The Show Place

What with the drab TV season I've been leaving the TV pretty much on TCM, Turner Classic Movies. Classic movies presented without commercial interruption.

Yesterday I watched the original "3:10 To Yuma" and "Jubal" both starring Glenn Ford. Just now finishing was "Witness For The Prosecution" and coming up this month are originals such as "The Cidadel", "A Star Is Born", "In The Heat of The Night", "A Patch of Blue", "Bednobs and Broomsticks", "All The King's Men", "Auntie Mame", "Gypsy", "The Trouble With Angels", "The Glenn Miller Story", "High Society", "Bad Company" and "A Man Called Horse" to name just a few.

Not all will please everybody but should you get the chance check them out and learn why I so hate modern American movies.

"Classic" movies......on TCM. Yep......I find myself watching that channel quite a bit. I really like the old 'black and whites'........they really knew how to write, direct and ACT in the days gone by.

They had one on the other morning titled "Small Town Girl" (1936) with a very young Robert Taylor and Janet Gaynor (a lovely little whippet of a girl) and bit parts being played by James (Jimmy) Stewart and Andy Devine. Nowadays this would have been a slapstick comedy or a heavy drama but the movie walked a fine line between drama and comedy. Very nicely done and excellent B&W photography.

We caught up with "The Trouble With Harry" the other day. Hitchcock's only out and out comedy. Then again according to the announcer Hitch thought PSYCHO was funny. Yeah, right! Like the shower scene.

Xjmt wrote:We caught up with "The Trouble With Harry" the other day. Hitchcock's only out and out comedy. Then again according to the announcer Hitch thought PSYCHO was funny. Yeah, right! Like the shower scene.

To this day I cannot watch that scene. I swear....the first time I saw this movie the blood was red!!!!

Two scenes in two different movies seem to have had similar impact on many viewers.

Of course the shower scene in PSYCHO many people saw different things including red blood and Janet Leigh breathing as she lay half out of the tub. Not possible because Hitchock used a still photo for that last part of the scene. I know I've dreamed the blood was red but I have a copy of the movie and it's all B&W.

The other scene was near the end of ROSEMARY'S BABY in which people insist they saw into the baby carriage and viewed the a monster looking Devil's child. Actually they superimposed a hissing cat's face over the image of the open carriage and I think that's what viewers saw.

And like police say, the worst case is one in which there are eye witnesses. They all see something different.

The other scene was near the end of ROSEMARY'S BABY in which people insist they saw into the baby carriage and viewed the a monster looking Devil's child. Actually they superimposed a hissing cat's face over the image of the open carriage and I think that's what viewers saw.

And like police say, the worst case is one in which there are eye witnesses. They all see something different.

We are unique.

We are unique.

Just like everybody else?

Henry J wrote:

We are unique.

Just like everybody else?

Yes, Henry......"just like everybody else"........

Just like everybody else?

Not really but I don't want to get into politics here.

Xjmt wrote:

Just like everybody else?

Not really but I don't want to get into politics here.

Who said anything about Politics?

Who said anything about Politics?

Lots of recent TV advertisements.