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The mention of Robert Halmi’s adaptations of literary classics like GULLIVER’S TRAVELS with Ted Danson or CRIME AND PUNISHMENT with Patrick Dempsey reminded me of a running joke Randy Skretvedt and I had for years about a small-town Dinner Theater run by a former Stagecraft Teacher with high-blown p...

Who's Allen Perkins? He seems to be taking the baton from Sulpy, only he's irate about The Phantom of the Opera. Well, that’s another film that will continually get the screaming voices in the heads of the anals singing in four-part harmony because there were so many versions and re-do’s of that me...

Louie Despres wrote:Looks like I missed a lot of "fun" stuff while I was watching great films all weekend at Capitolfest!

And we're expecting a full report!


RICHARD M ROBERTS

I still think 36 frames per second for the Mutuals would be the way to go. DBP Yes, but unlike Nitratevile, as we are more tolerant of people's incredibly stupid ideas around here, you will not be banned for that, at least not for the moment because we'll want to make fun of you. Heck, I'd just set...

Eric Idle has written a new theme song for BBC Radio 4's THE INFINITE MONKEY CAGE that is better than the whole damn Python reunion and he finally cops to something I've suspected about him for decades, that he is Britain's new model George Formby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tdN5uEjnKs RICHARD...

Let's not forget Robert Israel, he got in a couple of really good posts as well. Basically stating..."if ya don't like what's being released, produce your own". Pasquale Ventura Well, that's kinda a valid point when Sulphy wouldn't even put up his self-claimed "complete" version...

Gary Johnson wrote:Yes, I can't remember the last time he joined in to a thread.

There must be Mafia money involved in the backing of this Mutual set.

No, I don't think anyone here has a penny invested in it.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

You are getting much more lenient in your old age, Richard.......giving them an entire day before revealing the answer. Meanwhile, there is trouble in Nutville over a locked thread (damn that Chaplin and his 100 year old films that don't exist in exactly the same form they did back in the day), ope...

And I gave the "experts" over at Nitratevile most of the day to figure this one out:

http://nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18247


It's Miriam Hopkins you boneheads, from the OUTER LIMITS episode DON'T OPEN TILL DOOMSDAY (1964).


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Here's a little something from FILM DAILY I never heard before: Apparently, in 1930, Billy House made a/several shorts at Astoria. I'm specifically interested in one that featured Shubert showgirl Helen Tucker and Hammerstein girl Gloria LaBow. Yep, Billy House made eight two-reel comedy shorts for...