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I am having a sound quality issue with TCM also. Low sound and a mono like effect with no left or right mix separation. I will not be watching anything on TCM until Tuesday when Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) is on so I hope things are cleared up by then. My provider is DirecTV by the way.

Here is my take on Citizen Kane. I'm a young boy, I'm happy, I love my Mom and Dad and I enjoy life to the fullest. Now I'm taken away, I feel hatred, apathy, grief, disdain, and anger towards everyone that I feel has caused this outcome. My only goal in life is the wish to get even with those that I feel have taken away the one thing that gave me joy. What do I do? I seek to destroy what they love so that they will feel my pain. To accumulate that which they value, money, power and possessions and use it against them. But in the end I have become my worst enemy, because I have lost my soul, my friends, the love of my spouse and any self redeeming quality that could have given my life meaning. This is the story of Citizen Kane. After watching this film we are asked to examine our lives. How are we like him? How are we different?

Now that the challenge is over with, I have a question for everyone that entered: 1. What films did you include in order to create a balance? We were all TCMProgrammer for a week and we know that the programmer thinks about these things when putting the schedule together. 2. Did you impose restraints upon yourself trying to appease views and opinions that you have read on this message board? Certain films may be considered offensive to some viewers in regards to the year of the film release, language, nudity and political view. 3. Do you feel that the films that you included would accomplish the outlined objective laid down by Path to bring new and younger viewers to TCM? We know that TCM pays attention to the competition, Fox Movie Channel, Sundance and IFC. 4. What do you think the goal, objective, and future growth of TCM should be? A new TCM channel that will be more progressive showing Art House Films, Imports, and films that appeal to a more educated audiance may be on the minds of those at Time Warner. Just an after thought to our shared experience, take your time and any of your thoughts and or questions would be welcome.

I recorded Cartoon Alley and just watched it, the sound volume was lower than normal. Has anyone else noticed any sound problem on TCM this morning? The volume and mix is lower and with less separation than on FMC and Sundance.

That's the one Fred. The community was making mud bricks and built the house and the girl got stung by a scorpion. The native people were Indian mostly, but you would know more about that than I.

I can't put it any better than you have because you have said it all.

Ode To Jarfive Great Caesar?s Ghost, I got another vote. I don?t think that I will boast, that would surly get your goat. Instead I?ll raise a toast, because that will surly float. Your vote it means the most, And that is why I wrote.

Thanks jarfive, you reminded me to record Monty Python on PBS this Saturday. It's going to be a good one too: Pigs', Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart hosts a look at famous deaths, and my favorite one "The Lethal Joke."

Joanna (1968)(Lbx)(Not on DVD or VHS) Fox Movie Channel Apr 10 12:00am (One and only showing) Runtime: 108 min Country: UK Language: English Certification: USA:R / UK:X Musical about a mod art student (Waite) who seeks to find an adult identity in London, during the late 60s with the London swinging set which includes a painter, a hoodlum and a dying lord. Adult Situations; Language; Brief Nudity; Violence. Cast:Genevieve Waite, Christian Doermer, Donald Sutherland, Calvin Lockhart, Glenna Forster-Jones, David Scheuer, Marda Vanne, Geoffrey Morris, Michele Cooke, Manning Wilson, Clifton Jones, Dan Caulfield, Michael Chow, Anthony Ainley, Fiona Lewis. Director: Mike Sarne. Producer: Michael Laughlin. Awards for Joanna (1968) Golden Globes, USA 1969 Nominated Golden Globe Best English-Language Foreign Film UK.

Oh yes they are. I will have six by the end of the month.

I get just as good of a recording in the SP (2 Hr.) mode as I do in the LP (3 Hr.) mode. That is why I like it when a film is only 90 minutes in length so that I can put two films on one Disc.If you have a good DVD Recorder and a good digital provider such as DirecTV or Dish Network than the recording is usually better than the broadcast.

