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Yeah, I do remember seeing the high diving stunts at Marineland, and along with seeing Corky the Killer Whale and other attractions back in the '60s. (...as you might know, Corky was moved down to SeaWorld in San Diego when Marineland was closed in the 1980s and to where this high dive Wide World of Sports episode was filmed)

You might already know this NS, but the two surviving members of this group have anounced their Farewell Tour dates for later in this year... THE MONKEES ANNOUNCE FAREWELL TOUR DATES | monkees.com

Another composer of note for some of the most memorable TV series theme songs from the distant past (speaking of "Old School" here NoShear...and, thanks for holding down the fort here in my absence ) would be Nelson Riddle (1921-1985). Among his best I always thought were the following two...

Loved the reference to my avatar here, NoShear. (...good work)

Ah yes! And in the background behind Lloyd here, the cliffs of beautiful Palos Verdes, California. (...I remember them well, and along with the now long gone Marineland of the Pacific which sat on those cliffs nearby, and which sponsored this TV series)

Five pages in this thread already and evidently I'M the only one here who remembers the works of the great jazz composer, arranger and record producer Pete Rugolo (1915-2011). For the uninitiated here, Mr. Rulogo wrote the TV theme songs for MANY television programs back in the 1950s-'70s and such as for Leave It to Beaver, Thriller, Checkmate and many more, and with MY personal favorite of his being the following...

Fredric March in just one of the many great scenes in The Best Years of Our Lives, and in which in this case he's acting in a fatherly protective manner towards his daughter... (...although on the flip-side of this, I suppose it could ALSO be said of his character in this film that his son would go missing half way through it, and yet he never seemed to care about THAT at all!)

All I remember of the show was that I thought Darleen Carr who played Fonda's daughter in it was cute as hell.

Oh, it got worse as the story unfolded, sewhite. Trust me. Her reactions at the end of this flick and when rich and spoiled Michael Callan's "hoodlum" character confronted her while she was alone at home were "priceless". (...and listless, to say the least)

After watching this one last night, I thought there was something else Ben might've mentioned about it, but didn't. (...and that being that Dolores Dorn who played Ladd's wife in it, gave about the worst acting performance you're ever likely to see)

AND, seein' as how we're on the subject of Eddie never mentioning this "rabble" around HERE... I'm sure I've made MY feelings known about this whole thing. Nope, I can't agree with those who sound as if we already have a nice little group of knowledgable cinephiles and so don't need any "new blood". Nope, I say BRING ON the "new blood", as we core members around have ALWAYS found a way to weed out the "less-desirable element" who have occasionally shown up on these boards. Well, EXCEPT for maybe in MY case, anyway! LOL (...and so in OTHER words, HEY EDDIE, how about mentioning THIS place TOO, you ol' Czar of Noir, you?!)

LOL Well MissW, even though I'm in the same boat as you are here by never venturing into the whole "Twitter-sphere" thing, but I DO know that for about four years there was ONE regular contributor to that social media site which in NO manner of speaking could have EVER been described as EITHER an "intellectual sophisticate" OR of practicing "decency"!!! (...but enough about...well...YOU know!!!) LOL

Not to belabor a point earlier made by others here about James Garner and after Shank Asu earlier said the following... ...but it reminded me of an episode of 'Jeopardy!' that I watched a few months back, and during which none of the twenty/thirty-something in age contestants even offered up a guess as to whom the actor in question was and even AFTER a face shot of James Garner was shown to them while the question about the TV series 'The Rockford Files' was asked. Katie Couric was the guest host as I recall, and she seemed genuinely shocked that none of the young nerds knew the answer. (...see?!...it's like I always say..."The classics are LOST on these damn kids now days!") LOL

Oh, I dunno. Perhaps on top of Bell Rock, and which is right next to the aforementioned Courthouse Butte here?... (...although, word is some of the locals around here believe the top of Bell Rock has already been pre-reserved for when the alien mother ship will finally land to pick up its intergalactic travelers)

