FredCDobbs
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I also prefer the 1940 version because the plot was better developed, but I do think that Kent Douglass (AKA Douglass Montgomery) was also good, and very well cast for the part.
I like the 31 version better because the 40 version is completely unbelievable.
Vivien Leigh was much too attractive, high class, and educated, to not be hired for all kinds of good jobs or to receive many offers of marriage. She was much to conservative to go out and pick up unknown men for xxx.
In the original version, some comments in the beginning of the film informs the audience that the dancing girls getting various dancing jobs sometimes supplement their income by prostitution, which I don’t think a ballerina Vivien Leigh type would do.
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SO'S YOUR AUNT EMMA 1942
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Susan Kohner (the half-black girl in Imitation of Life, 1959,) was the daughter of Lupita Tovar.
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The Dracula 1931 Restoration is a very good documentary!
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Convicted 1950
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Note to puzzle solvers. There is no 12th Precinct in New York now. But if it existed, it would be in lower Manhattan, in a mainly residential or warehouse district. It was abolished in 1916. The original was South of Greenwich Village on Mulberry Street.
Expect many of these to be set in the "12th Precinct", which if it really existed would place the show in Lower Manhattan.
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Was the movie a very old one (1930s or 40s), or a newer one?
About what year did you see it?
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I don't know the film, and I don't have time to search, so I'll give up.
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13 WEST STREET 1962
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I'm tired of all these posts about some fish monster. Now here's a real monster, why won't TCM show The Brainiac (El Baron del Terror)?
That is Alec Guinness as Fagin in OLIVER TWIST
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Hmm, I was sure this was one I had reviewed, but now it appears that scene may be stock footage, so this might be a little more challenging.
I think that's the scene where the rocket explodes.
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I have it now too, thanks to the 1956 Ford Thunderbird.
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This is Rich's type of film!
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HOT ROD GIRL
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So for a crazed film fan, of a great movie...there can never be too many showings as there is always something new to look at and enjoy that one might have not had a chance to see before, being that they may have ONLY been watching the main actors and action in previous viewings.
I think I posted this in the wrong thread, a couple of hours ago:
If you watch “Citizen Kane” enough times, you might notice that the snow globe is first seen in the film sitting on top of Susan’s dresser the night Mr. Kane met her.
If you watch it more times, you will realize he tells her that he was on the way to a warehouse to look through some of his childhood mementos. And after a few more viewings, it will dawn on you what his favorite memento was.
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If you watch “Citizen Kane” enough times, you might notice that the snow globe is first seen in the film sitting on top of Susan’s dresser the night Mr. Kane met her.If you watch it more times, you will realize he tells her that he was on the way to a warehouse to look through some of his childhood mementos. And after a few more viewings, it will dawn on you what his favorite memento was.Dang, I think I posted this in the wrong thread.
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The classic film “Juarez” is supposed to look like a factual docu-drama, and I’ve often wondered how much of it is true and how much isn’t.
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I see a Paul Newman movie The Prize is coming up, and since this is a classic movie channel wondered what people thought of him and if he is acceptable to viewers as a classic actor.
Yes! I like his Creamy Caesar Dressing best of all!
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I don't have time to research this one properly, but I think I saw this movie. A military girl in a car picks up one, then two, then three military guy hitch-hikers. All are on the way to some military base.
I think the car is a 1941 Cadillac.
Or, maybe it's the movie where the old lady, who is head of a criminal gang, is arrested for pushing a boy scout out into oncoming traffic.
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To me the disclaimer "loosely based on a true story" means that what will be
following is "quasi-factitious".
Now I just coined that term but it seems apt considering what "factitious" means and all the Lifetime movies formulated on this very concept.
LOL, that is funny!
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What exactly does this phrase mean to you? I didn't get a chance to see THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN recently, so I went to the IMDB to see what I had missed. There is a user comment (actually a whole thread) with this title.
Does this mean that it is not really a true story? Or that it is a true story with fictional elements, which would basically become a bit untrue...? I am confused about this!
Years ago, back in the 1970s and 80s, there were investigative news reports that said the US military was training dolphins to carry magnetic mines on their backs so they could go and place them on the underside of enemy ships. This created a lot of controversy because the stories said the mines did not give the dolphins a chance to escape and they got blown up too.
Also, there have been many news and documentary reports about professors, doctors, and other scientists who have been trying for years to understand dolphin squeaks in terms of some kind of "language", and they have been trying to imitate those squeaks in an attempt to "talk" to dolphins.
That information is probably why this movie was made, since many people in the audience would already know about these news stories.
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But the asking of 'why' adds nothing to these discussions.
I asked "why" these films have disappeared. Poof, gone, entirely. Not just cut back on showing, but gone. All three had a lot of fans. Even if they are shown in prime time just once a year, that would be better than just totally disappearing or being shown only while everyone is asleep, while Camelot is almost always shown in prime time and takes up 3 hours and is shown two or three times a year. The same goes for My Fair Lady.
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But I think Fred's post is good insomuch as it gets a certain viewpoint across (even if it is one I do not fully espouse)...and that is what makes the message board better in my opinion-- that we have divergent points of view being represented, and in Fred's case, represented consistently even if people take him to task for it.
Of course we can't all agree all the time. But we can discuss it civilly and with politeness. I think you and I discuss it that way, while other people like to rant and rave and roll around on the floor, kicking and screaming.
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Why has TCM stopped showing INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, THE PHANTOM LADY, THREE ON A MATCH, and many other old classic films, and TCM is now showing many more modern Jason, Fair Lady, and Major Dundee films so often??
For every modern 3-hour color film that has been added (such as CAMELOT), and for each repeated showing of modern color wide-screen films each year, that means 2, to 4, to 6 old b&w 1-hour to 1-1/2 hour classics have been removed and are no longer being shown at all.
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