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| witneyenglish | Mar 21 2008, 08:16 PM Post #1021 |
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Balcony Gang, Foist Class
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I received MI-5, series 5 in todays mail. |
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| kirgo2 | Mar 23 2008, 09:25 AM Post #1022 |
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Balcony Gang, Foist Class
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A big mail day Saturday...received Season 3 of "McHale's Navy" and "The Complete Get Smart" set from Time-Life. I had been putting off getting this but finally decided to bite the bullet. I'm going to try to watch an episode a day. Also, at Costco yesterday, I picked up the TCM Archives Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy sets at $21.99 each. They also had copies of the TCM Archives Greta Garbo set and Volume One of "Forbidden Hollywood" as well. Plus, my Costco had copies of both volumes of the Mr. Moto series at $15.99 a set. That's a pretty good deal. |
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| igsjr | Mar 25 2008, 05:58 AM Post #1023 |
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Nostalgia blogger
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I got everything in my recent 40% VCI sale order except for Jungle Queen, which is on backorder. Also received McHale's Navy: Season Three and The Wild, Wild West: The Fourth Season. |
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"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director So many DVDs...so little time... | |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Mar 25 2008, 05:51 PM Post #1024 |
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Mouth Breather
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I read on IMDb that THE PRIZEFIGHTER AND THE LADY was begun and partly directed by Howard Hawks, so I TIVOed it off TCM. It's a boxing epic from 1933 and was obviously made while the Production Code was taking effect, but wasn't as strong as it soon became. I guess MGM scrapped much of the Hawks script and nearly all of his footage (He may have shot the first couple of scenes -- kinda hard to tell because in 1933 his style wasn't fully formed), and put the reworked script in the hands of "One Take" Woody Van Dyke. Walter Huston is a drunken former fight manager who sees a young bartender (Max Baer) mop up the floor with four or five muscular lads and decides he's found the fighter of his dreams. He takes him to the country for a little roadwork and guess what? Myrna Loy's car crashes, Max carries her to the nearest farmhouse and gets her to take her clothes off. Behind a blanket, yes, but he tries to peek. She asks how she can thank him for saving her and he tells her to come see him fight. She does, despite the fact that she's the mistress, um, well, the pal, no, the SINGER for the most powerful gangster in town (Otto Kruger, whose acting consists largely of an odd style of cigarette smoking). There's some suggestive dialogue in this section, maybe from the Hawks script, and there's also Chester Morris, probably wondering where Hawks went. She comes to see Max in his first fight and he lays the guy among the swee'peas. He then courts the living heck out of her: she yields to temptation and marries him, then goes to see Otto to break the news in another scene that may borrow from the Hawks script -- grown-up talk indeed -- maybe Willie Faulkner hisself worked on this scene. Or maybe Hawks was that good a writer. Or -- get this -- the screenplay is attributed to: Frances Marion (Original Story), John Lee Mahin and John Meehan. Big names. So Myrna's married to her boxer, she's a great cook, Walter's a great trainer, Max is a great fighter, and he wins incessantly. The swee'peas suffer -- Max gets big-headed. He drinks and womanizes; next thing you know he's driven both Walter and Myrna off. Myrna goes back to Otto. See what I mean? The Code's not quite in effect yet. The climax is the heavyweight title fight: the real Max Baer fighting the real Primo Carnera, with Jack Dempsey as the referee. This sequence lasts almost 30 minutes and is the best boxing footage I've ever seen, simulated though it be. The outcome is in doubt throughout the fight. That's all I'll say except that there's an overhead take of the boxing ring that Howard Hawks never, ever would have shot. And did I mention, Myrna is big time sexy? What could Max be thinking, fooling around on her? This movie, despite a whole raft of cliches and bad performances (forgivable from boxers but Otto has no excuse), gets 4 tickets on the PanzerMeter (THE STING gets three). I was expecting to award two tickets. Surprise! Best old American flick I've seen in a long while. Sometimes you get lucky. Great MGM print too. Expect to see this one on DVD soon. |
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| SuperRog | Mar 25 2008, 07:05 PM Post #1025 |
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I got 3 DVDs today, all of movies that came out last year. Interestingly, my last movie purchased was one that was in theaters 80 years earlier, My Best Girl starring Mary Pickford! The movies I got today were Bee Movie, Enchanted and No Country For Old Men which was the movie that just won the Oscar as Best Picture of 2007... |
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| marlin lee | Mar 25 2008, 08:14 PM Post #1026 |
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Picked up the 1st season of the 2000 Sci-Fi Channel series The Invisible Man. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Mar 27 2008, 05:54 PM Post #1027 |
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Look for In The Balcony on Facebook!
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Arrived today from Grapevine, James W. Horne's silent classic The Cruise of the Jasper B with Rod La Rocque and Mildred Harris and a double-feature of X Marks the Spot (1942) with Dick Purcell and Neil Hamilton and Gambler's Choice (1944) with Chester Morris and Lloyd Corrigan. |
| "I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley | |
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| Sgt King | Mar 28 2008, 02:31 AM Post #1028 |
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Hey Gravy -- Who is the guy in your screen icon? Your Joe "behind the 8 ball" icon was the all time best! |
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| thadk | Mar 28 2008, 10:15 AM Post #1029 |
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Resident Curmudgeon
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Picked up heavily discounted copies of Annie Hall, Laura, Let's Make Love and Rio Bravo. Luv Amazon! |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Mar 28 2008, 10:21 AM Post #1030 |
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Mouth Breather
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Big score from Grapevine: ...Legendary silent Swedish horror film THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE, with the American cut, THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT as an extra. The title refers to Death's favorite form of transportation, which must be driven by the last sinner to die before the end of the year. Music performed on a mighty Wurlitzer. This baby goes into the player tonight. ...The last pure comedy Fairbanks made, THE NUT (1920), with cameos by Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin (as a Chaplin imitator). ...And something I never noticed in the Grapevine catalog before: three 1915 William S. Hart two-reelers: "Keno Bates, Liar," "Knight of the Trail," and "The Ruse." I'll probably watch one of these tonight too. Five movies I never dreamed I'd get to see! And now they're all mine (heh heh heh), mine... *hobbles into the cellar chortling* |
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| igsjr | Mar 28 2008, 10:28 AM Post #1031 |
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Nostalgia blogger
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I picked up a few DVDs here and there from outside the U.S. including The Fastest Gun Alive (1956), Venganza (Cornered) (1945) and Sed de Dominio (The Saxon Charm) (1948). Also purchased a set of Bill Dana Show episodes from Rodney's partner-in-crime at www.otrdvd.com. |
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"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director So many DVDs...so little time... | |
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| Laughing Gravy | Mar 28 2008, 10:44 AM Post #1032 |
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Look for In The Balcony on Facebook!
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That's Eugene Roth as my avatar today. Fear not, Mr. 8-Ball shall returneth! |
| "I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley | |
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| igsjr | Mar 28 2008, 11:09 AM Post #1033 |
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Let us in on the merits of this one, PP...I'm thinking about grabbing a copy meself. |
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"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director So many DVDs...so little time... | |
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| SuperRog | Mar 28 2008, 07:10 PM Post #1034 |
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I just ordered a pair of TV game show sets, one of The Price Is Right and one of Family Feud. The Family Feud one is an all-star edition with celebs playing for charity. The Price Is Right actually includes a few episodes of the original version from the 1960s when it was hosted by Bill Cullen. |
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| marlin lee | Mar 28 2008, 08:41 PM Post #1035 |
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Finally received the VCI release of The Phantom Empire. Also picked up The Mist which came bundled with a copy of The Gathering. |
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