What a great movie
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tniah — 18 years ago(July 11, 2007 12:26 AM)
Luckily I use BeyondTV and had the movie following The Damned scheduled as
well, so I picked up the last few minutes on the following movie's recording.
For me, it is a fairly easy task to suck the files into Ulead and put the two
pieces back together, a hassle, but not impossible.
Also, I have BeyondTV setup to pad the beginning and end of a recording with
10 minutes on each unless I have a recording immediately following. So I would
have been covered for this movie, but have had several clipped in the past.
Another work around, if you know the times are goofed, is to start a manual
recording. With BeyondTV, and most of the PC based PVRs, you can start a
recording for a set length, or just start one and let it run until you stop it.
I am not sure whether Tivo or the cable DVRs allow these options, but they
might. Good luck. Great movie BTW, but I might have to pass on Invisible Invaders which followed. One thing I have to say is, I can't really fault TCM
with anything, in my opinion they are the best around and without them, there
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dustinthewind25 — 18 years ago(September 07, 2007 03:51 PM)
I'm glad you cleared up that little mystery for me, Tom.
I recorded this when it was on, and only just watched it today, 9/7.
Fortunately for me, I decided to record "Invisible Invaders" as well, and using the times listed in the TCM guide, wound up missing the end of Invaders - but fortunately getting all of These Are The Damned in the process.
And as fun and cheesy as Invaders is, I'm gladly sacrificing that to have been able to have gotten the whole showing of "Damned."
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mdangelo-1 — 18 years ago(July 05, 2007 05:47 AM)
Whoa Daddy-O! The cable provider is not to blame. TCM listed the run time as 87 minutes. Life's a bitch when you got a DVR but blame TCM not Comcast (there's plenty of other crap service to blame on them)
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originalboojum — 18 years ago(August 27, 2007 03:09 PM)
Just a quick bump for anyone interested, as per the previous post it's on British terrestrial and digital TV tonight (BBC2), starts in 20 minutes. Apologies for the lateness, only just noticed it in the schedule.
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Scunner — 18 years ago(August 27, 2007 10:40 PM)
I set my VCR off recording this last night with every intention of going to bed but ended up watching it anyway despite having to get up for work at 6.am, the Teddy boy stuff at the start was daft (as was the song) but besides that I thought it was excellent, the plaintive cries of the children at the end were genuinely haunting. As a fan of Ollie Reed and sci-fi I was at a loss as to why I'd never heard of (never mind seen) this before until I came here and read that it inexplicably hasn't been shown for so long. Very strangeanyone know why?
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MystMoonstruck — 14 years ago(September 22, 2011 10:16 PM)
I rely on my VCR because I can always schedule more time than a DVR obviously allows. I have never regretted not changing to a DVD/DVR; it's just more and more money for equipment. My good ol' VCR has never failed me, and I have tapes from as far back as the Seventies that play with no problem. Also, each tape will hold three or even four movies, depending on length of course.
If this machine ever goes out on me, I'll definitely search for another.
Meanwhile, I have a good copy of this film, which I'm so grateful to TCM for. I recall seeing it in the early Seventies, when I was in my 20s, and it remained impressed in my mind to such a degree that I was astonished how much I remembered, including dialogue. Now, if "Privilege" would ever show up, I'd be truly blissful.
MystMoonstruck
