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Hi! Taking a little break while I'm at work...getting sick of clearing paper jams out of the printer, haha! I agree that Jim Hutton was very attractive without really trying. That is definitely when someone is the most attractive, IMO. Yes, the green sweater is quite nice. I also like when he wears the black sweater with the gray blazer (I think)...it's a little more "dressed-up" for him and quite becoming.

The David Wayne version of "M" is virtually impossible to find except in bootleg copies. I don't know that it's ever had any kind of official release on DVD or VHS. I'm not sure why it's not held in very high regard, except that the original is considered such a classic and people just automatically assume that it can't be good for that reason. I thought it was quite well done and all the reviews I've read are really good as well. It does quite a few things differently, which I think makes it better than the average remake. David Wayne isn't exactly a jerk in that one; he's more of a very disturbed individual. He's kind of creepy but you also feel for the character because he's obviously got some serious mental and emotional problems. In a way, it's more creepy than the Peter Lorre version because David Wayne looks like such an average guy (which is more realistic, if you think about it in terms of serial killers in history); Peter Lorre, just in the way he looks and sounds, gives off a serial killer vibe. :)

"Three Faces of Eve" is good, but it is kind of disturbing. David Wayne is good in that but I can't quite figure out whether he's a sympathetic character or not. At times, he's a jerk, but at other times he seems like he's at least trying to understand his wife's illness (even though it's completely beyond his comprehension). A funny scene is when the doctor is trying to explain Eve's multiple personalities to the husband and David Wayne just kind of nods his head and looks at him, then the doctor says, "do you understand?" and David says, without missing a beat, "no, sir." It's quite amusing the way he does it. :) I definitely want to check out "With a Song in My Heart", though I know that it doesn't end up good for David...I believe I read in a review that Susan Hayward's character and his end up getting a divorce, so I feel like she probably gets too famous for him or something like that.

I do want to see the Jim Hutton movies that you mentioned, especially "Don't be Afraid of the Dark." I'm really hoping that Netflix will get them soon!

We do have a lot of maple and dogwood trees in this area (not as many oaks, but there are some). It's really gorgeous here in the fall. I live near the Blue Ridge Parkway, which is one of the best places to go to see the leaves changing color. I wish I could post pics on here so I could show you how beautiful it is. Haha, I like the way you put that, "winter and mosquitoes-construction." It probably won't start snowing or getting super-cold here for another month or so...we don't get a lot of snow usually but it does get pretty cold, especially in January and February.

Sweet merciful crap!

It's just tea! *sips* Needs more gin.

Hello! Gotta love those paper jams in the printers. We have some lovely photocopy machines which really work "well" (tee hee).

Jim Hutton was definitely not going for sex appeal in this role. Maybe that's why he is so attractive to me. He has so many hot moments that I've lost count. I rewatched the episode in which he is using the pressure cooker. I love that one, and I love the way he makes faces at the pressure cooker (tee hee). Then there's the one where he's explaining to his dad that the coffee is gross because he heated up yesterday's coffee lol. :) Those moments in the kitchen are sure special...and Ellery looked sexy each time. :)

You're right about the black sweater and gray blazer. He looks great in that outfit. :) Although...that sweater looks blue to me. Maybe it's the coloring on my TV set. His eyes still look grey to me (not blue), so I probably need to make changes to the color settings. I want those eyes to look blue. :)

In the pilot, he wears a lovely navy blue turtleneck. Did you notice it? It's so nice and it really brings out his eyes. :)

I really do want to see both versions of "M". You're probably right that the remake is bashed simply because it is a remake. Unfortunately, remakes aren't popular with the general public, even if considerable changes are made to the script. I have nothing against remakes. Nothing wrong with telling a story a couple of different ways. Besides, if the original is based on a book, then the remake is really just another interpretation of the book.

As for "With a Song in my Heart", yes, Susan Hayward's character does end up getting a divorce. After the movie came out, she got divorced again (according to IMDb). Still, I couldn't help feeling sorry for David Wayne's character. The movie made it look like she didn't love him as much as he loved her. I wonder how close they came to the truth?

Speaking of Jim Hutton movies, someone has informed me that "Period of Adjustment" will be on TCM in December. :) It's a Christmas movie, apparently. I can't wait. :)

The area where you live sounds really lovely. I don't like Edmonton scenery much, but the Canadian rockies (west of Edmonton) are beautiful and highly recommended for a vacation spot. :) I wonder if Jim Hutton ever traveled there? I know that Marilyn Monroe did, because she filmed a movie in the Rockies. I have seen a bunch of pictures of her in the mountains. She sure wasn't camera-shy. I think her co-star (Robert Mitchum) might have been, because I've never seen a single picture of him out there. Maybe he just didn't want his face to end up in the archives or something (tee hee). :)

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1. Mad Tea Party - So good and eccentric that it makes me wish they had adapted more EQ stories.

2. Wary Witness - Very clever courtroom mystery.

3. Veronica's Veils - Barbara Rhodes wearing a skimpy outfit? I'm sold!

Actually, most of them were great! I wish EQ had continued for at least one more season.

Lots of Jim Hutton love on this thread. Let me say that I found Gretchen Corbett extremely cute in her one episode and I wish she had become a recurring character!

Hello! Nothing to say about Jim Hutton's eyes? Tee hee... :)

1. Mad Tea Party - it's a brilliant story. The only other episode which is based on an actual EQ story is the pilot episode. It's based on "The Fourth Side of the Triangle" (1960s novel).

