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by ElCid
April 22nd, 2024, 7:42 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 3317
Views: 174387

Re: I Just Watched...

(Unrelated, but I wish that Warners would get Knots Landing on streaming sometime. Dallas made a big splash on Prime when it resurfaced, and Knots was always the better written show, so it would be nice for its episodes to be seen by the general public for the first time in nearly 20 years. Warners ...
by ElCid
April 22nd, 2024, 7:37 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 3317
Views: 174387

Re: I Just Watched...

Ironically, the next episode we watched last night of Perry Mason was Paul Drake's Dilemma. A good episode, but not sure why it would have been rated #3. Paul is my favorite character of all on the series. As for the Final Fade Out, that was the closing episode for the series. Not as good as some ot...
by ElCid
April 21st, 2024, 5:08 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 3317
Views: 174387

Re: I Just Watched...

Speaking of original Perry Mason TV series, I am always highly interested in the automobiles. Perry would go from a Ford to a Cadillac to a Lincoln, etc. Paul usually drove the best cars - mostly Thunderbirds. Perry paid him well. In the early episodes, Perry drives what looks like a standard Ford, ...
by ElCid
April 21st, 2024, 5:01 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 3317
Views: 174387

Re: I Just Watched...

I have a pretty complicated and nit picky PERRY MASON QUESTION and it is entirely possible that no one will have the answer for it, but: If you go to the IMDb top 10 highest rated episodes FOR PERRY MASON and then you go and you look up THE SERIES on FREEVEE or AMAZON or PARAMOUNT PLUS- almost HALF...
by ElCid
April 21st, 2024, 4:57 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 3317
Views: 174387

Re: I Just Watched...

About Perry Mason: I've been playing games on my tablet and listening to Perry Mason. While I wasn't paying attention to either 100%, Perry and makes good radio. I could swear someone offered Jessica Fletcher a cigar and she said, "No thanks, I'm trying to quit." "Southern Double-Cro...
by ElCid
April 21st, 2024, 10:48 am
Forum: Noir Alley
Topic: Noir Alley
Replies: 1225
Views: 84218

Re: Noir Alley

OMG! You're right! Cuban Rebel Girls his last film on imdb. I'd love to see that one! LMREO.

His underage squeeze, Beverly Aadland is in it!
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I watched Cuban Rebel Girls on either YouTube or Tubi a few years ago. Not a good movie and Flynn was not at his best in it.
by ElCid
April 13th, 2024, 5:39 pm
Forum: Noir Alley
Topic: Noir Alley
Replies: 1225
Views: 84218

Re: Noir Alley

The Guilty (1947) A low budget wonderful noir from Monogram Studios, with a well-earned surprise ending. Bonita Granville plays twins, one of whom is a femme fatale. Granville’s petulant persona from her past films morphs into an effective seductress, easily manipulating WWII vets Don Castle and Wa...
by ElCid
April 10th, 2024, 9:27 am
Forum: The People of Film
Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Replies: 2558
Views: 124757

Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES

I saw Scorchy on YouTube. Very poor quality so kind of hard to see what Stevens shows.
by ElCid
April 9th, 2024, 10:58 am
Forum: The People of Film
Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Replies: 2558
Views: 124757

Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES

Scorchy is apparently available on YouTube and/or Tubi (Shout).
Never cared for Susan Slade that much and thought she ever performed poorly or was poorly directed in Susan Slade.
More importantly, how many movies have been ruined by Troy Donahue?
by ElCid
April 9th, 2024, 10:50 am
Forum: Noir Alley
Topic: Noir Alley
Replies: 1225
Views: 84218

Re: Noir Alley

While not a very good movie, Violence did keep my interest long enough to finish watching it.
As Eddie surreptiously noted the parallels to today's American political scene are disturbing.
by ElCid
April 6th, 2024, 7:34 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Coming up on TCM...
Replies: 143
Views: 14268

Re: Coming up on TCM...

Ironic, TCM has been around so long that I forget we did not have it before 1994. Of course, I forget a lot of things - at least that is what my wife keeps telling me. I assume Ted Turner gets credit somewhere for the creation of TCM? From a little ol' independent station in Atlanta GA to cable &quo...
by ElCid
April 6th, 2024, 7:23 am
Forum: Noir Alley
Topic: Noir Alley
Replies: 1225
Views: 84218

Re: Noir Alley

I searched Eddie Muller's intros and outros on YouTube the other day and there are a lot of them. Seems hard to believe there have been that many Noir Alleys. Of course some are repeats. I don't think I have seen Violence. Michael O'Shea has one of those faces that I remember when I see him, but onl...
by ElCid
March 31st, 2024, 2:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What B&W films would you consider visually "beautiful"?
Replies: 63
Views: 6243

Re: What B&W films would you consider visually "beautiful"?

The Big Steal is a "beautiful" movie to me because so much of it was filmed outdoors on location in Mexico. Especially the scenes at the Hotel Penafiel in Tehuacán, But, all the travelling and city scenes add "beaurty" as well.
by ElCid
March 31st, 2024, 9:02 am
Forum: Noir Alley
Topic: Noir Alley
Replies: 1225
Views: 84218

Re: Noir Alley

I had seen Where Danger Lives and it's OK, but not all that good. In fact, I made a DVD of it, but never play it. I have seen Domergue in a few other movies, including the Sci-Fi ones and her performance is less impressive in them. I frequently re-watch the Perry Mason episodes on DVD, but can't act...
by ElCid
March 31st, 2024, 8:53 am
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: M*A*S*H The TV Show
Replies: 6
Views: 514

Re: M*A*S*H The TV Show

I saw the movie in theaters when it premiered - ironically I was in the Army with orders for Vietnam when I saw it. Great movie. The first year of the TV series was fairly good and entertaining, but after that it became the Alan Alda Show. I never really cared for the show after that, although I did...