FredCDobbs

Oh, it's good! It's even better than I remembered. I haven't seen it since 1970. Glenn Ford is as good or better in this than in any of his theatrical movies.

Yo, hey! I?m watching Brotherhood of the Bell right now on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pst-2wprw6c

You are talking about TV shows, not "movies". That?s the way AMC started going down hill. They started showing made for TV films, which are basically nothing more than long TV shows. If you want made for TV shows, turn to the HALL, LIFE, LMN, OXGN, SLTH, OR SPKE channes.

I?m sorry, but I haven?t been able to find the film. I looked up the two trials of Jack McCall, who killed Wild Bill Hickok in a saloon, but neither of his trials was held in a saloon. Your clues suggest that the shootout and trial took place in a remote Territorial area that didn?t have a courthouse or any auditorium where a trial could be held. The fact that the entire film took place on one set suggests it was based on a play or that it might have been an episode from an old TV show. But I couldn?t find any that fit your clues about the different testimony and reenactments and different versions of the shootout. Can you think of any other clues? Was it in color or B&W? Could you be mixing up a couple of movies?

Thank you. I agree about Vivien. I think she was just too lovely and articulate in that screen test for her to be believable as a shy and bashful Second Mrs. De Winter.

>Let me join in the fray. Nobody gives a good **** **** **** what your ********** bozos think about "Vertigo." I didn?t mean to insult anyone with my opinions about Vertigo. Normally, I don?t read posts that are critical of my own favorite movies. That allows people to be free to post their opinions about various films, and I still get to enjoy the movie I like, without getting mad at people who don?t like them. And I?m critical of some of my own favorite movies. For example, half my life I?ve gone around mumbling, ?Curtin should have tied up Dobbs once he realized Dobbs was dangerous.? http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Mptv/1083/5610-0006.jpg Here?s a little treat you might enjoy: Rebecca Screen test

Stop following me around. Go stalk someone else.

If it has only one set, are you saying that the gunfight AND the investigation took place in that saloon?

I liked it, except for the guy who killed the dame. He seemed to have no reason to do it.

Maybe because he was supposed to be Irish and some Irish people have light hair.

>Well, yeah. It turns out that Elster wasn't as smart as he thought he was That's my whole point. And tell me how could stupid uneducated Judy so easily succeed in acting like a well-educated intelligent and sophisticated woman and then so easily go back to being stupid Judy? Why didn?t Elster make her move to some obscure place like Kansas City or Omaha after the murder? Why did he allow her to continue to work as a clerk in a major store in downtown San Francisco?

"War and Peace"

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Well, take this page for example. Up just above this post of mine is a blue line. Above that are phrases you can click on, such as "Watch This Thread". Click on that and you will receive emails regarding this thread. If you unclick it, then you no longer get them. If you click on "Watch This Thread", it will reload the thread and have the phrase "Stop Watching Thread." Click on that and you will stop getting emails about this thread. I think there is a list of threads you are "watching" listed somewhere on your "Control Panel." Message was edited by: FredCDobbs

>Well, it goes even deeper than that: Elster bases his entire murder scheme on his having heard that old bud Scottie's come down with a bad case of vertigo, therefore reasoning its likely he won't pursue Judy/Madeleine up the mission's belltower, But Scottie DID pursue Judy up the mission's belltower!

And of course, the same store sold THREE copies of the very same gray suit in the same size to THREE women who looked exactly alike!! Lol. 1 ? To Madeleine, who was pushed off the bell tower. 2 ? To Judy pretending to be Madeleine. And Later: 3 ? To Judy who Jimmy was trying to dress up like Madeleine. I can hear the manager of the ladies department of that store now, ?Hmm, we sold three copies of that gray suit, and all three of the ladies fell off the church bell tower down at San Juan Bautista! Dang!?

>No, the biggest point is that Elster, who's already going to have a murder-rap hanging over his head if the police ever find out he killed the real Madeleine, conspicuously leaves Judy -- his accomplice and the only one who can finger him for the murder,and possibly blackmail him -- alive, and living in the same town as Scottie.... And that?s how his stupid scheme was uncovered.

Did the guy work as a fisherman or reporter? Were there smugglers involved? Was there a trap door in the floor of the boat house? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024151/usercomments Message was edited by: FredCDobbs

Other people have had this problem. You are supposed to click these OFF: "Watch this thread" and "Watch this forum". Click these off on each thread or forum that you have them turned on. That way, you should stop receiving the email notices.

Exactly. Hitchcock got carried away with that film and decided to develop a plot that was so intricate he would have the audience completely mystified throughout most of the movie. But in doing so, he invented an impossible plot that was much too complex to be carried out in real life, plus he made the big mistake of leaving Judy working as a clerk in a major store right in downtown San Francisco, where anyone who knew the other lady would realize that Judy looked just like her. In fact.... she WAS her, since both parts were played by the same actress. Also, Hitchcock had Judy at the end ? who was supposedly the ?real? girl ? being a stupid uneducated girl living in a cheap hotel in downtown San Francisco, yet earlier she played a highly complex sophisticated and educated woman who had a million complicated things to remember to keep her scam from falling apart. The killer didn?t need to go to all this trouble, since he was able to get into the town and the tower with his wife and out of the town and the tower without being seen by anyone. He didn?t need Judy or Jimmy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arrival_%28The_Twilight_Zone%29

Is it this movie? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058437/usercomments

The entire plot was stupid. If the killer was able to get into the tower and up to the top with both his wife AND Judy, with both looking just alike and dressed alike, with the wife not screaming and kicking and yelling, and then he threw the wife off and then totally escaped with Judy ? who is dressed up just like the lady who just fell off the tower! ? and he and Judy got away without being seen by anyone, then why did he need Jimmy Stewart and Judy at all, and why did he need to use the impossibly complex scam, and why, then, did he let Judy still work in a major store in downtown San Francisco AND keep some of his wife?s jewelry, which was featured in a major painting at the local art museum?? This plot was designed to trick only the audience, not the cops.

He appears in the cowboy hat about 1:46 into this video: