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Yeah, we used to have one in our family when I was a kid for many years...color wheel and all.

> {quote:title=The_Destroyer wrote:}{quote} > The Homecoming, a Christmas Story is posted at Cinemageddon.net, the best free movie site on the web. They got everything...except Hot Spell. You gotta stop mentioning that site when you do now and then, because they do NOT have just "free" movies which are public domain...they mostly have COPYRIGHTED movies, and they are a torrent sharing site which would NOT like their name being spread on a major internet board like this.

I agree....aside from Cabaret, Arthur and Junie Moon, I also think she's overrated. I think part of her appeal seems to stem from the fact she's the daughter of a true legend, and Liza also has has problems with pills and booze like her more famous parent.

Herk Harvey and his seminal classic Carnival of Souls...definitely an influence on George Romero's classic Night of The Living Dead, which was made just a few years later.

Even though she was more of a tv performer than a film actress, she DID do some good movie roles over the years, and Yes...I agree she should have been included.

> {quote:title=exapno wrote:}{quote} > You should check out ANOTHER good, if not great version - the 1999 TV movie that stars Patrick Stewart. It will be on TNT on December 21, and is well worth the effort..... I just watched that again the other day and I also really enjoy it...the different thing about Stewart's portrayal of Scrooge is that, instead of the usual (almost stereotypical) depiction of Scrooge simply being mean, Stewart's Scrooge is a man who is hurting and in emotional pain. He's not just over-the-top nasty, but a man who has been hurt by others and by life and even says to the charity collectors who visit him "I wish to be left alone"...and says it with hurt in his voice.

"Best-cast" and "Dream Casts" are two different things....To me, "Dream cast" implies what someone would LIKE to see as their ideal cast in a production.

Regardless of how she looks and what shape her breasts are in, Cher still needs to shut up.

I disagree strongly...if I could only own one version, it would be the 1951 adaption. Unquestionably the BEST. I can't stand the 1938 version with Reginald Owen simply because....unlike what you stated....it's TOO bright, as it were. It's got way too much MGM gloss to it and the entire movie is too "smooth" looking and bright, whereas the Alastair Sim version has just the right amount of grit, dirt, and darkness to it. I'd actually be surprised of Dickens himself liked any version of his story other than the 1951 classic...it's the best and also entertaining at the same time.

> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote} > With all due respect to Joel, I think the number of people who wanted a roll > in the hay with him, either of the literal or figurative kind, would be less than > 50 percent. > > Yep, go with Joel McCrea, > But only after Turhan Bey. ...or both together at the same time. :-)

> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote} > Much of the film was destroyed by thermite bombs. LOL...that's the reason! :-) ...or as Scotty says in the movie: "Ohhh....that's what I like about the military: Smart, all the way to the top!"

Basically, the reason I replied with is correct....several others have simply repeated the same reasoning in more convoluted form. The 35mm/16mm version of the movie is the ONLY way I've ever seen it since the "missing" scenes were restored to the film many years ago. I've never seen a completely 35mm "clean" version. It's likely for DVD there may have been some digital cleaning up a bit, but any time I see it either on TCM or elsewhere, it STILL looks like it goes back and forth between the two print qualities/formats. Since I still have the old Image Entertainment laserdisc release, I can say that the current DVD does look much better than the laserdisc, but it's still noticeable when the print material goes from 35mm to 16mm and back again....but the old laserdisc looks much worse between the two different print sources (since they obviously were not doing digital cleanups back then). As I originally stated, it's going to look this way unless original 35mm materials are dug up somewhere.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > because everyone in films had mothers, and most had loving understanding mothers (like Cagney in "White Heat", lol). > ...or Norman Bates in Psycho (BIG lol). :-)

Very simple answer, which was known years ago (and I realized when I got the first laserdisc release): When the film was restored years ago from what was a severely shortened version that had been around for decades, the only material available was from a 16mm source. Same thing happened with King Kong (1933) when that was originally restored to its uncensored version...only 16mm material existed at the time (until Turner eventually did the further restoration years afterward from rediscovered 35mm materials). This is how The Thing is going to be unless original 35mm materials are discovered in a vault somewhere. That's not too hard to figure out, is it? :-)

That is a brand-new, made-for-video documentary about the Mexican films dubbed into English and distributed in the U.S. by Murray. It would have been nice to see it, especially since the film clips were all restored....hopefully, the print that TCM shows of Santa Claus (1959) will be a restored print. It's been in public domain for a long time now, and I've never seen a good print of that one.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines yarn as: ": a narrative of adventures; especially : a tall tale " The definition applies.

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > Alcohol abuse is what killed W.C. Fields I just watched W.C. Fields and Me tonight, seeing it uncut for the first time, and Fields' alcoholism is made very clear in the movie.

> {quote:title=bOb39 wrote:}{quote} > I like Cher - as an actress. I think as an actress, she's darn good. But I don't like her music or anything else about her. > Ditto...I think she's a terrific actress, but after reading everything recently about how she badmouths one person after another, I wish Cher would just shut the heck up.

Try checking local tv listings on PBS stations, because I know one of our local PBS channels shows the 1951 version every year.

*The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies*

What does that terribly overrated movie have to do with this thread....which is about Santa Claus?

I'll be recording to Tivo both...just in case (I have the Martians one on DVD), but I doubt either will be in widescreen.

No, neither was listed as being letterboxed in the schedule. You're kidding...you've really never seen the 1959 Santa Claus? I've seen that many, many times over the years ever since I was a kid....I may have even seen it theatrically in a re-release when I was very young.

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > TCM is showing the real Christmas classics, like *Santa Claus*, set in Mexico, where Santa, and Merlin team up to stop the Devil from destroying Christmas. Also, *Black Christmas*, and *Santa Claus Conquers the Martians*. I checked off the TCM reminder to let me know about the Mexican movie, and about the Martians one. Both films have been in the public domain for years, and there have never been really good quality prints of those two ever released on home video (not that I've ever seen). The Mexican movie in particular was filmed in scope (2.35:1)....does anyone happen to know what TCM's print quality on these two is like, and whether either is in widescreen?

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