FredCDobbs
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Twilight Zone THE SHELTER
Air Date: September 29, 1961
This episode had a shocking, profound effect on all Americans who saw it. This story was brilliantly told in less than 24 minutes. It was very frightening when it originally aired, because most Americans had never thought of this type of thing happening.
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FredC,
The barrel in your picture brought back a memory. The Sands Hotel (the Place in the Sun and home to the Rat Pack) had a number of those Fall-Out barrels, filled with necessities in case of an atomic attack. They were kept in the basement of the hotel and just before it was demolished -so the Venetian Hotel could be built -a couple of the barrels were discovered.
Since we never went to war with Russia, yet the government never decided to clean out the storage rooms, a lot of that stuff was left in place for many decades. Some is probably still stored someplace, maybe with the entrances to the rooms bricked over.
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THE LIVELY SET 1964
1957 Ford Fairlane convertible in background.
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I've never heard of that Brando film before. Musta been a turkey.
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Bedtime Story 1964
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Have you ever tasted grits? Yum.
Taken very seriously in my grammar school. Then again, when we were forced (you didn't want to disobey the absolute rule of a nun) to get under those desks, we truly believed our desks had some power from above to protect us from any and all bombs.
In my school, we were told the desks would protect us from falling debris. The teachers never mentioned a "direct hit" to us, so we all got the idea that the falling bombs would explode a few miles away from us.
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Our Southern educational films taught us to run to the nearest fallout shelter, take plenty of boxed food, soap, and one good looking dame to keep us calm.
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I can confirm that this sort of Civil Defense film was still being shown in grade schools in the South as late as the 1970s. While not grimly terrifying, it was not laughed at either.
Schools in the South that I was in, in the 1950s, also combined the practice duck and cover warnings, along with the sirens, to simulate tornado warnings.
These were always taken seriously, since we did have a lot of tornadoes in the South. But, luckily, no Russian bombers.
New petition planned for Oklahoma school shelters 1 year after tornado killed 7 students -
COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA
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CHANGE OF HABIT
A front view of the three girls:
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MAN WITH A MILLION aka THE MILLION POUND NOTE
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Great film, beautifully acted, great story. Hope that helps you Fred
Ok, now I understand it. Thanks.
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The Legion of Decency rating for The Rose Tattoo was A-III (for Adults) according to the USCCB rating website. That is two rankings below condemned, so it passed (in a way) without a hitch.
I never understood THE ROSE TATTOO.
Can someone tell me what it is about? The deep psychological meaning?
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It's rare anymore to see a nun wearing traditional garb (habits they used to call them) I wonder why her order doesnt wear modern clothes? I'm hoping RO will have her on Private Screenings some time. I'm sure she'd be an interesting conversationalist...........
Yes, she needs an hour interview. She was very interesting.
See this.....
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Interesting post, Darkblue.
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Dolores was great! I want to see her again!
A nun wearing a beret is really cool!
I can just see her in the trenches fighting the Nazis around 1942.
I wouldn't mind seeing LISA again soon.
The film was very well constructed, and it contained a lot of tense dangerous moments, and some wonderful inspiring moments, such as when the cops were both chasing the man, but with one or two cops allowing him to escape, and the rough looking boat captains who helped them out along the way, and the captain at the end being a nice Islamic Arab, smuggling guns to the Israelis. Wow, what a movie.
I was worried that one or the other or both of the heroes would be killed before the movie ended, but they both survived, and the overall story was very interesting.
It is strange that great films like this have existed for years, yet we've never heard of them, and then this one is introduced by a Nun on TCM. How unusual is that?! Hooray for TCM! The only TV channel that has something for EVERYBODY!
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MEET JOHN DOE
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I agree. But I think the screenwriter and director wanted to imply that she did survive, since she was smiling and feeling better at the end, and she was being rescued by an Israeli tank, which was her big dream come true.
And the man needed to go back and face the authorities, in an honest noble way, to make up for deserting his girlfriend to the Nazis a few years earlier.
But it would have been nice to have an epilogue, with the title 3 YEARS LATER, and showing him going to Israel and running up to hug the girl where she worked on a kibbutz, with some romantic music at the end.
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I watched the latter half of Lisa. I noted Mother Dolores Hart's remark that she wanted to marry Stephen Boyd.
She said she wanted the two movie characters to get married at the end of the movie.
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She wanted to marry Boyd, he rejected her, so she was driven to become a nun?
No, she said she wanted the two characters to marry at the end of the movie (and so did I).
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Hey, LISA is a great movie!
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So how many films have y-o-u recorded from TCM...?
Lots and lots of them, even going way back to the early 1980s with old AMC.
Ha! But where are they all? I don't know. Here and there, hiding from me.
In my garage, my closets, in unlabeled boxes, on book shelves but un-labeled.
Some covered with cobwebs.
I'm really bad at neglecting to make up a good efficient filing and catalog system.
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in Games and Trivia
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Santa Fe Passage 1955