TCM's 31 Days of Oscar

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This thread's raison d'etre is almost upon us once again:

http://prod-images.tcm.com/Microsites/31Days/31Days2019-Schedule.pdf

 

[dogbreath 434]

Strangers on a Train on now and then North by Northwest.

[DeepEastTexas 640]

Thanks for the heads up.

"Newsflash, Kaplan has dandruff!"

[MAROON 445]

On 2/2/2019 at 12:33 PM, dogbreath said:

Strangers on a Train on now and then North by Northwest.

Cary Grant was the quintessential leading man.  Not sure there will ever been another like him.  

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Battleground and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon on tonight.

[tantric superman 4667]

Dang, only caught the tail end of this greatness...

He's crazy, he's high, he's floating on Sneaky Pete wine.

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9 minutes ago, tantric superman said:

Dang, only caught the tail end of this greatness...

He's crazy, he's high, he's floating on Sneaky Pete wine.

Those teachers were pussies. 

[Steamboat1874 4058]

15 hours ago, RPM said:

Battleground and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon on tonight.

Battleground is a very good movie and very different from most of the WWII films made back then.

Great cast too.

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23 hours ago, MAROON said:

Cary Grant was the quintessential leading man.  Not sure there will ever been another like him.  

Most beautiful man I ever saw.....

[WhatTheBuck 28779]

On February 4, 2019 at 11:02 AM, MAROON said:

Cary Grant was the quintessential leading man.  Not sure there will ever been another like him.  

Gregory Peck > Cary Grant

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32 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Gregory Peck > Cary Grant

You're high.

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[WhatTheBuck 28779]

21 minutes ago, usmc0331horn said:

You're high.

Maybe. Maybe not. But I'm not wrong. 

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Really good George Segal movie coming on, King Rat. Prisoners in a Japanese prison camp struggle to survive. King Rat (Segal) struggles less because he's a wheeler dealer that knows how to get what he wants. Kind of a mashup of Stalag 17 and Bridge on the River Kwai. Very gritty.

[UTCzech III 2907]

Again this year, I have to recommend HDNET, they've got a pretty solid list of Oscar winners running this month.  Quite a few on my "haven't seen that one in forever" list, and they give you plenty of chances over the month to catch them.  

February movie roster

[Steamboat1874 4058]

21 hours ago, RPM said:

Really good George Segal movie coming on, King Rat. Prisoners in a Japanese prison camp struggle to survive. King Rat (Segal) struggles less because he's a wheeler dealer that knows how to get what he wants. Kind of a mashup of Stalag 17 and Bridge on the River Kwai. Very gritty.

I watched this yesterday and you are correct.......really good and maybe borderline great.

I had never seen it before.

Interesting character study.

Cool appearance at the end by ole "Family Feud".

[mr. sunshine 2824]

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town was on again on today. Excellent. Capra, Gary Cooper and totally would Jean Arthur 

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On 2/5/2019 at 11:56 AM, WhatTheBuck said:

Gregory Peck > Cary Grant

Yes, the answer is you're on crack. Grant had more range than Peck ever had as an actor.  Same guy in every role from The Guns of Navarone to the man in the grey flannel suit (great flick by the way).  

Grant started as a comedic actor and transitioned right into leading roles in dramatic films.  He was an actors actor.  Able to be more than just a handsome figure on the screen.

[dogbreath 434]

So with youttubetv, I can record films and am on the lookout for ones that have been overlooked or I haven't seen.  As of now, I've got The Crowd, Dodsworth and Holiday checked.  What other movies should be on the list?

[BornOrange 1441]

Tomorrow night, starting at 8:45 are three great movies: The Thin Man, Mrs. Miniver, and The Best Years of Our Lives.

[GhostOfTomJoad 9324]

Lassie Come Home is on now. We had a tri-colored collie growing up so this hits close to home.

The Thin Man follows.

[miguelito 11263]

I had never seen The Great Dictator until last night.  What a fantastic film.  Being a Chaplin film, there were many laugh out loud moments.  And then it got a little dusty at the end, during the barber's speech.  "Hannah, can you hear me?"  That's one of the great monologues of all time. 

To think that this came out in 1940 certainly added some weight to it; and it sadly still seems relevant today.  Not just because of current DC politics, but general attitudes of hate/love/compassion.