2. Wary Witness - great story and Ellery looked really, really hot in it. :)

3. Veronica's Veils - I like how Jim Hottie kept checking out the stripper. That was so cute! :)

I'm also a big fan of "The 12th Floor Express" - an impossible crime.

I wish that EQ had continued for several more years. Of course, Jim died in 1979, so they would have had to replace him or cancel the show. I wish that they had adapted both "Calamity Town" (but including Richard Queen in this adaptation) and "Inspector Queen's Own Case" (but including Ellery in this adaptation).

I liked Gretchen Corbett as well. I think the reason they didn't keep her is because Ellery didn't really have a steady girlfriend in the novels & short stories. Some people say that his secretary Nikki (from the 40s) was his sweetheart, but I just got the impression that the relationship was mostly professional.

The only storyline involving Ellery and a lady which I didn't care for was in "The Eccentric Engineer" - Ellery didn't notice the lady until she put on that dress. Kind of sexist, if you ask me. He didn't seem thrilled about the fact that she was writing a book. Well, he was an author. Why shouldn't she have been one? (Interesting to note that Agatha Christie's books have had more staying power than the Ellery Queen books lol.)

Yup, lots of Jim Hutton love around here. :) Actually, we started chatting on the Jim Hutton board and moved here. :)

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Thanks! :D

Just finished the EQ DVD. I want more!

I know what you mean about "The Eccentric Engineer." How could he take so long to notice Ann Reinking? ;)

Have you read any of the novels? Many of the ones from the 1940s and the 1950s are superb.

"Just finished the EQ DVD. I want more!
I know what you mean about "The Eccentric Engineer." How could he take so long to notice Ann Reinking? ;)
Have you read any of the novels? Many of the ones from the 1940s and the 1950s are superb."

I know! I also want more EQ. :)

I would have liked it better if he had noticed the female author a bit earlier on in the episode, rather than when she put on a sexy dress. What was wrong with the way she looked at the start of the episode? Those glasses and the suit looked fine on her.

Yup, I've read some of the novels and short stories, which is why I know that he had some casual relationships but nothing serious. I like a few of the ones from the thirties and forties. I also love "Inspector Queen's Own Case". :) If only they had filmed that novel....

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I haven't read IQ's Own Case yet. I'll have to check it out!

Inspector Queen's Own Case is such a sweet story, because Richard Queen finds romance in this story. :) Ellery isn't present in this novel, though.

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Yay, we finally got another person in the conversation!

Mad Tea party is very good, even though it's not exactly my favorite. You can definitely tell that it stems from one of the original EQ stories because it's more complicated, IMO.

Wary Witness is fast becoming one of my favorites. I didn't care for it when I first saw it because it was so much darker than the other episodes and I tend to prefer the ones that are more light-hearted. However, the more I watch it, the more it intrigues me. It's very different from the rest of the series, that's for sure.

I really like Veronica's Veils too, not because of Barbara Rhoades so much though, ha! I like the episodes that dealt with Ellery's work being adapted into a new medium (Comic Book Crusader and Sinister Scenario). It's interesting to see the backstage or behind-the-scenes processes, even if they aren't exactly accurate.

My mind changes quite a bit...Comic Book Crusader was my favorite and still is near the top, but I think my new favorite is Caesar's Last Sleep. An interesting "impossible" crime and I like the fact that Inspector Queen has a more prominent place in solving the mystery. I also like the way Ellery really sticks up for his dad in the episode...my favorite aspect of the entire series is the relationship between Ellery and Inspector Queen. It's such a nice depiction of a father-son relationship...sweet without being sappy, realistic without being overly negative or sarcastic.

Sweet merciful crap!

It's just tea! *sips* Needs more gin.

Hi again! Yup, everyone welcome on this thread, even those who can't talk nonstop about Ellery's good looks (tee hee). :)

Mad Tea Party and the pilot episode are the only two episodes which are based on actual EQ stories. I think that I have mentioned that the pilot is based on the novel "The Fourth Side of the Triangle". The book is told from the points of view of the various family members, and Ellery has a very small part in it.

If you like the more complicated endings, I recommend you read "Calendar of Crime" by EQ (short stories). I think, though, that the episodes and their endings were modelled after the EQ radio plays (also available in print). Those radio plays were aired in the forties and when I read through them, I kept visualizing the gang from the episodes. :)

Some of the endings are more Agatha Christie rather than Ellery Queen (ex. Sunday Punch, Hard-Hearted Huckster). As for "The 12th Floor Express", that one is more John Dickson Carr (but not nearly as confusing).

I agree with you about "Caesar's Last Sleep", but that's not the only time during which Ellery stuck up for his dad. He did so a few other times as well, like in "Miss Aggie's Farewell Performance". When Miss Aggie says something about being questioned about the "funny little detective", Ellery gets a weird look on his face and says, "that's my father". I've noticed little moments like that here and there. :)

By the way, I had a chance to see those cute moments which you mentioned some time ago: "The Chinese Dog", when Ellery says something like, "He was killed with a DOG?" and he bursts out laughing. He looked adorable there. :) And the part in "The Black Falcon" when the hostess asks for his hat and he puts it into his pocket. The look on his face clearly says, "It's MY hat and you're not touching it." :) He looked so adorable when he did that!

The hat, the glasses, the black sweater with the gray blazer....all adorable!!!

I rewatched "The Black Falcon" last night. That one really is a touching story, especially the part with the "cleaning lady" and the young man. I love it!

