Please be sure to double check your tv guide for the time in your area. This is a great movie with a great cast. Don Rickles plays an offbeat role for him as a bad guy and he does it quite well. Enjoy!
shareCool. Thanks for posting this info.
shareIt is also coming in April on TCM on 4-6-08 (Sunday) at 2 P.M. EST.
shareI'm recording it right now, myself. FYI, the print isn't mint, maybe picture quality is an 8. Maybe that's why it doesn't show too often. If this is the best print TCM can get, it must be hard to find.
shareI agree that the print seems a bit flawed (the color is a little heavy on the red side). The last time anybody showed this movie was when AMC presented it about twenty years ago -- back in the days when Bob Dorian introduced the movies. I really miss him.
TCM presented it in full-screen. Was this movie filmed in widescreen? If so, I'm surprised that TCM didn't present a widescreen picture.
After I finish my DVR and DVD recording of this TCM showing tonight, I'll pop in my old tape from AMC and compare the quality -- although the VHS tape will undoubtedly look pretty bad compared to this newer version.
I'm hoping that eventually an HD-DVD of this movie will become available. After all, I was able to order a DVD of "The Flame and the Arrow" for the first time tonight, after years of waiting.
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I was channel surfing last nite when I came across this movie on TCM. I thought I had never seen it before. Then when I saw the scene where Peggy tells Pete that the fur he got her was fake (from the label), it all came back! I must've been around 10 or so when I saw this on TV and only remember that one scene!
Then today I went to IMDb today to see what others thought about it. Then I see this message board item saying that the movie was on at the same time I saw it. LOL.
The picture quality was an 8??? Our of what - 100? The print used was missing about seventy percent of its color (not on the red side - brown, baby, brown) - this was a gorgeous looking film, printed in IB Technicolor and what was on view was perhaps a 2 out of 10, image-wise. And of course it was filmed in widescreen (VistaVision, then shown in 1:85). All movies were shown in widescreen (either 1:85 or scope) or in large format (70mm). No movies were being shot in Academy ratio for exhibition because no theaters except for a single handful could even show Academy ratio by 1960. TCM has been advertising letterbox prints of a lot of movies recently, only to have them show open matte transfers (or, in the case of Skidoo, pan and scan of a scope film) - which is shameful.
shareAfter comparing my ancient VHS recording from AMC to the recent recording (DVR), I discovered that not only was the picture "fullscreen", it was a cropped version of the fullscreen picture on my tape!
A significant part of the picture on the sides and the top was not visible on this TCM showing, compared to the AMC tape I've had for years.
Jeez! A fullscreen picture than isn't even fullscreen!
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Coming again Jun 11 and Aug 27 it says on the TCM web site. Another chance for those who missed it! You can even sign up to get an email reminder before it shows.
This is another one of those underappreciated lost gems that ought to be better known than it is.
A month or two ago I saw "The Benny Goodman Story" and "The Gene Krupa Story" on TCM. Both were originally widescreen movies, and TCM showed both of them cropped to full screen. I emailed them (politely) and asked why, but got no reply. I really hope TCM is not gradually going the way of AMC, which ironically shows faked-letterboxed commercials and promos, but crops all of its wide screen movies.
shareWell, here it is, 2015, and this movie STILL isn't being shown in widescreen. Even the downloads you find on the web are just old TCM recordings. What's the deal with this movie, I wonder? Will we ever get to see a 1:85-to-1 version of it?
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