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Can't argue with any of the ones you listed! Check out these: Black Angel - Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre and Brodrick Crawford. One of the best. This Gun for Hire - Alan Ladd and the incredible Veronica Lake. The Killing - Sterling Hayden. One of Kubrick's early films and has a small cameo by one of my favorites Timothy Carey. Touch of Evil - Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Orson Wells (director). What more do you want? And one of the best films of any genre ever made. Many more, but those are some of my favorites.

Thank you for your response, unable to find any title of " In old Chicago" or tried Alice Faye and Tyrone Power does not either one being inthat title movie. any other ideas on where to look this up. thaks again dan

Anyone know of any plans to release this movie on DVD?

I would love to read of your favorite film noirs from the forties and fifties. My ABSOLUTE favorite is The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, and Too Late For Tears (aka Killer Bait). BTW, I would LOVE for TCM to have an entire "Best of Film Noir Weekend"....awesome. Your favorites?

Critic's Choice

Are there any plans to schedule a film tribute to Sandra Dee? Usually TCM includes some comments on its home page when an important actor or actress passes away, but I've seen no mention of Miss Dee on the website. Please try to schedule some of her films as part of a memorial, in the near future.

Hi, I've been requesting that TCM play THE SILVER CORD for months, with no luck. I just requested it again today. Maybe if enough of us request it, TCM will finally add it to their broadcast schedule. Thanks for any help with this effort. CJP

Thanks decotoddla for taking the time to write. Perhaps I need to brush up on my internet searching skills since I have looked without luck. Please, does anyone wish to sell me a mug? Thanks, Louise the mug breaker

This movie played around 5th through the 20th of Feb 05. Viewed the last 5 minutes and did not see name or credits. Set in a large city on a river fronnt that was being burned down by a fire storm....black and white movie....horse drawn carriages and steamer horse drawn fire engines, also showed a horse drawn ladder truck that went screaming through the streets....silhouettes of firemen on the rooftops.... story had to do with love story between a woman and brother #1 but she really loved brother #2. Bro 2 goes inside a burning home and carries brother #1 over his shoulder and out to a horse drawn carriage, the driver takes the mother and brother #1 to the river where it is safe. brother #2 looks for the woman and they all end up at the river. Woman shows up and runs to hug Brother #2 to the surprise of Brother #1.... Please help me find the name of this movie and the actors. Sincerely, Dan Rigdon Captain Central County Fire Rescue

Although I like MY FAIR LADY, I think there is no comparison to GIGI. It's MGM and Vincente Minnelli at their peak. I always thought MY FAIR LADY was basically a filmed stage (and at times stagey) musical whereas GIGI is a complete original. GIGI is a delightful, sophisticated musical with perfect casting. Oddly enough WB had negotiated with Minnelli to direct MY FAIR LADY but this fell through when studio and Minnelli couldn't come to terms with monies. With Minnelli at the helm of MY FAIR LADY it could have turned out much differently and for the better.

Well I did some thinkin'-here's the result: other than films already listed - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory A Christmas Story Harry Potter movies Good Morning, Vietnam Radio Days Superman Braveheart Terminator 1&2 Monty Python & the Holy Grail The Untouchables Goodfellas Back to the Future, Parts 1,2&3 It also seems that most have forgotten about horror/sci-fi. What about these? - Poltergiest The Omen The Shining The Stepford Wives Soylent Green Westworld Independence Day Can anyone think of some more?

My vote goes to "My Fair Lady". Its one of those I can watch again & again. I love the music, the costumes, everything! Gigi I like also, just not as much. It was just on & I enjoyed it again.

1. Karen Black in "The Day of the Locust" 2. Jessica Lange in "Frances" and "Sweet Dreams" 3. Joan Crawford in "Humoresque" 4. Greta Garbo in "Camille" 5. Nicole Kidman in "Birth"

Actors Cary Grant Robert Montgomery Humphry Boggart Larry Hagman Actresses Kathrine Hepburn Elizabeth Montgomery Judy Garland Barbara Eden Bette Davis

This is a WWII movie set in Italy about a village hiding their wine from the Nazis. I saw it once about 30 years ago and can't remember the name or anything else, but I know I liked it. Can anyone help?

By the way, I think it's "White Shadows in the South Seas" isn't it??

THE PAGAN has been shown a few times in the last couple of years - I think in fact within the year. I taped it off TCM.

I just missed taping a great short feature, "Cavalcade of the Academy Awards" which documented the 1939 Academy Awards. The TCM Schedule for the month of February lists "Festival of Shorts #4" and included "Tweetie Pie" and several other cartoons. Needless to say it wasn't "Festival #4" that aired. My VCR just happened to be recording and ran out of tape just moments before "Gone With The Wind" was awarded Best Picture. Can short subjects be searched in the TCM Schedule or will I have to get very, very lucky to ever catch "Cavalcade" again.

Yes, I do believe that's it! Excellent work!

It seems to be a huge secret to me. There isn't as much known about many of the black performers of golden yesteryear. Their stories haven't been told. Folks know about Ava Gardener, Katherine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck and other wonder white actresses of Golden Yesteryear and that is great. They had lots of talent. But women like Fredi Washington, Francine Everett, Nina Mae Mckinney, Dorothy Van Engle had similiar talents at the same level and had the potential to be movie star material same as the white actresses, but their story isn't heard and networks like TCM and AMC seem to be very reluctant to give them air time. I admired TCM for showcasing the unsung black golden yesteryear films. You have to look at the fact that there was a lot of RAW talent being showcased on such low budgets. The white films were done on much more plentiful budgets and the actors/actresses were even allowed more than one take. In a lot of the black productions the entertainers were only allowed one take. With just one take many of the black actresses and actors mastered the scenes they were doing and did quality jobs. That in itself should say something about the enormous amount of movie star talent that was ignored by white hollywood or rather brushed aside. TCM calls themselves Turner Classic Movies. They should call themselves Turner White American Classic Movies. The reason I say that is because nothing else is really showcased. Why is it that TCM SUDDENLY stopped the Black History Month Golden age showcase to showcase movies from white Entertainers who are given exposure YEAR ROUND?

Ingrid Bergman in "Casablanca" Gregory Peck in "Spellbound" Clark Gable in "Strange Cargo" Myrna Loy in "Wife vs. Secretary" Cary Grant in "The Philadelphia Story" Those were the movies in which I first saw each actor/actress, and I was breathtaken when I saw them.

If you're thinking of MGM only, it is usually the stars or the source. If it's got their big stars - Shearer, Gable, Crawford, etc. or is based on a well known novel or play, it's probabaly A. Supporting players in "A" product carrying the show - e.g. Maureen O'Sullivan, Virginia Bruce - is another good indicator. Also, the budget and length - the shorter the film, the more likely it is to be a programmer.

Thankfully, most winners are available on video, if not DVD yet, so they are easier to assess than ever. Best: BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, GWTW, SCHINDLERS LIST, ALL ABOUT EVE. Worst: BRAVEHEART, FOREST GUMP, DANCES W/WOLVES, ENGLISH PATIENT.

I'd agree with most of the films listed below, however, I think that time has already not been kind to FOREST GUMP or DANCES WITH WOLVES. The latter is too preachy and pretentious and the former just bad.

hedy lamarr or vivian leigh... Robert taylor WAS good looking.