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All Hail to TCM !

posted 18 years ago by quikpencil
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Let us all bow our heads and thank Turner Classic Movie for their programing. Quirky selections, obscure films and most stuff that would never make the regular cable/dish channels. Cool stuff, formated right, no editing for content and no commercials.
Watched the "Billy..." and "Jesse James"... etc. last nights double bill. Fun to watch movies that somehow got cobbled together with chewing gum and bailing wire. Much more enjoyable than slogging through a lot of the more recent "A" list films Ive seen lately.

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[–] marbleann 18 years ago

I agree. I love it. And let's not forget it was the seccnd half a so bad it's good double feature. The first half being Dracula meets Billy the Kid. John Carridine with dyed black hair who has a red light flash in his face every time he puts the spell on some poor girl.

[–] quikpencil 18 years ago

Yes! I am so amazed by mr carradine that I am growing a beard like draculas as i type. Pure magic. man I would have sat down and drawn his portrait!!

[–] kga58 18 years ago

Carradine did make an awesome Drac some 20 years earlier in HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and HOUSE OF DRACULA. Unfortunately, this go round was less than stellar, but a gold mine for connoisseurs of crap. Who'd a thunk you could see Dracula and Mrs. Olson in the same movie(of course the Mummy already co-starred with her)?

[–] c_feroz 18 years ago

Carradine's Drac in Vs. Billy the Kid makes that movie really something special. You can really see where his son got it from. Though, Carradine supposedly said this was his own worst movie.

Jesse James Vs. Frankenstein is not quite as great for lacking such an actor. But, both are good fun if you like bad genre movies.

Billy Vs. Drac is a great balance of Western vs. Horror genre stereotypes, as far as that goes. Not an easy thing to do. This should be screened on a double feature with John Carpenter's "Vampires" (another horror western, probably the best one ever).

Rob Zombie was doing some of TCM's genre programming late nights weekend, not sure if he is still doing it, but I hope TCM keeps it up. IFC is also getting in on the act, in conjunction with Tarantino's Grdinhouse promotion.

[–] PeterBlues 12 years ago

it would be an unusual view to see in the tv guide that tcm airs "jesse james meets frankensteins daughter", i get tcm nordic, and they pretty much roll the same old "regular movies" all the time (much to my displease they have now started to premiere some 90's flicks.), i used to get tcm 24 hour, now only at night time, but i prefered the tnt version that i got many years ago, that channel had not only classic movies, but also wrestling etc. tcm is what replaced it. but anyway, i wish i got wich ever tcm version you guys get, i keep hearing cool things airing on tcm, but its unheard of at the version i get.

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[–] phasedin 11 years ago

ON TCM the late evening Oct 5/6th. At 2 a.m.
The PERFECT fun Drive-In Double feature. This will be saved on my TIVO for sure.

[–] MystMoonstruck 11 years ago

I just finished the first and am now watching the second in the lineup. These are the movies we used to see at the drive-in or at a midnight marathon at the theater downtown.

I love revisiting these memories!

TCM is my favorite channel=}

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[–] Eligius1 11 years ago

I watch this film on the Sydney community television station TVS. They can't afford new films, so they just show movies in the public domain. They show movies that you never see on the networks or on the cable stations. It's a smorgasbord of obscure and hard-to-find films. Most are in bad condition, but that's all part of the fun. I don't need cable!