movieman1957

I just thought that Jagger's character here is not unlike his character in "Firecreek." He is not the drunk in the "Firecreek" but he does give a nice little sermon there about how that town is a town of losers. "Bad Day At Black Rock" is not unlike that town. Edited by: movieman1957 on Apr 6, 2010 4:11 PM

The internet is a good thing. years ago I got a present of a cassette tape collection with over 60 hours of radio shows on them. I am not even sure I have been through everything. Comedy, drama, news. A little bit of everything. I also have some old radio shows of the Marx Brothers. The unlikely pairing of Groucho and Al Jolson was a riot.

What would really be great would be if they would throw in some "Boyfriends" shorts that he did. I am glad to hear that they are mixing things up rather than their chronological running usually done. While I appreciate his dramas I always thought it a shame that he didn't do anymore comedy after the war. His war footage shows up in other documentaries. Some of I know just because I have seen it in Stevens profiles but I have seen footage with him in it. Those pieces never mention him as I guess it is probably a combination of it not being relevant and the assumption that people may not know who he is. His imdb listing is impressive. He did cinematography work for Laurel and Hardy. There are writing and producing credits as well.

Lee Marvin was slimy good. A different kind of bad guy from Borgnine. In a practical sense it makes you wonder with so many bad people in town why the other few would stay. But then you wouldn't have a movie. In addition to every other part I always thought Dean Jagger did a great job. He plays a miserable man and I imagine that can't always be a n easy thing to do. One of my favorite movies.

Stan and Ollie never had what you might call a brilliant verbal exchange. Part of their charm was in their misuse of the language. What they did have was an often child like optimism and a deep affection for one another. It is much like brothers. They may take their frustrations out on each other but heaven help the outsider who picks on one of them. Theirs was a humor come from the situation they were in. "Who's On First" is not as much brilliant as it is clever. A & C did variations of this through their radio shows. While Bud Abbott may have been a good straight man he was hardly overcome with warmth and could never approach the gentleness of Oliver Hardy. (Which is a difficult comparison because Hardy had enough of the humor fall his way that you can't limit him to a straight man.) No one used verbal humor like the Marx Brothers. But they managed to conquer the best of all those areas. Chico was more like Stan Laurel in his abuse of the language and Harpo could be nothing but visual. Keaton, I think was brilliant. Lloyd was also very funny. Chaplin, not so much as his technique seemed a little too coordinated and choreographed for me. But he doesn't get to be the icon he is without most of the world thinking he is funny. You want to talk cruel you need go nowhere other than W.C. Fields.

I am not sure about today's cartoons but I always enjoyed The Muppets because they assumed parents would watch with kids and there were just enough grown up jokes in there to keep us happy. One of my favorite bits from when my kids were little was from "Sesame Street" and they did a spoof on The Beatles "Let It Be" with a bit called "Letter B." It was great because they spoofed it so well that I got it and my kids learned enough of the point even though the underlying bit was way over their head. Sir Francis: Some of those I don't even remember and I am older than you. That is quite a list.

The only one that is not part of either set is "Love Happy." No big loss.

I know, let's just call him Leonard.

I saw her in "Wichita" and "Frenchie." Both westerns and both with Joel McCrea. She's okay by me.

Thanks for 9000 wonderful posts.

Marlin Perkins hosted "Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom." "While Jim is upstream looking for a deadly water moccasin this is a good time to remind you that the people at Mutual of Omaha can be there for you if you have an accident."

They did have a show in vaudeville called "Fun In Hi Skule."

1 - Go to the schedule at the top of the page and if you know when the movie is on you can go to that date. At the right of the listing there is a column to select for a reminder. 2. Through the database there is a line that will show when a movie will air. That will give you an option as well.

Commentaries was the wrong word to use in the DVD sense of things. They are more like short articles.(They were the "Wire Paladin" selection on the menu.) I am into the second season and I feel much the same way you do about the character. He is tough, smart, educated, both in books and tactics, and a gentleman in every sense of the word. Even when he is being disagreeable with someone it is founded in a principle and not just to show off. He is incredibly fair minded. He is well versed in the law and knows where he fits in with it. He was the 19th Century "Equalizer." He commands a steep price but he is not above doing his work for free. I will give you the fact the music does have an attention commanding motif when the card comes out. Much like the opening themes from Beethoven's 5th and Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphonies it does shout a "This is important. This is me" quality to it. A statement is being made. Edited by: movieman1957 on Mar 30, 2010 12:14 PM

I wonder when Boone pulls out his business card, usually from under his belt, how they managed to stay in there. The chords are not Beethoven. I think they are just a variation on the chords in the theme. Neither the end or the opening themes rank high on my list. The DVDs have some interesting commentary on guest stars or writers of the show. Apparently Gene Roddenberry ("Star Trek") wrote several.

Zeppo's problem was that he wasn't given anything to do. Many who knew them privately said Zeppo was every bit as funny as his brothers. There was a time in their vaudeville days when Zeppo pulled off a substitution for Groucho that was mostly unnoticed. There is also a great story of how Harpo and Chico switched parts for Chico's daughter as a surprise for her. She had gone to have her hair done. They never tried it again.

> I personally think it was indeed a trial balloon to gauge public reaction. So, please, everybody make your voices known. I don't think they needed to float a trial balloon to gauge our reaction. Mr. Tabesh has been here often enough to know what our reaction would be. You've seen it and this is no surprise. TCM even put out something on Facebook acknowledging a mistake. I think if that sad day comes it will come all of a sudden and at that point they won't care what we think. AMC didn't care. They didn't ask. They just did it. I will say that it is a bit of a surprise that they would use characters that might be easily mistaken for something else. Zero and O. 1 and I. Z and 2.

Hey, we almost went to the movies together. I'm glad you pointed that out. I was thinking some of this had a familiarity to it but I wasn't sure because it was only a little of it. Did you notice Hank Worden? He had some hair on his head. Not much but more than I have seen. I also liked "Wichita" better.

If you like the tow of them together look for "The Gilded Lily" (1935) and "No Time For Love" (1943.)

I watched "Frenchie." An unfortunately named but ok western from Joel McCrea's Saturday run on Encore. "Frenchie" is played by Shelley Winters as a woman out to revenge the death of her father. I have never been a fan of Winters but she is quite likable here. Partnered with Elsa Lanchester, of all people, to run her saloon they make for an interesting grouping. One scene even includes a rough and tumble slapfest with Winters and Marie Windsor. McCrea comes to their rescue. Some drama, some action and some comedy make this an odd little film. It certainly isn't going to be on anyone's list of favorite anything but it might be worth a look just because it is so rare. *MissG* I haven't seen the Murphy film you saw but when you think about it westerns and an occasional war film was about all he did. Depending on where he was he may have been bored or too new to give it much. Of course, those Universal International type films ("Frenchie" was also one) didn't aim to be much more than early features at the theater on a Saturday. Edited by: movieman1957 on Mar 29, 2010 11:05 AM

Probably not until around the first week of May, at least.

He has been popular in the programming challenges so that should help as well. (wink, wink, nudge, nudge.)

My mom used to watch "As The World Turns." A couple of times a year she was going to NY to kill John Dixon. I used to watch it with her just to make fun of it. She still loves me.

"Bailey Quarters" was SO much more attractive than Lon Anderson. I guess I like the girl next door type rather than the supposed bombshell. "Bailey" looks a little like Pam Dawber.

This thread looked lonely. The Moody Blues. "The Land Of Make Believe."