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Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944)
sent email to fox
I last saw this flick 30-40 years ago,just sent 20th.century-fox a email about it,as it has never been released in any format,also made mention that there were reviews on the IMDb,hopefully it will stir some people up over there,will have to see.funny,a really great little known film from the waning days of the war hold so little interest. i think this film stands well on it's own merit,it is up there with it's a wonderful life but not as sappy. don't get me wrong that is a good movie but me thinks it has been overplayed,glad it is out of the public domain,how many times during the holidays can it be shown??the cast in soldier was out-standing,when thinking about it i thought it was a MGM movie!! kudos to the talent that was involved in making this fine little film,hope it does get released on DVD/blu-ray
Ghost Rider (2007)
el vis
came in on this flick 40 minutes into it. thought i was hearing el vis from some of his fifties,and after he got out of the army flicks,cage seemed to be in a acting class when he was.....doing the scenes,reciting/reading his lines.don't really watch this genre type flick.overall a pretty....movie.the special effects were neat!!! the theme was tame and lame. the comic books do it so much better ,somehow the care rick tors don't age like some ac thors.this,back in the old daze, would have been made as a filler flick to gauge respones from the unwashed ,to see if it could be made into a 'a'movie,bigger stars, budget,director,a sensational motion picture event,first time on film, only motion picture event that you will remember forver!!! breath-taking, you get the drift. something i noticed.
High Noon (1952)
saw it with my Moter in '63
Saw it in L.A. on TV in '63 with my Mother, I was about 9, the first thing that hit me was the opening credits, the song by Tex Ritter, Lee Van Cleef,Sheb Wooley, Robert J.Wilke, riding towards town and that noon day train..... John Wayne hated this movie and it took him SEVERAL years to do Rio Bravo, another favorite that I saw as a kid, but in no way do I see any similarities.Wayne's answer to not taking/needing help from outsiders/non-professionals. I just see good movies! This flick was dark,R.B had light.Marshall Wil Kane was alone.John T.Chance had backup. Kane faced his opponets by himself.The gunfight in H N was,to me, real, man alone taking his chances.The title,'The Tin Star' and when it was made smacks of what is going on today,only difference is the communication is light years faster,today. Several years later I read the story in a Hilton bedside book. The outcome was different from the movie.Had John Wayne read the story perhaps he would have had......Only speculation on my part as I have a few J.W. movies I like.This is a movie that stands with a lot of great themes that have been preserved for posterity if only to remind people of the events of the day.I would like to see a production of the current....... Imagine living through the Communist b/s of the early 50's. I can't.I am not here to argue,I just dig flicks.
He Ran All the Way (1951)
Tight well acted gem
While watching this movie, for the first time, I thought I saw John Wayne and Gary Crosby in two crowd scenes. Here they are;Wayne walking with a women in the scene where Garfield is about to get in line at the swimming pool. Gary Crosby,sitting on a bench in the men's locker room when Garfield is looking for the locker to change into his swimming trunks. You have to look fast,especially for John Wayne, he was the tallest man in the crowd scene.Any one else notice this? Any information about the filming locations would be helpful, was raised in L.A. and it appears many scenes are long gone, the 'plunge' was near Santa Monica or Venice,recall that Pacific Electric Red Cars used to take passengers there and the 'plunge' used sea-water. The apartment looked like the Bunker Hill area.Street car bells could be heard in the apartment scenes.