By the way, someone mentioned that "Period of Adjustment" will be playing on TCM in December. Enjoy!

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I had to return the DVD to the library last week with great reluctance. I definitely need to buy that set!

"I had to return the DVD to the library last week with great reluctance. I definitely need to buy that set!"

It's a worthy purchase for sure! :) The episodes are fun to watch and to rewatch. :)

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Absolutely worth the purchase! I'm fast wearing my set out, so I may have to slow down a bit so I don't have to purchase another set, haha!

Sweet merciful crap!

It's just tea! *sips* Needs more gin.

Somehow I never replied to your last post here...

I realy like "The Black Falcon" too. I think the actress who played the cleaning lady did an outstanding job. Another of the best episodes, IMO.

Yes, Ellery did stick up for his dad more than once, but in "Caesar's Last Sleep" he actually seems like he'd be willing to fight physically for him. I thought that was nice. They have definitely got each other's backs, so to speak. Like when Inspector Queen threatens to resign from the force when Ellery is suspected in "Comic Book Crusader." Very nice that they are so supportive of each other (I know I keep saying that but I really do love that part of the show more than anything!).

Will be on the lookout for "Period of Adjustment"...thanks for letting me know! I can't schedule anything that far in advance on my DVR but I'll make a note to remind me. :)

Sweet merciful crap!

It's just tea! *sips* Needs more gin.

"Somehow I never replied to your last post here..."

Hi! Don't worry about it...tee hee. :) I always hope that my posts (on the various boards) will be read, but I don't expect replies all the time. I did post a reply on the "Richard Queen" thread on this board, if you're interested. :) Of course, I know that people get busy and don't always have time to reply. I have been spending way too much time here, but I'm slowly cutting down on my Internet posting. I need time to watch my Ellery Queen episodes. :) (My DVDs are wearing out! lol)

Personally, I find the easiest way of tracking replies is to get the email notifications. Otherwise, it's too easy to miss a reply from someone, especially if I start a thread which gets a lot of responses. Anyhow, nice to hear from you again! :) Hope you're doing well. :)

"The Black Falcon" is a very bittersweet episode, definitely one of the best of the bunch. I agree with you about the actress who played the cleaning lady. She had a tough role to play, and she did it well. The ending of that one is so sweet, too. :)

Yup, I agree with you about "Caesar's Last Sleep". In that one, Richard was bullied more than usual and I think that he was grateful to get some help from Ellery. I rewatched "The Comic Book Crusader" last night, and I noticed just how much Richard stuck up for Ellery. Ellery was definitely mistreated in that episode by various people! (And yes, Ellery looked really, really hot in both episodes lol.)

By the way, I've been noticing the black sweater/gray blazer a lot. Ellery really looked handsome in that outfit. :) I think that it's my favorite Ellery outfit, next to the georgeous green sweater. :)

Richard Queen has his "cutie" moments, too, though I generally don't notice his looks. I like the one where he's looking for his "tummy fizz" (or something like that) and he notices that it's under Ellery's skeleton thingie. He says "excuse me", chuckles a bit, picks up that skeleton, and gets out his tummy fizz. :) He looked sweet when he did that. I think that part was in "The Judas Tree"...the same episode where Ellery has so many open shirt moments. :) "The Judas Tree" is a fave of mine, for various reasons (including all the open shirt moments). :)

So far, I think that there are three episodes in which he has the open shirt moments - "The Judas Tree", "Col. Nivin's Memoirs", and the pilot episode. :) Are there any others?

I heard that "Period of Adjustment" will be playing twice - once as a Christmas movie, and once as part of the Jane Fonda special. I can't wait. :) Recently, on the Jim Hottie board, someone has convinced me to see "The Green Berets". I wasn't going to at first, but now I think I will. :) I'd also like to see another comedy he did called "Never Too Late" (from the sixties). I'll have to check its TCM schedule.

Jim Hutton sure was a G E O R G E O U S man!!! :)

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I'm doing pretty good, nothing new really going on right now. :)

I'm a weirdo, but I do think David Wayne is kind of cute. He's very average-looking, but I guess there's something about his personality and talent and everything that makes him more appealing to me than he might be otherwise. That's usually how it is for me...guys who aren't necessarily the most physically attractive may stand out anyway because they're more interesting or whatever. Same thing with Burgess Meredith (for me)...you certainly couldn't say he was the most handsome man in the world, but there's something about his acting and his voice and everything that I just think is sooooo cute! Apparently, Mr. Meredith had this effect on a lot of women, because he was quite well-known as the ladies' man back in the day. He was married to Paulette Goddard (one of the most gorgeous ladies ever) and had affairs with Hedy Lamarr, Marlene Dietrich, and a bunch of other famous, beautiful women. :) And something else I think is cute about David Wayne is actually the complete opposite of Burgess Meredith, in that respect. He was only married once and he and his wife were married for over 50 years. According to his bio on IMDB, he retired completely after his wife died...I love stories like that, where a couple is together that long and love each other that much.

Whoa, I really got off on a tangent there, haha!!

I don't remember the open shirt moment in the pilot...refresh my memory please!

Well, I can't really type anymore because my cat just plopped right down between me and my laptop...good grief! Heaven forbid I'm not paying attention to her for a second!

Sweet merciful crap!

It's just tea! *sips* Needs more gin.

