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ADDED: THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY and the third sequel, a Hong Kong comedy called THE CRAZY SAFARI with Sammo Hung. The climax of the movie has Nixau The Bushman becoming possessed by the spirit of BRUCE LEE!

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore I thought was very funny. THE COMEDY OF TERRORS starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre,Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone and a great final cameo by JOE E. BROWN!

I have heard that DIMITRI TIOMKIN's score for THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD is going to be recorded and also another story floating around is the original sound track music was found. Anyone know anything?

I sure hope so. I'll look for it. Thank you so much!

I think the movie takes place in the 1950's it was black and white. I don't know where it takes place. The woman and little girl weren't main parts of the film just for that instant. I will look for "Night Into Morning" and see if that's it. Thank you both so much!

Hi all. I have never joined any forum before, but when I saw Claude Colbert was star of the Month I joined. I am such a big fan of hers. Since I was 15 yrs old (I'm 49 now) I have been a fan. Thank God for ebay, over the years I have been able to collect items of and about her. I once had the opprotunity to buy a (3 made for that movie) replica of the green striped suit from The Palm Beach Story, but missed out. I have read all of the posts here. They are all exactly what I knew about her, it's hard to pick one movie that is the best. AND I agree the Egg and I should have been included. Does anyone know if that was the introduction of Ma and Pa Kettle? I do think Boomtown was great too, Hedy Lamarr, Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in the same movie!!!

I was checking out the new Gene Tierney bio by Michelle Vogel that's featured by TCM this month on Amazon and I noticed that Ms. Vogel, in addition to being a poster here has a bio of the inimitable Marjorie Main to be published sometime this year. Sounds like a book I'd like to read.

Hey Brackenhe, they used to show Henry Aldrich on WPIX in NYC once upon a time, as well as the Dagwood & Blondie series, along with the immortal Kettles. I liked the caterwauling yell that came from Jimmy Lydon's cracked adolescent voicebox in each movie--yeah, he was definitely overdoing it, but heck, it wasn't exactly a witty George Bernard Shaw play---just some nice, cornball entertainment. Just like a hot dog, you wouldn't want it everyday, but it does hit the spot occasionally. Thanks for reminding me of that particular series. Do you think that the rights to show these little movies we've mentioned in this thread could possibly cost TCM much? I can't believe it would be a major expenditure, can you? Of course, they may just not be available for some arcane legal reasons.

Thanks for enlightening me, Lolite! I only dimly remember something about Milland's driving, but I'm sure you've got it. I appreciate your kind words, despite my faulty memory--I'm lucky I remember my name these days, but I'm thankful that I've found my way back here, at least for the moment. I missed reading your entertaining posts alot--along with everyone else's words. Keep up the writing, won't you please, Lo??

I just watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and I loved it! I thought the sets were great, and what's more, I never guessed that the design was to portray the vision of a madman. I was completely surprised at the end. I just took it for granted that the distorted set design was due to the fact that it was largely a horror film. Of course, now that I think about it, this was probably one of the first horror films and must have been very influential in that genre for me to so easily accept the sets without question. Here is something else that surprised me: In the audio commentary, the speaker stated that the writers thought that the director had somewhat betrayed them, because he is the one who imposed the storytelling framework of the main character telling his story and revealing that he was insane. They felt like it diminished the comment they were trying to make regarding tyranny (in the form of Dr.Caligari) by making the story of Dr. Caligari the rantings of a madman in order to make it more palatable. However, I did not think that at all. The last scene shows the director of the asylum (Dr. Caligari) stating that he knows how to cure Francis, and the iris closes in on the asylum director's face, much in the way that he does when Dr.Caligari is introduced. It seems that with that one shot, the film director implies that, although Francis is in the insane asylum, his story may hold some truth, and the director is Dr. Caligari or at least an evil physician who is manipulating his patients. Does anyone have an opinion about this?

If you mean me, Im not horqwin or Antar, Im the original poster.

I don't know if it's the greatest but I could watch Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs over and over again.

Thank you TCM for showing DeMille's [bCleopatra[/b] TCM! I love his work and this was the first time Ive seen this film. I loved it! I really hope you make DeMille director of the month, so we can have another chance to catch that great documentary from last year as well as some of his other great classics, like either version of The Ten Commandments, Samson and Delilah or The Plainsman, and maybe a chance to rebroadcast The Crusades. Thaks TCM and keep up the great work!

In around 1965 Chuck Jones produced the Academy Award winning animated feature The Dot and The Line. It was shown last year about this time as part of a feature following Cabaret. I very much want to record this film but trying to find when it will be broadcast has been very difficult. Supposedly it was broadcast on Feb. 14th and perhaps a few days later. According to sources it was supposed to be shown around 2:30 am (PST) on March 6th. It wasn't. Also according to my source, it is supposed to appear on a new release of The Glass Bottom Boat DVD scheduled in a few months. Repeated attempts to contact TCM about this have all failed. I've finally decided to use this forum to find out what is going on. Does anyone have reliable information about its broadcast or release of the DVD mentioned above?

