FredCDobbs
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I just saw it on TCM. It is "Across the Wide Missouri", with Clark Gable, 1951.
Of course, a similar scene could have also been in other movies, but the baby chase is in this one.
Fred
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Lol, this movie is hard to find by it's title, since the title doesn't have anything to do with the plot.
I first saw it about 5 or 6 years ago. I didn't tape it, but I watched it and I liked it a lot. Then later I forgot the title. Then I think it was last year that TCM ran it again.
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Hi, welcome to our group.
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I think you're watching way too much news.
Watch more movies and cheer up.
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Hmm.... interesting.
There were two remakes of ?Mutiny on the Bounty.? The first was considered to be a ?re-make? of the original film, and the next one was considered a ?re-make? of the ?re-make.?
What made the third version of the film more ?authentic? than the first two was that all the island girls went topless in the third version, which was the way it really was on Tahiti in the old days, and that explains better than anything else why all the British sailors didn?t want to go home.
So what can they do with ?Lawrence? today that they couldn?t do back in the ?60s? Hire some real Arabs to cut some real heads off of people?
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"Yes, agree. I caught that part about the mirror and liked his 'education' explanation. He meant of course, women are more used to looking at and admiring themselves in mirrors, while most men just give a cursory glance at their appearance."
That's because we men can't use makeup or change our hair styles. We are stuck with the way we look and we can't do anything about it.
I knew guys in the TV business who were news anchors, who didn't look so good in person, but they could use makeup before they went on the air. Then they looked great on the air, but the makeup didn't show up on the TV screen as makeup. However, it did look like makeup in person, so the guys could not wear it all the time in person because it would look silly wearing makeup.
The same with our hair. We are always stuck with the hair we were born with, or without. Women wear wigs all the time, but if a man wears a wig, people laugh at him.
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This is a very good film and a rare Kirk Douglas film.
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Maybe it was a comedy about boring cocktail parties. People hang around for hours waiting for something to happen. We really want to go home, but we?re afraid we?ll miss something.
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My friends and I used to go to Playland in the late '60s and early '70s. It was a real antique.
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I saw this film many years ago. It's pretty good. It's sort of a noir film about the Klan in the old South. I saw the end of it on some channel a few years ago, maybe on TCM. It's worth watching.
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6 feet tall and 130 pounds? Ok, you can join our group. You can be our advanced observer, while Charlie and I will break in the doors where needed. We?ll form a new advanced military unit.
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I live in the Southwest too. Up at Santa Fe they have a lot of very old adobe homes, 200 years old or more. They sell for millions of dollars.
I was down in a place in Mexico once, out of Saltillo, and we visited a 300 year old hacienda. Haciendas were the forerunners of American ?ranch style? homes. A hacienda is large and square, actually built on an old Roman style, with a large patio in the center of it.
The outer walls are about 15 or more feet high, like a fortress. All the rooms are inside and around all the walls. We could enter most rooms only from the patio, but some rooms had doors in-between them. This place had been lived in for the past 300 years but was still in good shape.
These types of buildings are shown in old movies about Mexico and the Spanish days of California. There is usually only one big door leading to the outside. It?s like a garage door for carriages. There is a smaller people door built into one of the double garage type doors. If the Indians or bandits are causing trouble, the double doors are shut and everyone goes in and out through the small door.
The way the modern ranch houses are like the haciendas is that they are often L shaped with a patio in back. That?s two of the four walls of a hacienda. If two of these houses were put together, with a patio inside, that would be a hacienda.
Down in Southern New Mexico and Arizona, some ranch style houses are being built to look like adobe. They are regular wood-frame houses with a coating of brown stucco on the outside to look like a plaster outside covering on a real adobe house.
I was inside the house shown in ?Vertigo?, in the little old Spanish town south of San Francisco. The walls are adobe and are about 3 or more feet thick. This cools the house down in the summer, like a cave. Thick dirt or mud walls make the house cool inside in the day and easy to heat at night.
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Well, I'm glad to meet another 2XL.
Perhaps we can file a class action lawsuit against all the stores that don't offer 2XL clothes.
What are we to do, go naked?
The world is run by midgets. We 2XLs are slaves to the whims of the midgets.
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"Cat People" is coming up next. "Leopard Man" comes up after that.
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Two great Cat People movies from 1942 and ?43 are coming up tomorrow on TCM, starting at 8:45 AM Eastern time, starting with ?Cat People? and followed by ?Leopard Man.?
These are two frightening movies. I hope everyone gets to see them. They were both directed by Directed by Jacques Tourneur, who was famous for making scary movies on a low budget.
Cats aren?t seen much in these movies, but there are plenty of scenes of lone young ladies walking down lonely streets late at night, with the wind rustling in the trees and sounds that might be made by a big cat on the prowl.
The first film has the famous scene of the lone girl in the indoor swimming pool at night, with cat-like shadows on the walls. The second film has the scene of the lone girl locked in the cemetery at night, with an escaped leopard somewhere around the area.