I agree with you about noticing guys who are interesting as opposed to being physically attractive. In the case of Jim Hutton, he was both. I doubt that he was going for sex appeal when he created the Ellery Queen character. His style of sneezing, his way of saying "haaaaah", the running gags about the old coffee/burnt toast...Somehow I don't think that Jim had "I'm sexy" in mind when he brought Ellery to life.

As for David Wayne, I haven't seen him in any roles where he's played a character who was supposed to have a lot of sex appeal. Ex., in "How to Marry a Millionaire", he was supposed to be a bit of a nerdy sort of fellow who becomes very surprised when a beauty like Marilyn falls for him. In "With a Song in my Heart", he was the faithful first hubby who is forced to give up his wife. I found "The Three Faces of Eve" too depressing to finish, but that certainly wasn't a romantic role on his part!

I admit that I didn't notice the open shirt moment in the pilot episode at first. It's quite brief (in the first part of the episode) and not quite as prominent as the open shirt moments in the other two episodes. I think he just walks into the living room in his PJs and he's reading something, and his dad is complaining that Ellery left some eggs burning in the kitchen, and Ellery says absentmindedly something like, "Oh, hi dad, I made eggs" lol. I think that this was the open shirt moment. :)

Great open shirt moment in "Don't be Afraid of the Dark", but it's very brief. I noticed the second time I watched this movie that Jim's character is a real jerk. He had to be, otherwise the story wouldn't have happened.

That's so cute about your cat. :) I have never had a pet, but I've heard from people who have pets that the pets become the kings/queens of the household, and the owners become the pets (tee hee). :)

Oh, and thanks for bringing to my attention the scene in "The Black Falcon" where the hostess wants to take Ellery's hat and he insists on hanging onto it! Tee hee...The look on his face said, "This is MY hat and I'll hang on to it." He doesn't actually say anything to her, though lol. His face says it all, though! giggle....that hat is adorable!

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Yes, Jim Hutton was definitely both physically attractive and charming personality-wise (or at least he seemed to be in his performances). And being unaware of it or at least unconcerned with it definitely adds to the charm. :)

David Wayne was never really the romantic lead and wasn't supposed to be "sexy" (in fact, the fact that I would even use that word in association with Mr. Wayne would probably be appalling to most people, ha!), but, again, there was a certain charm that he had that made him handsome to me. "How to Marry a Millionaire" is a great example of what made him cute to me...he's just so sweet and considerate in making Marilyn feel better about wearing glasses and everything. Have you ever seen "The Tender Trap"? It's another movie where I think David Wayne is very cute. It's got Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds and David is just adorable in it! You should check it out if you haven't already seen it!

Yeah, my cat basically rules the house, haha! I like having pets but I tend to get very attached so it makes it difficult when something happens to them. But the companionship makes it worthwhile. I like cats and dogs but cats are easier to take care of because they can mostly take care of themselves. :)

Did you ever notice in "The Eccentric Engineer" when Inspector Queen is making eggs and Ellery comes into the kitchen...he's singing some little tune as he walks in. I can't make out what he's singing but it's so cute when he does it! It's when he's trying to avoid Miss Whats-her-name so he gets dressed earlier than usual and turns down breakfast, which Inspector Queen thinks is peculiar. Do you know what I'm talking about?

Sweet merciful crap!

It's just tea! *sips* Needs more gin.

Speaking of David Wayne, I really do recommend the book "Inspector Queen's Last Case". I know I've mentioned it to you a couple of times, and I shouldn't keep repeating myself, but if you read it and visualize David Wayne in that book, then I think you'll be in for a real treat. :) Basically, Richard falls in love with a woman about 15 years younger than himself (tee hee). He's 63 years old in the book. He gets so embarassed so easily by things she says, and of course, she's just teasing him because she's already fallen in love with him. Boy, I wish that they had filmed this story! Of course, they would have had to put Ellery into the story, since he's not in the book.

I haven't seen "The Tender Trap", but I'll give it a chance. :) Thanks for the recommendation!

I think that I remember that part of "The Eccentric Engineer". Actually, that's one episode that I avoid, because I don't like the way that Ellery only falls for that girl after she puts on that sexy dress. It seemed quite sexist of the scriptwriters to have Ellery be so anti-female authors. (I wonder if those scriptwriters realize that Agatha Christie is still in print while Ellery Queen isn't?)

I did rewatch "The Chinese Dog" a couple of weeks ago. Ellery looked georgeous in that episode, and I love the part which you recommended to me. ("He was killed by a DOG?" and he laughs.)

Recently, I rewatched "Caesar's Last Sleep" and "The Hardhearted Huckster". Ellery wore that green sweater in those episodes, and he looked so hot in it. ;) Huckster is a weak episode, but Ellery looked really sexy in it. I like how he walked towards the elevator with his hand on his neck. :) As for Caesar's, did you like the first scene where we see him discussing the rained out baseball game with his dad? And then later, when he says, "You're not coming home tonight? If I'm not being too personal, may I ask where you'll be spending the night?" GIGGLE. He looked so charming there! :)

"The Judas Tree" is still a favorite, mostly because of the brilliant ending and the Open shirt moments. :) I agree that "The Wary witness" is a very good episode.

