FredCDobbs

Dang! Wrong post on Wrong thread! Anyway, I can't wait to see the Chester Morris and Alice White film!! They are great together.

YouTube says that Lionsgate and Radio Canada are blocking Grand Illusion, so you might want to take the matter up with them, since they appear to own the Canadian rights.

Foreign Correspondent 1940 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2YNyKWtIAs

Sounds good to me. Every now and then I see a film on TCM that was made in Canada, or has Canadian actors in it, or was made by a US film company about Canada, so it shouldn't be any trouble to put some Old Classic Canadian films on the air on July 1. Especially since US and Canadians share this message board. (And how about some Mexican classics from the 1930s and 40s on Cinco de Mayo?)

I think the theme of the original short story and the radio show (which I heard live as a kid, around 1953), is that normally docile and harmless animals began attacking humans in large numbers. Birds are about the most harmless animals in nature. But, because of that, they aren’t scary. http://ia700208.us.archive.org/21/items/Lux18/Lux-530720-52m26s-839hrt-Birds-HMarshallBLGerson.mp3 So to make it scary, we need some normally docile animals, but larger ones with teeth, that suddenly turn into killers, such as small pet dogs, which most people find cute and most don’t attack anyone. And now is the right time because of all the bad attacks from the well-known killer dogs that we hear about on our local news quite often. You see, the fear in a new movie would be caused by friendly type pet dogs suddenly turning into killer type dogs in large numbers. Or, we could use domestic cats. I can’t think of any other animal for such a movie, but for me, birds just aren’t frightening. You can swat away a group of birds with a broom. You don’t need to shoot them. The radio show was a little frightening because of the remoteness of the story teller. But Hitchcock’s filming location in the movie was too big, too commercial, too near a very large city, and with too many people all around, for it to feel “remote” or frightening.

obrienmundy, In the climate I live in, spiders of all kinds like to live inside my house and especially around the back of my warm computer. Sometimes, without warning, a big one comes running across my desk and keyboard and over my hands, and I jump back and fall out of my chair. There is a small kind of spider I keep as pets. They stay in their webs in my kitchen. They catch flies, which we have a lot of in the fall. Then one day I found a black widow in her nest near my closet in my bedroom. Very bad for a house spider. Consequently, I never went to see that movie. Fred

Thank you for the kind words, James. I think my problem was that as I’ve grown older and physically weaker, I’ve grown more “tough”, verbally, as part of my attempt to try to “struggle to survive”. But believe me, I’m not a tough mean guy at all. I’m nothing more than an old crabby Gabby Hayes.

I wonder if the great old Hollywood movie "factory" was the only art "factory" that actually produced better art than non-factory movies?

It has always seemed to me that birds are not creepy enough. How about rats? Or, how about wild dogs, with everyone's own pet dog runing away to join the attacks of the wild dogs? Many dogs attack humans anyway. How about ALL dogs suddenly attacking humans.

Hi John, I think my remarks of 2008 were rather rudely expressed, and I apologize.

They might have re-made it, and also there were different kinds that showed in theaters all during the 1950s. I remember that a lot of drive-ins had intermissions so we could walk to the concession stand without missing any of the movie.

That is LET'S ALL GO TO THE LOBBY 1957 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9QAPch2o6Q

Well, I'll let that pass. As long as you are telling the truth about me, I won't complain.

Well thank you, Lucky. Just think of it like I'm Gabby Hayes balling you out, you gall-derned son of a rattlesnake! I think I'll change my name and my avitar to Gabby:

Sorry, I was just sort of babbling. It had nothing to do with you, or the other guy. Just babbling while I waiting for a good movie to appear on TCM. Just a joke, but not a joke about you. I read a lot of your research stuff. Interesting stuff. Fred

Yes, and we need an index of people who have other people on IGNORE, and a separate index of people who THINK other people have them on IGNORE, split into two sub-indexes: 1) those who are right, and 2) those who are wrong, and a full list of who is ignoring whom, and why, and a separate Index telling us if not, then why not? And another that tells us if so, then why so?

How about an Index of Indexes?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfh5R8g0MWA

Well, since everyone is not having the exact SAME problem with this board at the same time, then it couldn't all be the fault of this site or this board. I still think it is a big and growing incompatibility problem with too many different operating systems, browsers, ISP software, etc., etc. There have been times when my internet went off line and my red light was on my DSL modem, and I've called my local ISP guy and he told me that "two three other guys" had called in with the same problem. Not everyone on his system, just me and two or three other guys. So he worked on something with his software, and got it all fixed within a few minutes. So there are different problems that turn up for different users at different times, while the majority of people are not having any problems at that time. It is only when EVERYONE is having the same problem with the same board at the same time, then THAT is the board's problem.

Here is A FINE PAIR in Italian, in semi-wide screen, with English sub-titles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MmKtri6fDE Hey! Andiamo! Andiamo!

JIGSAW 1949

Yeah, me too. I grew up watching them in Theaters and on TV. My first out of the country trip when I was 21 years old was to the jungles of Yucatan in Mexico. I loved it, wonderful place, friendly people, lots of jungle and Mayan ruins, and beautiful young native girls!! I even got to ride into the jungle in an old fashioned British Land Rover!! Yay!

Robeson got fed up with making movies in Hollywood, because he was a MAN, a MALE LEAD actor, yet Hollywood always made him a 2nd class citizen. Robeson made several films in England where he played the top male lead, but Sanders (the movie) didn't quite work out for him, and Sanders (the character) had almost NOTHING to do with the film. The hero was Robeson, yet he got hoodwinked into playing a lackey for Sanders (the character).