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"Second Chance" was RKO's first 3D movie! It does play on TCM in 2D. How was the 3D?

Of Randolph Scott's final three films, I consider Bud Boetticher's RIDE LONESOME (1959 - 73 minutes, VUDU HD and TCM HD) as Mr Scott's most fitting swan song.

And there is that 'meta' moment in THE LONGEST DAY where Richard Todd (playing Major Howard) meets himself at Pegasus Bridge-- From wiki, the real WWII Richard Todd--- "On 6 June 1944, as a captain, he participated in Operation Tonga during the D-Day landings.[5] Todd was among the first...

Delmar Daves' THE HANGING TREE with Gary Cooper is a favorite. While some find the Marty Robbins theme song corny, I believe its melody and lyrics pay off when it kicks in at the final scene. DVD Savant likes it too. "The film is bookended with a pop western ballad written by Jerry...

Nelson Au wrote- "So Ben Hur starts off as a good guy minding his business, then he is persecuted and his life is taken away, and he's made to suffer. But overcomes and is reborn. That's how I interpreted it." ------------------------------------------------------- There is also a parallel...

About Wayne Morris- From Wiki- "While filming Flight Angels (1940), Morris became interested in flying and became a pilot. With war in the wind, he joined the Naval Reserve and became a Navy flier in 1942, leaving his film career behind for the duration of the war. He flew the F6F Hellcat off...

I believe Josh agrees--- That Victor Young's score is an integral part of that 'joyous' viewing of THE QUIET MAN. And every time I think of Barry Fitzgerald starting to hum that jaunty melody, I gotta smile.

Regardless of Kubrick's opinion of TTC as cinema, it had a huge impact in the written science fiction world. One example--- you mention Clarke, but the ending of TTC is mirrored in the finish of Heinlein's first novel, FOR US THE LIVING (1939), but which remained unpublished until after his...

Burt Kennedy made his reputation as a screenwriter for the Budd Boetticher/Randolph Scott "ranown" westerns made in the late '50s. These westerns run 70-80 minutes so that meets one criterion. John Wayne isn't in them but it was Wayne who introduced Boetticher to Burt Kennedy--- And it was also...