FredCDobbs

Maybe it was North by North West to South Dakota.

The movie title said East, but Krakatoa is actually West of Java.

Invaders from Mars

The Mole People

?Also The Case of the Curious Bride, where in the list of credits is one Errol Flynn. Now, I'm not sure if it is THE Errol Flynn, but I didn't see anyone who looked like him.? I just ran through the film again at high speed. Errol Flynn plays Moxly, the girl?s first husband, the one that was supposed to have died 4 years earlier. We see him only in the flash-back scene where the girl hits him with a poker and leaves his apartment, then her second husband enters the apartment and fights with Moxly. There are a couple of close-ups of his face it is is clearly Errol Flynn, althought I didn?t notice it the first time I saw the movie.

Journey to the Center of the Earth

"Hollywood Goes to War" doc on Fox News channel now.

"Drums Along The Mohawk" is a great movie, and I'm glad it is in color.

Hey, I just started ?The Case of the Lucky Legs? last night, and I will continue it tonight. You know that Perry Mason was somewhat unscrupulous, especially in ?The Howling Dog?. Right now I?m watching some of Noche de Estrellas Premios de Furia Musical which is just starting on Univision, Direct TV Channel 402. It?s a big music show from Mexico. Everyone needs to take a look at the Mexican music-stars? dresses and the men?s fancy leather coats.

I?ve watched every Academy Award show since 1863. I particularly liked Booth in ?Our American Cousin.? His leap to the stage was phenomenal.

I watched ?The Howling Dog? last night. There is very good acting in that film, with Warren William and Mary Astor. I would like to see his entire Perry Mason series. I wish I had a voice like that.

I didn?t see the film, but they have dolly tracks and heavy camera dollies that can roll along beside or in front of people who are walking. The tracks or rails keep the dolly moving in the right direction, and sometimes they let a little air out of the rubber tires of the dolly to make the rolling more smooth and without bounces. Also they have a portable camera ?arm? with some joints in it and special motion stabilizers on it, that a cameraman straps on and he can walk while carrying a camera on the end of the arm and the camera doesn?t bounce up and down. To get walking scenes they might shoot the scenes several times and use the best of the film. They sometimes re-shoot them for moving close-ups too. To film ?Rocky?, a cameraman used the special arm and he could run up steps without the camera bouncing.

....watching Warren William movies on DVD.

I'm watching a Margaret Lindsay film now. She was beautiful, a great actress, and she made lots of movies. Why don't we hear more of her?

Krakatoa, West of Java?

How about a young Robert Mitchum or Richard Widmark?

Yep, that's it. Too sad to watch a second time.

With a bunch of Bette Davis movies right afterwards on the same day. Dang! I've got to buy some more tapes and blank disks. Thanks for the information.

The young girl was told a secret clue to where the key to a treasure was hidden, but she didn?t understand the clue and her rhyme is nonsense. What she should have remembered is ?"on horse flys is, in comb bees is, on chest knob is, in knob keys is."

I think she is best in "The Petrified Forest".

?Murder, He Says?

Although some people might claim ?The Shanghai Express? (1932) and maybe even ?The Blue Angel? (1930) are early noirs. The director of both was Josef von Sternberg who was from Austria. I?ve read that the noir lighting style is supposed to have come from the lighting in several early German films.

I think a true noir film should have a lot of side lighting, available light, unusual light. The Petrified Forest is fairly evenly lit ("high key lighting"). But it does have some norish qualities. The true noirs with the unusual lighting generally didn't start in the US until around 1940.

Have you actually seen this film? I've never heard of it. I had to look it up.

Years ago I did some work in several little towns in Western Pennsylvania. I found a little town where a lot of the local men sounded a little like Jimmy Stewart. There was a sign somewhere in the town that said Stewart was born there. His voice is sort of a regional rural Western Pennsylvania accent. It?s similar with Henry Fonda. He?s from a small town in central Nebraska. The same with Walter Brennan, from Eastern Massachusetts. He was able to manipulate his rural New England accent to make it sound Southern, Western, or Northeastern. Mel Blanc once told me that when he was first working on Bugs Bunny?s voice and accent, he tried to make it sound a little like Humphrey Bogart and a tough Hell?s Kitchen accent from New York.