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I thought Montgomery was very good in "Ride the Pink Horse" and "The Saxon Charm". I think if you saw those two from the 40s you'd admit that he pulled off the bad guy persona quite well. I agree with you about "The Big House". I think the whole point was here was a regular guy who committed manslaughter when he drove drunk, and had to be punished. However, he really didn't belong in the world of career criminals in which he found himself once imprisoned. You can't help but feel sorry for him. I very much agree with you about Randolph Scott and to tell you the truth I can't figure out how he remained a star for so long. He seemed off in modern dress roles and he seemed off in Westerns, but there was so much action going on in the westerns I think most people of the time just didn't notice it.

Last night "Sabotage" (1936) was on WHUT, a PBS station based out of Howard University in Washington, D.C. It was my first time to see it. It was in a failed DVD set put out by Fox a few years back, mainly failing because the DVDs were defective from the factory, but I digress. The film is about a group of saboteurs planning to plant a bomb in London. However, there is an undercover cop that is on their trail, and as part of his job he befriends the wife (Sylvia Sidney) of one of the saboteurs. Not as part of his job, he falls in love with her. Sidney's character has no idea that her husband is up to any kind of criminal activity. Hitchcock seems to foresee WWII with some of his themes, and he lets a horrible thing happen to one of the main characters after making the audience really care about this completely innocent person. It has an ending that would not be possible in America at the time because of the code, and the ending is just full of irony. An interesting thing that WHUT did after the film was have the host discuss the film with some film students, I assume from Howard U. They had pretty good insights for three college students, but I could tell they had trouble relating to a film from 82 years ago, even if it was Hitchcock. I have a feeling that if they had been discussing this year's Oscar nominees they would have been much more chatty. The host was good, but he dressed oddly. He had a hat on like he was from the 1940s or something. The best way I can describe him is that if you tried to visualize Eddie Mulller's dad, chances are, you'd picture this guy. A pleasurable classic film experience for me that, for once, was not courtesy of TCM.

Yes, one person commenting on the article on January 31of this year said they looked at the next week's schedule and said : I just looked at the schedule for week Saturday to Friday and they had just 6 1930’s films listed: Errol Flynn’s famous version of Robin Hood, the classic “A Farewell to Arms”, the color epic “The Four Feathers’, the Astaire and Roger’s biggie “Swing Time”, the large scale Busby Berkely musical “Gold Diggers of 1935” and only “The Great Waltz” as a relatively obscure picture (which I really haven’t much interest in) This person does not watch TCM enough to know that this was the first week of 31 Days of Oscar and thus you are not going to see TCM's typical fare on display.

http://thedamienzone.com/2017/01/19/tcm-sucks-without-robert-osborne-and-heres-why/ I will warn you that this guy is given to some colorful language. Especially in the comment section if you disagree with him.

These numbers were supposed to be accurate as of 2013: https://www.statista.com/statistics/254923/most-oscar-nominated-individuals/ The ironic thing is that the site that these came from actually wants you to pay to get more of their statistics, yet their statistics are wrong. Douglas Shearer (1899-1971) had 21 Oscar nominations including 7 wins: Scientific and Technical Academy Award 7 wins Academy Award for Sound (Wins): The Big House (1930)[2] Naughty Marietta (1935)[3] San Francisco (1936)[4] Strike Up the Band (1940)[5] The Great Caruso (1951)[6] Academy Award for Best Special Effects (Wins): Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)[7] Green Dolphin Street (1947)[8] Academy Award for Sound (Nominations): Viva Villa! (1934)[9] Maytime (1937)[10] Sweethearts (1938)[11] Balalaika (1939)[12] The Chocolate Soldier (1941)[13] Mrs. Miniver (1942)[14] Madame Curie (1943)[15] Kismet (1944)[7] They Were Expendable (1945)[16] Green Dolphin Street (1947)[8] Academy Award for Best Special Effects (Nominations): The Wizard of Oz (1939)[12] Boom Town (1940)[5] Flight Command (1941)[13] Mrs. Miniver (1942)[14] Of course, among living nominees, Meryl Streep now makes the cut in 2018 with a total of 21 Oscar nominations in her career. John Williams stands at 51 Academy Award nominations: Year Project Category Result 1967 Valley of the Dolls Best Score Adaptation Nominated 1969 Goodbye, Mr Chips Best Score Adaptation Nominated The Reivers Best Original Score Nominated 1971 Fiddler on the Roof Best Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score Won 1972 Images Best Original Dramatic Score Nominated The Poseidon Adventure Best Original Dramatic Score Nominated 1973 Cinderella Liberty Best Original Dramatic Score Nominated "Nice to Be Around" (from Cinderella Liberty) Best Original Song Nominated Tom Sawyer Best Score Adaptation Nominated 1974 The Towering Inferno Original Score Nominated 1975 Jaws Best Original Dramatic Score Won 1977 Star Wars Original Score Won Close Encounters of the Third Kind Original Score Nominated 1978 Superman Original Score Nominated 1980 The Empire Strikes Back Original Score Nominated 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark Original Score Nominated 1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Original Score Won "If We Were in Love" (from Yes, Giorgio) Best Original Song Nominated 1983 Return of the Jedi Original Score Nominated 1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Original Score Nominated The River Original Score Nominated 1987 Empire of the Sun Original Score Nominated The Witches of Eastwick Original Score Nominated 1988 The Accidental Tourist Original Score Nominated 1989 Born on the Fourth of July Original Score Nominated Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Original Score Nominated 1990 Home Alone Original Score Nominated "Somewhere in My Memory" (from Home Alone) Best Original Song Nominated 1991 JFK Original Score Nominated "When You're Alone" (from Hook) Best Original Song Nominated 1993 Schindler's List Original Score Won 1995 Nixon Best Original Dramatic Score Nominated Sabrina Best Original Musical or Comedy Score Nominated "Moonlight" (from Sabrina) Best Original Song Nominated 1996 Sleepers Best Original Dramatic Score Nominated 1997 Amistad Best Original Dramatic Score Nominated 1998 Saving Private Ryan Best Original Dramatic Score Nominated 1999 Angela's Ashes Original Score Nominated 2000 The Patriot Original Score Nominated 2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence Original Score Nominated Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Original Score Nominated 2002 Catch Me If You Can Original Score Nominated 2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Original Score Nominated 2005 Memoirs of a Geisha Original Score Nominated Munich Original Score Nominated 2011 The Adventures of Tintin Original Score Nominated War Horse Original Score Nominated 2012 Lincoln Original Score Nominated 2013 The Book Thief Original Score Nominated 2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Original Score Nominated 2017 Star Wars: The Last Jedi Original Score Pending

