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I absolutely love the music to Orson Welles "The Third Man." I didn't know if there would be soundtrack for it, but I found one. Anyway, I bought it a while back, only it still hasn't come and it's beginning to bother me.
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To whom it may concern, I am well aware that you must have a great deal to do in your various capacities and are not able to answer specific requests immediatley. I e-mailed you about 2 weeks ago concerning some movies that I had suggested be shown. I recieved a reply in the form of a notification an was told that I might hear back from you within 7 days. However I have not heard further, and the website that I was refered to in the event I didn't hear anything has since vanished from my mail. So once again, I would like to suggest 2 movies which are not in your library and one which I am fairly certain used to be. The movies are "Another Part Of The Forest", "Come Fill The Cup" and "The Moon and Sixpence" If there is some problem associated with obtaining these films, I would very much like to know. so that I do not have to continue in a vain search for them. Any information would be helpful. Have they been lost, damaged, destroyed, etc. As I said in my last letter, I am somewhat disabled now and view a good deal of your station as I prefer it to any other, but how many times can I watch "The Philadelphia Story" and "The Great Escape". Besides what I have just mentioned, the films I listed are very fine films indeed, particularly "Forest". Thank you for your valuable time.
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Hi Mongo,
About two months ago I watched an old movie on Turner Classic Movies and for the life of me I can't seem to find any reference to it on the web or in the TCM database. Sue mentioned that you are the person to ask since previous posts did not provide any results.
Movie Era: 30's - 40's
Movie Premise: The leading man is an ex-con who gets out of jail and wants to go straight, I believe he is an musician and so he purchases some nightclubs that have live bands that play there on a nightly basis. The nightclubs are suddenly being invaded by a gang of young kids that disrupt the place by bringing in their own transistor radios and playing them full volume. When asked why they are doing this they say that their gang leader told them to do so. The owner of the nightclub then meets with the gang leader in an old abandoned theater where the kids hang out. He is surprised to find out that the gang leader is just a young punk kid with a big chip on his shoulder. The owner offers the gang leader a job to come work for him at $25 per week, to which the gang leader agrees but with alterior motives in mind. The owner takes the young gang leader under his wing and buys him a new suit and gives him free room and board at this house. Everything is going fine when one day the owners ex-partner in crime is up for parole and he contacts the owner to see if he can get a job at the nightclubs which will help him get paroled. All of the owners friends and employees tell him not to do it but he goes ahead anyway and hires his ex-partner in crime. The ex-partner wants to take over his business so he starts bribing the bands to play elsewhere, soon his plot is exposed and the owner and him have a confrontation. The ex-partner enlists the help of the gang leader to betray the owner and help him take over the nightclubs. The ex-partner then burns down the nightclub and someone gets killed in the process which scares the gang leader because he didn't want anyone to get hurt. The gang leader then works with the owner to trap his ex-partner into admitting the crimes so they meet at the old theater where the kids hang out. The kids swarm all over the ex-partner and his henchmen and tie them up with curtain ropes. The police arrive and arrest the bad guy and everyone lives happily ever after. One parting shot shows one of the gang members (a girl) smiling to the camera who has some teeth knocked out from the brawl with the gangsters.
Sorry so long winded but I wanted to be specific.
I have a friend coming down from Minneapolis in mid September who would love to see this movie so I wanted to find it so we can either rent it or find it on the TCM schedule again.
Any assistance would be most appreciated.
Thanks!!
Scott
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Out of the Past
The Big Sleep
Bringing Up Baby
His Girl Friday
Miracle on 34th Street
Sullivan's Travels
Roman Holiday
Those are all wonderful films that are likely to inspire further interest.
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I loved The Triplets de Belleville also! Very amusing. And very sweet, I thought.
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Hi Sue,
Thanks for the Mongo tip! I am a newbie and that really helps me to know how to post in the future when I have nagging questions like this topic.
Thanks also for confirming that you saw this movie on TCM, I wasn't absolutely sure that I did see it on TCM until you said you saw it too in the same time frame I did.
It really frustrates me that I can't find anything even remotely close to this movie description on Google, TCM Database, IMDB Database, etc. It's almost as if it was never reviewed by a critic.
Hopefully someone in this forum knows the name or I will repost to Mongo as you suggested. Thanks again for your help and guidance!
Scott
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"I've never been alone with a man before, even with my dress on. With my dress off, it's MOST unusual." - Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday
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Paris When It Sizzles was remade a couple of years back. It starred Kate Hudson and Luke Wilson...It was called Alex & Emma.