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Tim Holt was just great in Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Also, in the 1940s he made many westerns for kids. Every town had neighborhood theaters that had Saturday matinee shows for kids. They started at about 1 or 2 pm. They would show two or three movies, a serial or two, and one or two cartoons. So the parents could dump us off and have the afternoon to themselves.
In the late ?40s and early ?50s most of the kids movies were westerns. Some were jungle adventure, and a few were space-age adventure films.
The popcorn and candy and cokes were like 5cents or 10 cents so we would eat in the theaters. The hot dogs were about 15 cents.
There were about a dozen or more famous cowboys, such as Tim Holt, Lash Larue, Whip Wilson, Wild Bill Elliot, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and several others. Each of them had special talents and some had special side-kicks. Tim?s side-kick was an ?Irish-Mexican?.
At night, starting at maybe 6 or 7 o?clock, there would be the night films for adults and families. Sometimes they were westerns too, but with more adult type characters and usually higher budget films. On some Saturdays, we kids could see the matinee and the night films too and see 4 westerns in one day.
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You are right.
About 8 years ago I signed up for Direct TV for about $26 a month.
A year later I went up to the second tier for about $36 so I could get TCM and Fox.
Then Direct TV went up on their prices every couple of years. Now I'm paying $47 a month, and Direct TV just dropped Fox. I was already paying extra for Fox, and now they want me to pay even more for Fox. The same thing could happen with TCM any day.
I receive about 150 junk channels now, but I watch only about 8 channels. I'm now paying about $6 a month for the channels I watch, and Fox has just been removed.
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Hi Shotsie,
I'm not sure.
But when I want to post a message to everyone in general, I usually start off by saying:
Everyone:
or
Hi All:
Or something like that.
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Let's face it, folks. This "documentary" is nothing but crap. It looks like it was made by a first-year film student. It is not interesting.
If they want to run documentaries, try "The River" or "Why We Fight" or "The Louisiana Story" or "Triumph of the Will" or "Olympiad" or anything but this.
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Is HDD called high definition? I don't have one of those yet. I've got a big old box of a TV. But I've seen the new high definition and plasma TVs at Sam's and Wal-Mart.
They have a giant $4,000 one at Best Buy here.
I think when TCM goes to high definition, the movies with the best prints should look really good. Films like Gone With The Wind and Showboat should look great, like looking at a big movie screen in a theater. The old Bowrey Boys 16 mm prints won't look so good, but the better prints of other films will look great.
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Hi Mary,
Yes, a DVD recorder will save you a lot of money on movies.
If your husband is an electronics buff, he can help you set up your DVD recorder.
The cheaper DVD recorders often need an extra $24 gadget so you can plug them into older TVs. Older TVs have a round cable input in the back for use with a single round cable. Newer TVs have that plus three extra plugs for use with an AV cable which has 3 wires that have a red, white, and yellow plug on each end.
The extra gadget is an RF generator. All VCR recorders usually have them built in, but I?ve noticed that many cheaper DVD recorders don?t have them built in. The gadget allows you to use the new DVD recorder on an older TV set that doesn't have the 3-wire AV plugs in the back. But if you get a more expensive DVD recorder, it might already have the RF generator built in.
Anyway, the blank disks are cheap. Remember to ?finalize? them after you?ve finished recording them and they should play on any other DVD player. If you don?t ?finalize? them they?ll play only on the recorder you buy.
The great thing about a DVD recorder is that you can store up to 72 disks in a small soft pouch, and you can usually get up to 2 or 3 or more movies in the 6-hour mode.
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Hi, Mary.
The federal law allows people to make DVD copies off TV for their own use at home. You will need a DVD recorder to make the copies. They are available at Wal-Mart and other stores from about $100 and up.
You?ve got to match the DVD recorder to the type of blank disk you buy. For example, a DVD-R recorder requires a DVD-R recording disk.
At the end of recording the whole disk, you have to ?finalize? it so it will play on other DVD machines if you want to play it on other machines. The instructions manual will tell you how to ?finalize? the disk.
Have you made VHS tape recordings before? If so, just plug your DVD recorder in the same way. Incoming cable to the back of the DVD recorder, and another cable between the recorder and your TV.
The DVD recorders have internal timers just like VHS recorders do. You can set your DVD up to record in the 1 hour mode, the 2 hour mode, the 4 hour mode, and the 6 hour mode. Some also have an 8 hour mode.
Several of us watch TCM live every day, plus we make recordings too, some on tape and some on DVD, so we can see our favorite movies any time we want.
Fred
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We used to have those same shows on local stations around the country, so they must have been syndicated, probably out of LA or maybe New York.
I used to think they were local shows.
KTLA in Los Angeles was a major independent TV station in the '50s onward, and they showed a lot of old films to fill up their air time. They were showing old Cagney and Bogart movies well into the 1970s.
Recent channel change??
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I think someone said it was just taken off of a cable in Southern California. Something about going "digital". Maybe you should call your cable company and ask them.