FredCDobbs
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What may be perceived as an insult by one may not be considered that by another. Or, were I to say "With all due respect, your post is rather silly" - am I insulting you or the post? I did say I respected you, and I only said that your post is silly - not you. Just an example, not a judgment or insult should be inferred.
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".
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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??)
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THE GRACIE ALLEN MURDER CASE
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We should debate, not argue. But the old adage about one person's bread being another person's poison applies. One should have a hard skin to get involved in web posting. Otherwise, start a blog.
Our board's CODE OF CONDUCT specifically says:
"Any content or use that insults, is derogatory of, intentionally harasses, or advocates harassment of, another person, or groups of persons, or is abusive, threatening, or defamatory to other users. If you disagree with something another user has posted, do so in a courteous manner, and do not disparage, insult, or otherwise attach (attack) other users personally."
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A thread on Me-TV has 199 replies and 10,499 views, thus the response rate is 4.4% of the view rate.
A thread on YouTube movies has 705 replies and 10,336 views for a 6.8% percentage.
More people prefer movies on YouTube to Me-TV.
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
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I think a Jack La Rue double feature would be great-- THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE and NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH together one evening on TCM. Each story involves the mishandling of a female, and La Rue is outstanding in both pictures. I suspect that his work in TEMPLE DRAKE is what led to his casting in MISS BLANDISH.
I agree. I think Jack La Rue was a great character actor as a "bad guy", especially with women. I love his films.
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One of the most boring films I've ever seen
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.
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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)
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Amos 'n' Andy was a terrific show, and it featured some of the best comic talent of its time: Tim Moore, Spencer Williams, Ernestine Wade, Amanda Randolph, Alvin Childress, and so on.
Tim Moore, the funniest comedian ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FMB8EkrHf8
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FCD News Service:
THIS JUST IN........
The new ALL METAL PUNK ROCK BAND was a big hit in Seattle last night!!
Their new big hit song, “**** **** and **** You Too” had the punk rock audience singing right
along with them.
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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.
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Ok, I've got it too.
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Dang, Fred.. You must've been watching this film as I was posting it!
Cottage to Let (1941) -Thank you!
BTW, on the sign: The phone number and address are blacked out. They appear to be identical from frame-to-frame - do you think this could actually be in the film? (not post edited).
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
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Very probably SusanH. Nose and Eyes.
I agree.
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COTTAGE TO LET aka BOMBSIGHT STOLEN 1941
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Her character in the film is from Maryland, which is most definitely not the Deep South.
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.
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I don't know much about it being a "bunch of stupid Edna Ferber political lectures", but Liz' character, as an upper-class easterner, certainly was more liberated than what was then expected of women.
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.
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Maybe its because physical beauty is less important to women and men of course wouldnt care as long as the male star can cut it with the ladies or action plots......
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?"
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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."
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That's why many male stars retain leading man status longer than most female stars - youthful juiciness is not the only thing audiences like to see in men, there's many other attractive qualities to men that stimulate fantasy and desire in the audience.
LOL, yeah, such as the size of his big large bank account.
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Yes, but Bette had to settle for a lot of junk in her later years. A sad waste of talent, but at least she kept at it.......
I don't think Bette cared. She was still HAVING FUN making movies. Dang, I wish I could still be a TV news cameraman in my 70s. I loved it. I just can't get around anymore.
Melvyn Douglas was still making movies when he was 80, and Gloria Stewart made TITANIC when she was 87, and then she made 10 more movies and TV shows after that, the last one at the age of 94!
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Exactly, Fred. True Actors will accept less money and less attention because acting is what they do, first and foremost.
I think that might be why Joan Crawford made so many awful films at the end of her career. She probably didn't need the money, she might have known they were awful, but she probably still enjoyed making movies. After all, a lot of people still watch them whenever TCM shows them.
Garbo decided to get out while she still looked reasonably good, but Bette Davis didn't seem to care.
And look at Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. She did such a great job and should have won an Academy Award for her performance. I think she still loved making films and loved that story and didn't mind playing it. I think she enjoyed it, and she was so good at it.
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I want to post something from YouTube that is the most frightening video I've ever seen.
Have you ever watched a cat creep up on a bird that is on the ground pecking around for seeds? Have you ever wondered why the cat waits, very still, then suddenly moves a few inches closer to the bird, yet the bird often allows this and doesn't fly away. And the cat eventually gets close enough to the bird to jump on him and eat him?
Have you ever wondered how or why a bird would let this happen?
Well, I finally found out by watching this video, and this shows how old age creeps up on all of us, and often without us paying much attention to the creeping because we are so busy doing a lot of other things.
The cat watches the bird's eyes and knows when the bird is, briefly, not watching the cat, and that's when the cat creeps forward a little more, like this... and this why we often don't notice that old age is creeping up on all of us. Of course time and aging is moving along all the time, but we just don't always notice it:
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Their ego's just have to allow it.
Lillian Gish seemed to handle it well. So did Bette Davis.
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While one feels sorry for those actresses who have such a limited
career due to the the need for younger players, they likely took
over from someone who was older when these actresses were
beginning their career.
Yes, and it happens to all of us sooner or later.
20th Century Vole Presents
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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!