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I tried finding "Inspector Queen's Own Case" at the public library and the university library where I work (I work at Virginia Tech, have you heard of it?) and neither had it, so I requested it through our Interlibrary Loan system...hoping it gets here sometime next week. Very excited to read it! I'm sure I'll be visualizing David Wayne the whole time, haha! And I think that would have made an excellent story arc if the show had gone on. And I love that scene in "Caesar's Last Sleep" when he says, "if I'm not being too personal." I think that shows that Ellery knew that his dad might have a life outside of his work and their brownstone. Just judging from the relationship they have on the TV show, I think Ellery would have been really supportive of his dad having a girlfriend. All kinds of interesting possibilities there...*sigh*

I'm not crazy about "Eccentric Engineer" either, I just thought that moment was kinda cute. I think it's rather out-of-character for him to not be interested in the girl at all until she dresses up. But, then again, I've been noticing lately that he did have an eye for the ladies, like in "Veronica's Veils," when he goes into the ladies' dressing room, and when he's eyeballing the nude model in "Disappearing Dagger." Just being a typical swingin' bachelor, I guess. :) And Inspector Queen is always talking about Ellery's "girlfriends" (plural, like he knew that Ellery had several girls that he dated but wasn't really serious about any of them).



Sweet merciful crap!

It's just tea! *sips* Needs more gin.

Hey, I hope you enjoy that book! I have had to track down a few books through interlibrary loans as well, since they aren't available at the public and university libraries. These are old and out-of-print books...hard to find. (Yup, I think that I have heard of Virginia Tech. Sounds like a great job!)

The "if I'm not being too personal" part is cute. :) Besides what you said, I think that Ellery had his mind in the gutter lol. :)

Actually, I do remember the moment in "The Eccentric Engineer". It's probably the best part of the episode (tee hee). The moment in the pilot is kinda similar to the moment in the pilot episode.

As for Ellery and the girls, the show is consistent with how he was in the books. He did notice a lot of girls, and took out some of them, but none of those relationships ended in marriage. Actually, in the thirties, he didn't look at women at all. He was more of a robot than a human being. I think that the EQ authors made him more human in the late thirties because the readers probably wanted him to be dating.

I have noticed Richard talking about Ellery's girlfriends. They're probably girls that he did take out, but nothing serious. He probably did have his little "harem" (tee hee). In the end, I think he was more interested in solving crimes than in being with women.

You might also want to check out the novel "Calamity Town". In that book, Ellery does seriously fall in love...with a girl who was in love with another man. I kinda felt bad for Ellery when I read that book.

By the way, I love how in the pilot episode, we first see him with his hand on his head (tee hee). :) That's so charming (tee hee). :)

Not much else to say, except that Ellery is hot, hot, HOT!!!!!

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Anyone ever see Jim Hutton in "They Call It Murder?" He plays a DA who gets involved in his cases, and was based on a book called "The DA Draws a Circle," by Earle Stanley Gardner, of Perry Mason fame. It came out a few years before Ellery. Took me a while to find it.

You can read about it here. I think it is worth tracking down!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067847/

Sigh - wish I had not retired my Ellery paperbacks. I had read them all through and through and figured they weren't as fun if you knew the end. (Silly me.)

Thanks for the recommendation ("They Call it Murder"). I'll try to track it down. It's quite frustrating to me that so many movies starring/costarring Jim Hutton are so hard to find. Which of his movies have you seen? I've seen: Where the Boys Are, The Honeymoon Machine, Bachelor in Paradise, Looking for Love, Walk Don't Run, Who's Minding the Mint, and Don't be Afraid of the Dark. I also tried to watch The Hallelujah Trail and Major Dundee, but didn't care for either of those movies.

Regarding the Ellery paperbacks, your best bet is to try to find them at college/university libraries. They tend to have more older & out-of-print books than public libraries. I have read some of them over the past year, and I find that some of them are definitely better than others. Unfortunately, there were some stinkers in the batch. Luckily, some of them were excellent. :)

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Hi!

i've seen Hallelujah Trail, Who's Minding the Mint and Don't Be afraid of the Dark (scared the hell out of me and I was an adult! and his Twilight Zone, and Walk Don't Run. I really think Ellery was the best thing he ever did... and was so sorry it didn't last longer, especially since the formula was virtually the same as Murder She Wrote, that lasted over ten years!

Agreed on the books - some just weren't that great, but I liked the ones in Wrightsville - didn't like Nikki (assistant) though - I think they were right not to include her in the series!

I really love Calamity Town. That is such a great book. I remember Nikki from some of the radio plays, which I read a few months ago. I'm not really sure why the authors introduced her in the first place. I think that she was "sort of" included in the series...as the girl who becomes Ellery's typist in the one episode when he had injured his finger. That girl seemed to be Nikki.

As for movies starring/costarring Jim Hutton...I recommend the ones he did with Paula Prentiss. They made a great team. :) Of those, the only one I haven't seen is "The Horizontal Lieutenant", because I haven't been able to find it.

By the way, I think that Jim Hutton was a cutie in the sixties, but he became really hot in the seventies. :)

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I have some of the radio plays with Nikki- I just thought she was irritating, though they did do an episode about juvinile delinquency which I never thought about on a radio show!

I think they stuck her in as a possible love interest, because they thought maybe later that it was odd for Ellery to still be living with his dad.

I know I read one book where it was mentioned that Ellery married some dark haired beauty and was not living in the US and was now a befuddled new father, but for some reason, I DON'T think it was Inspector Queen's Own Case. Weird! Guess it's one of the reasons I wouldn't mind finding the books again.

I saw Lieutenant years and years and years ago, but remember nothing about it at all - I think I watched it because Jim Hutton was in it.

