FredCDobbs

> I like to watch the "Ma & Pa Kettle" movies series. > Although it's pure hokum it is funny. And ya can't > beat Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride as Ma & Pa. > wish TCM could get the rights to air the series. > Perhaps someday. I agree. Sometimes hokum is a lot of fun. The Bowrey Boys, The Marx Brothers, Ma and Pa Kettle, Frances the Mule movies. Lol.

It's available from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Carol-versions-Colorized-Original/dp/B00000F168

I don't see any listings for it during the next 14 days. http://www.tvguide.com/detail/movie.aspx?tvobjectid=110871

> I don't know what it was like in the past since I > just got TCM but if there was a 24 hr block of xmas > movies and they're not doing that any more well then > I can understand your disappointment. It has been variable over the years. Last year was pretty good. One year they showed a bunch of old classics including silent versions of "King of Kings" and others. This year they seem to be going with more Christmas-with-family type films.

> It was always a tradition with us to watch the older > Christmas movies. We thought we could always depend > on TCM instead we have found only 2 Christmas movies > while during Halloween we were inundated with horror > films. > Where is "Scrooge with Allistar Sims? Holiday Inn? > White Christmas? The BIshop's wife? Meet me in St. > Louis? and more ... I did find Miracle on 34 St on > AMC. I wrote once before and was told TCM is looking > for a younger audience ... have they found them yet? > There are people who simply want to come and find the > comfort of something from their childhood but alas we > are disappointed with movies that are rated with 2 > stars ... I simply don't understand the dumbing down > of TCM. Well, they probably have younger staff members now. I like the old classics at Christmas too. Looks like they've got only one this year, "King of Kings," early Sunday afternoon. NBC is supposed to air "It's a Wonderful Life" again on Sunday at 8 pm Eastern. You can go here, and in the upper right corner of the page type in a movie name and click on "Search." If that movie is showing soon it will tell you when and where. http://www.tv-now.com/

Yes, the brief boxcar scene.

> The truth is we all miss the good ones, and hope the > troublemakers are gone for good. I agree. This is just another argument thread, and everyone should go back to the first post and see who started it.

What do you think about the strange film "Fargo"? Do you think it will become a "classic" in the future? The film fascinates me, but I'm not ready yet to call it a "classic".

> That is the one I own but with a pickup bed instead > of the closed back bed. The short used the civilian > powerwagon and even a powerwagon bus. It's a fun > movie is there anyway to contact TCM and find out > more about where they got the movie? I think that short showed in theaters along with the "King Solomon's Mines" movie. The studio probably got the trucks free in exchange for doing the short. That movie had a lot of media publicity when it first came out. It is so expensive to shoot a film in Africa, because they had to fly so many people and so much equipment all the way from Hollywood, and it was not easy for find places for all the cast and crew to stay, plus they had to drive a long way out of the major towns so they could shoot the wide shots with no towns and no smog in the background.

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I don't remember. I think It's a Wonderful Life will be on NBC this Sunday the 24th at 8 pm Eastern. Some store here in town sells little ceramic buildings made to look like some of the buildings in the downtown scenes in the movie. People can construct a little Bedford Falls under their Christmas tree.

Hmm.... Maybe "The Sugarland Express". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072226/

I'm in a part of NM where we get a little snow every year. Albq. got snowed in for three days earlier in the week. They had all highways going in and out of town closed down for a day or two. I think it's like that in Denver today.

Jon, I guess you are already on the road by now, but I'll send this message to other people. I recently found out that a cell phone can be used to send a text message to an email address, and an email address can send a text message to a cell phone. A teenager taught me this. So, in theory, Jon could send some one of us text messages of his progress across the country to OK, and that person could pass the message along to us on this board. (I love modern communications.) Lol, I remember the days when we picked up our telephone and a real "operator" answered and said "Number Please". In small towns we had telephones with no dials. To make a long distance call during holidays sometimes required a waiting time of an hour or more, especially from small towns in the South to places like New York or Los Angeles. We had to call the operator and tell her the number we wanted to reach. She said she would call us back when she got a line connected. So we would sit and wait an hour or more for our long distance call to go through. And they cost us about a gazzian dollars a minute.

Ok, ok, I hope you get snowed in!!

Yes, everyone Have Happy Holidays, and try not to get snowed in!

> I'm sorry folks, error problems with posting resulted > in 5 messages. > That's ok. That's ok. That's ok. That's ok. That's ok.

> I think "I don't enjoy foreign films" usually > translates to "I don't enjoy reading subtitles" (or, > less frequently, Me too. I can't read the titles and watch the film at the same time.

I don't know. He was good in "A Kiss Before Dying", which TCM has shown several times. He was good in "The Searchers" too. Here are his other films: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001374/

> > 12:45 PM Man From Planet X, The (1951) > A space visitor uses hypnotic powers to enslave a > Scottish island. Cast: Margaret Field, Raymond Bond, > William Schallert. Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. BW-70 mins, > TV-PG I loved this one when I saw it in 1951. I saw part of it on TCM a few years ago. This one is very good. > 2:00 PM Red Planet Mars (1952) > Radio broadcasts reveal Mars to be a source of > religious inspiration. Cast: Peter Graves, Herbert > Berghof, Andrea King. Dir: Harry Horner. BW-87 mins, > TV-G This one is strange. Unusual religious stuff mixed in with the Mars story.

> What did I miss? What was added? Mainly just a few lines of dialogue and some Nietzsche philosophy about how to use people.

Isn't there a bowling alley and a shoot out in "Storm Warning" with Doris Day and Ronald Reagan?

> Anyone else found this film a bit confusing? I think the tradition of confusing mystery plots goes back at least to the mystery movies of the 1930s, such as some of Warren William's and Ricardo Cortez's films. This is different from the gold gangster films that had easy to follow plots. The confusing plots probably go back to the 1920 mystery novels that some of the early movies were based, and in fact I read a bunch of Sherlock Holmes short stories years ago and they were confusing too.

I use the Direct TV satellite system, and I have some break up and freezing problems every time there is snow on my dish. I have to put on my coat over my pajamas and go out and wipe the snow off my dish. That is aggravating during blizzards. I feel like an old pioneer guy having to go out and wipe the snow off my dish so I can watch TV. Lol.

Hmm, I thought I saw it in color years ago. The guy gets a million pound note, in some kind of bet (I think). He shows it around at banks and hotels, and all of a sudden he is treated with respect and has lots of free stuff given to him, so he doesn't need to cash the million pound note.