MattHelm

cornstarkel, I love The Glass Key, but it's an odd noir with a lot of comedy, Brian Donlevy is hilarious in it.

Congrats, oobleckboy-o, you got it. Top of the mornin' to ya.. I was trying to be as generic as I could with this one and wondering how I was going to get around those bomb loving mutants. Proceed ...

I'd add to the defintion of Film Noir movies that they're morals illustrated through characters transforming from immoral to moral, and vice versa; a conceptual play on the film's visuals of shadow and light. Without that noir story element, it's just another black and white movie.

There are a few movies that I have to watch every time they're on: Going My Way, the Andy Hardy series, the Red Skelton "Whistling" series ... and those I have on DVD that I constantly watch: Boys Town, Pal Joey, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Radio Days.

Scarlett, I bet you have seen this movie, it's a lot simpler than it seems. Clue #6: A general leads his soldiers after the man, crossing a boundary his people are reluctant to cross.

Widmark was last (I think) interviewed three and a half years ago in England. He seemed to not have any failing memory then, so maybe he's got some other ailment. It's a great interview ... http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/interviews/widmark.html

Nope. Clue #5: A bombed public library in a once hugely populated city.

On Feb. 6th the L.A. Critics Association gave Widmark a career achievement award, accepted for him by Karl Malden who said that Widmark was feeling under the weather and couldn't make it to accept himself. I hope it's not Alzheimer's.

The only other movies I remember at an early age were Disney movies like, Escape From Witch Mountain, No Deposit No Return, Super Dad, The Apple Dumpling Gang, One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing, The Cat From Outer Space, The Shaggy D.A., etc. The best drive-in memory was a double feature of Star Wars and The Island of Dr. Moreau.

jarhfive, At least you weren't sitting where I was at the next showing of Snoopy Come Home.

I found a site that sells all of the **** movies in a DVD set, that includes 5 episodes of the '50s TV series. But they look like low quality VHS to DVD transfers. Interesting site though. http://www.skaryguyvideo.com/main.htm

Huntress, I remember seeing Jaws when it first came out, too ... I was six. My grandparents took us and they always made their own popcorn to take to the movies, so we all walked in with lunch-sized paper bags that had sweaty stains of melted butter seeping through them.

classicfan, Mitchum wrote the title song to Thunder Road, but didn't sing the version in the movie. He ended up recording it (twice) afterward. He actually recorded a couple of albums that are surprisingly very good. One is a Calypso album where he sings in a Carribean accent, called Calypso, Like So. A German company put out an import CD with both albums (and both versions of Thunder Road), with great photos of the Calypso album photo shoot in a booklet that accompanies the CD.

Widmark's laugh reminds me of Dwight Frye's in Dracula.

I love them all. I love the opening scene to Heaven Knows Mr. Allison ... Mitchum was really drunk and they couldn't get him to wake up, so they dressed him and dragged him out to the boat and set him afloat. So when you see him poke his head up in the boat, apparently he's really just waking up.

Widmark was great. He reminds me of Sinatra, I don't know if it's the same easy natural style of acting, voice or the hair line or all of those. I love Widmark's refrigerator in Pickup on South Street.

Sorry, just a joke.

Thanks for the info, I had a feeling they weren't owned by TCM.

They're in the TCM movie database, I don't know if that's the same as their library though. It lists 17 of them, a couple were silent films.

The Boston **** movies are in the TCM database, has anyone seen these? I never have, but I've been listening to the old radio shows with Chester Morris playing him, and would love to see a night devoted to these.

You work for the ACLU? Clue #4: The woman takes the man to a couple who helped smuggle his friend out of the city. Message was edited by: MattHelm

Father Ted is an Irish sitcom about three priests who are sent to the remote Craggy Island in Ireland as a sort of punishment. One's there for stealing money from the church, one is just stupid and the other is a drunk. BBC America has been playing it on Saturday afternoons (sometimes at night) and they're all on DVD if you wanted to rent them. Father Ted: Ah, Sister Assumpta! Sister Assumpta: Hello Father! Father Ted: Dougal, Dougal, do you remember Sister Assumpta? Father Dougal: Er, no. Father Ted: She was here last year! And then we stayed with her in the convent, back in Kildare. Do you remember it? Ah, you do! And then you were hit by the car when you went down to the shops for the paper. You must remember all that? And then you won a hundred pounds with your lottery card? Ah, you must remember it, Dougal! [Dougal shakes his head] Sister Assumpta: And weren't you accidentally arrested for shoplifting? I remember we had to go down to the police station to get you!... And the police station went on fire? And you had to be rescued by helicopter? Father Ted: Do you remember? You can't remember any of that? The helicopter! When you fell out of the helicopter! Over the zoo! Do you remember the tigers? [Dougal shakes his head some more] Father Ted: You don't remember? You were wearing your blue jumper. Father Dougal: Ah, Sister Assumpta!

I think that Routledge show is Hetty Wainthropp Investigates. My mother is the original Hyacinth. I wish PBS would get Father Ted so more people could see it. That, and Keeping Up Appearances are the funniest sitcoms in the last 30 years.

In Crossfire the boom operator can be seen in a background mirror. In Thunder Road, the black Ford that chases Mitchum's car, is all of a sudden white as it goes over a cliff.

The first movie I remember was Snoopy Come Home, at a drive-in. What made it so memorable was that I had to pee and rather than take me to the bathroom, my father dumped out his soda and told me to go in the cup. Somehow it ended up all over the windshield and dashboard.