Cross fingers, looks like I have another chance at The Seven-Per-Cent Solution on Turner Classic Movies at the end of July. In July TCM also has Robin and Marian (yeah, I know there's a DVD out, but who wants to pay that much for no extras?) and...woohoo!...the 1937 Ronald Colman version of The Prisoner of Zenda. Next month they will have Forbidden Planet (don't like it enough to pay for it) and also the wonderful film It's a Dog's Life with Edmund Gwenn and Dean Jagger and starring a bull terrier named "Wildfire."

Yesterday I recorded the great Irene Dunne film I Remember Mama, based on the Kathryn Forbes book.

Also in June, TCM is having the film Jack Benny always ribbed himself about, The Horn Blows at Midnight. I don't think I've ever seen it. Is it truly as bad as Benny made it out to be?

In checking out the Fox Movie Channel schedule, I was reminded of a question in one of the memes some time ago asking if there was a remake of any movie, what would you like it to be. I'd say Daddy Long-Legs...and do the real novel by Jean Webster, not a musical version that doesn't stick to the plot!

BTW, I noticed Amazon.com will be cheaper for The Thin Man collection than Deep Discount DVD. Whoa, how'd that happen?

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I, too, happened to catch that last half of "I Remember Mama" just by accident. I didn't really even know what it was, but I really enjoyed it.

# posted by  Anonymous : 5:29:00 PM

 

You'll be pleased to learn that The Horn Blows at Midnight is not the classic turkey that Benny often made it out to be on his show. It's actually an entertaining little fantasy-comedy, with some wonderful performances by great character actors--including one of my all-time favorites, Franklin Pangborn, as a hotel detective. (There's a great "star" cameo in this picture, too, that had me on the floor laughing.)

One of my favorite Jack Benny Program jokes has Jack and his announcer Don Wilson going walkabout and they meet a young Benny fan, who asks the star why he never made any movies. Wilson starts to correct the youngster by naming Jack's cinema output, beginning with Horn, but Jack cuts him off and the two of them continue down the street. When Don asks Jack why he interrupted him, Benny replies: "Just think, Don--a new generation that doesn't know..."

# posted by  Ivan G Shreve Jr : 9:24:00 PM

 

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