I'm lucky I guess because DirecTV still carries FMC on Total Choice for $44.99 a month. Thats the reason I don't switch to Dish Network because I do alot of recording off of FMC. Dish and Comcast put FMC on their third tier, which makes it more of a premium channel for people who have those providers.

These 20th Century Fox films of Richard Widmark are on FMC this month. Garden Of Evil (Lbx) FMC April 08 at 6:00 am Pickup On South Street(1953) FMC April 09 at 2:00 pm Hell And High Water (1954)(Lbx) FMC April 11 at 6:00 am No Way Out (1950) FMC April 23 at 8:00 am

I caught "Sailing On a Sunbeam." I had a DVD in my recorder ready and waiting because I have noticed TCM has been throwing in many surprises lately.

It gets little to no air play here in the US, few have seen it. It's not a very good film though is it? I mean as far as Davis goes and her performance in it.

I recorded it and watched it tonight it was pretty good. Ben M. said on Cartoon Alley this Saturday that Walt and MGM were in talks about having Disney do cartoons for MGM but it fell through, so I guess in 1934 talks were still going on.

TCM is showing more cartoons inbetween films lately. They had a (1935)"Happy Harmonies" Hugh Harmon - Rudolf Ising "Good Little Monkies" on last night and another cartoon tonight. I hope they keep this up.

Thanks, Really like The American Matchmaker by Edgar G. Ulmer, can't wait for that one.

American Matchmaker (1940)(Not on DVD or VHS) Turner Classic Movies Apr 15 03:45am Also Known As: American Matchmaker Amerikaner Shadkhn (revisionist title spelling) The Marriage Broker Runtime: 85 min (copyright length) / 87 min (1998 restoration) Country: USA Language: Yiddish / English Leo Fuchs, the "Yiddish Fred Astaire," stars in this musical comedy as Nat Silver, a debonair and fabulously wealthy Jewish-American businessman whose recent engagement (his eighth) goes awry. So this slick sophistocate decides that he must learn how to arrange a good marriage in order to find himself a good match, and reinvents himself as a shadkhn (matchmaker). Not your traditional matchmaker, Nat sets off on his new venture, which he knows nothing about, in ascot and morning coat, and refuses to charge for his services, a policy which gets him picketed by the local shadkhonim. The East European shtetl mores meet New York sophistication in this urbane romantic comedy. As in the best Yiddish theater traditions, there is a successful combination of humor and schmaltz, with the sentimentality at the end well-earned by the comic insights along the way... None is more charming than American Matchmaker. The title says it all a clash between the urbane, slick manners of the new country and the old, busybody communal ways of the shtetl. Films, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 1983. Cast: Leo Fuchs, Yudel Dubinsky, Judith Abarbanel, Anna Guskin, Celia Brodkin, Rosetta Bialis, Abraham Lax, William Mercur, Jacob Mestel, Maurice Schwartz, Arianhe Ulmer, E. Adler, M. Grossman, M. Henig. Director: Edgar G. Ulmer. Producer: Edgar G. Ulmer. Writer: Shirley Ulmer.

