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That would be cool and everything, but I would rather go to see something that I haven't seen in a while, like Laserblast.

Good to know. There are ways to deal with the PAL format. I always go through the official channels first, and for ways too numerous for this thread. Back in the early 2000s I used to do that though, before the market penetration got better over here for obscure CD titles. For certain titles I would even log on to Amazon.de, even though I don't speak any German. Back then their website layouts were all identical and my account worked on all their sites. They even sent German confirmation emails, "Herr MoviecollectorOH, Danks fur ze order." If I tried that today maybe I'd get a drone airdrop from another country...lol.

Sort of a Hollywood commentary on the 80s, as I Love You Alice B. Toklas was of the late 60s. I'll have to hunt down a copy.

I think this is one of the more obscure ones I have in my extensive 70s/80s car chase and cross-country racing collection. That also reminds me of Cannonball Run. Burt Reynolds and Dom Deluise, and Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.

If I have to record a movie from one of those channels, I use a PC editing program to slice it up and patch it together, so I don't have to sit there in real time with the clicker. The funny thing I noticed was that for the last couple movies I did that way, the timeline on the editor resembled a piece of logarithmic graph paper, with the larger divisions on the left and the smaller divisions on the right. Maybe two or three decent commercial breaks in the first third, but as it went on the commercials near the end weren't even a minute long. As I got near the end it was visually difficult to tell the difference between commercial and movie. Very annoying to edit, let alone watch. Probably somewhere around 20 breaks in all. That is no way to watch a movie. Really.

more ignorance life is a joke to everyone know a days... always talking and talking never taking any action oyu know what a cult come to cuase disaster is what w eneed to show poeople? like ou your just talk see i can type on a keyboard to your not very talented ;D have a good day [That was just a sample of someone else's **** I saved for posterity.] edit: I guess baby words like d o o d o o are too v u l g a r here. Mmm okay...

Kind of an obscure one by now is Tough Guys (1986). Burt Lancaster • Kirk Douglas • Charles Durning • Alexis Smith • Dana Carvey Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone. Two train robbers just out of 25-30 years in prison for robbing the "Gold Coast Flyer". Anyone remember that?

That and The Odd Couple - both from Neil Simon. Heck, I like just about anything anything Walter Mathau or Neil Simon did.

I was would say Auld Lang Syne too, but it probably depends on what kind of movies you are into. Many of the comedies that I like tend to have an evening that happens to be New Years Eve. I suspect that it was one of L.B. Mayer's favorites too.

Hmm. Ok. Add to that list of tragic deaths from that time period Marjorie White, who was a young star in the musicals at Fox Films, before they became 20th Century, and also in an early Three Stooges movie. She died in a car accident.

I didn't notice these ones: Another along the dust bowl theme, The Southerner (1945) Zachary Scott • Betty Field • J. Carrol Naish • Beulah Bondi • Percy Kilbride Poor white tenant farmers battle fierce odds to make a living on a Texas plot. For more people out of their element, The Out of Towners (1970) Jack Lemmon • Sandy Dennis An Ohio businessman and his wife fly to New York and have nothing but trouble for the next 24 hours. And another White Cargo (1942) (In this gem, we see three different men out of their element on a rubber plantation, only the last one learns to adapt) And another Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) (this movie is all about getting situated, over and over again) There are probably a lot of others in a vague sense.

All in all that's about what I was thinking. Also, having a studio audience of say 25 people or so might help a bit, just a thought I had years ago after seeing the hosts having fun on the commericals for the TCM Cruises. Probably too late to change the format now, after all the intros they have under their belt at this point.

It is a bit hard to explain without a pic, so check out the image I uploaded.

I watched that, and simple answers can sometimes be wrong, but they can sometimes be right. My simple take on it is that Broderick is an actor before he is a stand-up comic, and as we know good acting requires self control. It is likely that nobody thought to tell him it would be ok to be funny, and he probably doesn't have his own homemade collection of TCM's zaniest introductions. I don't know if this is from the same series, but for the record I really enjoyed that astrophysicist guy they had on who was introducing Sci-Fi movies. P.S. On a broader level, it looks like being funny all by one's self can be a chore. A studio audience for the introductions could go a long way I think.

So they bailed after showing about half of their inventory. Excuses, excuses. This one better be good, Peter Sellers has been dead now for nearly 35 years.

