FredCDobbs
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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.
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> For me what nostalgia I feel is almost camp. I have
> to acknowledge that the Soviets presented a serious
> threat, although missiles in the hands of the USSR
> was probably safer for the world than all the nuclear
> material that ended up missing after they fell.
I think "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" was a parable on the Cold War too. The American and Russian Communists were said to be mindless zombies who all thought alike and had no emtoions, like the pod people in the movie. And who does the hero call for help? The local police? No. The military? No. He calls the FBI.
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> It occurred to me it must've taken a lot of courage
> for the first astronauts to venture into space --
> especially after seeing all the horrors that awaited
> them via movies!!!
Yep, I would fly in one of those early space ships. Or in the modern ones either.
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Yeah, the science lessons were good in some films, such as "Destination Moon".
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> Speaking of "The Blob," found myself sneaking over
> from the Twilight Zone marathon on SciFi to TCM's
> "space travel" offerings... Blob... on... sofa...
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Yeah, me too.
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> I see the religious allegory in DtESS, but I'm a
> preacher's kid and an English Lit major, so I tend to
> see it everywhere. This is the kind of allegory
> that's both beautiful and inspiring.
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> That said, "Red Planet Mars" was almost painful to
> watch, both because of the cultural stereotypes and
> the cold war drumbeating (read the imdb comments on
> the movie -- there are people still fighting over
> it). I found "The 27th Day" nearly as bad -- the idea
> that the solution to all of our problems is a bomb
> that kills only the "bad people" was just disturbing.
I never thought I?d look back on that era with a feeling of nostalgia, but I do when I see these old films. It all seems a lot better now since the Russians didn?t blow us up as we thought they might do.
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> The irony is that now I LOVE to watch almost ANY
> movie or show set in NEW YORK.Go figure!
I do too. In fact I spent about 4 months living in New York in 1966, but I found that in order for me to live full-time in New York, I would need to have one of the higher paid jobs in the city.
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Woo Wooo.... Gidget is next! This is a very socially significant film. Cliff Robertson turns out to be a very honorable guy. Films like this contributed to the great increase in the population of California in the '60s and '70s.
Back when I was a kid in school in the Deep South, things in our location seemed too simple and boring. Many of us saw the teen films of the big cities like Chicago and New York, and we saw the teen films of California. Some of us liked the California teen movies better, so we wound up in California after we got out into the world. Some of the others went to New York. Blah. I loved California while I was there. I mean, wouldn't you like to head for California back in the days when the teens were having so much fun and there were no hoodlums among them?
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Brad...come back!
Come back, Brad!
Brad!
Please come back, Brad!
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> > Lol, now we've got "The Blob". This was a big hit
> > back in the '50s.
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> I haven't seen this in years. What a treat! What a
> great camp classic! What a lot of fun! Don't you wish
> all bad movies could be this enjoyable? :-)
Lol, yeah. When I was in high school, I loved those movies where some of the teenagers appeared to be smarter than all of the adults. We never noticed that the boy teenagers all looked like they were in their 30s.
Oh boy! Now some beach party movies!!
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Lol, now we've got "The Blob". This was a big hit back in the '50s. The theme song used to be played on the rock and roll stations.
I used to be like the teenage boy in the parked car, now I look like the old man who comes out of the house with the lantern. LOL.
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Speaking of religion in Sci-Fi movies, let me ask you and everyone else something.... study ?The Day the Earth Stood Still? and see if you think it might have religious overtones. The super-guy arrives from the heavens, he brings a message of peace and good will, but he also brings a message of the doom of the earth if we humans don?t straight out and live right. To show humans his super-human power, he performs a ?miracle?. The military is highly suspicious of him, so they track him down and kill him. But, he rises from the dead and gives one last message to earth people, then he ascends back into heaven again, promising the earth people that they?ll hear from him again, especially if they don?t straighten out. And then there is the girl who speaks up for him, but she doesn?t have a romance with him. She realizes his importance to the whole world.
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Hey, I know that rock. You're not far from Castle Valley.
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Hi. It was an interesting movie, huh? I saw it one other time, on TCM several years ago.
I was a kid when it was first released. I used to go see all the space-related films, but sometimes I lived in small towns that had only one theater, so I didn't get to see all of them.
I think Andrea King was the crook's girlfriend in "Ride the Pink Horse."
I haven't seen "The Next Voice You Hear" since it was first released. I'd sure like to see it again.
There was a lot of serious and profound thinking going on back at that time, because of what we were learning about the Nazis and the Commies, and because of the invention of the A-bomb. Certainly Hitler would have blown up the whole earth if he had had a chance there at the end of the war. Now we've got similar problems with other crazy guys around the world.
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I think he sounds a little like George Montgomery or Robert Taylor.
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Hey, we're going to the moon and we're going in Technicolor, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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The Man From Planet X is on now! I love this film. It's rather simple, but I like the spaceman. He seemes to be a nice guy. This is one of the first spaceman movies of the '50s.
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I can't remember the details of the film. I saw it on TCM years ago. I thought it was very interesting. It is one of the few sci-fi space films that bring in the issue of religion. The Bible is filled with strange flying things and men dressed in strange bright gleaming suits and angels coming down from heaven and giving messages to earth people.
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and in the early am Monday.
Red Plant Mars has religious overtones (Jesus might live on Mars)
Man from Planet X - Very early "man-from-outer-space" movie, very good!
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> I hope Rob Zombie is not gone. I wonder (if he
> is gone) if TCM took him off or he left on his
> own accord.
In the TV business, sometimes in an experiment like that, a guy is given a short term contract. If the show is a success, then they can give him another longer contract.
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> I'm not saying this because I "love" these movies (I
> would never have noticed their absence); but they are
> pleasant time-passers (on one level) for some, and
> real historical documents (on another - and important
> - level) for others. Those who are turned off will
> check back in after a few hours.
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I agree with you. They are interesting as historical documents, and there is no place else where we can see them now.
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> I am going to be relaxing tonight. lol, last night,
> while watching The Saint or The Falcon, I went to the
> kitchen to get some potato chips, and not watching
> where I was going on the way back, I tripped on a
> speaker wire and fell against some things. lol, I
> wasn't like the old lady who said, "I've fallen and I
> can't get up", rather, I was "Let me stay on the
> floor for the next several minutes. I'm in too much
> pain to get up." But I'm generally okay,
I know how it feels. But it's not your fault. I'm sure that gravity has gotten stronger on earth since I was in high school 47 years ago. Everything was easy to lift back then. I could jump 6 feet high back then. But with this new modern gravity, everything is heavy and I can't jump at all.
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Uhh, why do some people dislike CineSage? I don't find any problems with his posts.
Restored Movie Prints Sharper Than Originals
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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.