johnnyweekes70
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If I remember correctly from the original schedule, I think Rooster Cogburn was only Wayne picture that was to air today that's been leased to TCM. The others will turn up eventually. I was looking forward to Ride Him Cowbody and Somewhere in Sonora but, oh well, I guess The Young Savages came close, kind of.
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I can't stand clowns either, alix, though that's probably because someone suggested I watch Killer Klowns from Outer Space. I don't think I've ever quite recovered from the experience! I liked He Who Gets Slapped much better, and though Chaney's appearance in the early part of the picture with the goatee was very unique and well suited. He gave a fine performance in that, and in your favourite, Tell It To the Marines, wherein he set the tone for every 'Sarge' to come, from Wallace Beery to Louis Gossett Jr.
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Yes, Sanders gave a very fully textured performance in the film. He always did, which is why he's one of my favorites. I'll watch him in anything, truly. If you haven't seen The Picture of Dorian Gray, if that sort of thing interests you, it's on Friday and Sanders is, not surprisingly, amazing in it, dripping with a supercilious sleazy magniticism many performers of the period just couldn't match, his brother included. And I love that subject line, though it's no match for the logo crack!
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Hilarious. Do you write speculative fiction?
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I taped that airing of Night Court when the logo was left on and didn't notice it until a year later when I got around to watching the film. Frustrating, and it at happens more frequently than it should. I forget the film that aired before Loose Ankles a couple of years ago but the logo was left on for the last forty minutes of that film, the stuff between the films, the Sunny Side of Life intro, and the first twenty minutes of the Young picture. Crazy! The logo is usually on-screen for thirty seconds. If it doesn't disappear after thirty seconds, I usually grit my teeth.
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Good to know it worked for you too, vallo. We're all in it together and you were probably getting as frustrated as I was.
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Interesting comments from Ethel Barrymore. In Margot Peters' The House of Barrymore, there's a great quote from Lionel before filming of Rasputin and the Empress began: "What poor son of a b***** is going to direct this picture?"
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The Devil-Doll.
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I started to watch Faithless yesterday and was enjoying it quite a lot until that persistant sound-lag problem appeared with only fifteen minutes to go. I noticed tracey mentioned a similar problem with A Foreign Affair so I doubt it was my provider's fault. Was it fine for you? It's so frustrating when half of the films I record to watch don't turn out because my play-back player can't read them and when they record just fine, like Faithless, the print's spoiled by a silly signal problem! Ugh.
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Glad to know it worked for you too, path. I hope tracey and others who had a similar problem try it as well, if they still need to. I was relegated to reading comments and playing games in the fun stuff section for too long.
Thanks tcmweb1 for addressing our concerns and issues. Another reason to enjoy this site.
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I just shut my computer down, reloaded, and tried to log in the usual way on the message boards page and the HTTP error page is gone. Go figure.
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I haven't been able to login or even create a new account for days by accessing the usual link on right side of the message boards page. I sent a message describing my problem using the feedback tool but I was just looking at today's schedule and noticed the sign in/sign up links on the upper right corner that I never paid attention to before. I clicked on the sign in link and the message board authentication page popped up without the HTTP 500 Internal Server Error message I've been getting for days. There is a problem but it seems isolated to the message boards link. Persistance sometimes pays off.
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In April, West of Zanzibar is being dusted off again. It's a great film, except for the ending. TCM shows what they can considering just over 30 of his pictures have survived intact. Several others are represented by fragments or single reels. Too bad, I'm not the only one who'd love to see them all and watch the man develop his talent. The lost film I'd really like to see is A Blind Bargain. The stills are fascinating.
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Super. More VHS tapes to get rid of and my old '80s TV print of Four Frightened People is almost unwatchable now. Now for the Cary Grant Paramount catalogue...
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I don't get it either, I misread the schedule announcement but at least Hide-Out and Made on Broadway are airing in March. Odds Against Tomorrow just aired last week and others, like Winchester '73 and Executive Suite, air all the time but I suppose Shelley deserves her due. We have been lucky to watch Lovers Courageous, The Man in Possession, So This is College and other rare Montgomery pictures so I really can't complain. Better than nothing at all.
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I love my DVR too but never know if the film will playback as it should! Luck of the draw I suppose. I like how you suggest you "sort of like Lee Tracy", that's precisely my view. Have you seen The Nuisance? A fine film, and Tracy's really quite good in it, but TCM rarely ever airs it. I got lucky one morning and woke up (though I unfortunately missed Lawyer Man right before it and figured I needed to record something so I got to see The Nuisance by default). I showed my MGM release of Blessed Event to a friend a few years ago and he found the man extremely annoying. An acquired taste, to be sure.