Bright Victory (1951) (Not on DVD or VHS) Turner Classic Movies Apr 09 12:00pm Also Known As: Lights Out (UK) Runtime: 96 min *** (Rated NR) A blinded World War II veteran in love with his nurse tries to return to his girlfriend and family. Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow, Julia Adams, James Edwards, Will Geer, Minor Watson, Jim Backus, Joan Banks, Nana Bryant, Marjorie Crossland, Richard Egan, Russell Dennis, Rock Hudson, Murray Hamilton, Donald Miele, Larry Keating, Hugh Reilly, Mary Cooper, Jerry Paris. Director: Mark Robson. Producer: Robert Buckner. Distribution: Universal/Universal Int Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) (Not on DVD, Available on VHS in Canada) Turner Classic Movies Apr 11 04:00pm Movies, 120 Mins. ***+ (Rated NR) Berlin bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich discovers 606, a cure for syphilis. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp, Maria Ouspenskaya, Montagu Love, Sig Ruman, Donald Meek, Henry O'Neill, Albert Basserman, Ed Norris, Harry Davenport, Louis Calhern, Louis Jean Heydt, Charles Halton, Irving Bacon, Douglas Wood, Theodore von Eltz, Hermine Sterler, John Hamilton. Director: William Dieterle. Producers: Jack Warner, Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis. Distribution: Warner Bros/Warner-7 Arts ? This film generated controversy because many thought the subject of syphilis too scandalous a topic for a motion picture in 1940. ? It was hard to make a film about finding a cure for syphilis when they weren't allowed to mention syphilis. ? This is the first usage of the phrase "Magic Bullet". ? Dr. Ehrlich's family was so happy with Edward G. Robinson's portrayal of him that they gave Robinson a letter written by Dr. Ehrlich. The Reluctant Debutante (1958)(Not on DVD, Available on VHS in Canada) Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Jimmy and Sheila Broadbent (Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall), welcome to London Jimmy's 17-year-old daughter, Jane (Sandra Dee). Jane is from Jimmy's first marriage to an American and has come to visit her father and the step-mother she has never met. While visiting Sheila has the idea of making Jane a debutante, an idea Jane resists. Difficulties range from Jane's apathy to being placed on the marriage block, the determined efforts of Sheila's cousin, Mabel Claremont, (Angela Lansbury) to win wealthy David Fenner (Peter Myers) for her debutante daughter Clarissa (Diane Clare), and Jane's attraction to David Parkson (John Saxon), an American drummer who plays in the orchestra at the coming-out balls.

Perfect Strangers (1945) Also Known As: Vacation from Marriage (USA) Runtime: 102 min / USA:93 min (Turner library print) Country: UK Turner Classic Movies Apr 14 01:00am *** (Rated NR) Robert and Catherine have a quiet little marriage until WWII separates them for three years. Serving in the navy dramatically transforms both of them and they realize how much they resented their old mundane life together. Both dread their inevitable reunion and separately decide to ask for a divorce, but is the marriage really over? Cast: Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Ann Todd, Roland Culver, Elliott Mason, Eliot Makeham, Brefni O'Rorke, Edward Rigby, Muriel George, Allan Jeayes, Ivor Barnard, Henry Longhurst. Director: Alexander Korda. Producer: Alexander Korda. Distribution: LFP/MGM

I'm glad more people are coming in to vote and they are right. The Serial notion is a great idea.Im glad to see more British films showing up on TCM because that was the reason I entered the contest, to speak for those who have asked for these films. I love them too and not just the Ealing Studio films but the MGM British films. Just to have the honor and the chance to see these wonderful films is a treasure.

Two films from the Dark Side worth catching on TCM The Invisible Ray (1936) Turner Classic Movies Apr 05 10:00pm A scientist seeks an antidote for a radium-poisoned colleague with the touch of death. Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake. Director: Lambert Hillyer. Kongo (1932) Remake of West of Zanzibar (1928) Turner Classic Movies Apr 06 07:15am (Not on DVD or VHS) A crippled ivory trader rules with voodoo and torments the people around him. Cast: Tony Huston (II), Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel. Director: Will Cowan.

Our Town with William Holden and Martha Scott impacted me more than any film that I can remember. When she couldn't take it anymore and pleaded to leave I had a few tears in my eyes. I always thought that I would want to go back to 1963 and visit my grandmother but this film made me think twice about it.

It's been hard for me to decide who to vote for, they are all equally good so in the end I am going to let one film sway my judgement: Alice In Wonderland!!!!!!!!!!! I have always loved the book pulling it out every now and then to re-read enjoying dear Alice and her struggles with things never being as they seem. Alice in Wonderland (1931) and Alice in Wonderland (1933) would be wonderful to see. I have seen Alice in Wonderland (1949) with Carol Marsh because it was on TV in the 60's and would love to see that one again also. My vote goes to, hlywdkjk