FredCDobbs
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I don't see any.
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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.
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The Vagaries of a Film Career: Paulette Goddard
Unconquered
1952 - After a series of commercial and critical film failures, Goddard pleads with DeMille to be cast in a supporting role in his circus extravaganza, The Greatest Show on Earth. DeMille, still angry over the Unconquered incident, DeMille refuses, casting Gloria Grahame instead. The Greatest Show on Earth would be one of the biggest box office successes of its year.
1954 - After a series of "B" movie ventures, Goddard travels to England to appear in another "B," The Unholy Four, also known as The Stranger Came Home, aired on TCM this morning. The film dies a quick death at the box office, there are no other film roles for Goddard and she retires from the film industry.
Admittedly, however, being an aging movie queen in the '50s was not a benefit for an actress best known for her beauty and vivacious personality, rather than acting talents.I thought she looked great. I would have been happy to give her a new home.
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Scott did fine in this film and it was nice to see a film I hadn't seen before.
Scott was really good in this film, especially as the bad girl.
I would afraid the doctor would feel compelled to murder her.
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THE OUTLAW
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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.
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I hope the rest are as good as the first one and the beginning of the second.
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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
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This is the original LOOKALIKES thread. Now brought back to life by our fine team of Moderators.
Arthur Shields and Barry Fitzgerald.
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Lookalikes is still here but is invisible by the board itself! Weird!
Ok, the old thread is now back. All it needed was to be properly indexed.
Fred
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I found the old Lookalikes thread by using Google and made a post to it but it does not show up on any TCM Forum list. Where exactly is it located?
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
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Hi,
I double checked and I don't see a PM sent about bringing this old thread back.
Be sure to click on this account name and send a message if you have a question.
In other news, I have brought the requested thread back to General Discussions: http://forums.tcm.com/index.php?/topic/19192-lookalikes/
Enjoy!
Thank you.
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Dementia 13 (1963)
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Maybe the thread can be kept alive by using the links we both provided.
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.
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Does anyone else ever get these two actors mixed up?
Hi scsu,
This is your post from May 31, 2008, on the original LOOKALIKES thread. Let's see if this works.
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Lookalikes is still here but is invisible by the board itself! Weird!
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?
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I know but it does not show up on the Forum list and as Dargo pointed out, it was within the old Hot Topics but it in a way still survives if one uses Google.
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.
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I found the old Lookalikes thread by using Google and made a post to it but it does not show up on any TCM Forum list. Where exactly is it located?
Try here:
http://forums.tcm.com/index.php?/topic/19192-lookalikes/?p=995638
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Hey, where are you??
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THE LAST MAN ON EARTH
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I LOVE Priscilla Lane.
I'd love to be married to her!
Me to Priscilla:
"Honey, I'm home!"
Her reaction:
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Our eyes don't work like that in real life. We never see life in front of us as a smilebox.
The distortion comes from sitting too far back in a curved screen theater.
Set up closer to the screen and there is no smilebox effect.
The screen is not narrow in the middle and wide on both sides. That is an illusion if we sit too far back in a theater.
And we don't need to see a 70 mm film on a TV screen, since 35 mm works just fine.
Better yet is 4:3, like Gone with the Wind and Drums along the Mohawk, so we can see the sky above us and the ground below the actors, and their legs too. We do not need to see the sky cut out and the tops of their heads cut off and the bottoms of their legs missing.
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Glad you agree with me Fred that the film he's looking for is DON'T MAKE WAVES.
Yes, Thanks. I couldn't remember the title. I saw this about 10 years ago but I didn't remember the title, but I remembered something about the house falling off a hill and the teens on the beach.
These Hammer noirs are pretty good!
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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.
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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.