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A few years ago, I saw a movie on TCM that I loved; however, I did not get the name of it and I cannot remember it to save my life. Here is what I remember:
There was a young boy (in my mind I see Sal Mineo, but it's not him). He is strangling women. There is some type of investigator, maybe a cop or a newspaperman that is having an affair with his bosses wife. I remember a scene where he calls her and she is out by the pool with her husband and she takes the call on a phone that is sitting on a table by the pool. She agrees to see him and lies to her husband. There is a secretary in the movie that has a crush on the investigator, or maybe he has a crush on her. Somehow, the strangler gets fixated on the investigator. At the end of the movie, the mistress ends up in the same apartment building right across the hall from the secretary. I remember the investigator leaving the secretaries apartment and telling her to lock her door and not to let anyone in. It seems at one point he is maybe drunk in her apartment and she hides him when someone comes in??? There is also a scene where the investigator has been fired or reprimanded at his job and he is sitting in a bar all depressed. I cannot remember this movie, but I loved it. Can anyone help me??? Thanks, Lacey
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First things first: kudos to lauren bacall
second: isn't everyone being a little harsh on all of our "modern" actors. would y'all have perfered that hollywood died at the start of the 70's? yes there are many actors nowadays who have no talent, just like there were actors of the golden age who didn't either. are some current movies awful, yes, are some classics, yes. but there is good in both. just because your a fan of one doesn't mean you have to hate the other. that makes us just as bad as those who bash us for watching old movies.
and speaking of being hypocritical. someone mentioned not caring what celebrities thought about politics, etc... to go back to bogart and bacall (both of whom i think are great) they both stated their opinions about whatever they were asked, especially bogart. they were very opinionated on politics as were many of the classics stars. i bet no one here would object to that though would they?
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Thank you to someone correctly identifing this quote.
The amount of times David Gelernter misquoted someone. I couldn't stand to read the article anymore. Besides the fact that I felt he had no idea what he was talking about, except in the terms that yes, the Rogers/Astaire movies are treasures.
Firstly his reference to Ginger's lack of dancing and dance ability make me want to go take him and force him to watch every dance scene she ever did for any movie. I really wish people would look at their facts. The dances were all mainly choreographed by Fred and his close friend Hermes Pan. Besides the fact that based on plot, it would be absurd for some of Ginger's characters to solo dance. Also the fact that Mark Sandrich (who directed half of their movies) and Ginger never got along with each other, could have also played in.
I'd address the next person by name but I forget who mentioned this. Who ever was talking about the backwards and in high-heels comment and said that the writer obviously didn't watch the movies very carefully as they did most dancing side to side not cheek to cheek. First off, the quote was not ment to be taken so literally. It was merely to acknowledge that the dancing duo was in fact two people who both derserved notice not just Fred Astaire and some random girl he's dancing with. Second: as someone who actually does what Ginger and Fred do (ballroom dance) there are plently of time when I'm not face to face with my dance partner, especially if we were to be tapping I wouldn't be, but I think everyone would still refer to the dancing me dancing backward. Here's this for an idea, occasionlly the female moves foward, does that also dispel this quote?
If I'm taking to strong of an opinion, sorry. The ignorance of some posts (mainly the LA times article) aggravated me.
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Check out the AFI (American Film Institute's) 100 Greatest American films for a quick primer on many great U.S. films - though they barely touch the wonderful silent era. (They also don't really cover most British films, except a few coproductions.) AND....after you've seen a lot of great English language films, check out some great foreign films!
Some suggestions (relatively recent films):
Life is Beautiful (Italy)
Amelie (France)
Run Lola Run (Germany)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (China)
Character (Netherlands)
My Life as a Dog (Sweden)
Burnt by the Sun (Russia)
Kolya (Czech Republic)
And some great older classics, like:
400 Blows (France)
Bicycle Thief (Italy)
M (Germany)
Seven Samurai (Japan)
Panther Panchali (India)
Your local video store should have most of these, and many more...
Good luck, and happy viewing!
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...IS DISMAL AND REPETITIVE - WHAT CAN I DO TO GET THE SAME GREAT PROGRAMING THAT GOES ON IN NEW YORK WHEN I AM THERE! AS AN AMERICAN STUCK IN THE UK, ONE OF THE SAVING
GRACES IS TCM, BUT HERE IT IS JUST WAR MOVIES AND CONSTANT REPEATS...HOW CAN I REACH THE PROGRAMMING PEOPLE TO LET THEM KNOW THE UK TCM IS DYING....
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I have current watched the 1950's Cheaper by the dozen and I was wondering who played the eldest daughter. I know that Jeanne Crain played the mother of the Gilbreth family. Please help me this question is start to bug me because I can't think of her name
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Thanks for getting back to me that info. I knew Mongo would know and Johnnyweekes70 thanks for some info that I was unable to find. I'll try imdb.com/name/nm0634524 and see what else I can find out.
Thanks again.
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Hello,
Not too long ago I watched an old movie on Turner Classic Movies and for the life of me I can't seem to find any reference to it on the web or in the TCM database. If anyone can figure out which movie this is wins a big THANK YOU from me.
