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I agree that John Garfield should have played Golden Boy in the movie but Columbia couldn't get him from Warners. He didn't originate the role on stage, though. Luther Adler did, though he played it on stage many years later.
BTW, Hi, Linus!
I like Come Wander With Me. It gets better with repeat viewings, manages to be haunting, handles the supernatural stuff nicely. It could have been more subtle. If they'd gone more for the musical-poetic side of the ep, which is IMO its strongest aspect, this could have been one of the series' best. Instead there was too much melodrama too neatly stated and spelled out, which rather broke the spell the music and production values created. Still, pretty good and above average in my book.
Thanks, Jim. Great job.
Good choices, Maria, and both actors are favorites of mine as well.
Others: Frank Lovejoy, Macdonald Carey (really good actors, both); Steve Cochran, though Steve has a cult following; stalwarts like Richard Carlson, John Agar and Richard Denning, without whom Fifties sci-fi is unimaginable.
Of the ladies: Mae Clarke, Claire Dodd, Gloria Dickson, Ruth Hussey, Nancy Kelly, Patricia Morison,--a special favorite of mine--and Andrea King, Martha Scott, Claire Trevor, Jane Greer and Viveca Lindfors.
That's right, and it's going to take some effort, as in,--and I hate the word--proactive. It can be done. I've gone into old threads and posted. It's a different system from the IMDB so it takes some getting accustomed to but indeed those old threads are saved and can be kept alive.
That's my impression, too.
I feel your pain. Believe me. I think this place is going to last for a while. Jim is a great guy and I think/hope he'll be working with others so as to keep the site going were he to become unable to run it by himself.
The private messages loss was huge for me, as many of my favorite people on the IMDB boards I knew by PM only and we did a lot of sharing in the final days (so to speak). It was my understanding that when those messages arrived in my regular e-mail inbox they would remain there. Alas, they didn't, and I wonder why...and some, which have been accessible for literally years, have vanished. I'd have downloaded them all to my HD if I knew this was going to happen. Dang! Fortunately, I sent my personal e-mail in those last messages as well, however if the recipients didn't save it they're in the same boat as I am. Couldn't they have warned us this was going to happen? The PM system wasn't exactly the same as the messaging one but was apparently on the same "grid".
Thank you so much, Jim, for all the effort you've put into this site.
Yes, and unfortunately what you said is true for most entertainment sites and TV channels and sub-stations. There's scarcely anything black and white left on even the (till recently) avant garde digital channels. Most of their movies and TV shows are post-1980 and '90. Sadly, it's not just the IMDB.
On the other hand, I haven't seen our Canadian friend around on any boards lately...
Truly, and thank you. This site, so new, desperately needs an anti-troll policy. I know that Jim (Saint Jim) is busy with other things, hope that he gets around to some kind of troll block. It would make the place wildly popular I am almost guarantee it. So many ex-IMDB folk near homeless on the Web...
Is this site being trolled to death?
It feels that way.
Sad.
I agree, Amy. It's going to be difficult for the IMDB to get its mojo back. Once they had it, but they let it go. There are a lot of p!ssed off people out there. I'm more forgiving than most but their total destruction of the message boards was a slap in the face.
If they'd announced it sooner, or actually had a kind of town meeting or open forum on the message boards issue, such as it could be called, they might have worked out an arrangement, something like this site but more complete, spun off from the "old IMDB", with mods, probably a monthly or yearly fee, with some links to the "parent" site. They were so frickin' draconian. It's like they dropped an H bomb on the members.
Agreed. It's getting really bad here, and at the IMDB v.2 site as well. Same stuff happening at both, as if someone (some thing?) is trying to literally wreck the place. This is beyond trolling: it's disturbing and literally sadistic.
Great to see your reply, Swanstep, but we've got some major troll issues on this site and they need addressing soon. I know that Jim's busy and all but they/he are everywhere, answering one another's questions, acting like naughty teens. It's very demoralizing.
After all these years I still think the OP's question was a good one and that the metaphysical aspects of Lost Horizon. while not emphasized in the story as told are there implicitly, as there are many facets to the film, and the possibility,--albeit remote--that the passengers are all dead early on a distinct one and indeed one could read the film as a tale of the paranormal, admittedly an odd take on the story but not one that I would laugh at. Books and movies are open to various kinds of interpretation, and the notion that the new arrivals at Shangri-La have just died, are being taken to a place that's essentially a kind of benign limbo, not heaven as we understand it, is one way to view it.
Unfortunately, one of those trolls has just arrived here. Nasty as they come.
No. But the site is still relatively new, Swanstep (great to see you here), and man, if they were to archive all the stuff we wrote on the old Psycho boards that would take like five hundred pages! I wonder how much they CAN retrieve for busy film boards like that. Time will tell...
Nice to see Julie, Jennie and the others here. I'm also at that other site, the one with v2 after the name but I like it here, too. It's awful that those boards were taken down and I'm so glad this one was saved. Let's hope it stays that way.
I'm a fan. Talk away.