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Movie Montage: September 2011
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Thursday, September 22, 2011. A Tribute To Gerald of Laszlo's on Lex. Like others I feared the worst but hoped for the best when Gerald's posts became less and less frequent. I've only just learned of his passing from Matthew's beautiful tribute. To him, and can't quite find words to express the loss. Perhaps that's because I know that no one could write them better than Gerald himself. I can only leave the reader with. Monday, September 12, 2011. Note: “What’s an extra penny after all”...Subjects for th...
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Motion Picture Gems: Surviving Cast Members of "It's A Wonderful Life"
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SciFi and Horror Classics. Blog Archive (all posts). Film Reviews (by title). Recommended Links and Resources. Surviving Cast Members of "It's A Wonderful Life". 5/17/2015 Posted by Tom. Topics: Movie: Its A Wonderful Life. Writing about my favorite movie the other day - It's a Wonderful Life. Got me wondering about how many of the cast members were still living. I know that Karolyn Grimes,. Ruth Dakin Bailey) is still living at age 88. Sam Wainwright's wife) is still living at age 89. Who played Potter'...
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Motion Picture Gems: Classic Downtown and Small Town Theaters
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SciFi and Horror Classics. Blog Archive (all posts). Film Reviews (by title). Recommended Links and Resources. Classic Downtown and Small Town Theaters. 5/18/2010 Posted by Tom. Topics: Small Town Theaters. Los Angeles and Hollywood - Theaters of Los Angeles. Special series of posts). Palo Alto - The Stanford Theater. The Savannah, SCAD, Lucas). Waycross (The Ritz and The Lyric). Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Chicago - Portage Theater. Chicago - Congress Theater. Downers Grove, Illinois. Actor: Al Pacino (1).
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Motion Picture Gems: Welcome Stranger (1947)
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SciFi and Horror Classics. Blog Archive (all posts). Film Reviews (by title). Recommended Links and Resources. 7/15/2015 Posted by Tom. This post is part of The 1947 Blogathon. Hosted by Shadows and Satin. Click here for a list of all the participating blogs in the blogathon. BETTER" than Going My Way? Plot synopsis: A curmudgeonly small-town doctor ( Barry Fitzgerald. If that synopsis sounds familiar, then you may be familiar with Bing and Barry's first pairing, Going My Way;. Than Going My Way. Yeah he...
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Movietone News: “Percy”: not quite what you might have expected the world's first penis transplant comedy to be like
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Saturday, February 26, 2011. 8220;Percy”: not quite what you might have expected the worlds first penis transplant comedy to be like. 1971) makes for a strange and perpexing ninety minutes of entertainment. In the first instance, it's habitually described as a British sex comedy, but it doesn't play that way at all, Robin Askwithy I mean. There are a few good laughs in the first half hour or so, but from then on it goes a bit. In the course of his investigations he learns that Percy had been quite a ladi...
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Movietone News: In passing, 2011
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Saturday, March 17, 2012. In passing, 2011. When you write predominantly about the films and personalities of decades past, your motivation for writing an appraisal of any one individual is all too often the need to mark their passing. Looking at my labels index I see that I have written 33 obituaries on this site since I started in 2007. There are a further 17 at Carfax Abbey. And still more at Hammer and Beyond. All very different in Barbara Kent. S day, which was, incredibly, long enough ago to make h...
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Movietone News: Titanic Week, 4: The silence of experience
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Monday, April 16, 2012. Titanic Week, 4: The silence of experience. A series of daily posts to commemorate the centenary of Titanic's only voyage. Did I mention I'm on Facebook now? It's a bit late, I know, but it was one of those things I swore I'd never get involved with, like mobile phones, sport or designing women. But then, about a week or so ago, a still, small voice in my head said: "why the hell not? I'm easy to find, under my real name, so do come along and say hello if you've got the time.
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Movietone News: November 2011
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Monday, November 28, 2011. We see them all the time, and we never notice them. I can't remember the last time the death of a film-maker felt as epoch-defining to me as that of Ken Russell, who has left us at the age of 84. Looking at his career chronologically it is, unquestionably a tragedy. First, apprentice works of enormous sophistication and beauty on television, most notably his sublime portraits of classical composers for the BBC arts series. The Music Lovers, The Boyfriend. A redefinition of ecle...
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Movietone News: Movietone's taking a break
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Friday, July 27, 2012. Movietone's taking a break. Thanks to everyone that has read, followed and commented on Movietone over the years - sadly, I can no longer commit to it on a regular basis. So it'll be mainly silence for a while, hopefully interspersed with the occasional return to life, as and when I get an idea and a free moment at roughly the same time. In the meantime, I hope to continue adding films to MN's sister site Movietone Cameos, and the Marx Council and Dennis Wheatley sites will continue.
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Movietone News: Titanic Week, 5: Filming the unfilmable
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012. Titanic Week, 5: Filming the unfilmable. A series of daily posts to commemorate the centenary of Titanic's only voyage. In Nacht und Eis. 1912) did not appear with quite the haste of our previous film, Saved From the Titanic. Though it did reach screens just before the end of 1912, making it the earliest completely surviving Titanic movie. It's also a lot more ambitious than Saved. Which had squeezed a precis of the events into just one reel, whereas Night and Ice. It is certai...