FredCDobbs

This was not a problem 10, 15, and 20 years ago, because TCM showed plenty of films that ALL of their PAID SUBSCRIBERS liked. That's why we paid MORE for this channel. I'm still on the 2nd Tier Pay Schedule for TCM on Direct TV, after 20 years. How many thousands of dollars has that cost me over the years? At an averaged-out $10 extra per month ($5 early on, $20 now), that equals about $2,400 just for the second tier package. I don't like paying more money for less product. $3.65 a gallon for gas is a high price to pay now, but I STILL get a FULL GALLON OF GAS for that price, yet I'm now getting about 1/4 gallon of TCM old classic movies now.

Same here. Now I have to carefully search the schedule, and then I find that most of my favorite old-type films, noirs, pre-codes, etc are on the air between Midnight and 6 AM. While the drab dull 60s and 70s color films are in prime time, except for maybe one or two days a month.

Well said. You are right.

Yes, and yes. We've been discussing this for years. many of us started subscribing to TCM to see the old classic movies made in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, and most are black and white films or the great old 3-Strip Technicolor. But now TCM has become the All-Film Channel, with a primetime emphasis on color films. And most of those are not at all "classic". They are just random cheap-to-rent color films that weren't any good to start with and are certainly not "classics" now. As time goes by, more and more people are getting the classic old films on the internet and they are dropping their expensive cable services.

Take a look at the film itself. It is the SAME story with the SAME characters going to the SAME places, with the SAME single dame, and including the SAME bullfight.

I’ve mentioned several times that the 1970s film SORCERER was made up of themes of two other films: THE WAGES OF FEAR and SAFE IN HELL Wages was about nitro truck hauling along a winding mountain road, and Safe was about criminals from different countries hiding out in some unknown Central American country at the same remote hotel. Later I found an earlier film from the 1930s about the criminals hiding out in the same remote hotel, this time in Arabia. And of course there were plenty of earlier nitro-hauling films. So, of course the same and similar themes are used over and over, and some later films can use the plots of several earlier films. The problem with a lot of people is they haven't seen enough films over a long enough period of time to know what I am talking about.

It reminded me a lot of Vertigo. I think screenwriters and directors copy each other all the time. If you stop and think about it, there are almost NO totally unique movies. And before the movies, novelists copied novelists, and screenwriters copied novelists., etc, etc. The film, THE LAST FLIGHT, from 1931, was stolen from Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises. There must be 50 Billy the Kid films. According to Western movies, Wyatt Earp hung out with the Sundance Kid, Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickock, Jesse James. But most of these guys never met each other. Summary of THE LAST FLIGHT: Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. Cary and Shep's plane is shot down, and they barely survive; they're released from the hospital on Armistice Day, damaged both physically and psychologically. The four friends, haunted by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home, where they meet Nikki, an eccentric and wealthy young woman. Nikki is drawn to Cary, and the five friends--tagged by the boorish reporter, Frink--drink their way from Paris to Lisbon. Few of these members of the "lost generation" make it out of their travels intact. ........... Even the bullfight sequence from The Sun Also Rises is in this film, plus the lone girl traveling with the men. This is exactly the same story but is NOT credited to Hemingway.

I don't see any.

Some stars were just too difficult to work with. Orson Welles was one. He made two or three of the greatest films, but the rest of his films were some of the worst ever made, poorly financed, and attempted to be produced by him. He did not have a talent as a producer.

I thought she looked great. I would have been happy to give her a new home.

Scott was really good in this film, especially as the bad girl. I would afraid the doctor would feel compelled to murder her.

THE OUTLAW

Wow, the second one was good too! An innocent guy gets into a lot of trouble without doing anything wrong! Notice how the pace began to speed up as time passed, and at the end it was really moving fast and changing scenes and settings rapidly.

I hope the rest are as good as the first one and the beginning of the second.

Kid_Dabb, We're getting the missing LOOKALIKES thread back on track. It was found on Planet Xeon, and now it is back here where it belongs. Fred

This is the original LOOKALIKES thread. Now brought back to life by our fine team of Moderators. Arthur Shields and Barry Fitzgerald.

Ok, the old thread is now back. All it needed was to be properly indexed. Fred

Ok, it's back now. I hope you are happy. It was very easy to get it back. It is now indexed under its original title of LOOKALIKES. Fred

Thank you.

Dementia 13 (1963)

I just went back to scsu's original posts from 2008, and they all are still there, so maybe a Moderator can find the thread and give us a direct index link to it.

Hi scsu, This is your post from May 31, 2008, on the original LOOKALIKES thread. Let's see if this works.

It is not invisible by the board because you are reading it on the board right now. This is the old thread and you are reading it on the new board. But it is not properly indexed and we can't find it in the new board's index. Why don't you ask a Moderator about it?

I didn't use Google, I used your link and it brought me to this new forum. It is just not indexed to a forum theme title at this new forum, but it's someplace here, hiding.

Try here: http://forums.tcm.com/index.php?/topic/19192-lookalikes/?p=995638