filmlover

I watched part of the remake and it had none of the charm of the original. P.S. -- Mongo, hope I didn't intrude in answering the question about the title of the film before you did. After all, the name of the thread is not "Ask Filmlover".

Did you ever have one of those days? Message was edited by: filmlover

Oops, The two Bennett films (Topper and Topper Takes a Trip) were first and second, and THEN came Topper Returns with Blondell.

Oh, and actually Topper himself was never a ghost. He was the living henpecked husband that Roland Young played who was followed around by the ghosts of his friends, the Kerbys (played by Cary Grant and Bennett), in the first film, then the woman played by Joan Blondell in the second, and Bennett again as Marion Kerby in the third. Message was edited by: filmlover

Mongo is correct about that. There was a sequel with blonde Joan Blondell. Could either of them be the one you were thinking of? As far as Veronica Lake goes, she was in two excellent comedies, I Married A Witch and Sullivan's Travels.

This sounds like "Unfaithfully Yours", which was remade later with Dudley Moore.

Sorry, but it has to be Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity.

Say, Matt, that's right. And you've made me think...Clark is never around when Superman is. Could it be...is it possible -- ? Nah, couldn't be. One wears glasses, the other doesn't.

It was a hard choice because there are things in everybody?s listings that I would like to see on TCM. (I have a listing below and I know how hard everyone worked on theirs.) One thing I looked at was how interesting the themes were and what I would like to see. Another was following the guidelines that path40a listed at the beginning of the challenge. I looked at each one several times, and I would like to vote for everyone (including myself, lol), but as I can only vote once, so I will say?Hlywdkjk P.S. - when you get a chance to look at mine, please know I DO know how to spell Billy Wilder's last name, but my fingers messed up

I'm back. Hello, Dolly Streisand in The Owl and the Pussycat Matthau in The Sunshine Boys Michael Crawford in A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum

pktrekgirl, do I hear "Bad Boys, Bad Boys" playing in your background, lol?

Things are so crazy with my work this week, I better let you open this up to everyone.

Mongo, Ignoring Aaron Copland should be a treasonous offense, for he was America. He had several great film scores.

Rusty, I agree with you about Taxi Driver. Very powerful score emotionally. He died before the film was released and they added a credit at the end acknowledging him. I love Spartacus, too. Especially the tender love theme. If you like North, check out his Rich Man Poor Man soundtrack. Excellent work. And though the Righteous Brothers are what people think of when they hear the song, Unchained Melody, the music is by North for his film of the same name. My two favorite composers have been Miklos Rozsa and Alfred Newman. if you haven't been exposed to their music, there are a number of soundtrack albums out there by them. For Rozsa, his career encompassed everything from The Thief of Bagdad to Double Indemnity to Ben-Hur (his greatest score) to ... well, the list goes on and on. Alfred Newman was basically the head composer at 20th Century Fox. Great scores include The Mark of Zorro and Captain from Castile. You can also see him conducting the orchestra in the suite "Street Scene" at the beginning of the film "How to Marry A Millionaire".

Gad, I need something to slow you down. All correct.

Okay, here we go: Mr. Twiddle, Bull Weed, a singer, a coward, and a landowner are among the people we meet as a chilly prospector goes after a superhero. Others we meet are another prospector and a Spanish-Californian jailer.

can agree with their choice of GWTW, Magnificent Seven, and Star Wars but these are ones I still hold among the greatest: (not in any order) On the Waterfront (1954) Leonard Bernstein Ben-Hur (1959) Miklos Rozsa Kings Row (1941) Erich Wolfgang Korngold The Wind and the Lion (1975) Jerry Goldsmith Captain from Castile (1947) Alfred Newman A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Alex North A Nun?s Story (1959) Franz Waxman North by Northwest (1959) Bernard Herrmann

And stay tuned in after the movie. When it played a few days ago, they added a short with Edith Head and the costumes Natalie Wood wore in the film

I am going to have to post on Thursday. I am only in for half a day today and the workload is enormous.

I will have to think about what I would change about the old film history later, but I do know that one thing I would change now would be the discrimination Hollywood has in TV and movies about hiring writers past the age of 30. In their belief that only young writers can know what the demographic audience they want, those writers who have written some of the greatest films ever and won Academy Awards for their work don't get work. That is my belief in why so many movies today are pretty bad.

There is a drawback to that, Sandy, something I experienced many years ago. A local theater where I grew up had a special showing of a 1940s Batman serial in its entirety (somewhere between 12-15 episodes). Before I continue, let me elaborate for a moment of what an individual chapter would consist of: In the old days, a chapter would have the regular opening credits which would take a minute or two, then came a series of individual still images of the hero, sidekicks, villain, and henchmen, and a written description of what they had done plotwise up tot his point in the serial, then would come a few minutes of footage from the last episode that brought the hero to the point of the exciting cliffhanger, then show how he escaped, then would come several minutes of new footage to expand the story, a new cliffhanger ending, and then end titles. Since you would go once a week, it was necessary to provide so much repeat stuff in each episode in order to remind the audience (basically of kids) what happened seven days ago (they still do that with weekly TV drama shows). For each fifteen minute episode, you were seeing only 8 to 10 minutes of new stuff and the rest was what you had already seen. But that was okay, because in the days of the 1940s, it was just one chapter per week. Now, we jump ahead to that special showing of the entire serial in the 1960s. It took about three to four hours to show the whole thing, and each episode had the entire opening credits EVERY...SINGLE...TIME, as well ad the recap slides EVERY...SINGLE...TIME, the repeat footage of the last episode EVERY...SINGLE...TIME, etc. etc. etc EVERY SINGLE TIME. After about three episodes, the audience was groaning. After five or six, people were rushing for the exit. I thnk I made it through but what an endurance test on the nerves it was. At least, if they showed the entire thing on TV, you could TiVo it and fast forward through the repeat stuff.

I'm wiped after that. I'll have to post a new one tomorrow. Have a good night.

I do know it. GAD, when looking at the credits for Theater of Blood, I looked down the column and saw Vincent Price's name there and Diana Rigg's but completely missed Dennis Price squeezed between them. Sigh, sigh, sigh.

You better give me this one. I don't think I've seen the film you are describing and that makes it hard.

Dang, those British make a lot of movies. Could it be Nicolas and Alexandra? And did you know that three members of Theater of Blood are in that one, too?