Era: 30's - 40's
Premise: A ex-con (who used to be a musicain I think) buys a nightclub where they have swing bands playing on a nightly basis, a gang of young kids crash the place and bring in a transistor radio and turn it up full blast disrupting the place. The owner asks the kids why they are doing that and they say their leader told them to do so and that they don't like the music the band plays. The owner of the nightclub then visits the gang leader found in an old abandoned theater where the gang hangs out. He confronts the gang leader and is surprised that he is only a young punk with a big chip on his shoulder. The owner then asks the gang leader if he would like to work for him at $25 per week. The young gang leader says OK then takes the young kid under his wing giving him free run of his home and tries to teach him how to be a man rather than a punk. He gets him a nice dress suit, gives him boxing lessons, gives him the key to his house so he can come and go, etc. Soon afterwards the owners ex partner in crime is up for parole and asks the owner if he could get a job at his place which will help him get paroled. Everyone tells him he is crazy to give him a job but he goes ahead anyway and hires his old partner in crime who hasn't changed a bit and has plans to take over the owners nightclub. Soon the partner in crime starts wreaking havoc with the owners business by trying to buy and bribe his band members to play somewhere else, he gets caught doing so and now it's open game, the crime partner turns ruthless and burns down the owners nightclub with the help of the leader of the gang. In the process someone gets killed and the leader of the gang has a change of heart because he didn't want anyone to get hurt, to he goes to the owner and they devise a plan to catch his ex partner in crime at the old theater. The kids have a hey day with the gangsters when they arrive at the old theater and some of them get strung up by curtain ropes. Soon after the cops arrive and catch the bad guy and the owner and the leader of the gang are then on good terms and they all live happily ever after. One distinguishing parting scene is where a tough girl in the gang smiles and you see that she had some of her teeth knocked out in the brawl with the gangsters.
For the life of me I cannot remember any of the charcters name or the actors or actresses. It had to be in the 30's or 40's since they mainly had swing music which is the premise of the show.
These are not the Dead End Kids, or any other name they used throughout their career, these were relatively unknown kids. The leader of the gang was very funny to watch and had a big chip on his shoulder and didn't trust anyone. Everyone in the movie used the word "Swell" in almost every sentence.
Anyone know this movie?
Pulling my hair out in Florida
Scott
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Move Over, Darling is also a remake of the excellent Cary Grant/Irene Dunne film "My Favorite Wife." You should check it out...Cary Grant is much more enjoyable than James Garner.
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Haha...It is a great movie! It's the best Monty Python movie, in my opinion.
"Help! Help! I'm being repressed...Did you see him repressing me?" LOL. Great stuff.
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I'll send you an email. Though I should warn you that the very end was cut off...
Heather
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In referring to occasional flops, didn't Bette Davis once say to an interviewer, "Well, they can't all be zingers!"
Or was it Charles Pierce in one of his wonderful impersonations of Davis?
Or was it Margo Channing impersonating Davis?
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I've been researching an old Hollywood estate and recently discovered it was once in the hands of John W. "Jack" McDermott (1892-1946), silent film writer/director. His brother Edward M. McD (1896-1931?) was a "philm" editor. I am trying to track down bio info beyond IMDB-type lists. The estate may have been the site of Jack's famous "wacky" house, built from movie props, with all its secret tunnels and passages. Legendary comedy star Harold Lloyd conducted some of his photography hobby at the pool.
I think the house is long gone, but I have photos of the pool, which was, if not wacky, very, very kitschily decorated and lasted into the 1950s. (Some of it survives.) The main feature of the pool was a 14' high spider mural overlooking the site. Was it once a movie prop, like much of his house? Did it have some deep meaning?
After Jack's death the property passed (I think) to nephew Edward J. McD (1917?-?), and I have zero info on him.
It's been an interesting detective story so far. Any help or sources?
Rowan
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Mongo - Thanks for your reply re "School for Scoundrels". Can you suggest a web site or other source which sells the dvd or vhs?
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If you wish to read a revealing and moving book about some of the stars' private lives, I would suggest Axel Madsen's The Sewing Circle: Hollywood's Greatest Secret: Female Stars Who Loved Other Women, 1995. It's not a cheap expose on celebrities' sexual orientations, but rather a well-researched work on the social conditions of the times and how these stars really led two lives. Arranged marriages that never worked, psychiatrists who were quite unsympathetic and studio bosses who would tear up contracts in an instant were all daily factors that controlled their lives.
It took until 1969 for the American Psychiatric Association to finally state that homosexuality was not a mental disorder. To think of the guilt, stress and fear some of these women went through is terrible to contemplate.
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Disney is planning to release this on DVD next fall ('06) with the usual message from Maltin about how the film must be seen in its era much as he has done with some of the Mickey films in the TREASURES sets with the stereotypes of Indians, blackface, Uncle Tom, etc.
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I watched "The Purple Heart" (1944) with Dana Andrews for the first time last night. I found it very, very good. These past days I've been in the mood for Dana Andrews. Anyway, it was a great film, I really liked it.