You know what is weird though? There are a couple of actors I had major crushes on when I was a kid - Edward Mulhare being one and Jim being the other. Now I am almost ten years older that either of the actors are when I was crushing on them, (I'm 54) and I still think they are gorgeous, even when they are now ten years YOUNGER than I am! Does that make sense?

Right now I am sorting laundry and watching the Comic Book Crusader - one of my favorites.

I guess if you have the actual radio plays, then it might be easier to consider Nikki to be irritating. I have read them (they are available in print), but it's not the same thing as actually hearing her voice. Seems to me that Ellery had several sort-of love interests, but nothing developed out of any of them (to my knowledge). I certainly haven't heard about Ellery getting married! Maybe in one of the later books he did. I haven't read too many of the books from the late sixties and seventies. Actually, I always thought that he "lost his heart" to the girl in "Calamity Town".

"You know what is weird though? There are a couple of actors I had major crushes on when I was a kid - Edward Mulhare being one and Jim being the other. Now I am almost ten years older that either of the actors are when I was crushing on them, (I'm 54) and I still think they are gorgeous, even when they are now ten years YOUNGER than I am! Does that make sense?"

Makes perfect sense to me!!! :) I'm only 35, BTW, and I discovered Jim and the Ellery Queen series in May or so. Honestly, I never thought that an adult could have a crush on anyone. Once I saw Ellery, I decided that a person is never too young or too old to have a crush. (My last serious crush ran from about 1989-1991...it was Bronson Pinchot ("Balki") from the sitcom "Perfect Strangers".)

Enjoy the Comic Book Crusader! It's a good one, and Ellery really, really looks great in that one. :)

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Oh yeah - kids can have crushes, teens can have crushes - even adults can, and I am convinced those early crushes kan set standards as to what you look for in real life. I loved Jim's goofy brilliance. I was in high school when Ellery first ran - my late mother loved the NBC Mystery Movie lineup back in the day - one week, Columbo, with the late great Peter Falk, (which was also Levinson and Link, like Ellery) the next week, McCloud, with Dennis Weaver, then McMillan and Wife with Rock Hudson and Susan St. James, and the fourth slot varied - there was the Snoop Sisters, then I think Heck Ramsey - but that fourth slot was never perfectly filled. They kept getting cancelled. Ratings the other weeks were great.

I remember being SOOO angry when Ellery was cancelled after the first season, because I thought, "great, they could give it to Ellery, make slightly longer, like the pilot, where the shoe debuted, and that fourth slot would be filled perfectly," but it didn't happen. :-(

And like I said, before Ellery when I was in high school, it was Edward Mulhare. He played a VERY sexy ghost on the TV version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir from 1968-1970 - I fell in love with him at age 11. (Mom said, well, if you have to have a crush, at least you have a lot of taste) and later on, he played Devon Miles on Knight Rider - that was mid 80's. Adtually Edward did appear in an Ellery Queen episode - The Two Faced Woman? He played the guy whou was the manager of the auction house where they were producing the forgeries.

Boy, I remember that night well - I was in seventh heaven! (Us High school kids back in 75 weren't nearly as sophisticated as the kids today are!

I don't know if I can describe my Jim Hutton fettish as a crush. I guess it's sort of a crush (tee hee). I just think that he's really, really hot. :) People used to ask me which actor I find very attractive. I really couldn't think of anyone, and they would tell me that I'm blind or something. The truth is that my generation of girls was expected to look at actors like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. I have never looked twice at those guys. Suddenly I stumble across Jim Hutton and...whoa!!! :) I had decided to check out the Ellery Queen series because it was available in a nearby video store and I had read some of the books by Ellery Queen. Well, I sure found a wonderful series for myself. :)

It is too bad that the show was cancelled after only one season. Why didn't they let it run longer?

I'll have to be on the lookout for Edward Mulhare. I have never seen the TV version of "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir", but I have seen the movie from the forties. Maybe I'll watch that episode again in order to see him. :)

It does sound like TV was more interesting in the seventies than now! If only I could be about 20 years older lol....Geez, I was born in 1976!

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LOL!

Seems like whatever generation you are in, there are actors/personalities you are "supposed" to have crushes on. When I was age 11-16, personalities like David Cassidy (Partridge Family, Bobby Sherman (Here Come the Brides) and actors of that ilk were the ones girls my age were crushing on. And some other singing groups - The Monkees, tale end of the Beatles) I usually gravitated to older guys - actually Jim Hutton was one of the youngest!

Like I said, I always liked the guys like Edward Mulhare, Robert Brown, who played the oldest brother on Here Come The Brides (Now back in re-runs on RTV and Me TV) and of course, my mom's tastes ran to "old" movies (re 1940's-50's) so I grew up on Ronald Coleman, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant (20 years younger than when he was in Walk Don't Run) - so I guess it makes sense.

Ye gods - you were born the year after I graduated from high school - now I REALLY feel ancient! :-)

Yup, I'm probably one of the younger Jim Hutton fans. His work is so hard to find that it's no wonder that people my age don't know who he was! If I hadn't come across that Ellery Queen series in the video store that time, I would have never seen him in any movie.

Yup, I've heard that people like David Cassidy, etc. were the popular ones back then.

By the way, my current movie tastes are basically movies from the 30s, 40s, and 50s, so I do see a lot of Jimmy Stewart, etc.

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Hi again, rahrah14!

