scsu1975
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5 hours ago, musicalnovelty said:
Could it be PICTURE MOMMY DEAD (1966)?
It doesn't exactly match your descriptions, but I thought it's worth asking.
I think you're correct. Here is the film:
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I am on the East Coast and just tried watching the West Coast live. No issues to report.
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There is definitely a limit to how much you can upload from your computer. There appears to be no such limit to what you can cut and paste from another url. Also, if you use a free photo uploading site, like imgur.com, there appears to be no limit as to how much you can upload to that site and then copy here.
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1 hour ago, LawrenceA said:
Lone Star (1952) - Passable western from MGM and director Vincent Sherman. Set in 1845, the independent Republic of Texas is caught in turmoil over whether to accept annexation into the United States, or to stay independent and sign a mutual protection treaty with Mexico. Former US president Andrew Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) sends trusted envoy Devereaux Burke (Clark Gable) to Texas to try and sway the legislature to side with annexation, which sets Burke at odds with independence advocate Thomas Craden (Broderick Crawford). Burke and Craden also find themselves both after the affections of newspaper publisher Martha Ronda (Ava Gardner). Also featuring Beulah Bondi, Ed Begley, James Burke, William Farnum, William Conrad, Moroni Olsen, Russell Simpson, and George Hamilton in his debut.
The action gets bogged down in too much political talk, but this movie isn't without its merits. The big action finale is well-mounted, with an interesting variation on the battering ram that I don't think I've seen before. Gable and Gardner have screen chemistry, and Crawford gets a more complicated character than usual. I liked William Conrad's small role as a Cajun. Barrymore, reprising his turn as Andrew Jackson from 1936's The Gorgeous Hussy, has only a brief appearance, and he looks in ill health. This would prove to be his last character role. He appeared in one more movie, 1953's Main Street to Broadway, playing himself, before passing away in 1954 at age 76. (6/10)
Source: TCM.
This is an above-average western. As you note, the climax is pretty good. William Farnum, in his next-to-last screen appearance, gives a spirited performance. Supposedly he was used as a technical consultant for the big fight scene between Gable and Crawford, although I suspect the filmmakers threw him a bone based on his long list of silent films, many of which often involved fistfights.
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5 minutes ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
Watched HUMORESQUE last night with John Garfield and Joan Crawford, and I have to say that Garfield was the best thing about the movie. Joan was fine as well, but I think it was really Garfield who shone through even the most soapy and overdramatic aspects of the film.
The ending was too ridiculous, with Crawford stumbling over Fredric March's body.
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2 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
please, we're talking about GEORGE BRENT. You can't use a mere three letters to talk about that monumental a structure,.
It takes too long to type "Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum and the top of the legs."
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23 minutes ago, spence said:
What ever happened to all the slasher flix & teenage sex comedies?
Hollywood ran out of teenagers. All the teenagers had sex, then were killed off in the slasher films.
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It would just be easier to say a**, but that doesn't work around here.
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49 minutes ago, Fedya said:
How long did the thread about George Brent's tuchus get?
About as long as his tuchus.
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1 hour ago, rosebette said:
Mare Nostrum (1926) - I saw this on TCM On Demand. I didn't to intend to watch all of it, but I found it visually beautiful and haunting and sad, not the usual Hollywood cliches. Like many later silents, it made me wonder about how far film had come before the advent of sound, and how with sound, the visual aspects of film-making took the back seat. By the way, Dietrich stole her exit in Dishonored from Alice Terry's final scene.
I took the liberty of bold-facing part of what you wrote because I think you make an important point. An interesting experiment to try (and I've done this a few times) is to play a sequence from a sound film, then play it back with no sound and see if you notice anything you hadn't noticed before. I did this once with a scene from Casablanca, and was astounded to notice how Claude Rains was dominating a scene at Rick's with his body movements, something I had never noticed before. I also recall a scene from a John Gilbert sound film (can't recall the title offhand) where he was pleading before a judge. I thought the sequence was just awful. Then I played it back with no sound, and it was quite moving. Just this evening I was watching parts of Dracula on Retroplex, and decided that probably the whole film would have been better had it been silent.
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1 hour ago, LawrenceA said:
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla aka The Boys from Brooklyn (1952) -
You mean you didn't like Duke Mitchell's rendition of "Deed I Do"?
Charlita was the only worthwhile thing to see in this piece of crap.
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Friday, July 13:
A pair of Allison Hayes flicks amongst some strange films.
The Disembodied (1957) 8:30 am
Hayes is married to a jungle doctor who is quite a bit older than she is. Pretty boy Paul Burke shows up. So what could go wrong here? Outside of Hayes doing some kind of half-a**ed voodoo dance, there is nothing else to see here.
The Hypnotic Eye (1960) 4:30 pm
Besides Hayes, there are some other good-looking women in the cast. Hayes utters the immortal line "If you like my beautiful face so much, you may have it!" Pay close attention and you will see that someone has used a sexy photo of Jayne Mansfield as a dartboard.
