FredCDobbs

Thanks Tom. I just remembered that I saw this film on YouTube about 4 years ago. It must have been an old un-restored print, and I'm glad TCM is showing a newly restored print of the film. This is a very good fast-moving movie. The roller coaster ride at the end s a real roller coaster ride! Quite exciting.

“mmmaaarrrrrttttttiiiinnnnnnniii” The bartender says, “With an olive or an onion?”

I think this is the first, true, certified "film noir" ever made in the USA.

# 4: Jocelyn and her brother:

I think this was on TCM a few years ago.

Lucia Mendez

Hmm.... a lot of new people. See this: https://www.canvas.net/browse/bsu/tcm/courses/film-noir

Lucero is 46.....

Thalia has held up well. She is 44 years old now and still beautiful.

I think the wavy lines and the whirlpool effect were mainly used in 1940s and some 50s films.

A flashback within a flashback within a flashback. A girl's first husband tells a story about an artist and the girl. The film then shows scenes of what the artist is telling the first husband about his experiences with the girl. The girl then tells the artist about a bad childhood experience. So we've got the ex-husband telling the story about the girl telling the childhood story to the artist and the artist telling the girl's story to the ex-husband who then tells it to a man who is about to marry the girl. The ex-husband also tells other flashbacks about his experiences with the girl. At the very end, we meet (again) the lady who gave the girl the original bad experience, and that lady is the mother of the man who is about to marry the girl. In the final stairway scene, the girl goes crazy..... after trying to figure out the plot of the movie. Oh, and the first husband spends several months in a mental hospital after going crazy trying to figure out the plot. Throughout the film, all the men tell the truth, while the girl tells many lies to all of them.

MARLO THOMAS

Yes, I think so. Later Heathcliff changed his name again and went to Arabia to organize Arab tribes in their war against the Turks. Those old book novels were much too long to be covered by just one film.

You mean the full and complete two-volume book version? I don't think so.

That is supposed to be the origin of the film term "Dutch Tilt", when the camera is tilted a little, such as in THE THIRD MAN. It was an old German film photography invention.

Louisiana..... both Irish and Italian. Also, Cajuns.... French Canadians.

Dang, boy..... you belonged in the South USA.

Reminds me of that movie, Fahrenheit 451 (1966) We are the last of the film classicists who know the value of the past classic films, in a modern world gone mad: modern electronic cars that break down easily and leave us stranded or kill us when their air bags explode as we drive, GPS systems in our portable phones that follow us every place we go and feeds the information to the NSA and other government agencies; murder and robbery on every street corner, live anthrax being Fed Exed all over the country.

You know something Hibi? TCM needs to get all of us together on one set, pay us remarkably well, and get us to discuss these two films. Show one film on one night and the other film the next night, since, obviously, we are the world's best experts on these two films and the main actors.

By the way, this is the REAL "Big Daddy". This is Leander Perez, political boss of Plaquemine Parish, Louisiana. He was famous all the way back in the 1940s and on through the 1960s. Tennessee Williams knew all about him. I met him and talked to him several times while doing news work. Perez was an amazing man, who had the self-assurance and personality of a King, who could have you killed and fed to alligators if you ever crossed him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leander_Perez ORSON WELLS AS LEANDER PEREZ:

Even with Liz out for several days, scenes without her could have been filmed. This is often done in similar situations. Anyway, what made the CAT type story of the bossy rich county political boss well known, popular, and talked about was the famous 1955 start of the play on Broadway, and the many awards it received. The Long Hot Summer was designed as a look-alike. This was common among the studios in Hollywood. Even SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH had some similar rich Southern political boss segments in 1962

Yes they are. See excerpt from It happened to Jane on YouTube using these code words: Ernie Kovacs - "It Happened to Jane" Board Room Scene - 1957

I think he was better than Welles but not as good as Ives.

Hey, is this an Olivier scene cut from the original Tennessee Williams play?? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/5a/fd/71/5afd712697640de17b1862a8b7ff9c1a.jpg

Yes she was.