Just wondering if you ended up reading "Inspector Queen's Own Case"? I think that the romance in the book is so sweet. :)

I rewatched "Caesar's Last Sleep". Ellery looked hot in the green sweater, and he looked sexy when he stuck up for his dad. :)

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Hello! I haven't been on here much lately (obviously!)...

No, it still hasn't come in yet. I'm actually kinda surprised because our Interlibrary Loan is usually very quick. So, still waiting and getting a little impatient now, haha! But I will let you know when I get it and what I think.

Love Caesar's Last Sleep...definitely one of my favorite episodes, if not my absolute favorite.

Sweet merciful crap!

It's just tea! *sips* Needs more gin.

Hi again! Sorry that this book hasn't come it. Probably the lending library has been slow to send it, or maybe they can't send it after all. I have had to wait a long time for some obscure books to come in.

Oh well, I know that the university library around here has a copy of it. If no American library will lend out the book, then maybe our university will.

You mentioned that you used to work in a public library and that now you work in a college library. Do you notice a big difference in the type of work that you have to do? I would think that working in a public library would be more "general", because a lot of people aren't coming in to do research and such. I have noticed that the public libraries have become very noisy over the years. When I was a kid, they were pin-quiet. Now, they are Noise Central. A shame, really.

I did take a bit of a "break" from watching the episodes. I caught up on some other movies. Then I began to miss the Cutie and I rewatched a bunch of the episodes (tee hee). :) Ellery is so sweet and so adorable. So many episodes which I love...so hard to just pick one or two faves! Caesar's Last Sleep, The Judas Tree (aka Open Shirt Moments), The Wary Witness, The Comic Book Crusader, The 12th Floor Express...Even "The Hard-hearted Huckster" - the story is poor, but Ellery looks so unbelievably adorable in that one!

I rewatched The Blunt Instrument last night. I still love the way Ellery sneezes in that one (tee hee). :)

By the way, do you like the part in "The Judas Tree" in which Ellery shows his dad's pic to the one suspect in order to get that guy's fingerprints? lol. Then Richard gets all mad about that.... :)

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I don't actually work in the university library, I work in an academic department office and just use the library's services quite often. I have applied for jobs in the library here before, but nothing ever came up that would have worked for me. However, I did work in our public library several years ago. Not knowing a whole lot about it, I would say that working in a public library is more generalized than the university. I did pretty much everything when I worked there, from basic checking in/checking out and reshelving books to processing and entering new books into the computer. When I was applying for library jobs here (the university), the jobs were much more specific. For the most part, the library I worked at was quiet and the patrons were respectful of others who were working or studying. The only time it got a little hectic was right after school when high school and middle school students would come in wanting to use the computers. I also live in a small town in a rural area, so it's probably not nearly as busy as most public libraries.

I'm taking a bit of an Ellery break at the moment. I've been watching old TV game shows, like "I've Got a Secret" and I've also been re-watching some Buster Keaton stuff. So I'm crushing on him again...I'm kinda fickle, as you can tell, ha! I think I've seen that you are a Buster fan as well...perhaps we can discuss over on the Buster boards. Speaking of hotties...yikes!! :)

Sweet merciful crap!

It's just tea! *sips* Needs more gin.

It's not a bad idea to take "an Ellery break" from time to time. I have done this a couple of times, though after several days, I always want to see him again (tee hee). I'm careful not to overdo it, though. I have overdone movies in the past, and then I would find myself avoiding those movies for a long time. One example is "Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House". I love that flick, but I did see it one too many times and then I had to leave it alone for a year. I'm careful with the Ellery episodes and also with movies starring Jim Hottie.

The old TV game shows sound interesting. I did watch some Buster Keaton movies about six years ago, and rewatched them about three years ago. He's a cutie, but not someone that I would have a crush on. You might want to check him out in a musical called "In the Good Old Summertime" (1949). :) Very sweet movie. :) Also, he had a small but funny part in "Beach Blanket Bingo" (from the sixties). He's another one of those actors who didn't "try" to be hot. His roles weren't "sexy", so to speak. Maybe that's why I found him attractive in those old silents. :)

Too bad that Buster Keaton and Jim Hutton never did a movie together...tee hee...

Another hottie is Gary Cooper, especially in "Ball of Fire". :) I love that movie! :)

Thanks for the info about the libraries! I imagine that the libraries in a small town would be quieter than the ones in a city. Hey, I sure hope that "Inspector Queen's Own Case" will arrive soon. I have requested ILLs in the past. Some arrive quickly, while others take several months to arrive. I had to wait eight months for one book! Hope you don't have to wait so long.

Catch you another time! Hey, feel free to send me private messages if you like. :)

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Buster Keaton in "The Cameraman" = seriously hot! Have you seen that one? It's my personal favorite of his silent films. I've seen "In the Goold Old Summertime" but it's been ages. I never really liked those "beach" movies and I sort of felt like they were beneath him, but I shouldn't be so snobby and check them out sometime.

I got "Inspector Queen's Own Case" yesterday!! Started reading it last night...didn't get too far but so far, so good...:)

Sweet merciful crap!

It's just tea! *sips* Needs more gin.

I've seen a bunch of the Keaton silents. I think that "The General" and "College" are two of my faves, but there is a scene in "The Three Ages" which I'll tell you about if you've seen it. It's a scene which I think will stay with me until the day I die...tee hee. :)

I do need to head over to the Keaton board and explain to everyone why I prefer Keaton over Chaplin. Chaplin overdid the romance in his movies, and he came across as a total creep when he did so. Keaton didn't try to be romantic, and somehow, he still appeared sexy. :)

"In the Good Old Summertime" - definitely worth another look.
I didn't like "Beach Blanket Bingo" that much, but I did like Keaton in that one. For beach movies, I prefer "Where the Boys Are". Too bad that Keaton wasn't in that one lol. :) Imagine him and Jim Hottie together!!!

