FredCDobbs

I don't have time to research this one properly, but I think I saw this movie. A military girl in a car picks up one, then two, then three military guy hitch-hikers. All are on the way to some military base. I think the car is a 1941 Cadillac. Or, maybe it's the movie where the old lady, who is head of a criminal gang, is arrested for pushing a boy scout out into oncoming traffic.

LOL, that is funny!

Years ago, back in the 1970s and 80s, there were investigative news reports that said the US military was training dolphins to carry magnetic mines on their backs so they could go and place them on the underside of enemy ships. This created a lot of controversy because the stories said the mines did not give the dolphins a chance to escape and they got blown up too. Also, there have been many news and documentary reports about professors, doctors, and other scientists who have been trying for years to understand dolphin squeaks in terms of some kind of "language", and they have been trying to imitate those squeaks in an attempt to "talk" to dolphins. That information is probably why this movie was made, since many people in the audience would already know about these news stories.

I asked "why" these films have disappeared. Poof, gone, entirely. Not just cut back on showing, but gone. All three had a lot of fans. Even if they are shown in prime time just once a year, that would be better than just totally disappearing or being shown only while everyone is asleep, while Camelot is almost always shown in prime time and takes up 3 hours and is shown two or three times a year. The same goes for My Fair Lady.

Of course we can't all agree all the time. But we can discuss it civilly and with politeness. I think you and I discuss it that way, while other people like to rant and rave and roll around on the floor, kicking and screaming.

Why has TCM stopped showing INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, THE PHANTOM LADY, THREE ON A MATCH, and many other old classic films, and TCM is now showing many more modern Jason, Fair Lady, and Major Dundee films so often?? For every modern 3-hour color film that has been added (such as CAMELOT), and for each repeated showing of modern color wide-screen films each year, that means 2, to 4, to 6 old b&w 1-hour to 1-1/2 hour classics have been removed and are no longer being shown at all.

TCM used to show this about once a year, but now it hasn't been shown in several years. Any reason for this?

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST

Most screens of the classic era had glass beads imbedded in their white surfaces which helped make them seem brighter and whiter when a projector light hit them, and so they looked like highly polished silver.

All 4:3 format films (that's about 1:33 to 1). All such classics, and some that aren't so classic. There is nothing like seeing the old films on big clear sharp screens. Luckily, many big cities continue to open up retro theaters all over the US. I was lucky enough to see Treasure of the Sierra Madre on the big screen in 1948, Sunset Boulevard on the big screen in 1950. High Noon on the big screen in 1952. I saw Gone With the Wind on a big screen during a re-release in 1953. Invasion of the Body Snatchers on the big screen in 1956. And dozens more before 1960.

Dang! That scene, and similar ones, must be in at least 20 films made from the 1940s to the 1960s! I saw it myself in the 1960s, in person. Of course it was in color then.

Hey Kid, can you bring this game back?

I don't know the name of it, but other people are searching for it here: http://www.theequinest.com/movies-60s/

I wonder if there is anyone else here (besides me) who didn't like it? Watching 2 hours of a husband and wife fighting and cursing each other is not my idea of "entertainment". The plot was just too simple (husband and wife arguing for 2 hours), when compared to A Streetcar Named Desire, 12 Angry Men, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which all had plenty of interesting arguments.

I think this movie is one of the most interesting, mature, and realistic films made by Hollywood. Plus, it was "entertaining" to the audience. Here are the movie credits for one of its screenwriters: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0589316/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr1

I think you are a correct about this, but it is an affectation. In other words, it is a mental "defense mechanism" that helps keep someone from going crazy or deserting. They would really rather be back home, and playing any game of Sports would be better than all this shooting and killing. And of course, being alone for a night with one's girlfriend would even be better. But they have no choice, so they pretend the flying and shooting is a lot of fun, like a big game, and they pretend they are brave. It is the only way they can survive mentally, plus, it does help them not be afraid, and that gives them an edge in a battle and can help them to win the battle.

I think this was a short film just about how and why the song (a poem) was written. It might be this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0152523/ See this: "O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?" And see this: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/02/9th-circuit-holds-that-school-can-ban-display-of-american-flag.php

Ok, I see that you are correct, and that answers my question. Seems that the air battles were to disrupt the spying and scouting. But the air battles were more exciting than simple film of just scouting and spying, so I suppose that's why the movies concentrated on the air battles.

It has always seemed odd to me that a dozen or so guys on each side in the war, take off every morning and fly toward each other, then try to shoot each other out of the sky. And everyone on both sides is upset because their buddies are killed. Going up each day takes no territory. It has nothing to do with the ultimate outcome of the war. All it does is kill the pilots. Why not call the other side on some kind of telephone and say, "Hey, let's agree not to go up today? Let's take a day off. Or a week. Or a month??"

NIGHT OF THE QUARTER MOON is on YouTube in 2 parts. If there is some sort of rights issue, I didn't want to put it on this message board as a direct link.

This is a pretty good Mountie movie: North West Mounted Police (1940) Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaD-Tx78C3c

You just can't get good cigarettes and whiskey in hospitals anymore!

Jean Harlow