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Not especially...I can watch it now and then and enjjoy it for what it is, but as the commonly-used saying over the years goes: "Too much opera...not enough Phantom." "The music, "Lullaby to the Bells" is worth as much as the Wizard of Oz' ruby slippers." Huh? Explain what that means...how can a piece of music be "worth" as much as the ruby slippers?

That's exactly what I was thinking it was....there is no possible logical reason for a 1946 movie to contain those particular images in color. I searched around online and could find no reference to what he explained he "saw" in the film.

1. I won't watch a movie on commercial television with all the interruptions and on-screen garbage...Period. 2. I also mostly avoid watching a movie...whether it's commercial-free on TCM or another source...once I have it on DVD in my collection, whether purchased or recorded from a commercial-free source. Watching something on tv when I own it in my collection is an utter waste of television viewing time. What's the point?

"Wikipedia includes GRAND HOTEL, but I disagree." So do I...and what's on Wikipedia is contributed by individuals the same way that info on IMDB is contributed...and often by people who have no idea what they're writing about. Movies like Grand Hotel and Dinner At Eight are NOT the same thing because even though there are separate stories which come together at the end, they go back and forth between the stories throughout the movie. That's not the way a portmanteau/ominibus/anthology (fill in the blank) movie works....which is each story plays out individually and then goes to the next story, not back and forth. They may be linked together by a framing story (such as in Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Tales From The Crypt, etc...), but they don't switch between each one throughout.

One which is THE one I'd pick out would be THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939). It USED to be something really special we could only see ONCE a year on television and always looked forward to every year. That was obviously ruined by home video and by how many times it shows up now on television.

GRAND HOTEL is nowhere near being such a film. It's simply a multi-character drama. My all-time fave (and still one of THE best) is DEAD OF NIGHT (1946). A particular fave of mine amongst horror anthologies is the Amicus film DR. TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS (1964). It's probably the first such horror anthology film I ever saw.

Not sure of the movie origin question, but the phrase has been around long before it was ever uttered in a film. Read this: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/320050.html h1. Shut your cake-hole h3. Meaning Be quiet. h3. Origin This slang expression is of UK origin, dating from the middle of the 20th century. It was widely used in the UK until about 1970s and, although somewhat archaic now, it is still used occasionally. Hunt and Pringle record it in their 1943 reference book Service Slang: bq. "Cake hole, the airman's name for his or anyone else's mouth." The later equivalent term 'shut your pie-hole' began use in the USA in the 1980s. It isn't clear if that derives from the 'cake-hole' version or was coined independently.

> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote} > TCM is PHAT! *All TCM fans in the house say "HO!!"*

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> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote} > Wasn't Scarlett O'Hara just a plaything for men in many ways? All of her initial wealth was acquired by marrying men (men she didn't even love or care about), other than what she got from her fathers estate (which was only land after the war). > Only when she allowed them to play with her... Scarlett was strong when she needed to be, but a lot of the time she basically whored her way to the top, as it were. Rhett even makes a comment to her about "Do you never shrink from marrying men you don't love?".

There's no question that the women of 50's sci-fi/monster movies were a LOT tougher than the helpless damsel-in-distress heroines of the 30's and 40's, who were usually screaming helplessly while awaiting the arrival of the hero to save them. A fave of min in the late 50's is Beverly Garland in "It Conquered The World", and how she is almost single-handedly taking on the alien, first shouting at it over a transmitter "I hate you for what you've done to me and my world...I'm going to kill you, do you hear me?!", and then coming face-to-face with it and snarling "So THAT'S what you look like. You're ugly!" LOL...

[Troll (Internet)|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29] "In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion."

Really strange that Gatester posted this same message about these two movie repeats just this morning, and you joined today and this happens to be your first post about the same subject...

Great film with a good cast, including the underrated Latino actor Carlos Rivas.

No one was twisting your arm to force you to watch....remotes DO have buttons to change the channel.

...and it's time you shut up and went AWAY.

