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Post by james on Sept 29, 2010 19:36:43 GMT -5
I just looked through my Hammer box set and don't seem to have any of the films that you haven't seen. Could they be using alternate titles? No, but Scars and Prince of Darkness are currently unavailable on DVD. Both were released on DVD by Anchor Bay, but those editions are out of print, as is their DVD of The Satanic Rites of Dracula. For some reason, Anchor Bay has kept The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires in print (as a two-fer with Frankenstein Created Women). Anyway, there were nine Hammer Dracula films. You can get four of them on Warner's Four Film Favorites set, Brides of Dracula on Universal's Hammer box, and Legend on the two-fer. The other three are unavailable in region 1, technically, although The Satanic Rites of Dracula is in the public domain, and it's easy to find PD versions. James
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Post by Derrick on Sept 30, 2010 23:08:09 GMT -5
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Post by Derrick on Oct 1, 2010 21:41:51 GMT -5
Tony Curtis Tribute on TCM October 10th! www.tcm.com/movienews/index/?cid=352570The following is a complete schedule for TCM's Sunday, Oct. 10, tribute to Curtis (all times shown are Eastern): 6 a.m. Beachhead (1954) - with Frank Lovejoy and Mary Murphy 7:45 a.m. Kings Go Forth (1958) - with Frank Sinatra and Natalie Wood 9:45 a.m. The Vikings (1958) - with Kirk Douglas, Ernest Borgnine and Janet Leigh 11:45 a.m. Operation Petticoat (1959) - with Cary Grant and Dina Merrill 2 p.m. Who Was That Lady? (1960) - with Janet Leigh and Dean Martin 4:15 p.m. Sex and the Single Girl (1964) - with Natalie Wood, Lauren Bacall and Henry Fonda 6:15 p.m. You Can't Win 'Em All (1970) - with Charles Bronson and Michèle Mercier 8 p.m. Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - with Burt Lancaster and Martin Milner 9:45 p.m. The Defiant Ones (1958) - with Sidney Poitier and Theodore Bikel 11:30 p.m. Trapeze (1956) - with Burt Lancaster and Gina Lollobrigida 1:30 a.m. The Great Race (1965) - with Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood 4:15 a.m. Don't Make Waves (1967) -with Claudia Cardinale and Sharon Tate
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Post by grubl on Oct 1, 2010 23:21:52 GMT -5
Thanks! I'd say my favorites are THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS and THE DEFIANT ONES. Funny that they're not including the heavyweights: SOME LIKE IT HOT and SPARTACUS.
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Post by Derrick on Oct 1, 2010 23:40:05 GMT -5
Thanks! I'd say my favorites are THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS and THE DEFIANT ONES. Funny that they're not including the heavyweights: SOME LIKE IT HOT and SPARTACUS. Actually, I'm glad they're showing Tony Curtis films like YOU CAN'T WIN 'EM ALL and THE VIKINGS rather than the heavyweights. Let's face it, there's rarely a month that goes by when SOME LIKE IT HOT isn't aired and SPARTACUS is known primarily as a Kirk Douglas movie and not as a Tony Curtis movie. There's plenty of folks, some are members on this message board who have never seen YOU CAN'T WIN 'EM ALL and I'll happily trade yet another showing of SOME LIKE IT HOT for them to finally get to see it. The one Tony Curtis movie I'm disappointed they're not showing is THOSE DARING YOUNG MEN IN THEIR JAUNTY JALOPIES
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Post by Eddie Love on Oct 2, 2010 10:27:40 GMT -5
Actually, I'm glad they're showing Tony Curtis films like YOU CAN'T WIN 'EM ALL and THE VIKINGS rather than the heavyweights. I'm definitely pumped to see YCWEA and DON'T MAKE WAVES. WHO WAS THAT LADY they were already scheduled to show. I started watching something on my cache from a few weeks ago, which was the never on home video, mid-70s period gangster epic LEPKE. Directed by schlock-meister Menochem Golan. Not a bad period production -- but laughable as in a pre-credit sequence young Barry Miller enters a reformatory to emerge a couple years later...as 50-year old Tony Curtis!! Let's also acknowledge Tony's appearance in an epochal cultural milestone: the cover of SGT PEPPER! I think that leaves only Shirley Temple as the surviving film star from that bunch.
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Post by grubl on Oct 2, 2010 10:39:03 GMT -5
LEPKE was one of those early Home Box Office movies that got heavy rotation in the '70s, the trailer is burned into my mind. I'm not saying I needed to see SOME LIKE IT HOT and SPARTACUS (I own them both), I just thought that their omission was odd. I have not seen YOU CAN't WIN 'EM ALL. Looking forward to it.
