GREAT Movies on TCM today

[Chainmail]

Haven’t you seen the Comedians? Great adaptation of the Graham Greene novel and excellent performances of Burton and Taylor - and Alec Guinness and Peter Ustinov to boot.

[Dr. Sivana]

.I can’t picture the prissy and aloof Randall effectively pulling that off, being incapable of generating the requisite empathy.

I think they may have had a similar scene in the TV series, though I cannot find it on YouTube. The Pigeon Sisters (played by the same actresses) were certainly there. Tony Randall was able to convey his love for Gloria convincingly, and he was able to call out the maternal instinct in the women he meets.

[GOPJ]

Thanks.,,

[Glad2bnuts]

That is my problem with what was my GO TO Channel. It became a subscription channel on Comcast. Since it was one of only two reasons I had that service, I quit their entertainment service. I had to keep the internet though. It was Xfinity, none, or close to none with 3 Mbps Century Link. Of course having to pay to have wire brought to my house, for which I would have to pay.

[Glad2bnuts]

Thanks for the recommendation. Great quality of picture and sound too.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Yes, I was actually expecting very low pic and sound quality, but was very surprised to find it is excellent.

[Verginius Rufus]

“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” also has a lot of famous actors in it.

[Verginius Rufus]

I read War and Peace and it took me a lot longer than six hours to read it.

[Responsibility2nd]

I’m thinking I’m about six hours myself into Melville‘s Moby Dick.

I’m not even halfway through it. I assure you, I have read and enjoy most of the classics, but not this one.

And for what it’s worth, I’ve never even attempted War and Peace.

[Verginius Rufus]

It took me about two weeks to get through War and Peace. Great novel...but very long. Too bad I didn't get a chance to watch Snoopy's performance of it with hand puppets.

[minnesota_bound]

Elizabeth Taylor in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf was only 34 when the movie came out. Being married to Richard Burton and her drinking and smoking really ruined her looks.
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[Responsibility2nd]

Something else amazing: Taylor gained 30 pounds before filming in order to more accurately portray a middle-aged housewife.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks to you guys, I just watched "The Defiant Ones" over the past two nights. That was an outstanding film! Thanks for the recommendation. I saw sides to both Poitier and Curtis I hadn't seen before.

It was a fascinating treatment of race relations in the 50s. Unfortunately, the leftists have led us right back to that era of race relations erasing all progress that was made.

I watched it on "Kanopy," some streaming service that seems to specialize in obscure and older films. I put the app on my Roku and was able to stream it to my big tv. The picture and sound quality were excellent.

I found that it won two Academy Awards (back when the Academy Awards meant something:

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen. Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith. Nedrick Young had been blacklisted at the time and the Oscar went to his pseudonym 'Nathan E. Douglas'. In 1993 AMPAS restored Young's credit upon the request of his widow and recommendation of the Academy's writers branch.

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White - Sam Leavitt

The cinematography was truly outstanding. Many of the scenes left me wondering "How did they film that?"

It also won the Golden Globes Best Motion Picture - Drama in 1959.

[Psalm 73]

Glad you liked it - I cannot see any "modern" actor playing either of those roles, or even the sheriff, for that matter.

It's like re-reading a Dickens novel - they just don't write 'em like that anymore.