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11 minutes ago, Hibi said:

Unedited?

YES!!!!!!!!!

(UNLIKE HALLMARK!!!!)

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33 minutes ago, Det Jim McLeod said:

I remember that year he was on Entertainment Tonight, they filmed him watching the Oscar nominations in his home. He got excited when he first heard "Den-" but it was Denholm Elliott for A Room With A View, then they announced Dennis Hopper in Hoosiers, he did seem surprised, mumbling to himself, "Hmmm, Hoosiers...I got it for Hoosiers..."
 

YES!

(I read about it in INSIDE OSCAR!)

(I ALWAYS GET A THRILL WHEN SOMEONE ELSE REMEMBERS SOMETHING INCREDIBLY OBSCURE!!!!)

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21 minutes ago, Janet0312 said:

But at least Peacock has Hitchcock Presents for free.

and ALL 12 SEASONS OF MURDER SHE WROTE!!!!!!!

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....also, the HEAVY LESBIAN SUBTEXT in NIGHT MONSTER is (as always) fun.

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13 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:

I remember NIGHT MONSTER (1942).  You never know what happens to Bela Lugosi at the end of the movie. 

SORRY, I JUST realized I quoted you in the above post and never responded to this point of yours, POOR BELA, HE JUST GETS NO RESOLUTION AT ALL DOES HE?

At least he does better than LIONEL ATWILL in his proto-TOM SKERRITT in ALIEN part...

I have to be careful because- as I recall- NIGHT MONSTER is a film that is near and dear to the hearts of a lot of people on the boards...I personally do not get it, but there are at least surprises in store for the viewer, I grant you that.

ps- it is an audacious film, that is for sure.

 

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4 minutes ago, Det Jim McLeod said:

I think my favorite thing about it was Dennis Hopper as a one legged ex biker with a sex doll companion. This was coming off his comeback as the psycho in Blue Velvet and his Oscar nomination in Hoosiers.

i think (although I may be wrong) that RIVER'S EDGE came out the same year as HOOSIERS and BLUE VELVET...which was one Hell of a trip for Dennis. (nothing he wasn't used to)

as you point out, he got- (i think) to his shock and possible consternation- the Oscar nod for HOOSIERS, most people felt he'd've had a better chance if nominated for BLUE VELVET (a performance for which he most certainly deserved a nomination...i have never seen HOOSIERS)

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13 hours ago, Janet0312 said:

Thanks for the heads up.  This is one of those rare films that Universal somehow let slip out of their vault. Don't you just love Leif Erikson in this? He cracks me up. "Plenty of other people around here with feet. Why don't you measure them?"

What does Peacock cost? I was trying to load TUBI on my Smart TV, but the dumb blonde owner couldn't figure it out. And TUBI will play some things on my PC, but not others. So I was wondering about that Peacock situation.

 

13 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:

I remember NIGHT MONSTER (1942).  You never know what happens to Bela Lugosi at the end of the movie. 

 

12 hours ago, EricJ said:

I remember having a whole string of classic obscure Universal Monsters movies on Peacock--The Invisible Woman, House of Dracula, both Claude Rains and Herbert Lom Phantom of the Operas--when they first opened, and when I checked back a few disinterested months later...they were GONE.  Peacock had bums-rushed all their studio-icon Monsters, Hitchcock and Marx Brothers to make room for their cool legal loophole to get the Harry Potter rights, and sell us a few new original series.  So nowadays, if you want Universal rarities, check to see if they intermittently show up on Tubi, you'll have a lot better luck.

And as far as Night Monster looking so good, I remember getting a random "Best of post-code obscure off-brand Universal horror" DVD boxset (just to get Captive Wild Woman), and all four titles, Night Monster included, look like they'd had nice catalog remasters.  Universal Horror had been shamed by the pre-code Edgar Ullmer "Black Cat", supernatural horror was kicked out of the studio, and most of what passed for horror by the late code-era 30's and early 40's was Scooby-Doo style cat-and-the-canary and dark-mansion-will-reading stories where the characters were menaced by some obviously natural villain who was unmasked in the end.  And since there was no more need for Dracula (or even the non-vampire in Mark of the Vampire), Bela Lugosi was reduced to contract-playing supporting menacing gardeners and butlers.  🙁

 

9 hours ago, txfilmfan said:

Basic Peacock is free.   You can upgrade for about $5/month or $50/year.

Not all titles will be available as a free user.  To get everything, you'll have to pay (and still have ads).  You'll have to pay even more to reduce the number of ads...

https://www.peacocktv.com/help/article/how-much-does-peacock-cost

Yes, thank you...

Just to add my personal experience,

I downloaded PEACOCK for free this time last year because, yes, they had- like- ALL the UNIVERSAL MONSTERS (of which only a few were "locked" and available only to the premium users) plus some HAMMER HORRORS that UNIVERSAL has rights to like BRIDES OF DRACULA and CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF...They stayed on the service until FEBRUARY for me...

I WILL NOTE HERE that I own a goodly number of the films offered on DVD, but I am lazy and hate searching for them and switching over the DVD function and finding the dvd remote and etc.

PEACOCK often has, in my searches, some pretty decent film titles offered (all I think owned now by universal) and they don't have OBNOXIOUS AMOUNTS OD ADS (like pluto or AMC....YET)

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13 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:

CABARET  is awesome.  LIZA WITH A Z is wonderful.  ALL THAT JAZZ is fantastic.   ^ Guess yer kidding.