I've always missed Midnight Mary, too. One of the these days.
And there's a question maybe you might be able to shed some light on. Awhile back I posted in some thread a query about two pre-code Cagney pictures, Winner Take All and Hard to Handle, and one other, Frisco Kid, that I haven't seen aired on TCM in the four-odd years I've been tuned in. I've noticed there are no user comments for either on the imdb, whereas every other Cagney film does. They're running Taxi! and The Mayor of Hell yet again (which I really don't mind since I'd like to replace my tapes of them), but I keep wondering about these other three.
Always a pleasure,
Johnny
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Well, you know, sometimes things don't work out for the best and my brain decided on sleeping rather than waking up for Another Language. Drat! My system doesn't work properly until I'm physically there to handle it so I generally only get films I'm awake for. I don't like that many of the Montgomery films that I'm after are airing in the wee-hours but I'm used to that after my initial experience with TCM a few years ago and found all the films I like, basically the pre-codes, are shown either around 4:30 or 6 in the morning and after.
I did snag Lovers Courageous, The Easiest Way (which I'm very happy to get since the last time it aired, and everybody was raving about it, I was unable to see it and got really miffed), Faithless and The Man in Possession. I haven't seen them yet but they look very interesting, and populated with all the usual suspects.
With those films, the Ray Enright films last month (of which I found The Silk Express a hugely enjoyable romp that I never paid attention to before), the Young and Francis films and so many more in the next few weeks, it'll probably be another two years before I get around to seeing them all.
I know you checked out April's schedule and Beauty For Sale greatly impressed me the last time TCM aired it, during a Glenda Farrell day. Day of Reckoning followed it and utterly convinced me to watch anything Madge Evans was in, even Huddle! I made a list elsewhere of what I thought were the finds to catch in April and I can't wait for some of them, like Sweepings, Kongo, Piccadilly, Clear All Wires and others.
One of the most interesting pre-codes I've seen is The Strange Love of Molly Louvain, that's airing during the Lee Tracy mini-fest. A dark film that really showcases pre-code movie-making and one of Ann Dvorak's shining moments.
But I hope TCM gives Another Language another crack soon.
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I thought the rescheduling just bumped John Wayne out of the way. The new schedule states the last film starts at 6 and Montgomery's don't start until 8. Am I wrong?
And for anyone who's a new-found Bankhead fan, Devil and the Deep, with TB, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton and Cary Grant (in a teeny, teeny role) is a must. The love sequences are fascinating!
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I don't know if this has been posted elsewhere, but I just noticed Sony's putting out a boxed set of the shorts Keaton did for Columbia in April. I can't believe someone at Sony had the smarts enough to put this together. If it wasn't true, I wouldn't believe it! I love Keaton, and getting a decent print of Pest From the West is a wonderful addition to any Keaton collection.
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Update, Fox is issuing Great Guns on DVD in April as part of their L&H giftset.
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I was considering whether to include this in my recording schedule (ridiculously huge this month!) and, given your heads up, I most certainly will! Thanks!
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I also read on dvdtimes that the Carole Lombard Collection will include the rare film, Man of the World, which only adds lusture to an already excellent set. I really would have figured Bolero and No Man of Her Own would have found their way to a Lombard collection but, with an extreme lack of Lombard on DVD, given the titles released, I'm not complaining!
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I would certainly think that the style of acting in those vintage Warners pictures has completely disappeared. What made those pictures great was the familiarity of the performers, their knowing and working with each other, the brilliant cutters who could remove everything surrounding a line of dialogue to enhance its impact, etc. The entire method of filmmaking they employed has vanished, but that's what makes those films so enjoyable. A modern reading of Convention City would be interesting but it never capture the flavour of the picture itself, I think, because of the aforementioned qualities of the studio. I love Warner pre-codes and many of their later '30s and '40s films. They're worlds apart from the other studios' product at the time and will always be of tremendous interest to me. I, too, recently read those comments on the imdb regarding Conventional City, and it only made me want to see it more. Oh well...
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Jackie, I live in Ontario and watch endless hours of TCM courtesy of the fine folks at Star Choice. If you've got Rogers and want TCM, think about switching providers. You won't be sorry.
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Another interesting project for an Americana set would be This Day and Age, if only because it's the only DeMille talkie I've never seen.