Has anyone seen this Disney short subject? It's available on most video sites, including YouTube. [And sorry to disappoint, but it's not the scandalous sex film you might have hoped it to be.] My question: on various websites, people have speculated as to whom the narrator might be. After listening ...

Is it me? Or did women in general appear softer and more feminine than they do today? Was it the clothing styles? Or the hairstyles? Or is it just a function of today's world in which women have assumed (and rightfully so) many of the once traditionally male roles in society? Hey Hollis, Bear in mi...

Now that we have a profusion of information at our fingertips thanks to the internet (and IMDB), do professional movie critics even matter anymore? Hearing that a film is a train wreck doesn't discourage me from wanting to see it - in fact, I'm more likely to see a disaster than an Oscar contender (...

In thinking of pre-coders, I neglected the horror genre. But yes, horror certainly gave us some of the wildest precoders. And Freaks should be right at the top. The dialogue about Wallace Ford's "problem" and Joseph/Josephine stand out to me. Another one that I would cite would be 1932's C...

The wildest pre-code studio film that I can remember seeing was Design for Living , which has already been mentioned. I think it probably broke every one of the code's "demands." Were it not for the fact that Tarzan and His Mate was originally released without the now-restored nude scene, ...

I was glad to see that 8-9 of my choices made it to round 2. For all that, however, it was a bummer to see The Last Command eliminated so soon.

-Stephen

Hi Ken, It's great to have you join us. I would love to attend one of those screenings of The Last Command or Underworld . I love Von Sternberg's early work. Sorry if these questions seem too conventional, but... 1. What are your favorite silent films? Do you have a favorite score outside of the one...

Don't mean to hijack, but...

ChiO, I assume you've seen The World's Greatest Sinner?

I found a copy online to download. Sounds pretty interesting.

-Stephen

EDIT: Never mind, I see you evidently have. I'll have to post my opinion when I finally get around to watching it.

2.) Olivia De Havilland : it would be nice to catch up on her thoughts and picks among her movies, but I'm not sure if this will ever come to pass, despite the fact that Robert Osborne seems to have escorted her on a few occasions. I don't mind that she seems a bit self consciously fey in some rece...

Ernie, definitely! It's amazing that TCM hasn't already got around to featuring him either as a guest programmer or in a "Private Screening" interview. Yes...get him to host Call Me Madam . :wink: I'd like to hear his comments on Willard - I've never seen the movie, but if he did his own ...

Sorry if this question has already been posted (I did a search that turned up nothing...) But who would you like to see as a TCM Guest Programmer? My choice: John Waters . He's probably the most entertaining host that hasn't been featured as yet (at least not to my knowledge...) You could expect to ...

I'm very glad that TCM is devoting a day for Marie during the normally unintriguing "Summer Under the Stars" month. I've never seen Divine Lady , Vagabond Lover or The Girl Said No , but I'm eager to get recordings of all three (especially Divine Lady , for which Frank Lloyd won a Best Dir...

Boy, who knew that The Sound of Music was so universal despised? I must admit that, while it’s by no means a favorite, I far prefer it to, say, Mary Poppins . Don't mean to hijack, but... I agree - and let me say from the outset that I was also never a big fan of either. But I watched both again fa...

Well, here would be mine (again, given your definition):

Valley of the Dolls (1967)
The Conqueror (1956)
Queen of Outer Space (1958)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Cleopatra (1963)

-Stephen

Why do you suppose so few of the bad movies we picked came from the 1930s? I can name a bunch of bad films from the 1930s, but many of them won't be studio pictures, which was one qualifier if I remember correctly. When I think of the "bad films" typical of the characteristics that you se...