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by jamesjazzguitar
March 25th, 2024, 1:22 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 2861
Views: 155502

Re: I Just Watched...

American History X (1998) -- Just what the world didn't need: a film abound our own t Neo-Nazis. Edward Norton plays a former skinhead who gets out of prison to find that his brother is drifting into the same poisonous beliefs. He then tries to save his brother, to no affect, as the film doubles ba...
by jamesjazzguitar
March 25th, 2024, 12:29 pm
Forum: Noir Alley
Topic: Noir Alley
Replies: 1129
Views: 76463

Re: Noir Alley

This week Noir Alley features Where Danger Lives (RKO - 1950), featuring Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue and Claude Rains. Rather slow moving first half and Rains has very limited screen time but makes the most of it in the best scene in the film with Mitchum and Domergue. Yes, he's only in that one...
by jamesjazzguitar
March 22nd, 2024, 12:28 pm
Forum: Noir Alley
Topic: Noir Alley
Replies: 1129
Views: 76463

Re: Noir Alley

This week Noir Alley features Where Danger Lives (RKO - 1950), featuring Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue and Claude Rains.

Rather slow moving first half and Rains has very limited screen time but makes the most of it in the best scene in the film with Mitchum and Domergue.
by jamesjazzguitar
March 20th, 2024, 8:02 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 2861
Views: 155502

Re: I Just Watched...

I just watched Thirteen Women. Running at 59 minutes, this film was of interest to myself, being an Asian\White half-breed. Myrna Loy was often a bad girl in pre-code films. She looked very sexy with that make-her-look-somewhat-Asian make-up. Note that there were only 11 gals featured in the film si...
by jamesjazzguitar
March 19th, 2024, 12:24 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Coming up on TCM...
Replies: 89
Views: 11849

Re: Coming up on TCM...

It was nice to see the 20th Century Fox film The Big Combo on TCM. MOVIES-TV shows the film a few times a year, but they aren't commercial free.

First rate, later in the cycle, noir.
by jamesjazzguitar
March 13th, 2024, 6:20 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Ten Performances by . . .
Replies: 20
Views: 682

Re: Ten Performances by . . .

Sensational film debuts by actresses: Katharine Hepburn/A Bill of Divorcement (1932) Greer Garson/Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) Teresa Wright/The Little Foxes (1941) Angela Lansbury/Gaslight (1944) Eva Marie Saint/On the Waterfront (1954) Julie Andrews/Mary Poppins (1964) Barbra Streisand/Funny Girl (1...
by jamesjazzguitar
March 13th, 2024, 1:40 pm
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: Fourth wall moments.
Replies: 14
Views: 516

Re: Fourth wall moments.

I have a very narrow view of what breaking the fourth wall is: It is when an actor gets out of character and addresses the camera. Cosby and Hope Road films are a good example of that. (e.g. making jokes that are out of character and have no relation to the plot of the film). This thread is titled F...
by jamesjazzguitar
March 12th, 2024, 6:46 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Ten Performances by . . .
Replies: 20
Views: 682

Re: Ten Performances by . . .

I wouldn't necessarily say westerns are a lightweight genre. But clearly they're a chronologically limited one. North by Northwest , L.A. Confidential and There will be Blood are clearly dramas set in the west that I would all give acting oscars to. But they're not "westerns" since they a...
by jamesjazzguitar
March 12th, 2024, 2:03 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Ten Performances by . . .
Replies: 20
Views: 682

Re: Ten Performances by . . .

How striking. I can imagine nominating performances in westerns. But the only oscar I'd give one is Virginia Mayo's supporting performance in Colorado Territory . Not sure I understand what you're saying here, but it sounds like it is that westerns are a lightweight genre and thus no performance in...
by jamesjazzguitar
March 12th, 2024, 12:48 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Ten Performances by . . .
Replies: 20
Views: 682

Re: Ten Performances by . . .

Ten Performances in a Western Deserving of an Oscar (Best or Supporting): Walter Matthau, 'Lonely are the Brave Robert Ryan, 'The Wild Bunch' Chuck Connors, 'The Big Country' Marlene Dietrich, 'Destry Rides Again' Karl Malden, 'Nevada Smith' Alan Ladd, 'Shane' Josh Brolin, 'No Country for Old Men' ...
by jamesjazzguitar
March 11th, 2024, 5:50 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 2861
Views: 155502

Re: I Just Watched...

Anyway, i saw a noir earlier today from 1951 called The Scarf. It reunited two of the supporting players (John Ireland and Mercedes McCambide) of All the King's Men in a psychological study of a man, convicted of his wife's murder, (Ireland) who escapes from a mental asylum and tries to piece toget...
by jamesjazzguitar
March 6th, 2024, 3:27 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: TCM Premieres....
Replies: 261
Views: 39984

Re: TCM Premieres....

Hibi wrote: March 6th, 2024, 2:12 pm I don't watch Movies or Fox and I'm not confusing it with The Rat Race.
I don't recall seeing commercials when I watched Goodbye Charlie, so if I was a betting man, I would bet that TCM has shown the film.
by jamesjazzguitar
March 6th, 2024, 2:08 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: TCM Premieres....
Replies: 261
Views: 39984

Re: TCM Premieres....

I hope nobody is insulted by this, but I wonder if people might confuse Goodbye Charlie with the film The Rat Race , another comedy that stars both Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis that was made in the 60’s. The Rat Race (1960) has been shown on TCM 5 times in the past, all during the year 2008 but ...
by jamesjazzguitar
March 3rd, 2024, 6:49 pm
Forum: The People of Film
Topic: A Glimpse of Classic Hollywood
Replies: 61
Views: 3806

Re: A Glimpse of Classic Hollywood

Your knowledge of film far exceeds mine, Dargo, but are you sure those aren't the Chatsworth hills scenery? (Both celebrities shared Encino dwellings.) Oh, and one more note of possible interest here NS... For many years one of my fellow airline workers, a guy named Alan "Rudy" Ruddach, g...
by jamesjazzguitar
February 27th, 2024, 4:20 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: WHAT'S HAPPENED TO KINGRAT????
Replies: 86
Views: 3119

Re: WHAT'S HAPPENED TO KINGRAT????

Can there possibly be 128 guests on here today? That must be more than our membership! Something is off here. The latest stats says only 6 registered users; 4 bots, Ziggy and me. You (Hibi), were not listed as well as many other users that appear to be log-in now. Hibi; do you log on to this forum ...