FredCDobbs

Gangster Story (1959)

That does NOT happen to me unless I have some trouble with my local ISP.. It happens on TCM but also on other websites too. I have to call my ISP and get them to straighten things out. In MY OPINION, this is a combination of incompatibility between various software computer program problems. Such as IE 8, IE 10, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows XP, Firefox, etc, etc. When XP stopped being supported, I had a lot of trouble with IE 8, and I had to have a technician come out and "adjust" my computer for use with XP and Firefox, and now I almost never have this problem. And my technician had to call my ISP and work something out with them.

Thanks. I did intend for it to be funny.

(my bold...Fred) Good for you. That's the way to do it. I often found that that technique worked out best for me too, in the business world.

That’s my point, Dark. I’m NOT talking about US thick skinned survivors. I’m talking about all the nice polite people this TCM message board keeps losing because MOST people don’t have skin as thick as us.

How about saying, “Your idea is very intriguing, but I’m not quite sure it will work.”

WARNING TO OLD-MOVIE FANS: DON’T FALL ASLEEP! “INVASION OF THE MODERN-MOVIE POD PEOPLE” 1970s and 80s movies are coming for you! And YOU ARE NEXT! See their confrontation with the last two OLD-CLASSIC movie fans in Santa Mira! This is how it began...... It came from out of the sky, by satellite, and right into our own homes..... “Today, I love old movies...... tomorrow, will I feel the same?” HERE IS THE LAST 1930s and 40s MOVIE LOVER IN SANTA MIRA..... The pod people changed his girlfriend into a 1970s-movie lover.... when she fell asleep!

At a high-level Chairman of the Board meeting at your company, you wouldn't tell your big CEO that his newest idea is "silly", would you? And you wouldn't say that to an old lady who is still learning how to work her new computer and use the internet, would you? A lot of people in this world do not have "tough skin", and I'm sorry to see so many people leave this board over the years, because of all the rude insults they received from the "tough skinned" board members. Hey, not all who posts here is a gangster, or a Hell's Angel, or a battle-hardened Marine, or a South-Central LA gang member. I would guess that 90% of the people who first start posting here do NOT have "tough skin", and you should ALWAYS be considerate of their feelings. I hate to see this board turn into a board filled with only 15 or so people, who all have "tough skins", while hundreds of sensitive but intelligent people quickly or eventually leave be board because of all the insults. I suggest that the Moderators crack down on insults. Not by banning people, but just by asking posters to be "more polite".

MAN IN THE ATTIC 1953 (Do you realize how many hundreds of Jack the Ripper films and London Fog Murder films I had to search through to find that one??)

THE GRACIE ALLEN MURDER CASE

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I started the YouTube thread to focus on OLD MOVIES. People liked that. But other people have posted links to newer movies too. Some people like that too. A thread of YouTube movies allows us all to view or not view whatever movie is listed on it, so we aren't forced to watch any particular movie, and the variety of movies listed by different people seems to please a lot of other people, and I'm glad it does. We all need to help each other here, not argue or call each other names. Fred

I agree. I think Jack La Rue was a great character actor as a "bad guy", especially with women. I love his films.

I’ve seen at least 3 Michelangelo Antonioni films: Zabriskie Point Blow-Up The Passenger And I didn’t understand any of them. However, Antonioni has a way with story telling, photography, editing, music, and other stuff (like naked women), so I found them interesting, although I still don’t know what they are about. I saw Blow-Up and The Passenger several times. The Passenger is, to me, the most interesting, but it has such an idiotic and impossible plot. I have a feeling that Antonioni made his films so that viewers would keep coming back again and again, spending more money on tickets, trying to figure out what the films are about. I would put them in the rare category of the most incomprehensible films that made the most money through audience repeated viewings. And THIS might really be the PLOT of all three films. With the MESSAGE being that WE ARE ALL FOOLS to keep going back to see them again and again.

I love this film. This is an American-style crime noir, made with British actors who are pretending to be Americans in or around New York. I think the only American in the film is Jack La Rue. Filming Locations: Alliance Film Studios, St Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK (On later tonight)

Tim Moore, the funniest comedian ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FMB8EkrHf8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD9_Ap3LsVc

I found the West Coast airport last night in about 5 minutes. There is just enough of the name showing on the sign to lead a researcher to the correct airport. I just got to my computer this morning and with the new photos, I found the film in about 10 minutes, In the airport scene, a guy is late getting on the plane.

Ok, I've got it too.

I don't know why that stuff is blacked out. The cottage has already been rented, but wouldn't it just be better to pull up the sign and place it face down on the ground? Finding the film actually took quite a search. First I thought that was an American pilot in a film that would show him being shot by a Japanese pilot. There are several films with scenes like that. Then the photo of the soldiers confused me. British helmets with what looks like a high snow-covered mountain in the background, yet there are none in England. Finally, I noticed the lake, and then I remembered the parachute scene in Cottage to Let. I rememberd the guy falling into a lake and being rescued by two British guys in British helmets. Maybe that white thing in the background is just a cloud. You completely fooled me with Father Brown, which makes me so mad I could spit. I kept looking for "priest" films, but too late did I realize that maybe the British Anglican Church doesn't call their Fathers "priests". Sort of confusing, like Black Narcissus. I don't think those are Roman Catholic nuns. I think they are Angliican Sisters. Fred

I agree.

COTTAGE TO LET aka BOMBSIGHT STOLEN 1941

Ok, sorry, I thought she was from further South. The horse farm where they filmed her home and the horse stuff was near Charlottesville, Virginia.

LOL, Hey, guess what!? Edna Ferber wrote those lines, not Elizabeth Taylor. Taylor's character was from Maryland the DEEP SOUTH, and she would have already been instructed by her millionaire husband to NEVER INTERRUPT OUR MEN'S POLITICAL MEETINGS. Remember, money, money, money. Also, that part of the film was in the 1920s or thereabouts, and the husband would have assured the wife that he would never interrupt any of her ladies stuff and private ladies talks, such as he would have promised her to never be drunk around her lady friends or use any bad words around them, and to always be nice to the preacher, etc., etc. And I said there was prejudice in Texas, but I said the situation about the daughter-in-law using or not using the hotel services would have already been worked out and not left to stupid chance like Ferber put in the movie. The way the Ferber story is, based on the movie, it seems as if she had NEVER been to Texas. I told my Mama Leone story and the DO NOT INTERRUPT A HIGH LEVEL COMPANY BOARD MEETING stories to let you know that I've been through the same thing. Most people who have been many places and done many things have.

I think Marilyn Monroe said it just right (for many cases) when she said in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, as Lorelei Lee: "Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?" And she also said, " Esmond Sr.: Have you got the nerve to tell me you don't want to marry my son for his money? Lorelei Lee: It's true. Esmond Sr.: Then what do you want to marry him for? Lorelei Lee: I want to marry him for YOUR money."