Mr. Gorman
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There is a new movie coming out in early 2018 called "DR. ZHIVAGO GRADUATES MEDICAL SCHOOL DURING A RUSSIAN HOT SPELL".
I'd expect you to be the first -- and only -- person in line at the ticket window on Opening Day, O Nipkow Disc.
(Like that Shia LaBoof movie that opened in the UK a week or so ago at 1 theater and sold just a couple of tickets).
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CHELSEA BROWN appeared on a week of MATCH GAME '74 episodes. That's the only time I'd ever seen her, but I remembered her name.
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Spence: Replying to your own post as if you were someone else? Seriously, seek help. That's not just 'quirky'; there's something very wrong with that.
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If TCM hired Sarah Palin to host some movies I'd recommend she introduce a weekend of these as she can see Russia from her back porch in Wasilla.
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966)
The Russia House (1990)
The Executioner (1970)
The Fourth Protocol (1987)
The Amateur (1982)
Invasion U.S.A. (1985)
Red Dawn (1984)
Rocky IV (1985)
Moscow on the Hudson (1985)
White Nights (1985)
Don't Drink the Water (1969)
S*P*Y*S (1974)
Spies Like Us (1985)
Russkies (1987)
Trouble With Spies, The (1987; filmed in 1984)
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Sepiatone: In regards to the 1974 comedy S*P*Y*S with Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland . . . it is a broad comedy, to be sure. I've seen it three times. I bought it new on VHS back in the 1990s. It was released in a small, grey box on 'CBS/Fox Video'.
S*P*Y*S is on DVD, but I forgot the label. Easy enough to find the disc on Amazon or eBay, though, for thos in a buying mood.
One thing about S*P*Y*S I found out a couple of years ago when reading about the movie: The British version ran 100 minutes. The U.S. version I have on Fox runs 87 minutes. When I found that out I bought a Warner UK tape. Now all I have to do is go get another multi-standard VCR; I had a Panasonic industrial unit for 9 years and wore it out. It got very heavy use from yours truly! I've been lazy in buying another one.
Few other movies that ran longer in their British cuts than here in the U.S.:
Dogs of War, The (1980)
Escape to Athena (1979)
Five Days One Summer (1983)
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Early this morning I went to Amazon and snagged an MCA tape of 'HOWARD THE DUCK'. Lotsa 'HOWARD' tapes for sale at low prices.
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So ISHTAR and HOWARD THE DUCK have both been released on Blu-Ray. Fancy that. Thanks for the info links.
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HOFFMAN (1970-UK) I think is a 'neglected gem' for sure. Starring Peter Sellers, Sinead Cusack, Jeremy Bulloch, Ruth Dunning. The movie starts with a theme song by Matt Monro. I've seen this several times.
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Has ISHTAR (1987) ever been released to DVD? I don't remember seeing an official DVD release of it anywhere. Same with HOWARD THE DUCK (1986). Can't recall ever seeing an official disc release of that one, either. Maybe I missed it?
ISHTAR netted ** stars for 'Fair' from Leonard Maltin's Video Guide. A few 1987 releases that netted 'BOMB'. Remember this happy bunch of movies?
Garbage Pail Kids Movie, The
Leonard Part 6
Mannequin
Trouble With Spies, The (Filmed as a made-for-cable HBO movie in 1984, but released to theaters in '87 for some unfathomable reason).
Walk Like a Man
→ I didn't think "Mannequin" was that bad. I'd have at least given it a-star-and-a-half. *½
I actually like "The Trouble With Spies"; it is bad without a doubt, but it keeps me amused. I do like the music score by Ken Thorne. Anyway, I've seen it several times. Good cast mostly wasted. It was released on VHS by 'HBO Video'.
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BEDTIME STORY (1964) was a Universal film. And they are still a stingy studio. 'MCA Universal' released "Bedtime Story" on VHS years ago and there's a number of sellers on Amazon hawking the MCA tape for around the $30 mark (and higher). There was a Region 2 DVD release of "Bedtime Story"; 'Region 2' is in the PAL zone for those who can play such discs on their players -- or can 'hack' their machines to play them.
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Speaking of Universal . . . Faye Dunaway's 1970 movie PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD was a Universal Picture. It's never been released on any homevideo format. I'd like to see it sometime. Maybe Universal will be generous one o'these days and license it out to TCM for a reasonable fee. (Probably wishful thinking, but it would be nice if TCM could air it once!).
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Another movie with a bloated budget due to star salaries, among other things: ISHTAR (1987). Time to boot Beatty in the gonads some more since he co-starred in "Ishtar".
I'd rather watch ISHTAR than TOWN & COUNTRY were I given an option.
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I don't have a favorite film genre. I just can't narrow it down to 1 single genre.
