Movie Collector OH
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I've not seen a legal U.S. DVD release of 'TOUGH GUYS', either. I still have an old 'Touchstone Home Video' tape from 1987. I bought it used many moons ago. Has a bit of mould inside the shell because I stupidly stored it in a somewhat damp/humid area for a couple years before I wised up and brought it inside my house. Live and learn . . .
In England, however, TOUGH GUYS is readily available and cheap to buy new on DVD. Has a '12' certificate on the front of the artwork courtesy of the cert-happy BBFC. If you go to amazon.co.uk and narrow your search to 'DVD and Blu-Ray' you'll see there's a bunch of inexpensive discs for sale -- except they're in PAL format.
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.
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For rights issues reasons, I assume, Tough Guys has never had a DVD release. I believe the only way to see it now is through an old VHS tape of it.
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.
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Even though Alan Arkin doesn't seem to like this movie, he and James Caan had great chemistry in FREEBIE AND THE BEAN (1974).
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.
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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.
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Have I missed something? Is there a 'new' and 'improved' spelling for 'concert'?
28silent has it as 'conscert' along with his nearly-illiterate original post. I conclude after reading the OP 'Mike McGee/28silent' must be a 6th grade drop-out. Jeepers.
'would of', huh? Try 'would've'. It's a contraction for 'would have'.
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I wonder if he's applied for a job using this kind of grammar on his application?
QUESTION: 'Why do you feel qualified for this job?'
ANSWER: "You cruel people. Marhta die and you people dont' care. Anything to be mean to you! I din't do what you asked but I would of! I don't would of and you didn't care! No nothing to mak me happy with dieing in bed with a book! I want a Martha movie! That why I 'm qualifeyed four your job offer! To be happy! Is with German celebrity movies singing! But you would of! But dont' take them serously! Screw you!"
JOB INTERVIEWER READING APPLICATION: "What the hell is this s-h-it?"
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...
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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?
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Love all the ones mentioned so far. I'd add George Burns and Walter Matthau in
The Sunshine Boys
That and The Odd Couple - both from Neil Simon. Heck, I like just about anything anything Walter Mathau or Neil Simon did.
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Hmmmm...actually slayton, I'm thinkin' more "Auld Lang Syne" or maybe Stephen Foster's "Beautiful Dreamer" here.
(...and which were almost guaranteed to help stimulate the audience's tear ducts back in the day, ya know)
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.
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Dorothy Dell-3 movies (all 1934) and Russ Columbo. Both died tragically.
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.
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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.
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Ah, but MCOH, I believe you MIGHT be associating the concept "funny" or "zany" WITH the concept of "public speaking or imparting information so as to add a little LIFE into the proceedings".
Nope, sorry, I wasn't implying at ALL that Mr. Broderick should have been "a laugh riot" when he introduced those movies...nope, not at all. Nope, all I wanted was a little "life" injected into his presentations, THAT'S all.
(...and something I wouldn't think would be all THAT hard to do, especially for a professional actor...hell, I could do THAT, but because as Sheldon Leonard says in a certain cinematic perennial, people wouldn't know ME from "Adam's off ox", nobody would CARE to see me do this on their TV set...well, okay, maybe a few who know me from around HERE might, but that would probably be about it, I'm sure!)
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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.
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THIS PART IS QUOTING TOM JH'S POST:
[...]THIS PART IS ME REPLYING. I'M TOO STUPID TO KNOW HOW TO TAKE MY RESPONSE OUT OF THE QUOTE BOX:
[....]It is a bit hard to explain without a pic, so check out the image I uploaded.
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Here ya go, MissW!
Somebody, for whatEVER reason(perhaps as a good sedative) has uploaded a few of Matthew's "stirring" introductions in that Friday Night series of last year and which ironically was about "Screwball Comedies", and which as you'll see Matthew is "excellent" at talkin' up and getting the audience REALLY enthused for what's to come!!! LOL
(...btw...before you watch this, might I suggest you take some No-Doz if you might have a bottle of that stuff handy...)
