MattHelm
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Hey Kyle,
I've been pondering over this for a day, and I still don't have an answer. It depends if you're purely an aesthetics enthusiast, a Ham addict, or both (I think the record shows that I'm both). Tourneur and Browning may have influenced filmmakers through their art, but without Corman, we would probably have no Scorcese, Coppola, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, etc. I'm not sure the same can be said for the others.
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Since they're not showing Remember The Night this year, you can all listen to the radio play version here, with MacMurray and Jean Arthur (not a bad stand-in for Stanwyck), done in the same year.
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The December schedule is up.
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I used to have a Dawn of the Dead one sheet autographed by the make-up artist, Tom Savini, who I met at a sci-fi/horror convention. Don't remember what happened to it. And I used to have a cheap replica of The Creature from the Black Lagoon hanging in my bathroom ... it seemed the most appropriate place to hang it. My prized possessions are a 14x36 lobby insert of Some Came Running and a British quad of Night of the Hunter. There are too many movie posters that I'd love to have to just pick one. I'd probably go by artwork and concept, rather than by movie. I'm sure the B movie posters are more interesting than the A's
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"And remember the slogan of Miracle Pictures-if it's a good picture, it must be a Miracle!"
I love that line. The Stooges should be given an hour every Saturday devoted to them on TCM, the way Cartoon Alley is, and showing individual shorts between movies. Now that they're showing all these Columbia flicks, maybe there's a chance.
Brighto, Brighto
It makes old bodies new
We'll sell a million bottles
Uh woo woo woo woo woo woo
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I saw that Murder by the Book with Ellroy. I love the guy's books and I'm sure you're going to be messed up if you're mother is brutally murdered like that, when you're just a kid ... to a degree. But he gave us just a little bit too much information about his "feelings" for her.
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Rusty,
Yes, you sure did say a lot of swell things in that p.m. Thanks. I'm sure they'll pick a lot of your ideas for broadcast (and many of those who participated), but it really would be great to see your box set get the green light.
Thanks for the tip ... I didn't know they were showing Spider Baby, I'll have to record it. I guess this means there's one degree of separation between Rob Zombie and Lon Chaney Jr.. Sid Haig plays one of the idjits in SB and he's also in both of Zombie's movies, House of Oodles of Corpses and The Devil Doesn't Want Them. Did you see those? He plays a character named Captain Spaulding, which makes for a very funny scene with a Marx Brothers historian.
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Congrats allieharding! I was hoping you'd win.
The covers keep getting better and better filmlover. Who knows, they might start using your covers the way they've been using our movie ideas.
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Thanks Rusty,
The sheets have to be waterproof, as well. Sometimes I make a big splash. Keep those cards and letters coming in.
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First, I'd like to congratulate, and thank, filmlover for being a terrific host and for going the extra mile with wheeling and dealing for the prizes, and also for the prizes he is awarding. The themes were great and allowed us to maybe have a shot in getting some of the movies we chose, onto DVD, or at least being shown on TCM.
Also, thanks to tcmprogrammer for the attention paid to our suggestions, and for supplying the prizes. And, of course, path ... for the prizes he's contributing, and for getting us all into this obsession.
Everyone had a fantastic schedule and chose wonderful selections of movies for box sets. Regardless of who wins first prize, there will be many winners this time around, so I don't feel too bad about narrowing it down. There isn't a schedule I wouldn't tune in for, but one stuck out that I would probably have to call in sick for a couple of days, and maybe wear that Ludovico Treatment head apparatus Malcolm McDowell wore in A Clockwork Orange, to make sure I didn't blink and miss anything. That distinction goes to allieharding. She had lots of my favorite movies and also, my favorite genres. Allieharding couldn't be here to accept the award tonight, so ... (music cuts off acceptance speech).
And the Best Dream BVD Boxers ... I mean, DVD Box Set, goes to ... jarhfive for the Hildegarde Withers Mysteries box set. I've never seen any of these and there's more James Gleason than you can shake a stick at. That's always a good thing. And there were so many Easter Eggs on that sucker, it was like Christmas.
