Mr. Gorman

I'm still waiting for a movie starring AQUAWOMAN. AQUAMAN is so passé. (P.S. Did you hear that "Aquaman" went bankrupt? He invested all of his Aqua$Dough$ into breeding his own brand of goldfish. Only problem was the goldfish he was breeding would drown . . . welp, better luck next time I reckon).

I noted there's a poster named 'Hogmanman1' and it reminded me of something . . . in March 2018 "The MASTERS" tournament uploaded all the final round broadcasts from 1968-through the Present Day. Most of them were complete, but not all. To wit: The original color videotape master was mostly 'wiped' for the 1972 telecast (only 55 minutes extant) and the '73 Masters has only 22 minutes left of the original 2-hour broadcast. However, the •focus• of this thread is the 1968, 1969 and 1971 Masters tournament uploads. CBS first televised the Masters in 1956 from what I've read, but the 1956-67 CBS broadcasts were not uploaded with the others. I don't know why; I believe CBS was contractually obligated to make a copy of each broadcast . . . beats me why the '56-'67 final rounds weren't uploaded, but they were not. By 1968 CBS was televising their Masters broadcasts in color on videotape, but because videotape was expensive I reckon The •Eye• decided to point a black-and-white camera at the original color broadcast and preserve the telecast that way instead of saving the videotape color master so they could re-use the videotape. That was done for the '68, '69 and '71. The 1970 Masters broadcast was different in that it was preserved on a color kinescope instead of black-and-white. → I can't figure why the '71 wasn't archivally recorded by a color camera instead of a B&W . . . but it wasn't. 🤔 Because the uploads for the '68, '69 and '71 Masters Tournaments were all uploaded from unrestored black-and-white kinescopes they look like 1930s movies. Like they are 'sports documentaries' or 'Sports Movies' instead of a real event being played out in real-time. → When Canadian golfer George Knudson is putting for a birdie on the 18th Hole in 1969 there's a •POP• so loud it sounds like someone was playing tennis in the background and returning a serve! Think of the way unrestored '30s movies looked on your old-time television and this is what these 3 broadcasts look like. Hisses, pops and scratches galore! They don't look like real golf tournaments being played 'Live' at the time. So if you're reading this and you're any kind of golf fan it's really a lot of fun to watch these old Masters broadcasts on YouTube. Here's a short summary of each broadcast: 1968 - Continuous putting rule in effect. This is the tournament where Roberto de Vicenzo had scorecard trouble. Runs 1 hour 18 minutes. CBS only allotted 90 minutes of Sunday Masters coverage for their broadcast window in '68. 1969 - I ♥ the ending to the '69 Masters. Continuous putting rule still in effect. It's very noticeable on this broadcast. You see players 'putting out' only because they HAD to instead of marking their balls and waiting. I think CBS was only using six cameras at the time and at least 1 of these cameras was mounted on a golf cart; Tom Weiskopf sent his tee shot on the 17th hole into said golf cart with the camera mounted on it. He got a free •drop•. You also see a cool Pontiac station wagon when Charles Coody hooks his tee shot way left on the 18th into the practice area. Coody is looking over his 2nd shot when the Pontiac wagon comes into view. Runs 1 hr 25 minutes. CBS still only allotting 90 minutes of coverage time. The small number of commercials seen during the broadcast are not seen on these uploads, btw. NOTE: George Archer's 4th shot at the Par-5 15th took a set of brass balls to execute! I've never seen anyone else do what he did after he went in the water on his 2nd shot. His playing partner, Tom Weiskopf, never forgot Archer's chip. 1971- The continuous putting rule had been eliminated on TOUR in 1970 so you don't see any players 'putting out' like they did in '69 and '68. CBS didn't begin allotting 2 hours to their final round broadcast window until 1973, if I'm not mistaken. The reason this upload runs 1 hour 49 minutes is because, according to Ray Scott, a hockey game CBS was showing ended early so Masters viewers got ♦bonus♦ coverage in '71! Yowza! → All the hisses and scratches you could possibly want -and- with bonus coverage, too. -------------------------------------------------- Canadian golf fans reading this might like to watch the 1969 tournament as Canada's "King of Swing" GEORGE KNUDSON cast his lot into the chase for the Green Coat. → Back then, both the announcers and Masters staff were as likely to call what is now exclusively referred to as the "Green Jacket" the 'Green Coat' as well. George Knudson's swing had been called "more Hogan than Hogan", but he didn't win more because of a frequently balky putter. To sum up: If you like a golf even a little bit you couple that with enjoying old movies and watching those three particular old Masters telecasts gives one a feeling of watching an unrestored 1930s sports movie. Kind of unique, I think. ⛳

In regards to movie organizing . . . I've endeavoured to try and categorize all my tapes and small number of DVD by label in alphabetical order. I've got most of my Paramount VHS tapes -- which fill up 4 banana boxes -- in alphabetical order so I can find tapes without much fuss. But it's a chore to keep it updated since I'm still pickin' up tapes here 'n' there. My most recent Paramount VHS pick-up is COPPER CANYON (1950-Color/Western) with Ray Milland and Hedy Lamarr.

