GregoryPeckfan
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I have only seen BECKY SHARP once, and it was a loooooooooooooong time ago on AMC and I recall loving it. It's one of the few Code-enforced. American films I can think of up until DOUBLE INDEMNITY where the audience is manipulated into rooting for an outright unsavory lead.
And i recall the photography being wonderful, almost like a "Little Golden Book."
It is worth mentioning that Hopkins recieved here only BEST ACTRESS Oscar nomination for BECKY SHARP; she lost to Bette Davis for DANGEROUS, and three yeras later saw Davis win Oscar number two with a role she originated on the stage in JEZEBEL.
This movie is now on my to-see list. I'm not watching TCM tonight, and if this is still available on youtube, I will watch it tonight.
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I've put The Burglar on my to-see list.
I am always looking for new film noir titles and I re-watch my favourites.
Since Azure left this thread open, here is another film noir scene:
A man falls in love with a woman in a picture on the wall. It is a painting.
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I don't see how anyone can watch Network (1976) and not be angry afterwards.
I recently watched Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) and got angry afterwards because it is not dated material, and white people still have a problem with interracial marriages( it is being contended in the KY legislature and KY Supreme Court to reverse the ban of the ban of interracial marriage).
I recently watched Gone With The Wind (1939) and got angry because people believe the film is non-fiction, when it's actually complete fiction.
I guess it depends on what is happening today and how classic film still speaks to us- even if it's a downside to being a classic film lover. At least I think so.
I used to be able to watch Network and see it as satire, but now I see it as all too real, and yes, it does make me angry.
The reference I made about silly reactions was the post Vautrin made about Warden and the Yankees.
Thanks for mentioning Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Yes, you would think that we would be past interracial marriage racism, but we aren't.
In general, I love the movie To Sir With love. But I cannot stand the gym teacher who deliberately sets the pole vault exercise up so that the student who isn't athletic will injure himself. And I am angry that the teacher is not fired right away and instead we see Poitier telling the student who stood up for the injured student that he has to apologize instead.
As a person who had to have remedial grading in gym class or I would not have graduated because I am slightly disabled, I identify with the student who cannot pole vault.
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Has anyone seen The Burglar with Dan Dyrea and Jane Mansfield?
Does it air on TCM at all?
I had not even heard of it until it was mentioned in a trivia thread where no one could come up with the answer.
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Re: Control of Mission: Impossible/Steven Hill:
I have the book about the making of the series. According to it, martin landau was supposed to be just a guest star who appeared every now and then. But Steven Hill refused to keep working past 5 pm on Fridays - the day that they filmed the show.
Fridays is Holy day for Jewish people and Hill was recently converted.
Meanwhile, Landau had always been Jewish and did not insist on strict timing.
5pm would strike, and Hill would simply walk off the set even if they were in the middle of a scene. as far as he was concerned, he was finished for the day.
So even before the end of the first season, Hill was replaced in all outdoor night scenes and some others by other actors.
Someone had to take over the Control character - who was not named Phelps in the first season - and Landau was already the man who did disguises.
So Peter Graves was cast.
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5) Joan Blondell was born on August 30th, 1906.
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Tarzan The Ape Man
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5) There is a song in this movie called New York, New York, which should not be confused with the title song to the Liza Minelli movie which became a Sinatra standard as well.
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That's an interesting comment. I thought Canadians could get Hulu and Amazon Prime. Not so?
It may be available in other provinces, I don't know.
In fact, I have never even heard of Hulu.
Are these TV channels, or websites?
I just cannot get them in British Columbia.
I am not sure where this other poster lives.
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Lee J. Cobb was so obsessed in many of the speeches he gave.
It is partly the confines of the set that helps make me get carried away.
Somehow, I see this becoming a thread about silly performances of people loosing their tempers instead, but oh, well, that is okay too.
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3) On The Town was filmed partially in New York City where it is set for some of the exterior scenes.
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3) Joan Blondell appeared as one of the teachers later in her life in the musical Grease.
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Are these real titles?
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Okay, I have been informed that there is a week long rule not for just some questions but all of them. That is what I wanted to know.
And I have also been told that in general people only leave one clue per day instead of the multiple clues that I did in regards to my Glenn Ford/Jack Lemmon COWBOY question.
Okay.
Thanks for letting me know.
Cheers
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Oh, yes I remember very clearly that scene and I always yell with him.
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I missed that post, sorry. I did not know Illegal was incorrect.
As for this thread and the other one, I really did not know there was a time limit and was I suggesting that there be one. I do not need to be the clue giver in any describe the scene game unless I have it correct.
I generally try to answer threads I can most of the time.
It is only when TCM is full of spam that I insist on trying to answer questions I don't know.
It is likely my frustration of spamming - IT IS - that creates any unfortunate word choice like illuminating.
And regarding my COWBOY question, well, I okay I see how I should have not posted many clues the same day.
Cheers, all.
But my clue was long, and I thought that letting people know
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Hello, I own the DVD of the Henry Fonda version of 12 Angry Men
I have found that when I am watching 12 Angry Men, the anger of the characters as portrayed by actors such a s Lee J. Cobb, and Ed Begley Jr. are so compelling that I find myself getting angry even if I disagree with them. The portrayals are that compelling.
What movies and performances of people who have lost their temper do you find so compelling that that you find yourself carried away, even when you disagree with their viewpoint?
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I always stay until the credits are finished. For one thing, I am interested in the music credits and they are near the end.
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Happy to see that I am not the only one who has seen SPLENDOR.
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Okay, Azure.
But I noticed that in trivia threads people only look at the most recent clue regardless of whether the question requires more than one part of an answer.
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Montgomery Clift was in From Here to Eternity with Frank Sinatra
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That's right, Starliteyes!
Your thread.