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Rusty,
Interesting take on Zucco being the Spencer Tracy of B pictures. While in Poverty Row pictures, epsecially PRC films (Pretty Rotten Crap, as some call them), he may have just been the poor man's Spencer Tracy. Though,I always thought of him as the poor man's hybrid of Lionel Atwill/Boris Karloff/Cedric Hardwicke. Which makes sense, since Poverty Row needed an actor to be all that, and more, on their budget.
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sugarpuss, again a great schedule and your motives are made crystal clear in your notes. I love the muppets too (I went to college with Big Bird's daughter). I hope you enjoy Full of Life, it'll have you laughing out loud in some parts. If you like that you might like his "Wait Until Spring, Bandini" about his growing up in the 20's, and "West of Rome" about his screenwriting career, later on in life, and the family he and his wife had, post-Full of Life.
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allieharding, a great great schedule! Many fine obscurities, B-movies and love the serial. I never saw it, but have listened to the radio serial. And it's nice to see some great Robert Montgomerys ... we were cheated out of a night of his Star of the Month last year, when Shelley Winters died and they cut in to pay tribute to her.
Sinatrafan, you also chose a different set of Montgomery movies to make up for that much awaited night that never happened last year. I forgot to give you a nod for that.
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Larry,
I read that Robert the Bruce faced the British with a bunch of fugitive Templars, and that drove the fear of God into the Brits to retreat.
Rosslyn's church is a freemason's (Templar's) shrine, from what I've read. It was built prior to Colombus's journey to the West, yet its walls' relief sculptures depict agricultural depictions that are indigenous to the Americas.
I would rather see Lana Turner, though.
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Larry,
I think the book I read was about the Shroud of Turin and mentioned that Joan of Arc was related to some noble of Anjou, and that the Templars survived in one form or other after the papal bull that allowed Philip the Fair to hunt them down. But there is so much speculation. It's all interesting reading though.
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Thanks, cinemafan, that's great. I actually haven't done that yet, but I'm on my way to do it. We've had such great success in having our movie suggestions realized from these boards, that I forgot about actually making the suggestion via other channels on this site.
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Hi Larry,
I remember reading awhile ago there was a connection between Anjou and Joan of Arc. I think there was a Richard of Anjou who had something to do with the Templars. But I've read so much about these medieval eras, both historical and conspiracy theories that I can't remember which is which.
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In the original theatrical release of Star Wars, after the Death Star is destroyed and Skywalker returns to the base and sees Princess Leia, Hamill yells out, "Carrie!" instead of her character's name.
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lzcutter,
The twist and turns on these boards makes for a hill of beans.
Larry,
I love when Matilda points out Henry's immaturity by saying, "You have an obsession about him that is unhealthy and unnatural!"
I know so many guys who have lost their drinking buddies to maturity, and have acted like Henry in this movie.
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Maybe it would be better to have the AA's once a decade rather than once a year. From the ratings they've been getting the past few years, it seems most people only watch them once a decade anyway.
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That's the bittersweet irony about the AA's ... they made some big goofs like that in the past, and today they hand awards to the big goofs.
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Can I just say that Peter O'Toole & Richard Burton magnificent?
They are, aren't they.
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By "non-issue" I meant the current mainstream marketplace. People collect 8 Track tapes without having any effect on the current music market. Whether TCM's not showing the movie is probably, or rather, possibly, due to not being able to lease the rights, is up in the air, and the reason why I posted this topic. The message boards have been the most effective way to get our suggestions across, and hopefully, if it's possible to lease this movie, they will. I was just looking for others to support the showing of this movie ... not haggle over the price of beans.
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And what does Paramount have to do with it??
You wrote the above, before you revised it to (without noting the revision):
Paramount released the movie theatrically back in '64 but doesn't own the rights anymore. That's why the DVD (like the VHS and laserdisc before it) is being released by MPI Home Video.
I thank you for the info on MPI owning the rights to this movie. Yet, that doesn't mean that TCM can't rent the rights to show this movie, as it does many a movie that it shows outside its library. Those of us that have been watching TCM for years, know they constantly premiere movies. So, MPI would benefit if TCM aired the movie, since VHS and laserdiscs have been non-issues in the past ten years.
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You're welcome. They also have Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge in, "A Christmas Carol," in the yearly, tradional Campbell Playhouse radio show, on there too.