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by Swithin
Today, 1:03 pm
Forum: Musicals
Topic: AFI's 25 GREATEST MOVIE MUSICALS OF ALL TIME
Replies: 49
Views: 1185

Re: AFI's 25 GREATEST MOVIE MUSICALS OF ALL TIME

My favorite movie musical never makes any lists ever. I saw a summer stock production of Li'l Abner as a kid and have loved it ever since. Interestingly, Paramount Pictures backed the creation of the Broadway show (1956) with the specific intention of making a movie version. The movie (1959) kept m...
by Swithin
Yesterday, 6:25 pm
Forum: Games and Trivia
Topic: What actor/actress comes to mind?
Replies: 2872
Views: 183996

Re: What actor/actress comes to mind?

Gladys Cooper (in Forever and a Day)

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by Swithin
Yesterday, 5:28 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project
Replies: 258
Views: 35704

Re: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project

The Worst You'll Find Out I like that one! It's dopey and silly, of course, but the cast is good, and I enjoyed Kay Kyser and the entourage. Since it is the only film with Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Peter Lorre, I was really disappointed that they share less than five minutes on screen together...
by Swithin
Yesterday, 5:25 pm
Forum: Games and Trivia
Topic: First Film that comes to mind...
Replies: 3083
Views: 197082

Re: First Film that comes to mind...

Btw. 2 up already answered Georgy Girl Likei songs, there are so many Great 1960s films adapted from novels To Kill A Mockiingbird. Elmer Gantry are 2 favorites Next : continue with 1960's film adaptation of a novel Sorry about that, I'm still jet-lagged! Tom Jones (1963) Next: A film with a birth ...
by Swithin
Yesterday, 4:07 pm
Forum: Games and Trivia
Topic: First Film that comes to mind...
Replies: 3083
Views: 197082

Re: First Film that comes to mind...

George Girl (1966)

Favorite 1960s adaptation from a novel
by Swithin
May 18th, 2024, 4:52 pm
Forum: Games and Trivia
Topic: First Film that comes to mind...
Replies: 3083
Views: 197082

Re: First Film that comes to mind...

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Favorite Clarence Brown film
by Swithin
May 18th, 2024, 3:47 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project
Replies: 258
Views: 35704

Re: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project

1940: Ten Favorites in alphabetical order: All This, and Heaven Too City for Conquest Down Argentine Way Foreign Correspondent The Grapes of Wrath His Girl Friday The Mortal Storm The Mummy’s Hand Night Train to Munich Pride and Prejudice Best line of 1940: "Now rub it on the tender part of yo...
by Swithin
May 18th, 2024, 3:28 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project
Replies: 258
Views: 35704

Re: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project

1940 Favorites The Grapes of Wrath Foreign Correspondent The Philadelphia Story Rebecca The Bank Dick Christmas in July The Great Dictator His Girl Friday I Love You Again The Letter The Long Voyage Home The Mark of Zorro The Westerner Least Favorites Son of Ingagi The Ape Half a Sinner Laddie Sky ...
by Swithin
May 18th, 2024, 8:24 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 3787
Views: 226129

Re: I Just Watched...

I just watched four movies, on flights to and from London:

The Zone of Interest
Barbie

Poor Things
The Holdovers


I'm jet-lagged and will write something about them in coming days.
by Swithin
May 16th, 2024, 2:17 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project
Replies: 258
Views: 35704

Re: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project

Ten from me, for '33:

42nd Street
Duck Soup
Flying Down to Rio
Gold Diggers of 1933
I’m No Angel
The Invisible Man
King Kong
Lady for a Day
Little Women
She Done Him Wrong


Some credit due here:

Alice in Wonderland
Secret of the Blue Room
The Vampire Bat
by Swithin
May 12th, 2024, 2:43 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Opera
Replies: 41
Views: 11035

Re: Opera

In honour of Mother's Day, Manrico rushes off to save his "mother," Azucena:

by Swithin
May 12th, 2024, 2:37 pm
Forum: Games and Trivia
Topic: First Film that comes to mind...
Replies: 3083
Views: 197082

Re: First Film that comes to mind...

Lilies (Les Feluettes) (1996)

Next: Albino
by Swithin
May 12th, 2024, 8:28 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 3787
Views: 226129

Re: I Just Watched...

[i ]i mean, full disclosure I've re-watched THE MUMMY (1933) in parts and in full since my review and it's such a nice restoration and there are scenes where DAVID MANNERS just GLOWS he's SO EFFING HANDSOME. [/i] https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.11859ed6ca570d2a7e7ae98fcc06c355?rik=CuWJYT0nqBfplg&ri...
by Swithin
May 12th, 2024, 3:52 am
Forum: Games and Trivia
Topic: SPOILERS!
Replies: 982
Views: 124368

Re: SPOILERS!

Sorry, Neither one. If we were on our old site playing trivia, guessing 2 films in 1 turn would have been a no no. Princess of Tap would have had a fit! lol 7. This film was after Anthony Adverse and before Kidnapped This clue confuses me, because Anthony Adverse is 1936 and Kidnapped is 1938. So d...
by Swithin
May 11th, 2024, 4:27 pm
Forum: Games and Trivia
Topic: First Film that comes to mind...
Replies: 3083
Views: 197082

Re: First Film that comes to mind...

Barbie (2023) -- on a plane

Next: Another movie about a doll (of any type)