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gromit
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 2:40 pm Reply with quote
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Syd wrote:
TCM is doing saint movies one night in May: The Big Fisherman (St. Peter), Francis of Assisi, Joan of Arc (the 1948 one with Ingrid Bergman) and A Man for All Seasons. I'm surprised they're not showing The Song of Bernadette, which is one of my favorites.


They should show El Santo vs. Los Mujeres Vampiro.


(El Santo -- "The Saint"-- was a masked Mexican wrestler).


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The first cinematography Oscar, not surprisingly, went to Sunrise. The third went to "With Byrd at the South Pole", which I assume has a breast count below zero.

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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 2:56 pm Reply with quote
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gromit wrote:
Syd wrote:
TCM is doing saint movies one night in May: The Big Fisherman (St. Peter), Francis of Assisi, Joan of Arc (the 1948 one with Ingrid Bergman) and A Man for All Seasons. I'm surprised they're not showing The Song of Bernadette, which is one of my favorites.


They should show El Santo vs. Los Mujeres Vampiro.


(El Santo -- "The Saint"-- was a masked Mexican wrestler).


The people who made Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter had Santo as a character. Different actor of course, since the real Santo died well before the movie.

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gromit
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 3:05 pm Reply with quote
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It's not too hard to replace a guy who wore a mask his entire career ....

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billyweeds
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 6:38 pm Reply with quote
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Syd wrote:
Tomorrow is Lon Chaney day followed by baseball movies. At 5:00 a.m. Tuesday, they're showing White Shadows in the South Seas, which won the second Oscar for Cinematography. I want to compare it with Tabu: A Tale of the South Seas, which won the fourth cinematography Oscar and was also shot in the Society Islands. Robert Flaherty worked on both films.

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A dispute over this film with Hunt Stromberg led David Selznick to quit Metro Goldwyn Mayer. "David thought it an idyllic story; Hunt said he wanted lots of tits.
The National Geographic exception applies.


Flaherty apparently quit because the script was so lousy. This was the first movie in which audiences heard Leo the Lion roar.
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Syd
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 6:51 pm Reply with quote
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He also had trouble with W. S. Van Dyke. And on Tabu he didn't get along with F. W. Murnau. It was probably just as well he directed Man of Aran himself.

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Sorry to respond to this so late - no internet this weekend -

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W. Watts Biggers, the creator of Underdog, just died last month. And to further disorient things, here's a trivia question ... in Couch(!): What is the connection between Caspar the Friendly Ghost, Davey and Goliath, Gumby and Underdog?


...none of them had external genitalia? all voiced by the same Canadian voice artist? all now living in the same retirement toontown in toon-Arizona? (rumor has it that Caspar has grown less friendly in his declining years though, being already incorporeal, it's unclear just how the aging process factors into this)

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gromit
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 9:16 am Reply with quote
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bartist wrote:

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What is the connection between Caspar the Friendly Ghost, Davey and Goliath, Gumby and Underdog?


all voiced by the same Canadian voice artist?


Right you sort of is.

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Norma MacMillan (September 15, 1921 – March 16, 2001) was a Canadian voice actor, best known for voicing numerous animation and claymation children's characters, including Casper the Friendly Ghost on The New Casper Cartoon Show, Gumby on The Gumby Show and Davey on Davey and Goliath.


So she did Davey, Gumby, Casper on the 60's cartoon, and Sweet Polly Purebread on Underdog.

And she looks oddly like a 50's version of Yeardley Smith, the voice of Lisa Simpson.


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gromit wrote:
Ben Hur has a fair amount of clunkiness, but I like it.
Ali watched Demetrius and the Gladiator last night. Ben Hur is as a well oiled machine in comparison.

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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 10:54 am Reply with quote
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whiskeypriest wrote:
gromit wrote:
Ben Hur has a fair amount of clunkiness, but I like it.
Ali watched Demetrius and the Gladiator last night. Ben Hur is as a well oiled machine in comparison.


Comparing Ben-Hur with Demetrius and the Gladiators is like comparing Rio Lobo with 'Neath the Arizona Skies. One is professional and mediocre, the other outright bad.
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whiskeypriest
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How can any movie with Victor Mature, Debra Paget and Michael Rennie be bad?

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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 3:21 pm Reply with quote
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whiskeypriest wrote:
How can any movie with Victor Mature, Debra Paget and Michael Rennie be bad?


Point taken.
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Joe Vitus
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Oh it's easy. You just need a lame script, dull premise and fake Biblical Hollywood sets. Geez, people think appealing stars never make worthless movies?

Never saw Demetrius, which admittedly is supposed to be not-bad, but Samson and Delilah has Mature, George Sanders and Angela Lansbury and it isn't worth a pig's fart.

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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 12:40 pm Reply with quote
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I was kidding, as I assumed whiskey was too. Maybe not.
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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 3:12 pm Reply with quote
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Joe Vitus wrote:
Oh it's easy. You just need a lame script, dull premise and fake Biblical Hollywood sets. Geez, people think appealing stars never make worthless movies?

Never saw Demetrius, which admittedly is supposed to be not-bad, but Samson and Delilah has Mature, George Sanders and Angela Lansbury and it isn't worth a pig's fart.
Twas sarcasm. And Demetrius etc was not not bad.

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