STAR 80 too, I liked that movie A LOT MORE than I expected to.

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I guess the BROADWAY ADAPTATION COULD BE CALLED "FOSSE OFFERINGS"...?

or "BURNT FOSSERINGS"...?

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COULDN'T HAVE BEEN WORSE THAN [the1969  film version of] "SWEET CHARITY" THOUGH!!!!

(WOOF!)

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Just now, Allhallowsday said:

You crazy.  Remind me of me. 

I'm crazy, yes, but the notion of BOB FOSSE directing BURNT OFFERINGS is ****ing NUTS!!!!!!!!!

 

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can you imagine IF BOB FOSSE had done BURNT OFFERINGS???!!!???

I am now imagining KAREN BLACK POSSESSED IN THE DRESS WITH THE HAIR coming at OLIVER REED with  JAZZ HANDS!!!!! JAZZ HANDS!!!! JAZZ HANDS!!!!!!

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copied and pasted from wikipedia:

In a Variety piece published on December 11, 1969, it was announced a project named Burnt Offerings would be directed by Bob Fosse (!!!!!) from a screenplay by Robert Marasco; Turman Films and Cinema Center Films would be producers and Lawrence Turman executive producer.^[4] Although it never materialized, a novel of the same name by Marasco was published in 1973.^[4] The American Film Institute inductively reasoned the book may have been written based on the un-produced screenplay.^[4]

Burnt Offerings was directed by Dan Curtis, most known for television horror works such as the series Dark Shadows (1966–1971) and films like The Night Stalker (1972). It was the only theatrical feature he ever directed.^[5] When offered to do the project, he found the novel uninteresting, particularly what he called its "nothing" ending, and joked to himself, "I bet some idiot who doesn't know what he's doing will come along and make this."^[6]

William F. Nolan removed the first third of the book where the family was in New York City, finding it didn't work, and the chauffeur was conceived by him and unique to the film.^[5]

Filming took place in August 1975 at the Dunsmuir House located in Oakland, California.^[7]Burnt Offerings was the first movie to be filmed at the Dunsmuir House. According to a commentary with Dan Curtis, William F. Nolan, and Karen Black, Curtis reveals that his rationale for the fog machine was to shoot "motes."^[8]

Bette Davis reportedly had conflicts with Karen Black, feeling that Black did not extend to her an appropriate degree of respect and that her behavior on the film set was unprofessional.^[9]

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WOW! It's jarring to see ACTUAL NIGHT and not DAY FOR NIGHT in a DAN CURTIS JOINT!!!!

(BETTE DAVIS must've refused to sign otherwise.)

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hopefully this won't get me or anyone else in trouble...

 

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39 minutes ago, Hibi said:

LOL. I can forgive him for being an obnoxious child actor.....

He was also obnoxious on MARY TYLER MOORE!

"I don't like Wonder Woman, she's too butch,"

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22 minutes ago, midwestan said:

I recently watched a YouTube video where the channel listed the Top 20 most generous and well-liked celebrities, and Keanu Reeves was on the list.

And now on the news tonight, we'll probably see: "BREAKING! FOOTAGE EMERGES OF KEANU REEVES KICKING OLD LADY IN THE HEAD AT FAMED LA HOTSPOT "THE VIPER ROOM"  in 1992!!!"

Because that just seems how the world is now and all....

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15 hours ago, Bethluvsfilms said:

[KEANU REEVES] seems to be a really sweet and nice guy in real life too.

when i lived in HOLLYWOOD, I actually found myself rubbing elbows with with some big players  here and there, and I heard multiple accounts of what a nice and generous guy he is in real life.

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18 hours ago, EricJ said:

Although Keanu's Meh-ness was actually a beneficial advantage in playing Ted "Theodore" Logan:

Meanwhile at the DEPT OF T.M.I.,

I am firmly #TeamBill

(that shirt and those curls do it for me EVERY TIME.)

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10 hours ago, jameselliot said:

October 23, 2003

Oh wow, that really was right there in front of me and I missed it, thanks

...To be fair, at the time I think I was still utterly gobsmacked as to why the auto sensor bleeps out **** Skye’s name.

still am, really. 

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the part in the DRIVE IN when he RUNS OVER THE KID is to me, the best part of DEAD OF NIGHT...

AND i think he possibly actually killed the stuntperson...if it was a stuntperson....

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oops.

i did not know that pic of OLIVER REED was SO GIGANTIC.

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I will say so, THAT I FIND OLIVER REED TO BE DEVASTATINGLY SEXY.

My mind might change thirty seconds after meeting him, but

WOOF!

(At ALL stages of his career)

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3 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:

TCM recently showed another film directed by GEORGE C. SCOTT (about a teen son poisoned by government gas... why do I wanna laugh?)  I watched almost 30 minutes right from the typically beautiful strange long beginget down in da dirt with dyed eyebrows... DYED EYEBROWS???   What?  I mean weird shots of why am I being shown this perplexed and... GEORGE C. SCOTT DYED EYEBROWS???   I gave up.

Yes, RAGE.

I was curious, but did not bite.

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23 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:

I think paychecks were key attractions for all three, 'specially since Ben and MARIO shared that the three apparently did not get on well... 

OLIVER REED not get along with someone?!

WHAT'S THIS YOU SAY?!

No. I don't believe it. He seems like such a friendly guy.

(heavy sarcasm,)