FredCDobbs

That is a great movie. TCM aired it a couple of times. The music is wonderful, by Max Steiner. Seems to be modeled after Cantor music. I also like DISRAELI, with George Arliss. That is a fantastic film, with a lot of racial arguments between some of the Anglo Saxons in England and George. He wins every argument. The Bank of England refuses to grant him a loan to buy the Suez Canal for England, so he goes to one of his Jewish banker friends and gets the loan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtH80dw4KOg

Today is another great SUTS day! YAY!

This very same discovery of mine also applies to THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION. This was a booklet published in the US, Germany, and I think a few other European countries, early in the 20th Century, and it was supposed to be a “secret” plan of The Jews to take over the world. After years of searching, I finally was able to track down a copy, and I discovered that the booklet can apply to ANY GROUP, including Republicans, Democrats, Nazis, Communists, Vegetarians, Motorcycle Buffs, and any group at all that wants a lot of publicity or that wants to dominate a country or the world. So, to claim it belongs to or originated with one particular group, is just meaningless. And, in fact, in the 1990s I read that some crazy Japanese cult was using it as their own cult Manifesto and Guidebook.

And thank you Kidd for these wonderful puzzles. I read somewhere that doing puzzles like this helps postpone dementia and altimeters. +++++++++++++++++ Opps, not altimeters.... that's what you measure altitude with. I mean to say alzheimer's

Well, it looks English, maybe in London. It seems to start off with a flashback to around 1905 and an old horse-drawn fire wagon, and an early Roosevelt type Teddy Bear. Then it flashes forward to a new modern fire truck of the 50s or 60s. The destroyed buildings I'm trying to figure out. Is that WW II damage or demolition for modern buildings to go up? Ok, what are our two young British friends up to? Is it business, crime, comedy?

Dick Tracy (1945)

More photos please.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard or read anything he said about it, but John Wayne is supposed to have thought it was an “anti-American” movie, because the whole town failed to help the Marshal. However, the theme of the film, about one decent lone man in a town full of cowards who owe the lone man a lot of favors, could be applied in any country, in any town, under any political system. We could just as easily say that Marshal Kane was a lone brave freedom fighter in some Communist country that is run by corrupt politicians. We could say he was an underground fighter risking his life in Nazi Germany. And we could say he was an honest man in some big American city full of crooks and crooked politicians. As it is, all the capitalist businessmen in town refused to help Kane. The good decent church men refused to help him. His religious wife refuses to help him (through most of the movie). Then at the end, she renounced her religious beliefs to kill a man to save her brave husband’s life. So, while it might have intended to carry a Communist message (about the Capitalists and church people), the story itself could actually be applied in so many places about so many types of people, governments, and economic systems, I never thought of it as a Communist movie. Foreman might have watered down the “message” so much that it turned out to be a universal story of a brave man fighting bad guys alone, which can apply anywhere at any time. And there are hundreds of Western movies that have carried that message, going back to Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, The Lone Ranger, and even many of John Wayne's earliest Westerns where he risked his life to save all the people in a small town.

Ok, college and rugby.

Killed in a military plane crash in 1942. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0392004/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

In most states, you can not murder someone because of what you think they "might" do. During my years in the news business, I learned a lot about something called "common law", which is an old English term which meant something like "laws that seem right but that are not written in any lawbook", or "unwritten 'laws'". Many judges, cops, and DAs will say "There is no such thing as common law." And, in some states, that is true. So, I would say that in some states, she might have gotten away with her shooting of him, but in others (especially California) she would not.

An English college clubhouse, maybe? 1920s? 30s? Who are they listening to? A big band? Hitler?

Oh, yeah, and then there's Robert Mitchum in OUT OF THE PAST..... the same story.... he goes to work in a gas station in a small town in California, but it is on a main tourist route! Doh.....

There is something that bothers me about "The Killers". Burt Lancaster knows they are coming to kill him, and he just waits for them. Not me!!! I would walk away from that place as fast as I could and catch the next bus to someplace where they would never find me.

Oh, PS: After about 63 years of seeing it, I finally figured something out..... all she had to do to get out of that house and not be alone was to call an ambulance and claim she was having a heart attack and they would have taken her to a hospital. But, like me, I guess she was so frightened and paranoid, she didn't think of that.

That type of thing bothers me about some films, but not this one. I find this one very interesting and it doesn't seem padded to me. The stuff about the bad-heart paranoia is interesting, the father buying her anything she wants (including a husband) is interesting, the theft and spies are interesting. Even that phone number of the morgue, is interesting, although quite odd. So, to me, the whole film is just great, and that last few minutes is really outstanding and freaks me out every time, even after 66 years of seeing it!

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

The law says that the crimes of stalking and harassing are not punishable by death, and you can't kill someone who is just packing a bag. If it was up to me, Raymond Burr should have been shot at the beginning of every film he was in.

Yes, they are door knobs. The last lady in this video:

Although the basic plot of the film is fairly simple, the screenwriter and director did a good job of making the overall film rather complex with a lot of unusual and interesting sub-plots and flashbacks. Back in the old days, when I was a kid in the late 1940s and all during the 50s, there would occasionally be a telephone switching error like the one shown in the movie, and we actually could hear other people talking when we picked up our telephones to dial a number. I suppose that was due to some problem in the old type of mechanical switching systems they used back in those days.

She shoots Burr for no legal reason. He was packing a bag and had his side and back turned to her, and she shot him. He did not break in and he was not threatening her. So her shooting of him was illegal. Powell shot a burglar who was breaking into his home. We all heard window glass breaking as the guy broke in. Powell was defending his home, his family, and himself, so that shooting was legal. If Burr was breaking into Scott's apartment and she shot him, then that would have been a legal shooting. The "code" part of the film was Powell telling the full story to the police, instead of not telling them all the background information. However, he broke no law, so he was not arrested. He broke a "moral code" with his affair with Scott, thus, according to the code, he had to tell all about himself and the dame to the police and his wife.

It looks a little like a "THE LODGER" type of film, about Jack Da Ripper. Except for the snow. Usually such Ripper films take place in London, but snow and brownstone apartment houses suggest New York, and I can't find a New York Ripper film. Still working on it......

I first saw this in a theater in 1948...... 66 years ago. About all I remember is her on the telephone, and that frightening ending!!! Yikes!!! The reason I can remember some films for so long is because I remembered some parts of the films all of my life. So, my memory all along the way keeps parts of the movies fresh in my mind for many decades. Stanwyck's screaming at the end was frightening. I think I didn't understand or remember most of the adult talking stuff in the film, which is most of the film, but her on the phone and then the ending was scary to a little kid like me!!!

MORE GREAT FILMS TODAY TOO !!! I CAN'T GET ANY WORK DONE..... I'VE GOT TO WATCH ALL OF THESE !!!! Fred

Hi Kid, Your photos seem a little squeezed together. Is this an old standard of 4:3 or is this a wide screen film? And how about posting another one. ======================================= Oh, you just did post another one. Thanks.