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Title: Breaking News: VERY Rare Joan Bennett film on TCM Mon Sept 20
Post by: David on September 20, 2010, 01:44:26 AM
The Secret Beyond the Door (1948)
the last of four films that Joan did with the great director Fritz Lang (Scarlet Street)
airs on TCM at 3PM (West Coast Time)
Mon Sept 20th
Title: Re: Breaking News: VERY Rare Joan Bennett film on TCM Mon Sept 20
Post by: Gothick on September 20, 2010, 03:36:07 AM
It's very rare?  Harvard has the old VHS in their library.

I think this movie is better than most would say.  A Gothic plot, great dialogue, creepy camera work from Lang and Natalie Schafer--what more could one want?

G.
Title: Re: Breaking News: VERY Rare Joan Bennett film on TCM Mon Sept 20
Post by: David on September 20, 2010, 07:01:58 AM
I think it qualifies as rare: the VHS release is 20 years out of print. It's never been on DVD, hardly ever airs.
38 year old Joan is stunning , and it is VERY creepy!
Title: Re: Breaking News: VERY Rare Joan Bennett film on TCM Mon Sept 20
Post by: David on September 20, 2010, 07:27:12 AM
 [ghost_rolleyes]
I will admit that my Breaking News headline was a bit over the top!
Title: Re: Breaking News: VERY Rare Joan Bennett film on TCM Mon Sept 20
Post by: Annie on September 20, 2010, 11:03:13 PM
Hi David  sounds really cool!   Love   Anne [ghost_smiley]
Title: Re: Breaking News: VERY Rare Joan Bennett film on TCM Mon Sept 20
Post by: David on September 21, 2010, 06:18:32 PM


 [ghost_smiley]
I did a quick check of my recorded disc: BEAUTIFUL print!

Title: Re: Breaking News: VERY Rare Joan Bennett film on TCM Mon Sept 20
Post by: Taeylor Collins on September 22, 2010, 08:39:37 AM
I was so aggravated but at least I caught the last hour by accident! She was stunning and it seemed like a precursor to Shadows. I am really into Joan lately and been watching her movies. I just read THE BENNETTS in three nights!  I couldn't put it down.  Now that was a book.  The Bennett Playbill was so glossed over and dodgy!