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Don't you think that TCM should show The Oscar (1966) every year around Academy Award time

I don't know about that. But it's time this film fan saw it at least once!

Hi Red,
TCM ran it at least once a few years ago and we had a great time chortling over the film's many outrageous moments in this thread:

http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/vie ... 87&start=0

Paramount/Sony or someone is really missing some easy money by withholding this Columbia film from DVD release--though there are VHS copies and DVD-r ones around the internet. Parts of The Oscar are on youtube, though the film ought to be seen in its entirety with the phone off the hook and the curtains drawn so no one knows you are watching this turkey, (that way you also won't miss a moment of Tony Bennett in his first and last dramatic non-singing role as "Hymie Kelly" and Milton Berle as a Hollywood agent who is the moral conscience of the movie--not to mention all the incredible dialogue). Hope you are able to see this soon, Red. You'd love it. I think...

[b][u][color=#4000BF]moirafinnie[/color][/u][/b] wrote:Don't you think that TCM should show The Oscar (1966) every year around Academy Award time, just like A Christmas Carol is run around Christmas? Of course, AMPAS might not be thrilled with the seaminess of the former film cluttering up their domination of the air, huh? We live in hope for next year!

Parts of The Oscar are on youtube, though the film ought to be seen in its entirety with the phone off the hook and the curtains drawn so no one knows you are watching this turkey,

Moira, I will be one of the first to sign the petition to have "THE OSCAR" aired on a yearly basis. I think that movie is a wild hoot. Tony Bennett yelling at Stephen Boyd about Jill St. John. "You lay down with dogs you come up with fleas." It's a pisser. And I will keep my curtains proudly open. (That's how I feel about the courage of my convictions for guilty pleasures which elicit more pleasure for me than guilt).

A friend of mine hates two thirds of the movies he sees. Walks out on most of them. Yet he likes THE OSCAR! His tastes are very specific, and hard to understand. He also likes a cheap thriller with Chuck Connors terrorizing teenagers. TOURIST something? He see something most people don't connect with. Doesn't like Hitchcock. Orson Welles is a joke. Chaplin is cool. He likes silents in general. His favorite movie? STARSHIP TROOPERS!

Strange guy.

D'uh! I confused Jack Webb in -30- with Jack Webb in Pete Kelly's Blues in that earlier post. A thousand pardons. There's a world of difference in the two performances by Webb between the two movies. He actually cracks a smile in one. In any case, I only saw a few minutes of Lee Marvin in Pete Kelly's Blues on TCM this morning, but who needs coffee when this guy is around? Marvin stole the scene I saw clean away from Jack Webb. Peggy Lee did a fine job in this movie in her lovelorn role and her singing was fantastic, especially the torch song "He Needs Me." As JackFavell wrote elsewhere on the board, it was hard to fathom how Janet Leigh could be so head over heels for Webb.

Good news, though. I caught an episode of The Untouchables late one night recently with Lee Marvin as Nick Acropolis, the king of numbers and bookie joints in Chicago. But Lee has three problems:

~~He is terribly in love with his wife, played by the indispensable Constance Ford (a great character actress and more than a match for Marvin).
~~His brother-in-law is one of his biggest bookies and he has been stealing from him
~~His untrustworthy hit man, played by Johnny Seven, is ambitious and resentful that his boss holds him in contempt.

Mix thoroughly, and you have one of the better episodes of the series, written by Curtis Kenyon (Jesse James, Johnny Apollo) and John Mantley (Gunsmoke, The Wild, Wild West, MacGyver). It can be seen below. Catch the contemptuous way that Marvin treats Frank Nitti's human dobermans and his reaction when his wife discovers a painful truth, causing her to walk out. As he wails "Who needs you?..." the actor conveyed in a simple gesture his shattered heart and aching need. Not the usual Lee Marvin bit at all!

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I like 30. Caught it on Chicago TV decades ago. Haven't seen it since.

RedRiver wrote:I like 30. Caught it on Chicago TV decades ago. Haven't seen it since.

Oh, heck, Red. -30- (1959) was just on TCM within the last six weeks. I really liked William Conrad's curmudgeonly character in that movie, but I'm a pushover for newspaper movies any way, any time.

Tuesday night in my Between Classic & Neo-: Film Noir of the '60s class -- THE KILLERS.

As I recall, Lee makes an appearance.

Is anyone planning on getting this book? Please let us know how you like it.

http://pointblankbook.com/

Some celebrity bios have the most appropriate titles!

MsG,

I plan on reading the book as soon as I finish The Revolution Was Televised by tv critic, Alan Sepinwall.

I've read it, and it has quite a wonderful selection of unpublished material about Lee Marvin! I am hoping author Dwayne Epstein might visit us in March or April!

It has some touching letters that Marvin wrote to his parents during his experiences in boot camp, and World War II, and you find out exactly what Marvin thought about Michelle Triola.

Marvin was also related to several famous American historical figures, and Epstein has been on tour, so hopefully after his touring is completed, he will visit us, and share his fact-gathering experiences.

Thanks for the wonderful videos, Moira!

Follow the link to read more about author Dwayne Epstein's visit to the SSO:
http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/vie ... 36#p127836

Christy,I tried following the link, but got an "you're not authorized" message...

Sorry, knitty. I am looking into it. You should be able to access the thread from the board index.
Thank you!