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Upper right looks like H. Bogart in Oklahoma Kid. Upper left looks like Chill Wills.

This scene is included in the VHS version, so I don't know why TCM showed an edited, pan-and-scan print.>> This happens from time to time. It just means that the distributor or studio sent an edited, pan and scan version instead of the uncut, widescreen version. TCM likely didn't discover the error until it was too late. When this happens, they try to get the correct version to show at a later date. There's no reason to be ashamed of TCM. Sometimes, things don't go according to plan. It happens. They'll do their best to get the correct version and air it at a later date.

Vallo, The film was cut after it was released and Warner Brothers is intent upon finding the missing scenes from Sea Wolf before releasing it on DVD. They are on an international search for the missing footage.

I like his ritualistic use of standard themes that every member of the audience would recognize and that evoke an emotional response.> Jack, One of the secrets to Ford is ritual (military, community, societal). He uses ritual throughout his films to draw us into the stories. He layers his films by adding musical rituals to his story lines. He was a very complex director that once you start stripping away the layers you realize just how in awe of him you really are. My two cents.

By the way, I taped Harvey.>> That's a good thing, Frank, but you will enjoy it more after you have watched it, I think.

Frank, If you try to tell me one more time you don't know nothin' about the movies, I am going to have to smack you. Your insightful analysis of both Vertigo and The Birds (not to mention Cat People and the Curse of the Cat People, reveals, that unlikely Prissy, you know a great deal about what you speak. And what's this I hear about you've not seen Rio Grande? Frank, if ever there was a film that depicted womanly longings this is it. All one has to do is but gaze upon Maureen O'Hara's desire to reconcile with John Wayne to learn enough to fill a book.

The Way We Were and in a completely different vein Val Lewton movies

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Here's the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEFugVbzsSo Let's name the films! I recognize many of them but there are some that I just go what film is that!

Miss Gulch (and everyone), Thanks so much for the birthday wishes. Glad you enjoyed the Cinema Paradiso clip. I love that film. I need to start a thread here.... Thank you again for the well wishes!

Madeline, Be sure that none of your paragraphs are indented before you post your message. As of late, for some unknown reason, if a paragraph is indented even by one space, when the message posts that paragraph and the paragraphs following it don't appear. However, if you click on the edit button, your entire post will be there and you can fix the indention and the message will repost in its entirety. Hopefully with the next upgrade that will be fixed and we will get our bold, italics and underline features back as well. Glad to see you are still here!

Madeline, Be sure that none of your paragraphs are indented. For some reason, lately, if a paragraph is indented from the others then it will only partially be there when you post it. The Web folks have been working on upgrades for the last several months and hopefully this kinks will get worked out when they implement those upgrades sometime later this year.

PK, I think it aired on TMC about two years ago. There's probably a thread about it way back in the archives.

BG, Thought you would like to know that Stuart Whitman will be 80 next Friday.

Kim, James Cromwell, if memory serves me correctly, narrates the William Bendix "What a Character" promo. I saw it just last week!

CK, That is a great analysis. Is it yours or can you provide the original link? I would love to read more of the article writer's work. Thanks!

VP, I don't think it's done deal yet for most of the early Paramount films. If I am reading this thread correctly (and I freely admit I may have read it wrong), TCMProgrammr says they are working on Universal to gain more access to both the 1930-1948 Paramount Films owned by Universal as well as the Universal Film Library but while they have made some headway they aren't completely there yet..

Years ago Mongo started a "Gone Without Fanfare" thread for those who passed away without much notice. Over the years, posters have used that as an obit thread for both the famous who were remembered and those who passed away with less fanfare. I agree that it is time to start a Gone With Fanfare type thread so that we have one central location to post the obit notices and convey our thoughts. My one suggestion would be to keep it in the General Discussion forum because that is the most visited forum on the message board.

Tricia, Suzanne Pleshette and Tom Poston had worked together in a show back in the late 1950s. They dated and romanced but ended up marrying different people. Both were widowed after very long marriages in 2000. It was then they rekindled their romance from almost 40 years back and married within the year. Tom Poston passed away at 79 years old last April. Suzanne Pleshette, who had undergone chemotherapy for lung cancer, was 70 when she passed away a few days ago.

