, we go into a flashback to about a year ago. A busy beauty salon owner, Eva deals with squeezing her appointments in, and manages to meet the husband of one of her clients. Fred Maxwell and Eva fall for each other, and soon plan to get married. Can he get a divorce? Is his wife as tired of him as he is of her? Does she suspect that her trusted salon lady is the other woman? Helen refuses the divorce, and it takes Eva to nudge the marriage into a more permanent termination.
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I love listening to the classic radio channel on XM radio. They're always airing radio adaptations of films and radio shows like SUSPENSE!! and "The Whistler"
The week Lizabeth Scott died, I actually happened to be taking a road trip with my father and they played an excellent episode of a radio show - I'm not sure if it was SUSPENSE!! But I was something along those lines-
anyway, it was a rare radio appearance for Lizabeth and it was a half hour, really over-the-top melodrama/thriller where she played the mistress of a man who scars his wife's face with acid then visits her hosptal room in order to drive her to suicide. sort of a loose, sleazy, violent adaptation of Snow White.
(or something like that, all I remember is there was a hospital room someone's face got messed up and it was a highly sensational plot.)
She was terrific in it, I think it was the most relaxed performance I've ever heard her give. I can't post it ( I'm using my mobile), but I'll look it up on youtube tomorrow and see if I can find it and then post it here.
highly recommended if you can find it.
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Does anyone know why we are supposed to WHISPER her name?? (Martha Ivers...)
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where'd you get that from?
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I listened to a lot of the radio version of MARTHA IVERS last nite. Stanwyck was the only name on the broadcast done in 1950.
I think it was only 30 minutes long, and they lifted the entire subplot about Toni out. It was entirely about Martha and Walter's marriage. Sam was even more of a supporting part.
it was a lot less elaborate and not as good as the movie, but still worth listening to. Its on YouTube.
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Last night I watched "Arrowsmith" (1931), with Ronald Coleman and Helen Hayes. I've heard of the name Helen Hayes since I was a kid, but I think this is the first time I've seen her in a movie.
She really didn't make very many, and the ones she made haven't aged well at all.
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Uncle Hal? That's ME.
Interesting.
Actually, I meant uber-producer HAL WALLIS, who had a big time thing for Lizabeth and produced many of her films...including the one she did with Elvis.
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" LizaBeth...?
...Kitten?
It's me, your Uncle Hal!
I got a new project all lined up for you, Bay-bee.
You're getting it
before Crawford.
Before Bacall.
Before Bennett.
It's hot stuff.
You ready for the spiel?
Great,
get this:
TOO LATE FOR TEARS!
You...
play a desperate, shady young woman who's married to a stiff, we're either getting Kevin McCarthy or Arthur Kennedy to play the stiff...Broadway talent, Bay-bee, BROADWAY!
And she wants better things in life. She wants minks. She wants diamonds. She wants lilacs and orchids....
So one night, she and the stiff come across A HUNDRED GRAND and they SNATCH IT...But soon the goon who lost it comes looking Bay-bee, and he comes right to you.
Are you ready for this Bay-bee?
He's Dan Duryea.
Yeah, Bay-bee, you're gonna get smacked around!
Anyways, he falls for you and you kill the husband.
Then you kill the husband's sister.
Then you kill Dan Duryea.
Then:
you fall
over the balcony
of a hotel in Acapulco
wearing diamonds and furs
and somethin' real classy and strapless!!!
the end.
Whats that, Kitten?
Yeah, you die- that's the end.
What?
No Bay-bee, you can't keep the diamonds, the budget is low six figures.
Tell you what: you can keep a mink though. Two if you behave yourself and you're real good.
My car will be there in ten minutes.
The script is in the back seat. You're coming up to the canyon and we're gonna rehearse extra long this evening, Bay-Bee..."
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She's also a good girl in THE RACKET.
And- rather unconvincingly so- in DESERT FURY.
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and as far as those who have introed on TCM, for the record, I'd place him far above Broderick and Bracco, but maybe 3 points lower than Winona- basically on the same plane as Cher, but less stiff. Winona was fabulous.
#ComebackWinona.
but in time I think Eddie Muller could be on a Chris Isaak level and Chris Isaak is enough for me.
#BringBackChrisIsaak
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he is an extremely natural writer, & I really recommend reading his book "Dark City"; which I assume is still in print. It's wonderfully laid out and has a lot of pictures both in color and black and white and he writes about film noir in just a lovely, dark, twisted, poetic way. I don't think he is as confident yet with his delivery in front of the camera, but I beg and plead with TCM to continue and keep him and give him a chance, because anyone as smart as he is can figure it out and I think he would be a valuable addition.
PS - they need to start diversifying their host selection.
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Yeah, I know. I could identify with her background, but I still wouldnt murder several people over it. Guess you have to suspend disbelief and go with the flow......
Yes, well...I admit it's not on a par with someone taking the last of the Half and Half, but people have different buttons for what sets them off.
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Yes, that is the classic definition of a PITA, lol.
You learn something new every day.
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Just seemed she went off the rails way too quickly
ALAN
Jane, Jane, what's happening to us? The money sits down there in an old leather bag, and yet it's tearing us apart. It's poison, Jane. It's changing you. It's changing both of us.
JANE
I wish it were that simple, Alan, but I haven't changed. It's the way I am. You've got to let me keep that money.
ALAN
Don't, don't, Jane.
JANE
No, Alan, I won't let you just give it away. Chances like this are never offered twice. This is it. I've been waiting for it, dreaming of it all my life - even when I was a kid. And it wasn't because we were poor, not hungry poor at least. I suppose, in a way, it was far worse. We were white collar poor, middle-class poor. The kind of people who can't quite keep up with the Joneses and die a little every day because they can't.
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DON
Looking for something?
JANE
My lipstick.
DON
Colt or Smith and Wesson?
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PA. I believe the hotel is in Mexico City, not Acapulco. At least, the introductory shot of the facade was of one in the capital.
Damn.
Oh well, I just love the the word "Acapulco" and felt like it added some whimsy to the sentence. (I have selective memory like that.)
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(*This may be unfair to Don DeFore, as I'm not familiar with his work, but I feel it's probably not out-of-line. Kind of like being outsmarted by Jack Carson, right?)
If I could, I would give you ALL the "likes" for this comment.
Two things for the record:
1. I though Don DeFore was kind of cute.
2. I'd sooner cop to being outsmarted by Jack Carson than being outsmarted by Dennis Morgan.
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What about Dolly Madison?
Ethel Merman.
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just curious, is anyone else in accordance with me that the cinematography, at least in the "1776" clips in the TCM promo, looks very faded and washed out?
Like 70's p o r n o washed-out?
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I was really surprised that 1776 was deemed worthy of digital restoration but I guess the movie must have its fans.
It seems like a dud to me.
according to the always infallible Wikipedia, it cost six million dollars and made 2 million dollars. Dat is a DUD. it was also produced by Jack Warner.
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since the conversation has evolved into one about failed movie musicals, & I keep seeing the bluray DVD release of "1776" promoted during the commercials on TCM, I was wondering if anyone here has seen it or has any opinions on it. Just from the brief clips they show and from the reviews I've read, it looks like a real dog to me, and the "digitally restored" cinematography looks really washed out (although that was the one thing for which it actually did get an Oscar nomination.)
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Having read the source novel for LOST HORIZON, I find it really, REALLY hard to believe it was adapted to film ONCE, let alone TWICE (and the second time as a musical.)
It's junk.
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THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS
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Ooooh, okay.
I love some of those sayings they come up with in the art/trailers.