(...sorry, but I'll just NEVER understand how a trained actor, especially an actor who specializes in comedy such as Mr. Broderick here, doesn't seem to have the LEAST idea of the concept of "Infection" and which words to "punch" in a sentence while in delivery of their lines in work like this?!...I mean, when you watch this, tell me, don't you TOO half except that any second some kind of text will show up at the bottom of the scene saying somethin' like: "Please excuse my apparent lack of enthusiasm here, but I'm only doing this because of that Super Bowl bet I lost with that TCM employee a few months back!" ???)
LOL...some more
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.
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HIGHLY disappointed that TCM has seen fit to cancel the rest of the 'Carry On' movies for April and put Peter Sellers in their place.
2015-04 Carry On Pimpernel (1966)
2015-04 Carry On In the Legion (1967)
2015-04 Carry on Doctor (1968)
2015-04 Carry On... Up the Khyber (1968)
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.
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I don't agree that she sabotaged her career or for that matter, whether she even cared about furthering her career. She was probably very unhappy with Jolson and finally had enough and divorced him. She had some temporary happiness when she and Jolson adopted a baby boy. I believe after her divorce she was looking to find a nice man not connected with the film industry and settle down. And that's exactly what she did. From what I read and heard she had a very happy married life. She had her career and she had a happy blissful marriage and family. So I'm sure she was content.
Years ago TCM ran a documentary on her and in it her daughter speaks while they show home movies of her with her family. Her daughter mentioned that her mother never mentioned that she was an actress and that none of her brothers or sisters even knew about her film career until many years later.
She never talked about it. The only hint they ever had was when the radio would be on and Ruby would start to dance to the music on the radio (a tap dance). Otherwise, her daughter described her as a typical housewife and Mom who dearly loved her family.
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.
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For me, this is an interesting study. Of course all of this had to happen some time, in time for 1929 and 1930.
Cameras are now installed inside massive glass-fronted boxes to prevent the noise of the drive mechanism from being picked up during sound recording. Cast and crew begin to watch immediate playback of recorded scenes before moving on to the next part of the story.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!
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That's how I always understood her career. To paraphrase Donald O'Connor in Singin' in the Rain: "She can't dance, she can't sing, and she can't act, but I like her." That must be how the public thought of her. I'm surprised no one so far has mentioned the fact that she was Al Jolson's wife. That's been cited as an explanation of her career. While it may explain how she got her start, it can't explain her continuing career, for she had an enduring appeal to the American public. One or two movie flops, and she would have been out. But the movies she was in were very successful. Of course, it helped she was surrounded by a lot of great talent in the form of actors, directors, and Busby Berkely. And you can notice her acting improving in her later movies.
Somebody else mentioned Jolson in another thread. Then I posted this pic of them.
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Even Ruby admitted years later..." I couldn't sing very well, I couldn't act, and now I know I wasn't the greatest tap dancer in the world. I was all personality and no talent"
But she was in the right place at the right time. The film audiences found something appealing in her during the depression, may an innocence that that she projected. Unlike stars like Ginger Rogers who had a sexy quality [ like they said about Ginger and Fred...He gave her class and she gave him sex appeal}, that Ruby didn't give. She was more the kid sister, cute and needing protection.....
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.
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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
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I have tried it on Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 11 - the spell-checker here works with both (squiggly red underline).
Your difficulty may only occur here when you post in Rich Text - changing to Plain Text may alleviate this.. don't know. Here's something that might help:
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.
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Hallelujah I'm a bum actually holds up pretty well. In other matters, Spirited Away was shown as part of TCM oscars in February 2006. Canadians didn't get to see it. Have Americans been able to see it since.
Spirited Away (2002) was shown 4 times between 2006 and 2007.
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Moviecollector, would you be able to know how often TCM has played Star! and Thoroughly Modern Millie? I'm vaguely interested in watching them and Darling Lili, but I don't have the time to watch all three on Friday, and I was wondering whether it would be likely that the two would come back on TCM.
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.
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I will go along with that statement. I think SansFin makes a good point. I have a thread over in the Games and Trivia forum called Classic Keyword(s). It started because like Sans mentions, I noticed that if you click on the 'Keywords' link at the IMDb and on the TCM database, a person will quickly see there are many ways to group or categorize movies. Some titles cover many themes, and others are narrower in definition. But since TCM's programmers employ a wide variety of thematic ideas, the chance that they are leaving out huge categories of films seems rather unlikely.
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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Best wishes and get better soon!
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Glad You Saw It In A Theater FIRST
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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.