Kim, But isn't that what Private Screenings is for? To give the living legends the opportunity to talk about the films they made and the people they worked with. Many of the living legends such as Newman and Woodward are retired and would rather spend their time working around the farm house or the theater in Connecticut than fly to NYC or Atlanta and film a series of intros for films that they probably believe other people can introduce better. Many stars believe that they have little to say about a film they either didn't audition for or star in. We like to think and their memoirs also lead us to believe that they all got together on the weekends and hung out and went out to places like Ciro's together or gathered at Gene Kelly's or Liz Taylor's house for fun. But once you have told that story you don't want to tell it again and again for twelve weeks. The format for The Essentials is less for us the die hard movie fans and more for the people that are just learning to like and love movies. I don't know about you but I have seen, in the course of my life and my love affair with the movies, every film that TCM shows as an Essential. And I have seen them more than once. Occasionally I will watch The Essentials because I like/love the film but it is not appointment tv for me. The Essentials is basically for those people just discovering TCM or just discovering the classic era movies but have not seen the list of usual films that make up the majority of the Essentials. Rose McGowan and Robert O had some real chemistry together the night she was a Guest Programmer and she talked about the movies she chose and the reasons why very eloquently. I'd be surprised if the co-hosts for the Essentials chose the movies so we cannot blame Ms. McGowan for the list of films this year. As for her picks for Guest Programmer, she chose films that mattered to her not to us. Should any of us ever get the chance to be Guest Programmer we would likely do the same. But after all the grief that TCM took from disgruntled fans over the way the Guest Programmer contest was held, I don't see them asking us average Joe's again any time soon. Writing about the films we love on a message board and talking about the films we love on-camera with Robert Osborne are two very different things. Some people here would be very good at it and others wouldn't. The problem is they don't who would be good and who wouldn't until they get in front of the camera. I would rather the living legends have the hour long Private Screening with Robert O rather than watch them introduce The Essentials because the format for the Essentials would never be satisfying for them or for us. We would always want more and then we would be clamoring for them to stop running the Essentials and just let Robert O and the living legend talk and then we are back to the Private Screening format.

Look at this large group of former TCM regular posters who are now on their own exclusive board:>> Fred, The Silver Screen Oasis is hardly exclusive. Anyone can join and Moirafinnie always posts threads here encouraging TCM posters to join us for the chats with our guest authors and preservationists. Many of us post on both sites because we like to talk about movies. I can't talk for Kyle but I have no "strong financial interest" in promoting modern Hollywood movies as I don't work for a studio. < we should think and what kind of movies we should like.>> No one is telling you what movies you or anyone else should like. They are perhaps asking for a little understanding when TCM airs post-1960s movies that they like. I've been a movie buff all my life and enjoy TCM's big tent approach to showcasing movies from all decades.

Otter, It's the 31 Days of Oscar celebration that begins on Feb. 1st and runs until March 2nd. TCM celebrates the Oscar nominated and winning films from the illustrious history of the Academy Awards. TCM returns to its regular programming on March 3rd. The bulk of movies being shown in February are not contemporary films.

OK I sprang for "Gunsmoke" Season II --- but it says it's only "Volume 1"....does that mean the seasons were even longer or that they are only giving me half the number of discs for the same price? Sounds like something's stinky in Dodge...> Miss G, Television seasons used to be much longer than the traditional 22 episodes we have grown so accustom to. Season 1 of Gunsmoke according to imdb and some other Westerns television sites says that Season 1 ran 39 episodes!!! It debuted right after Labor Day (back when you could set your clock by the beginning of the new season) and ran until almost the end of August. Season 2 debuted three weeks later and ran for 39 episodes as well. Though Season 2 looks like it was the first to follow the more traditional weekly schedule while Season 1 would air an episode and then three weeks later air another. There were fewer reruns in those days as well. Season 12 had only 29 episodes (1967) and this is when the trend started to make television seasons shorter (more reruns). By 1970 and Season 16 the trend was down to 24 shows a season. Today a full order for a series show is usually 22 episodes beginning sometime between late August and mid-October and running until just after Memorial Day.

Madeline, Just to let you know, the Bold, Italics and Underline buttons don't work and haven't worked for the last couple of months. We are all hoping that the next upgrade (whenever that will be) will return them to working order.

If I remember the story correctly, they wanted John Wayne for the role of Matt Dillon. He wasn't ready for television yet so he suggested that they look at James Arness. William Conrad was indeed the voice of Marshall Dillon on the radio show.