It is coming to TCM on July 30th at Midnight EST!
Please be sure to double check your tv guide for the time in your area. It is a good movie worth seeing and the sequel Where Angles Go...Trouble Follows is on right afterward at 2 A.M. EST.
shareThanks! Even I own them both, there's just something about watching it on tv. Now I hope I remember...
shareGlad I just purchased both movies on DVD.
Knowing TCM, I wouldn't be surprised if they ran in that annoying letterbox format, whereas on the DVD, it is *full-screen*.
So it might be worth your money to get the DVDs if you want to see both "Angels" films *without* those black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. Otherwise, if you decide to see it on TCM, then don't say I didn't warn you.
Good luck.
OK I'm going to bite. You are saying that the letterbox format is annoying? The very format that the movie was made to be seen and understood in is annoying? TCM always shows a movie in the format that it was produced. Why? Why? Why would you want to watch a movie that eliminates a third to sometimes a half of what was filmed for the theatrical release?
If you aren't joking I am seriously confused as to why you would like a "full screen" movie so much that you would think that it warranted a warning to viewers who have never seen the movie.
Why don't you like the wide screen format?
It is because:
(1) Perhaps because being in my mid-40s and having been weaned on full-screen versions, letterbox makes me feel as if I am looking through a windowblind; and
(2) Unless I win the lottery (extremely fat chance - lol) or another miracle happens, I cannot afford a new widescreen TV as they are $500-plus.
But, if you like widescreen, who's stopping you? That's only my opinion.
Case closed. Enjoy the films.
(1) Being in my mid-50' and having been weaned on full-screen versions, letterbox makes me feel as if I am looking at a movie the way it was made to be viewed.
(2) I don't have a gigantic widescreen TV either. (Mine's rather tiny.)
I agree case closed, but why would you advise people who have never seen the movie to avoid TCM because they show movies in widescreen?
I thought they were trolling, too. I can't believe people still think that way. Maybe if you're myopic and trying to watch it on a thirteen inch screen . . .
On topic: I was so excited to catch it as it started! I hadn't seen TTwA in at least twelve, possibly fifteen years.
When I saw Lawrence of Arabia years ago for the very first time on VHS, it was in the letterbox format and I didn't like it. Ironically, even though I was seeing the film in its original aspect ratio, I felt restricted watching with the black bars on top and bottom. But now I have come to prefer the widescreen format; the wider the better. Any DVD which has both formats I always watch it in widescreen. Films shown on TV in the pan and scan mode feel like they are missing something, which indeed they are.
Willibwar, you are kidding right or very ignorant about movies.Letterbox is the correct original format of the theatrical release.Without the bars you are seeing 2/3 of the picture.LOL.Unreal.what you have on DVD is pan and scan which ruins the movie.Actually since the aspect ratio is 1.85:1 rather than 2.35:1 your not missing as much in the pan and scan version.
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