FredCDobbs
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PS: For The Crooked Way 1949, I used logic with that first still frame.
It looked like a prison, but it also looked like a hospital too, with the nurse and the guy on crutches.
Ok, what kind of hospital might look like a prison, with the patients in jumpsuit type uniforms??
How about a government hospital?
So, I did an IMDB search for
"Veterans Hospital"
and that's where I found the title.
http://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=veterans-hospital
Remember, I'm 71 years old.
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Ahhh yess..
The ol' 1949 Oldsmobile parked way down the street trick..
Well, I've been doing journalistic type research for the past 55 years, so I learned how to search the old fashioned way, by using books in libraries. That's where I learned about the value of finding just the right keyword..... in the indexes in the backs of the books.
I enlarged the Eileen photo and searched every detail, especially the people. I found nothing I could identify. Then I searched the shapes of the cars, and that's when I noticed the 49 Olds parked on the street.
The Taxi in your Johnny One Eye still is most likely a 1946 DeSoto, which was a very common taxi in films in the late 40s and early 50s. But I could not identify the film by identifying that taxi. I identified that film with one of your other still frames.
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You should have addressed that to lavender.
About Firefox.
Yes, you are right. Thanks.
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PS:
With your last puzzle, after you posted the second photo, I was able to quickly find the title by using this search term on Google:
"morticians convention" imdb
I was able to be the first to guess the last 6 puzzles in a row by finding the right search terms, and by finding the right search engine to use. There are many search engines on the internet.
I found the title to My Sister Eileen with your first still frame, by using this search term on the right search engine:
1949 Oldsmobile
If you enlarge the picture, you can see a 1949 Oldsmobile parked way down the street.
Fred
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LOL- Thanks Kid.
I cannot use youtube. Ever since I had problems getting on site last week, I haven't been able to access youtube . My daughter changed the browser and now the computer has other problems!
Kid,
I have been using Foxfire since earlier this year when Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP.
I downloaded the Foxfire browser about a year ago.
I receive YouTube with no problems.
I need to see your images and movies via YouTube.
But good luck at getting your computer fixed.
I have a computer guy who comes to my home about 3 or 4 times a year, at about $100 per visit. So far, he has been able to clear up all my software and virus problems with these visits.
Fred
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I tried watching CHINATOWN last night (or whenever) and I found it to be very boring, with a lot of silly segments, such as Jack Nicholson going around without a gun, and all that daughter/sister nonsense at the end. That was just thrown in for sensationalism because the movie didn’t have a basic good story. Who cares about “crooks stealing water” or “crooks buying cheap real estate, using inside information”??
This was supposed to be a “new” film noir in the 1940s style, but it wasn’t.
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There was some major TV show I saw in the 1960s which made the point that the draws and shootings in Westerns had become so fast, the accuracy of the shots suffered.
This show made a point about some little-known old time sheriff or policeman who always shot slow so he could aim, and he always held his gun with both hands, while the bad guys were shooting rapidly at him, using one hand, and missing every shot.
Ironically, this TV show started the TV and movie trend of hero sheriffs and cops holding their gun with BOTH HANDS, and that was a big trend in the 1970s and 80s Westerns and police and detective movies.
Evidently there was some old-time sheriff who was the first to yell "FREEZE" and that became a TV and movie trend for the next 30 years!
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One myth is the classic western showdown aka the walk down. There was only one documented case which was with Wild Bill Hitchcock.
Let me tell you how or why that became a trend in movies.
It has to do with several Supreme Court decisions, going back into the 20th and 19th Centuries.
Seems that if you pull a gun and shoot and kill a guy before he has time to pull his gun, then you are guilty of murder.
But, if he draws first, and you are fast enough to draw second and then quickly shoot and kill him, before he shoots you, then you ARE NOT guilty of murder. You are DEFENDING YOURSELF, which is a legal right in this country.
This old rule of the Supreme Court still applies out here in several of the old Western states, and in many other states too, so that if you shoot and kill someone who is aiming a weapon at you (if he aims at you first, and then you draw your gun and shoot him, to save your own life), then you ARE NOT ARRESTED and NOT GUILTY of murder, since you are defending yourself.
So, this basic theme is why the movies and TV shows developed and over-used the myth of the fast draw in the middle of main street, and that is why Matt Dillon always let the villain draw first.
