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HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM


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i'm at a loss for words as to the whys and can only offer condolences...

 

if anything, i'd've thought STAGECOACH was in the public domain by now!

 

I have my own dvd copy as replacement for a very old Elwy Yost TVO vhs recording, so I am personally very happy to get Table Rock!

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I apologize for gettin' salty, some films are just so bad it helps to lay it out in few, but extreme, terms.

 

... and with each successive poster it seems to be getting extremer and extremer ...

 

:mellow:

I'm good with that

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i'm at a loss for words as to the whys and can only offer condolences...

 

if anything, i'd've thought STAGECOACH was in the public domain by now!

The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 set the copyright term at 95 years for anything published after 1 January 1923.

 

So Steamboat Willie should theoretically be entering the public domain in 2023, which means we're due for more lobbying for another copyright term extension.

 

Stagecoach won't become public domain until 2034.

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Tuesday, July 5th; All times E.S.T.; Richard Dix and C.B.DeMille by day, John Ford at night:

 

10:00 a.m. "Cimarron" (1930)--Oscar winner I haven't seen.

 

6:00 p.m. "The Plainsman" (1936)--C.B. DeMille I haven't seen.

 

2:15 a.m. "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon" (1949)-- One of the best of the Ford directed Westerns.

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Wed., July 6th; All times E.S.T.--Randolph Scott during the day, Sam Peckinpah at night:

 

12:15 p.m. "Canadian Pacific" (1949)--Enjoyable western.

 

6:30 p.m. "Ride Lonesome" (1959)--Scott/Boetticher western I haven't seen.

 

9:45 p.m. "The Deadly Companions" (1961)--First time I saw this, print was so dark I couldn't see what was happening.  Hopefully, TCM will have a better print than I saw.

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Wednesday, July 6

 

Nice to see a night of Sam Peckinpah westerns.  And here is my all time favourite…

 

11:30 p.m.  The Wild Bunch (1969).  Hard to believe but when this was released in Ontario it was restricted to 18 years or older and that was after they had cut 13 minutes out of it!  And now it is on television uncut.  

​In 1969 I saw this in the theatres in Florida uncut.  I was then 13.

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Don't miss 'The Ballad of Cable Hogue' (1970). It's the treasure of the month.

 

Jason Robards Jr. made a few westerns in the latter part of the 60's - and as much as I enjoyed him as the outlaw "Cheyenne" in 'Once Upon a Time in the West' (and I did, very much - he was my favorite character in that opus) , this movie from a couple years later is probably the best western he ever made. In fact, it's one of the best performances of his entire career.

 

I believe it was shortly after this that he had his near-fatal car crash from which his face had to be completely reconstructed. As good a job as was done, he never looked quite the same to me after that - a certain immobility in his face resulted. Not a great thing for even as gifted an actor as Robards..

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If you want to see why Bob Zimmerman never became a major movie star, check out his take on the character "Alias" tonight or early tomorrow morning in Peckinpah's take on:
 

4:15 AM PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (1973)  

The legendary outlaw clashes with his former best friend, now the sheriff.

DirSam Peckinpah Cast:  James Coburn , Kris Kristofferson , Bob Dylan .

C-115 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

 

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Saturday, July 9/10

 

3:45 a.m.  Roller Boogie (1979).  A speedracer favourite.

 

5:30 a.m. approx.  Summer of ’63 (1963).  “Teens on the make spread syphilis among their friends.”  The gift that keeps on giving apparently.

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Saturday, July 9/10

 

3:45 a.m.  Roller Boogie (1979).  A speedracer favourite.

 

5:30 a.m. approx.  Summer of ’63 (1963).  “Teens on the make spread syphilis among their friends.”  The gift that keeps on giving apparently.

To paraphrase Linda Blair:

 

"I don't want to go to Julliard! Instead, I'm going to learn roller disco so I can compete in the roller boogie contest!"

 

The lead actor in this film is probably one of the worst actors ever. However, "Roller Boogie" cracks me up. I do love roller disco movies!

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I must agree with speedracer on this. Having seen Roller Boogie around college

graduation, it most surely is THE BEST roller disco movie ever made.

Imo, it's the second best behind Xanadu.  I love Xanadu.  It has everything you could want in a movie: great pop music soundtrack; neon; Greek Gods; magic; roller skating; Gene Kelly playing the clarinet; Gene Kelly roller skating; everything!

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Imo, it's the second best behind Xanadu.  I love Xanadu.  It has everything you could want in a movie: great pop music soundtrack; neon; Greek Gods; magic; roller skating; Gene Kelly playing the clarinet; Gene Kelly roller skating; everything!

 

 

Uh-oh...Someone got me started on Xanadu.  Dang, is that a good movie.   ^_^

 

I'll have to save the culturally-avenging love for that movie for my own blog.  (Ie. "You wouldn't say 42nd St. is 'too 30's' or Footloose is 'too 80's', so why is this 'too 70's'?")

Except that there's a brief scene where Kelly is dancing through a giant pinball-machine room, and I looked at it thinking, "Wait...Is he trying to do Fred Astaire's 'Shine on Your Shoes' penny-arcade dance from The Band Wagon?"  By that point, I wouldn't put it past him.

 

But every time I hear the usual "roller disco" jokes about the movie, I always joke, "Oh yeah, what's that movie where Gene Kelly's on roller skates, and they're looking for the girl, and there's this crazy cartoon scene in the middle?...Oh, I remember:  'Anchors Aweigh'!"   

(Okay, so the skating was in "It's Always Fair Weather", close enough.)

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Sunday, July 10

 

8 p.m.  They Came to a City (1944).  This Basil Dearden film with Googie Withers has unfortunately been scratched from the schedule!

 

but this one's still here ...

 

11:30.  On Approval (1944) Googie Withers and Beatrice Lillie.

 
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To paraphrase Linda Blair:

 

"I don't want to go to Julliard! Instead, I'm going to learn roller disco so I can compete in the roller boogie contest!"

 

The lead actor in this film is probably one of the worst actors ever. However, "Roller Boogie" cracks me up. I do love roller disco movies!

 

Cher's "Hell On Wheels" that opens ROLLER BOOGIE is the bomb!

 

 

Well, I'm hell on wheels. 

I'm a roller mama.

I can slide down places that you never knew.

Try me on for size

At the roll-a-rama.

If you tie my laces then I'll follow you.

Follow you!

Follow you!

Oh oh oh!

 

I see something I like, gonna go for it!

See something I want, I'm'onna go out for it!

 

I sang that one at my cousin's wedding reception last summer wearing my Jack Tripper shorts.

I'm kidding . . . .  or am I?

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