filmlover
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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."
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Who is Harry Warren?
Take a flip through this column. He's the composer TCM is saluting this month (42nd Street, etc.).
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I just think somebody must be stacking the votes somehow
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African Queen is tied up in legal rights, I believe, so it may be awhile longer before we see it on DVD.
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Thanks for letting us know!
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Check this link. Towards the bottom right is the list. Green Mansions with Audrey Hepburn is #1, with 3,102 votes.
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I think my personal favorite was "The Masked Marvel" with Tom Steele.
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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.
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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.
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Unfortunately, it is a made-for-tv movie. TCM only shows theatrical motion pictures.
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I saw the new DVD release of She, the original b&w on one side, and a colorized version supervised by Ray Harryhausen on the other. I watched both becaue I felt if RH was involved it would at least deseve a look. While there a few moments that looked good, I still see the leaning to the same faults as before when colorization was around a decade or ytwo ago. I'll stick with the original.
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There were only the two in the series.
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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.
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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.
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Shane on you of all people, shearerchic. Shane is available on DVD and has been for several years. And Sorrowful Jones is also available on the single DVD double-bill release with The Paleface. Amazon sells both and have them in stock.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Welcome, everyone.
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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.
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Your first is right. And it was, um, "borrowed" by another composer (name not important) and used where more famously?
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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.
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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.
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Well, at least it has Virginia Mayo.
I would like to have seen some early 1930s films in the package. Ah, well, I am still looking forward to it.