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29 minutes ago, andyg0404 said:
Yeah, back to not loading. I hope it clears up tomorrow.
Same here.
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35 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I watched IM GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA (1987) On TCM ON Demand.
Genuinely one of the funniest films of the 1980s; this time I was quite struck by how good acting is from the ensemble- all the Wayanses, John Vernon, Antonio Fargas, J'anet Dubious, Jim Brown-if everyone in the cast was not at the top of their game, this film would not have worked, funny as the script is.
I adore every frame of this movie and I think I laughed out loud about 50 times in spite of the fact that I've seen it a dozen times
I still wanna know how that guy went to the bathroom wearing all that s***.
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1 hour ago, andyg0404 said:
I see I've been lulled into a false sense of security concerning the upgrade as up until today everything has been fine. Just now I went to Firefox and brought up the page of movies and none of them open. I can click on more info and it appears but clicking on play does not activate the movie. Luckily at some point the movies started playing on Google Chrome so for the moment I can watch the film. Anyone else having a similar problem?
That just happened to me as well. I use Firefox. After closing out the site, I reopened it and the movies loaded with no issues. I assume it was a temporary glitch, but who knows.
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Wednesday, 2:45 PM: Zero Hour!
Impossible to watch this movie now without cracking up and inserting lines from the film which spoofed it, Airplane!
8:00 PM: The Time Of Their Lives
Excellent Abbott & Costello film, which really showcases Lou's acting ability (and Bud is pretty funny as the shrink). Binnie Barnes gets off some good wisecracks, and Gale Sondergaard is terrific as the medium. Great closing gag.
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12 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
What later portrayals? (because as you know A Face in the Crowd was before Mayberry).
The only film I could find that were made after he was a Sheriff in Mayberry where he plays a somewhat dark character is Hearts of the West (and in this film he has a very friendly persona even though he was trying to rip off the younger man).
Note that when I saw the original post I also wondered what dark role the host was talking about. Maybe Wiki is only listing a handful of his films, but the films at the end of his career listed there are mostly lame teen type comedies.
See, now this is how misunderstandings start. The host didn't say the roles were dark, she said the movies were dark. It was probably just poor lighting.
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1 hour ago, TomJH said:
Co-starring Ma Bell as his mother. Apparently she really phoned in her performance.
Rimshot
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14 minutes ago, Dargo said:
(...and although while I have to admit that I didn't actually hear or see Ben say this, I'll bet my house when he said the word "Lancer", it probably sounded pretty darn nasally) LOL
No, that word came out find. But when he said "packing," my ears screamed with pain.
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1 hour ago, TomJH said:
I read that Times obituary, Rich, and saw that her hubby director Koster promised Peggy, in return for giving up her career, that he would have a bust of her in all his future films. That's quite a promise, if he kept it.
So there's a bronze likeness of Peggy in Harvey, in No Highway in the Sky, in The Bishop's Wife? Somewhere amidst all that Richard Burton brooding and pining for Olivia there's a bust of The Mummy's Hand girl in My Cousin Rachel?
Yes, I read that as well. Another source (can't recall it offhand) claims that Koster used her photo in his films. Guess we will have to pay closer attention when those films air.
There is an interview with Ms. Moran on youtube, which I haven't seen yet. It appears to be from the 1970s or possibly early '80s.
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3 hours ago, TomJH said:
I had always wanted to see Horror Island, not only because of its title, but for the fact that it co-starred Dick Foran and Peggy Moran, whom I had always enjoyed as the "light" leads of The Mummy's Hand, one of my favourite Universal horror films.
I was just reading her obituary in the L.A. Times, and discovered that The Mummy's Hand was her least favorite film. She was quoted as saying that the movie was "probably the worst picture I ever made ... a lousy picture." You and I (and I'm sure a multitude of others) would beg to disagree.
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1 hour ago, jakeem said:
Has TCM ever shown "Damn Yankees!"?
No, someone complained about the title, so the film is being reissued under the name "Darned Pinstripers."
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34 minutes ago, Bogie56 said:
Tuesday, July 10
Nostalgia …
1:30 p.m. Summer of ’63 (1962). “Teens on the make spread syphilis among their friends.” The kids are home from school to see this one.
Starring Michael Bell (no relation to Fred Bell)
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Tuesday, 10:15 a.m.:
Twenty Plus Two (1961)
I've seen this, and have no idea what the title means. Confusing detective flick with David Janssen. Worth watching just to see Jeanne Crain poured into the tightest black dress in film history. Spoiler: I kept waiting for her to pop out of it but no such luck.
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Probably a tough movie to ID, but here goes.
in Information, Please!
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I think those stills are from the Night Gallery episode where Joan is blind but undergoes a procedure in which she will temporarily regain her sight for 24 hours or so. The ending is very ironic.