I think you may be just as underwhelmed with MORE THAN A SECRETARY, while THE IMPATIENT YEAR is an interesting look at war-time marriages. I have no idea about PUBLIC MENACE as I have never stumbled across it before.

Maybe Carey was referring to out of the country locations and not all of the local western ranches.

How can you blame the studios when you yourself just said that the early talkies featuring silent stars looked no different from those featuring new young stars? That tells me that the audience was making a subjective decision on who they wanted to see.

Wow! Booed at a Rose Bowl parade?......Tough crowds.

I don't think it was success and wealth Bob. I think that it was simply a matter of the movie going public whole-heartedly embracing the new medium of the talkies and they just unconsciously lost all allegiances to their former idols. They wanted to invest in an entirely new corp of actors. If you w...

SLITHER (73) is hilarious for being an action flick. Caan's low key underplaying is used to good advantage. I seem to recall that HEARTS OF THE WEST (75) had quite a few airings this past decade on TCM. And by the way, both flicks were directed by the same fella, Howard Zieff. I don't know much abo...

Do 16mm prints eventually turn red? It's almost as if film in any form was not meant to survive for any length of time.... (By the way, I, for one, will volunteer to write Mr. Schlesinger and request that he NOT interview Messers. Reiner and Van Dyke specifically regarding the making of The Comic - ...

That is the surprising aspect of the film - Reiner's cynicism - which you can't really find in any of his other written work (discounting the hilarious barbs of Buddy Sorrell and the other half of his partnership with the 2,000 YR Old Man). And he had made another show business tale just the year pr...

I'm just amazed that someone could do a John Garfield imitation in standup in the 80s. That's getting awfully close to Bob & Ray's George Brent impersonator. Maybe on the surface of it doing imitations of old actors seemed to belong to the more old school Vegas-nightclub stand-ups of the Sixties, b...

What a great line......

"We're in trouble. This dog can't act."

classicmovieman wrote:I thought last night's episode was the best yet maybe because most of the subjects haven't been covered by the likes of Brownlow (I know he did a series of European silents a good few years ago).

By which you mean......he has covered it.

The Blackbird wrote: DIPLOMANIACS has the same strength DUCK SOUP does, ie. it doesn't care what it's doing. Unlike DUCK SOUP, you'll never see this film reach the same level of universal appeal because it's so "politically incorrect,"

And DUCK SOUP is......?

Christopher Jacobs wrote: Back to the topic, I found Etaix interesting and very entertaining, but not quite up to Jacques Tati, and both owed a great deal to Buster Keaton.

More along the lines of Max Linder. Keaton was out of their range.

As a team their parts are greater than their whole, so I enjoy all of their films (and they cranked out a lot in almost a decade) for those moments when their eccentric stage mannerisms rise to the top, when they perform routines which play almost as funny as they sound and whenever they break into ...

Yes. No such thing as Greatest Movie Ever (nor "Greatest anything", for that matter...) but I can definitely agree with 'one of the most influential movies'.

I don't know either but aren't there auto racing films from the 30's that still featured tandem driving teams?

So this is the group who has taken over the old Silent Movie house on Fairfax?

That is a great a line, and yet it belies the idea that Walsh was incapable of creating a sentimental moment on the screen - which we all know is not true.

It's nice to see that the feistiness of Mr. Roberts is starting to return after being rather dormant for most of the summer.
Welcome back, sir.

FRIENDS OF MR. SWEENEY was a fun minor Warners programmer that I was not aware of before hand. Charles Ruggles plays a meek, subservient newspaper editor who finds his manhood through the love of his adoring secretary (Dvorak) and by the egging on from his old hard-drinking, still partying college c...

Oh, don't worry, the word has been spread. That's why the majority of us avoid him like the plague.

I'm surprised the Stooges got as much screen time as they did considering all of the little sub plots floating around on board that ship. What I like about such unconventional casting is that the filmmakers are telegraphing ahead to the audience that this is going to be a more offbeat film than the ...

It looks like that storage facility was smack dab in the heart of a neighborhood.
And that conflagration was ten times bigger than Tarantino's puny little cinema blaze from his silly Nazi flick.

Louie, Is it funny??......or risque?

It looks like even back in 1939 MAYERLING was resigned to the PD shelf.

I assume not. He believed in that healthy 'tanned' look.

Fields was basically re-auditioning for Paramount by making all of these 'all-star' appearances in 1932-34. The studio was reluctant to put him in his own starring features because of their history together with Field's silent films. So Fields bided his time (plus he had an ally with Paramount exec ...

I have seen this film a couple of times. Would have been a much better film IMO if Fairbanks wasn't in it. The entire point of this film historically is Fairbanks' attempt to return to his first silent film personae as the eager, go-getter American in the talkie era. Most will agree it was not exac...

It is not unfair to compare the two films since they both have the same theme and came out at relatively the same time. It's only natural to compare. What is unfair is to try to elevate one film by downgrading another. BEST YEARS was a big budgeted prestige production with a top notch cast and helme...

For a film that deserves more attention you sure gave a lot of reasons why it hasn't....