The Happy Ending is pretty crap 'honest, adult' 1969 filmmaking -- tries Nichols/Lester-fractured editing and "frank language" to goose up soapy alcoholic-rich-housewife story. (He was still doing the same kinda shtick in Looking for Mr Goodbar.) I kinda threw up my hands when Darin showed up as a gigolo in the Bahamas with a variety-show Italian accent (which is revealed to be fake after 10 mins but Jean fails to laugh). It's also got that Legrand song "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" w/ the typically awful A & M Bergman lyrics ("the north and south and west of your life?"). John Forsythe is as boring as ever, otherwise it mighta been a good-bad movie.
Apparently Brooks (married to Simmons at the time) wrote for her bcz, um, she was a drunk at the time and their marriage was sinking.
Shirley Jones upgraded from whore in Elmer Gantry to serial mistress in this one. V hot.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 January 2010 15:24 (sixteen years ago)
nice Vincent Canby quote on that film: "a kind of false Faces"
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 January 2010 15:34 (sixteen years ago)
LOVE Shirley Jones in not-perfect mode.
― T Bone Streep (Cave17Matt), Saturday, 30 January 2010 15:41 (sixteen years ago)
I meant to buy a copy of Angel Face but I bought Fallen Angel instead.
You're doing fine then! Probably my 2nd fave Preminger. The man has precious few crap films to his name.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 30 January 2010 18:14 (sixteen years ago)
a highly debatable proposition, much as I like him.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 January 2010 20:41 (sixteen years ago)
No I'm sorry this is not debatable.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 31 January 2010 01:42 (sixteen years ago)
I've set myself up an automated reminder -- I'm NOT going to miss The Magnificent Ambersons again. (3 weeks from Wednesday)
― the end times are coming, but they're just the beginning (WmC), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 02:37 (sixteen years ago)
Snowday victim here -- Rita Hayworth in Tonight and Every Night in 2 hours; any good?
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:49 (sixteen years ago)
WmC, make sure you don't!
― L'obamalâtrie obligatoire (Michael White), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:54 (sixteen years ago)
have you guys heard that the 31 Days of Oscar twist this year is every film features an actor who appears in the one following it? (guest prog Kevin Bacon)
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 February 2010 00:00 (sixteen years ago)
I hadn't heard it, but I picked up on it when I was reading over the schedule.
― WmC, Thursday, 11 February 2010 01:57 (sixteen years ago)
Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair with Marlene Dietrich and Jean Arthur -- the perfect farcical Berlin '48 counterweight to Germany Year Zero -- tomorrow morning. Do not miss!
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 February 2010 15:18 (sixteen years ago)
Been wanting to see it for years.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 February 2010 15:22 (sixteen years ago)
The male lead John Lund is a lightweight, but it hardly matters.
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 February 2010 15:24 (sixteen years ago)
the tcm app for the iphone is pretty great, loved the long post on 'captured!' the other day.
― keythhtyek, Saturday, 13 February 2010 21:31 (sixteen years ago)
the v/o tease for War and Peace today was "Audrey Hepburn is rushin' around with Henry Fonda..."
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 February 2010 22:55 (sixteen years ago)
The male lead John Lund is a lightweight, but it hardly matters.Not according to Cameron Crowe.
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 February 2010 23:07 (sixteen years ago)
Anyway, Marlene is great, Millard Mitchell is great and keep your eye out for Frederick Hollander.
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 February 2010 23:10 (sixteen years ago)
the tcm app for the iphone is pretty great
The very first thing I've heard about that might make the iphone appealing to me.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 14 February 2010 00:19 (sixteen years ago)
hope you all sang along with the Iowa Song!
The Lady Eve comin' up
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 February 2010 19:12 (sixteen years ago)
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
― ô_o (Nicole), Monday, 15 February 2010 14:38 (sixteen years ago)
So long, Lulu, I'll send you a postcard.
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 February 2010 16:57 (sixteen years ago)
"Let me ask you a hypothermical question..."
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 February 2010 17:03 (sixteen years ago)
The Crowd in about an hour, one of my fave noncomedies of the '20s.
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:58 (sixteen years ago)
foreign affair was fucking aces btw
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 19 February 2010 00:17 (sixteen years ago)
Listen my children! and you will hear...!
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 February 2010 00:28 (sixteen years ago)
You buy these goods, and boy these goods are keen
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 February 2010 00:57 (sixteen years ago)
I did a triple play of the more the merrier, foreign exchange and the devil and miss jones and i liked it
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 19 February 2010 05:18 (sixteen years ago)
Is Charles Coburn in that middle one too?
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 February 2010 13:56 (sixteen years ago)
nope, that's the billy wilder one. They're all jean arthur though.
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 19 February 2010 15:18 (sixteen years ago)
Amazed this is the first time I've seen 2010 on TV this year. What programmer could resist the temptation?
― Nhex, Saturday, 20 February 2010 23:39 (sixteen years ago)
This is the SECOND time TCM has had it on since Christmas! They're repeating way too much lately.
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 February 2010 01:58 (sixteen years ago)
Ambersons momentarily!
― blow it out your bad-taste hole (WmC), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:24 (sixteen years ago)
Frankenheimer's Seconds overnight
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 February 2010 03:57 (sixteen years ago)
that movie is unpleasant
― by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 27 February 2010 05:00 (sixteen years ago)
but pretty interesting
I LOVE Seconds.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 27 February 2010 06:15 (sixteen years ago)
Airplane! tonight, followed by its inspiration Zero Hour (1957).
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 March 2010 14:36 (sixteen years ago)
Sherlock Jr. leads off double doses of Keaton & Tati at midnight
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 March 2010 17:25 (sixteen years ago)
This Friday night at 2am, listed as 5 Minutes To Live. Just your average Johnny Cash as Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLyWoJqSOvk
― da croupier, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 01:06 (sixteen years ago)
Great movie! Big influence on Larry Cohen's equally corrosive Bone (1972).
If you miss it or don't have cable, you can watch it here:
http://www.archive.org/details/five_minutes_to_live
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 01:17 (sixteen years ago)
i can't even tell you how much i hate the local cable company for inexplicably deciding to drop this channel.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 02:24 (sixteen years ago)
Farley Granger night tom'w
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 17 April 2010 00:57 (sixteen years ago)
If anyone missed "Ambersons" during February, it's on tomorrow night.
― Nom Nom Nom Chomsky (WmC), Saturday, 24 April 2010 02:03 (sixteen years ago)
And it's on again at 10 AM ET today.
(too many short-term reruns lately)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:47 (sixteen years ago)
Shirley Jones guest-prog tonight, beginning w/ Elmer Gantry
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 May 2010 18:59 (sixteen years ago)
OSCAR WINNER
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 May 2010 19:00 (sixteen years ago)
jeez, it's a Hans Conried triple feature tonight, but 5000 Fingers of Dr T is over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcwAymlCB1k
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 June 2010 01:59 (fifteen years ago)
Dr. T is nuts.
― obvious and old and bannable (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 June 2010 02:22 (fifteen years ago)
Fatty Arbuckle's Coney Island short (w/ Buster Keaton) in about 5 minutes
Griffith's Orphans of the Storm at midnight ET
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 July 2010 01:40 (fifteen years ago)