It's also unprecedented to see a woman continue to get quality roles into old age. Streep joins Kate Hepburn in that distinction. Even 50 years ago Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Barbara Stanwyck had to do horror pics if they wanted to be in feature films as they aged. They did get a chance to do more quality work on television though.

I do give money to NPR and PBS - I'm not sure if this remark is aimed at me to some degree or not - but I usually do it outside of the period of any pledge drives just to make a point. And I don't pay big $$$ for the latest devices, because I don't even have a cell phone. Or a debit card. I'm sure I'll be shot in any holdup because no hoodlum is going to believe that an adult in the 21st century has neither of these things. Not having any of these cool devices I get annoyed when my favorite sites get destroyed just so young people can access them with these cool devices. A laptop is all that I have. I'm really talking about imdb in this case. I haven't written a review there since they tore the site up December 10 with no warning. Oh, and while we're on the subject - and I am getting way off topic here - here is imdb's founder talking about his goals for imdb for 2018 - "One of our goals is to make advertising units which our customers will love." Is this guy clueless as to why people use his site or what? Well, sorry for getting so OT.

I'd love to finally put faces to these pen names, but it would be difficult for me to tear myself away from the dealer room. I've picked up some stuff there I can find nowhere else. Plus the dealers are so honest. I asked one of them "What brand of media do you use?". Answer - "The cheapest I can find".

I've seen commercials for Draper and for Liberty Mutual on the three PBS channels I have access to - Maryland Public Television, HUT (Howard University Television), and WETA - but no ambulance chasers yet. I guess that they are just desperate for funds. The bad thing about the pledge drives is how ineffective they are. When an online entity puts up a paywall, as soon as I subscribe and pay, I have access to the information I want with no limit to articles. But whether I contribute to PBS or not, and regardless of when I do it, I'm going to sit through endless begging for bucks until PBS is scheduled to stop begging for bucks. I can remember as a kid in the 60s that there were very few pledge drives and zero commercials. I can only assume that this was because PBS was truly "public" in those days, with the government picking up the vast majority of the tab.

Don't forget "Independent Lens" either. The only bad thing I can say about PBS is that in the last few years they have been airing what are thinly disguised infomercials, sometimes for days at a time. It's practically Suze Orman's second home. But this is probably due to the fact that the feds have so radically cut their funding. After all, payoffs to girls who have been groped by congress critters is a much better use of the people's taxes.

That's the tragedy of the story. Ed thought those WERE worthwhile efforts in film. Thus he thought he was giving Bela great parts.

There are not enough hours in the day to give this comment the number of upvotes that it deserves.

Sure, some people probably believed it was the best picture of that year. I just think if you took away the Terry Schiavo case it would not have been voted that way by the Academy. That is all I am saying. Geez. I've had people treating me like a lawyer all day today. I was over in a technical forum on reddit earlier and rather than just answer my question they got all caught up in semantics. I had to explain several times, "YES I get that you do A first then B. That is not my question!" The question was about Docker and cloud computing. But I digress. Just like some of the Oscar winners or nominees prior to 2000. If you made a quality film that was even tangentially related to the Holocaust prior to the year 2000 you were sure to be at least nominated. Rather odd that the best of the bunch - Schindler's List - came at the end of that era.

