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Hi, edgecliff,
Thanks for letting know the date for Becket. I just wanted to mention it would be best to post things like this in the "Upcoming Releases" thread. After I convinced TCM to get a DVD thread going, I broke everything down into genres threads, so people could get their info all in one category, rather than trying to find one particular single thread about one movie.
And someone came up with the idea of the Upcoming Releases thread. It is great for posting details of soon-to-be-released films on DVD, and is the most viewed thread in the DVD section. And then when the DVD comes out, you can post a review in the Drama thread.
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Thanks, inglis. I have been so incredibly busy, I meant to post a line and then got swamped with work and forgot!!!
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It's funny but when I first saw the Rocky short, I didn't find it very amusing, but now seeing it again just recently, what with the release of Rocky Balboa, I found it very funny because of it relevance.
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That was "To the Ends of the Earth" (1948) starring Dick Powell.
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I nominate - Pollyanna
Good choice. I am also partial to Summer Magic, which had Hayley Mills and Burl Ives. And The Parent Trap.
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Well, I don't know about noir, but for awhile it looked like you couldn't have a movie with a general unless it was played by Whit Bissell. His most famous was probably on The Time Tunnel.
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Mary Poppins?
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Hi, Cagney,
I am hosting the new TCM Programming Challenge that will start in a few days and that will take a lot of my attention, so please go ahead.
filmlover
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Don't even get me started as to why he doesn't have a star in Hollywood. After 60yrs. and 200 films (come-on Hollywood walk-of fame....get with the program)
As I understand it, the star has to be nominated in a form to the Chamber of Commerce, the star must attend (that would leave Cook out) and someone has to pony up $15,000 if it is decided to give the person a Star. I can't recall if there has/had to be a number of signatures of fans, as well.
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Don't forget
That Hamilton Woman - Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier
Rembrandt - Charles Laughton
Sanders of the River - Paul Robeson
Fire Over England - Olivier and Leigh
Knight Without Armor - Marlene Dietrich
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I would have said Johnny Weissmuller, except for the boxing thing..
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Cineplexes.
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Waall, you know, it, ah, sorta sounds like THE F.B.I. STORY to me.
It is The FBI Story starring James Stewart and Vera Miles. You win. Your turn.
And to those who were wondering about the clues, here is an explanation:
1. An ocean journey ? Mario, a guide in South America, who has always wanted to see the ocean, is killed and his body falls into the river which will lead out to the ocean.
2. An undelivered letter ? Chip Hardesty?s (James Stewart) letter of resignation
3. A newspaper editor ? stood up to the ****
4. Winning a bet ? a crooked banker behind a series of Indian killings bet the undercover FBI agent (Stewart) that the FBI would never come.
5. A scent of lilacs ? Chip?s FBI partner is shot and as he dies he smells lilacs nearby.
6. A phony insurance salesman ? another undercover FBI agent trying to solve the Indian killings.
7. Yankee Doodle ? the song that plays when the musical beanie?s propeller turns
8. An unfinished speech ? Chip?s daughter is giving a school speech but forgets the end of it and runs off
9. Lots of bathtubs ? the Indians that were being killed had struck it rich in oil and collected odd things, one who bought a lot of tubs and sinks
10. A Mystery section rendezvous ? Chip?s love (Vera Miles) is a librarian early in the picture and they would pretend to be looking for a book in the Mystery section and kiss.
11. A South American taxi driver ? an undercover FBI agent
12. A young version of Joseph and an angel ? Chip?s children who dress as such for a play
13. A Marine sergeant is killed at Iwo Jima ? Chip?s son
14. Not normally, but here fifty cents is two bits ? a fifty-cent piece is hollow and contains a microfilm. When dropped on a counter at a dry cleaner, it breaks into two pieces or two bits.
15. Time bomb ? from the opening of the film, a young man insures his mother during a flight and plants a timebomb in her luggage, that goes off while up in the sky.
16. A final picture show ? the FBI kill John Dillinger outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago where Manhattan Melodrama starring Clark Gable was playing.
17. A musical beanie ? Chip buys this for his daughter while on stakeout. This is the one that plays ?Yankee Doodle?
18. The house that Ruth built ? obviously, Yankee Stadium. The FBI tail the man with the coin containing the microfilm to Yankee Stadium.
19. Hogan?s Alley ? the training ground for FBI recruits.
20. Famous initials battle infamous initials ? the FBI vs. the ****
And the last clue was to be:
21. While the tale has settings in Chicago, New York, Oklahoma, and South America, the movie is centered at a building at 9th and Pennsylvania in Washington, D.C. where the motto is ?Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity?
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While the film I am thinking about was filmed partly at Yankee Stadium, it is not a sports movie at all.
Clue #20: Famous initials battled infamous initials.
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Right ballpark, lol, wrong movie.
Clue #19: Hogan's Alley.
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lol, I knew someone would think of that, but that's not it.
Clue #18: The house that Ruth built.
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Thanks, Inglis, I will think of something overnight and post tomorrow. I want to finish up the 21 Questions thread tonight first.
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Well, since I want to close this out today, here is...
Clue #17: A musical beanie.
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Has TCM finally been able to melt the iron bars around the Disney Library? First, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in February
Lynn, you forgot about The Absent-Minded Professor, also on in Feb.
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By the way, Julie Bishop's daughter, Pamela Susan Shoop, is also an attractive and talented actress.
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cinemalover, 4 Robin Hoods are being shown on TCM on Apr. 28th:
Adv of RH
Sword of Sherwood Forest
Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
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Glad to see you are still trying. Unfortunately, that is incorrect.
(By the way, don't let clue #1: "An ocean journey" throw you. It is more of a journey to the ocean.)
Clue #16: A final picture show.
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So far, the clues for the movie are:
1. An ocean journey
2. An undelivered letter
3. A newspaper editor
4. Winning a bet
5. A scent of lilacs
6. A phony insurance salesman
7. Yankee Doodle
8. An unfinished speech
9. Lots of bathtubs
10. A Mystery section rendezvous
11. A South American taxi driver
12. A young version of Joseph and an angel
13. A Marine sergeant is killed at Iwo Jima
14. Not normally, but here fifty cents is two bits
15. Time bomb
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Clue #15: Time bomb
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When you review a DVD, please post it under the applicable thread here (Drama, Film noir, Science Fiction, etc.)
If you have info about someting about to come out on DVD, post it in the Upcoming Releases thread.
Thanks.