FredCDobbs
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I agree. These two movies are their own artforms and can't be duplicated.
Some lady tried to do a remake of "It's a Wonderful Life" for TV, with herself playing the main role, but it bombed.
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Yes, the quake effects were remarkable. I first saw the film on the Late Show in the mid-50s when I was about 13, and I was astonished at the big scene when the street cracks apart and 3 or 4 feet down in the hole were water mains that broke. They had to build a big set that acually had two parts that were moved apart, and they must have had 8 or more feet of dirt showing under the street level.
The real City Hall cracked apart and the stone veneer sides fell off just like in the movie, leaving the dome supported by steel beams. It looks to me like the movie model of City Hall is very large and maybe made out of plaster that was designed to crack apart at the right places.
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In "The Letter" she is punished for shooting a guy for no good leagal reason. But the dragon lady is not punished for killing someone for no good legal reason.
In "Watch On the Rhine" a guy is shot and killed for no good leagal reason, yet his killer escapes punishment. These are rare events during the code years.
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Deception.
I think that is another film that broke the code. She shoots Rains for no good legal reason, "in cold blood", but she is not punished for it, although Paul Henreid says something to her later about maybe needing money for her trial.
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I have the Panasonic DMR-ES30V.
My Sony disks are made in Taiwan.
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Hmm... could it be "The Letter" with Jeanne Eagels?
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Thanks for the information!
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Regarding Clark Gable and ?San Francisco,? I happened to study a lot of details about the 1906 SF fire and earthquake when I lived there, and a local theater began showing the movie every year on the anniversary of the earthquake. I learned that the film, although based on a fictional story about the individual people, was quite accurate in many details: Much of the music at the talent show was authentic to the era, the men and women?s clothes were accurate to 1906, the women?s hair styles were accurate, the Opera being in town (Caruso was shaken out of his hotel bed that morning), Lotta?s Fountain, The Coast filled with vice, the various corrupt city commission rules, laws, and politics, the way City Hall collapsed (the model collapsed the way the real City Hall collapsed), the models of the burning city (they were models of many of the real building of 1906 San Francisco), the general stories about how the people on Nob Hill originally made their money, the second wave of the quake, the type of motion of the quake, the broken water mains, the gas lines breaking, the tent city set up in Golden Gate Park, the local animosity toward Los Angeles citizens, the troops down from the Presidio, the troops blowing up buildings to stop the fire, the shooting of looters, the long carriage ride out to Golden Gate Park from town, and many other details. The tune ?San Francisco? seems to be new and was jazzed up for a 1930s audience.
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Hmm... a "Sheriff" and an "Emperor"?
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William Powell in ?My Man Godfrey?.
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I've had my Panasonic recorder for about 8 months and I've had several Sony disks and one Verbatim disk stop in the middle of a recording. The whole recording system shuts down as if it is at the end of the recording time. I've wondered if this is because I need to tighten the pressure cup pressure (although I thought it was a roller that needed a little more pressure).
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Rusty, tell me more. This is interesting.
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Thanks very much, Rusty. So it plays sort of like an old 45 rpm record, but the cup holds the disk tight to the spindle, and the laser plays from inside to the outside. Very interesting.
I ain't gonna open mine up or fool around with it. Not until it stops working altogether.
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Does anyone know how a DVD player turns the DVD disk?
If it has a roller that rolls along the top of a disk, then that roller could bump every time it hits a label tape or a warped paper label. But I'm not sure what actually turns the disks. It has to be some kind of roller somewhere, but I'm not sure where the force is put on the disk.
I've had no trouble using a magic marker on the top of my disks. In fact the Verbatim disks I use have three engraved lines at the bottom of the top of the disk which look like they are for a pen to write titles on.
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Dang, you beat me to it!
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From wikipedia about George:
"Another well-known Gershwin piece is "An American in Paris. " It is a long tone poem for orchestra. Its first public performance was by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1928."
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Hey! What on earth has happened to my great thread??
Oh, well, I?m glad liberals and conservatives equally like old classic movies on TCM!
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Bogie, Bette, and Leslie were outstanding in ?The Petrified Forest.? In fact, the other people were too. That was a case of perfect casting and a very good film rendition of a New York stage play.
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There is something I really like in movies and that is when people say things only with their eyes, such as Myrna Loy in ?The Rains Came?, when she realized she had accidently caught the plague. That takes a good actor, a good director, a good cameraman, and a good editor, all working together.
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Rin Tin Tin
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?Our local PBS station has "Yentl" scheduled for Saturday evening. Worth taping??
Go ahead and tape it. You can always erase it later. It?s not up to me to tell other people what they should like or not.
Most of these ?girl dressed up like a boy? movies look to me like the girls are girls, dressed up like boys, such as Veronica Lake in ?Sullivan?s Travels?. I think Garbo did one too, and there were others.
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"The Invisible Man" (ha, ha, ha)
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"Rebecca"
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I can?t imagine ?Funny Girl? winning an Oscar for anything, other than ?longest movie? or ?most boring movie? or "best cartoon."
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?Anyway, how do we know that the dragon lady is not punished for her deed ("The Letter")? And how do we know that the killer gets off scott-free in Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine?" As I recall, both movies end after these incidents and we never know what happens to the killers. Am I wrong??
Generally the killers were supposed to be shown as at least being arrested before the end of the film. The theory of the rule was to teach kids that ?crime does not pay? and ?you will always get caught? if you do something wrong, and to teach them that they just can?t go around killing people they are mad at. These are lessons kids need to be taught today too.
In ?Watch on the Rhine?, the plot takes place before the US enters the War, when there is still a German Embassy in Washington, but the film was released after we entered the War. During War-time films, the rules about killing ?the enemy? was loosened so that an enemy could be shot even though he was not, at the moment, directly trying to kill the hero who shoots him. So that?s how that murder might have gotten past the censors, since the guy who was killed was acting as an agent of the Nazis and the film was released during War-time.
In ?Deception?, Rains was just so mean and nasty, maybe the censors let that killing be HIS punishment. (LOL)
In ?The Letter?, well I assume that the dragon lady gets punished, but I don?t know if we can apply the code to anything that happens after a film ends, since a film is not real life and nothing else happens after a film ends, unless the actors say it will happen. Maybe Bette Davis had some personal friends on the Code committee who personally let her films get away with these unpunished killings.
The early James Bond films flaunted breaking the code since Bond was known to have ?permission? from the British government to kill anyone he wanted to kill with no questions asked. And this wasn?t during War-time.
In ?They Won?t Forget? there were several lynchers who killed a guy, and they went unpunished. In ?Fury?, I think the audience would have liked for the lynchers to be punished, although they didn?t actually kill their victim. Personally, I wish Spencer Tracy had not shown up in court and had not let the court know he had survived, but under the Code system that would have made him seem like a villain.
In the ?Rebecca? book, Mr. DeWinter purposely murdered his wife, but in the 1940 movie, that was changed to an accident. In a 1990s BBC TV version of the film, Mr. DeWinter purposely murdered his wife, and his new young wife helped him cover up the crime.