So where was this charming eloquent Al Gore during the 2000 presidential campaign? During the campaign he was awkward, geeky, and just indescribably "off". I remember after the election somebody analyzed his public appearances and said that one of his problems was that his body language was out of sync with his speech. For instance if he said something like "we must all come together" he would spread his arms apart rather than bring his hands together - little things that you don't really notice but add up subliminally.

I have to admit, I've never seen Finding Neverland. But I definitely think all of the other three were better films than Million Dollar Baby. It is really hard to use the word "predictable" when comparing them since two of the films - "The Aviator" and "Ray" were modified biographies. However, for pure fiction, I think "Million Dollar Baby" was extremely predictable and ordinary. My pick would have been the unnominated Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I don't think Clint Eastwood was trying to make a political statement with Million Dollar Baby either. It was in production a long time before the Terry Schiavo case made news. He just happened to make a very paint by numbers mediocre film about boxing with the right to die issue tied into it.

You are probably right in most cases. I can see Dunkirk or Blade Runner 2049 getting the technical awards. Whether they will split them or one will take all is a question. I think this is Del Toro's year for best director, but I can't see Shape of Water winning many other awards. Supporting actress is probably the hardest to predict. The academy might give Best Supporting Actor to Christopher Plummer for “All the Money in the World” just as a kind of "message" to disgraced Kevin Spacey. The academy likes to do that from time to time. Does anybody really believe that "Million Dollar Baby" was the best picture of 2004 OR could it be because the Academy was voting at the same time Congress was making a spectacle of itself over Terry Schiavo's right to die that the Academy wanted to send a message? I believe it was the latter. Likewise, I've seen Moonlight - best picture Oscar winner of last year - and it is not a very good film AND it is very depressing. The most interesting character is a drug dealer who exits the scene early on. I think last year the Academy just wanted to say "See, we are too appreciative of diversity!".

I just looked it up and apparently there was no real cure for tuberculosis until 1944. Vivien Leigh died of this in the 60s - if I remember correctly - just because she would not accept the diagnosis. Renee Adoree was another actress who died of tuberculosis in 1933.

It's hard to believe the guy who directed "Shape of Water" and "Pan's Labyrinth" also directed the horrible "Pacific Rim".

And if so when? I know some of you keep detailed records of this sort of things.

Oldest film: 1888's Roundhay Garden Scene. From imdb: "The earliest celluloid film was shot by Louise Le Prince using the Le Prince single-lens camera made in 1888. It was taken in the garden of the Whitley family house in Oakwood Grange Road, Roundhay, a suburb of Leeds, Yorkshire, Great Britain, possibly on October 14, 1888. It shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince's son), Mrs. Sarah Whitley, (Le Prince's mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley and Miss Harriet Hartley. The 'actors' are shown walking around in circles, laughing to themselves and keeping within the area framed by the camera. It lasts for less than 2 seconds and includes 24 frames." Thomas Edison was suspected of having Le Prince killed on his way to the US - mainly by the Le Prince family. "In September 1890, on his way to Washington, DC, to file a patent on the first moving picture camera and projector, French inventor Augustin Le Prince vanished. No trace of him has ever been found. Shortly after Le Prince's disappearance, Thomas Alva Edison was granted the patent for the same instruments that would revolutionize the motion picture industry. " - from a description of the following book on the mystery. It can be a frustrating read. https://www.amazon.com/Missing-Reel-Untold-Inventor-Pictures/dp/0689120680/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1517179821&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=le+prince+murder+edison Included in the film is Sarah Whitley, who died just ten days after the film was made. Born in 1816, she is supposedly the earliest born person ever recorded on film.