Here's a list I compiled awhile back in a Yahoo Group I started for the Universal horror classics. "Lullaby of the Bells" - Phantom of the Opera (1943) - Written by Edward Ward (I), lyrics George Waggner, sung by Susanna Foster and Nelson Eddy "Festival of the New Wine" song - Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man, sung by Adia Kuznetzoff "Tanta Berthe's song (Hey You)" - The Mummy's Curse, sung by Ann Codee "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls" - The Mad Ghoul -Sung by Lillian Cornell (dubbing Evelyn Ankers) "All For Love" - The Mad Ghoul - Arranged by Milton Rosen Sung by Lillian Cornell (dubbing Evelyn Ankers) "Aurora" - Hold That Ghost - The Andrews Sisters "Sleepy Serenade" - Hold That Ghost - The Andrews Sisters "Me and My Shadow" - Hold That Ghost - Ted Lewis and his orchestra "When My Baby Smiles At Me" - Hold That Ghost - Ted Lewis and his orchestra "You Came a Long Way From St. Louis" - Abbott & Costello Meet The Mummy "Here We Go Gathering Nuts In May" - The Invisible Man "When Love Comes Stealing" - The Man Who Laughs (Rapp?e-Pollack-Hirsch) "The Color of Your Eyes" - The House of The Seven Gables - Music Frank Skinner Lyrics Ralph Freed "Boogie Woogie Boogie Man" - Murder In The Blue Room - Jazzy-Belles (June Priesser, Betty Kean, and Grace McDonald) "Mama Dit Moi" - The Mystery of Marie Roget "Quoth the Raven" - Ghost Catchers "Blue Candlelight and Red, Red Roses" - Ghost Catchers "The Customer's Always Right" - Ghost Catchers "Scenes that are Brightest" from an English Operetta by Wallace called "Maritana" - Werewolf of London "A Funny Little Man" - Murders In The Rue Morgue - sung by Sidney Fox "Beloved" - Secret of The Blue Room - "Sung" by Gloria Stuart "LaRosita"- The Invisible Man - played over the radio in Dr. Kemp's study Melvyn Douglas - singing the lyrics to "Singin' In The Bathtub" to the melody of "Singin' In The Rain" in THE OLD DARK HOUSE

You have absolutely NO idea what you are talking about nor can you prove what you are saying about "deliberate speed changes". You also only quoted PART of what he said, and totally ignored: "Unless you have a professional video deck with TBC (time base correction) the speed of the VHS playback will fluctuate constantly. Without TBC, the mechanical properties of VHS playback, drive systems, and tape stretching over time, and with rewinds - different amounts of tension in different areas of the tape - the speed variations can be noticeable enough to be annoying. But, DVD playback is digital, and quite precise." That is absolutely correct...I've noticed precisely that with old VHS tapes of mine over the years. Your stating: "Movie companies do this to protect their property. I've seen it before on INVISIBLE MAN 1933. It is not a bit of trouble to do this. They do it digitally. They chose not to give you a perfect master to bootleg." ...is utter baloney. Go away, troll.

That was your own quote from another thread, Mark. You said it all.

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > I know that the 5 hour *Das Boot* was shown on cable, but I can't remember if it was TCM, or another commercial-free channel. I wouldn't mind seeing it on TCM, even if it was the second time. I don't think it would be a crime for TCM to show *Shogun*. It would be good to see it w/o all the commercials. But, there are lots of TV miniseries I would NOT want to see on TCM, even though they were decent. Shogun is another one which had a theatrical showing overseas in a two-hour edition with added violence not shown on American television....so I'd add that to the list of mini-series which have been shown as theatrical movies. The 5 hour Das Boot was shown on Bravo back in the mid-80's.

People are forgetting the point of this thread: Long Running Film Series.....not just ANY film series. Most of the ones mentioned had only four or five movie in them. Hardly "long running".

Not quite true...Try searching the boards for other threads on this subject and you'll find answers similar to what I already explained. This is one of them: "I think the other reason for repeats is simply cost. When TCM started it had almost unlimited use of the Turner film library. They had enough films to go a couple of years without a repeat. Once Ted sold out to Time-Warner those films went under the control of Warner Bros. Now, TCM has to lease every film they show. It's not cheap to make a deal for all those Columbia films or the, hopefully upcoming, Paramount/Universal library. Repeats help stretch the budget a little further. To me, a few more repeats seems to be a reasonable way to keep the great films coming. "

This "issue" has already been brought up and answered in another thread somewhere on the boards, and the answer is simple: When TCM licenses out a movie from a studio, their licensing contract states the movie has to be shown a certain number of times over the period that TCM is showing it...hence the number of repeats. Just as an example, if TCM licenses out to show a movie 20 times over a year, then that's how many times they generally have to show it, whether they show it 20 times in six months or 20 times over the entire year.

> {quote:title=fxreyman wrote:}{quote} > I just do not understand. I see this more and more around here. > > What causes a poster who gets replies sent to them that they either do not like or think that the other person is being unfair to them..... > It is called TROLLING...he is nothing more than an argument-inducing troll who is doing nothing more than causing trouble around here. This thread needs to be pointed out to a moderator here so it can be either locked or deleted, and this troll needs ot be blocked from the boards. He is causing nothing but trouble. No matter WHAT you say or how you respond, he doesn't like it and immediately slaps back at the replier. Just look at how he responded to both of our last two logical replies to him... TROLL...

Nonsense...you have NO idea what you're talking about ("some scenes speeded up and some were slowed down"?...ridiculous). You CANNOT go according to an older VHS release, because in VHS days they didn't pay as much attention to proper video mastering or color balance...not to mention the inferior quality of VHS compared to a digital DVD or Blu-ray...whereas in today's digital DVD age they actually pay MORE attention to restoring and mastering a movie so it looks right, and often with the director or cinematographer advising on how the film should look (color balance, contrast, etc.). Ridiculous argument comparing older, inferior VHS quality to digital/DVD...