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My wife and I saw it when it came out. She is from TN and we were living there at the time. Blanton's campaign theme was a Ray of Blanton Sunshine - or something like that. The previous election had a lot of candidates running for the nomination (Dem I think, but not sure). A reporter asked one why he was running and he said everybody should run for governor some time. Another reporter shouted "I thought everyone was." Sort of like the current Dem primary. The movie was OK, but not great.

She played different roles as many of them did. Janice Rule, Suzane Pleshette, Patty McCormack, etc. Kohner was in Episode 13 of season 1 and episode 28 of Season 3. The Falcon in Hollywood and the The Falcon Out West. To me, Hollywood is the better movie, but Hale has pretty good roles in both. As someone mentioned he came back for one episode and then disapperared entirely and was replaced by Corbett. Interestingly, when Maharais was out, the first few episodes began with Tod calling him on the phone while he was hospitalized somewhere. You only heard Tod's side. Then they just stopped referring to him at all and Tod was on his own. Buz disappeared in Ep. 13 of season 3 (1962). Buz reappeared in Ep. 17 and then was gone for good. Lincoln Case (Glen Corbett) joins the series in Ep. 23. He plays a soldier on leave from Vietnam, who decides to not re-enlist and then joins Tod. Lot of inaccuracies re: the Army, but hey that's TV.

Not the Bobby Troup version, but the one by Nelson Riddle. Producers did not want to pay Troup for rights to his song. Troup's is the much recorded version about getting my kicks on Route 66. Riddle's is just music. Possibly my favorite parts. I frequently look up some of the motels, hotels, businesses, etc. featured in the shows to see if still there. Most aren't. Season Three, episode 28 took place on a man-made island in St.Petersburg, FL area. Tod is selling plots for new houses and Linc (Buz's successor) is working building sea walls so they can build more houses. They end up driving racing boats for competing rich young women - neither is a blonde - Janice Rule and Susan Kohner. Kohner was in a couple of episodes and I really like her. She appears to be one of those young actresses of the Natalie Wood type.

I was updating my OTA TV today and noticed that some local stations now have two stations on same channel, as in 4-1 and 4-1 again and then 4-2 and 4-2 again. Each with different networks. Used to be 4-1,4-2, 4-3, 4-6, etc. This is worse than HD radio on my car. I periodically run the auto search feature for channels as you never know when new ones have been added or old ones have boosted their power.

Now that should be one for Noir Alley.

Four years. One of the few that actually had an ending. Spoiler: In final double episode, Tod gets married to Barbara Eden. Nina Foch and Chill Wills were in it. There was one episode scheduled for Nov. 29, 1963 which was not shown until the series went into syndication. It was titled I'm Here to Kill a King and had a Tod look-a-like as an assassin hired to kill a country's leader visiting the U.S. JFK was assassinated on Nov. 22.

That's why you really need to watch the quick post trial summaries, usually in Perry's office. They wrap it all up and put a bow on it. One thing about the shows, you usually know within the first 10 minutes or so who is going to be murdered. It's almost always the real nasty, mean person.

I don't like the color episode. Somehow it just doesn't fit. I think the people involved didn't like it either.

I've got Route 66 on DVD and frequently watch episodes. Until I got the DVD I had not remembered how serious the episodes were, for the most part. Nor that Tod and Buzz got into fights with someone else almost every episode. Surprisingly a lot of fairly big name stars (Joan Crawford) appeared on it. Also, only two episodes actually took place on Route 66. The first few episodes were in southern MS and Louisiana. All shows were filmed on location around the country and two episodes in Canada. Florida was popular the last two years. I think Perry is on MeTV every day also. At one time, they showed it twice per day.

Ham, hell. What about Paul Drake?

I think reason Graham succeeded more than Miller and others was that something extra. She may not have been the most beautiful, but she brought something to the roles than mere looks would not. Incidentally, I didn't watch latest Noir Alley (don't like movies with kids), but remember Miller from Too Late for Tears. Decent acting, but not really all that memorable. Had to really reach back to remember her in it. Watched an episode of Perry Mason last night. There were five blondes in it. I think Della may have been the only non-blonde in it. There were even a few in the courtroom spectator scenes. Perhaps that is a factor with some actresses in the 40's -60's - too many blondes to actually stand out.

Not as impressed with Miller's beauty as some others, but that is relative to each person anyway. Regardless, I think it was in ImDB or Wikipedia that she joked that only her arm ended up in From Here to Eternity. Everything else ended up on the cutting room floor. Appears more than her are showed up.

Talent, promotion, endurance and the right people (including her) to pick the music, movies, performances, etc. Every time i watch A League of Their Own it is hard to think of Madonna in that and some of the songs she sang and her other "performances>"

Have seen Night and Terror both - didn't care for them. Ironically I am a big fan of trains. Have never cared for Peter Sellers in any movie. My loss, Pilgrim.

From the British Noirs I have seen, I would prefer they keep doing American. I have watched a few and always been disappointed. As for French, I assume they would all be in French with subtitles, so I would pass on that as well. Watched Eddie's intro and passed on the film.