These are the top rated films for each year 1888-2017 by imdb rating and with a minimum cutoff in votes that varied by each year. 1888-1893 there is just one film mentioned per year because so few were made. In the 1920s and 30s there are a group of Marion Davies fans who upvote her films to the point of being ridiculous. Does anybody really believe that "Zander the Great" beats out "The Big Parade" in 1925 or that 1929's Marianne is the only talking film to make the top five cut in the 1920s? Well, I'm just reporting the numbers. Also notice that tons of foreign films make the cut in the 1950s to the point that American films are drowned out. In 1955 only "The Night of the Hunter" made the top 5, and it was just number five. Maybe to modern audiences American 50s films largely look naive. Lots of them look naive to me. Harrison Ford starred in five of the top ten films of the 80s according to this list. The Force Awakens is rated at 8.0....reallly? Where there was an actual Best Picture Oscar winner in the top five, that entry is noted in bold. Do remember that all films received votes on imdb from 1998-2018, and that imdb voters tend to be young men. I hope that this list doesn't bore you too much, but I enjoyed making it. I thought about illustrating it, but I could not come up with a good way of doing that. There is one 1898 entry that uses a racial slur in the title. I censored that word myself, but you can probably guess what it was. If you have any questions about how I did this, feel free to ask. TOP RATED FILMS 1888-2017 1888 Roundhay Garden Scene 7.5 1889 Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped 5.9 Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses 1890 Mosquinha 6.4 1891 Dickson Greeting 5.4 1892 Pauvre Pierrot 6.6 1893 Blacksmith Scene 6.2 1894 1. Dickson Experimental Sound Film 6.8 2. Annie Oakley 6.3 3. Autour d'une cabine 6.2 4. Caicedo (with Pole) 6.2 5. Annabelle Butterfly Dance 5.9 1895 1. Tables Turned on the Gardener 7.2 2. Employees Leaving Lumiere Factory 6.9 3. Execution of Mary Queen of Scots 6.7 4. Annabelle Serpentine Dance 6.5 5. Transformation by Hats 6.3 1896 1. The Arrival of a Train at Ciotat 7.4 2. The House of the Devil 6.7 3. A Nightmare 6.6 4. Conjuring of a Woman at the House of Robert Houdin 6.4 5. Demolition d'un mur 6.4 1897 1. Danse serpentine 6.9 2. Bataille de neige 6.7 3. The Bewitched Inn 6.5 4. The Devil's Castle 6.4 5. Leaving Jerusalem by Railway 6.3 1898 1. Four Heads are Better than One 7.6 2.Tossing a N****** in a Blanket 7.6 3. A Trip to the Moon 7.5 4. Le squelette joyeux 6.6 5.The Magician 6.5 1899 1. Cinderella 6.6 2. A Turn of the Century Illusionist 6.5 3. Sign of the Cross 6.4 4. Haggard's SHe: Pillar of Fire 6.3 5. Le chevalier mystère 6.3 1900 1. The One Man Band 7.1 2. The Enchanted Drawing 7.0 3. The Fat and the Lean Wrestling Match 7.0 4. Going to Bed Under Difficulties 6.8 5. Joan of Arc (10 Mns) 6.7 1901 1. The India Rubber Head 7.2 2. Bluebeard 7.1 3. Demolishing and Building up the Star Theater 6.7 4. Magician and the Human Pump 6.6 5. An Extraordinary Dislocation 6.5 1902 1. A Trip To the Moon 8.2 2. The Little Match Seller 6.7 3. Gulliver's Travels 6.6 4. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 6.3 5. Jack and The Beanstalk 6.2 1903 1. The Great Train Robbery 7.3 2. Fairyland: Kingdom of the Fairies 7.3 3. The Passion Play 44 mins 6.5 4. Life of an American Fireman 6.4 5. Inn Where No Man Rests 6.4 1904 1. Voyage Across The Impossible 7.7 2. Great Train Robbery 7.1 3. An Interesting Story 7.0 4. The Living Playing Cards 6.7 5. Decapitation in Turkey 6.7 1905 1. Rescued By Rover 6.7 2. Night Before Christmas 6.4 3. Palace of Arabian Nights 6.2 4. Paris to Monte Carlo 6.1 5. New York Subway 5.8 1906 1. 400 tricks of the Devil 6.9 2. Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire 6.9 3. The Haunted House 6.9 4. Dream of the Rarebit Fiend 6.7 5. A Desperate Crime 6.6 1907 1. The House of Ghosts 6.9 2. Tunneling The Channel 6.7 3. The Red Spectre 6.6 4. The Eclipse: Courtship of Sun&Moon 6.5 6. That Fatal Sneeze 6.5 1908 1. The Electric Hotel 6.6 2. The Runaway Horse 6.3 3. Troubles of a Grass Widower 6.2 4. A Narrow Escape 6.0 5. The Tempest 5.9 1909 1. A Corner In Wheat 6.7 2. The Country Docter 6.5 3. The Battle In The Clouds 6.2 4. The Sealed Room 6.1 5. The Red Man's View 6.0 1910 1. The Woman Always Pays 6.6 2. Frankenstein 6.5 3. In the Border States 6.5 4. The Unchanging Sea 6.4 5. King Lear 6.2 1911 1. Dante's Inferno 7.1 2. Lonesdale Operator 6.6 3. Baron Munchausen's Dream 6.4 4. Enoch Arden 17 minutesx2 6.4 5. The Miser's Heart 6.3 1912 1. Revenge of a Kinematograph Cameraman 7.8 2. Land Beyond Sunset 7.1 3. Conquest of the Pole 7.0 4. The Girl and Her Trust 6.9 5. Musketeers of Pig Alley 6.8 1913 1. Lenfant de Paris 7.8 2. Ingeborg Holm 7.3 3. Twilight of a Woman's Soul 6.8 4. Atlantis 6.8 5. The Student of Prague 6.6 1914 1. Judith of Bethulia 7.3 2. Tillie's Punctured Romance 7.1 3. The Mysterious X 7.1 4. The Avenging Conscience 6.9 5. Cabiria 6.8 1915 1. Regeneration 7.0 2. Carmen 6.9 3. After Death 6.9 4. Birth of a Nation 6.7 5. The Cheat 6.6 1916 1. Intolerance 8.0 2. 20K Leagues Under the Sea 7.0 3. Hell's Hinges 6.8 4. Hoodoo Ann 6.7 5.The Children in the House 6.6 1917 1. A Man There Was 7.4 2. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 7.0 3. The Dying Swan 7.0 4. Poor Little Rich Girl 6.8 5. The Little Princess 6.6 1918 1. Stella Maris 7.4 2. Shifting Sands 7.4 3. The Outlaw and His Wife 7.2 4. I Don't Want to Be a Man 7.1 5. Mickey 7.1 1919 1.Male and Female 7.9 2. Dont Change Your Husband 7.8 3. Broken Blossoms 7.6 4. For Better For Worse 7.6 5. Daddy Long Legs 7.5 1920 1. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 8.1 2.. Something To Think About 8.1 3. Way Down East 7.9 4. Why Change Your Wife 7.9 5. The Penalty 7.5 1921 1. The Kid 8.3 2. The Phantom Carriage 8.1 3.. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 7.9 4. Tolable David 7.9 5. Orphans of the Storm 7.8 1922 1. Beauty's Worth 8.2 2. When Knighthood was in Flower 8.1 3. Nosferatu 8.0 4. Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 7.9 5. Haxan 7.7 1923 1. Safety Last 8.2 2. Zaza 8.1 3. Little Old New York 8.1 4. Our Hospitality 7.9 5. The Faithful Heart 7.8 1924 1. Sherlock Jr. 8.3 2. Janice Meridith 8.3 3. The Last Laugh 8.1 4. Die Nibelungen: Siegfred 8.1 5. The Navigator 8.1 1925 1. Zander The Great 8.3 2. The Gold Rush 8.2 3. The Big Parade 8.2 4. The Merry Widow 8.1 5. Stage Struck 8.1 1926 1. The General 8.2 2. Brown of Harvard 8.2 3. Faust 8.1 4. Flesh and the Devil 8.1 5. Fine Manners 8.1 1927 1. Metropolis 8.3 2. Sunrise 8.2 3. The Unknown 7.9 4. 7th Heaven 7.8 5. Student Prince 7.8 1928 1. The Cameraman 8.3 2. The Wind 8.3 3. Passion of Joan of Arc 8.2 4. Show People 8.2 5. The Circus 8.1 1929 1. Desert Nights 8.1 2. Marianne 8.1 3. Pandora's Box 8.0 4. Diary of a Lost Girl 8.0 5. Queen Kelly 7.8 1930 1. All Quiet on the Western Front 8.1 2. City Girl 7.9 3. Hell's Angels 7.8 4. The Blue Angel 7.8 5. Animal Crackers 7.8 START CHECKING HERE 1/27 1931 1. City Lights 8.6 2. M 8.4 3. Frankenstein 7.9 4. The Smiling Lieutenant 7.8 5. Public Enemy 7.7 1932 1. Trouble in Paradise 8.2 2. I Am A Fugitive From a Chain Gang 8.1 3. I Was Born But... 8.1 4. One Way Passage 8.0 5. Freaks 7.9 1933 1. Gold Diggers of 1933 8.1 2. Duck Soup 8.0 3. King Kong 7.9 4. Testament of Dr. Mabuse 7.9 5. Dinner at Eight 7.8 1934 1. It Happened One Night 8.2 2. The Thin Man 8.1 3. L'Atalante 7.9 4. Twentieth Century 7.8 5. The Scarlet Empress 7.7 1935 1. A Night at the Opera 8.0 2. Bride of Frankenstein 7.9 3. The 39 Steps 7.8 4. Mutiny on the Bounty 7.8 5. Top Hat 7.8 1936 1. Modern Times 8.5 2. My Man Godfrey 8.1 3. Dodsworth 8.1 4. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 8.0 5. Fury 7.9 1937 1. Make Way For Tomorrow 8.3 2. Grande Illusion 8.1 3. Captains Courageous 8.0 4. The Awful Truth 7.9 5. Lost Horizon 7.8 1938 1. Bringing Up Baby 8.0 2. Adventures of Robin Hood 8.0 3. You Can't Take it With You 8.0 4. Angels With Dirty Faces 8.0 5. The Lady Vanishes 7.9 1939 1. Gone With the Wind 8.2 2. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 8.2 3. The Wizard of Oz 8.1 4. The Rules of the Game 8.1 5. Ninotchka 8.0 1940 1.The Great Dictator 8.5 2. Rebecca 8.2 3. The Grapes of Wrath 8.1 4. The Shop Around the Corner 8.1 5. Philadelphia Story 8.0 1941 1. Citizen Kane 8.4 2. The Little Foxes 8.2 3. The Maltese Falcon 8.1 4. Sullivan's Travels 8.1 5. The Lady Eve 8.0 1942 1. Casablanca 8.5 2. To Be Or Not to Be 8.2 3. Now Voyager 8.0 4. Random Harvest 8.0 5. Magnificent Ambersons 7.9 1943 1. Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 8.2 2. Ox Bow Incident 8.1 3. Shadow of a Doubt 8.0 4. Day of Wrath 8.0 5. Miracle of Morgan's Creek 7.9 1944 1. Double Indemnity 8.3 2. Laura 8.1 3. Arsenic and Old Lace 8.0 4. To Have and Have Not 8.0 5. Gaslight 7.9 1945 1. Children of Paradise 8.3 2. Brief Encounter 8.1 3. Rome, Open City 8.1 4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 8.1 5. The Lost Weekend 8.0 1946 1. It's A Wonderful Life 8.6 2. Best Years of Our Lives 8.1 3. Stairway to Heaven 8.1 4. The Big Sleep 8.0 5. Notorious 8.0 1947 1. Out of the Past 8.1 2. Black Narcissus 8.0 3. Monsieur Verdoux 8.0 4. Miracle on 34th Street 7.9 5. Ghost and Mrs. Muir 7.9 1948 1. Bicycle Thieves 8.3 2. Treasure of the Sierra Madre 8.3 3. The Red Shoes 8.3 4. I Remember Mama 8.2 5. Rope 8.0 1949 1. Late Spring 8.3 2. The Third Man 8.2 3. White Heat 8.2 4. The Heiress 8.2 5. Kind Hearts and Coronets 8.1 1950 1. Sunset Boulevard 8.5 2. Rashomon 8.3 3. All About Eve 8.3 4. Young and the Damned 8.3 5. Harvey 8.0 1951 1. Early Summer 8.3 2. Ace in the Hole 8.2 3. A Christmas Carol 8.1 4. Strangers on A Train 8.0 5. Streetcar Named Desire 8.0 1952 1. Singin In the Rain 8.3 2. Ikiru 8.3 3. Umberto D. 8.2 4. Limelight 8.1 5. High Noon 8.0 1953 1. Wages of Fear 8.2 2. Tokyo Story 8.2 3. Ugetsu 8.2 4. Roman Holiday 8.1 5. Stalag 17 8.0 1954 1. Seven Samurai 8.7 2. Rear Window 8.5 3. Sansho The Bailiff 8.4 4. Dial M For Murder 8.2 5. On the Waterfront 8.2 1955 1. Pather Panchali 8.4 2. Rififi 8.2 3. Ordet 8.2 4. Diabolique 8.1 5. Night of the Hunter 8.0 1956 1. A Man Escaped 8.2 2. Aparajito 8.2 3. The Searchers 8.0 4. The Killing 8.0 5. The Ten Commandments 7.8 1957 1. 12 Angry Men 8.9 2. Paths of Glory 8.4 3. Witness for the Prosecution 8.4 4. The Cranes Are Flying 8.3 5. Bridge over The River Kwai 8.2 1958 1. Vertigo 8.4 2. Touch of Evil 8.1 3. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 8.1 4. Hidden Fortress 8.1 5. Elevator to the Gallows 8.0 1959 1. North By Northwest 8.4 2. Some Like it Hot 8.3 3. Ben-hur 8.1 4. The 400 Blows 8.1 5. Anatomy of a Murder 8.1 1960 1. Psycho 8.5 2. Le Trou 8.5 3. The Apartment 8.3 4. Rocco and his Brothers 8.3 5. Inherit the Wind 8.2 1961 1. Yojimbo 8.3 2. Judgment at Nuremberg 8.3 3. Viridiana 8.2 4. Through a Glass Darkly 8.1 5. The Hustler 8.0 1962 1. Harakiri 8.7 2. To Kill a Mockingbird 8.3 3. Lawrence of Arabia 8.2 4. Exterminating Angel 8.2 5. Sanjuro 8.2 1963 1. High and Low 8.4 2. The Great Escape 8.2 3. 8 1/2 8.1 4. The Leopard 8.1 5. Winter Light 8.1 1964 1. Dr. Strangelove 8.5 2. Woman in the Dunes 8.5 3 Fistful of Dollars 8.0 4. Fail Safe 8.0 5. Becket 8.0 1965 1. For a Few Dollars More 8.3 2. Red Beard 8.3 3. The Sound of Music 8.0 4. Dr. Zhivago 8.0 5. The Hill 8.0 1966 1. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly 8.9 2. Andrei Rublev 8.3 3. Persona 8.1 4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 8.1 5. The Battle of Algiers 8.1 1967 1. Cool Hand Luke 8.2 2. Le Samourai 8.1 3. The Graduate 8.0 4. In the Heat of the Night 8.0 5. In Cold Blood 8.0 1968 1. Once Upon a Time in the West 8.5 2. 2001 A Space Odyssey 8.3 3. The Lion In Winter 8.1 4. Shame 8.1 5. Planet of the Apes 8.0 1969 1. Z 8.2 2. Army of Shadows 8.2 3.Butch Cassidy & SundanceKid 8.1 4. The Wild Bunch 8.0 5. Midnight Cowboy 7.9 1970 1. The Conformist 8.1 2. Le Cercle Rouge 8.1 3. Patton 8.0 4 .Kelly's Heroes 7.7 5. MASH 7.6 1971 1. A Clockwork Orange 8.3 2. The Last Picture show 8.1 3. Fiddler on the Roof 8.0 4. Harold and Maude 8.0 5. Willy Wonka & Chocolate Factory 7.8 1972 1. The Godfather 9.2 2. Cries and Whispers 8.2 3. Solaris 8.1 4. Sleuth 8.1 5. Aguirre, Wrath of God 8.0 1973 1. The Sting 8.3 2. Paper Moon 8.2 3. Day For Night 8.1 4. The Exorcist 8.0 5. Papillon 8.0 1974 1. Godfather Part II 9.0 2. Chinatown 8.2 3. A Woman Under The Influence 8.2 4. Ali Fear Eats the Soul 8.1 5. Young Frankenstein 8.0 1975 1. The Chaos Class 9.4 2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 8.7 3. Monty Python & Holy Grail 8.3 4. The Mirror 8.2 5. Sholay 8.2 1976 1. Taxi Driver 8.3 2. The Message 8.2 3. Rocky 8.1 4. Network 8.0 5. All The Presidents Men 8.0 1977 1. Star Wars 8.7 2. Annie Hall 8.1 3. That Obscure Object of Desire 8.0 4. Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind 7.7 5. Suspiria 7.5 1978 1. Autumn Sonata 8.3 2. The Deer Hunter 8.2 3. Dawn of the Dead 8.0 4. Days of Heaven 7.9 5. Halloween 7.8 1979 1. Apocalypse Now 8.5 2. Alien 8.5 3. Life of Brian 8.1 4. Stalker 8.1 5. Manhattan 8.0 1980 1. The Empire Strikes Back 8.5 2. The Shining 8.4 3. Raging Bull 8.2 4. The Elephant Man 8.2 5. Kagemusha 8.0 1981 1. Raiders of the Lost Ark 8.5 2. Das Boot 8.4 3. On Golden Pond 7.7 4. The Road Warrior 7.6 5. An American WWolf in London 7.6 1982 1. Blade Runner 8.2 2. The Thing 8.2 3. Gandhi 8.1 4. Fanny & Alexander 8.1 5. Fitzcarraldo 8.1 1983 1. Return of the Jedi 8.3 2. Scarface 8.3 3. A Christmas Story 8.0 4. The Right Stuff 7.9 5. Zelig 7.8 1984 1. Once Upon a Time in America 8.4 2. Amadeus 8.3 3. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 8.1 4. Paris, Tx 8.1 5. The Terminator 8.0 1985 1. Back To The Future 8.5 2. Ran 8.2 3. Come and See 8.2 4. Brazil 8.0 5. The Breakfast Club 7.9 1986 1. Aliens 8.4 2. Platoon 8.1 3. Stand By Me 8.1 4. Castle in The Sky 8.1 5. Hannah and Her Sisters 8.0 1987 1. Full Metal Jacket 8.3 2. Princess Bride 8.1 3. Wings of Desire 8.1 4. The Untouchables 7.9 5. Predator 7.8 1988 1. Grave of the Fireflies 8.5 2. Cinema Paridiso 8.5 3. Die Hard 8.2 4. My Neighbor Totoro 8.2 5. Akira 8.1 1989 1. Indiana Jones Last Crusade 8.3 2. Dead Poets Society 8.1 3. Crimes and Misdemeanors 8.0 4. My Left Foot 7.9 5. Glory 7.9 1990 1. Goodfellas 8.7 2.Dances With Wolves 8.0 3. Edward S-Hands 7.9 4. Misery 7.8 5. Awakenings 7.8 1991 1. Silence of the Lambs 8.6 2. Terminator 2 8.5 3. Beauty and the Beast 8.0 4. JFK 8.0 5. Boyz in the Hood 7.8 1992 1. Reservoir Dogs 8.3 2. Unforgiven 8.2 3. Aladdin 8.0 4. Scent of a Woman 8.0 5. Hard Boiled 7.9 1993 1. Schindler's List 8.9 2. Jurassic Park 8.1 3. In The Name of the Father 8.1 4. Groundhog Day 8.0 5. Nightmare Before Christmas 8.0 1994 1. Shawshank Redemption 9.3 2. Pulp Fiction 8.9 3. Forrest Gump 8.8 4. Leon The Professional 8.6 5. The Lion King 8.5 1995 1. Se7en 8.6 2. The Usual Suspects 8.6 3. Braveheart 8.4 4. Toy Story 8.3 5. Heat 8.2 1996 1. Trainspotting 8.2 2. Fargo 8.1 3. Sling Blade 8.0 4. Breaking The Waves 7.9 5. Primal Fear 7.7 1997 1. Life Is Beautiful 8.6 2. Princess Mononoke 8.4 3. Good Will Hunting 8.3 4. LA Confidential 8.3 5. Boogie Nights 7.9 1998 1. Saving Private Ryan 8.6 2. American History X 8.5 3. The Big Lebowski 8.2 4. Lock, Stock, & 2 Smoking Barrels 8.1 5. The Truman Show 8.1 1999 1. Fight Club 8.8 2. The Matrix 8.7 3. The Green Mile 8.5 4. American Beauty 8.4 5. Sixth Sense 8.1 2000 1. Gladiator 8.5 2. Memento 8.5 3. Snatch 8.3 4. Requiem For a Dream 8.3 5. In the Mood for Love 8.1 2001 1. Lord of the Rings I 8.8 2. Spirited Away 8.6 3. Amelie 8.3 4. A Beautiful Mind 8.2 5. Lagaan:Once Upon a Time in India 8.1 2002 1. Lord of the Rings II 8.7 2. City of God 8.6 3. The Pianist 8.5 4. Catch Me if You Can 8.1 5. Infernal Affairs 8.1 2003 1. Lord of the Rings III 8.9 2. Oldboy 8.4 3. Kill Bill Volume I 8.1 4. Finding Nemo 8.1 5. Memories of Murder 8.1 2004 1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 8.3 2. Downfall 8.2 3. Howl's Moving Castle 8.2 4. Million Dollar Baby 8.1 5. Before Sunset 8.1 2005 1. Batman Begins 8.3 2. V For Vendetta 8.2 3. Sin City 8.0 4. Cinderella Man 8.0 5. Serenity 7.9 2006 1. The Departed 8.5 2. The Prestige 8.5 3. The Lives of Others 8.5 4. Rang De Basanti 8.3 5. Pan's Labyrinth 8.2 2007 1. Like Stars on Earth 8.5 2. No Country For Old Men 8.1 3. Bourne Ultimatum 8.1 4. Into The Wild 8.1 5. There Will Be Blood 8.1 2008 1. The Dark Knight 9.0 2. Wall-E 8.4 3. Gran Torino 8.2 4. Ip Man 8.1 5. Slumdog Millionaire 8.0 2009 1. Three Idiots 8.4 2. Inglourious Basterds 8.3 3. Up 8.3 4. The Secret in Their Eyes 8.2 5. Hachi A Dog's Tale 8.1 2010 1. Inception 8.8 2. Toy Story 3 8.3 3. Incendies 8.2 4. Shutter Island 8.1 5. How To Train Your Dragon 8.1 2011 1. The Intouchables 8.6 2. A Separation 8.4 3. Warrior 8.2 4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 8.1 5. The Help 8.1 2012 1. The Dark Knight Rises 8.4 2. Django Unchained 8.4 3. The Hunt 8.3 4. The Avengers 8.1 5. Perks of Being a Wallflower 8.0 2013 1. The Wolf of Wall Street 8.2 2. 12 Years a Slave 8.1 3. Prisoners 8.1 4. Rush 8.1 5. Her 8.0 2014 1. Interstellar 8.6 2. Whiplash 8.5 3. PK 8.2 4. Guardians of the Galaxy 8.1 5. Gone Girl 8.1 2015 1. Inside Out 8.2 2. Room 8.2 3. Mad Max: Fury Road 8.1 4. Spotlight 8.1 5. Star Wars:Force Awakens 8.0 2016 1. Hacksaw Ridge 8.2 2. La La Land 8.1 3. Lion 8.1 4. Deadpool 8.0 5. Arrival II 8.0 2017 1. Coco 8.7 2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Mo 8.3 3. Blade Runner 2049 8.2 4. Dunkirk 8.1 5. Logan 8.1

