Back to Perry Mason. Bette was on last night pinch hitting for Perry defending Michael Parks. (Does anyone know what his operation was about when he was out of the show for awhile? It's not a very good episode (I'd seen it before). It must've been shot around the time of Dead Ringer as she's wearin...

Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑Yesterday, 9:45 pm Oh my gosh, txfilmfan, I got a chill reading that! Had no idea...

Or, to quote Lonesome, "Moly Hoses!"

This short story has a quote from Griffith himself on his temper..

https://www.metv.com/stories/andy-griff ... dy-taylor

The plastic surgery segment in DARK PASSAGE always creeps me out, including a scary looking Bogie with those bandages. It almost seems like a nod back from Warner's to their 1930's urban horror thrillers, DR. X, MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM and THE RETURN OF DR. X. Scary looking Bogie? How about scary...

Wow, I never knew about that coda, txfilmfan! What a great post, thank you. Raises more (important) questions! Not only the ones you mentioned, but Madeline's car supposedly parked at the hotel but which desk clerk Ellen Corby refutes. Was she paid to say that? For some reason I always enjoy the se...

Lonesome Rhodes is one of those come-from-nowhere performances that always astound me. I wonder where Andy pulled that darkness from? Great acting. I can understand your feelings, jimimac, about NTFS but I do think AFITC is one of Kazan's best. One never expects to see Walter Matthau as "Vande...

It was very hard believing someone like Judy could pull off being Madeline, no matter how much "coaching" she had. That jumping into the ocean bit fascinates me because when Scottie phones Elster to tell him about it, there is a pregnant pause from Elster's end, which I took to mean he di...

ziggy6708a wrote: ↑May 4th, 2024, 2:14 pm

"hey bub.............excuse me..."

If you've never seen it, I can recommend Kedi, which translates to "Cat", about the feral and street cat population in Istanbul.

Just once I'd love to see THE BIRDS and MARNIE without an intro or outro mentioning Hitchcock's misogynistic treatment of women, Tippi Hedren in particular (and now I've learned he also sexually harrassed Diane Baker). Last night I heard that a major theme in his movies is "the dominant male&q...

Back to Perry Mason. Bette was on last night pinch hitting for Perry defending Michael Parks. (Does anyone know what his operation was about when he was out of the show for awhile? It's not a very good episode (I'd seen it before). It must've been shot around the time of Dead Ringer as she's wearin...

Assorted notes.... Desperate Characters (1971) is a deeply melancholic film about bruised, unhappy lives in Brooklyn. It's a very bleak affair, with no relief from the gloom and likely stands as one of the grimmest Hollywood films I can recall seeing, but it is very astutely written both in charact...

I watched the end of "My Fair Lady." The best part. Love Audrey Hepburn but Rex Harrison is such a jerk. After the movie was the hilarious promo for the WB tours. Someone may have watched the drag race scene from American Graffiti. Then a promo for Max. Is Max going to be the streaming ho...

lol, I thought it was weird that the actor playing the NYC mayor was an Ed Koch look-a-like. He wouldn't become mayor until 1978. It should have been Abraham Beame in 1974. I realize they couldn't make fun of an actual real-life politician but as a born and bred New Yawker that definitely was Ed! I...

I've known this was in the works for months, but have not been able to discuss it. But today it was finally announced that MeTV will be starting a new cartoon network (MeTV Toons) in June. They will be showing classic cartoons, most of them from the theatrical release era, from major studios. They w...

TCM programming dept.: "Whose birthday should we celebrate for May 2nd?" -- "How about Theodore Bikel?" -- "Great!" LOL Bless their hearts. (but then they don't even schedule I BURY THE LIVING) You're now officially Southern, with that "Bless their hearts"...

FRI., 5-3 10:00 pm (ET) "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (1988) 1h 50m | Comedy a remake of the 1964 film Bedtime Story, whose co-writers Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning received screen credit for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, along with writer Dale Launer. Set on the French Riviera, the film stars ...