scsu1975
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The Real Glory is a rousing adventure yarn, set in the Phillipines circa 1906. Cholera, crazed warriors, treachery, human catapults ... this film has everything, and would probably be rated PG-13 if released today. Gary Cooper (as a doctor), David Niven, and Broderick Crawford play three Marine buddies, trying to whip the locals into a fighting force. Their first two commanders are hacked up by the Moro rebels, while the third commander slowly goes blind. The climactic battle sequence is incredible, with a rousing Alfred Newman score. Can Gary Cooper save the fort from being overrun by the Moro rebels? What do you think?
The TCM database lists Elmo Lincoln as a U.S. Captain. Could this be the same actor who played the first Tarzan in 1918? It's hard to imagine two actors with that name. If it was he, he may have appeared at the beginning of the film in a non-speaking role. Did anyone notice?
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Nope.
Clue 2: The wrong man is put on trial.
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Gentlemen Are Born ... not sure of the unidentified actors. The actor at upper right could be Ross Alexander. The blonde could be Jean Muir.
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I will wing this one.
Clue 1: A doctor is murdered.
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No,I don't think that's Donald Woods.
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The blonde looks a little bit like Dorothy McGuire.
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My error, the time for The New People should have been 8:15 - 9:00, preceded by The Music Scene from 7:30 - 8:15.
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Flight from Glory is a well-paced story, coming in at under 70 minutes. Pilots fly over the Andes in decrepit planes. Which ones will survive? The climactic flight has an interest twist. I've never been a fan of Chester Morris, especially his early work in The Alibi and The Divorcee, where he is a bit of a ham. But here, he is much better; cynical at first, then caring as the story progresses. Van Heflin looks and sounds amazing like Frank Albertson, vintage 1937. There also may be an "in" joke here. Heflin graduated from Yale, and, in the movie, he mentions he was flying a plane to a football game in New Haven when he sliced off the top of a car. Whitney Bourne plays Heflin's wife, who falls for Morris. I've never seen her before. Has anyone else?
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I rarely watch TCM "live" anymore. I record everything, and watch when I get a chance. This morning I recorded two of the old movies Fred mentioned, and I will probably watch them later.
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OK, it has to be The Last Command
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I don't think that's Montgomery in upper right.
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CineSage, can you tell us your source? The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows has The Young Rebels on Sunday nights from 7-8, beginning September 1970. New People was Monday nights from 8:15 - 9:30, right after Music Scene, which ran from 7-8:15, starting September 1969.
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Welcome to the boards, Terry,
There was a show on ABC in 1970 called The Young Rebels, broadcast on Sunday nights from 7-8. It was set during the American Revolution, and was about four young men who harassed the British and spied on them. There was also a 20-year old French character called General Lafayette. Could that be the series?
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Isn't Troy Donahue in this?
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I remember Janine Turner, as far back as her days on General Hospital when she played Demi Moore's sister!
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Why is there an arrow sticking out of his shorts?
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THE ALAMO?
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Yeah, that sleazeball ...
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THE BLUE GARDENIA, coming up Sunday at 10:30 p.m Eastern time. I saw this the last time TCM showed it. Worth watching, if only for George Reeve's smart-a** performance as a homicide detective.
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That clears it up!
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*High Wall* was entertaining in a silly way. Audrey Totter may be the most incompetent psychiatrist in history (and one of the better-looking ones too). Upon first meeting Robert Taylor, she immediately concludes he killed his wife, without even talking to him. Then when she has doubts, she lets him escape (twice), helps him elude the police, and administers truth serum to Herbert Marshall ? ah, the good old days when doctors couldn't be sued. Naturally, she and Taylor end up smooching at the end, just as it always happens in these real life cases.
And how about the cops? One of them says it's illegal to use a confession given under drugs, yet insists they will get the confession out of Marshall anyway. How? By beating him over the head with his wooden leg?
The little janitor who went down the elevator shaft ... wasn't he in Scarface? And why was H. B. Warner cast as a loon? Was that Frank Jenks as the drunk? And John (Perry White) Hamilton as a doctor? And why was Morris Ankrum cast as a doctor? Didn't he realize we needed him in the military to fend off the Flying Saucers, coming later this month to TCM?
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I believe Ida Lupino was his niece.
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Correct! Your move.
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