Growing up in New Jersey in the 60's we saw "The Million Dollar Movie" all the
time as well.
The movie I most remember them showing over and over was HOUSE ON HUANTED HILL.
If you're a little kid that movie could be really scarey. Especially the
dripping blood from the stain that wouldn't go away...
They always said something like, "If you've missed any portion of today's
movie..." Knowing full well it was going to be shown 20 times more. I think
comedians from the East made fun of this for years.
Glenn T.
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From: Bruce Hershenson
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Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Fun MOPO Thread
The reason they showed these all the time was because they would buy the
rights to them for a month or 6 months or a year, and they could show them as
often as they wanted within that time. Of course, some of these movies were
public domain.
In New York in the 1950s and early 1960s they had "The Million Dollar Movie"
on local Channel 9 (with the theme music from "Gone With the Wind" which was
rumored to have been shown as the first "The Million Dollar Movie" but had been
too expensive and that was merely urban legend), and every day at 1 PM, 7 PM, 9
PM and 11 PM they would show the same movie for an entire week, 20 times each!
That's how I memorized the words to "Inherit the Wind" and some other
classics!
Murder, He Says IS every bit as funny as you think it was (it is my favorite
slapstick movie of all time, and if I haven't seen it in years I will sit
convulsed in laughter at the best scenes, especially the one where Fred
MacMurray sits on the unconscious twin's legs and is mistaken for a midget, the
dinner scene with the lazy Susan, and the one where Fred MacMurray convinces
the dumb as doornail twins he is with a ghost).
The movie has quite a cult following, but is otherwise forgotten.
The song goes as follows (once you get it in your head it is hard to forget):
Honor flysis, income beesis
Onches Knobes, Inknob keysis
Well worth catching, or buying, but be prepared, it really is as silly as can
be, and you will be amazed at how funny Fred MacMurray could be!
Bruce
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Richard Halegua Comic Art <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> wrote:
this film used to be on TV all the time when I was a kid & I also want to
see it again for the same reasons as phil
I can still hear the young girl singing that ditty that made up to clue to
find the hidden cash
wish like he;; I could find the damn video
At 08:21 PM 11/9/2008, Phil Edwards wrote:
Ever since I only ever saw it ONCE as a kid, I have always wanted to see
again MURDER HE SAID, with Fred MacMurray, to see if it's as nutty and funny as
I thought it was back then.
Phil
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From: Roger Kim
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Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Fun MOPO Thread
A Seattle station (PBS affiliate, I think) used to show The Rocking
Horse Winner all the time. I thought it was creepy.
-rk
On Nov 9, 2008, at 7:48 PM, Tom A. Pennock wrote:
When I was kid in the 1960's they used to show a black and white
print ALL the time of "The Boy With Green Hair" with Dean Stockwell. I like
this movie very much but could not fully appreciate the movie until I saw the
color version on video. I also liked "Down To The Sea In Ships" with Dean
Stockwell as a child. This was shot in black and white. From what I understand
this title is now in the public domain and NOT available on any video format
except for bootlegs.
--Tom Pennock
In a message dated 11/9/2008 10:19:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I got to thinking that when I was a kid, there were a few movies
that
were on television ALL THE TIME. What was odd about this is that
these just weren't the kind of movies one would expect to see
constantly for years (during the 60s and 70s) in a market like
Phoenix, AZ.
One that seems really strange now is SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER with
Monty
CLift, Liz Taylor, and Katharine Hepburn. I must have seen that
film
ten or twenty times on local TV in Phoenix. Another odd one was
Joseph Losey's THE SERVANT with James Fox, Dirk Bogarde, and Sara
Miles. Always on TV.
The weirdest film was one called THE PICASSO SUMMER with Albert
Finney
and Yvette Mimieux. For some reason, that particular film played
almost monthly for a few years. It was an absolutely unwatchable
comedy/drama about a married couple driving around Europe trying to
run into Picasso.
Anyone else on MOPO have such odd memories?
Channing Thomson in San Francisco
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