 

Here's the speech:

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to
rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible - Jew, Gentile - black
man - white.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each
other's happiness - not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one
another. In this world there's room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can
provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned
men's souls - has barricaded the world with hate - has goose-stepped us into misery and
bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that
gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness,
hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need
humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these
qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these
inventions cries out for the goodness in man - cries for universal brotherhood - for the
unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of
despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture
and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say: 'Do not despair.' The
misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear
the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power
they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will
never perish.
Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you and enslave you - who
regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you -
diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these
unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not
machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts.
You don't hate, only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural!
Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St Luke,
it is written the kingdom of God is within man not one man nor a group of men, but in all
men! In you! You, the people, have the power - the power to create machines. The power
to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful
- to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy - let us use
that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give
men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security.
By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not
fulfil that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the
people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away
with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for
a world of reason - a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us unite!
Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up Hannah. The clouds are lifting! The
sun is breaking through! We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming
into a new world - a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed and
their brutality. Look up, Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is
beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into the light of hope, into the future, the
glorious future that belongs to you, to me, and to all of us. Look up, Hannah... look up!

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I see they've managed to work Kramer vs. Kramer in once again this year even though that movie is hot garbage.  

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3 hours ago, miguelito said:

I had never seen The Great Dictator until last night.  What a fantastic film.  Being a Chaplin film, there were many laugh out loud moments.  And then it got a little dusty at the end, during the barber's speech.  "Hannah, can you hear me?"  That's one of the great monologues of all time. 

To think that this came out in 1940 certainly added some weight to it; and it sadly still seems relevant today.  Not just because of current DC politics, but general attitudes of hate/love/compassion.

 

Here's the speech:

 

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I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to
rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible - Jew, Gentile - black
man - white.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each
other's happiness - not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one
another. In this world there's room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can
provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned
men's souls - has barricaded the world with hate - has goose-stepped us into misery and
bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that
gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness,
hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need
humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these
qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these
inventions cries out for the goodness in man - cries for universal brotherhood - for the
unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of
despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture
and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say: 'Do not despair.' The
misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear
the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power
they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will
never perish.
Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you and enslave you - who
regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you -
diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these
unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not
machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts.
You don't hate, only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural!
Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St Luke,
it is written the kingdom of God is within man not one man nor a group of men, but in all
men! In you! You, the people, have the power - the power to create machines. The power
to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful
- to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy - let us use
that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give
men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security.
By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not
fulfil that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the
people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away
with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for
a world of reason - a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us unite!
Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up Hannah. The clouds are lifting! The
sun is breaking through! We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming
into a new world - a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed and
their brutality. Look up, Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is
beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into the light of hope, into the future, the
glorious future that belongs to you, to me, and to all of us. Look up, Hannah... look up!

 

Still a funny movie today.  Maybe one of the greatest speeches ever as a matter of fact.

[PittsburghTiger 6181]

Father of the Bride is on now. Fantastic movie, and dang, Elizabeth Taylor was so pretty. The Philadelphia Story was on before this.

 

 

 

 

[Hornstrader 179]

Pretty good double feature last night with Lawrence of Arabia and Bridge on the River Kwai on back to back

[PittsburghTiger 6181]

10 hours ago, Hornstrader said:

Pretty good double feature last night with Lawrence of Arabia and Bridge on the River Kwai on back to back

I saw Lawrence on the big screen over at the theater and it was glorious.

[Underdog 28623]

10 hours ago, Hornstrader said:

Pretty good double feature last night with Lawrence of Arabia and Bridge on the River Kwai on back to back

We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turning...

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Lifeboat on right now. Great Hitch treatment of Steinbeck. 

Western day starts with The Naked Spur at 3am. Some really good ones lined up. The Westerner, The Ox-Bow Incident, How The West Was Won. Good stuff.

[DougO 5245]

Captains Courageous at 7 tonight. I guess my prime time viewing is pretty well set.

[DeepEastTexas 640]

A River Runs Through It finished up just before Captains Courageous. That got me stuck on the couch for a solid 45 minutes.

[RPM 26319]

Boy's Town on now. Pretty solid night of TCM.

[RPM 26319]

Couple of gotta see movies today. 12 Angry Men on at 5:30. The High and the Mighty comes on at midnight.

[RPM 26319]

But the strawberries, that's where I had them.

I proved with geometric logic that a duplicate key to the icebox existed.
 

[DougO 5245]

I watched the back to back mutiny movies last night. I had never had the patience to watch the Brando Bounty version before in one sitting, but I enjoyed it. The ship deck scenes were pretty convincingly done for the time. Really nice camera work overall, and lots of native tropical chick side boob.