I do like moody movies with lots of fog. Like the 1946 low-budgeter STRANGLER OF THE SWAMP. → There's this 1943 movie called "The Mysterious Doctor" I'd like to see. The LM Classic Movie Guide says it's only 57 minutes and the plot description says: "A headless ghost terrorizes tin miners in a foggy English village. Moor locations interesting; cast adequate." It received **½ stars out of 4. Maybe TCM can pry it out of the mothballs!
My 'key' for liking musicals isn't the plot -- if I like the music I'm on board no matter how thin the plot. On the other hand, if I don't care for the music (and I don't fancy opera music at all) it doesn't matter if the movie has an intelligent script and/or is masterfully acted . . . it's on my 'turn down the volume' or IGNORE ALTOGETHER list. Those 'Lanza/Grayson' musicals from the '50s are rough going! I tried to watch a couple of them, but I found it a chore to get through them 'til the end due to all the opera-type singing. They will not be on my radar to watch repeatedly unless I desire a headache.
The older I get, the more I like those 'Astaire/Rogers' musicals of the '30s.
I like the 1975 British musical "The Old Curiosity Shop" partly because I really like the song that's sung over the closing credits. Ends the movie on the just the right note. Anyone reading this ever seen it?
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That nun in PAPILLON who turns in Steve McQueen to the authorities so he can go back to that hellish prison for several more years of solitary deserves the 3-Prong Treatment.
Which, in turn, reminds me of an old joke:
Φ What's black and white and red and has trouble going through a revolving door?
τ A nun with a spear through her head.
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A Polish joke for 'Sepiatone'; I read this back in the 1980s and have remembered it to this day:
A man walking alone notices a large group of people walking in front of him. When he catches up to them he gets curious and asks where they are all going. A friendly woman replies "We are going to Krakow to get some meat". The man responds "But there is no meat in Krakow!"
The woman says "I know, but that's where the line starts".
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In regards to AIRPORT '79: THE CONCORDE let me say I don't mind the movie despite its silliness. Years ago I bought it on an MCA Home Video VHS because I wanted to have it in my video stash. And I watched it, too! (It's probably on DVD by now). Anyway, AIRPORT '79 is definitely not a movie to analyze very closely. Cicely Tyson is hilariously bad; she whispers her dialogue and gets all teary-eyed throughout her scenes. Maybe she saw the dailies and realized how bad the movie was turning out!
The director of AIRPORT '79: THE CONCORDE, David Lowell Rich, went on to helm another 'BOMB' a couple years later. He directed the 1981 comedy 'CHU CHU AND THE PHILLY FLASH' starring Alan Arkin, Carol Burnett, Jack Warden and plenty of other familiar faces. Alan Arkin's then-wife, Barbara Dana, wrote the script for "Chu Chu". My guess is Alan doesn't talk about this movie much, if at all. I don't recall him mentioning it when I saw an Arkin interview recently on TCM.
CHU CHU AND THE PHILLY FLASH was released on video in 1982 under the '20th Century Fox Video' banner and then again in 1983 under the new 'CBS/Fox Video' logo; I once owned both releases and sold one of them several years ago when I realized it had never been put out on DVD. Got a few $buckos$ for the old sliding-drawer box. It's been out of print for 34 years. → I figure if it weren't such an asinine movie Fox or some other company would have re-issued it on DVD by now.
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Yeah, but nobody did ask!
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I hereby sentence everyone who's posted on this thread to watch AIRPORT '79: THE CONCORDE. Guaranteed sophisticated entertainment. I promise.
ALSO, this movie has an ♦amazing♦ title in the UK. Over there it's called AIRPORT '80: THE CONCORDE. Yowza!
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Perhaps it's because there's already no shortage of appearances on TCM of movies featuring Bette and Spencer?
The one movie that co-starred Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis -- the 1932 prison movie with Spencer jailed and Bette his girlfriend -- aired within the past couple of months. I watched it. (Think it was called "20,000 YEARS IN SING SING"?).
→ You're not going to start another thread later today about TCM ignoring Anthony Perkins' birthday are you? He was born April 4. (In 1932).
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I don't think GONE WITH THE WIND would be a hit today. Maybe a hit with protesters . . . but not the general, movie-going public. My 2¢ worth.
In regards to CITIZEN KANE I don't recall Orson Welles ever saying he thought it was his best work. Maybe I missed it? I do like the movie, but I'd go for TOUCH OF EVIL before KANE.
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I watched "The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds" and I enjoyed it to a certain extent. Not exactly the kind of movie that motivates one to watch it repeatedly, though, is it? I think it's definitely an acquired taste. I know no one else in my family would enjoy it no matter how well-acted it is. I liked it all right and I would watch it again sometime. But not right away! Maybe if TCM airs it again in 2019 I'd be up for another viewing.
