Thank You TCM!
Thanks to Ted Turner and TCM. I would not even hear about these great movies much less get to watch them if it were not for TCM. Hats off!
shareOK, I'm only being a little tongue in cheek. TCM is really among those things that ease the pain and difficulty of existence. Such great quality, creativity, passion and generosity! It's rather amazing that it continues year after year, and has not been ruined. I pray it never will be. I still remember the wonder and amazement I felt after happening upon it in 1996. Thank goodness for all the great stuff those folks do, of which what's shown on the channel is only one part. TCM is now such a basic part of the fabric of my life, and of many others. Preaching to the choir...
shareBeautifully put, Ciocio-2, and I am 100% with you.
shareSo do they edit out the word GOD if you type it here and I just dropped into some kind of atheist black hole where even the name of half the world's deity can't even be spelled out?
But let's not forget to spell that shameless (and Godless) self-promoter, T*D T****R's name correctly!!
Of course if this was a self-imposed edit, I have no problem with it, freedom of speech and all that.
It's censorship by authority just to not hurt someone's feelings that gets me, cause we can all be offended by something someone says so the only alternative would be to never say anything to anybody!!
"Go back to your oar, Forty One."
I think I just typed it that way. It's been awhile, so I don't remember for sure, but it was probably a late night deference to sensibilities of some folks.
Sometimes those automatic editing things can be pretty amusing, sometimes annoying, sometimes both. Once, on a site for discussing theater, particularly musical theater, I was citing the show SOUTH PACIFIC and its song "A Cockeyed Optimist"; the editing turned it into "A C*ckeyed Optimist." I mean, come on! Oy.
I didn't mean to make a big deal out of it, but a funny thing happened to me a few weeks back. I was in court to testify in a case and they asked me to swear on the Bible before my testimony. I looked at the judge and asked if this court was run by God's law, or Man's law. A simple question, I thought, seeing as how they've made a point of taking the ten commandments out of all the courthouses here in Georgia, so obviously it's run by man's law, but still want to shove a Bible in front of me!! The judge just looked disgusted that I had even made the inquiry and told me to just "affirm" that I'd tell the whole truth.
So ever since, I've been wondering about the role of religion in general in the public forum and how it seems Christianity is the last area you can get a pass on to not be politically correct about.
Personally I leave it up to the individual to think how they like and realize there are as many different points of view on the subject as there are pairs of eyes looking at it.
But wasn't that a great movie?
"Go back to your oar, Forty One."
I'm 26 and I remember seeing my mother watch her old movies when I was a kid. Back then she watched TCM as well as AMC before it got ridiculous. I used to make fun of it until I saw Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. I've been hooked ever since. I've always loved Lucille Ball and this movie is wonderful. It shows you just how marvelous a performer she truly was. She's most will known for screwball comedy as Mrs. Ricky Ricardo, and she had funny moments in this film but to see her in a more dramatic setting was a game changer for me. I'd love to get a copy on DVD but I can't seem to find it. I know someone mentioned it being expensive. I'll pay it just to have it in my collection. I love this movie.
shareShe's most well known for screwball comedy as Mrs. Ricky Ricardo, and she had funny moments in this film but to see her in a more dramatic setting was a game changer for me. I'd love to get a copy on DVD but I can't seem to find it. I know someone mentioned it being expensive. I'll pay it just to have it in my collection. I love this movie.
If you liked "Lured," I suggest that you see "The Dark Corner," another film noir that she made a year earlier. It to has a great director, Henry Hathaway, a good cast (Mark Stevens, Clifton Webb, William Bendix), and like "Lured," a good film noir script.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038453/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_46
Viewers' Comments:
An undiscovered gem
First there was "Laura," then there was "The Dark Corner..."
Lucille Ball's best dramatic role?
Ball, Webb, Bendix, and Stevens, in satisfying, and smashing looking noir
Mark Stevens and Lucille Ball are wonderful in this fascinating noir
A really fun detective noir film that flows smoothly and pays off at the end
Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, and "For 6 bits you'd hang your mother on a meat-hook"
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