Edited February 23, 2019 by DougO

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2 minutes ago, DougO said:

I watched the back to back mutiny movies last night. I had never had the patience to watch the Brando Bounty version before in one sitting, but I enjoyed it. The ship deck scenes were pretty convincingly done for the time. Really nice camera work overall, and lots of native tropical chick side boob.

Love the bounty movies. I've got more appreciation for Brandos character now.  It was really good.  His transformation from Fopp to thinking/caring /taking action  man is pretty damn strong 

trevor Howard is one of the great villains in movie history .  He was damned good, meaning he was an evil masochistic bastard .

it actually holds up well for a movie of the  era

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8 hours ago, DougO said:

 The ship deck scenes were pretty convincingly done for the time. Really nice camera work overall, and lots of native tropical chick side boob.

They custom built that ship and it sailed until a couple years ago when some idiot thought it would be a good idea to sail through Hurricane Sandy. 

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22 minutes ago, RPM said:

They custom built that ship and it sailed until a couple years ago when some idiot thought it would be a good idea to sail through Hurricane Sandy. 

I didn't realize that was the ship in the movie.  I thought the ship was just a replica built about 25 years ago.

[RPM 26319]

War movies today. Started with Glory followed by Sergeant York, They Were Expendable, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, The Young Lions (gotta admit I'm not familiar with this one), The Dirty Dozen and The Story of G.I. Joe.

[RPM 26319]

One of my Top 10 films. Only Angels Have Wings- Carey Grant, (prime)Jean Arthur, (early)Rita Hayworth, Noah Beery, Jr. 6:45 am Friday.

I loved this movie before I ever saw this movie. It was parodied in a Warner Bros cartoon I'd seen hundreds of times before I finally stumbled across the source of the joke and recognized "Calling Barranca!"

Just saw a promo for another of my favorites, The Narrow Margin. Not really a film noir, but a fantastic cops and mob on a train story with some innocent bystanders thrown in for good measure. Great, great flick. Friday at 1pm.

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[miguelito 11263]

Last night I watched Little Caesar, with Edward G. Robinson.  Edward was also parodied by some cartoons back in the day, so it's nice to finally watch the inspiration for those Bugs Bunny cartoons.  Key Largo is another good gangster flick. 

 

"Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?"

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Love Key Largo. Great performances all around, but nobody could have pulled off the role of Rico but Eddie G.

Soldier! Soldier!!!

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Just now, RPM said:

Love Key Largo. Great performances all around, but nobody could have pulled off the role of Rico but Eddie G.

Soldier! Soldier!!!

Peter Falk played a really really good bad guy (see: Murder Inc). He didn't have the Eddie G persona, but could have been a more evil, sociopathic Rico.  

I love E.G. Robinson, but thought he was a bit cartoonish at times, like Cagney and his bad guy characters.  still always fun to watch.

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Peter Faulk is great, but he would have been way too young to play Rico. George Raft might have worked, but he couldn't carry a scene like Robinson.

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10 minutes ago, RPM said:

Peter Faulk is great, but he would have been way too young to play Rico. George Raft might have worked, but he couldn't carry a scene like Robinson.

Oh yeah at that time for sure. I never liked George Raft that much. He was kinda boring to me, but he did play the bad guy a lot. 

 

EG Robinson had so much more range, He was a great actor, and a movie star. Raft was the type cast movie star, bad guy type IMO.

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Plus you're doing scenes with Bogart and Lionel freaking Barrymore. Rico had to be powerful, dominant and oppressive over 2 acting heavyweights and be believable doing it. Eddie G was.

[DougO 5245]

Coming up tonight, "Somebody Up There Likes Me," my favorite Paul Newman movie. Yes, I said it.

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5 minutes ago, DougO said:

Coming up tonight, "Somebody Up There Likes Me," my favorite Paul Newman movie. Yes, I said it.

Better than Cool Hand Luke ???!!

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22 minutes ago, DougO said:

Coming up tonight, "Somebody Up There Likes Me," my favorite Paul Newman movie. Yes, I said it.

Cool Hand Luke, Butch & Sundance, Hud, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean... and you pick Somebody Up There Likes Me?

Bold strategy.

[Steamboat1874 4058]

11 hours ago, DougO said:

Coming up tonight, "Somebody Up There Likes Me," my favorite Paul Newman movie. Yes, I said it.

This is a great movie and it may have been Newman's best performance of his career in my opinion.

Some of the best boxing scenes I have ever seen in a movie.