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Just checking for confirmation here. In the 1933 short spoof "20,000 Cheers for the Chain Gang", included as a bonus on the Warner DVD of *I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang* (1932), we see a group of dancing picnickers called "The Vitaphone Boys and Girls" on the IMDb cast list. Among those Vitaphone dancing girls (whose faces are in some cases quite visible), I'm pretty sure I spot a major future Warner star. I don't want to influence anyone's judgment by naming the person, but if anyone else has the short, I'd be interested to hear if they confirm my identification. If enough people confirm it, I'd like to add it to the uncredited cast list.

I need everyone's help that sees this! HELP ME and contact me, ill pay you and credit you for your contributions! My Grandmas Momma was having a love affair with LUIS ALBERNI, and then they got married. I met 21 people that met him so far, 15 of them didn't know his name but when they saw his face they said yes. I met 1 person in France and 1 in London. He was all over the world. I need to save his legacy, he's my papa! My Nana was 15 the year he died in 1962. All of our family heirlooms and photos are gone. Making a film is the only way i can fill mine and my Nana's pain. I need more people to share what they know, likeness, appreciation, encounters, remembrance of seeing him on T.V., anything, etc.! Please help us. Just show every senior citizen you know or meet his face from a few photo's and ask them if they know about him, don't even mention his name, if they don't remember their faces then ask by name. The film earnings will be donated to help orphans and children with life threatening illnesses and veterans, which is my other biggest dream. I was born in 1986 so I couldn't meet my great great grandparents, so i need your help. Please, please, please, I can't beg you enough, i'm in a panic everyday, the generation of my ancestors time is going away forever. I grew up poor, his first wife got everything, not us, I don't even care for money, I just want my family story to withstand time. We all encounter people over 80 years old, I can't live with this panic anymore and no one ever asks for me, and im devastated everyday. They just pass me by, even when i'm crying carrying his photos asking in public. Please, even if you assume they wouldn't know just show their faces and ask. I'm begging you. You will be doing such a great thing. and certainly get to heaven for it. www.facebook.com/OfficialAnthonyCarrillo Instagram accounts: Luis_alberni_lives and Rollingthunderfirestingray Email: Luisalbernidoc@gmail.com Contact # 626.367.3559. You can record their sound-bite on your smart phone, even a video, I can film them in 35mm, or film you talking of the encounter. Or I can just hear the story, anyway that's comfortable. Sincerely, Anthony Sinray Alberni Legal name: Anthony Gilbert Carrillo

I am starting to flesh out my classic film book collection. And I have been trying to track down the best books on the history of the studio era, Scott Eyman's Lion Of Hollywood has been recommended to me as the definitive book about MGM, and there are others about Warner Bro's I am considering purchasing. I was wondering if anyone here can give me some recommendations, particularly for books about Fox, as there does not seem to be many out there. Thanks

I am starting to flesh out my classic film book collection. And I have been trying to track down the best books on the history of the studio era, Scott Eyman's Lion Of Hollywood has been recommended to me as the definitive book about MGM, and there are others about Warner Bro's I am considering purchasing. I was wondering if anyone here can give me some recommendations, particularly for books about Fox, as there does not seem to be many out there. Thanks

“Rev-o-lution… a word. Spoke everywhere.” Some epics are released and receive the immediate admiration and laurels they deserve. Ben-Hur. Lawrence of Arabia. Amadeus. Even the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Then you have those masterpieces so ahead of their time, they're shredded by the critics of their day, and fail to find their proper footing. The Night of the Hunter (1955) director Charles Laughton was so disheartened by the reaction to his first directorial work, he never got behind a camera again. The film is now considered one of the all-time essential thrillers. Revolution (1985) was British director Hugh Hudson's third feature film after the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire (1981), and the well-received Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984). Hot off his iconic turn as Tony Montana, Al Pacino was cast as the everyman hero of this Revolutionary War story, while art house-darling Natassja Kinski was given the female lead. Revolution was destined for success... until the Universe decided to take a sharp left turn. The expensive, $28,000,000 film was pulled away from the filmmakers months before completion and rushed into theaters, resulting in a mammoth bomb (it grossed about $350,000, domestically.) Is Revolution an essential cult classic? Or does it live up to its soiled reputation? Check out my in-depth, 30 Years Later conversation with writer and real filmmaker, Joey Monroy on this week's Backseat Filmmaker.