FredCDobbs
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All DVD and VCR recorders are set to start the next day at 12 midnight. It is very confusing to see 1/4 of TCM's listings shown listed on the wrong day. It is difficult enough to re-calculate my time with the TCM Eastern time, but trying to figure out what day the AM is on in the TCM schedule is simply not necessary. AM starts at midnight, not at 6 AM.
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?I, too, like Complicated Women though I wanted it to be longer!?
Complicated Women was embarrassing. They aren?t ?complicated?, they?re ?wh***s?.
The really intelligent women go to the university and get degrees. They become doctors, lawyers, and scientists.
The ones in Complicated Women have a useful life-span of 15 years, from about age 18 to about age 33 or 34, then they are thrown out when the rich men find a younger ?complicated woman?.
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"In Vivien's Myra, she is sympathetic from the beginning, without ever really deviating from who she was."
In Vivien's Myra, there was no clue that she was a prostitute. She was a very nice girl all the way through, until she read that her boyfriend was dead and then she decided that was a good reason to become a prostitute, which is downright silly.
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"She could have just fled and never talked to them again."
Then we would have no movie.
How about having her ask the young guy for money for sex during the first five minutes? Then the movie could end right there.
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?Knocked 'em down like bowling pins lined up -- all the way to the top; just goes to show what reading can do for a girl...?
A girl basing her philosophy of ?success? in life on Nietzsche philosophy is not such a good idea. Most modern guys aren?t as stupid as the ones in that movie.
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?Why did she "confess" to Roy's mother before they had even become engaged? In the remake it makes sense because they are engaged and she feels it's gone too far so she panicks. But in the original she was not committed to him, had only just met the family, and could still just take off without owing any explanations to anyone.?
She ?confessed? because she was already falling in love with the guy but she didn?t want it to go any further. Telling the mother would have been just the right thing to do to stop any continued development of the loving romantic relationship and the respect and approval of the family.
This technique was to help add to the overall tragedy of the story, to make the audience respect the girl, and to show that she was essentially honest.
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Moria, excellent review!
The film showed that the girl had been a decent honest girl earlier in life, and her refusal to marry Douglass Montgomery was proof of that. That made her a very sympathetic character. The boy's age, only 19, clearly explained why he didn't suspect anything about her past in the beginning.
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The second version didn't make any sense because of the movie code. The girl was a prostitute to start with. I never understood why Vivien Leigh would become a prostitute when she thought her boyfriend was killed in the war, since she wasn't one at the start of the film. It didn't make any sense. This original version made sense.
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Ha! This 1931 Waterloo Bridge makes a lot more sense than the later version.
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HEY!
Everybody get ready to watch and record several great pre-codes, starting at 8 PM EASTERN TIME tomorrow night and going into early Tuesday morning.
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I liked Dustin Hoffman's "old white guy" accent in "Little Big Man", where he was playing the 112 year old man. It was sort of an old Southern/Western white guy accent.
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My introduction to Walter Houston was in Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Of course he was an old man in that film. I later saw him with Joan Crawford in "Rain", which was a film that was banned by the Hollywood code in 1934 and wasn't shown again until it was revived in some theaters in the 1970s. It's still quite rare.
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Giannini is famous in San Francisco. The story goes.... he was head of the Bank of Italy in 1906 when the fire and earthquake hit the city. His bank building was in danger of burning down, so he is supposed to have taken all the gold and cash out of his vault and he put it in a wagon which he drove down to South San Francisco, thereby saving the entire bank and all its money.
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The Ten Commandments is not an Easter story. It's an Old Testament Passover story.
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Yes, that was a great scene. It was well acted, directed, filmed, and edited.
For those who haven't seen it, a bunch of French soldiers in a pub start harassing a young German girl, trying to get her to sing some kind of bar song. She finally got up in front of them and shyly started singing some kind of old folk tune in German. None of the French could understand the words, but the way the girl sang was as if she suddenly became like the French soldiers' sweethearts or sisters back home. The rowdy boys finally settled down, and some of them began to cry as others tried to sing along with the girl.
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This film is coming up at 2:45 early AM Eastern Time on Tuesday the 5th.
Starting Monday night on the 4th at 8 PM Eastern Time will be the 1931 version of Waterloo Bridge. Followed by the rare pre-code Baby Face. Then the documentary about pre-code women, "Complicated Women", followed by Red-Headed Woman (a great pre-code). Then Union Depot, early Tue. AM, then Under Eighteen and then Night Nurse.
These are all great films, so set your recorders.
Also, later Tue. AM is White Sister and some other good stuff on Tuesday morning.
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The actors are speaking their lines in a complicated murder mystery. Their facial features give clues as to who the killer is or isn't. While that is happening, long titles at the bottom of the screen are saying, "The actors are in their cars now chasing each along Highway 1 on the California Coast. Note that the drivers are weaving in and out of traffic. They almost had several accidents during the filming of this scene. Blah, blah, blah." Well, heck, we can see that on the screen in the movie!
During the love scenes and the complicated dialogue, the captions read, "The head actor (blah blah) didn't want to say these lines. He felt he had better lines to say in the film. He argued with the director and script writer about these lines."
What Lines?? I can't hear the lines if I'm reading this drivel at the bottom of the screen. I have to hold my hand up in front of my face to cover up the stupid titles.
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I am not interested in watching a 2 hour movie twice in a row, and I'm not interested in reading how the movie was filmed and where and when and at what street addresses in what cities or what the actors had for lunch. If I want to read that kind of stuff, AMC could put that information on their website and people who want to, could read along while watching the movie, but I don't want to.
These crazy ideas are thought up by fast-paced people who live in big cities, who fight traffic every day, living in tiny apartments, and who have lost all contact with reality.
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All during the movie, down in the black space at the bottom of the screen, they run subtitles telling about how the movie was made. They run throughout the whole movie. I can't stand them. I can't watch a movie and read the subtitles at the same time. The titles are very distracting and could be simply added to AMC's website as a background story, rather than to the bottom of the movie as it shows on the air on TV.
I also can't stand the during-the-movie commercials, where characters from other TV shows are shown walking around at the bottom of the screen while another movie is playing. This is the latest thing in during-the-movie commercials. That is, commercials shown WHILE THE MOVIE IS PLAYING.
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Sounds good to me Izzy. Good idea.
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I think this question is like the one: ?I saw this movie about a boy (or girl) who had a horse that nobody thought could ever make it to the Kentucky Derby. What?s the movie??
Or like this one: ?B&W, ?30s or ?40s, about a nice guy who falls in love with a gangster?s girlfriend.?
I think a lot of skaters in love fell into snow banks while skating in old movies.
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Looks like a good list of movies to me:
Shane (?Come back Shane.... come back.?)
Algiers (?Come with me to the Kasba.?)
Sweet Bird of Youth
The Barefoot Contessa
Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1932) (Fredric Marsh version)
Lilies of the Field
The Spiral Staircase
Witness for the Prosecution
Harvey
Love Letters
Coquette (1929) (Mary Pickford?s first sound film.)
Lost Horizon
Green Dolphin Street
Mutiny on the Bounty (Gable version)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Wuthering Heights
Johnny Belinda
And many others.
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It's a fast paced murder mystery with a dozen suspects.
Your favorite Holiday Movies!
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I like the December holiday promo featuring the little girl and the scenes from Christmas movies.
This seems to have been done in a 1950s or early '60s style of filming and editing, and I like it.