scsu1975
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Welcome to the boards. Click on your screen name (upper right of the page) and then click on "my settings." There is a link in there to change your password.
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A "compliment" I could probably do very well without.
Well, Rich, how are we, today? Busting chops, are we?
Yes, I thought that would make your head explode.
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All snyopses are inaccurate
Now if you had said "all synopses are inaccurate," I would have disputed the truth of that statement.
But you did not say that. Let's examine the logical equivalent of your statement, which would be
"If something is a snyopses, then that something is inaccurate."
Since there is nothing that is a "snyopses", the hypothesis of the statement is false, thus making your entire statement true.
Nicely done, laffite.
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#1: James Ellison, rode with William Boyd in the "Hopalong Cassidy" films
#2: Gabby Hayes, also rode with William Boyd, but also Roy Rogers and others
#3: Russell Hayden, also rode with William Boyd.
#4: Andy Clyde, also rode with William Boyd.
#5: Rand Brooks, also rode with William Boyd, and tried to ride Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind.
#6: Edgar Buchanan, also rode with William Boyd. (I am beginning to wonder about Boyd).
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Can you upload the signature?
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"War and Peace" (1956)--Starring Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, and Vittorio Gassman. Directed by King Vidor.
Full disclosure--I haven't read Tolstoy's book.
I have - long ago, and it was a good, worthwhile read, except for some uninteresting military details at the end. I haven't seen the film in quite some time, but I do remember thinking Henry Fonda was badly miscast.
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Another example is a Dorothy Malone movie where she was on a sinking ship but was trapped under a beam or something with the water slowly rising soon to engulf her. Attempts were being made to save her and the suspense was near unbearable for me. I don't know when that was made but I might be embarrassed to realize that I should have been old enough to assimilate the horror of this scene but was unable to so, to wit, I had daymares about it and probably a few night ones too. It doesn't help that everything turned out okay, that's not the point, it was the lingering scenario that continued to disturb.
The film is The Last Voyage.
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Oh yeah, that's another one of my primal fears - making out with a chick right before the Creature from the Haunted Sea snatches her away from me.
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I can't think of anything that still gives me the creeps, but as a kid, there were a few films that unnerved me:
1. Invaders from Mars: If you were a kid watching this for the first time (as I did), it was pretty scary to think that nobody believed your story, and your parents were not acting like your parents anymore.
2, The Day The Earth Stood Still: The robot scared the crap out of me as a kid. Now it just seems a bit silly-looking.
3. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Laughton version): I guess it was the ugliness of the character that weirded me out as a kid. I can't remember how old I was, but I do remember my mother saying that while I was watching it, I was backing out of the room.
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There are scattered scares in the film, but director Fisher botches the staging of the unmasking, the chandelier, and other important parts. The ending is abrupt and unsatisfying.
That pretty much sums it up. As I recall, Lom inexplicably removes his mask before his final act. I never could figure out why.
Retroplex has been showing the Claude Rains version lately, and it is a visual and musical feast. More music than phantom, but very entertaining.
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I taped Marked Women and was so intrigued by Bette Davis, I started tapping anything with her in it.
I think it was William Wyler who tapped Bette Davis.
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How do you upload a picture from your computer onto a regular post without it just being a thumbnail? I tried it recently with this one and couldn't just get it to work
You have to upload the picture to a photo-sharing site, and then copy it into your post. I use Photobucket; it's free, and I've never had an issue copying pictures from it.
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That same year of 1958 Richard Cunha also directed the "classics" Missile to the Moon and Frankenstein's Daughter. Truly a year to remember for movie fans.
Quite the quartet ... I've seen and reviewed them all. Might make for a nice "Evening with Richard Cunha" filmfest on TCM.
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Giant from the Unknown (1958) youtube
Ed Kemmer and Sally Fraser have a conversation, with a lake in the background. The water in the lake does not move. That will give you some idea of the low-budgetness of this thing.
Kemmer plays a guy who digs up rocks and collects Indian artifacts. He runs afoul of the local sheriff, played by the ashen-faced Bob Steele. (I’m not kidding, Steele really looks pale in this film.) Seems there has been a murder in the area, and also some cattle mutilations. Steele suspects Kemmer, for no apparent reason. Enter archaeologist Morris Ankrum and his hot blonde daughter Sally Fraser. Ankrum is looking for traces of a Spanish expedition that vanished in the area about 500 years ago. In particular, he wants to find the carcass of a depraved conquistador known as “The Diablo Giant.” Kemmer hooks up with them and treats them to a steak dinner (say, about those cattle mutilations??). This takes up about the first half of the film, during which time the concession stands and restrooms at theaters probably did a booming business.
The trio set off and find some Spanish armor and other stuff you can get cheap on e-bay. Then Kemmer discovers a large axe sticking out of a log. What he doesn’t notice is that right next to the log is the Giant, who is about to be awakened from suspended animation by stock footage of a storm.
Buddy Baer, as the HUGE undocumented immigrant, spends most of his screen time lumbering around the woods. As usual, no one can outrun him. He demonstrates his strength by hurling paper maché rocks and gorilla-pressing a mannequin. There is an Indian guy who looks like Chester Morris. Steele misses everything he shoots at. Kemmer wears a stupid hunting cap and looks like he should be after wabbits. Fraser manages to stay perfectly coiffed and smiles a lot. At least she could have done a semi-nude bathing scene in the lake – but then again, the water wasn’t moving.
The film was directed by Richard Cunha, who also directed the camp classic She Demons. In fact, these two films played on a double bill throughout the country. So just how scary were they? In July of 1958, a 12-year-old kid in Kingsford Ohio called police in the early morning hours to report he was locked in a local theater. The reason? He had fallen asleep during the double bill.
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You probably inadvertently clicked on the green TCM MESSAGE BOARDS banner which collapses the forums.
Does your screen now look like what is below? If so, click where I have underlined "TCM Message Boards" and that should restore all the forums.
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Lila Leeds made a marijuana exploitation film in 1949, Wild Weed, obviously to cash in on her notoriety after the Mitchum incident. It was renamed She Shoulda Said No, of which there is currently a decent looking print on You Tube.
Would you care to review it for us?
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Four months after being busted with Mitchum, Lila Leeds was back in court, paying off a $5 fine for jaywalking. L. A. Police told the presiding judge that Leeds had tied traffic in a knot, walking across Wilshire Boulevard wearing a white turtleneck top, red plaid skirt, and red shoes. "I don't remember a thing," said Leeds, "except a lot of whistles, shouts, and horns blowing. I guess I'm guilty though."
Yup, that would certainly tie traffic in a knot:
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This scene in The Big Sleep makes me nostalgic.
It's been at least six months since I was in a book store in which the store clerk looked like this, suddenly locked the shop up and tore off her clothes in order to encourage me to stay. And even then it was in a dream.
The same thing happened to me, except the store clerk was a guy. And it was a nightmare.
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That is because, in Italian, the title of prince is not limited to royalty,
Correct. In fact, in some parts of Boston, Wednesday is still Prince Spaghetti night.
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Could it be Janet Gaynor?
Yes she is 12 in that photo.
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Tuesday, June 20th/21st; all times E.S.T.:
2:30 a.m. "Two Arabian Knights" (1927)--Won the first Academy Award for Best Director.
I'd be curious to know what others think, but I watched it the last time it was on TCM and was underwhelmed.
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Well, let's start talking again about how to pronounce Juarez. It's been a few years since we've had that discussion.
Sci-fi movie or TV show where a guy is cut in half by a sliding door!
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There is a scene like that in "The Atomic Submarine" from 1959. The scene is on YouTube.