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> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}Here are some schedule additions followed by a TCM Press Release about their theme: > > Johnny Belinda (1948), starring Jane Wyman as a "deaf-mute" forced to defy expect ations; That's odd they put "deaf-mute" into quotations? ?:|

> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > The main reasons for any film to have no music score would most likely be budgetary restraints or a conscious decision by the film makers not to use music if they think the film's story or mood calls for no score. > > > One theory I have as to why movies like ISLAND OF LOST SOULS sometimes have what may appear to be inappropriately happy or upbeat music played during the end cast list is that the studio may have felt that such music would offset the grim story and help the audience leave in a happy mood. > That's exactly the reason I always thought the Universal horrors of the early 30's (Dracula and Frankenstein in particular) had no music: The mood of both seems to call for no music. Dracula in particular seems well-suited to no music...after all, Dracula himself exists within a dead realm (or undead, if you prefer). His world is devoid of true life, and it's interesting that the only music heard other than the credits is when the Count goes to a concert in the human world. The music is in a scene full of life and his comment "To die...to be really dead...that must be glorious" almost suggests he wishes to be truly dead because then he wouldn't be suffering the loss of things that humans enjoy in life, such as music. The end credits issue: Yes, that's also the reason for Universal's use of what some call the "happy end credits" music during several of their later horror thrillers...to put the audience into a happy mood to offset the grim proceedings of what they just viewed for the past hour or so. As far as no music in Island of Lost Souls, it's also not only a story and mood that seems to require no music, Also, as Hitchcock said when asked why he had no music in his film Lifeboat, Hitch reportedly replied 'Where would the orchestra be?" People have often thought "In the other boat with the camera!".

> {quote:title=ginnyfan wrote:}{quote}I hadn't noticed that, but there is a certain symmetry to the photo. Good lord...as much of a fanatic as you are about Virginia, you really never noticed the symmetry? :0 That's the first thing that hit me...I wondered if maybe there were twins in the photo. :^0

> {quote:title=SullivansTravels wrote:}{quote} > If you closed your eyes when he was onscreen, you would have thought it was the voice of Clark Gable. In the mid-90's mini-series SCARLETT, he would have made a much better Rhett Butler than Timothy Dalton did.

> {quote:title=helenbaby wrote:}{quote}Sherman Helmsley died today as well. [~hlywdkjk] mentioned that 6 posts below.

> {quote:title=ginnyfan wrote:}{quote} > > > Which one is Virginia? Just kidding...I had to make a jest because the style of her hair coming around the sides of her neck is strangely similar to the dog's ears. It's an interesting visual.

I'l always remember SImon Ward from his horror films like *Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed* (1969) and *The Monster Club* (1981), and from *Supergirl* (1984).

> {quote:title=ginnyfan wrote:}{quote}A number of girls in my junior high thought he was the hottest thing ever.

Uh...yaahh. A "test post" like this is dumb...just make a REGULAR post.

> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote}A 1963 film from Spain titled EL VERDUGO, aka THE EXECUTIONER aka NOT ON YOUR LIFE. > > I saw it once in a dubbed version on late night TV in 1968 or so. It's not on DVD and I'd love to see it once again on TCM Imports. > It WAS on DVD in Spain: http://www.amazon.es/Verdugo-Berlanga-Jose-Lopez-Vazquez/dp/B003Z7SFZW/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1343179888&sr=1-1 Look around better and you might be able to find a copy out there.

> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote} > the first adaptation of H.G.Welles' "Island of Dr. Moroeu" You're welcome, Sepia...and btw it's Wells. :^0 I've never had a problem with the Moreau name, especially since there's been two remakes of the story using his name in the title (1977 and 1997).

I strongly disagree with all the flak over the years that's been heaped onto XANADU. I happen to love the film, it became a Tony-nominated and successful Broadway musical a few years ago, and as far as the plot it's always been considered an unofficial remake of DOWN TO EARTH (which starred Rita Hayworth). "Mistake" as far as that fantasy sequence? Your interpretation of that number, "Whenever You're Away From Me", is way offbase with that "borders on the repulsive" comment. Gene Kelly's character is listening to an old record he recorded years ago with a singer and recalls what she was like. Olivia portrays that charcter in most of that number, and that's the whole point of when the two first meet in Xanadu...he even comments that she reminds him of someone. The suggestion is that her character, Kira, may have very well been on Earth and known Danny (Gene's character) back then in the 40's. Heck...didn't you ever think of that, TB?

