A quick note for Wyatt fans - Turner Classic Movies is featuring Robert Ryan movies today (11/11). "Billy Budd" is scheduled at 5:45 pm Eastern Time.

For folks interested in the 50-year anniversary of "The Great Escape", posts are located in the Canteen.

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I was fighting with the mini-laptop, trying to figure out why the sound that worked a few days ago had decided to go on strike. Since I didn't want to fight with login stuff on YouTube (because that doesn't want to work, either), I thought I would try Netflix ( Read more... )

There are a couple McCallum sightings scheduled during the next week that I thought I would share.

Turner Classic Movies
Wed., May 8 @ 4:45 PM Eastern
Night Ambush (B/W, 1957, Rank Organization - a/k/a Ill Met by Moonlight)

Synopsis: British officers conspire with Greek patriots to kidnap a German commander and transport him to Egypt."Night ( Read more... )

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I've posted this on the Canteen LJ, but thought I should post here as well ( Read more... )

I know there are a lot of "Billy Budd" fans, so I thought I'd mention that Turner Classic Movies will broadcast "Billy Budd" on Tuesday night at 8 PM EST. 

Here's the info posted by robertjeffrey.blogspot.com about "The Watcher in The Woods". It really was a cutting-edge movie for Disney Studios, as it was one of the first ventures into movies that were not designed for young kids. What Robert Jeffrey doesn't say is that two or three different endings to the movie were filmed. David McCallum had begun ( Read more... )

What DMc movie will you never, ever, under the pain of death, ever watch again?  Well, maybe just his parts, but you won't tell anyone about it...

Would you watch it if they put it on MST3000? 

Is there one particular DMC movie that you watch again and again?  Not that the movie is so great, but that DMc's role is so mesmerizing that you can't help it?  It doesn't matter if the story line sucks, that the other actors are obviously a waste of breath or even that it's apparent he's doing it just strictly for the money.  What would that ( Read more... )