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Carol Channing has the most annoying voice in the whole history of movies. This fact is not debatable. AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!! I think I hear it now, run for your life...

The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester (I read somewhere they were filming this) Enders Game/Speaker For The Dead - Orson Scott Card (filming this one too) The Foundation - Isaac Asimov Blood Music - Greg Bear Random Quest - John Wyndham (a love story no less) Flow My Tears The Policeman Said - Philip K Dick (would be amazingly difficult to film. Only Stanley Kubrik could pull it off, and he's gone) Eon - Greg Bear (magnificent visual images and a great story) Canticle For Leibowitz - Walter Miller (superb in so many ways) The Forever War (forgot the name of the author) This is just 10, there are dozens of other that would make good movies. Regards

Pornographic movies have always been looked down upon by mainstream Hollywood and mainstream society in general. I say this is unfair, nothing more than prudery and snobbishness. Pornography as a genre has its legends and superstars and its classics as does any other genre. And I speak to you today, unashamed and unafraid, in defense of Pornographic movies. In the intrests of fairness and diversity there should be 'Porno Movies' catagory in the Genre forums. However, I agree with you TCM is not the place, and I'm sure this was unintentional on the part of the TCM website. The TCM website may want to include an optional content filter on their search engine. And you should too if you are easily offended. Regards

Hell... Where all Mother-in-laws are Gladys Cooper at her nastiest. She was superb at playing spitefull, manipulative, dominating mothers. As we all know, they make the most destructive mothers-in-law. God help your marriage..

ELIZABETH TAYLOR in The Taming Of The Shrew. She was more beautiful in this movie than at any other time in her career. Those lovely blue eyes framed by luxurious black hair. Those magnificent breasts and Madonna like hips. She was perfect, built the way they used to make 'em in the old days, all curves and softness. She had the kind of body that would have made Rubens bite through his paint brush. Sadly thats not the fashion today (too) thin is in, as anyone who watched those pseudo-sophistcated beanpoles drag their bony selves along the red carpet at the Oscars will have observed. I'd like to hear from more men on this subject naming your favorite woman-shaped actresses (actressi ?) who look like real people and not runway models. I'm making a stand (in more ways than one) in support of voluptuouness. God bless Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale, Shelley Winters, Mae West and all the rest.

It would be nice to see more classic animation on TCM. They could start with Fantastic Planet (The Savage Planet) from 1972.

The music for 100 Hundred Years Of Film is a medley of themes from various movies, its just the arrangement thats original. It's beem some while since I saw this documentry, but if my memory serves me right there were music clips from 'Citizen Kane', 'Gone With The Wind', one of the James Bond movies, 'Midnight Cowboy', 'Lawrence of Arabia', 'Easy Rider', 'Doctor Zhivago', and lots of others I can't recall at the moment. Regards

I think it might be 'Singin' in the rain' or 'The Godfather', or maybe it was 'Casablanca' or 'Ben Hur'. Nice post LOL.

I would be interested to know from others what single movie started your love affair with movies. For me, I think, It was 'Forbidden Planet'. I saw this movie on TV when I was 6 (a long time ago), and it scared the hell out of me, especially the part where the thing, whatever it was is trying to break through the force field. This movie left such an impression on me. I have seen the movie several times since, the dialog is corny, and some of the acting is stiff, but it still hits the spot. After that I was an avid movie fan (it's interesting that movies don't always live up to the way we remember tham). Another film I'm fascinated by is Ken Russel's version of 'The Boyfriend', which most people hate. Maybe I fell in love with the girls (yes, all of 'em). A movie definately not appreciated in it's time. Regards

"The hand of God reaching down into the mire could not elevate you to the depths of degredation" I think that line is from 'Nothing Sacred'. It's a great line and I often use it myself with my employees to put then in their place. Try it, it works. Regards

Thanks for the info markfp2 Did you know that some of these movies are being shown at sexual harrassment seminars in England - To combat, not to promote - But I still find these movies very funny. I don't mind climbing into the gutter once in a while. http://www.britmovie.co.uk http://turnerclassic.moviesunlimited.com/product.asp?sku=D36706++&mscssid=X2AU557XU5RV8MX81J7JB967APH47HAC Regards

What are the ingrediants for an Alaskan Polar Bear Heater ? And who drank one, in which movie ?

Dear Fred Thanks for the map. I live in the area called 'CYPRESS SWAMP' on the map. Anybody else reading this may wonder what this all has to do with classic movies. Stick around, I'm sure some movie production company somewhere is working on it. Regards

Dear Mr. Fred Thank you for asking. Yes I did survive Hurricane Katrina (although even the survivors have had their lives drastically changed by this event in lots of ways). I live on the Metairie side of the 17th Street canal, in a second floor apartment so my personal losses were minimal. There was several feet of water in the street and most of the homes in the area were flooded. On the east side of the canal which is New Orleans proper - it was the east side levee that broke - this was the worst affected area (the canal is on the border of Orleans and Jefferson parishes) I was one of the luckier ones. In my opinion, for what its worth, the fact of the levee breaking was not entirely the reason for the flooding, the water level had already topped the levee. However had the levee not collapsed and the pumping station had been functioning they would have pumped out the water in a couple of days instead of weeks. New Orleans cannot be reasonably protected from events like this, and we who live here damn well know it despite assurances from the Mayor, the Governor, the President, or anybody else. The levees can never be high enough. Anyone who has visited New Orleans will notice that it is entirely surrounded by water, the Mississippi river, Lake Pontchatrain, the Gulf of Mexico, and the rest is SWAMP. New Orleans is built on drained swampland and drained swampland sinks and continues to sink. If you dig a hole around here it will fill with water, nobody has a basement. Despite hurricane Katrina and the damage and loss of life, New Orleans was very lucky this time. Hurricane Katrina was a near MISS. The Louisiana/Mississippi border region and the Mississippi Gulf coast took the full force of the hurricane. Should New Orleans be hit directly by a category 5 hurricane, what you saw from hurricane Katrine will be child's play. New Orleans is a bigger disaster waiting to happen. Unfortunately, unlike Amsterdam or Venice, we have not learned to peacefully coexist with our water, we try to contain it, and there are times when it wont be contained. Thank for listening to me rave, I'll bet you're sorry you asked. Regards