You can add John Huston and Shelley Winters to Henry Fonda as far as big name stars that ended up in this one. It has a hideously low imdb rating of 3.6.

How do you know they are copyright free? I'd love to do that with some of my posts, but most sites do not say whether an image is copyrighted or not. Thanks for your time.

As a long time cat owner all I can say is Yikes! CaveGirl. But your review was well written and colorful. Thumbs up.

I just watched "The Night Visitor" (1971) about a man, Salem (Max Von Sydow), sent to an insane asylum after being wrongfully convicted of the ax murder of a farm hand two years ago, who escapes at night to avenge himself of those that did him wrong by having a part in his imprisonment. And then somehow he lets himself back in without anybody at the asylum noticing.I never saw a location mentioned, but one imdb reviewer said it was Jutland, in Denmark. It is obvious from the beginning what Salem is doing once he is loose - he is trying to pin the murders that he is committing on the person he thinks actually committed the murder of the farm hand - Anton. But the police inspector (Trevor Howard) is having none of it. For one thing, Anton actually saw Salem in his house - Salem let the guy see him - so Anton would sound crazy when he talked to the inspector. Why would Anton make up this particular story, casting blame on a man who is locked up? And this has the inspector visiting the asylum to see if it would be possible for Salem to escape and then get back in, and it looks pretty impossible and yet...his doubts linger because he does not arrest Anton in spite of having plenty of evidence. This little thriller was pretty unique despite some implausibilities and some linguistic problems. Why is the asylum so close to the homes of the village in which Salem lived? How is he able to run through the woods for what looks like a few miles in his underwear in sub freezing weather without freezing to death? Wouldn't all of this been easier for Salem in the summertime? Why does half the cast sound Swedish and the other half sound British? In spite of this I really enjoyed this unique little film. And the final irony of the film is delightful. I'd give it 8/10. Source: TCM Underground