No, I'm not familiar with BELLS ARE RINGING. It's got Fred Clark again, Jean Stapleton, and Frank Gorshin should be recovered from his 1957 INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN and PORTLAND EXPOSE. That's probably about the height of Dean Martin's film career, too. While I'm never a fan of musicals, Judy, Fre...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039160/ Frances Gifford plays the neglected, affair-minded wife who is hooked, lined and sink-ered (OK OK, put yer thesaurus away!) by low-rent club-owner gangster John Hodiak who shamelessly flatters her, always to her immediate disgust. But when she's left alone, those...

I have to admit the larger POLITICAL question that popped around my brain was "Why is Trevor hooked on her with that acid temper?" Early on, she wasn't just unkind to him - she was terrible to him! The film could have shown a destroyed Trevor earlier, like during the credits, showing he'd ...

Thanks. I'll watch for it. I hadn't even read about it - Paul Douglas has been creeping up on my favorite-supporting-actor lists for a decade now. I'm just sorry that I didn't notice him in more films.

What a terrific film. All day long, one great little gem after another, so many are different from each other, but each is a gem unto itself. It was so hard spending most of the film watching a hate-filled Deborah Kerr. What a great performance in a film that kept me watching the whole time. Why did...

Thanks for the public discussion. I have been writing diatribes and I enjoy seeing you dissect your reasonings.

I only know four of Judy's films - ADAM'S RIB is one of her first credits - not a bad way to start. YESTERDAY and IT SHOULD HAPPEN are great roles for her - the Melanie Griffith replacement never comes close to Judy's performance, but neither does anyone else or the whole new film. And while PFFFT i...

TCM has been hitting them over the fence today - and it's not even Spring Training. The first film THIEVES FALL OUT was just a terrific little comedy with Jane Darwell playing her loudmouthed self to perfection, driving poor Anthony Quinn to just give up on his kidnapping dreams. "Arrest me, ar...

I'd set the recording system earlier but, typically, was up well before 5 a.m. and got caught up in these. I'm seriously considering a TCM Bar, like they have Sports Bars! "Just have it on all the time..."

I have to be careful when discussing Kenneth More. ("The Clouded Yellow, Night To Remember, Sink The Biz") and not confuse him with Jack Hawkins ("Gideon's Day"). I'd probably vote for his SINK THE BISMARCK performance as my favorite of his performances, but he had a lot. I suspe...

No, it might not be a Top 10, but I've got about 100 up there tied already. Or maybe now I've got 101! The women purred and cackled, and I couldn't tell who to believe or not. Here's a film that I'd love to listen to Totter's comments about - "How was it first received? What did you think when ...

I've seen four parts of different urban areas in the US are being targeted for Gb-or-more download capabilities on new fibre systems. In Europe, there are a growing number of users with 8Gb download capabilities. THAT will make high-quality downloads a much better possibility. As it is, however, I t...

I've enjoyed the two Bugliosi books I've read (HELTER, of course, and SEA SHALL TELL), and both produced good films, albeit the focus of those had to be more on action than Bugliosi's procedural chapters. Which was fine for both mediums. I'll have to find this one, and I'm rather chagrined that, as ...

I suspect my agreement with "uneven" may be tied more to my viewing it in these modern political times. I too wandered off in the great middle morass, but I rather enjoyed the tight confines of the tale. I wonder what a stage production of this would be like, with maybe a backdrop set of a...

It's a hidden gem for Brit fans, as well, never making it onto DVD except for the occasional broadcasts. Excellent film.