FredCDobbs
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The China thread has normal margins for me too.
Wrap-around breaks are strange things on computers. I write many of my long posts in a Word document so I can do a spell-check, then I copy and paste them to message boards. On some message boards, my sentencs don't wrap around proper. They are ok on the TCM board. On some boards all my paragraph breaks show up as double breaks (two lines skipped) on some boards.
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Also, if people put a lot of .............
and !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
in a post, with no space for a paragraph break, that will cause the margins to widen.
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Lol, sounds like a good plot!
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I was a kid back then. The big oil companies were just starting to drill off-shore and the Cajuns were afraid they'd ruin all the shrimping sites, but everything worked out ok for everybody. A lot of shrimpers became oil workers. Louisiana Story was made for a oil company. TCM aired the documentary several years ago. It's interesting.
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Yeah, that's the way I took it when I first saw it when it was first released. Too silly and exaggerated. I think Williams was trying to make fun of Southern **** and their women.
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Yes, I agree. The Match King was excellent and based on a true story. The guy made a fortune monopolizing the sale of matches throughout Europe. What he was best at was making big money deals, getting loans, opening factories, getting monopolies inside various countries, giving kickbacks to government officials. Finally his empire came crashing down because he got too much in debt and couldn't pay his loans and faced prison time for fraud.
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http://french.imdb.com/find?q=TheMonkey'sMask+(2000);s=pt
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Dang, we've got the whole country represented in just this one thread.
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Everybody needs to see Walter Huston in ?Gabriel over the White House? (1933).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024044/
This was released the first year FDR took office. This is a very important political film.
Watch ?Scarface? (1932) and see all the appeal by the producer of the film to try to talk the audience into lobbying the federal Congress to get some federal laws passed to fight criminal gangs. This was an important political film too.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023427/
So, while ?Scarface? presented the gang problem and told the audience what they should do, then ?Gabriel over the White House? suggested what the new President and Congress should do. It suggested that the President become a type of dictator and issue new laws by edict, while suspending Congress for several months.
The new President in the movie starts rounding up criminal gangs and has them tried at military ?tribunals? (sound familiar?). They are all found guilty, with no chance of appeals, and they are taken out and shot by military firing squads. Lol.
Anyway, Congress began to pass strong anti-criminal and anti-gang laws in the early 1930s, such as making bank robbery a federal offense (before that, it was just a state offense), making machine guns illegal, passing a federal ?hot pursuit? law which allowed law enforcement people to chase criminals into other states while in hot pursuit, and passing the federal anti-kidnapping law, and other federal laws where the feds could fight crime better than the states and they could call out the US military to fight crime, if necessary.
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Still no trouble on Direct TV out here in the US Southwest. Nice clear picture and good sound.
Oh, by the way, if snow or a lot of rain gets on my small satellite dish, the picture will break up and even go out, especially when snow is on it. So be sure to scrape any snow off of your receiving dish.
Lol, that's how I can tell it has snowed overnight. I wake up, turn on TCM, and if I get no picture or sound, that means it snowed last night and I have to go out and clear the snow off my dish.
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Hey, I think I saw that last year on TCM. That's where she thought he was killed in the war, but he returned.
When he realized something was wrong, he said something like, "Is there another man in your life now?" And she paused and then said, "Men."
Ahh, a nice happy ending.
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We are already one hour into the movie and all they've been talking about is horses, bridges, women, horses, the war, women, horses.... all filmed on 2 square feet of sound stage.
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I like Gary Cooper a lot but this "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is a very boring movie. It looks like a stage play they could have filmed in a phone booth, with all the fake rocks surrounding the actors. It's just talk, talk, talk, talk, about horses, bridges, the war, more horses, women, more bridges, more women, blah, blah, blah, all in the area of a phone booth.
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What do you think of the "Cajun" accents in "Thunder Bay," the Jimmy Stewart movie about oil drilling in the Gulf south of Louisiana?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046425/
Nobody can imitate a Cajun accent or an average New Orleans accent. I've never seen them correctly imitated in movies.
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I haven't seen "Defending Your Life."
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The interview was great.
I?d like to expand on what Donan was saying about how hard it was to film Gene Kelly dancing with himself. A lot of people don?t know about this.
When doing two different exposures of the same person on the same piece of film (an over-lapping double exposure), it is rare to see any camera movement during these scenes in older films. That?s because the exact timing of the start and finish of each pan and tilt of the camera are very difficult to coordinate and time perfectly each of the 2 times the film is shot, especially in longer scenes with a lot of camera movement.
In other words, the camera shooting Kelly #1 might pan after 5 seconds of a scene, while the same camera shooting the same scene of Kelly #2 might pan after 5-1/2, or even 5-1/4 seconds of a scene, and that blows the illusion.
However, when filming music and a dance, that gives the director and cameraman a definite beat to which the pans and other camera movements can be timed because the camera movements change right on the musical beats. These beats can be more accurate than trying to use a stopwatch for the timing and the changes in the camera position of a double-exposed scene.
Years later, computers were attached to special motors on camera pan heads so that one scene and all its pans and tilts could be duplicated exactly, many times. Later, computers were rigged to dollies and zoom lenses too so that all kinds of camera movements could be duplicated by the computer.
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I like the Spanish poster. The title means "Fog in the Past."
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Here's the IMDB website
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061067/
It doesn't seem to be available on Amazon.
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Hi Bartlett. I guess I feel that way about the first Waterloo Bridge movie because the two young people seem so nice. I don't feel the same way about the second version.
What do you think about the ending of the newest Titanic movie, where everyone who died gets back together on the ship for a reunion?
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Yes, brad, you are correct. Thanks.
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I like that type of narration. It was used successfully in Apocalypse Now, Out of the Past, and Lady from Shanghai.
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Hi, yes, I started a thread about it up on "General."
Looks like the Russians are now using "luminous poison" on their KGB defectors.
It takes such a small amount of this new radioactive stuff, I figure it must be delivered in the form of some small amount of liquid or powder that dissolves in a drink.
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Ok, thanks!
I went to the main schedule page, then I clicked on MT in the little white box on the left, just under the month of ?December?, and then I clicked on the months and it did show me the Mountain time schedule.
Another Movie Title I Need
in Information, Please!
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Captains Courageous??