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I have been recording the One Reel Wonders and From the Fault for about the past three years. Sometimes they are better than the movies that are playing before they come on. Like was said before if there is a 15 to 11 minute gap after a movie there well be one.

The first horror movies I saw was on the Late Night Creature Features on TV. Universal 1930s stuff and things like that. My parents would only take me to see comedy/fantasy movies at the theaters so the only horror movies I could see was on Tv.

I enjoy the non-Hollywood foreign films, watching too much Hollywood turns your head into spaghetti sometimes. Even old classic Hollywood becomes a cliche sometimes if you watch too much.The Ingid Bergman films will be a treat and I am looking forward to them (along with the Garbo German version of Anna Christie).So many stars started out somewhere else before they came to Hollywood and it is nice to see them act before they were corrupted by Hollywood.

This will depend on when you were a child of course. I was a child during the 60's and the first movie I remember was a Santa Clause movie. There was a good santa dressed in red and a bad santa in blue or green. The bad santa tried to stop the good one from delivering presents to the good boys and girls. I don't remember the title but that is the first movie I remember.

Your list---- Anthony Hopkins; Paul Newmann; Peter O'Toole; Robin Williams; Duston Hoffman; Robert Redford; Charlton Heston; Clint Eastwood; Kirk Douglas; Jack Nicholsen; Ben Kingsley; Jack Lemon; Gene Hackman; Robert DiNero; Al Pacino---- They are all great (if there is such a thing) male actors of the past. It is clear that Sean Penn and Nicole Kidmen have pulled away from the pack of current actors and actresses. Mryle Streep and Jodie Foster continue to show that they are above the fray.

Having a perfect signal from TCM is very important to me also. I got so tired of poor cable signals that I switched to DirecTV, my signal strength is always 89 - 94 for TCM, giving me both a great picture and sound. I use the Sony RDR-GX300 DVD Recorder with Progressive Cine-Scan and component connections. My recorded DVDs are better than the original broadcast because the Progressive mode sees any signal distortion as detail and fixes it. DVDs are cheaper than VHS tape too so its a win-win situation. Having a digital signal is so much better than the analog from cable.

Harvey was one of my favorites with James Stewart. I guess thats shows how we are all different in what we like. I also liked Shop Around the Corner too, so we agree on something!

Thank you TCM for the Margaret Rutherford movies this week, she was the best Miss Marple of all time. Show more of the MGM British movies if you are able, they are refreshing to watch, it brings a little TCM UK into the mix, making for a well sorted variety. The movies you showcased last month by Earling Studio was wonderful, British humor is so entertaining and enjoyable. Thanks again TCM!

We can all be subjective and say someone is great, they are not great but the proof in the pudding. If an actor (actress)continues to work throughout their career then they are doing something right, if they only work for about five years and disappear then they just didn't have what it takes. So greatness is objectively determined by longevity and not by what may be personal views.

I don't want the movies I see cut and edited, case in point, The Front Page (1974)with Walter Mathau and Jack Lemmon. Mathau uses plenty of profanity and it's all part of his character. If it is cut out you loose his character and the movie is not worth seeing. If you sanitize war, life, and history then the lessons are lost and we just repeat the same errors, never growing or learning from our mistakes. This is all that i'm going to post on this topic, so no need to respond, I'm just giving my two cents. Keep up the good work TCM, you are the best channel on including HBO and Showtime!

Gone With The Wind is like most modern movies for me, I can only watch it or them once and thats enough.

Good point therealfuster, you hit the nail on the head!

Black and white photography and movies use camera angles, texture, contrast and shadow to best get a mode across. Color photography and films are too flat to do this, that is why even modern film makers go back to making their films in black and white. They wish to express themselves in a medium which best suits their goal. You will see more films being made in black and white because of the expanded possibilities they provide.

I like the French (1948)version of Gigi that TCM played better than the musical version. It stars Danielle Delorme as Gigi and she is really something. Maybe they will show it again sometime. Of the other two, I would choose My Fair Lady hands down.

