David Guercio Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 I know they have shown The Incredible Mr Limpet and I,m guessing maybe some of Don Knotts,s other movies too. But have they ever shown The Ghost And Mr Chicken here on TCM before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 6 hours ago, David Guercio said: I know they have shown The Incredible Mr Limpet and I,m guessing maybe some of Don Knotts,s other movies too. But have they ever shown The Ghost And Mr Chicken here on TCM before? It's airing on TCM the end of October. http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/19331/The-Ghost-and-Mr-Chicken/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NipkowDisc Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 they showed it on svengoolie a few weeks ago so who cares. I got the vic mizzy music on CD. also got his reluctant astronaut music on CD too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 22 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said: they showed it on svengoolie a few weeks ago so who cares. I got the vic mizzy music on CD. also got his reluctant astronaut music on CD too. Aren't you the one who's always clamoring for more Universal films to be shown on TCM? I'd think you would be happy that THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN is airing on the 27th of October. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Guercio Posted August 23, 2018 Author Share Posted August 23, 2018 Great. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 2 minutes ago, David Guercio said: Great. Thank you. It probably won't be on TCM again for another five years. So make sure you record it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NipkowDisc Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 52 minutes ago, TopBilled said: Aren't you the one who's always clamoring for more Universal films to be shown on TCM? I'd think you would be happy that THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN is airing on the 27th of October. sure I am. Ghost and Mr. Chicken has a real hot babe for Don in joan staley but I'm more partial to joan freeman in The Reluctant Astronaut. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveGirl Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 12 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said: sure I am. Ghost and Mr. Chicken has a real hot babe for Don in joan staley but I'm more partial to joan freeman in The Reluctant Astronaut. Nip, you should have starred in the tv series "Love That Joan" instead of Jim Backus! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Faiola Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 1 hour ago, NipkowDisc said: I got the vic mizzy music on CD. also got his reluctant astronaut music on CD too. Great! I produced those for Percepto. I got two lovely letters from Vic Mizzy. In one he said "Great editing. With your fingers you could have been a gynecologist." That one is framed on my office wall! MR. CHICKEN has been a favorite since I was a kid. I first saw it at an outdoor screening at Orienta Beach Club in Mamaroneck. It spooked the sand out of my sneakers! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spence Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 2 hours ago, TopBilled said: It's airing on TCM the end of October. http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/19331/The-Ghost-and-Mr-Chicken/ I liked this one & even more so INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET since I was a little lad Are they making yet another rehash of it. The latter has been planned now for a decade though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spence Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 2 hours ago, TopBilled said: It's airing on TCM the end of October. http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/19331/The-Ghost-and-Mr-Chicken/ It was on TCM or another station within the last couple of yrs Both of them actually, but "MR. CHICKEN" is aired more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 4 hours ago, spence said: It was on TCM or another station within the last couple of yrs Both of them actually, but "MR. CHICKEN" is aired more Thanks spence for shining some light on the subject! I figured it had aired on a few different channels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NipkowDisc Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 16 hours ago, Ray Faiola said: Great! I produced those for Percepto. I got two lovely letters from Vic Mizzy. In one he said "Great editing. With your fingers you could have been a gynecologist." That one is framed on my office wall! MR. CHICKEN has been a favorite since I was a kid. I first saw it at an outdoor screening at Orienta Beach Club in Mamaroneck. It spooked the sand out of my sneakers! hey yeah! I seen your name. great job. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 DON KNOTTS movies are far from "great cinema", but as , thanks to his BARNEY FIFE character in The Andy Griffith show, his movies are like spendng time with an old friend. Since NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS it was clear he did that kind of character well, and made a good living with it. But I would(as I do with many others)have loved to see him cast "out of type" for some movie. Like the heinous villain in some cop flick, or even the brave cop in some cop flick. Sepiatone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 50 minutes ago, Sepiatone said: DON KNOTTS movies are far from "great cinema", but as , thanks to his BARNEY FIFE character in The Andy Griffith show, his movies are like spendng time with an old friend. Since NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS it was clear he did that kind of character well, and made a good living with it. But I would(as I do with many others)have loved to see him cast "out of type" for some movie. Like the heinous villain in some cop flick, or even the brave cop in some cop flick. Sepiatone Yes, even playing a father would've been a stretch, which to my knowledge he never did in any of his screen roles. Not sure if he had limited range, or just limited opportunity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LsDoorMat Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 5 hours ago, TopBilled said: Yes, even playing a father would've been a stretch, which to my knowledge he never did in any of his screen roles. Not sure if he had limited range, or just limited opportunity. I think it was limited opportunity, but I read the article on him several years ago. Did you know IRL Don Knotts was quite the lady's man? Apparently the women just loved him. And I give him credit for establishing a persona - Barney Fife - that lasts today. If you tell somebody about some self important rent a cop and call him a "Barney Fife" people instantly know what you are talking about. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet0312 Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 Atta boy, Luther!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricJ Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 17 hours ago, Sepiatone said: DON KNOTTS movies are far from "great cinema", but as , thanks to his BARNEY FIFE character in The Andy Griffith show, his movies are like spendng time with an old friend. Since NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS it was clear he did that kind of character well, and made a good living with it. But I would(as I do with many others)have loved to see him cast "out of type" for some movie. Like the heinous villain in some cop flick, or even the brave cop in some cop flick. Close enough would be The Love God? (1969, and yes, with punctuation)--in which Knotts' birdwatching magazine is turned into a 60's Playboy girlie magazine behind his back, and Knotts finds himself having to play the Hugh Hefner bathrobe-swinger role--which did rather disorient audiences at the time, as the Mature rating and "sexual revolution!" theme kept out the core kiddy audience. Let's just say Knotts was born to play one type, and played it better than most could. In How to Frame a Fig-g (1971, the last of his non-Disney solo movies before Tim Conway), he comes off as a bit of a know-it-all A-hat to his dim co-workers, and doesn't really come across as likable--It's a tricky character act to make a jumpy coward or big-talking Barney Fife sympathetic, but basically "Ghost" will pretty much spoil you for any other solo Don Knotts movies. "The Private Eyes", however, is still a classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 Didn't anyone see 1998's excellent movie PLEASANTVILLE? In a brilliant casting choice, Don Knotts played a mysterious, possibly evil TV repairman who sets the whole story in motion: I always liked the visual of the "angry Indians" on the test pattern that reflected Knotts' charactor's anger at the kids: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 Y'know, I was gonna mention something about PLEASANTVILLE, but forgot. And anyway, you did so much better than I might have. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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