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[clore1030]

Originally Posted by Tim Y

Funny you should mention the Fugitive, as I have not only the last two episodes BUT the TV Guide from the week "The Fugitive Stops Running" and I need to give it to someone who would appreciate it.

One of my favorites is "If I Had a Million" which was the stimulus for the TV show The Millionaire. One of the strangest is George Raft as a chronically bad check writer being given a good check that he can't cash!!

I used to have that copy of TV Guide, up until about 1984 or so, when a basement flood cause me the loss of those Fall Premiere TV Guides I saved, and almost my entire collection of magazines like Famous Monsters and Castle of Frankenstein, I even wrote for the latter when I was just 15-16. THE FUGITIVE is my favorite TV show of all time, but they rescored all the music on the DVDs, so i have not purchased them.

Doesn't George Raft end up lighting a cigar with that check that he can't cash? I was watching Raft last night with Bogart in INVISIBLE STRIPES. Those old Warner Brothers gangster films are still my favorites and I was up until nearly 6am watching them on TCM last night.

[Tim Y]

Originally Posted by clore1030

Doesn't George Raft end up lighting a cigar with that check that he can't cash?

No but a fellow in the flop house where he winds up does......Of course my favorites in that series are Charlie Ruggles who breaks lots of china after he gets the money or W.C. Fields who buys a bunch of cars and runs road hogs off the road.

[clore1030]

Originally Posted by Tim Y

No but a fellow in the flop house where he winds up does......Of course my favorites in that series are Charlie Ruggles who breaks lots of china after he gets the money or W.C. Fields who buys a bunch of cars and runs road hogs off the road.

I remember the Fields segment most of all - I haven't seen this film in about 40 years. It was one of my mother's favorite films from her youth, and we watched it together. It's a Paramount pre-48 film, now owned by Universal as are all of Paramount's pre-48s. It doesn't get played on TV, nor is it on DVD. My mother just turned 89 and she would like to see it again. The other one she most wanted to see, GRAND HOTEL, I was able to give her and we watched that together last July.

I guess we can't imagine the impact of the plotline of a film like IF I HAD A MILLION, upon a weary Depression audience. I can only hope that our present economy doesn't put us in the position of realizing that - this must have been the ultimate wish-fulfillment film of the 1930s.

I thought that the film SEABISCUIT did do a nice job of juxtaposing the era and the principals of the story, all of whom were beat up in one way or another. Plus it had the most well-filmed racing scenes I've seen in any movie.

[Tim Y]

I was instructed by my late wife to watch for continuity errors. I love the Black Stallion, but you can tell that Fort Erie and Santa Anita shots were blended to try to show ONE race course AND if you look at the final match race scenes in slow motion, you will see that the Santa Anita stands (when the BLACK is passing the other two - funny you dont know the age of the black and he was running a marathon against three year olds, I would have bet on him) there are NO people in the stands!

[clore1030]

Originally Posted by Tim Y

I was instructed by my late wife to watch for continuity errors. I love the Black Stallion, but you can tell that Fort Erie and Santa Anita shots were blended to try to show ONE race course AND if you look at the final match race scenes in slow motion, you will see that the Santa Anita stands (when the BLACK is passing the other two - funny you dont know the age of the black and he was running a marathon against three year olds, I would have bet on him) there are NO people in the stands!

I love THE BLACK STALLION, but it does get a big chuckle from me when they start all of that about "the mystery horse" being in the race.

How did a horse get in there without its papers? As you mentioned, nothing about his age - but they don't know his breeding, country of origin - how do they know it's a thoroughbred?

But it is such a well-made and beautifully shot film that i can excuse its faults.

I love how in MAJOR LEAGUE, the Cleveland Indians are home-based in Milwaukee County Stadium.

There's an old William Holden film titled BOOTS MALONE about racing, and at one point they're supposed to be at a track near Baltimore called Dellington. Trouble is, there are palm trees in evidence near the track, so I'm guessing that the location was actually Del Mar. Not a bad film otherwise.

[Bill V.]

There's an old William Holden film titled BOOTS MALONE about racing, and at one point they're supposed to be at a track near Baltimore called Dellington. Trouble is, there are palm trees in evidence near the track, so I'm guessing that the location was actually Del Mar. Not a bad film otherwise.

Boots Malone..
I just watched that with dad. I really liked it ..
My dad(Brooks) has a great collection of ,movies
he shows me all the racing ones

Bill

[clore1030]

Originally Posted by Bill V.

Boots Malone..
I just watched that with dad. I really liked it ..
My dad(Brooks) has a great collection of ,movies
he shows me all the racing ones

Bill

See if your father has a copy of SALTY O'ROURKE, a racing film with Alan Ladd as a trainer. It was directed by the famed Raoul Walsh, who actually was a thoroughbred owner. It isn't on VHS or DVD, but maybe your dad picked it up off the air at some point.

KENTUCKY with Walter Brennan winning his second of three Oscars is corny, but still fun. Gorgeous 1930s Technicolor and you get to see Churchill Downs as it was in 1938.

[Tim Y]

Boots Malone, MY Brother Talks to Horses, Broadway Bill, Riding High, A Day at the Races[B] with the Marx Brothers & many others

Always wanted to see The Return of October.

If you get the chance, see ON THE NOSE with Robbie Coltrane and Dan Akyroyd a SCREAM that uses a cadaver's head in a medical school anatomy repository to pick winners in Ireland.....GOOD FUN

[clore1030]

Originally Posted by Tim Y

Boots Malone, MY Brother Talks to Horses, Broadway Bill, Riding High, A Day at the Races[B] with the Marx Brothers & many others

Always wanted to see The Return of October.

If you get the chance, see ON THE NOSE with Robbie Coltrane and Dan Akyroyd a SCREAM that uses a cadaver's head in a medical school anatomy repository to pick winners in Ireland.....GOOD FUN

RIDING HIGH is a remake of BROADWAY BILL, both from Capra, and he used the racing footage from the original for the remake. He also cast a couple of actors from the first film in the same roles in the second. This way, newly shot scenes would blend in with footage from the original.

THE RETURN OF OCTOBER is one that I caught up with a few months ago on TCM. It's rather charming and a bit more down-to-earth for Terry Moore as opposed to playing "Beautiful Dreamer" for MIGHTY JOE YOUNG.

I love the bit in the Marx Bros. film with Groucho falling for Chico's tips and codebooks. As Homer Simpson would say "It's so funny cuz it's true."

[Tim Y]

"Get your tuzzi fruzzti Ice-AH cream!!" Then the Breeder's Guide and all those books he pulls out of the cart. I sent that segment to Dr. William Qurin years ago and got a nice note back.