Yes! McCarey's flick.....the moment when Thomas Mitchell has to tell his mom that this living arrangement isn't working out, only Beulah Bondi heads him off by telling him she would feel more comfortable living with those her own age and would like to move to the Old Folks Home. It's a devastating m...

I never realized 28mm was introduced so early in our film history. By 1912 and some far-sighted folks were already looking at the possibilities of a home movie market. I always assumed that area developed later in the 1920's. Tom, when you write about "a hoard of 28mm films were found and sold on th...

Give up on Michael, everyone! He is a lost cause.
Keaton does not need to be foisted upon anyone. He has his pride.

Maybe El Brendel is more your style?

Frederica wrote: Perhaps we won't get the usual cliches.

Funny......I never considered Burns' work as cliche-ridden.

Understandable, but in fact WC had stopped drinking for about a year and remained sober through much of '38. The BB of '38 was filmed in the fall of '37 so whatever the cause of his behavior, alcohol abuse wasn't one of them. I think you just stated why alcohol abuse WAS the reason Fields was orner...

Leisen has an amusing story of how Fields got the studio to shoot a scene in which he walks in as Kirsten Flagstad is singing Wagner and compares her voice to a screeching parrot. Leisen then says he warned the studio of possible legal action if it was ever released and that the studio then burned ...

Which bears the question, why didn't Fairbanks get Chaplin to appear in the walk-on? It would had made the gag funnier. I guess he was preoccupied at finishing up THE KID.

sethb wrote: Volume 7 has the FOLLIES OF 1938, one of my favorites. It has a great story line, excellent production values and Henry Brandon, even if the number with the tap-dancing train porters is now not exactly PC.

No. Porters actually tap danced back then. It's all perfectly legit.

Old neighborhood picture palaces that survived past their era always had unique interiors - wall columns and light fixtures that were capable of grabbing your attention as one settled in. Many had glittering starlit ceilings where I would lean back in my seat and get lost in a reverie of nothingness...

You can consider your multiple copies as a form of an external storage drive. A way to safeguard your files.

You're both nuts!

Gary J. - World Class Debater

I don't think so.

If someone doesn't like the way his mind works in THE GENERAL there is no reason to believe they will see anything different from his shorts.

It's the same mind.

5 year olds run loose at Disney World every day. That's why I only go there heavily armed.

I agree that if these are the Cabin Fever prints then that would be truly welcomed. That set was remastered from LOC's 35 mm prints. Hard to complain about that. Three DVD's were released early in the decade using those Cabin Fever prints but then they quit (Thank you Hallmark). Those DVD's did not ...

So Vivendi Entertainment first releases a slap dash set of all 80 Our Gang talkie shorts using old Blackhawk and TV prints and has the chutzpah to call them restored and uncut - and now they return to the project and contritely try to atone for that by releasing an 8 vol. set in which each short is ...

The problem with the film's score is that the movie's theme was played pretty much every time some comic was on the move.......which amounted to a playing time of....well, you figure it out.

He was terrific in RICH AND STRANGE , and I absolutely loved him in THE 39 STEPS . He had a suspenseful scene unknowingly delivering a live bomb aboard a city bus in SABOTAGE .....and then he BLEW UP! And then there was his creepy portrayal of an overly zealous housekeeper in REBECCA , not to mentio...

She never rose beyond a second-tiered child star but she had a very natural presence on film. Her work with Crosby and Autry seemed to bring out the natural ease in both of those actors.

Being stuck turning out Columbia potboilers probably didn't help.

All that you need to understand is that Cohl was pioneering a new art form that would eventually give us FANTASIA and BAMBI MEETS GODZILLA.

Take your pick....

I don't think I've ever seen clips of Joe E. Lewis perform. It's been years since I've watched PRIVATE BUCKAROO but I don't believe he performs his act in that film (correct me If I'm wrong - as if you folks won't.......). Lewis recorded a comedy album for Sinatra's record label in the early 60's an...

Chaplin visited Bali with his brother, Sydney, who was keen to film the island's topless women.

E. IDLE : I'll bet he was, I'll bet he was. Say no more....nudge...nudge..wink...wink,

She did realize she couldn't stay on top the moment Europe broke out in war - which was the main market for her popularity by then.

That's the reason it's a bad Garbo picture. As the 30's progressed every new film for her had to be a prestige production. TWO-FACED WOMAN is a simplistic programmer that the studio would of usually handed over to Myrna Loy (Frederica's buddy) while she waited for William Powell to recover from his ...

Concerning HORSEFEATHERS mutilated prints I briefly spoke with Joe Adamson this past decade at Cinecon and he didn't sound actually optimistic about a restored print anytime in the future.

He talked along the lines of....."they're still looking."

And I had always heard accounts that it was Gene Fowler himself, along with Barrymore drinking cronies WC Fields and John Decker, who all participated in the theft of the body. This is a great tale and should never be sullied with facts. Blake Edwards based the entire ending of SOB - (1981) on that ...

Alright.............you missed a comma.

BTW, some more "inside" stuff - to save money, Warners used Robin Hood's escape from Nottingham Castle for Don Juan's escape at the film's opening. Juan's majestic entrance into Madrid as a mistaken Duke was lifted from Essex's entrance into London from ELIZABETH AND ESSEX. If you look closely you ...

All of those behind the scenes wranglings that you mentioned Bob is what I feel gives the movie an extra dose of gravitas to what is otherwise all of the usual Saturday matinee heroic sword play. The filmmakers were also very sage to give Flynn, at this stage of his career, his one unrequited love o...

Yeah, it's vastly entertaining, filled with stories told in the Howard Hawks vein - but minus the rampant egoism and just maybe a touch of truth telling. Since we are praising various Flynn films my nominee for his most poignant movie would have to be ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN (1948) . It not only mark...

I see no reason to believe that Flynn could not of dictated that tome but it's obvious it was at the behest of his bosses that he publicize the location shoot with a thorough mention of his entire cast and crew of the film.