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Karo		#41	[-]
Posts: 43 (10/21/11 01:00 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Live life like there is no ads! Remove this ad ginaf20697 wrote: She was awesome chewing up the scenery in The Thorn Birds. She had a whole second career on TV. Used to watch her on "Big Valley," AKA "Linda Evans' Big Valley." Sorry, couldn't resist.
sun surfer		#42	[-]
Posts: 2660 (10/21/11 01:44 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I just watched The Thorn Birds for the first time ever recently. Stanwyck was great in it. I have a story about watching The Thorn Birds: It's a two-disc very long mini-series. I got the first disc and watched it, deciding not to watch any special features on the other side until I'd seen the entire mini-series. Then I watched the second disc. It was good, but I thought it must definitely be taking liberties with the book, skipping around so much to a later time. When I'd finished, I had two thoughts: 1) That the mini-series wasn't nearly as long as it was made out to be, and 2) The ending, while good, was rather ambiguous, with Meggie and Father Ralph having the affair on the island and him leaving. As it was late at night, I waited until the next day to watch the extras. I decided to start with the extras from disc one first. Lo and behold, I had missed half the series! Apparently, I had only watched parts one and three of four parts! Part two was on the back side of disc one, and part four was on the back side of disc two. The "extras" were only on the back side of disc two even though the discs said something like "extras on side two" on both discs, and the "extras" were only one mini-featurette to boot! Now it all made sense, because I was wondering why the mini-series had jumped from Father Ralph leaving the young Meggie at the party to Meggie being years older, married and moving away from her family. And the real ending is much less ambiguous, lol.
robbiefan		#43	[-]
Posts: 14819 (10/21/11 04:59 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Karo wrote: robbiefan wrote: Barbara was as good at comedy as wa sshe in every other genre. You are so right. She's hilarious in "The Lady Eve." If you want a good old-fashioned tear-jerker, watch "Stella Dallas." You will need a jumbo-sized box of Kleenex! And "Double Indemnity" is one of the all-time greats. Who knew Fred McMurray could be such a creep? The LAdy Eve and Double Indemnity are among my fav films of all time. The chemistry between Barbara and McMurray was undeniable Could you believe they tried to remake this in the 70s? Some films are meant to never be remade, dammit.
Ann Margret Thatcher		#44	[-]
Posts: 11041 (10/21/11 05:42 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	sun surfer wrote: I hope this thread is for any old film talk in general because I do love them! Oh yeah! My intention in starting the thread was just to have a place to discuss old movies in general. I just used TCM for the title because that's the first network that comes to mind when I think of classics.
MsJulieR		#45	[-]
Posts: 9232 (10/21/11 06:18 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Rosalind Russel as Auntie Mame; :="Live! Life's a banquet and most sons of bitches are starving to death!" His Girl Friday with Carey Grant; non stop dialogue
Badger03		#46	[-]
Posts: 76 (10/21/11 07:54 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I love Stella Dallas. There was a remake starring Bette Midler but it's nowhere near as good. Another great tearjerker is Make Way for Tomorrow about an elderly couple who lose their home and have to rely on the kindness of their grown children. It's especially relevant for these times.
charcas		#47	[-]
Posts: 2453 (10/21/11 08:01 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	robbiefan wrote: Karo wrote: robbiefan wrote: Barbara was as good at comedy as wa sshe in every other genre. You are so right. She's hilarious in "The Lady Eve." If you want a good old-fashioned tear-jerker, watch "Stella Dallas." You will need a jumbo-sized box of Kleenex! And "Double Indemnity" is one of the all-time greats. Who knew Fred McMurray could be such a creep? The LAdy Eve and Double Indemnity are among my fav films of all time. The chemistry between Barbara and McMurray was undeniable Could you believe they tried to remake this in the 70s? Some films are meant to never be remade, dammit. Another good Stanwyck movie is Baby Face, one of the raunchiest pre codes, in which Stanwyck plays a woman who leaves the burg she grew up in (after years of being pimped out by her father) and gets an entry level job in an office building in NYC and literally sleeps her way to the top, not caring what man she destroys to get what she wants. Baby Face was one of the movies that brought about the strict enforcement of the production code from 1934 into the 50's and Stanwyck gives a tough, fiery, angry performance.
cginspace		#48	[-]
Posts: 17633 (10/21/11 08:34 PM) AI/X-Factor Moderator Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I actually saw a great film I had never heard of on this channel: The Search. It was an early Monty Clift film and while it declined into a sudser, it was a really strong post-Nazi film.
victalac		#49	[-]
Posts: 2946 (10/21/11 10:08 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Damn good Cagney movie about him training American spies in WWII. Moves right along and Cagney is utterly believable.
