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- September 27th, 2007, 1:25 am
- Forum: Westerns
- Topic: Western Clichés
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9760
Re: Dry heat on a merry-go-round.
I've seen this event a number of times, but can't name any titles: In the desert, trying to get out of it, and short of water. Someone takes the last drink from a canteen, or tries to take a drink and finds it empty. They throw in away, with no thought to the possibility that they may find water la...
- September 27th, 2007, 12:23 am
- Forum: Film Noir and Crime
- Topic: Champion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9017
There are more than a few Kirk movies that I like, such as “... O.K. Corral”, “In Harm’s Way”. “Detective Story”, and others, but he does seem like a natural when it comes to playing a jerk. Kinda like how I feel about Newman in “Hud” or “Hombre”: seems like the jerk character comes a little too eas...
- September 22nd, 2007, 7:47 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Sign of the Ram (1948)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4660
- September 21st, 2007, 11:19 pm
- Forum: Westerns
- Topic: Bertrand Tavernier's overlooked and underrated Westerns
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4085
- September 21st, 2007, 10:56 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Sign of the Ram (1948)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4660
Despite being a sucker for movies set on rocky seashores (it was my good fortune to spend most of my brief army stint at Ft. Ord, near Monterey and Big Sur), the overwhelming negativity of this film had me up off the couch at 50 minutes in to see just how much longer of the domineering Ms. Peters I ...
- September 16th, 2007, 2:11 am
- Forum: Westerns
- Topic: Roy Rogers
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11062
I always assumed Roy Rogers and some of the others were making movies for children. Kinda like Lassie, complete with feel-good hokeyness and cardboard villains. From age eight to eleven (1963-66) I was in France with my air force family, with basically no TV at all, and almost every Saturday morning...
- September 11th, 2007, 11:02 pm
- Forum: General TV and Media
- Topic: Time's - 100 Top TV Shows
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5008
- September 11th, 2007, 10:43 pm
- Forum: Westerns
- Topic: Western Leading Men
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7583
SPTO - I usually enjoy Costner, although I sometimes gather that it's not hip to say so. He is a dreamer, especially in Wolves, but it is quite entertaining and holds up well through multiple viewings. I even like him in The Postman and Waterworld, though the critics tell me they're duds. Maybe it's...
- September 11th, 2007, 9:58 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: TCM Message Boards
- Replies: 108
- Views: 41122
- September 6th, 2007, 1:38 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: TCM Message Boards
- Replies: 108
- Views: 41122
- September 4th, 2007, 9:53 pm
- Forum: General TV and Media
- Topic: Survivorman!!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2726
- September 4th, 2007, 9:18 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Filmmakers' Favorites
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2712
- September 4th, 2007, 8:59 pm
- Forum: Westerns
- Topic: Sexiest Western Gal
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3255
- August 28th, 2007, 2:02 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Loretta Young
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3958
- August 27th, 2007, 5:38 pm
- Forum: Dramas
- Topic: The Stranger
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3736
Second time I've seen it and I consider it very entertaining. With Robinson and Welles it almost has to be, right? The only sense in which it stretched my credulity had to do with the reluctance of the Young character to wake up and smell the coffee. I realize she was in love but it seemed like she ...