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Here is an "Advance Synopsis" of Kiss of Death from the Motion Picture Herald, 1947. Interesting reading:
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Are you uploading images to your posts directly from your computer? If so, there is a limit as to how much you can upload (I don't recall what it is). So you would need to use a photo-upload site, like imgur.com, for instance. There, you can upload images (for free) and paste them into your posts here.
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3 hours ago, TomJH said:
The Three Musketeers (1939)
With the numerous film adaptions that had already been made of Alexandre Dumas's famous novel, Darryl Zanuck decided to do something different by using the same material to make a musical comedy.
I recall an episode of "Leave it to Beaver" where The Beav was supposed to deliver a book report to his class on The Three Musketeers but hadn't read the book. Then a classmate tipped him off that the film version was being shown on tv, and so the Beav watched it and used that for his report the next day. Since there was a lot of silliness involved in the report, I wonder if this was supposed to be the film version he watched.
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2 hours ago, calvinnme said:
See, when you are a good looking woman men give you jewelry, furniture, condos, and apparently patents to telecommunications technology.
True, but sometimes they give you money to keep quiet.
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Kyle Kersten was well-respected and liked as an important contributor to these message boards. Many of his threads have been restored, thankfully. It is quite appropriate for him to be honored on the message boards, since he was one of "us." There are other places on the TCM website to honor non-posters.
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13 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Joseph Campanella (November 21, 1924 - May 16, 2018) - American actor in film and television. Making his debut in television in the early 1950's, he appeared in drama anthologies, westerns, police shows, and more. He saw his first regular role in 1962's The Doctors and the Nurses. He also appeared in some films, such as The St. Valentine Day's Massacre, Ben, Meteor, and many more. He amassed nearly 200 film and TV credits, along with Emmy nominations for his roles on Mannix and Days of Our Lives.
Solid, reliable actor. He gave a memorable performance in an episode of Marcus Welby, suffering from a nervous disorder (or so he thought). His character suffered from body spasms, facial tics, etc. This was the first time I ever heard the word "vasectomy" on a tv show. He asked Welby for one, because he didn't want to pass on the disorder.
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10 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Source: TCM. The release date for this one is a contested issue, it seems, Many sources list 1944, others 1945. IMDb has switched it back and forth at least three times in the past year.
I wonder if there is an agreed-upon definition of "release date" in the industry. The Thin Man Goes Home played in several states (Maryland, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina) in late December 1944. It debuted in NY in the town of Olean, as a 12:00 A.M. showing on December 31, 1944. Maybe those places weren't considered important enough.
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58 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
In Society (1944) - Slapdash comedy from Universal Pictures and director Jean Yarbrough. Eddie (Bud Abbott) and Albert (Lou Costello) are bumbling plumbers who mistakenly get invited to a ritzy party. There's also young romance between rich Peter (Kirby Grant) and taxi driver Elsie (Marion Hutton). Also featuring Margaret Irving, Ann Gillis, Thomas Gomez, Arthur Treacher, Thurston Hall, Luis Alberni, Ian Wolfe, George Dolenz, Steven Geray, Will Osborne & His Orchestra, and the Fontane Sisters.
The script seems very piecemeal. The highlight of the film for me was a sequence with A&C walking down a sidewalk trying to sell hats. It seemed very much like one of their old vaudeville bits put to film, and it's very funny. Much of the rest of the film is a letdown, with unfunny bits, lengthy song numbers, and a finale that's largely made up of footage from another movie (Never Give a Sucker an Even Break). In a strange coincidence, my previously watched movie was Here Come the Waves, featuring Betty Hutton as twin sisters. This movie co-stars Hutton's actual sister Marion, who was a singer with Glenn Miller's orchestra. (6/10)
Source: Universal DVD.
One thing I learned from watching this film as a kid was that a "plunger" was a gambler.
This film featured several of A & C's vaudeville pals, including Murray Leonard (as the chauffeur) and Milt Bronson, who appears during the "Susquehanna Hat" routine. That routine was an act from their vaudeville days, which they also performed years later on their television show. Sid Fields, who played the landlord on the tv series, actually had a scene with Lou in this film, as a language teacher. However, that scene ended up on the cutting room floor. As far as the footage from Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, director Jean Yarbrough said it was included just to save the studio money.
I've never been a fan of Betty Hutton, but Marion looked pretty sexy in this.
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You're welcome, glad I could help.
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5 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
You know, I'm not really sure what the name of this movie was, but I just watched a chimpanzee mow down a bunch of Nazis with a machine gun in a Tarzan film from 1943.
Hey, don't laugh. That chimp was given the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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It might be Knock On Any Door, with Humphrey Bogart and John Derek. It's been some time since I've seen it, but there are similarities in what you wrote.
