FredCDobbs

> John Qualen, who is the Swedish farmer" Chris" in " > Our Daily Bread ", played a similar, if more > emotionally charged role, " Muley ", in John Ford's " > The Grapes of Wrath " Oh, yeah. His few lines in Grapes should have won him an academy award. Muley seemed like a real person to me. " Grapes... ", and " > Bread....." are two of the most socialistically > inclined films in U. S. movie history. Actually, Grapes was socialistic, because of the government camp, but Bread was more communalistic. Marx selected the term "communism" for the name of his movement because it meant world-wide "commune--ism", like a small commune, a small Indian tribe, a small Asian or African communal group but expanded to the whole world. However, he believed the "state" should own and control everything, which is nothing more than a dictatorship. The people in Bread were living in a real "commune" where everyone shared everything, and there was no "state" to tell them what to do. There were some communal farm communities in the US in the 19th Century and during the depression. See also the German religious communie in Canada in "Northern Pursuit" (1943)

Karen Morley was Paul Muni's girlfriend in "Scarface." He took her away from one of the other gangsters. She was also in "Arsene Lupin" 1932 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022639/

Yeah, Qualen is great. More later. Here comes the best part of the movie, the ditch digging.

Looks like a good print so far! In fact, the best print I've ever seen!

Thanks. This film is very interesting. I think I saw it on one of the Turner channels years ago. It had the word "Communism" in it, and it was a pretty good print. Then many years later I saw it again, somewhere, and it was a bad print and had the word "Communism" removed, censored out it seemed, probably by somebody years ago. The print looked like an old 16mm print. So I don't know which print will be shown tonight, but even if it is the old 16mm print, it's still a good rare movie about the depression era. Fred

Dang I forgot to warn about this film sooner. It's coming up at 8 pm Eastern on Sun. Jan 7, right after Jezebel. "Our Daily Bread" This is a depression-era film about a commune of American farmers, very interesting, very political for 1934.

Sorry for the margin warp. It didn't warp on my machine. It wrapped around ok.

Could it have been Yankee Doodle Dandy about George M. Cohan and his family? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035575/maindetails

"Kind Hearts" is so funny and unusual.

woody harrelson

Just a note... ?Inherit the Wind? was a fraudulent movie. In the real Scopes trial, it was Darrow who was nuts, not Bryan. The trial was arranged by the ACLU as an attempt to federalize all state public schools and their curricula. If you are interested in the Scopes trial, you might want to read the very interesting transcript, available here: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=410255438&searchurl=kn%3Dtranscript%26ph%3D2%26tn%3Dscopes%2Btrial

Yes, that sounds good. If the children and grandchildren don't write books, at least they can be interviewed and can tell their stories. That would be very interesting.

Yes, "Stranger on the Third Floor" was very good, very artistic.

Everyone needs to see "The Bitter Tea of General Yen".

George Arliss also did a great film in 1929 titled ?Disraeli? with a similar theme.

How about the last "I steal" scene in "I'm a fugitive from a chain gang". also, the last scene in "the third man", the one with the girl walking toward the camera for about 2 minutes.

I'm not sure when it will be on again, but TCM generally runs it about once a year, so it might be on later this year.

> I should have checked IMDb (Oh! Well) Oh, well, you can't be right all the time. > "Cuernavaca City" is located only 45 minutes from > Mexico City by the way of the Mexico-Acapulco > expressway. I've been there. There is a nice old church downtown. I shot some film there a long time ago, back in '63. > Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico" Founded in 1528, Taxco de > Alarc?n (originally named Tetelcingo) grew up on the > dry hillsides of Guerrero around and because of the > rich silver deposits. Ok, you got me on that one. Never been there, never heard of it.

Ummm... the "ar" in your link means the website is in Argentina. The Mexico country code is mx.

Hmm.... imdb says the movie was filmed here: Second Chance http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046288/locations

I don't know about the place in the movie, but there are some cable-cars in Latin America that go to some small villages. Generally, the long route involves a long horse ride up a long winding trail (usually down one mountain and up another), but some cable cars are used to link one mountain village with a nearby highway which is at the other end of the cable car. You can either take the cable car or go the long way on the winding road. But I don't know if one of those villages is in the film.

You mean the colorized Greed slide show?

Hmm. You might have to look for it in each month's schedule to see when it will be shown again.

As a kid, I remember seeing "Showboat" in 1951, and I was astounded at the vivid color and sharpness of the image on the giant screen. There was more color in this movie than in real life, but that's often what made us like Technicolor movies. Kodachrome slides were like that. Wow, what color. The TCM copies of "The Red Shoes" has been very excellent and much like the early theater versions I saw in the past. For years I had a bad print of "The Third Man" taped off of TCM. I taped showings year after year, but the print had too much contrast and the sound was muffled. Finally, one year I taped it and the print was outstanding and the sound was perfect, and that seems to be the print they've re-aired many times. I don't recall any bad registration of Technicolor prints as a kid. But I did read in American Cinematographer magazine in the mid-'70s that the new theatrical release print of "Gone With the Wind" would be made from the original negatives and they would have to be re-registered since the various rolls of three strips had shrunk to different degrees. So the new internegative had to be copied with an optical printer and each roll of original film had to be carefully re-registered. This involved some very slight enlarging or reducing of some of the original camera negs. The modern TCM pints of Gone with the Wind remind me of the very good print I first saw of the film around 1953. But Gone with the Wind (seems to me) has always had less color saturation (i.e. less vivid color) than "Showboat", and GWTW color seems more natural.

If I recall correctly, the correct time on the clock is shown in the background of several of the main indoor scenes with the main actors, starting from the early wedding scene, so the clock was an important part of the story from the beginning. It might be that they later decided to shoot more close-ups of the clock and they added them to the final edit.