Short answer: No. "The [Geneva] Convention lists in detail the types of work a prisoner of war may be compelled to perform, “besides work connected with camp administration, installation or maintenance”.[2] This list builds upon the general prohibition found in the 1929 Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War that “work done by prisoners of war shall have no direct connection with the operations of the war”.[3]https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1_rul_rule95 Not saying POW's were not involved in performing forced labor on war related projects and that their commanders did not resist it. However, in Bridge Nicholson not only cooperated, but took over construction and made it better and quicker. That is collaboration. Nicholson was collaborating with the enemy in order to construct a bridge to be used to support the Japanese war effort. The part about transporting "his" troops to a hospital was BS and he would have known that. The Japanese would never have given up space on the trains to transport POW's to a hospital. The below is form Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey of the British Army was the real senior Allied officer at the bridge in question. Toosey was very different from Nicholson and was certainly not a collaborator who felt obliged to work with the Japanese. Toosey in fact did as much as possible to delay the building of the bridge. While Nicholson disapproves of acts of sabotage and other deliberate attempts to delay progress, Toosey encouraged this: termites were collected in large numbers to eat the wooden structures, and the concrete was badly mixed.[24][25] Some consider the film to be an insulting parody of Toosey.[24] On a BBC Timewatch programme, a former prisoner at the camp states that it is unlikely that a man like the fictional Nicholson could have risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and, if he had, due to his collaboration he would have been "quietly eliminated" by the other prisoners. Julie Summers, in her book The Colonel of Tamarkan, writes that Boulle, who had been a prisoner of war in Thailand, created the fictional Nicholson character as an amalgam of his memories of collaborating French officers.[24] He strongly denied the claim that the book was anti-British, although many involved in the film itself (including Alec Guinness) felt otherwise.[30] Ernest Gordon, a survivor of the railway construction and POW camps described in the novel/film, stated in a 1962 book, Through the Valley of the Kwai: "In Pierre Boulle's book The Bridge over the River Kwai and the film which was based on it, the impression was given that British officers not only took part in building the bridge willingly, but finished in record time to demonstrate to the enemy their superior efficiency. This was an entertaining story. But I am writing a factual account, and in justice to these men—living and dead—who worked on that bridge, I must make it clear that we never did so willingly. We worked at bayonet point and under bamboo lash, taking any risk to sabotage the operation whenever the opportunity arose."[23] The bridge was destroyed by Allied air raids, not sabotage.

Per TCM schedule as of 8:55 AM, Fri., Shadow on the Wall is Noir Alley movie on Sat and Sunday. Not to confuse anyone with the above posts re: a July Noir Alley feature.

OK, final response (I hope). I'm just trying to offer an alternative view to that expressed by you and maybe others on the Skip character. I just don't interpret him as being that nice and he is definitely a criminal-three convictions and sentences to prison. As I said earlier, perhaps if it had been a longer movie and they had developed his character more, I could have seen what you see. But, I don't. I might add I paid attention to the movie and watched it on a big screen TV.

Your explanation was that he used Moe's money, if I recall correctly. Assuming he got to it before someone else did, such as the police who knew she had a "roll" on her all the time. Regardless, Moe said she did not have enough; close, but not enough. Or maybe he did use the $500 he stole from Candy. And he did steal it as in he did not give her the microfilm it was supposed to pay for. Not to mention the manner in which he took it from her. I did not see him as conflicted. He was pretty convincing as a criminal who might be sympathetic to Moe, but not anyone else, including Candy up until close to the end. That's why I don't really accept the 180 turn around in the final scene. He was a three time loser who was back to picking pockets within days, if not hours, after his release. Remember he already had a stash hidden in his "icebox" when he added Candy's stuff. See above. The only person he cared about a little was Moe, maybe. He did not care for Candy at all until late in the movie. The 180 to me is that he was a three time loser who returned to a life of crime within hours of getting out of prison, whose only compassion was for Moe, a little, and very late for Candy. In fact I could see him abandoning Candy later on or as you suggested becoming her pimp. Maybe I was just so convinced by how evil or criminal he was in the first half of the movie, that the change at the end just came too quick to be convincing.

Sorry, I just don't see it. Seems to me that the screenplay and direction built Skip us as a not so good person and then did a 180. He didn't really seem to care for people all that much, although he could justify Moe giving him up. I perceived that as a bad guy excusing the bad act of someone he knew well. Same as his supposedly giving up crime in the very end of the movie. Maybe a longer movie could have seen him evolving as a person.

After being out of prison for one week. He would have had to have picked some very profitable pockets. Just thought it was incongruous with the position Skip was in per the film. Also, while he accepted Moe's requirement that she sell the information she had, still don't see him as being all that generous in taking responsibility for her burial. Of course, I also question the ending anyway. Skip and Candy go off hand in hand to "sin" no more by criminal activities. Whereas both had fallen into criminal activities because they could not make money any other way. Especially Skip as he had already been to prison three times. If he could have made an honest living, seems like he would already have done it instead of returning to being a pickpocket only one week out of prison. Still a very good movie.

My question on the retrieval of the coffin scene is where did Widmark get the money for another coffin, plot, headstone, etc.? While nice, it did seem out of character for McCoy.

Pickup on South Street is a very good movie and has a very good cast. I'm not quite as enthused about it as Miss Wonderly or Eddie Muller though. The story kept my attention all the way through even though I had seen it years ago. Eddie mentions that Fuller was in the 1st Infantry Div. (the Big Red One) during WW II. Early in the initial subway scenes there is a soldier in uniform and he is wearing a 1st Inf. Div. patch. I wonder if Fuller did this intentionally. Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe for the role of Candy. NAH! Jean Peters was excellent in this role and she looked the part. Grable and Monroe could have played it, but never as convincingly. Willis Bouchey played the FBI and he also played one in Suddenly. He's another one of those guys that shows up a lot, but seldom in a big role, and you remember him. He was often the judge in Perry Mason series.

And the below is on at 11:30, but only lasts for 10 minutes I think. Du Cote de la Cote (1958). A short subject about the French Riviera

Saturday, June 15, 2:15 PM, Kansas City Confidential (1952) with John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Elam, Neville Brand.