MattHelm
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Rusty,
I didn't think of ordering the public domain stuff online, duh. That means I don't have to deplete my Paxil supply by wandering outdoors. But if I go into the Mines and survive the Balrog, I emerge as Matt the White, plus with a few dollar DVD impulse buys.
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I'll have to look out for those public domain DVDs. I'd rather pass through the Mines of Moria than go into a Walmart or Target, but a bunch of George Zucco PRC flicks would be worth it.
TCM is playing a Sidney Toler Charlie Chan flick in March, The Scarlet Clue. All the Toler Chan flicks were done for Monogram so there just may be a whole night or day of them coming up in the future.
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I just recently learned that after looking up other Monogram titles when they played Sarong Girl. Another great B flick factory was Producers Releasing Corp. They were absorbed by the British company Eagle Lion Inc. but then they too fizzled out, shortly after. Does anyone know if these PRC Pictures are public domain now?
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Lorimar bought Allied Pictures in the 80s, which owned Monogram's movies, and Lorimar was then bought by Warner Communications later that decade. Then, when Lorimar dissolved, it's library defaulted to Warners in the 90s.
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I think Wind Across the Everglades had a subtitle: Search for the Skunk Ape.
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Kyle,
Budd Schulberg wrote a novel in 1939 called What Makes Sammy Run, and several short stories for magazines, in between writing screenplays. In 1958, when Nicholas Ray was fired from Wind Across the Everglades, Schulberg took over as director and refilmed a lot of scenes that Ray shot. He wasn't credited as the director, though. This movie was also Peter Falk's acting debut. I don't think anyone would be surprised that Schulberg would direct a movie seeing how he was a screenwriter and producer since the 30s, but it is surprising that he only directed one movie and not even credited for it.
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You have me racking my brain trying to think of novelists who've directed movies. Do you mean of their own works? Or their becoming directors of other writers' works? I have a couple of Woody Allen's books, but I don't think he's made any movies from the stories he's written in them.
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I wish I wasn't, Kyle, but he directed that horrible movie Maximum Overdrive in 1986, from a short story of his, called Trucks.
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I agree, let anyone say what they will. What she said was:
I doubt they are "putting up with" anything. I'm sure very few if any TCM personnel actually go on this website, if they do they obviously don't care what is being said. Besides the percentage of TCM viewers that post here is miniscule.
It's true that "few" TCM personnel go on here, since tcmprogrammer is the only one that we see, now and then. And, it's equally true that a miniscule percentage of TCM viewers post here ... just do the math. I should hope they have more viewers than those that post here, or they wouldn't survive.
If she's putting forth a negative view of the channel's programming, I can see her point, but like I said, it's a 1% much ado about nothing, in my opinion. But I value someone's civil opinion, opposed to a personal attack on another's character, in response to said opinion. Talk about "mocked indignation."
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What filmlover is saying, is that if she has you on ignore, then it's a one way fight because she's not seeing your posts. You need two people to fight, so it isn't a fight at all. So all you're doing is telling the rest of us how you feel about her post. We've got it.
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Kyle,
Allow me to change that to "indignation," just in case that grammar assassin still lurks amongst us, so I could beat him/her/it, to the correction. I think another "directing author" for your Challenge theme could be Stephen King ... but I'd respect your decision not to go there.
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Most of these people are only complaining about 1% of the programming, since 99% of it is full of old movies (which I prefer). It's hardly worth the spittle on their monitors. They're showing Mars Attacks tonight, which I think is a crap movie (with some good parts), though I love Tim Burton. But I'm not going to brand TCM with a scarlet letter for it, as I most likely will be going to bed at that time anyway, here on the East Coast. The thing that gets me is that those people who are in bed when TCM Underground comes on, still complain about its existence on the channel. I don't think any of us here watch TCM 24 hours a day, so why complain about what's on while we're asleep, or that 1% of the programming (or much less), that we can just change the channel to one of the other hundreds that cable and sattelite tv offers? Even on the West Coast, Underground comes on late enough that it shouldn't even matter to most people.
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I've said in the past, regarding this topic, that I can usually see the sides of these peoples' complaints, but that's just the point ... TCM represents all sides of cinematic history, and doesn't cater to any one viewpoint. Of course, they could start recognizing the serials a little more, but it's not like an injustice upon me if they don't. The Great Train Robbery is on now, and I can already hear the mocked idignation tone of a post within 24 hours, complaining that TCM should be tarred and feathered for showing a movie from 1979.
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Rusty,
I haven't had to refuel my refreshment sling yet, seeing how it came with 1.75 liters of Old No.7, and mustering up the will power all week, I saved the other half for tonight. I don't really know when it will need replenishing since I didn't pay attention when we went over the metric system in school. But the sling just cries out to be part of some crazy Rube Goldberg apparatus, and with a few household items, I may be able to rig up some hands-free imbibing contraption.
Redriver,
There's a Matt Helm movie in the works for 2007, so they may go the serious route. I'm glad they gave us the classic camp with Dean Martin, since the 60s just had too many spy flicks that were just Bond clones. Plus, the Sinatra gags were a hoot. I can't think of any actor besides Dino who could waltz thru a movie without even looking at the script.
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Thanks Jon. I see they even have a Matt Helm movie in March, The Ambushers.
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Thanks filmlover, I hadn't checked out the March schedule yet. That's great, they even took my Boston **** line up, too.
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I wonder if these were chosen from my TCM Challenge George Sanders theme, "Halo and Wings" where I scheduled his Saint and Falcon movies.
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I wish TCM's On Demand selection were larger. Mine has a handfull of movies and just as many trailers. Since TCM is free in most cable packages, I'd expect to see more movies on there. Luckily, I was able to watch Bell, Book and Candle thru On Demand, or I would have missed it this year.
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Rusty, I got a hangover too. What color did yours come in? Someone just had to get me this huge bottle of Jack that came in this swing-like device, that lets you pour with just a well-placed pinky on the neck, without having to actually lift the bottle. Next year, I'll probably get it in an IV bottle. DVD-wise, it was a Dean and Jerry Christmas, with box sets of their movies and TV shows. On the highbrow side, I got the Criterion DVD documentary, Burden of Dreams, about the making of Werner Herzog's, Fitzcarraldo (no bear poop in this one, just monkey).
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I'm glad, Charlie. Because I saw a vacant seat by the poor chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner, while someone said, "Oh, poor Tiny Matt!"
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If it's any consolation, here's the Lux Theater radio version with Fred MacMurray and Jean Arthur standing in for Stanwyck, from 1941.
http://ia331319.us.archive.org/3/items/KIBMChristmasPlayhouse/LRT-411222RememberTheNight.mp3
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Same to you too, Jon, and to everyone else.
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Sure path, water down my chances. People, head on over to his site and sign up for this ... I won the Ronald Reagan box set he offered, a few months ago.
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Another great job on the covers, filmlover.
Columbia and Monogram movies being shown lately
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You're right. What I meant to say, but left out, was that all the Sidney Toler Chans for Monogram were Toler's in the sense that he bought the screen rights for the character from Fox and went on to continue making them at Monogram, until his death.