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  1. Benzadmiral

    Name the Actor...

    I'm guessing it was one of the early versions of The Maltese Falcon, perhaps Satan Met a Lady, so the characters should be Joel Cairo, Sam Spade, Wilmar the gunsel, and Caspar Gutman. The actor third from the left is, I think Dwight ("Renfield") Frye. The fellow playing Spade had a Hispanic...
  2. Benzadmiral

    Name the Actor...

    Just a WAG, but is that Clara Bow?
  3. Benzadmiral

    Old gas stations

    Nothing like a little fibre in your diet.
  4. Benzadmiral

    Old gas stations

    I didn't see that it was "Route 66." Okay, then, this would probably be somewhere west of Gallup.
  5. Benzadmiral

    74 pictures of everyday life

    In the 1950s Street Scenes video, at about 2:25 they view Canal St., New Orleans, in 1955. I think it was taken from Chartres/Camp Street intersection with Canal, looking away from the river. Interesting to see that the "No Left Turn" signs were there even then.
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    Old gas stations

    Without knowing what "Route," it would be hard to say where this is. NM is a big state. The mountains suggest north or west borders; the eastern border with Texas is pretty flat. Lizzie suggests there would have been a CCC camp nearby. Maybe near Los Alamos? But no, it was a school that...
  8. Benzadmiral

    Old gas stations

    That figure must have been a standard model. We had a muffler shop in the suburbs here with that same figure, and until fairly recently he remained outside the same building, which now houses an auto title company.
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    Old gas stations

    The car might be hers, and he's chatting her up -- the playboy owner, or owner's son, making time with a customer. Or the car could have been purchased for her by her husband, and he's about to find that out.
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    Old gas stations

    Mid- to late 1950s, I think. That was one of the Raymond Loewy-designed Studebakers, though I don't know model names.
  11. Benzadmiral

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    "The Cage," a Season Two entry for The Fugitive. When a local at a fishing village dies of the plague, Kimble is forced into a difficult position: Should he report it and risk getting caught, or ensure his safety by leaving town and ignoring a potential epidemic? On top of that, his tuna-boat...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    "Escape Into Black," a Season Two entry for The Fugitive. Injured in a stove explosion in a diner, Kimble undergoes that old soap opera chestnut, amnesia. He doesn't know he's on the run from the law, but we do. We tense as the local law take what fingerprints they can from his singed hands...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    My mother took my brother and me, and sometimes just me as I was the elder brother, to various films in my childhood. We were never on time for the showing -- we always seemed to miss the first 5-10 minutes of every movie. Apparently she realized this. When she took us to True Grit in '69...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    "Love in a flash" -- maybe that's why I don't care overmuch for modern rom-coms, even aside from their limp boring dialogue. Exceptions, of course, there are: I love You've Got Mail and its direct ancestor The Shop Around the Corner, partly because of snappy or well-done dialogue, partly...
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    My "fave" fedora flicks

    Vertigo, with James Stewart; though it's from 1958 and set in that time, he wears a dark fedora (mink brown, I think) during much of the film.
  17. Benzadmiral

    Name the Actor...

    Mike Mazurki?
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    It might just be that JW is more familiar to me. WW has Ed Harris and Anthony Hopkins, fine performances by a lot of actors and actresses I'm not familiar with (though it's a shame that a couple of potentially interesting characters get bumped off early), and is a very thoughtful kind of series...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    From your description, it sounds like Season Two is an improvement over One. Miss Linda and I finished the first season this weekend, and despite good surprises (when they arrive), fairly clued I suspect, and some decent action scenes (when they arrive), I found it kind of slow and talky...
  21. Benzadmiral

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The Westworld episodes display the names of the actors (in tiny print), but not the roles they play. In contrast, take the ancient and venerable Have Gun - Will Travel. Richard Boone's name is prominently displayed along with the title in the opening credits; and then, at the end, his name...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I thought that title seemed familiar -- the name "Elmer Rice" popped into my head right away. All I know about him is that he had several successful plays back then, and he and Dorothy Parker collaborated on a play (and possibly had an affair?) that didn't become a hit any more than the affair...
  23. Benzadmiral

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Them! also benefits from a Dragnet-like police procedural flavor -- except that, instead of looking for human criminals, the investigators are hunting giant predators. And the investigators do it the smart way, too, by enlisting the aid of, and actually listening to, an ant specialist who...

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