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Post by Derrick on Oct 2, 2010 13:50:47 GMT -5
LEPKE was one of those early Home Box Office movies that got heavy rotation in the '70s, the trailer is burned into my mind. I'm not saying I needed to see SOME LIKE IT HOT and SPARTACUS (I own them both), I just thought that their omission was odd. I have not seen YOU CAN't WIN 'EM ALL. Looking forward to it. Oh, I hear you as far as SOME LIKE IT HOT and SPARTACUS are concerned but I don't find their omission odd at all. If anybody's a regular watcher of TCM like you, I and a whole lot of folks are then the chances they've seen those movies multiple times are excellent. But I know many people who haven't seen YOU CAN'T WIN 'EM ALL even once. Which says to me that whoever programmed the Tony Curtis tribute knew what they were doing.
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Post by Eddie Love on Oct 2, 2010 19:52:21 GMT -5
If anybody's a regular watcher of TCM like you, I and a whole lot of folks are then the chances they've seen those movies multiple times are excellent. Yeeeeah, sometimes TCM can feel a little like an oldies station with a play-list, as there are clearly some titles that they love to show over and over. There are simply more viewers out there who want to watch GREAT ESCAPE or TOP HAT for the 20th time than watch the obscure 60s or 70s titles I, for one, am always jonesing for.
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Post by grubl on Oct 2, 2010 21:49:12 GMT -5
TOP HAT has been one of my favorites for years, but after finally seeing it on the big screen, I think that I've hit my saturation point on that one. I'm putting off watching CASABLANCA again because I feel as though I'm only a bout one viewing away from ruining it.
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Post by Eddie Love on Oct 10, 2010 20:03:48 GMT -5
Booooooooooo! YOU CAN'T WIN 'EM ALL shown in full screen pan and scan! Epic TCM fail! Oh well... By the way they're showing a day-long Saint marathon this week including the creepy Louis Hayward one we discussed here.
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Post by Derrick on Oct 10, 2010 21:55:22 GMT -5
If anybody's a regular watcher of TCM like you, I and a whole lot of folks are then the chances they've seen those movies multiple times are excellent. Yeeeeah, sometimes TCM can feel a little like an oldies station with a play-list, as there are clearly some titles that they love to show over and over. There are simply more viewers out there who want to watch GREAT ESCAPE or TOP HAT for the 20th time than watch the obscure 60s or 70s titles I, for one, am always jonesing for. Agreed. There's a lot of movies I wouldn't mind seeing TCM put on the shelf and not air for at least six months or so. Much as I love THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN or TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, I've seen them enough. As the saying goes, "how can I miss you when you won't go away?" And I can hear the guy in the back yelling through cupped hands; "Just don't watch 'em, then!" Well, I don't. But that's air time that could be filled with movies that don't get nearly as much air time as others.
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Post by james on Oct 10, 2010 22:17:16 GMT -5
Yeeeeah, sometimes TCM can feel a little like an oldies station with a play-list, as there are clearly some titles that they love to show over and over. I'm still trying to figure out why TCM runs so many 70's Disney live actions films as often as they do. They need to retire The Black Hole and the two Witch Mountain films for a year. Speaking of films that don't get enough air time, tomorrow TCM is finally running 1937's The Great Garrick, at 7:15 AM. I've been waiting to see this for a long time. It's a James Whale comedy that's not easy to see; Film Forum programmed a Whale retrospective last year, and Garrick wasn't included, even though it's probably his most successful film after the Universal horrors (he made this one for Warner Brothers). James
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Post by Eddie Love on Oct 10, 2010 23:31:49 GMT -5
And I can hear the guy in the back yelling through cupped hands; "Just don't watch 'em, then!"; Well, I don't. But that's air time that could be filled with movies that don't get nearly as much air time as others. Bill Maher had a New Rule about movies that you click past on cable and invariably then watch, even when you own the DVD of it. He dubbed it, I think, The Shawshank Syndrome. On another topic, did anyone see the kid on SNL who did his Denzel Washington imitation last night? It was aggressively, profoundly brilliant. Best thing I've seen on that show in years. (Admittedly, I rarely watch it these days.)
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Post by grubl on Oct 11, 2010 17:20:57 GMT -5
Haven't been able to watch Saturday Night Live since the Eddie Murphy years (I try a coupel of times a season, Tina Fey did a good Palin, that's about it). And it had already fallen far by then.
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