FredCDobbs

We got our first TV in 1953. I was 10 or 11.

flashback, I don't get it. All I see is a blue airplane propeller. Fred

Maybe ALL MINE TO GIVE (1957) See "Plot" on this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Mine_to_Give Some of the kids are given away when the father dies, and one of the older boys stays and helps his mother. Then his mother dies and the older boy gives the other kids to different neighbors.

And because they were classics. I saw DRACULA and FRANKENSTEIN in re-release, also SONG OF THE SOUTH in the late 1940s. KING KONG in 1952. GONE WITH THE WIND in 1953. Etc, etc.

Great news, thanks. I saw this film in a theater in the late 1940s. Back in those days, the studios would "re-release" film classics like this, from about 5 to 8 years after they were first made, and to us kids, we thought they were new movies. I still remember scenes from it, such as Tom and Beckey lost in the cave.

Anne Gillis as Beckey Thatcher in THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, (1938)

True, she looks like miss average somebody on some average TV show or in some average movie.

Well, first, we are talking about an extreme-fantasy film, so it does not need to conform to normal physics or biology. I figure that the girl is just bored and stir crazy, and wants to live in the normal outside world. Something like the way the brother thinks. I think I might get a little bored living in that same little valley for 100-200 years. No movie theaters, no hamburgers, no football games, no musical concerts, etc. So that is why I think she wants out. And, I think she really is 100 years old. The sudden aging after she died was a unique oddity used as a special fantasy event to make a special point in the film. If the film used more normal physics and biology, she would have still looked young after she died, yet she would have been 100 years old. But we the audience had to see her "old" so we would know she really was 100. The High Lama was 200 years old.

Maybe TCM could also include Kimberly "Kim" Kardashian West's daughter, North West, in the intro too. http://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/Pictures-North-West-33026943#photo-33026943

It's a good movie, but it doesn't need to be shown in prime time every month. Once every 2 or 3 years would be enough.

Generally, yes. But there are exceptions where single men are good men too.

Too many errors, oddities, and plot flaws in TOUCH OF EVIL For example, all the Mexican stop signs in the movie read STOP. Whereas in reality, Mexican stop signs really read ALTO. I never could tell which side of the border they were on. In reality, all American-side signs are in English, and all Mexican-side signs are in Spanish. But in this movie they were mixed on both sides. In reality, no American women are allowed to work on the Mexican side. In this movie a lot of American women worked in bars on the Mexican side. There is no such thing as a large motel out in the desert on a dirt road, either on the Mexican or the American side. The wife would have stayed in a downtown American-side hotel. Charlton Heston was in no way Mexican or Spanish looking or sounding, and he had no Spanish accent.

Ha! Ha! I've been saying that for YEARS! It is because WE TCM FANS are used to seeing real 3-strip Technicolor films, made from the late 1930s until the early 1950s, such as THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, THE HARVEY GIRLS, the 1950s SHOW BOAT, and the late 1940s Betty Grable musicals. Those were REAL color films, with ALL the colors in them, vivid yellow, green, purple, blue, orange, pink, and all sorts of other real and vivid colors, just like we see in real life. For the past 40 years, the color standards of Hollywood have gradually gone way down in movies, and so many movies today are basically "brown" with a little "orange" in people's faces and some faint "blue" in skys. This is just poor color quality quality control in film-making, and all of these are shot on 1-strip Eastman color film, rather than 3-strip Technicolor film. Colors in films today are all blended together and are no longer separated and vivid in modern films like they used to be in real 3-strip Technicolor films.

I think they have been colorized electronically. I don't think they were filmed in color. Too expensive, and no one had any color TVs in 1952 Here are some color home movies, shot from behind the black and white film cameras.

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Looks like they filmed it like a live TV show, with one camera. The plot and dialogue were worth only a half-hour TV show, not a whole hour and 20 minute movie. Very boring.

Actually, I like the film, and I watch it once about every 2 years. But I miss classic films like INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS and many other classics that TCM used to show but no longer airs.

NORTH BY NORTHWEST is on right now.

I think that is Disraeli. He played the Prime Minister TWICE. Once in Disraeli, and also in The Tunnel, during the opening dedication of the tunnel. Walter Houston played the US President, which was the second time he played the US President. I looked for stills of Arliss in The Tunnel, but I couldn't find any. His appearance was fairly brief, just a couple of minutes.

Someone on this board said that Bogart and Tim Holt use stand-ins during bar fight in TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE. I studied the film a few frames at a time, and I think I agree. Also, Bogart seems to climb down a long rope during the oil rig scene, but there is an edit and a cut-away in that scene, just before he walks toward the camera, suggesting that a stand-in climbed down the rope, then the edit-cut to the cut-away shot of Barton Maclane, then the cut back to the real Bogart walking toward the camera.

The Tunnel??? Yes, it was on early this morning.

HEY LEE...... SMILE!!

I agree. If he had designed the building correctly in the first place, it would have had balconies and looked good too. FRENCH QUARTER, NEW ORLEANS:

What about that British film, DEAD OF NIGHT, about the group of ghost stories, and the creepy guy who says, "There's room for one more....." and he turns and points to a horse drawn hearse?

"Prosecutors at a bail hearing in Orange County, N.Y., on Wednesday said that Angelika Graswald, the woman accused of intentionally drowning her fiancé in the Hudson River last month, had told the police that she tampered with his kayak and had said it “felt good knowing he was going to die.”" More here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/nyregion/angelika-graswald-kayak-suspect-reportedly-felt-good-fiance-would-die.html