Honestly, I wish that I could have a crush on a few actors at once, but I've never been able to do it. I come across one cutie, and everyone else is forgotten. My last serious crush was back in 1989 (actor Bronson Pinchot("Balki" of Perfect Strangers)). That lasted about two or so years, and I wouldn't even look twice at another actor during that time (tee hee). It probably won't be any different this time around. All the other "in between" crushes (1991-2011) were very short-lived and forgettable. There was Hugh Jackman for about two months or so (in 2001). There was Robert Redford for about a month in 1993. I can't even remember the others.

Hope you enjoy "Inspector Queen's Own Case"!! It's a good one. I also recommend two other EQ novels - "The Door Between" and "Calamity Town", if you can find them.
In "The Door Between", Ellery is still the "robot of the thirties", but his dad really shows "his true colors", so to speak.
In "Calamity Town", Ellery has become the 1940s Ellery (ie, a man with a personality) and he does fall in love. His dad isn't in that book, by the way.

Well, happy reading! I'll try to say a few words on the Buster Keaton board. :)

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Hello again! Well, I finished "Inspector Queen's Own Case" and I really enjoyed it. As you said, it was a pretty quick read (that is, when I had time to actually sit down and read it, ha!). I liked how supportive he and Jessie were of each other...he treated her as an equal right from the beginning, but was still very protective and courteous. And she was smitten pretty much from the first time she met him...very sweet. But what was funny to me was that they decided they were going to get married and they hadn't even kissed yet (unless I missed that). I guess not everything had to be mentioned in the book but it's still kind of strange, IMO.

Sweet merciful crap!

It's just tea! *sips* Needs more gin.

Hey, I'm glad you liked that book! Yeah, they sort of jumped from being friends to being engaged. :) I guess they both just knew that they were meant for each other, and that was that. :)

Hopefully you'll give my other two recommendations a chance. "The Door Between" by Ellery Queen has one of the best endings ever (IMHO). "Calamity Town" is one that really should have been filmed for the Ellery Queen series! I wish that they had filmed it. Ellery falls hard for a young lady in that one. :) It's a sad story, too.

One thing I love about mysteries is that they are quick reads. I generally do read them casually in one sitting.

These days, I have been watching some old, pre-1950 mysteries. Someone lent me copies of a bunch of these old movies. They are quite good! Some titles include: "The Kennel Murder Case" (with detective Philo Vance, played by William Powell), the three movies in which Edna May Oliver plays Hildegarde Withers (highly recommended), and some mysteries based on Mignon Eberhart novels (Mystery House, While My Patient Slept, The White Cockatoo). None of the detectives in these movies are as hot as Jim Hutton, but the storylines are still great (tee hee). :)

I'm still finding time for Ellery Queen, of course. :) I'm not overdoing the episodes, though. Yesterday I watched "The Judas Tree"...love the open shirt moments! :) In the next couple of weeks or so, I will have days where I won't be watching anything and I won't be posting. I'll be busy with other things. That's why I'm getting my fill of "eye candy" now (tee hee).

Hope you enjoy "Period of Adjustment" on TCM if you see it! I'm an idiot...I missed "Never too Late" a few days ago. Oh well, I can always order a DVD copy of it! (It's a mid-1960s movie with Jim Hutton and other actors.)

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By the way, are you okay? I just read on a news page that there was a shooting at Virginia Tech. You said that you work there. Hey, I hope you and your friends/coworkers are all right!

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Hi! Yeah, I'm fine. I had gone to a meeting in a different building when we started getting alerts and all the buildings were locked down, so I was stuck most of the day away from my office just trying to find out what was going on. There weren't any computers nearby and cell phone service was spotty. I was on the opposite end of campus from where the shootings happened, but we did see all the police and emergency vehicles driving by. There was a report of something going on in a building near us and we saw a bunch of police and SWAT team officers running toward that building, but it turned out to be a false alarm. Everything is pretty much back to normal today, but it's still kind of weird and gloomy. I guess we're lucky it wasn't worse but it's still sad that bad things keep happening in our little community. The university is huge but it's in a small town, so everyone feels like family. Thanks for thinking of me!

Sweet merciful crap!

It's just tea! *sips* Needs more gin.

Hey, I'm glad that you're okay and that the situation wasn't more serious than what actually happened. Well, what happened was serious, but it could have been worse. Hope you get a chance to relax this weekend! :)

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You should check out David Wayne in "Adam's Rib" where he is the playboy neighbour across the hall who tries to put the moves on Katherine Hepburn when she is having an argument with Spencer Tracy over being on opposite sides of a court case (Katherine and Spencer play lawyers). He is quite the suave character in that one.

I have watched - or tried to watch - Adam's Rib a couple of times, and just couldn't get into it. I'm really not sure why. Great cast, great storyline...not sure what the problem is. About six years ago, I watched the entire movie. A few months ago, I didn't even finish it.

I love the following movies starring (or co-starring) David Wayne:
-How to Marry a Millionaire
-The Tender Trap (he was really a cutie in this one!)
-With a Song in my Heart
-O'Henry's Full House

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