filmlover

lol, getting back to Casablanca...it's a delight to come home from work and find that playing on TV. Sure, I have the DVD and can play it anytime but something about the movie - maybe that it is my favorite film - keeps me glued to the TV until it's over.

Mongo, hope that sometime you can do something on Ella Raines and Edmond O'Brien. Thanks, Mongo, for answering my request and starting my day out so great with a wonderful pic of Ella Raines.

I just got my two replacement DVDs for the set and everything looks great. And about a week ago, I received the 5 free Superman posters (reproducing the first four Superman movie posters with Reeve and the new Superman Returns). Terrific looking, almost indistinguishable from the originals. What a great bargain this set is.

I have a couple of possibilities, but I will take a chance on A Foreign Affair.

I mentioned it; sue me. "mentioned it"? You started a whole new thread about it rather than posting somewhere back in that March schedule thread where you have been calling for all prime time figures. And when people start to respond in ways that you don't care to hear, you say you are bored with the subject and that's the end of it. Maybe they should start a forum called "Rhetorical Posts", so nobody is allowed to post a response. ME, otter, I don't like --generally speaking, with few exceptions -- movies from 1970 on... Okay, if you are saying "post-1960", then that would be films from 1961 on. If you are saying "movies from 1970 on", then the six or seven movies that bothered you that were on during the daytime hours comes down to about 1 or 2.

It's funny, Lynn, when I read his post this morning, I thought, well, I would look up a year's worth of Now Playing to find out how many films by decade there have been, day or night, but then realized it would be pointless. Why? For the simple reason, facts and figures don't matter to them. Whether it is changing parameters from nighttime to daytime, or that their perception is that there are more recent movies than ever (who cares what the facts are?), it all comes down to one all-encompassing rule: one post-1960s film is too many.

Ma I made it...to the top of the world Hi, inglis, sorry but it is such a classic line that I must correct what you wrote. It's "Made it, Ma! Top o' the world!"

No film made after 1960 is as good as a golden classic black and white from the 1930s and 1940s. dolores, considering some of the greatest films ever made are in the two lists, (some titles, not all), I would have to disagree with your statement. There are marvellous movies from the Thirties and Forties that will never be replaced. However, there are films likewise from the Fifties onwards that won't either.

"Yours, Mine, and Ours"??? Puh-leez... Actually, you will notice I am reprinting that one from lzcutter's list. I don't care much for the film myself. But many of the films are on her list are terrific. Ones I chose that weren't on the list she made follow with the words, And let me add some of my own:

"That's Lynn's address. Just make sure you're back by midnight."

otterhere, I'm truly sorry you appear to hate every film made after 1960. You are missing out on so many great films. I hope lzcutter doesn't mind me borrowing her list from another post: "The Apartment, The Alamo, To Kill a Mockingbird, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dr. Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Oliver!, Ride the High Country, Advise and Consent, The Longest Day, The Best Man, Fail-Safe, Dr Strangelove, The Rounders, Yours, Mine and Ours, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, How the West Was Won, Cheyenne Autumn, Shenandoah, The Flight of the Phoenix, The Shootist, Murder on the Orient Express, The Sons of Katie Elder, Donovan's Reef, Hatari, Father Goose, Charade, That Touch of Mink, The Grass is Greener, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Two for the Road, Wait Until Dark, My Fair Lady, Captain Newman, MD, Cape Fear, Arabesque, The Sting, Cool Hand Luke, Hud, Hombre, The Hustler, The Cincinnati Kid, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Hell is for Heroes, The Thomas Crown Affair, Will Penny, The Americanization of Emily, The Fortune Cookie, True Grit, The Godfather, Godfather Part II, Anne of a Thousand Days, Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, The Misfits." And let me add some of my own: The Manchurian Candidate, All the President's Men, Midnight Cowboy, West Side Story, Fanny, La Dolce Vita, Days of Wine and Roses, Birdman of Alcatraz, Long Day's Journey into Night, A Hard Day's Night, The Miracle Worker, The Music Man, The Birds, Dr. No, Tom Jones, Seven Days in May, The Candidate, Zulu, Mary Poppins, Cat Ballou, Patton, The Sound of Music, A Patch of Blue, To Sir with Love, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Blow-Up, Born Free, A Man for All Seasons, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, How to Steal a Million, Barefoot in the Park, Bonnie and Clyde, In the Heat of the Night, Charly, Cabaret, The Odd Couple, The Lion in Winter, Z, and that's just a few. And here I thought the major complaint about more recent films (though how anyone can count 1960s films made nearly forty to fifty years ago as "more recent" is beyond me) was that they were being shown during prime time. But the ones you were referring to were all shown during the daytime hours, and a regular weekday, to boot. Message was edited by: filmlover

Happy birthday. Lynn, hope you are having a great day.

Red Skelton in Ocean's Eleven (as unflattering a personal portrayal as you might see).

John Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Walter Huston in The Maltese Falcon.

Glenda Jackson in The Boy Friend.

I don't know, I just can't imagine that many votes for Johnny Stecchino. Maybe some computer whiz started an email thing saying to his online buddies, "Hey, I've never heard of this film, but write in saying you want to have Johnny Stecchino on DVD."

Who is Harry Warren? Take a flip through this column. He's the composer TCM is saluting this month (42nd Street, etc.).

I just think somebody must be stacking the votes somehow

African Queen is tied up in legal rights, I believe, so it may be awhile longer before we see it on DVD.

Check this link. Towards the bottom right is the list. Green Mansions with Audrey Hepburn is #1, with 3,102 votes. http://www.tcmdb.com/index.jsp

I think my personal favorite was "The Masked Marvel" with Tom Steele.

Feel sorry for all of those under 60 types who missed out on what was for us kids of the 50's the best part of the week! Actually, I am in my very early fifties, and in the early 1960s I went to a local matinee and they would have two movies, shorts, cartoons, and a chapter of an old serial (usually Columbia-produced). I remember going every week, waiting breathlessly for the chapter of "Batman and Robin." The admission was 20 cents and if we got there before 1 PM, we got a free Pepsi.

Last month on Saturday morning they showed the complete "Superman VS. The Mole People" serial. Sorry, vallo, you are thinking of "Atom Man vs. Superman" starring Kirk Alyn. Alyn also starred in the first serial, "Superman." "Superman and the Mole Men" was a feature film with George Reeves and also a two parter for the TV series. And I don't know if it is a sign of serials to come or not because Warner Bros. issued the two serials on DVD at the time they were on TCM and there haven't been any others since then or on the schedule for the next two months, so it may have just been a tie-in.

Unfortunately, it is a made-for-tv movie. TCM only shows theatrical motion pictures.