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May 25th, 2011, 5:14 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: TCM Race and Hollywood: Arab Images on Film
Replies: 27
Views: 10506

Re: TCM Race in Hollywood: Arabs in Cinema for July 2011

Moira, thanks for posting this. Klondike, I agree about the problems with the definition of "Arab"--not that the historically and geographically challenged would make the necessary distinctions. As for the puzzling inclusion of Caesar and Cleopatra , the Ptolemaic dynasty was founded by on...
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May 25th, 2011, 12:52 pm
Forum: Foreign Films
Topic: Andrzej Wajda
Replies: 11
Views: 16768

Andrzej Wajda

TCM has shown Andrzej Wajda's A Generation and Kanal the last two Sundays, and will complete the trilogy with Ashes and Diamonds this Sunday, so it seems appropriate to open a thread for this director. First, a couple of questions. 1) OK, how do you pronounce his name? Robert Osborne calls him OND-z...
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May 25th, 2011, 12:06 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Robert Wise films
Replies: 2
Views: 2639

Robert Wise films

How about a thread devoted to the films of Robert Wise, several of whose films have been shown recently on TCM: Odds Against Tomorrow, Mademoiselle Fifi, Curse of the Cat People. Run Silent, Run Deep was shown about a month ago and will be repeated Friday, May 27, at 8pm Eastern in the Memorial Day ...
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May 25th, 2011, 11:25 am
Forum: The People of Film
Topic: CLAIRE BLOOM
Replies: 11
Views: 3329

Re: CLAIRE BLOOM

Maven, thanks so much for your report! Like you and Stuart, I'm a big fan of Claire Bloom. Beautiful, classy, talented. Let me second your request for TCM to gather Claire Bloom and Julie Harris for The Haunting next year. That would be fabulous. Sounds like Foster Hirsch did a good job interviewing...
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May 24th, 2011, 1:26 pm
Forum: Film Noir and Crime
Topic: Noir Films
Replies: 939
Views: 356467

Re: Noir Films

If there were truth in advertising, Crime in the Streets (1956) would be called Crime on the Set . It's a Reginald Rose TV play expanded for the movies in the wrong way--that is, by giving us more of the same instead of expanding the focus. Director Don Siegel gives us an exciting but not bloody rum...
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May 24th, 2011, 11:22 am
Forum: The People of Film
Topic: ESTHER WILLIAMS - Swim/MGM Movie Star
Replies: 20
Views: 11150

Re: ESTHER WILLIAMS - Swim/MGM Movie Star

Kingme, I had no intention of watching Dangerous When Wet the other night, but after the first few minutes, I was hooked. Esther swimming with Tom and Jerry, Charlotte Greenwood doing some of her famous high kicks, Fernando Lamas as the handsome love interest. What's not to like?
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May 24th, 2011, 11:15 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
Replies: 8122
Views: 1766660

Re: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?

AH, thanks so much for telling us about Un carnet de bal. Definitely on my must-see list now.
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May 23rd, 2011, 7:19 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
Replies: 8122
Views: 1766660

Re: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?

Both my spousal unit and I enjoyed The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1961), directed by John Guillermin. The chunky and stolid Aldo Ray isn't much help in the lead role, but he isn't actively bad, and the story's the thing. How are the Irish revolutionaries going to get into the vault, and wi...
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May 18th, 2011, 7:18 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Anatole Litvak
Replies: 54
Views: 19380

Anatole Litvak

How about a thread devoted to Anatole Litvak? Anyone who would have an affair with Bette Davis while married to Miriam Hopkins would have found lion taming to be too dull a profession. I'd pegged him as a capable, but not really exciting, director of star vehicles for A-List actresses, because the o...
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May 13th, 2011, 6:36 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Bigger Than Life
Replies: 3
Views: 2337

Re: Bigger Than Life

CCFan, Barbara Rush only said how excited she was about the prospect of working with James Mason when the studio told her she'd been assigned to Bigger Than Life. Unfortunately, she didn't have a specific anecdote. Mason produced Bigger Than Life, so this was clearly a personal project for him.
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May 13th, 2011, 6:29 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
Replies: 5
Views: 4198

Re: Whistle Down the Wind (1961)

CCFan, it's cool that your husband knows someone who was an extra in the film. Seems like Whistle Down the Wind has a solid fan club here at SSO. Perhaps TCM will schedule it in the months to come. It appears that Bryan Forbes' films are much more available in his native country than they are here. ...
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May 13th, 2011, 6:17 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Went the Day Well?
Replies: 16
Views: 7080

Re: Went the Day Well?

Hi, Jezebel. Sorry you and Moraldo missed Went the Day Well? at the festival. When I turned up an hour early and there were about 30 people already in line, it was clear the first showing would sell out. Glad you found it on YouTube, but that spoiler guy is a Quisling himself! If TCM can get the TV ...
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May 12th, 2011, 4:21 pm
Forum: The People of Film
Topic: FREDRIC MARCH
Replies: 174
Views: 52295

Re: FREDRIC MARCH

JF, I thoroughly enjoyed Trade Winds . If you can ignore plot logic and just let the trade winds take you where they will, from suspense to romance, from comedy to travelogue to solving the mystery, this is a world of fun, with March, Joan Bennett, Ann Sothern, and Ralph Bellamy all in fine form. Do...
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May 11th, 2011, 3:06 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Went the Day Well?
Replies: 16
Views: 7080

Went the Day Well?

Went the Day Well? (1942) was a big hit at the festival, selling out one of the small theaters and being repeated on the last day. No doubt this will turn up on TCM sometime in the future. It's available on DVD and YouTube. Kevin Brownlow commented that if he'd seen it, he probably wouldn't have ma...
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May 11th, 2011, 11:31 am
Forum: The People of Film
Topic: *CANDIDS*
Replies: 14682
Views: 5998714

Re: *CANDIDS*

Mongo, this page has some really interesting pictures. A young Denver Pyle! Glenda Jackson and Dale Evans in sexy poses. Miss Jackson as a pouty sex kitten is unexpected, to say the least. Don't think I've ever seen a picture of Max Steiner before. And doesn't Margo look like Ida Lupino in that shot?