I agree, I remember watching this sitcom on TV when I was a kid. I would also like to see some of the 'Carry On' films on TCM. There were also a few other films spawned from British sitcoms of the period like 'Til death us do part' and 'Porridge', and no doubt a lot of others. However these movies might be considered a little 'Too British' for American audiences. The humor may be a little over their heads, or under their radar, or whatever. There were a lot of 'Carry On' films, some of them were genuinely funny and a few were downright moronic. But you never know, Benny Hill was very popular in the US. Regards

Welcome to the world of classic movies. Nice to see a young person ready to carry the flag to the next generation after us old **** are gone.

Dear Sir, thank you, that sounds like the one. I forgot to mention it was in Spanish. No hablo Espanol, so it would have been subtitled as well. Nice title though. My son and his friends are looking for a name for their punk band, The Exterminating Angels, mmmmm. I'll tell him, It also would make a good name for an all female pest control business. Thanks again Regards

Does anyone know the name of tis movie ? I saw it sometime back in the 1970's although the movie was made in the 50's or early 60's, I think. Basically a group of people are attending some kind of cocktail party. The party goes on for days and nobody is able to leave. They become very dirty and even begin to starve and die of thirst, and still they won't leave. Very creepy, oh and it was in black and white. Regards

This is not really a defense of colorization, just an attempt to calm down the many who seem to have taken offense that some of their favorite black and white movies have been colorized. The main reason that the VAST MAJORITYof films from the beginning up until the late 1950's were filmed in black and white was not for any asthetic reason, but merely because filming in color was extremely expensive, and studios reserved the use of color for their most important and expensive productions. Had filming in color been no more expensive than black and white then nearly all films would have originally been filmed in color. I know there are exceptions and that some directors notwithstanding would have used black and white for reasons of style. I personally don't particularly care for colorization, it's not been refined sufficiently to offer any resemblance to reality, and I'm quite happy with black and white. It's interesting to consider what impact the availability of cheap color production techniques would have had on the history of cinema, film noir in color ?. Old classics will continue to be colorized, and reformatted, and edited, or simply disappear into olblivion as the media corporations that own them continue their single minded persuit for the bucks of our old friends the 'Target Demographic', joining the likes of AMC and Bravo and all the rest on the low road to profitability. Turner Classic Movies remains unique in not jumping on this bandwagon to the trash dump. But for how long ?.........

Funny, whenever I watch the news on CNN I too get the impression that the country is being run by Nazi's. Anyway, as this thread is 'What movie can NEVER be re-made?' I will throw in my two cents worth. I read recently somewhere on the internet that some movie production company has recently acquired the rights to remake 'A matter of life and death' or 'Stairway to heaven' as it was titled in the USA. I shudder to think what this will be like. At one point in the movie the Doctor says something like; "If he asks me about politics, I'm sunk." I believe politics will sink any remake of this movie, and thats sad. Regards

Without doubt the most underated actor of all time was Lee J. Cobb. He dominated any movie he was in , check out 'On the waterfront' or 'Twelve angry men'. He was a great actor, not a movie star, two professions which a not necessarily the same thing.

The movie you are looking for here is DEAD OF NIGHT. Elisha Cook was'nt in it. It is set in an english country house. It is about an architect who has a recurring dream in which he visits the house, and meets half a dozen strangers. They each tell a story of some strange or frightening experience they have had. I saw this film when I was a kid and it scared the you-know-what out of me. Michael Redgraves portrayal of a mad ventriloquist is CLASSIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Regards

Thanks again I checked out the IMDB site and found that........... 'Ice Cold In Alex' was blandly retitled as 'Desert Attack' for USA release. And 'Mandy' was retitled 'Crash of Silence' or 'The Story of Mandy' for USA release. You can view the trailer for 'Vacation From Marriage' on this site. Robert Donat telling Deborah Kerr she looks like a 'Blond Gollywog' has stayed with me since I last saw this movie 30-odd years ago. Regards

Thanks for the heads-up. Changing movie titles on me huh, that's a dirty trick. Where would be the best place to look for alternate movie titles. Regards

The following is a list of British films I would like to see on TCM. God knows I wont see then anywhere else. Green For Danger Belles of St. Trinians A Taste of Honey Perfect Strangers Mandy The Family Way A Matter Of Life And Death The Taming Of the Shrew (1967 British ?) Elizabrth Taylor never looked sexier !!!! Genevieve Barry Lyndon (Kubrick) Ice Cold In Alex Carry On films (some of the earlier ones, not the horrible later ones). Thats all for now. Will post some more when I think of them. Merry Christmas