Welcome Julie! FYI friends: Julie is JulieAH over on the TCM site. I'm glad that you found us. Jon Parker and Pktrekgirl are both our Technical Administrators here and the place wouldn't exist without them! They're the greatest. Hope that more of the numerous people who've been invited will soon jo...

http://plasticage.net/gallery/albums/userpics/fourdaughters.jpg "The fates, the destinies, whoever they are that decide what we do or don't get...They've been at me now nearly a quarter of a century."-Mickey Borden in Four Daughters (1938) Four Daughters , being shown on Tuesday, Apr 17th...

Old Stuff Bilko The Rifleman (just seeing most of these for the first time now) The Twilight Zone Alfred Hitchcock The Fugitive Route 66 Newer Stuff Emergency Vets History Channel & History Intl Documentaries, (but wish they'd give Nazism a rest now & then) The Heat of the Sun (Kenyan myste...

I just saw Rob Marshall 's last non-musical film, Memoirs of a Geisha , which was a beautiful eye-full of Japanese arts and crafts. Wish that it had captured more of the book's enchantment, but hope for the best for Nine . I also wish that Raul Julia & Anita Morris were still with us, though I l...

Couldn't agree more about the poor choice of That Touch of Mink as one of The Essentials . Good Lord, an essential piece of cultural kitsch, maybe--but if I really wanted to pick an essential Doris Day movie it might be On Moonlight Bay (1951), Love Me or Leave Me (1956) or even better, Young Man Wi...

http://plasticage.net/gallery/albums/userpics/chaplinsmall.jpg Charles Chaplin was born 118 years ago tomorrow. TCM has a bouquet of films prepared in his honor, starting at dawn. After reading the comments about The Great Dictator (1940) as a somewhat dubious choice for one of The Essentials last ...

Kyle, I'm so glad that you and everyone are here. I suspect that Lynn may check in later today when she can. The impetus behind this group was pretty simple: My reason for beginning this group was my frustration caused by constantly trying to sift through the rampant antagonism found over on the go...

Hard to choose from Mr. Ford's impressive list of westerns although my choice is "My Darling Clementine" (1946). His black and white film is as lush as many color films you see. His use of shadow is powerful Mongo, I'd forgotten about the deft use of b & w shadows in My Darling Clemen...

Despite his lightweight musical past, I prefer Dick Powell when he became hard-boiled in the '40s playing Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet . I've read that Raymond Chandler preferred Powell as well, since he thought that the actor conveyed the "boy scout" beneath the cynical veneer of hi...

Best moment in The Ox Bow Incident: when Henry Fonda reads the letter to Harry Morgan and Wellman chose to show only part of Fonda's face blocked by Morgan. A powerful, restrained moment and one of Fonda's best understated roles.

Have you seen the dvd?

Live dangerously, Sandy. I think that you're as susceptible as I am to that Dunne-Dix combo! If nothing else, I think that it'll make you smile. Good news is that it's also a brief film, if you don't like it. It was fun, especially Una's moments.

Mongo, so glad to see you among us!

Would it be helpful to have an In Celebration section to praise longtime favorites or new discoveries made by individual posters in the world of classic film? Would it be acceptable to have an In Memoriam section along with an In Celebration area to note the death of filmmakers? Jon, I think that pe...

Thank goodness you've found your way here, Anne. Hope you like it. Funny that so many people I've spoken with over the years cite Sgt. Rutledge as a favorite Ford film, but it's almost never shown. I'm especially fond of the sequence when Strode and Towers are isolated at the station. The ominous at...

I think that Fury without Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney's eloquent perfomances wouldn't have the same impact today. Directorially, I think Fritz Lang's depiction of the convergence of the crowd on the jail and the newsreel footage helped to make it a more dynamic movie as well. Imagine the impact ...

I'm delighted that you're here, Sugarpuss. Can't wait to see what you choose for an avatar.