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by scsu1975
October 4th, 2023, 11:33 am
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 157
Views: 68832

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

Coming in October:

Drifting, with Priscilla Dean, Matt Moore, Wallace Beery, and Anna May Wong

Human Wreckage, with Mrs. Wallace Reid, James Kirkwood, and Bessie Love

The Huntress, with Colleen Moore and Lloyd Hughes

Trilby, with Andree Lafayette and Arthur Edmund Carewe
by scsu1975
September 30th, 2023, 5:03 pm
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 157
Views: 68832

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

♫ Hooray for Martin Johnson And his young wife Osa The African explorers Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! ♫ (...although and I hate to point this out here Rich, but there was no mention at all of shooting any elephants in pajamas...that's always the best part of these kinds of stories, ya know) Yeah, yeah, ...
by scsu1975
September 30th, 2023, 10:45 am
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 157
Views: 68832

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

https://i.imgur.com/6XR7Xbg.png Trailing African Wild Animals was produced and directed by the husband and wife explorers Martin Johnson and Osa Johnson. The seven-reel film is presumed lost. The release date is uncertain; although some sources say October or November of 1923, the film was being sh...
by scsu1975
September 26th, 2023, 8:23 pm
Forum: The People of Film
Topic: OBITUARIES
Replies: 515
Views: 75501

Re: OBITUARIES

David McCallum https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/david-mccallum-dead-ncis-man-from-uncle-1235734772/ I like to think that David McCallum is having a wee dram now with Gordon Jackson at Scott's Bar in Piccadilly. Tallyho Ashley-Pitt. Yep, he was probably the very last of 'The Great Escape' cast I wou...
by scsu1975
September 25th, 2023, 10:55 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 3607
Views: 215235

Re: I Just Watched...

Dargo wrote: September 22nd, 2023, 11:50 am I can no longer think of Laurence Harvey without also thinking of our old friend and fellow TCM board member TomLH.
Do you also think about TomJH? :yahoo:
by scsu1975
September 23rd, 2023, 2:58 pm
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 157
Views: 68832

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

...The publicity stills below show Normand with a bear, which appears in the film (although I could not determine in what context): About three-quarters of the way through, there's scene in which while Suzanna and Ramon are dining alfresco out in the Sonoran Desert, the bear comes in and swipes the...
by scsu1975
September 23rd, 2023, 7:54 am
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 157
Views: 68832

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

https://i.imgur.com/HsNdIMv.png Suzanna , written and produced by Mack Sennett, directed by F. Richard Jones, starred Mabel Normand as Suzanna, Walter McGrail as Ramon, Leon Bary as Pancho, and Winifred Bryson as Dolores. The film was released in January of 1923 at eight reels. A complete copy is h...
by scsu1975
September 19th, 2023, 3:45 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Bug Night
Replies: 42
Views: 4796

Re: Bug Night

Hibi wrote: September 19th, 2023, 9:02 am
LOL! I love the scenes where the Hoppers are climbing skyscrapers!
With all the guns in Chicago now, those grasshoppers wouldn't stand a chance.
by scsu1975
September 19th, 2023, 7:38 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Bug Night
Replies: 42
Views: 4796

Re: Bug Night

ziggy6708a wrote: September 19th, 2023, 2:56 am too bad they forgot the ''GRASSHOPPERS IN CHICAGO'' w/Peter Graves flick :lol:



:smilie_happy_thumbup:
Anyone who has seen the movie would like to forget it.
by scsu1975
September 18th, 2023, 7:30 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Bug Night
Replies: 42
Views: 4796

Re: Bug Night

In my high school biology class, we were required to have an insect collection. My teacher went nuts if anybody said "bug collection." That's when I learned that all bugs were insects, but not all insects were bugs.

Hope this doesn't bug anyone.
by scsu1975
September 18th, 2023, 7:27 pm
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: Garbo Day
Replies: 12
Views: 2282

Re: Garbo Day

Yeah, no silents. Romance is one of my least favorites. Mine too. It stinks on ice. LOL. Never heard that expression! :D One time I was taking the "minutes" at a faculty meeting, and my colleagues were complaining about the new copy machine. So I put down "it stinks on ice." At ...
by scsu1975
September 18th, 2023, 1:58 pm
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: Garbo Day
Replies: 12
Views: 2282

Re: Garbo Day

Hibi wrote: September 18th, 2023, 1:43 pm Yeah, no silents. Romance is one of my least favorites.
Mine too. It stinks on ice.
by scsu1975
September 16th, 2023, 7:25 am
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 157
Views: 68832

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

https://i.imgur.com/C2AYIc4.png Paddy The Next Best Thing , directed by Graham Cutts , starred Mae Marsh as Paddy Adair, Darby Foster as Lawrence Blake, Lillian Douglas as Eileen Adair, and George K. Arthur as Jack O’Hara. The film’s release date is uncertain, but it was seven reels and is presumed...
by scsu1975
September 9th, 2023, 7:26 am
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 157
Views: 68832

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

https://i.imgur.com/vrrPEVf.png A Man of Action , directed by James W. Horne, starred Douglas MacLean as Bruce MacAllister, Marguerite De La Motte as Helen Summer, and Raymond Hatton as Harry Hopwood. The film was released in May of 1923 at six reels. The Eye Film Institute in Amsterdam holds a cop...
by scsu1975
September 2nd, 2023, 1:41 pm
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 157
Views: 68832

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

Coming in September:

A Man of Action, with Douglas MacLean and Marguerite De La Motte

Paddy The Next Best Thing, with Mae Marsh

Suzanna, with Mabel Normand

Trailing African Wild Animals, with the husband and wife exploring team of Martin and Osa Johnson