http://moviemorlocks.com MovieMorlocks.com is the official blog for Turner Classic Movies (TCM). No topic is too obscure or niche to be excluded from our film discussions. And we welcome your comments on our blogs and bloggers. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:14:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://moviemorlocks.com http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/10/31/the-face-of-fear-don-knotts-in-the-ghost-and-mr-chicken/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/10/31/the-face-of-fear-don-knotts-in-the-ghost-and-mr-chicken/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:00:39 +0000 medusamorlock http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=42460 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/10/31/the-face-of-fear-don-knotts-in-the-ghost-and-mr-chicken/feed/ 12 medusamorlock "Attaboy, Luther!" Don Knotts in "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" Vic Mizzy wrote the film's wonderfully fun score! The poster for "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" kgfmmtyd3h0amfta Yes, it's 1966 and you're watching "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" The spooky Simmons House! "Bang! Right on the head!" Hope Summers tells Don Knotts Luther tries to convince everybody Of course nobody believes Luther when he reports a murder...and the victim shows up alive Even his editor Dick Sargent isn't on his side! Luther lives at a boarding house with some old ladies and his rival Ollie, unfortunately... How could Luther resist her? Even if she IS Ollie's girlfriend... Luther decides to write the story of the Simmons House, encouraged by his friend played by Liam Redmond. Luther's boardinghouse friends bid him a tearful goodbye as he departs for the house. Maybe he's not so chicken after all, approaching a haunted house near midnight... Luther falls down a coal shute into the scary basement! A good Don Knotts scared face! At least he's got a flashlight! He sees a portrait with a pair of embedded shears -- yikes! Knotts, looking almost dashing, discovers the source of the music... It's the mysterious organ with the blood-stained keys they couldn't clean -- and they used Bon Ami! The organ is playing by itself! Yikes again! Ollie and his editor help Luther write up his incredible haunted house tale! Luther finally gets his own byline! The ladies from the local psychic society swoon over Luther and the Simmons House! His article lands Luther in court defending his story of the Simmons murder house. Mr. Chicken's going to have his way...tonight! He leads his supporters to the house where the jury will visit. After everyone leaves when he's unable to prove anything, he hears the organ music again! He peeks into the organ loft... He finds out who's behind the mysterious organ music... Luther reacts to yet another shock! The scariest part of all -- Luther gets married! And of course he gets in one more "Yikes!" look as they leave the wedding! http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/09/21/maddin-madness-celebrating-my-winnipeg/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/09/21/maddin-madness-celebrating-my-winnipeg/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:06:17 +0000 medusamorlock http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=40880 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/09/21/maddin-madness-celebrating-my-winnipeg/feed/ 7 medusamorlock Ann Savage as Guy Maddin's mother, with her son, in "My Winnipeg" The poster for Guy Maddin's "My Winnipeg" Former movie tough gal Ann Savage who plays Maddin's mother in "My Winnipeg" A "My Winnipeg" train dozer trying to escape the city Director Guy Maddin of "My Winnipeg" fandor-blogathon http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/08/24/joan-blondell-big-deal-on-the-small-screen/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/08/24/joan-blondell-big-deal-on-the-small-screen/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:38:39 +0000 medusamorlock http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=39777 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/08/24/joan-blondell-big-deal-on-the-small-screen/feed/ 13 medusamorlock Joan Blondell guests on "Bonanza" episode "The Pressure Game" Joan Blondell on "Death Valley Days" Joan Blondell on "The Lucy Show" segment "Lucy and Joan" Sheet Music for "Seattle" from "Here Come the Brides" TV series LIFE magazine from Feb. 19, 1971, with Joan on the cover, celebrating Nostalgia Joan Blondell in the credit sequence of "Banyon" Joan Blondell in "Starsky and Hutch" "Las Vegas Strangler" episode Joan Blondell in TVM "Death at Love House" Joan gives a wonderful performance on "The Untouchables"! Joan Blondell is the mother of a murdered man on "The Virginian" Joan Blondell and William Demarest on "Twilight Zone" Joan isn't happy with Demarest here, from "Twilight Zone" Joan Blondell is "Aunt Lil" to actress Kathie Browne on "Bonanza" "The Pressure Game" Blondell's a big flirt on "Bonanza" episode "The Pressure Game" High Hopes for Joan Blondell as Lucy's new comedy friend on "The Lucy Show"! Lucy and Joan getting to know each other on "The Lucy Show" Joan tries channeling Vivian Vance on "The Lucy Show" Lucy tries to impress Keith Andes as Joan urges her on in "The Lucy Show" Lucy tries to pass herself off as a stuntman, with Joan's help, on "The Lucy Show" Joan's credit card for "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." in "The Concrete Overcoat Affair, Part 1" Joan is the flamboyant wife of an aging mobster on "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." Joan is Mrs. Eduardo "Fingers Stilletto" Ciannelli on "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." Joan Blondell aka Mrs. Fingers Stilletto on "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." Joan Blondell goes to Hooterville in "Petticoat Junction" Joan shares memories with Linda Kaye Henning on "Petticoat Junction" Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) is sweet on Joan Blondell in "Petticoat Junction" Joan Blondell's opening credit on "Here Come the Brides" David Soul, Robert Brown, Bobby Sherman, Bridget Hanley and Joan Blondell on "Here Come the Brides" Lottie in some Seattle chitchat with Robert Brown's Jason Bolt Lottie is the saloonkeeper, here with her pal Capt. Clancy (Henry Beckman) on "Here Come the Brides" Great onscreen chemistry between Henry Beckman and Joan Blondell on "Here Come the Brides" Sylvia Sidney and Joan Blondell co-starred in TV Movie "Death at Love House" in 1976 The beautiful and talented Joan Blondell Turns on the Charm on "Bonanza" http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/08/17/a-great-character-actor-skip-homeier/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/08/17/a-great-character-actor-skip-homeier/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:50:30 +0000 medusamorlock http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=39411 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/08/17/a-great-character-actor-skip-homeier/feed/ 16 medusamorlock Young Skip Homeier in Boys Ranch Young Skip Homeier in "Tomorrow the World" Skip Homeier in "Day of the Badman" Skip Homeier on "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" Skip Homeier on original "Star Trek" as a sorta-Nazi Skip Homeier as the deranged Dr. Sevrin on "Star Trek" 'The Way to Eden' Skip Homeier as a scientist in The Outer Limits episode "Expanding Human" Skip Homeier transformed on "The Outer Limits" http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/08/05/lucy-ricardo-was-just-like-us-she-loved-movie-stars/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/08/05/lucy-ricardo-was-just-like-us-she-loved-movie-stars/#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 02:56:53 +0000 medusamorlock http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=39129 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/08/05/lucy-ricardo-was-just-like-us-she-loved-movie-stars/feed/ 19 medusamorlock The Gorgeous and Talented Lucille Ball, Who Would Have Turned 100 on Saturday, August 6th William Holden stares at Lucy at The Brown Derby Cornel Wilde Cornel Wilde attends to Bobby Jellison, while Lucy sneaks a peek Lucy fawn over John Wayne, naturally! Lucy and Harpo Marx strike a pose Van Johnson Richard Widmark points out some dead animal heads to Ricky Ricardo Richard Widmark shows off his trophy heads to Ricky, with Lucy in the bear rug Desi Arnaz brings Rock Hudson in to talk to Lucy and Ethal The utterly amazing George Reeves in his best known role as Superman http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/07/31/french-saunders-do-the-movies-their-way/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/07/31/french-saunders-do-the-movies-their-way/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:08:29 +0000 medusamorlock http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=38955 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/07/31/french-saunders-do-the-movies-their-way/feed/ 14 medusamorlock Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French ala "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" The real Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders Jennifer Saunders does a dead-on Meryl Streep Dawn French goes "Cold Turkey" on "Cold Mountain" Dawn and Jennifer are Mel and Liam in "Loveheart" http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/07/22/from-hollywood-of-old-some-familiar-faces/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/07/22/from-hollywood-of-old-some-familiar-faces/#comments Sat, 23 Jul 2011 01:46:00 +0000 medusamorlock http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=38667 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/07/22/from-hollywood-of-old-some-familiar-faces/feed/ 15 medusamorlock Jimmy Durante and Ethel Barrymore together...and loving it! George Jessel...and don't you forget it! Errol Flynn and Princess Irinia Ghica in November of 1949 Bob Hope disembarks jet in Kimpo, Korea, in 1950 Judy Garland about the time of her attempted suicide in June of 1950. Jane Russell and her cute new Irish baby son Tommy Kavanaugh in 1952 I hope Stanley is right about this... Menjou before the blade! Oooo -- that hurts! Well, that wasn't so bad, was it? http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/03/24/looking-at-elizabeth-taylor/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/03/24/looking-at-elizabeth-taylor/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:00:22 +0000 medusamorlock http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=33965 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/03/24/looking-at-elizabeth-taylor/feed/ 9 medusamorlock Elizabeth Taylor Elizabeth Taylor Gets Her High School Diploma Elizabeth Taylor with Diploma Elizabeth Taylor and Nicky Hilton Elizabeth Taylor and her animals Elizabeth Taylor visits Travis AFB in California, ca. 1950 Elizabeth Taylor and the Harvard Lampoon staffers Elizabeth Taylor and MGM Publicity Man Billy Lyons Elizabeth Taylor and Larry Parks Elizabeth Taylor backstage on set http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/03/17/actress-jessica-harper-and-she-can-cook-too/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/03/17/actress-jessica-harper-and-she-can-cook-too/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:08:25 +0000 medusamorlock http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=33685 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/03/17/actress-jessica-harper-and-she-can-cook-too/feed/ 10 medusamorlock Jessica Harper in "Phantom of the Paradise" from 1974 Jessica Harper singing "Old Soul" from "Phantom of the Paradise" Jessica Harper in "Suspiria" Jessica Harper and Cliff De Young as Brad and Janet in "Shock Treatment" Bernadette Peters, Steve Martin and Jessica Harper in "Pennies from Heaven" Jessica Harper, author of "The Crabby Cook Cookbook", out now! Jessica Harper as the very funny crabby cook! http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/11/17/in-praise-of-pee-wee/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/11/17/in-praise-of-pee-wee/#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:52:20 +0000 medusamorlock http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=28965 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/11/17/in-praise-of-pee-wee/feed/ 7 medusamorlock Pee-wee Wins the Tour de France, in the flashbulb's glare, from "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" Pee-wee loves his beautiful bicycle Pee-wee's Big Adventure Title Pee-wee Herman fun with tape, from PWBA Pee-wee dressed and ready to start his day Pee-wee and his great Abe Lincoln pancake flipper Pee-wee eats a plateful of Mr. T cereal Pee-wee's treacherous friend covets his bicycle Pee-wee visits the mall for some shopping Pee-wee greets his monkey friend at the magic shop Pee-wee waves to his clown statue friend Pee-wee distraught when his bike is stolen Exciting underwater fight with the evil rich kid! Pee-wee shows evidence to his friends to help find his bike Pee-wee desperately seeks the help of a gypsy fortune-teller The gypsy says "The Alamo" so Pee-wee is off to Texas No luck hitchhiking...Pee-wee prostrate! Pee-wee meets up with dangerous criminal Micky, who lets him drive a little Pee-wee and Micky attempt to fool the police at a roadblock