FredCDobbs

What happened to Funday at the Movies?

>Interesting questions. I detest violence. I haven't seen much in real life, thank goodness, and I find it hard to watch in movies-- As a news photographer, I've seen too much of it in real life. I don't want to see it in movies.

>Seriously, "All About Eve" was seen as a demarcation line between old Hollywood and a new generation, or so I've heard. I never could get enthusiastic about ?All About Eve?. It?s about a young actress who eventually takes over the jobs that an old actress used to get. Isn?t that a common theme in movies about Hollywood starlets, gangsters, pop music stars, and Western gunslingers? Isn?t that the basic theme of ?Scarface?, where Paul Muni takes over the gang from its previous leader? Isn?t that the theme of ?Captain Blood?, who eventually took over the governorship from the previous governnor who had not adapted to modern times?

>Well, it's official, TCM Programmer does pay attention to requests (beggings). Stranger on the Third Floor will be airing on December 1st, so I'm very pleased. Hey, that's great! This is supposed to be America's first "film noir" movie. Why? Becuase of the unusual camera angles and the stark lighting. Also, some narration by the hero, who gets accused of a murder. Plus there is a great dream sequence which is about the best ever put on film. Gangster movies of the '30s were good, but they weren't "noirs", because they lacked certain noir styles, such as in the lighting and photography. "Stranger on the Third Floor" brought German impressionsim cinema to gangster/crime movies, plus it added the narration and the hero in trouble, and weird situations he got caught up in. Later the French began calling this type of movie style "film noir". This film didn't set out to be the first official "noir," but it seems to have worked out that way.

Try "The Big Trees", 1952, with Kirk Douglas and Alan Hale Jr. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044420/ The girl was Eve Miller: http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/190/Eve+Miller/index.html

IMDB lists him as being in 231 movies. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000974/

http://www.scifilm.org/tv/tz/twilightzone1-22.html

"The Blob" was a very important movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031102/locations "Blackmail" 1939

Hi. I used to live in New Orleans in the early ?60s. I used to eat at Felix?s and the Gumbo Shop in the French Quarter. The movie in question, I saw when I was about 9 or 10 years old, more than 50 years ago. The scene was traumatic for me as a kid, and I guess that?s why I remember it, but I don?t remember anything else about the movie.

I remember such a movie from the late '40s or early '50s. A little girl, about 3 years old, was playing in the driveway of her home, behind a parked car. A man came out of the house, got in the car and backed up over the child. But I don't rememer anything but that one scene from the movie.

Were can we find film clips of him playing her?

I like Laura because it has so many sub-plots going on at the same time. I enjoy that. Such as when Dana Andrews thinks that Laura might be the guilty person, but he's not sure, but he starts to love her, but he's a cop so he wants to find out the truth, but he's not sure, etc. The plots are intricate enough so that the film always seems fresh and new to me.

I just checked the Sept schedule and I find that you are correct, but I also noticed that some of the color movies are listed as B&W. That is known as the "Maple Street Phenomenon" around here.

If you saw it on TV in the '60s, then, most likely, it was either a TV show or a movie made in the '30s or '40s.

I'd better answer you quick before your post disappears!

Yes a bunch of them. Look at the schedule toward the end of the month. http://www.tcm.com/schedule/month/?cid=N&timezone=MST&oid=10/1/2007 I think that is set for the Mountain time zone.

http://www.haightashbury.org/HaightAshburyMusic/twilight.mid

This sounds great. I've got my recorders ready!

These have been great movies. I'm watching them all again on DVD and tape!

http://www.haightashbury.org/HaightAshburyMusic/twilight.mid CLOSING NARRATION: ?The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record: prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and the thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own, for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that such things cannot be confined... to The Twilight Zone.? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_Street

>Help me identify a movie, please. Western, 1948 - 1958, only one set used for entire movie...the saloon. Plot: gunfight. Sheriff questions everyone in the saloon as to what took place. Entire film is how each person saw the gunfight happen. So the gunfight must have taken place inside the saloon too?

>I enjoyed that part of it (wasn't really watching; just passing through the room), but was a little amused at how novel he considered that pantyhose-over-the-lens trick. Of course, it might have been at the time -- maybe this cameraman invented with the idea, for all I know -- but it's now widely touted (along with Vaseline on the lens) in photography classes as a cheap/easy diffuser. 19th Century still photographers played around with all kinds of devices used as filters. Wire window screen would produce a star effect like a modern star filter. Stockings of different kinds would produce different diffusion effects. Also, there were special diffusion lenses. I used to have one that would be more diffused when the f. stop was opened up, and more sharp when it was closed down. Such lenses were used for many 1930s movies, such as in ?Morocco? and ?Shanghai Express?. Josef von Sternberg loved those kinds of lenses. Also, in the 1930s, Plexiglas was used as a diffusion filter. I discovered some years back that a crumpled up ?cellophane? of a cigarette package would make a good diffusion filter for video cameras. The more crumpled up, the more diffusion. --------- Little or no diffusion, notice sharp focus on hair strands: http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1264/1516_0007.jpg.html?path=gallery&path_key=0023458&seq=4 Some diffusion, notice no sharp focus on strands of hair: http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1228/1516_0004.jpg.html?path=gallery&path_key=0023458&seq=3 More diffusion: http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1228/1516_0006.jpg.html?path=gallery&path_key=0023458&seq=4

Audie Murphy still looks pretty good in this 1967 movie, "40 guns to Apache Pass." It looks like a Murphy 1950s movie. He was married to Wanda Hendrix, who played "Pilar" in "Ride the Pink Horse." http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/showpic.php?id=129

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