FredCDobbs

Thanks. I used to listen to this stuff on the radio when I was a kid, back before television. I could just imagine pictures going with the radio shows, especially when the shows were made about movies I had seen in the theater. These radio shows went on into the 1950s and gradually stopped when television became popular. One good thing about the radio shows was that we could hear them over our car radio while on long trips.

I never understood it myself, but it?s supposed to be some sort of inside joke about the name of the director or something.

Hey, this is a great link! Thanks! Are these shows on every night or just the weekend? This sounds like the original cast of the movie.

> In researching this post, I was surprised by a couple > of things. I never noticed how much traffic the > General Discussion threads get in relation to the > other forums. Some folks seem to just read the > General Discussion threads and never venture out. I > would hope that maybe this post will inspire them to > do so because there are a number of great threads not > only in Hot Topics, Information, Please and Films and > Filmmakers but also in the genre threads that are > filled with information and a lot of expertise. I just did a search of your name under the category of ?Genre Forums? for ?This Year? and I found 10 posts. I did a search under the same category for my name and I found 50 posts. Under ?Archives? for your name I found 0 posts. For my name I found 4. Under ?The Essentials" for your name I found 0 posts. For my name I found 3. Under ?Films and Filmmakers? for your name I found 18. For my name I found 8. Under ?Trivia? for your name I found 2. For my name I found 28.

Ok, no problem. My short term memory is not as good as it used to be, but my long-term is still fairly good. Lol, That reminds me of the time back in 1948, when I wanted one of those 200-shot Red Ryder air rifles. Then there was that danged tornado that hit Ardmore Oklahoma back in '46.

Now I see why you are an editor and not a screenwriter.

I asked you a question in the ?Films and Filmmakes? ? Editors... forum, but you never answered it.

I didn't like this film either. Didn't Bogart try to strangle Gloria late in the movie? (I haven't seen it in a while.)

TCM?s promo people are really clever. I don?t know if they are staff people or separate film companies that do the promos. I really liked the ones they did when they featured Louise Brooks films. It looked like they projected still photos onto a large white sheet that was waving gently in the wind. It gave motion and a 3-D effect to the still photos. Others I saw a few years ago were films and stills that were projected onto old building walls. This new graffiti trick is really good. It looks just like spray-painted moving graffiti. I think TCM has the most creative promos of all the TV channels. Even the tattooed lady promo was good, although a bit punkish.

If I recall correctly, in the very early '50s, the networks would come on at about 6pm and sign off at 10 pm, and then the local stations started having an old-movie "late show" program after 10 pm. These must have been the syndicated old-movie shows. In early '53 in Mobile, Ala., we couldn't even get the Today Show live on WALA because the station had no live network cable connection to New York. But later in the year the cable was finally connected to WALA and we began to get the Today Show and other live shows. We thought "live" TV shows from New York were remarkable... like a telephone call with pictures and free too. The telephone company actually had to dig a trench and lay a special cable from New York to LA and Chicago to get the live wide-band signal to those cities, and finally they dug a branch trench and put in a cable that went into the South, into Mobile, New Orleans, and other deep-South cities. In the '80s I worked at a TV station that still used the old telephone company cable for network shows, but we finally bought a giant 30 foot satellite dish and we began getting the network via satellite by around 1985.

Yes, we saw it too on different TV stations in the South. I used to think it was just a local show, but I guess it was syndicated with the whole package of the intro and the film too.

Let's all give a thank-you for all the great 1930s movies shown this year. The Warren William films, Richard Dix, Marian Marsh, Ricardo Cortez, Bette Davis, etc.

> Fred, aren't those little moving graphics during a > television show one of THE most annoying things? They sure are. They distract from the movie but a lot of movie channels are using them to run promos and commercials DURING the film. I think AMC shows some movies twice, once without the running commentary, and then once with written commentary at the bottom of the screen all through the movie, very distracting. Why don?t the use the alternate audio channel if people want to hear a running commentary, or use the closed caption system for a running commentary for people who want to read it.

"Them" is pretty good. About big ugly fuzzy ants. "It Came from Outer Space" is scary and it has a girl with a major role in it. She screams quite often. Oh! Try "The Cat People" and "The Leopard Man". Both of these will scare the daylights out of girls of all ages! The scene in the second film of the young girl walking under the railroad bridge alone at night with the eyes of the leopard looking at her is very frightening! Also, "Sorry Wrong Number" is pretty good.

I like this film quite a lot. It's not really very thrilling, but it seems to be fairly historically accurate, the way it tells the story about a late 19th Century pioneer family. I had a great grandfather who I knew briefly back in the 1950s who was like that and lived like that. He lived out in the woods with no electricity or running water. He built his first log cabin by a creek so he would have water, and he later was able to afford to build a small flat-board wood frame house. There was no road to his house, just a wide washed-out wagon trail. We would go visit my grandmother down in the South, and my father would ask our rural relatives when was the last time anyone saw or heard from "Papa Charlie," and someone would say, "Oh, he came by here last Spring... uhh, about six months ago." Every now and then my father would chip in some money to have a guy with a bulldozer smooth out the 3-4 mile trail back to the old guy's house. After that, we would all pile in the car and drive to the place and there Papa Charlie would be, with Mama Charlie, and all the cows and chickens. We'd spend half a day at his place and get caught up on news and gossip. We'd bring them town news and they'd give us woodland news (other people lived further back in the woods than they did). Mama Charlie would go out and grab a couple of chickens, and about two hours later they would be on the dinner table. So, Papa Charlie grew up living in a cabin in the woods with his family in the late 19th Century, and then he and his wife lived on into modern times, although they never bought a car or truck. They had a couple of horses they would hitch to a wagon when they came out on the trail. In the early 1950s there were still plenty of farm families who rode wagons into the nearest town every Saturday. The nearest town might be only one block long, with a few stores on each side of the street, but it always looked like New York City to the backwoods families.

I would just love to be able to go to a 1932 nightclub in Chicago, like the one in "Scarface", in the scene where Louie Armstrong is playing "St. Louie Woman". I'd love to see all the gangsters and their dames back then as they show up at the nightclub.

The band playing "St. Louie Woman" at the beginning of the big nightclub scene toward the end of "Scarface" (1932) is Louie Armstrong and his band. His band was one of the major jazz bands playing in nightclubs in Los Angeles at the time the film was made.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042472/usercomments http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042472/maindetails I don't know if it's available on tape or DVD. I think I saw it on TCM a couple of years ago.

Try For Heaven's Sake with Clifton Webb , Joan Bennett, Robert Cummings,Edmund Gwenn,Joan Blondell. Webb and Gwenn are angels

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055024/ Looks like it is available at Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003XAMR/imdb-adbox/ This is a low-budget film but very well made. While watching the film, I felt like the Nazis really did invade England.

"It Happened Here" That is a great movie! It's a drama, not a documentary. But it is so realistic, it looks like a documentary. The story is based on.... what if..... what if Germany had invaded England instead of France.

Hi cutter, let me ask your professional opinion.... the first time we see the Frankenstein monster in the first version of that movie, the close-up scene of his face is very short. I think it?s too short. I would have edited that scene to last at least one more second and maybe even 2 seconds more. What do you think?

I think I would like to be one of the Spanish guys in the film ?Captain from Castile? (1947). I?d also like to be with Cortez?s during his original trip, one of the survivors.

Yep, that's him. Thanks for the information. I'd love to see some of his other films.

Interesting, thanks. I like that Twilight Zone episode quite a lot.