FredCDobbs
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"It Came From Outer Space"
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I remember seeing that movie when I was a kid. Her husband was crazy. Barry Sullivan.
?Cause for Alarm? 1951.
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On Google, type ?loretta young filmography? and look up her films from that era.
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I agree. I don't think the big musicals can be re-made.
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Warm summer sun, shine kindly here;
Warm southern wind, blow softly here;
Green sod above, lie light, lie light?
Good night, dear heart, good night.
Good night.
~ Mark Twain
epitaph for his daughter
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I?ve seen debates about the Nazis and the Commies, about both being ?socialists?. I would say that one of the main differences between them was that Communism was supposed to be an ?internationalist? movement, while Nazism was a ?nationalistic? movement.
Of course the Russian, Chinese, North Korean, and Cuban Communists were ?nationalistic?, but they had to pretend they were part of a big world-wide commune-ism internationalist movement, designed to make the whole world one big ?commune? with one big one-world government.
The Nazis wanted only a nationalist movement with Germany at the center of it, ruling the world.
The Nationalist Fascists became known as ?Right Wingers? and the Internationalist Communists became known as ?Leftists?.
The early Italian fascists wanted the same thing, with Italy at the center, as in the old Roman Empire. The Japs wanted the same thing with Japan at the center.
The Germans and Japs played along with each other during WW II, in order to defeat the US and since they were so far apart, but had both sides won the war, they would have probably attacked each other and tried to become the center of their own one-world fascist government, with ?nationalism? still important to them.
Of course Russia was always ?nationalistic? and tried to gain control of the world in the ?40s and ?50s, but Communist China didn?t want to be ruled by the Russians, so, actually, Communism began to split into several nationalistic groups, such as the Russian, Chinese, North Korean, and Cuban, and that might have eventually led to the downfall of the Russian domination of Communism.
The word ?Fascism? comes from the ancient Roman symbol called the ?fasces?. This is a bundle of sticks, bound by ropes, with an ax-head embedded at one end. If all the sticks hold together, then the ax-head is firmly in place. The ?sticks? represent the various institutions of a nation: government, industry, agriculture, business, the media, the education system, etc., etc. All must work together in a unified way to make a Fascist government succeed.
Ironically, the US government has used the ?fasces? symbol itself, mainly long ago, such as on the back of the Liberty Dime (before the Roosevelt Dime), and on each side of the podium in the US House of Representatives. Originally, early in the 20th Century in Italy, ?Fascism? basically meant ?a unified and strong country.? But after the Nazis began to use the term, it began to mean ?a bad right-wing government?.
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Hey! My satellite receiver is working again! I've found a good old pirate movie on TCM.
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?Speaking of Nazis, one version that was based on the Petrified Forest (loosely, very loosely) used escaped Nazi war criminals instead of gangsters in the plot. It was a hoot. I can't remember the name though.?
Interesting. I don?t think I?ve seen it. I agree with you about The Petrified Forest. It was perfect as it was, and it can?t be out-done.
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?I think TCM should run the "There is nothing wrong with your television set......" disclaimer before showing some of these "treats".?
LOL! That?s a great idea!
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One voice that grated on my nerves was that of Elizabeth Taylor in ?Cleopatra?. Throughout the entire movie she sounded to me like Maggie the cat in ?Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?. I kept expecting Big Daddy to come into the room and say something like, ?What the heck are all these danged Italians doing in ma house!?
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Lol, you might enjoy seeing Marion Davies in ?Operator 13?. She plays a Yankee girl who goes to the South during the war to spy for the North. TCM used to air it a long time ago.
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I can?t seem to find TCM on my satellite receiver right now. All I can find are a bunch of ?70s and ?80s films.
Anyway, I?m watching a DVD of ?Flying Down to Rio?. Great music!
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I suggest:
"Gone With the Wind"
"Citizen Kane"
and "The Third Man"
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I don?t know about the difference between the theatrical and DVD versions. I was commenting bout the ?white guy? remark. A white Anglo gentile guy in the ?50s would not have called Columbus a ?white guy?.
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Also, an early term in pre-codes for ?doing it? was ?something happened?. You?ll hear this in an early Cagney movie regarding his brother and his grilfriend. Also in ?Rain?. Joan Crawford says it. Also in ?It Happened one Night.? That?s exactly what the title of that film means, and it did ?happen? on the last night shown in the film. This term seems to have gone out of style in films by the end of the ?30s.
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What I think would help all film noir fans is if someone would study ?The Big Sleep? and write out an outline of all the characters and their relationships with each other. I think that would make this film less confusing. There are characters mentioned several times in this film who we never ever see, and I keep getting them mixed up with other characters. I?m so confused now, I?m not sure if I should be the one to make out the outline.
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?"Roxie Hart" is excellent, though Ginger doesn't dance much.?
Oh, man, did you see her dance up the stairs in the jail? Fantastic! I?ve got that dance sequence on several tapes now. I wish she had danced more in that movie.
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I saw a movie on TCM recently titled ?The Black Book?. This is the British title for ?Reign of Terror?, 1949, with Robert Cummings and Arlene Dahl. She had the most beautiful smile in this film. In one scene, both the cameraman and the editor held this one close-up of her smiling for an unusually long time. I used to be a documentary cameraman and editor, and occasionally I would hold a scene for an unusually long time, especially if I caught an unusually beautiful smile on a woman or a guy or a little kid. It is scenes like this that people in the audience remember forever, even though the ?unusually long time? might only be 8 seconds. But this is 8 seconds that will go into the mind?s memory banks and stay there forever. In style, the movie was a ?film noir? type of film, but set during the French Revolution. The sleazy dives and back alleys were in Paris circa late 17-hundreds.
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I like the scene in ?The Lady from Shanghai? where the taxi driver almost hits Welles driving the carriage and he yells something at Welles like, ?Hey Mack! Get that nag outta here!?
I also like to see Rita Hayworth driving that 1948 Lincoln Continental convertible.
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I loved Lucy and Desi in ?The Long Long Trailer?. It is so true to life, regarding husbands and wives trying to drive any unusual or large vehicle under adverse conditions. I also remember my mother and father trying to dive on the narrow two-lane highways in the high Rocky Mountains in Montana in the late 1940s. LOL. And me trying to push my car while my wife was in the driver?s seat trying to start it. LOL. Of course, we are divorced now.
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I think Mitchum played a small role in "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo".
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There have been reports here about this from other people who have cable.
I have Direct TV satellite and I have not had these problems.
Are you in snow country? Your local cable company might have trouble receiving some satellites during rain or snow.
When it snows on my own little satellite dish, I get break-up and then nothing. That's how I know it is snowing late at night. I have to go out in the cold in my pajamas and wipe the snow off my dish.
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Ok, I found my January movie list. I think the film was ?Air Force?, 1943, with John Garfield.
CONGRATS TO MR. OSBORNE OF "WALK OF FAME" "STAR!"
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I used to live and work in the Hollywood area back in the ?70s, and I thought the stars were for famous movie stars only, not for other kinds of people.
Yesterday on the news I saw that Judge Judy just got her star on the walkway. This is absurd.