@TikiSoo: In regards to ALLIGATOR (1980) . . . CATALINA HOME VIDEO, a short-lived homevideo company in business from 1983-84, released Alligator on VHS . . . and somehow got hold of a TV print instead of the 'regular' [R]-rated theatrical version. The TV version of "Alligator" runs 8 minutes longer than the theatrical 'cut' and there's only about 30 seconds missing due to some gory content involving the hungry 'gator. (What few cuss words there are in the theatrical version are all overdubbed with non-cuss words in the Tv print, btw). LIGHTNING VIDEO, an offshoot of the parent company "Vestron Video", released the regular theatrical version of "Alligator" on VHS in 1985. → I would think those cheap Korean DVD's of "Alligator" are the theatrical print instead of the television version. That said, I don't actually own a DVD release of "Alligator"; I just have the different video versions on VHS. ALLIGATOR. 🐊🐊 (P.S. ***Here be a small spoiler***: In the Cadillac car-crushing scene where Dean Jagger gets what's coming to him the filmmakers used two different Cadillacs to do it. If you know anything about the model years of '60s and '70s Caddy's you'll notice there are 2 different model-year cars used).

Perhaps Mel G. should've taken some time to speak with BROTHER THEODORE. Theodore lived until 2001 so there was plenty of time for Mel to ask what happened to Theodore's parents and some of his other relatives.

In regards to TEQUILA SUNRISE I agree with the Leonard Maltin Video Guide book assessment; he or one of his staff gave it 2½ stars out of 4. That's where I'd put my rating. Pretty good, but not great. Watchable enough, anyway. I'd almost forgotten about J.T. WALSH. As the 1990s wore on he was getting some big parts in BIG studio movies (think he was second-billed in BREAKDOWN (1997)) . . . and then he went on what appeared to be a much-needed vacation (looking on the IMDb I couldn't help but notice how busy he was). So he went to a California retreat and died there on Feb. 27, 1998. He was 54.

@Swithin: I've got plenty of PAL-format VHS tapes amongst my stash of tapes. I had a multi-standard VCR for approximately 9 years. I wore it out. I'd bought it used. Was a Panasonic. I enjoyed playing my PAL tapes on that unit. Really made 'em look good.

Speaking of 'Relaxation Music' . . . often I go to YouTube and the "Disco Purrfection Version" of the 1978 CHIC song "I Want Your Love". 13 minutes and 40 seconds of musical joy.

I gave up trying to keep track of how many VHS tapes I have. About 5000? 90+ boxes full of tapes over the past thirty-something years. I have 2 Blu-Ray discs: RECORD CITY (1978) -and- SKATETOWN, U.S.A. (1979). I reckon I've got about 125 DVD/DVD-R's. All else is *mylar*! I ♥ old tapes. I have especially enjoyed searching out the 1st homevideo releases of popular movies/movies that were released multiple times on VHS over the years like JAWS, THE HOWLING, THE WAR WAGON, AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, THE THING '82 and many others like THE OUTFIT and POINT BLANK. I have noted JAWS is now available in 4k for those who are interested. I like to watch "Jaws" on the 1980 MCA Videocassette, inc. tape. JAWS didn't need remastering when this release came out; the movie was only 5 years old. Just a transfer of a film print, admittedly not in W/S. I have 5 copies of JAWS on tape and the other 4 are all W/S releases with various bonus features/deleted scenes/outtakes, but I really •wanted• to get hold of the '1st-issue' VHS release of "Jaws" for my stash about 15 years ago. 🙂 The only thing I've had to do is use double-sided tape to keep the spine label from falling off the videocassette. I reckon the glue holding the label on simply dried out after all these years. Those old videocassettes were like ▬ bricks ▬!

I'M SITTIN' DOWNTOWN IN A RAILWAY STATION . . . HOPING THAT THE TRAIN IS ON TIME! (I'm goin' to Tarkio Road, btw). ONE TOKE OVER THE LINE was sung on the Lawrence Welk Show way back when. Believe it or not. It's hilarious! The Maestro said it was a "modern spiritual", I believe.

For those who dig British crime don't forget about THE SQUEEZE (1977-UK). I don't recall if TCM has ever shown it . . . but it's worth watching at least once. It's plenty sleeeezy. Carol White does a striptease number because the bad guys are full of lust and Stacy Keach is forced by the baddies to walk around the streets of London in the altogether. Good cast, I might add. One of Stephen Boyd's last films before his untimely death at age 45 on June 2, 1977. (I noted that Boyd was very thin over the past couple years of his life; I reckon he should've quit smoking).

