Turner Classic

That redheaded liberal bitch is hot.
That Australian accent.

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Ben Mankiewicz has taken on a greater role at the network and his influence has caused them to bring in a number of SJW hosts

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My shock levels are off the charts.

This would be why I own it on Blu-ray, as well as a number of other John Wayne films on BR/DVD.

People scoff at owning physical media, but relying solely on streaming leaves your access at the mercy of people that will inevitably censor that content (either scenes, dialogue or entire films).

Agree, Turner took a political turn a few years ago and it's disappointing. I miss Osborne too.

In an interview in 2009, Osborne stated his favorite films included:

A Place in the Sun (1951)
All About Eve (1950)
The Third Man (1949)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Rebecca (1940)
Red River (1948)
Stagecoach (1939)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)

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analysis of what a horribly racist film “The Searchers” was.

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He does know that Ethan is not a sympathetic character, right? It's why he doesn't get to go in the house with the rest of the family at the end. He's a bitter, hateful person.

I'm a HUGE fan of old movies and watch TCM a lot.
Re: Mankiewicz, I'm not sure he's any farther left than Osbourne was on a personal level. I think it's the management culture difference over the last 10 years that's moved PC.

BTW, since you mentioned The Searchers. I always knew that many western plots were based on old paperback 'dime novels' popular around 1900. What I did not know was that England started the cheap printing process 20 years before the US. They ran out of British plots so they started writing about the American Wild West during the 1880s and Brits ate up the stuff.

"There’s a lot of backstory to the Ethan Edwards character. A lot in the script that wasn’t shot...for example, that his hatred for the Comanche stemmed not from some innate racism, but from the fact that they had massacred his mother (Grandma’s tombstone that Debbie hides behind early in the picture). There are also inferences that Debbie is not really his niece, but rather his daughter...hence the affection between he and his sister-in-law upon his return from the Civil War.

But I’ve never seen your interpretation of why he didn’t go into the house. I always just assumed it was because he had finally accomplished his obsessive mission of restoring Debbie to her family/friends and just wanted to ride off into the sunset. "

Also he returned from the Civil War, no telling what horrors he saw and participated in. He most likely had PTSD. These damned liberal types are so 1 dimensional, they take History out of context and they are wrong for that.