At our occasional movie night with another family we watched Babes in Arms (1939) with Mickey and Judy; dir. Busby Berkeley. Rooney riffing on Clark Gable and Lionel Barrymore is hilarious. We did fast forward through a couple of songs, but still cracked up quite a bit with the hey, kids, let's...
I remember thinking AMC was the bestest thing in the world for a classic movie fan; I think I had to pay extra on my cable bill for it, but did it just to get it. I would set my VCR to record all those classic films. Genial Bob Dorian was excellent as the host. Remember his role on Remember...
Some Charlie Chan films~ Dark Alibi (1946) with Sidney Toler; The Chinese Ring (1947) with Roland Winters; and about half-way through Dangerous Money (1946) with Toler.
Finished watching all the free episodes of Eureka on Netflix; really liked the characters, how they interacted, and the way the scientists threw around impressive scientific expressions. It was fun to watch with subtitles on and try to figure out if what they were saying was in some way valid...
I Was a Communist for the FBI with Frank Lovejoy. Grim, tough, to the point: the perfect story for an actor like Lovejoy.
Advance to the Rear, from 1964, with Melvyn Douglas, Glenn Ford, and a host of others. I don't know what to make of this film, a sort of mixture of slapstick, farce, and...
No Holds Barred (1952), one of the Bowery Boys movies. Marjorie Reynolds plays a sort of crooked sports promoter. Mrs. Hood spotted her as Linda Mason from Holiday Inn.
On Saturday, the Missus and I went and saw Tomorrowland. We agreed that it wasn't all that engaging. Visually stunning in parts. The auditorium was about one-third full.
Hello, Espee, do you have a copy of John Dunning's Tune in Yesterday ? It has quite a bit information on network radio shows, including personnel, stars, directors, how long the series ran, and so on. Not exhaustive, but thorough and well-written.
The Tunnel, aka The Transatlantic Tunnel (1935) with Richard Dix as the engineer who plans and oversees the construction of a tunnel from the US to the UK. Made in England by the Gaumont studios. The romantic back stories tend to be melodramatic, but the sets and effects are amazing; think of...
One of my favorites. Notice it's visually dark until Dix Handley makes it to the end. What names... Alonzo Emerich, Doll Conover , Doc Erwin Riedenschneider...
Yep, we've already watched North by Northwest and To Catch a Thief, and a sort of Hitchcockian black comedy, The Gazebo. I was gently promoting The Trouble With Harry, but it was agreed to take a break with something completely different.
Not last night, but tonight: we had our occasional movie night with friends (The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1955, with hamburgers from the backyard bbq) which consisted of Lemon Drops* for the ladies, and for the men it was James Oliver rye.
*1 1/2 oz vodka
3/4 oz triple sec
3/4 oz simple syrup
1...
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955) with Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day. About once a month or so we get together with another family for a meal and a movie. We've gone through several Hitchcock films: it was recommended and endorsed that we do a Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland movie next time for a change...
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