See this..... It is carefully edited, but the bad guy tries to draw first, then there is a quick edit to give the illusion that Matt draws second but faster and shoots the bad guy, in self defense.
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GEORGE ARLISS (far right), 1905:
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It seems to me that a number of period films made in the sixties (like old westerns) had "hip" current 60's music soundtracks.
Like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
The "abba dabba" singers were selling their "abba dabba" songs in dozens of 1960s records back then. I thought that music was way out of place in that film.
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... that the women do not look at all like women of that particular period, but look instead like women of the decade when the movie was made.
Wasn't there a lady guest programmer on TCM that said hairstyles of past eras, in movies, are SUPPOSED TO BE of the era in which the film was made, such as the 1960s?
We had a big discussion about this, about a year or so ago.
It was difficult to believe that she said such a thing, but a lot of us heard her say it.
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lzcutter,
Here are some other Latin American company logos. (See my other post down below.)
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lzcutter,
CIA is the Spanish language abbreviation for Compañía, which is a legal term for a company, which is used in Latin America like our term Inc. or INC. is used in the English language in the US.
So, a lot of companies in Latin America have CIA as part of their company name, and in some countries they have to have that on their signs and company letterhead. Even some dummy companies set up by the DC-CIA.
Look up the term CIA among some of these Latin American company listings:
http://www.ganmar.com.ar/castellano/exportacion.html
Also, see these photos:
ALSO SEE THIS:
(The letter "y" in Spanish means "and".)
Corporacion Vitivinicola Plaza Vidiella Y Cia Ltda
http://www.importgenius.com/uruguay/importers/corporacion-vitivinicola-plaza-vidiella-y-cia-ltda
FERVICOLOR Y CIA LTDA
http://co.kompass.com/c/fervicolor-y-cia-ltda/co000996/
R Samano y Cia SA de CV
http://san-luis-potosi.infoisinfo.com.mx/ficha/r_samano_y_cia_sa_de_cv/2662654
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Manhattan Tower (1932)
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Nevermind. See next post.
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I have always heard a couple of reasons-
1) The men and women who worked for the C.I.A. couldn't tell people and would often just say they worked for "the company".
2) Because the C.I.A. set up a variety of different companies under other names to help establish their agents bona fides (ie, employment, bank accounts, etc).
Very good, and that fits into the story somewhere, but there is a real factual and very odd reason why that nickname got started, and I discovered the real reason while on a vacation trip to Latin America. It is due to one of the oddest coincidences in the whole history of spying.
Thank you for your answer, and both answers are correct, in a secondary way.
I'll tell everyone in a few minutes, and I'll show you proof that what I say is true.
I don't think they will arrest us or shoot us for knowing this.
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So why did the CIA have the nickname of “The Company”?
Does anyone here know?
Ha! I know, I know.
And I will tell you, but first I would like to hear some opinions from our board members.
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Didn't VERTIGO have triplets? 3 women who looked alike??
The real Madeleine, the fake Madeleine (seen together when Elster pushed his wife off the tower), and then one Judy, who wound up playing both Madeleines. Doh.... or did she play just one of the Madeleines??
Who played the real Madeleine when Judy was playing Madeleine, when they were in the same scene together, when Elster threw his wife off the bell tower??
AND there were 3 of the same lady's grey suits..... one for the real Madeleine, one for the fake Madeleine, and one for Judy.
Seems that the sales ladies at the store that sold those three grey suits would have noticed three different but identically looking women buying them, with 2 of the women going out the bell tower while wearing them. Something like this just doesn't happen every day.
HA!
The REAL MADELEINE was played by JEAN CORBETT, according to IMDB.
Jean Corbett Vertigo
Mrs. Elster (uncredited)
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LOL,
First, I came up with WAITRESSES ON A CHAIN GANG.
Then I came up with HARVEY GIRLS ON A CHAIN GANG
Then HARVEY IN PRISON
And many others, before I got the right one.
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Girls in Chains (1943)
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Ok I have it. I'll give others a chance.
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This was a real place in NYC in 1953:
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My Sister Eileen (1955)
Hey! Where is everyone??
Am I alone here??
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This was a fantastic scene in that movie, and the music score was also fantastic during this scene.