Mr. Gorman

Anthony Perkins was born April 4, 1932 so he could've had an 88th birthday movie celebration yesterday.

Let me say I did not add any of the 25 NYC-based movies that TCM is airing this month to my list on the first page because you can see them on the schedule and I didn't fancy re-listing them. → My idea was to add movies to the mix in case TCM decides they wanna do some more NYC-based movie programming in the future utilizing different films -- providing, of course, TCM can obtain the rights to show them. I remembered PELHAM 123, but it's on the schedule for April and aired the other day.

You know what I'd like to see in regards to BETTE DAVIS? The complete version of DARK SECRET OF HARVEST HOME (1978-Tvm). The MCA Home Video VHS release from the 1980s is just under 2 hours -- 118m., I believe. The original version is 200m. Quite the difference! It's a shame MCA didn't do what WARNER did with "Salem's Lot". WARNER issued both the 112m. overseas theatrical version and the original long version so homevideo viewers could pick which one they wanted to buy. (I bought the long version, btw).

BEEN DOWN SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE UP TO ME (1971) A Paramount Picture

ADVISE & CONSENT (1962) Next: A movie that's supposed to be a serious film . . . but it's actually silly for one reason or other!

Late last night I watched LAST SUMMER (1969). LAST SUMMER is not a 'feel good' movie and not recommended for viewing on 'Date Night'. Evil plants its seed and creeps . . . Watched on a 40+ year-old VHS tape from the ALLIED ARTISTS VIDEO CORP. Looks to have been the original [X]-rated version. I didn't notice any sudden cuts or music 'jumps' during the 1 scene the edits were made to. (ALLIED went bankrupt in September 1979 and were only releasing movies on VHS and ßeta for some 15-18 months. I'm just glad the primitive 'copy guard' didn't rear its ugly head!).

Besides the 25 NYC-based movies TCM is showing this month and all the other films listed on this thread taking place in and around New York City from 1970-79 -- to say nothing of the 'on the edges titles from 1965-69 and 1980-84 -- there's quite a lot of movies! Here's 3 more movies released in the early-to-mid 1980s not mentioned on this thread previously: EXTERMINATOR, The (1980) EXTERMINATOR 2, The (1984) VIGILANTE (1983) (aka: "Street Gang") ALSO: I keep thinking "The In-Laws" (1979) took place mostly in NYC. And LAST SUMMER (1969) looks to have taken place on Fire Island.

I don't really miss 'Guest Programmers'. If TCM has them -- fine. If not, I'll find a way to muddle through.

Here's a lil' gem for dysfunction families to watch while they're stuck at home together: NATURAL ENEMIES (1979) Starring Hal Holbrook, Louise Fletcher and Jose Ferrer. On second thought . . . better skip this one!

ONE WAY PASSAGE (1932) was sure as heck better than the long-winded 1940 remake 'TIL WE MEET AGAIN. "One Way Passage" did quite tidily in 69 minutes what "'Til We Meet Again" was not able to do in 99m: Have resonance. The 'toast' at the end of the '40 remake does nothing for me like the '32 does -- which makes me feel sad the characters aren't there to do it alive. I should say I thought the '40 remake was ok, but why settle for second best when you don't need to? → I can relate Alfred Hitchcock to this "Shorter Original Version" versus "Longer Remake": THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934) 75m. B&W. vs. THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956) 120m. COLOR. For my money, the '34 version is more enjoyable. I recall Hitchcock saying the 1934 version was a good amateur movie and the '56 was his preferred version. Except, to me, there's nothing in the plot that warrants 45 extra minutes. And that song -- you know the one -- dates badly to my ears and adds nothing to the proceedings. Whatever technical shortcomings the 1934 version of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" has compared to the more polished 1956 edition I can look past.

EricJ: I thought "Love at First Bite" was one of the 25 NYC-based movies TCM had scheduled on the docket for April. But it's not there. So it hasn't already been done. (I still have no idea how to do an 'apple' emoji!). In regards to NOCTURNA, the last 60% of the movie takes place in NYC. (The first part is supposed to take place at Hotel Transylvania -- which has been turned in to a disco). There looks to be a candid sequence in NYC where the director was shooting out of a car window as Nai Bonet walks down the streets of the city at night and the reaction of the people on the street looks genuine. Maybe that sequence was scripted and maybe those are actors she's running in to . . . but I don't think so.

I wonder if this is another of those 'troll' jobs like that one from the other day by 'Yvonne Terrell' about all those unfortunate senior citizens in the Group Home For The Aged who had to suffer Torments Of The Damned because TCM aired Toshiro Mifune movies to commemorate his 100th birthday. → Now we have an unfortunate "B"-movie refugee who obviously didn't know John Waters' films have aired in the recent past on TCM -- those are ♦plenty♦ edgy and racy.

I recall a 1973 Andy Milligan movie FLESHPOT ON 42nd STREET.

Maybe I'll just go back to 'OPEN'! Have at it whoever has a notion!

CATCH AS CATCH CAN (1968-Italian)

RICHMAN, Harry (1895-1972)

Oh, I'd love to BEAT THE DEVIL but I won't enjoy it half as much as EATING RAOUL. "You can't be serious! The __________ won't go down __________________!"

PARTON, Dolly

I got THE CHICKEN CHRONICLES, I got THE BOOK OF NUMBERS, I got A CASE OF LIBEL, who could ask for anything more? "My brother's _____________, my sister's _____________ and my parents are ________________."

. . . ALL THE MARBLES (1981)

NICKEL RIDE, The (1975)

39 STEPS, The (1935) ♦Aces♦ 'shutoo' has gently chided me for leaving my last post on this thread OPEN. Ok. I'll fix that. → What is the first film that comes to mind involving a devil-worshipping, hermaphrodite human-sorta 'thing' with 5 eyes and a Chicken McNugget growing on its back that wants to give birth to a cyclops via their belly button?

Shucks, I just remembered: GOD TOLD ME TO (1976) A Larry Cohen film. Also known as "Demon". Andy Kaufman has a small-but-visible part as a policeman -- but apparently his voice was dubbed, perhaps by Larry Cohen himself. Anyway, it takes place in NYC.

Thanks for the replies. I had a feeling I'd missed a goodly number of NYC-based flix! I oughta be ashamed I forgot "The Warriors" . . . I've seen that on multiple occasions. Oops. Anybody else think of some NYC-based movies besides the 25 being aired this month starting tonight? I'll add MIRAGE (1965). I reckon that's sort of 'around the edges'. Sort of.

Another February 26 birthday: GODFREY CAMBRIDGE (1933-1976). I think actor Kevin McCarthy was born Feb. 15, 1914 -- going by memory here so don't hold me to it if I'm wrong!