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There were only the two in the series.

Many of the famous composers could be identified as soon as the movie began by their own particular way of writing music. I can probably pick out Steiner most of the time, as well as Korngold, Herrmann, and Rozsa.

I wonder how many are aware that Gordon MacRae also had a couple of radio series, The Gordon MacRae Show (around 1948) and The Railroad Hour (which ran from 1948 through 1954). The Railroad Hour, which actually was close to an hour in its first dozen or so shows but then became a half-hour program (but still called itself The Railroad Hour), was the more interesting of the two because in it he would play the leads in edited versions of famous musicals or operettas. Particularly interesting was he did a 1/2 hr. radio version of Carousel in 1951, 4 years before the movie was made. Patricia Morrison of Broadway's Kiss Me Kate played Julie. He did it again in 1953, with Nadine Connor of the Metropolitan Opera as Julie. I have 81 of them myself, and it is great to hear him in Naughty Marietta, Brigadoon, State Fair, Rose Marie, and others.

Hey! He did the music for Double Indemnity! That was great music. lol, okay, sure, nobody look at my post that started this thread in which I identified some of Rozsa's scores: "Miklos Rozsa (composer of Double Indemnity, A Double Life, Ben-Hur, and many other great films) provides the score. For those of you who have never seen this film before, listen to the opening music where the killers approach the town and see if you recognize the underlying four-note motif from anywhere else. If you can identify it, post here. I'll check back after the film to see who got it." (and if you missed those posts about where the motif was used, it was taken by another composer and used in the Dragnet Theme.) Rozsa was a great composer. Here is a list of his scores: Knight Without Armour Thunder in the City Murder on Diamond Row The Divorce Of Lady X The Four Feathers The Spy in Black Ten Days in Paris On The Night of the Fire Four Dark Hours The Thief of Bagdad That Hamilton Woman Lydia New Wine Sundown Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book Jacar? Five Graves to Cairo So Proudly We Hail! Sahara The Woman of the Town The Hour Before the Dawn Double Indemnity Dark Waters The Man in Half Moon Street Blood on the Sun A Song to Remember Lady on a Train The Lost Weekend Spellbound Because of Him The Killers The Strange Love of Martha Ivers The Red House Song of Scheherazade The Macomber Affair Time out of Mind The Other Love Desert Fury Brute Force Secret Beyond the Door A Woman's Vengeance A Double Life The Naked City Kiss the Blood off My Hands Criss Cross Command Decision The Bribe Madame Bovary East Side, West Side The Red Danube Adam's Rib The Asphalt Jungle Crisis The Miniver Story Quo Vadis The Light Touch The Story Of Three Loves Young Bess All the Brothers Were Valiant Moonfleet The King's Thief Diane Tribute to a Bad Man Bhowani Junction Lust for Life Something of Value The Seventh Sin Tip on a Dead Jockey A Time to Love and a Time to Die The World, the Flesh, and the Devil Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ King Of Kings El Cid Sodom and Gomorrah The V.I.P.s The Power The Green Berets The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes The Golden Voyage of Sinbad Providence The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover Fedora Last Embrace Time After Time Eye of the Needle Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

I look forward to the release of the Power set. And they all seem to be new to DVD, too. I hope they put in extras.

Yes, I have. There is a trivia section in the IMDB for HWBY: "Technical advisor for the film was Sgt. Marty Wynn of the Los Angeles Police Dept. During the course of shooting, he fell into conversation with actor Jack Webb, then the star of radio's "Jeff Regan, Private Investigator." Wynn suggested that Webb do a radio series based on actual police files. Thus was born the idea for "Dragnet," which debuted on NBC radio about four months after this film was released." Dragnet was a big hit on radio in 1949, three years before the TV series, and also continued on radio with Webb until the radio series ended about 1957 (a number of those later shows were repeats). So he was doing both at the same time. Plus the 1954 Dragnet movie. Message was edited by: filmlover

And I should mention it was a music publisher who started the lawsuit. As to Kid Glove Killer, I meant to see it but didn't. One film I would like to see on TCM that I haven't seen anywhere in a decade or two is Jack Webb's "30", his look at a newspaper.

Welcome, everyone.

Yes, the music was used as the Dragnet theme, but Rozsa did not work on the series. What you see listed as a Dragnet credit in the imdb Rozsa listing was not really meaning to say he worked on the TV series. He didn't. He was just getting the credit belatedly for originating that "dum-da-dum-dum" theme in The Killers after a lawsuit about it. The composer of the Dragnet theme, Walter Schumann, agreed to pay Rozsa half his royalties from the Dragnet theme.

