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Jeff, DVDTimes has just announced that both the UK and the American restorations will be offered in the new Ford at Fox boxed set. I posted more info about the whole box set in the Western Forum.

Yes, I believe she did. If I am remembering correctly, CineSageJr posted in advance that she was coming and when tickets would be available. He also attended the Academy event and wrote a follow-up post on the evening. You may be able to find the thread by searching under his username in General Discussions.

But why that, and not Out of the Past? Douglas has a fairly important and substantial role in the latter, even if he is playing second fiddle to Robert Mitchum.>> Fedya, Perhaps it's because Kirk Douglas was Oscar Nominated for the first time with Champion?

Frankie "I'm a novice at this film stuff" Grimes (which after reading your many thoughtful posts I am starting to question- in a good way): "Was you ever stung by a dead bee?"

It's my understanding that it is not the Brownlow/Photoplay British restoration that will be part of the Boxed Set but a new restoration of the original American release. Due to the different running lengths of the two versions, the British version contains more exposition about the Civil War and Lincoln than the American version, a new score was commissioned for the The Iron Horse.

Hibi, While there are a number of chestnuts on the schedule there are plenty of Pre-Code films, silent films and Wellman films that haven't been on the schedule in ages. Add to that, the John Ford Fox films that rarely get shown on TCM and some holiday films that we haven't seen in quite awhile, so hopefully, there is something to make everyone's Holiday month a tad cheerier.

John Ford's wonderful The Iron Horse is coming to TCM this December. Looks like Fox opened up the vaults to cross promote the Ford at Fox box set.

They are also showing How Green Was My Valley!!!! Fox must be opening the vault for the cross promotion of the Ford at Fox box set coming in December. On a historical note: They are showing The Plow that Broke the Plains in December. If anyone has read Tim Egan's new book "The Worst Hard Time" about those who stayed and survived the Dust Bowl, one of the real live people he writes about has a role in Plow..

Kyle, Thanks so much! The Wellman tribute is from my first Challenge schedule. (At least I think it was the first, though it might have been one of my others) but either way, it's great that TCM is highlighting Wild Bill and using our ideas from the TCM Programming Challenges!!!!

Be still my beating heart, TCM will be showing The Iron Horse! And a tribute to William "Wild Bill" Wellman!!! Thanks TCMProgrammr, that alone makes December a great month for me!

Leo, You are aware by now (especially being a long time member of this board) that Fox has its own classsic movie channel, FMC. They tend to keep the big name classic films for their own channel. It's only on occasion that TCM is able to get a well known, little seen Fox classic film.

The Blackboard Jungle (1955) -- "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & the Comets is released in 1954 and spends one week in the Top 40 in May. Then The Blackboard Jungle is released with the song playing over the opening credits, and the record hits #1 on the pop chart in July 1955. It is probably the first mainstream movie to use a rock'n'roll song, and the record is the first rock'n'roll record to be #1 on the pop chart, thereby changing movie soundtracks, music marketing strategy and legitimizing rock'n'roll in popular culture (depending on one's view, either ending rock'n'roll as a music of rebellion or starting the rock culture).>> Not to mention making movie producers sit and take notice of the teen/youth market as a group to make movies for and to market to that group. We tend to think of the marketing of films to the teen crowd as a recent phenom that happened with Jaws and Star Wars when in fact, Hollywood discovered the youth market back in the 1950s and began making films specifically for that market and marketing their films for that demographic as well.

Anita Page has Karl Malden beat by two years. She was born in 1910, while Malden was born in 1912. Barbara Billingsley was born in 1915.

Kyle, Since you asked and you know how I usually post a Challenge schedule at the 11th hour, the end of the Thanksgiving weekend would probably work best for me. But, I'll go with majority vote no matter what. Can I apply my idea of Challenger Emeritus?

It worked!!!

Couldn't let Kyle's wonderfully written reply to the original poster be lost in cyberspace. xxxwiggles nose!xxx

Trying to make the disappearing posts reappear TCMWeb, Your reply posted this morning but by noon, the post had disappeared. I posted this as attempt to regain your post from cyberspace. This is happening in other forums here as well. Message was edited by: lzcutter

John Heard's finest performance on screen "Cutter's Way" opposite Jeff Bridges and Lisa Eichorn (who should have had a bigger career. She is heartbreaking in this film). I just realized that I should have replied to Gregory not CM, sorry CM. Message was edited by: lzcutter

Trying to make the disappearing posts return.

It's on Kim's original post and Filmlover's most recent post. The gray bar at the bottom of their posts. You can slide it across to see the entire link instead of the margins being whacked out like the old days.

Hey guys, Just noticed the slider bar at the bottom of your posts with links. That's a great addition. No more long links screwing up the margins of the threads. Thanks TCMWeb! That's a great idea!

9/17 7 Women 4:00 P.M. EST Ford's last film using a number of women from the Ford Stock Company such as Anna Lee and Mildred Dunnock 10/6 Stagecoach 2:15 P.M. EST The next step in Ford's evolution of the Western. 10/15 Mary of Scotland 8:00 P.M. EST Should be seen because in the upcoming Ford documentary this film is referenced by an audio tape of him and Katie Hepburn speaking. 10/18 The Fugitive 1:30 A.M. EST John Ford does Graham Greene with Hank Fonda along. Enough said. 10/18 Directed by John Ford 3:15 A.M. EST Originally done as a Tribute film for the first AFI Award Dinner which honored Ford. TCM put the $$ to restore and expand this documentary. Much better than the original and incredibly insightful. Major kudos to TCM and Bogdanovich for making this better. 10/20 Mogambo 6:00 P.M. EST Red Dust revisited with Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Clark Gable. Wallow in the beauty. 10/25 The Long Voyage Home 6:00 A.M. EST Sailors and Ritual. With Ford it's all about the rituals. 11/19 Interrupted Melody 12:15 A.M. EST Not a John Ford film but a Glen Ford film. 11/23 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 8:00 P.M. EST Priceless. The theme that Ford started with Fort Apache about myth vs fact comes full circle in this memory tale of the different paths two men's lives take due to an incident neither realizes the impact of until much later.

FrankGrimes, And you say you only recently got hooked on classic films..... You write as if you have loved them and studied them all your life. Excellent observations!!!

Thank GODS for the good ol' days.>> CM, I appreciate the Gods of the good ol' days and the Gods today who manage to make intelligent, well written and directed (and all the other crafts as well) movies. It may not seem as if there are any good actors or directors working today but the truth is every month there are good films being released and there are many directors, writers and actors (as well as editors, cinematographers, etc) working today as in the Golden Era. Just my two cents (as usual- LOL!!!)

There's a great documentary about the Z Channel called: Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession that was done by Alexandra Cassavetes (John and Gena Rowland's daughter).