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1 hour ago, TomJH said:
The Big Operator (1959)
When I saw the cast you listed, I suspected this film was from Albert Zugsmith. (Turns out I was correct). He used many of these actors in several of his films. The clincher was seeing the shot of Norman "Woo Woo" Grabowski as one of the goons.
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On 4/30/2018 at 7:27 PM, Stephan55 said:
However to see FIVE of these "Window-Boxers" in a single month is quite an unusual rarity.
I sincerely hope that this will NOT become a trend with TCM ON-DEMAND as this format renders these movies next to uselessly "unviewable" on any laptop or smaller size screen. AND with the added distortion, I imagine most persons (myself included) would refuse to watch one at all!I haven't used Movies On Demand for awhile, so I just checked the site and saw The Devil's Brigade is exactly as you described. This is like watching a filmstrip from my elementary school days. Even if I pump the film from my laptop to a 31-inch monitor, the film is still unwatchable. I noticed this also happened with the Fox Movie Network when they were showing films done in Cinemascope.
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2 hours ago, TomJH said:
Well, McPherson's a nice name, too, ya know, Rich.
Okay, I screwed up - again.
Thanks for pointing out that the beautiful lady's last name was, indeed, McIntyre. And as a fan of McIntyre, for stupidly messing up her name like that, I guess I deserve a little Stooge retribution..
But NOT THAT ONE!
I'll settle for this one . . .
Mmmmm, boysenberry. My favourite!
Wait a minute ... Curley was a Canadian?
Here is a photo of Miss McIntyre (center) performing with the Paquin Players in Chicago in 1931. The play was entitled "Flight of the Herons." As an amateur group in the Chicago Drama League competition, they placed second and won a whopping $75 prize.
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3 hours ago, TomJH said:
It's a funny sequence, one my favourite Stooges moments from the Shemp days. But, for me, one of the real charms of the number is Christine McPherson's contribution. Not only was this lovely lady a real beauty, but here she had the opportunity to demonstrate some of her classically trained operatic soprano talents.
Didn't she have a twin sister named Christine McIntyre??
Yes. she did have a beautiful voice, and showed it to the fullest effect singing "Voice of Spring" in another Stooges short.
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Lucia di Lammermoor
Okay, it's not a film, but there is a connection here. I saw this Saturday night at the Metropolitan Opera. I had never heard the opera before, but I immediately recognized one piece. However, I couldn't figure out where I'd heard it before. Then, during intermission, it came to me. Of course, the version below takes some liberties with the lyrics:
Now I'm worried that if I ever see Il Trovatore, I will expect to see a Battleship, a duel in the orchestra pit, and some guy with a greasepaint mustache going "boogie boogie boogie."
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4 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Whenever traveling and mention I'm from Syracuse, inevitably people smile & say ORANGEMEN! and Ernie Davis had a huge part in making that legendary reputation that endures a half century later. At the very least this movie gave me a new appreciation for the game of football and a great player who faced humiliating racism. Hopefully, we've come a long way since then.
Syracuse had a great history of running backs - Ernie Davis, Jim Brown, Larry Csonka, Floyd Little, and Jim Nance. All but Davis made it to the Pros.
Although I haven't seen many of Dennis Quaid's films, I am always entertained by them. I particularly liked him in The Rookie, based on the story of major league pitcher Jim Morris.
There are two other college football films I'd recommend, both based on true stories with the usual dramatic license: Rudy and We Are Marshall. For whatever reason, films about professional football don't come off as well.
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1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Barthelmess is also an AWFUL actor, The same guy who told Chester Morris how great he looked delivering lines through a clenched jaw seems to of gotten a hold of him as well
Barthelmess doesn't come off too well in sound films. He was much better in silents.
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80 years ago in hisTORy
In a match in Buffalo NY on March 25, 1938, Wladislaw Talun, a 279-pound wrestler, tosses Tor Johnson out of the ring after 13 minutes and 19 seconds. Tor is unable to return for the next fall. However, he does manage to crawl over to the buffet table.
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I'd like to know as well.
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Jack Warden played rival brothers Luke Fuchs and Roy L. Fuchs in Used Cars. The film is often tasteless but hysterically funny.
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Just now, LawrenceA said:
Covered in vomit and echoing with incoherent ranting?
Ha! Not what I meant, but that's an interesting interpretation.
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On 4/29/2018 at 1:56 PM, calvinnme said:
The "Off Topic" forum was a streak of genius. It gives people a place to vent all kinds of unusual opinions as long as they don't get profane and keeps it out of the other forums. Thanks for answering anyways.
Yes, that forum is kind of like Bourbon Street. If you've ever walked along that street, you'll know what I mean.
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support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme
in PROBLEMS with the Message Boards
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Same here