movieman1957
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It is funny you mention this one because I had enough time to kill to watch this one. It was an amiable film. Not a lot new but Stockwell was pretty good as the bratty kid and it is always a treat watching Joel McCrea.
It had some nice action scenes chasing down the horse. I also liked the way McCrea went about his relationship with Stockwell. Nothing deep but pleasant enough.
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>But Dr. Seuss holds a special place in our hearts. My wedding vows to Mr C were done in Seuss verse.
That's great and so clever. I wouldn't have had the nerve to do it. What is your favorite Seuss book? Mine is "I Had Trouble In Getting To Solla Sollew." (Though I've read "The Sleep Book" to my bride and my daughter to qualify as the most read.)
I love Bloom County and have all, I think" books of the daily strips. If there was any drawback it would be that it was such a thing of its time that it could not exist in any other time frame. (Written as my Opus stuffed toy looks down on me.)
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Lynn:
Many years ago I taped a bunch of Christmas shows. Charlie Brown is my favorite but the kids (my youngest turned 20 today so she is hardly a kid) loved "Rudolph" and "Frosty." I even got the second Charlie Brown Christmas special. A host of others I haven't seen anywhere since. The most rare may be the Bloom County special "Opus: A Wish For Wings That Work." If it weren't for the commercials.
SansFin:
You will find that there is little, it seems, that hasn't been remade. As Lynn pointed out the Charlie Brown Christmas special is the prime show. If Linus's rendering of the Christmas story from the Gospel of Luke doesn't get you then.....
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Do you mean the Chuck Jones cartoon with Boris Karloff or the Ron Howard film with Jim Carey. If it is the first it is something we have enjoyed since it first aired back in the late 1960s. It is a wonderful show with a gentle humor and a heart beating beneath the surface of the beast.
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Has anyone seen "A Man Called Horse"? I watched it and while it is certainly a different approach to an Indian centered film I don't think I cared much for it.
The story goes that an Englishman is captured by a Sioux tribe and is initially kept as a prisoner but works his way into a full membership in the tribe.
It has beautiful locations and gives a great sense of an Indian life. However, it seems slow at times, is hard to understand and can be pretty gruesome. Save for a captured Frenchman in the same tribe there would be virtually no dialog.
Richard Harris has the lead. I just had a hard time getting into it. It must be me.
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If you have Netflix it is available to stream on the computer or other device.
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If you're up for it we'll do a "ramble." I may need a couple of days. I might even get Carolann to sit with me..
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*A Man Alone* does turn up on Encore's Westerns channel now and then.
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My initial reaction to the ending of "Woman In The Window" was feeling suckered. Maybe that was the intent but if there were clues that might point to what it turned out I completely missed them. Otherwise I loved it.
Recorded "The Big Heat" yesterday. Saw it years ago but with all the Lang conversation I wanted another go at it.
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I don't about Crawford's but some, if you didn't know, credit that stride to Paul Fix.
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The question really is whether Knotts deserves a block of movies. I do not. However, calling anyone an idiot, whether you like the movies or not, is kind of and idiotic thing to do considering you didn't know who programs the selections.
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So, does that make it your favorite Beatles' song? If not which one?
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No. Sorry, I already occupy that chair.
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Overused him to cause disgust? Sure, just what every company wants to do by having the "face" of their product be the most revolting person they can find.
Just so you know - the parent company's name is Time Warner not WB.
Amazing.
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>When the above are being shown, I don't watch TCM at all. I switch to Fox Movie Classics, AMC, etc.
No wonder you don't like what TCM is showing.
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I got them from Netflix but I don't remember the picture being that bad. Close captioning does help.
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We are. Hope all is well down South. Thanks again for the book.
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I saw it on the TCM HD channel. I thought the same thing. It looked great. It is one of my favorites. I didn't stick around for the whole thing but it looked wonderful. I'd love to see it on a theater screen.
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Have you seen others like "The Titfield Thunderbolt," and "Whiskey Galore"? I don't know if they are Ealing films but like most of those type movies they are fun though seldom laugh out loud funny.
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Two scenes really stand out for me. One is where Poitier tells off his father and then the famous dinner speech by Tracy. For me having a more mature woman as Poitier's love interest may have made it better. As it is Houghton is just too young to buy someone with Poitier's character's background to seem interested in.
To your point about bringing in a drug dealer or some other disreputable character it potentially leaves out any chance to have what they would see as intelligent discussions and thus becomes a rather dull shouting match. It makes it hard to dislike Poitier and that may be part of their struggle.
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Hi!
The bride and I watched "Kind Hearts" recently and it was another hit with her. Subtle is a good word. Those well mannered but evil Brits are fun to watch.
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>I didn't mean to suggest Maltin was ancient. But he definitely attracts the over 45 demographic.
We are not quite as irrelevant as the world would have us.
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I was thinking that there would always be one more for Bowie because he couldn't really tell the others no. You are quite right about Chickama being offered the money by Bowie. I know he loved Keechie but it still wasn't enough to make him abandon the plan. Alas, your memory serves you better than mine does me.
I only thought that everything was fine as long as the money held out. Maybe working for a regular salary wouldn't appeal to him until the baby shows up. There's the change if only he would have made it that far. However, with so many of you on the one thought wave I either missed something or maybe misinterpreted things.
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On some films he may be doing both.
It may be "filler" until it's done.
Political dramas that TCM ought to be airing
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No. They wouldn't show a twelve hour miniseries. They don't show made for TV films. Even you should know that. Having another bad day I guess.