Badger03		#50	[-]
Posts: 77 (10/22/11 09:31 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Live life like there is no ads! Remove this ad Clift got his first Oscar nomination for that movie. I believe the little boy received a special Academy Award. I love James Cagney; he's my favorite actor from the "Golden Age of Hollywood." THree great classic movies (all of which show up fairly often on TCM) are "Public Enemy", "Angels with Dirty Faces" and "White Heat."
cginspace		#51	[-]
Posts: 17650 (10/23/11 01:09 AM) AI/X-Factor Moderator Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Clift is one of the finest actors ever, IMO, though quite the mess in his personal life. Saw a horribel Romany Werewold movie on this channel tonight while watching a friend's kids. HORRIBLE acting.
Nods		#52	[-]
Posts: 11100 (10/23/11 02:07 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Karo wrote: robbiefan wrote: Barbara was as good at comedy as wa sshe in every other genre. You are so right. She's hilarious in "The Lady Eve." If you want a good old-fashioned tear-jerker, watch "Stella Dallas." You will need a jumbo-sized box of Kleenex! And "Double Indemnity" is one of the all-time greats. Who knew Fred McMurray could be such a creep? Anyone who saw The Apartment or the Caine Mutiny charcas wrote: Did anyone catch Bigger Than Life last night? A 1956 melodrama directed by Nicholas Ray starring James Mason as a man who is presribed Cortisone, soon becomes addicted, and then becomes psychotic? Near the end he's reading the Bible--the story of Abraham preparing to sacrifice his son Issac. Mason decides he must kill his own son. Mason' wife points out that God stopped Abraham from going through with the sacrifice. Mason replied "God was wrong" and locks his wife in the closet. Very creepy movie....one has to wonder if Stephen King saw it while growing up as the story has similarities with The Shining. Saw that one a while ago, great film I wish more of Douglas Sirk's films went in those directions. BTW set your DVR's Monday night at midnight they are playing Strait-Jacket (1964), Joan Crawford's last great film, she plays a wronged woman released from Prison for murder who finds bodies popping up around her.
chelleforrupert		#53	[-]
Posts: 9222 (10/23/11 10:04 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	OOOH! I'll be there! Thanks for the info.
charcas		#54	[-]
Posts: 2454 (10/23/11 02:44 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I'm not sure I would call Strait Jacket a "great" film, but it sure is entertaining. Joan Crawford as an axe murderess released from the insane asylum.
charcas		#55	[-]
Posts: 2455 (10/23/11 02:48 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Another good Fred McMurray performance in which he plays a less than sterling character in the 1954 noir Pushover in which he's a cop assigned to track gangster moll Kim Novak.� He and Novak hook up and decide to bump off the gangster and run away with the money. Complications ensure.� Novak has a line that sums up Film Noir: "Money isn't dirty, just people".
Blatantly Oblivious		#56	[-]
Posts: 2337 (10/23/11 04:26 PM) I don't get most of the jokes Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Dark Victory - Bette Davis Paths of Glory - Kirk Douglas Mildred Pierce - Joan Crawford The Titanic - Barbara Stanwyck & Clifton Webb
garblue		#57	[-]
Posts: 3437 (10/23/11 06:53 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I recorded Berserk! (aka another 60s Joan Crawford trash film) a couple weeks back, and the lighting is a gas. No matter where she's standing, they cast a black bar of shadow on her lower jaw and neck. Trouble spot obviously. So far the only close-ups of her face have been through gauzy curtains. And her lover is like 20 years younger than her. And she says things like "I know you're all upset about [a character being impaled through the skull], but the best thing to do is get some sleep".
sun surfer		#58	[-]
Posts: 2667 (10/23/11 06:58 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Blatantly Oblivious wrote: Mildred Pierce - Joan Crawford I've meant to watch the new Mildred Pierce mini-series as I'm sure it's good (probably better than the original film) but I just haven't brought myself to it yet, as I did love the melodrama of the original so.
cginspace		#59	[-]
Posts: 17652 (10/23/11 08:52 PM) AI/X-Factor Moderator Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Better than the original? Probably not. A completely different film? Absolutely.
Doc Minor		#60	[-]
Posts: 84 (10/23/11 10:37 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Live life like there is no ads! Remove this ad Ah, AMT, leave it to you to start a thread I can't resist. Never particularly liked Giant or any of director George Steven's other post-WWII films such as I Remember Mama, A Place In the Sun, or Shane. Actually, aside from Hitchcock, film noir, and musicals, I don't like many 50's films. Definitely a strange decade what with the breakdown of the studio system, rise of television, HUAC & blacklisting, beginning of technicolor & widescreen, etc., etc. Of course there are some terrific 50's films, but not my favorite movie decade. The Thin Man is on my top ten list, even though it caused many a relationship to fail. Can't we just be like Nick & Nora? Oh well. For other Nick & Nora fans, beside the six Thin Man films, William Powell and Myrna Loy also made a bunch of romcoms together, all delightful.

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