TOM HANKS guested on "The Love Boat". Next: When you think of overrated actors you think of . . .

DAKOTA INCIDENT (1956-Western) next: BLACK SPURS (1965-Western) (These are the films Linda Darnell made before and after "Zero Hour!").

Well, MAE WEST *had* quit movies for 27 years or so . . . but then came back for MYRA BRECKINRIDGE (1970) and SEXTETTE (1978). I'm thinkin' she shoulda stayed retired instead of featuring in those two movies!

I rented TEQUILA SUNRISE probably 30 years ago; all I remember about it is that I thought the ending went on too long. A decent movie overall with a needlessly protracted finalé.

Who knows? → Maybe the CC was accurate and Alicia did want some 'Mary Jane'! Wacky Weed! Mara Ju Wanna! Seeds 'n' Stems! Perhaps the 'CC' people know something we don't! If we see an intro featuring Alicia with the BREWER & SHIPLEY song "One Toke Over the Line" playing in the background, well, shucks . . . there could be some HERB burning in the studio!

ALLIGATOR II is fairly dreadful. I never bought a copy of that. The first ALLIGATOR (1980) is indeed the one where the 'gator eats the young boy after his dopey, clueless friends push him off the diving board into the pool . . . where the 'gator is waiting! However, this scene is not much to speak of on the TV print of "Alligator". Shortened for those bits and bites of gory content! I only mention the TV print of "Alligator" because it got released on video several years before the 'regular' theatrical version did. I bought both versions on tape when I found out the TV print had somehow been issued for homevideo audiences in 1983. The box description even makes mention of a scene that's only in the Tv version of the movie. Fun stuff. For anyone reading this who wishes to view the scenes added back in to the Tv version go YouTube and type this in the subject line: ALLIGATOR (1980) ~ Extra scenes from the Tv version (Those extra scenes are taken from the 1983 Catalina Home Video VHS release. Personally, I like the extra footage).

Everyone has their own opinion of what makes a 'hidden gem'; I'll offer up a small number of 1930s nuggets I like well enough to watch when they pop up on TCM. They are all in B&W and short so they don't wear out their welcome. UNION DEPOT (1932) 68m. All kinds of characters and plots criss-cross at the train station! There is a lot of movie packed into these 68 minutes! CARNIVAL BOAT (1931) 62m. Has a good cast. The plot doesn't actually have much to do with the 'carnival boat' of the title. It's mostly about logging and hauling the logs. More fun than I thought it would be. HAUNTED GOLD (1932) 58m. Not bad for a quickie Warner western. Despite some racist-type elements at least Blue Washington receives a credit because he is in a lot of the movie. And his employer, John Wayne, trusts Blue enough to send him back to the ranch alone to get some money. → Robert Ryan didn't trust Harry Belafonte that much in ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW! RANGE FEUD (1931) 64m. Buck Jones, John Wayne, Susan Fleming. John Wayne didn't kill nobody! He wuz framed by insidious baddies! (Well, maybe I'm overstating things a bit . . . ). 😜

ALLIGATOR do a (((monch)))! 😋

I remember reading the Houston Astrodome held a 3-day festival in November 1973 called MILLENNIUM '73. Sponsored by the 'Divine Light Mission'.

I reckon ROBERT FORSTER's career had come to the point by the late '80s any acting offer was welcome. Besides, SATAN'S PRINCESS wasn't so bad. One could do far worse on the entertainment front that stuffing SATAN'S PRINCESS into your VCR. (The DVD-R's of "Satan's Princess" for sale look to simply be copies of the Paramount tape, btw). I thought Forster said that, at the time of being cast in "Jackie Brown", he didn't have an agent anymore as the acting offers were so sparse. Maybe it's time for a . . . FORSTER FEST! Must have ALLIGATOR (1980) in the 'Forster Fest'.

BLACK RAIN (1989) next: HARD RAIN (1998)

BUS RILEY'S BACK IN TOWN (1965) Ann-Margret, Michael Parks.

Speaking of writer/director BERT I. GORDON . . . Bert's 1990 movie SATAN'S PRINCESS was kinda fun. 🙂 I believe it was one of those 'direct-to-video' movies; released on VHS by Paramount. I bought a copy many moons ago. Robert Forster stars with Lydie Denier and Caren Kaye. Lydie's lovely face graces the front of the Paramount video box, I might add. Seems that Bert is still alive at age 98. Bless him. Hope he makes it to at least 100.

BYE BYE BRAVERMAN (1968)