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RICHARD MULLIGAN in "S.O.B." as mentally pummeled film director Felix Farmer. I don't know how he kept a straight face delivering all those lines after he came to his senses and decided to "sex up" his family-friendly musical bomb by getting Mary Poppins to show breastus material. Mulligan goes wild once he gets the notion to re-shoot.
RICHARD BENJAMIN as attorney Stuart Selsome in "SCAVENGER HUNT" cracks me up. In one scene he tries to steal a foxtail from the back of a motorcycle in front of the 'Chez Death' bar before getting hauled in by the bikers and having his powder-blue suit shredded to bits.
Rock singer MEAT LOAF plays biker leader 'Scum' whom Benjamin tries to talk out of thrashing him.
"Scum, I was born to raise Hell!"
"Ever since the 6th grade, huh?"
"Even before that, Scummy!"
"Beat him to death!"
"LET'S TALK ABOUT IT!!"
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Nipkow: Did you know there's a colorized version of MR. BOWELINGS BUILDS HIS OUTHOUSE? The computer colorists effected pungent shades of brown throughout the 15-minute short.
I figure that's bound to perk your interested, ND!
Oh, yes . . . AND YOU WIN! (→ I noted you mentioned previously, O Nipkow Disc, how you've already won the argument for colorization of old movies. Shucks, it's so nice to be right, isn't it?)
(P.S. Want some Doan's Pills? Cheers!).
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I remember THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN (1985). One thing that struck me about it was the actor who played the father (Ray Wise) and the actress who played the daughter (Meredith Salenger) looked enough alike to where you could believe they were father and daughter in real-life.
I second the motion for TCM to pluck this movie for air from Disney's vault. When 'NATTY GANN' aired repeatedly on BYU several years ago it had been 'Edited for Content' and TCM wouldn't be airing it with little bits chopped out!
♦A THOUGHT♦
I wonder why TCM didn't air DARBY O'GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE (1959) on St. Patrick's Day? It occurred to me after I watched THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY the other night that Disney produced this very Irish film. Seems like it would've been a great pick to air this on Saint Paddy's Day. Ah, well, maybe next year . . .
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I like 'THE MEDUSA TOUCH' a lot. I've seen it 7 or 8 times. Pity it wasn't on the list of Burton movies to air for his SOTM, but it's not on DVD in the U.S. so there's no NTSC digital copy. It was released on DVD in the UK, however, but I don't know that TCM can legally air -- or has the equipment to air -- a 'Region 2'/PAL-format disc.
I disagree with every film critic review I've ever read of 'THE MEDUSA TOUCH'; I think the critics are full of rubbish when it comes to this movie.
→ The plane crash scene referenced in posts below has nothing to do with anyone on board the airplane taking it over.
Richard Burton is the man with the power to create catastrophe. And now he's out of control!
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JOHN LITEL was 79, not 77, when he died in Feb. 1972.
Actor WILL WRIGHT (1894-1962) had well over 100 credits; his last appearance in a theatrical film was the recently-aired '62 release "Cape Fear".
ANGIE DICKINSON (1931- ) has well over one hundred credits; the IMDb has her slated with 146. She stayed busy for a long time. I very much enjoyed watching "Point Blank" last night, I might add.
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Susan Flannery also turned into a human fireball as she fell to her death 65 stories below. She tossed a chair out the window and then went flying after it when the fire roared into the bedroom. Robert Wagner had already been turned in to a crispy critter.
Remember the review in the Leonard Maltin Guide regarding THE TOWERING INFERNO? I dug it:
"Purports to pay tribute to firemen, but spends its time devising grisly ways for people to die."
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Also, SUSAN FLANNERY starred in a 1979 made-for-television movie I liked. I rented it some 20+ years ago and later bought that same rental tape when the store began selling off its wares.
ANATOMY OF A SEDUCTION (1979-Tvm) on 'HBO/Cannon Video'.
The director of "Anatomy of a Seduction", Steven Hilliard Stern, pretty much made the same movie in 1982 with Yvette Mimieux and Andrew Stevens. Also a tele-pic, it was titled 'FORBIDDEN LOVE' and was released on the same video label. I bought that one, too.
An Unsettling Reflection About GWTW
in General Discussions
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I just gotta mention here the 1979 Tv movie (which I've seen) called LOVE'S SAVAGE FURY. Runs 1 hr 40 mins.
Here's the Leonard Maltin TVM review from the 1990 Guide:
"Petulant southern belle fights to hold on to the family mansion when the Union boys march through in this blatant ripoff of GONE WITH THE WIND -- and even the letters of the title sweep across the screen in the opening credits! Below Average (and contempt)".
Starring Jennifer O'Neill, Perry King, Raymond Burr, Connie Stevens, Robert Reed, Ed Lauter.
→ For those who've had their fill of GWTW why, shucks, this tele-pic is whole lot shorter and isn't likely to offend anyone (except those who despise 'blatant ripoffs').