Your first is right. And it was, um, "borrowed" by another composer (name not important) and used where more famously?

And if we look at male stars of film noir, some might think of Lancaster as the quintessential film noir "hero", but I always thought Edmond O'Brien was better in that category.

Don't forget her with Edmond O'Brien in "The Web". When it came to film noirs, Universal may have had a lock on having the best elements.

Hi, ken123, Just as I was about to post this, I noticed your new thread in the film noir gangsters section. I felt I better still go ahead and post mine because I felt more people check out the General Discussions forum and I wanted to let them know ASAP because it is on in less than an hour. As far as film noir femme fatales, my favorite is Ella Raines.

I am delighted this is appearing on TCM. In addition to marking the film debut of Burt Lancaster, it features excellent performances by Edmond O'Brien, Sam Levene, and Ava Gardner. Look for William Conrad and Charles McGraw as the hired guns. Miklos Rozsa (composer of Double Indemnity, A Double Life, Ben-Hur, and many other great films) provides the score. For those of you who have never seen this film before, listen to the opening music where the killers approach the town and see if you recognize the underlying four-note motif from anywhere else. If you can identify it, post here. I'll check back after the film to see who got it.

That was excellently written, lzcutter, thanks.

That's what TCM means to me... Thanks for writing that. See, that is it. TCM has come to mean different things for different people. That is why I asked lzcutter to find the "mission statement" of TCM, as it were, to get a more concrete view of what they program.

"greatest"...Would that be Rocky? Rocky II?? Really, now??? "greatest"...Would that be Francis, Francis Joins the WACS, Francis Joins the Navy?? Really now??? The emphasis is really on "from the 1920s through the 1980s," and since that was written ten years ago, should now be moved up ten years.

but I believe TCM's "mission statement," as it were, should be emphasizing pre-1960 film Actually, they do have one and it has been printed a few times. lzcutter, do you happen to have it and can you paste it here?

Thanks, mrsl. Here is also something that TCM released that I think sums up what TCM defines as "Classic": ?WHAT?S CLASSIC? Is it old? Can it be new? Often, a classic is the best of its kind. Sometimes, it?s the worst. Either way, it stands out. A classic always stands out. Classic can mean different things to different people. You parents idea of classic is probably different than yours. Your kids idea of classic is probably different, too. Everybody has a classic. Sometimes classic means the original, Or the best-known, Or the first of its kind. Sometimes it means one of a kind. You could argue that classic is extreme: The saddest of the sad, The bravest of the brave, The gosh-darn charmingest of the charming. Of all the things classic is, the one thing it?s not is one thing. Classic is too big to be pinned down, too universal to be selfish. Classic belongs to everybody. Everybody has a classic. Is it old? Yes. Can it be new? Yes. So, what?s classic? Turner Classic Movies. THAT?S CLASSIC.?

I never tried to shut down the Lamarr thread. All I ever did was post one opinion that it was getting to be very much a wild party time in that thread. TooManyNotes, the troll, then proceeded to go nuclear and destroy everything and he is responsible for the damage that occured. And that troll is still with us today under various names.

Well, please list one. I know you have three years of history as a member, so I can wait while you find it.

Alright, since research isn't your thing, I will ask something easier of you, all this will require is using your memory: When have you ever contributed one positive thing to these boards?

My opinion was, "I've yet to see otterhere and sweetbabykmd come up with one bit of research they have done. Seems they like to lay back and let others do everything." Prove me wrong. Show me one bit of research you have done to back up your belief that TCM shows more recent films in the months that are not Oscar months.

I happen to be at work during the day and don't have time to do things like that, plus I don't know how to find old schedules. links are provided in a post a little further down. I am at work, too, and busy but still have listed the info for your benefit. And it is hard to consider that you think I am rude.

otterhere, hello, did you read what I posted in the March schedule thread? I said the online schedule for December only lists from December 16th on, so it is useless to use. January, I gave you the stats from 1970-on. But I trust your stats and wouldn't for one moment doubt their accuracy If you think I am not accurate in my numbers, check the schedules yourself: http://turnerclassicmovies.com/schedule/month/?cid=&oid=12/1/2006 http://turnerclassicmovies.com/schedule/month/?cid=&oid=1/1/2007 http://turnerclassicmovies.com/schedule/month/?cid=&oid=3/1/2007 I feel a breakdown by year from 1901-on only provides too much data, and the point is showing the total number of 1970-on films in the prime-time schedule. If you want a year breakdown, do some work yourself.