To follow up, it is true that it is the use of the term "Rosebud" which incensed Hearst to the point of attempting to destroy the career of Wells along with the movie( branding him a communist). Its a wonder that the movie ever survived the 1940's. Wells on the other hand used the No trespassing sign and the meaning of "Rosebud" to tie the movie together from beginning to end. It is safe to say that Rosebud had a symbolic meaning of the happiness of youth and associating that happiness to that one lover Kane (Hearst)had but could never acknowledge. Davies like Susan Alexander had a great career to begin with. In silent movies Davies work was truly good but the advent of sound would have been the end of her. If it were not for Hearst pumping money into Davies career, she like Susan would soon be a forgotten nobody. Just judge her along side of someone like Jean Harlow and you can see why she was mediocre at best during the 1930's. Her best work had already been done.

I copy and paste the TCM schedule to MS Word and change the font to red for the movies I want to record and watch later, always three months in advance. That way I know how many times any movie will play in that three month period. Luckily DVDs only cost 44 cents apiece so the cost isn't all that much. Knowing how to use the timer is a must! April has been a challenge to say the least, but the May line-up will not be as busy.

I'll throw another monkey wrench into the machine and say that because the movie was based on Hurst, Wells had to keep with the research he did on Hurst, incorporating this and other facts into the film. Another fact about Hurst is that he wanted hemp banned because he owned stock in Dupont (hemp would compete with nylon, a fabric Dupont was just coming out with). And then there's "Rosebud", but thats another can of worms.

It would be impossible for me to pick ten, but these are my essentials: The Seventh Seal Wild Strawberries 1900 The Shape of Things to Come 1984 The Fixer Seven Samurai Doctor Zhivago The Haunting(1960) Armacord I don't number them because it would be a foolish endeaver.

W.C. Fields is one of my favorites also. My library of his work is fairly complete, being that I don't buy alot of titles, but when it comes to Fields movies, I don't mind spending the money.

In another movie, Dinner at Eight, a woman feels guilty about having sexual relations with John Barrymore and wants to tell the man she is going to marry. A wiser woman played by Marie Dressier tells her, that's your past, keep it there. Believe me, I know men and I know that he won't understand. Just a comic afterthought from a movie I laugh at every time I watch it.

I never miss Silent Sunday Nights, I love the silent movies. You have to record them and watch them later so that you can see them all the way through. If you walk away from them you will miss the plot. They demand your attention! I enjoyed the Edgar G. Ulmer Yiddish silent movies that I recorded about a year ago on TCM.

I enjoy the One Reel Wonder Features and From the Fault. I set my recorder to record every morning around 5:00AM, just 20 minutes before that movie is over to catch some of the best ones. I've recorded W.C. Fields, The Pharmacist, black and white cartoons etc. Try it, you'll be surprised what you catch that you wouldn't see other wise. As far as movies go, I never miss Friday Night Imports and Silent Sunday Nights. I record the silent movies and watch them later when I have time to give them the attention they demand. You can't walk away from them and still keep up with the plot, that is why I watch them when I can see them all the way through.

My mother remembers going to see this movie in the 1940's. All you have to do is mention the wedding scene at the end and she knows what movie you are talking about, and she's not a movie person by any means. Its a cartoon movie meant to make people feel good during a time when you used stamps to ration tires, gas, coffee and butter. That's why it holds up so well today, its one of those movies that you can watch many times, never getting tired of.

Coney Island was my favorite one also. To see all the fun that was to be had at the turn of the century, in small amusement parks reminded me of the lost childhood I keep in my memories. I'm looking forward to the Marx Brothers, Chaplin and Buster Keaton marathons Friday and Monday. I've bought a 50 disk spindle of DVD-Rs at the beginning of April to hold them all and they are half used up.

My favorites are: 1: To Have and to Have Not (1944) 2a: Stand-In (1937) 2b: The Big Sleep (1946) 3: Casablanca (1942) 4: The Maltese Falcon (1941) 5: The Barefoot Contessa (1954) 6: Dark Passage (1947) The reason I rank "To Have and to Have Not and Stand-In first is that they are comedies. Bogart may not be known for comedy but he was good at it. All the others come so close together in order that to rank them would be an exercise in futility, but I gave it a go anyway.