FredCDobbs
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There HAVE been imes when a critic I respect gave a new movie a bad review, and it caused me to NOT go and see that movie,
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About the only time I paid attention to reviews was in the 60s and 70s BEFORE I paid good money to see a film in a theater. I avoided dozens of movies because they were just not my type of movies. Now they occasionally turn up on TCM and they are still not my kind of movies.
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The first photo of #1 shows the long highway to Monument Valley. That could be from FORREST GUMP or from ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE (suggested by the VW bus in the image).
The second photo could be from LOST WORLD (1925).
The third photo is a little fuzzy.
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SHOW BOAT (1936)
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Nice job, FCD!
I was working on that one from all angles, "The luckiest man" "The pride" "A yankee" "The yankee" "Yankee" "speech" "farewell" "Lou" "Gary" "Cooper" and "Spitfire" "spit" "fire" "fighter" "plane" but I couldn't find anything on IMDB that worked for any of that.
Kid is very tricky.
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I don't know the movie but I'm familiar with long distance talking.
Seems that certain natural rock formations form a parabola, and that focuses sound some distance away from the focal point of the parabola.
Also, the ancient Anasasi Indians "invented" a parabola design for some of their villages, and this works for projecting voices long distances.
https://gamblershouse.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/echoes-of-the-past/
There are several places in and around Pueblo Bonito where you can hear with crystal-clear precision everything people say up on the Threatening Rock overlook, and there are some spots where you can even hear things clear across the canyon.
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Is this a fedora?
This is a fedora:
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Isn't this the first film that uses the term: "Take him for a ride"?
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Well, that's Gary Cooper in PRIDE OF THE YANKEES,
and a WW II British Spitfire fighter plane. Spitfire ZDB (MH434) still flying today.
How about:
A YANK IN THE RAF, 1941
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I just wanted to add that it isn't just Capra being a conservative that is so surprising, although it is to me, but it is his fondness for facist dictators and informing for Hoover, that really blows my mind.
Why do you automatically believe rumors you read on the internet?
Don't you realize that his real support was for North Korea??
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While we're waiting..
All I got yesterday was:
A rear view of the JAMAICA INN
The SPECTRE logo
And Dean Jagger in WHITE CHRISTMAS.
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Whatever happened to RIDE THE PINK HORSE? An interesting noir with Robert Montgomery. TCM used to show it at least once a year. Now, no showings for several years.
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He was great in several films, such as THE SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, 1939.
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Hi Fred-- I created a thread about the original BODY SNATCHERS in the Science Fictions sub-forum. It is going to be airing on the Encore Suspense Channel.
Dang!
I guess Encore out-bid TCM.
Encore has a lot of movies but most of them aren't very good. I got the service free for three months, and I wasn't very impressed with their movies.
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WIZARD OF OZ
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is this it...?
" (Michael)Todd described the plane (that crashed) as safe as he phoned friends, including Joseph Mankiewicz and Kirk Douglas, in an attempt to recruit a gin rummy player for the flight:"
Newsreel of crashed plane, Southwest of Grants NM, in a remote area of the desert, South of old Route 66. A newspaper report said the plane "iced up" and crashed in a thunderstorm.
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/mike-todd-is-killed-in-air-crash
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It seems like moving to digital has limited what they can use from the library.
TCM can show digital and non-digital videos. It might have more to do with SD and HD, with TCM trying to move more toward HD videos to promote their HD channel.
However, TCM has stopped showing INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956), even though a new copy is now available on blue-ray. Maybe distributors/owners start charging more for their TV rentals whenever they make an old film available for sale on disk, and maybe TCM doesn't want to pay the new cost of renting it. I don't know.
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Hmmm.......
Clarence and Duke Mantee........
ANGEL AND THE BAD MAN, 1947
AKA:
ANGEL AND THE OUTLAW, 1947
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Mickey Mouse in blackface..........
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Clue:
A William Wyler film
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR, 1961
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How about a clue?
That looks like the "High Noon" clock.
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Trying to trick me, huh??