Here's one, Sans... (...btw, Courthouse Butte which these two characters are standing in front of here is pretty much in my backyard)

Here's another good reference source for ya here, Sue. If, that is, you've never run across it before. It's Rich's (long time TCM board member 'scsu1975') "Now Playing 100 Years Ago" thread that he's had running for over 2 years now in the "Films and Filmmakers" forum section of this website: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO) - Films and Filmmakers - TCM Message Boards

This thread ALSO reminds me of what JUST the transaxle off James Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder that he died in went for recently on the 'Bring a Trailer' online classic and collectable car auction site... A cool $382,000. And whereas in 1955, Dean paid around $6,800 for the entire car. (...yes, a lot of money for any car back then, but still, put $6,800 in 1955 dollars in an inflation calculator, and it would "only" be about $68,000 in 2021 dollars)

This thread reminds me of an Oscar Wilde quote: "The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." (...NOT that I'm calling anyone here a cynic, mind you)

Yeah, I think it was especially up to and during the time period this movie was filmed in (the 1940s) and up until about 1960 or so, many people, especially it seemed to me those in and from the Midwest and such as my parent's family members who were from Indianapolis, would pronouce it with that hard-G as you said here, Hibi. We had relatives who would visited us from Indiana almost every summer when I was a kid in the '50s and '60s and wanting us to take them to Disneyland, Knott's Berry Farm, Marineland of the Pacific (which no longer exists) and Hollywood, and many of them pronounced "Los Angeles" with that hard-G. (...and with most of 'em I'm sure long gone now)

Well then, I'd say it's a good thing that Dean Martin wasn't a Brit then, eh Tex?! (...or else one of his big hits of the 1960s probably wouldn't have even made it into the Top 40, and 'cause no one would've known what city he was singin' about, huh!) LOL

Well, I suppose people can pronounce it anyway they want Hibi, but you'll never hear it being pronounced in that "old fashioned" manner much anymore at all. (...I've heard, but don't know if it's really true, that the way Jack Webb pronounced it during his opening narration of his original Dragnet series, "This is the city...'Los AN-gel-us', California", went a long way toward "codifying" its pronunciation throughout the country)

Yep! Just like THAT, Moe! Btw, of course one can hear the "Los ANGLE-les" pronunciation being said in many an old movie, and seems the present "accepted" pronunciation of the city's name has only really come about within the last 50 years or so. (...although, I'll be even happier when someone can get young Brit James Corden to quit pronouncing it on his Late Late Show as "Los Angel-LEES", too!)

Yeah, but remember here that these three being able to shake that image has come about decades after Haley was saddled with it. Back in the day it seemed once an image was set into the minds of the public, it was there for good, and with a prime example of this being someone such as Sandra Dee. (...btw, you also might remember that for a time there was a trend for actresses who were stuck with that image would pose nude in Playboy magazine in a effort to break from it)

Okay. I just now finished watching my recording of Walk a Crooked Mile, and first let me say that it reasonably held my interest for the entirety of it. Secondly, I thought all the acting in it, and yes even Dennis O'Keefe's, was pretty good. But thirdly AND perhaps most importantly...GREAT CAESAR'S GHOST!!! Did I hear Perry White, okay, actually actor John Hamilton who played the editor of The Daily Planet newspaper in the '50s TV program 'The Adventures of Superman' and who played the head of the FBI field office in San Francisco in this movie, pronounce the name of Los Angeles as "Los ANGLE-les" in this flick???!!! HELL, He's playin' the head of the FBI field office in San Francisco for cryin' out loud, NOT some damn HICK!!! (...have I mentioned this sort'a thing has always grated on my ears???...oh, I HAVE?...never mind then) LOL

And here I always thought her career petered out by the mid-'70s was because of her squeaky-clean image and during a time a counter-culture zeitgeist had replaced much of it in both film and in real life. In other words, her inability to shake such an image. (...remember, this was during a time in which Disney movies and anything associated as "clean cut" became very "un-hip")