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Sunday, Dec. 4th--All times E.S.T.: 10:15 p.m. "Solomon and Sheba" (1959)--King Vidor's last film, and one of the Medved's "50 Worst Films of All Time" (1978)--From the trailer on its' TCM webpage, it looks interesting--the glimpse given of special effects looks good, and Gina Lollobrigida doing a combination duck walk/belly dance during a (crowd scene before an Idol)* reminded me of The Bangles "Walk Like an Egyptian". In the trailer, only a narrator speaks, never the characters. It Looked like a candidate for a "so bad, it's good" movie. *Edit--Otto starred out my original word choice.

Sepiatone--at the end of my post, I said I saw "Five" (1951) on archivedotorg and said to search "Fve1951" on that website to get the link for the film.

NUMBER SEVENTEEN

(THE) PLOUGH AND THE STARS

DUUH-That'll teach me to post without having any caffeine in my system! Swithin, I apologize--your thread! Thanks Lawrence. for catching the mistake.

Sat. Dec. 3rd/4th--All times E.S.T.: One film by day, three of the nights' offerings: 9:00 a.m. "Ride Lonesome" (1959)--A taut Budd Boetticher western with Randolph Scott. 9:30 p.m. "A Scandal in Paris" (1946)--Early Douglas Sirk; TCM webpage has no information on it, except for an article. A TCM Premiere?? 11:15 p.m. "Lured" (1947)-- Sirk directs Lucille Ball, George Sanders, and Boris Karloff in a very good Victorian noir. 4:00 a.m. "The Fox" (1968)--Based on the D.H. Lawrence story, film hasn't been on TCM since 2007(?).

Lawrence-- MacLaine also did "Irma La Douce" (1963) with Billy Wilder. Otherwise, you're right. "Can-Can" (1960) is on archivedotorg. The version uploaded has 5 minutes of Entrance music but no picture, an awkwardly placed Intermission, and End music. The version TCM showed in Dec. 2015 didn't have these features, if I remember correctly--I do remember it was shown in the Early morning. Search "Ccn19601" on archive. Your thread, Lawrence.

Swithin--You're correct! "Vampire Circus" mixes vampirism, shapeshifting, a cursed castle, a cursed town, rabies, and other horror movie cliches turned on their heads. Rambo would be proud of the destruction that ensues. A strange one to watch with the lights off. Circus cliches are turned upside down. Film doesn't have many laughs in it (I haven't seen it in a while), but is definitely worth seeing if you find it. Your thread. Edited for correction.

Thank you starlit. This actress had the good luck to debut in a film by Alfred Hitchcock, and later worked with directors Vincente Minnelli, Walter Lang, Billy Wilder, and Bob Fosse, among others. Please name her and her films with the listed directors.

Quick Millions (1931)

"Oh, What a Lovely War" (1968)?

Tex Ritter, "The Devil's Trail"?

Hint--The two Bs would Not have endorsed this title bunch.

Poseidons' bookish offspring

Claudette Colbert, "Three Came Home" (1950)?

"Five" (1951)--Produced, written, and directed by Arch Oboler. Good film about the aftermath of WW III , with a cast of unknowns. Movie is about how five random survivors eventually meet, and what happens to them, in the years after the bombs fall. Oboler does wonders with a low budget and a good script. He uses stock footage for the beginning effects, and thereafter depends upon sparse dialogue, eerie silence, and shots of empty cities and countryside. The minimal Special effects are judiciously used only to further the plot. The cliff house is credited to Frank Lloyd Wright. The ending is ambiguous. This is the earliest anti-nuclear film I'm aware of. Very well done. This is scheduled to be shown December 26th (?), in the early morning hours. Definitely a film to stay up for or record. 3.3/4 Source--archivedotorg. Search "Fve1951".

If "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989) is the answer: Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Tuttle, and Arthur Lubin are all credited as "Various" in the TCM credits list for CaM; are they the three directors you're looking for?

The Great Race?

starlit--I was Right?! I just chose the most distinctive voice I could think of. I knew Harry Cohn was reputed to be a *******, but Arthur capable of planning a murder--that's a bit of Hollywood history I didn't know. Edit--Looking at Arthur's schedule from the late 20's to early 30's when she was under contract to Paramount, Adolph Zukor is my second guess. She was also making some murder mysteries at the time (1929's "The Canary Murder Case", etc.).

I vote for Lydecker.

Lawrence--Yes, it's a Hammer film. Shapeshifting means several sorts of animals, in the film I'm thinking of.

"Aguirre, Wrath of God" (1972)--Starring Klaus Kinski; written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog. Set in South America after the fall of the Inca Empire, film is about an 1560-1561 ill-fated expedition led by Francisco Pizarro to find El Dorado, the City of Gold. The expedition splits up, and unstable Spanish nobleman Aguirre (Kinski) is chosen to be second-in-command on the part of the group that rafts up the Amazon. The movie was filmed on location in South America. The dreamlike photography is by Thomas Mauch. The score by Popol Vuh sets the dreamy, mournful mood. Film veers from social comedy to tragedy to nightmare, and back as the expedition inevitably dwindles in numbers. I got the distinct impression that director Herzog thought the expedition got what was coming to them. Unforgettable portrait of madmen and the consequences of supreme stupidity. 4/4. Source--YouTube. I watched the print on "Mountain Springs" channel; it has English subtitles.

Swithin--Sorry, not the film I'm looking for--Thanks for the recommendation though. Hint--carpenters tool.

starlit--You're correct! In the first and last numbers, ancestral portraits jump out of their frame, and perform song and dance numbers. I chose the title because "That Lady in Ermine" (1948) uses the same plot gimmick Preminger's "Laura" (1944) did; having a man (this time Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) fall in love with a portrait of a woman he thinks is dead. Your thread, starlit.

Jean Arthur??