The scene that Sunnyside describes sounds so familiar--I wish that I could agree that "Night into Morning" was the right movie, but I'll try to think of the film that contains such a scene. Lolite, I also thought that "Night into Morning" might be the film that the poster is looking for until I recalled that Ray Milland's wife and son, not daughter, lose their lives in a fire caused, I believe by a gas leak in their home. For anyone who may not have seen this movie that may sound like the ingredients for a trite melodrama, yet the story is told with quite a lot of poignant detail--for example, in one of the first scenes, Milland chides his son about leaving his bike in the driveway as he hurriedly leaves for work one morning, never realizing that he'll never see him or his mother alive again and he is teaching class at the college where he works when a distant blast momentarily disrupts his lecture and distracts his somewhat bored students. Since alcoholism is again one of the themes here as it had been in the brilliant "The Lost Weekend", one might be tempted to think that this is a retread for Milland, but his excellent performance here differs in the depth of his guilt, anguish, anger, bitterness and despair. His character here has lost his entire world--he isn't "merely" troubled by writer's block and depression aggravated by alcohol. While the ending of this film is rather pat in some ways, there is no definite promise that the hero will be able to put his life back together. The implication seems to be that his struggle to survive this unimaginable tragedy makes him heroic. Good movie, better than average performance. Hope TCM shows it again.

Ok I was hoping somebody would know it. I don't remember who any of the actors were. I recently saw the Bette Davis movie "In This Our Life" the girl in that movie was much older and they were crossing the street in a neighborhood. The movie I saw they were in town standing in front of a store window looking in and the girl was much younger. They were on the sidewalk. It seems like I remember a woman that had been drinking hit them and argued with her husband about her drinking problem. That's about all I remember. I was about 10 years old when I saw it. I guess it could of been a Twilight Zone episode for all I know. I'll just keep watching for it on TCM. I've seen alot of classic movies of people with drinking problems, thinking that was the main theme of the movie, but none of them were it. Well thanks so much for your help.

I've seen every Shirley Temple movie I don't think that's the movie I'm thinking of. Thanks though I'll just have to keep watching for it on TCM.

Frances Lederer is best known among a lot of fans for his title role in RETURN OF DRACULA United Artists 1958. Also, that was him in Night Gallery's "THE DEVIL IS NOT MOCKED" based on a story by Charles Beaumont.

Thanks for the response, but it's definitely not The Time Machine. I know that one pretty well -- it's one of my favorite Sci-Fi movies.

Larry, I love to hear you drop those names! You're so lucky to have met these talented individuals. I hope that you'll continue to share more stories about your earlier experiences. I'm especially delighted to hear your anecdote about Mary Astor and Agnes Moorehead as mirthful geishas. They were wonderfully talented and could also convey an inner life and an intelligence in their many varied roles. Each of these ladies has given me great pleasure. Thanks for writing here.

Could you please tell me all about four of my favorite character actors? They are, in no particular order: Harry Davenport Frank McHugh Finlay Currie C. Aubrey Smith If I'm asking for too much all at once, I apologize and hope that you'll not feel harrassed by this request--I'm sure that you have things to do other than giving me the 411 on these guys! I won't mind a bit if you need to tell me to just take a hike over to IMDb, (though I find that your thespian sketches have much more depth). In any case, thanks in advance, Mongo the Magnificent!

Oddly, TCM has shown the amusing "The Egg and I" in the past--too bad they didn't include it among the Claudette Colbert films being featured this month. It would be fun if TCM could devote a segment of their programming to movie series once a week, especially since many of us seem to enjoy flicks such as Ma and Pa Kettle, The Saint & The Falcon, (can't get enough of George Sanders or, in a pinch, his brother, Tom Conway, imho), or how about those dang Andy Hardy movies. We know that TCM trots out the Hardy epics from their library every six months. And what about those perennial faves, The Thin Man movies? Personally, I'd like to see Lloyd Nolan as Mike Shayne in the series he did in the forties. I've only caught one of these, and while formulaic, it was highly enjoyable. Any chance of these things coming to pass, Mr. Programmer?

It would be splendid if TCM could play some of the fine films that Ms. Wright graced with her acting, especially if they included "The Men" and "Shadow of a Doubt" along with "Pride of the Yankees, containing my three favorite Wright performances. Amusingly, according to the New York Times obit for Teresa Wright, who died at age 86, she chose to be an anti-glamour girl, specifically nixing any cheesecake photos or hints of affairs planted in showbiz columns in her '40s contracts. Ms. Wright, with the bemused perspective of age, was quoted as saying in 1969 that "I was going to be Joan of Arc, and all I proved was that I was an actress who would work for less money." Yes, but how many actresses worked with everyone from Gary Cooper to Marlon Brando under the guidance of such directorial luminaries as William Wyler, Alfred Hitchcock and Elia Kazan? Nice work if you can get it.

So nobody knows the movie with the scene of a little girl and her mom being hit by a car in front of a store window?

Does anyone know a movie where a little girl and her mother get hit by a car while standing in front of a store window.