FredCDobbs

This is from 1936. It was on TCM a week or so ago, and starred Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Cary Grant, and Lewis Stone. This was a delightful film. It was post-code but still interesting with these characters. What struck me the most was that Jean Harlow was really a good actress in this film. As a matter of fact, since it didn?t have any usual Harlow ****-**** stuff in it, this makes me think she was a very good actress all along. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028330/

I'm glad that was it. There is another interesting and similar film, about a group of POWs at the end of the War being moved from Holland toward Germany. If they get into Germany they all will die. So all the train people in Holland conspire to slow the train down. This is based on a true story. Lol, I can't remember the name of the movie.

"The Train" 1964 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059825/

> Many of the scenes are from Kubrick's "The Killing" > with Sterling Hayden. The dance hall, the girl with > the fur, the car next to the bridge, the guy taking > tickets (for the dance hall.) Hi Mitchy, I think the scenes are from Kubrick's "A Killer's Kiss" from 1955. I used to think the scenes were shot just for the promo, but they turn up in this film. The movie wasn't very good, but a lot of the New York scenes were very good. Fred

Thanks for the information.

> What a nation of jaded individuals we have become. > This movie was made 9 years after WWII had ended, > everything was great here in the U.S. We had a fine > president that we all loved even though we were > unsure of his policies, he was an American war hero > and that was enough for us. Now this next part is > going to sound hokey and I know it, but I'm speaking > from a 1954 movie fans' view. > > All we do is talk about how dumb the people were, > how dumb the airports were, and how foolishly the > dialog was given, instead of looking at the > perspective of two pilots trying to save their plane > and passengers rather than taking a chance on them > drowning or dying from exposure. That was the > point of the movie. Seeing it in 1954, the > ending would have been cheered and I believe it was, > because the audience didn't want to see all those > people harmed (like they seem to want to nowadays.) > The airports were lax in security because there > were no crazy people trying to hi-jack our passenger > planes, they learned what America did to those > people when the Lusitania was sunk 30 years earlier. > As for smoking, everybody smoked at the time, you > almost never heard, 'no thanks, I don't > smoke' then, it was as common as wearing shoes. > This movie was made in one of the rosiest periods > in U.S. history, everything was great and we all > loved one another. We didn't lock our doors and we > could walk through the park at night, and we didn't > worry about our kids being abducted. I know it > happened, and we just were not informed as much, but > that could very well be where a lot of our problems > started - all the media info, giving ideas to nuts > on how to do things. I digress. > > Try to watch vintage movies with the mindset of the > audiences who watched them in their first runs, and > you may come away with a different perspective of the > story itself. > > Anne YAAAY! http://www.dws.org/sousa/mid/starstrp.mid

> Yes, I suppose so. The commentator mentioned this as > well as not knowing reason why the woman fell for > Hodiak's character. Hey, the beautiful dame always falls for the hero of the movie. The most unbelievable case of this was when Janet Leigh fell in love with Frank Sinatra on the train in The Manchurian Candidate. He was cracking up and acting crazy, but hey, he was Frank Sinatra.

> What a great comedy! This movie was a laugh-a-minute > ride for me. American movie audiences have certainly become acustomed to a lot more violence and tension in recent years.

> Very disappointed when I finally saw it recently. Not > at all the classic I remembered--in fact, it was so > hokey I thought I was watching one of the "Airplane" > spoofs. Just awful in every department--not to > mention the most badly dated airline film ever--with > no security precautions, handgun on board, smokers, Ahh, the good old days! I remember the time when I was able to take a machete on board on a flight from El Salvador to the US. All the flight attendant said was that she would have to store it in a safe compartment in the pilot's cabin. I guess so it wouldn't go flying around if we hit some turbulance.

I found this that says the same airport has been in use since 1927: http://www.sanbrunobart.com/Airport/News/021007.shtml

I just found something on Google that says the current airport was in use in the 1940s.

I think San Francisco has had as many as three different airports. In a 1930s Warren William movie he drove to the airport which seemed to be near downtown, perhaps in the Marina District. I think the last airport was opened in 1955, south of town.

You deserve the Google Search of the Month award for finding that German schedule.

I found a lot of sites in German that spoke of TCM, including message boards, but nothing mentioned the German schedule. I used all sorts of search terms like: klassische filme Deutscher Zeitplan Hollywood Klassiker Internationale Programme Turner Broadcasting System Deutschland GmbH TCM als digitale Sender in Europa einzuf?hren .....but nothing turned up.

> Didn't anybody else watch either of these when they > first aired on TCM in 9/05? I haven't seen either before this week.

>Ground Hog Day > was scheduled to run in a 2 Hour slot (8-10pm ET) > Yet when I just checked the log of what's recorded, > I see the DVR Recorded 1 Hour 57 minutes. > ( I normally never see this unless there was a loss > of signal > from the SAT - like getting "Rained Out"). I watched the whole film on Direct TV and I didn't see any problem with it. I'm not sure exactly when it ended.

Films like that have an interesting history. In the 19th Century, guys would go on adventures around the world and then return home and rent a theater and sell tickets, and they would show a still-photo slide show of their trip and give a lecture about it. Audiences flocked to these showings. In fact, Mark Twain made some money doing this in the late 1860s. Then early in the 20th Century guys would go on these adventures to far-off places, where they would shoot silent films, and they would rent a theater and narrate the movies they shot on the trip. There is an interesting 1929 drama movie about such a guy titled "Behind That Curtain". This is an early sound film that TCM sometimes shows. Finally the big studios started releasing these kinds of films as a complete documentary and run it with a drama as a double-feature. I saw a couple of them in a theater in the early 1950s. They were like educational films and National Geographic documentaries.

You did a really good job of finding that German TCM listing. It is certainly hidden away on the internet.

I think you found everything he needs. I was searching mainly on German websites, but looks like TCM's headquarters for Europe is in England. He'll probably come back and take another look at this thread.

I wonder why they would have a listing for Danish and Dutch, but not German. I asked Enomine what language he received the films in and he said German.

Not yet. Thanks for the info.

It sounds like our closed caption system but with a different language for each country in Europe.

I wonder how they handle the different languages? Do you think there are separate feeds for each language?

That looks like it.

> (And Fred, if you got Enomine on the right track, I > apologise for horning in. Hopefully I didn't confuse > the poster.) No problem. Apparently TCM in Germany is new, and I can't find any schedules yet.