I think it depends on how the gun fire is depicted in whatever the film is. The Colorado shootings took place in a theater with the audience being targeted. The finale of The Wild Bunch is something else entirely. Warner Bros., however, is giving seconds thoughts or second consideration to that Gangland Squad movie they're releasing later this year, because it does have a specific (and pivotal) scene of a gang firing through a movie theater screen into an audience. The trailer has already been pulled from theaters, and they claim it was pulled from sites like YouTube (but it's still very much up there and other sites), and WB is mulling over how to recut the movie or simply delete that scene because of last Friday's events. SImilarly, after the events of 9/11, some movies being shown on tv featuring skyscraper disaster scenes or other such explosions and things, were pulled from being shown simpyl because of what had just happened with the World Trade Center towers.

That's actually just a webpage about it. This is the actual Inside Horror site link: http://thestream.tv/inside-horror/

> {quote:title=AndyM108 wrote:}{quote}What amazes me is that for all the stink that was made about "colorizing" films, no similar protests seem to accompany the practice of grafting new musical scores onto 90 year old silent films, totally stripping them of their original emotional context. Of course I'm not in favor of "colorizing", but at least with that you're merely adding what was always there in the first place. But with these new sound tracks you're completely changing the original movie. > > > > > As for Dracula, at the very least if they have to show the new version, at least run the original film along with it, back-to-back, so that viewers can compare the two and make their own decisions. > I don't see that music issue as being the same thing IF care is taken with the composing of the score to have it appropriately fit the film. DRACULA, on the other hand, was awful (IMHO) with the Glass score. I also prefer the film as it was without any music, and the big problem with the new score is that is WAS indeed unceasing...it was continuous and non-stop. That was the worst part of it. What TCM could and SHOULD do with something like DRACULA which has two choices of soundtracks is to simply run the secondary audio/music on their SAP audio channel, and let viewers choose which one they want via their remote controls.

> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote} > the first adaptation of H.G.Welles' "Island of Dr. Moroeu" Moreau

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}....which reminds me of the "Diet of Worms". Didn't that have something to do with religion?

> {quote:title=SydneyMonika wrote:}{quote} > With TCM, it's the same wine but in new bottles, > The intros and the themes may be different but it's really nothing new film wise, Good methaphor, "same wine but in new bottles".

I'd like to have "the stuff that dreams are made of"...The Maltese Falcon. Replicas can be purchased online.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}7-23-12 - This is an old thread, but I wanted to mention that there are a couple of geographical errors in the 1935 film. The date of your reply IS posted right below the title of your reply: "Posted: Jul 23, 2012 11:14 PM" :^0 BTW..."Krakatoa: East of Java" (NOT a Brando film) is geographically incorrect...the island was located WEST of Java. :^0

I recall what PBS used to be like as far as classic films go, and I'm talking about way back in the 70's. In Cleveland, we had a program I always watched with film historian Stu Levin called "Old Movies: The Golden Era". He always presented a mix of 30's and 40's classics, along with a great selection of silent films...all introduced in the manner that we've come to know from RO here on TCM. That's what got me into silent classics...that program back in Cleveland. This is when I was a young teen, incidentally...and I loved what I watched, even silents like INTOLERANCE and ORPHANS OF THE STORM.

> {quote:title=Arturo wrote:}{quote} > > *That Mexican movie was called THE CRYING WOMAN.* > > Not where I saw it...must've been LA LLORONA, which translate into the title you listed. Uh, well...yeah. Of course. There's been several movies made around that legend over the years, but the 1960 movie is the most well-known version. "It was a Mexican movie about the legend of La Llorona; I don't Know what it was called but it could've been LA LLORONA." That's what you said...I was merely replying to it.

I did read online about that TCM showing with the title in red,,,supposedly that version was created by producer Alfredo Leone so he could put a copyright on it to go along with the other English version, which he already had a copyright on. That 1925 version of PHANTOM couldn't have been "identical to the 1929" version, because both are edited differently and the 1929 release os only about 75 min long...the 1925 original is 40 min longer. Over the years, for almost 40 years, in fact, the 1929 edition is the ONLY one I've ever seen with any quality to it. Any time I've ever seen the original 1925 edit, the print quality was definitely inferior.

First thing I thought of, especially seeing that tarsier, was the Tales From The Darkside episode 'Inside The Closet", and the creature named Lizzie.

Do you mean THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS, the comedy by Roman Polanski? That Mexican movie was called THE CRYING WOMAN.