I heard a similar story about a particular child actor (can't remember who right now). He could have been one of the Little Rascals, or maybe a child actor from a TV show. Just off the top of my head, but he was at home with his wife later on in life, and somebody came knocking at their door and asked if it was him. His wife had no idea what the stranger was talking about. That was when he broke it to his wife that he had been a child actor. I've known a handful of former celebrities, and they really don't want to be known for their work. They just want to be known for themselves. They go to great lengths to protect their privacy.

For me, this is an interesting study. Of course all of this had to happen some time, in time for 1929 and 1930. I am wondering how they were able to watch it instantly, as the film would at least have to be "fixed" first (stabilized). I have seen "Moviolas" being demonstrated though, as in Jam Session (1944) I think. Also I have read that the very first MGM lion roar was a voice actor. I am not sure why, but the circumstances were not very conducive to recording the lion at that point. Maybe you have heard it for yourself, it didn't sound anything like a lion. To me, it sounded neither feline nor human, it sounded sort of mechanical, like a boat hull scraping up against a dock. Nevertheless they didn't keep it for very long. The Technicolor camera boxes (later to come - as FredCDobbs pictured way below) are interesting. I had seen pictures of those before and just thought it was a huge camera. I am still not clear on the size of the Technicolor camera, in relation to the sound-deadening box they used them in. Maybe Fred knows? Also those camera booths are amazing. That is just insanity. Great photos, and interesting topic!

Somebody else mentioned Jolson in another thread. Then I posted this pic of them.

That's all fine by me, the kind of girl I would have brought home to mom... A good kind of character for a character actress, especially if she is just being herself.

Here are some more lastshown dates (since 2003) @ Classic aficionado - Stolen Hours (1963) 2011-01 - Harriet Craig (1952) 2014-01 - The Silver Cord (1932) ? no matches - The Age of Innocence (1934) 2014-12 - Magnificent Obsession (1935) 2013-01 - Back Street (1932) ? no matches - Back Street (1961) ? 2011-09 - Imitation of Life (1934) 2013-02 - Street Angel (1927) ? 2011-02 - Sunrise (1927) ? 2014-11 - Seventh Heaven (1927) ? no matches - State Fair (1933) ? 2014-02 - Woman In Hiding (1950) 2012-06 - Sign of the Cross (1932) ? 2007-06 - Who's that Knocking at My Door? (1968) 2014-03 - Darling (1965) ? 2012-03 - Fahrenheit 451 (1966) ? 2010-06 - Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) 2009-11 - Pollyanna (1960) 2010-12 - The Parent Trap (1961) 2010-12 - Oklahoma! (1955) 2011-12 - Carousel (1956) 2014-07 - South Pacific (1958) 2011-05 - Never to Love (1940) ? no matches - Gigi (1948) 2014-06 - French version - The Rose Tattoo (1955) 2014-05 - Apartment for Peggy (1948) ? 2013-08 - I Thank a Fool (1962) 2013-01 - Green Card (1990) 2005-02 - Anna Christie (1930 - The alternate German-language film version directed by Jacques Feyder, also starring Greta Garbo) 2015-05 - US 2005-11 - DE - Inspiration (1931) 2012-03 - Intermezzo (1939) 2010-12 [intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)] - Rich and Famous (1981) no matches - Summertime (1955) 2012-12 - The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) upcoming, 2015-04, 2015-05 - Anna and the King of Siam (1947) 2013-08 - The Color Purple (1985) 2005-10 - Diamond Head (1963) 2013-08 @FredCDobbs INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS 2009-11 [invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)] 2007-07 [invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)] SEVEN SAMURAI 2013-10 RASHOMON upcoming 2015-06

Thanks! I didn't consider that it might have something to do with the enhanced form. No reel problum, I will jist have moor missellings.

Spirited Away (2002) was shown 4 times between 2006 and 2007.

Hi. Star! was shown once before on 2011-02. Thoroughly Modern Millie has already played three times since 2010-02. Darling Lili was shown 8 times between 2006-08 and 2008-11.

A good amount of the IMDB keywords are perhaps easier for thousands of IMDB users to think up and list though, than for a few at TCM to incorporate into meaningful themes, or for me to use as my topics. I only have about 50 topics total (one or two topics max per movie). They are more specific than genre, and don't duplicate entries found in genre. They are mostly meaningful to me. I figured out a while back that if I added too many topics, then they would become too meaningless for me to do, and harder to sort through to add new movies. At 50 topics, I can still readily think of them off the top of my head as I am adding a new movie. I realize though that TCM probably doesn't approach it from that same angle, but I would imagine they probably do try to keep a concise list.

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