Get Smart.

Allhallowsday wrote: ↑December 14th, 2022, 10:04 pm CHARLIE RUGGLES ANN DORAN?

Did you mean to say Ann Harding?

Allhallowsday wrote: ↑December 14th, 2022, 2:24 pm TCM shows it frequently and I often watch. VICTOR MOORE is wonderful

Yes, fine film. I like the fact that the Moore character is respectful.

Big fan of Martha Ivers; Stanwyck and Heflin are top notch actors and while Douglas was just getting started, he does well. Liz Scott comes off as a newcomer but she is able to hold her own (since the others were able to help carry the important scenes Liz was in).

Marysara1 wrote: ↑December 14th, 2022, 12:21 pm Wasn't a young Penny Singleton in it?

Yes, Penny Singleton had a small role. So did an actress that never made it big expect in fiction; Vickie Lester.

I forgot what my least favorite TV series is.

Nope James, not "all the dark moments are played for laughs". The scene when Sheriff Dimsdale (Charles Winninger) gets gunned down in his office isn't exactly a laugh riot, ya know. This being just one example, and with many other examples being contained within scene that primarily featu...

Some lighter moments? All of the "dark" moments are played for laughs. Even the shooting in the back is something to just pass over. I.e. we are not suppose to care (and either does Destry much), since he never really loved her (he clearly fell for the good gal). I.e. the rom-com wasn't b...

I view this film as more of a rom-com set in the west, than a "true" western. Pre-WWII Jimmy Stewart was a good fit for this role, but I still favor his more gritty screen persona after he returned from WWII. I agree, james. Calling DESTRY RIDES AGAIN a Western is similar to calling DIE H...

This week the treat came during the 6p-8p THREE STOOGES shorts before Svengoolie- They aired the 1934 musical novelty THE WOMAN HATERS featuring the absolutely adorable Marjorie White. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Majoriewhite1930.jpg It was the first of the Stooges appearances wi...

I like UNTIL THEY SAIL. It stars some of my favorite female actors as sisters: Joan Fontaine, Jean Simmons ( love her! ), Piper Laurie (I always associate her with her role as Carrie's mother in CARRIE) and Sandra Dee. I know Sandra Dee and her movies were often dismissed as "fluff" on the...

Yesterday I was watching Wagon Train and there was Gilbert Roland. What a fine actor with a very charming screen persona.

My favorite Roland films are:

Juarez, The Sea Hawk, We Were Strangers, Malaya, The Furies, The Bad and the Beautiful, Thunder Bay, That Lady, and Bandido.

Nothing in the world is so bad as something that is not so bad. From Scarlett Pimpernel (at one minute).

About the only two John Wayne movies I like are Rio Bravo and El Dorado. El Dorado is ahead because it has Robert Mitchum and a young James Caan. I do like Dean Martin and Angie Dickinson in Rio Bravo, but don't see much use for Ricky Nelson. I understand that El Dorado was a reworking of Rio Bravo...

LawrenceA wrote: ↑December 8th, 2022, 3:05 pm

Happy holidays to all.