The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)

The Secret of Convict Lake (1951) is up next. White and black, Glenn Ford, Gene Tierney and these other people, “In 1871 a convict escapes, with other prisoners, to kill the man that framed him, but has second thoughts after meeting the man’s beautiful future wife.” The film is based on the events in 1871 that gave Convict Lake its name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict_Lake

20th Century Fox & it’s another long time no see so let’s get to it!

Right, lots of familiar faces and the sleepy little town they encounter is populated only with women (why is probably explained lol) Zachary Scott is convinced Ford hid money in the town and do we ever have a recipe for tension!

Jack Lambert of course plays a less than nice guy lol

Well it’s too late now, you’ve already burned the barn down because you panicked over a cat….

Oh yeah you do lol

Right, 1871, that pistol and the cartridges for it don’t exist yet lol nor does any of that lol oh well.

The tension however is about to ratchet up….

Ah, there’s the guys, why did they go to town? Ah, they were out mining….

Uh-oh….

Okay so, here they come back. Where’s the posse?

Did either of them ever play a nice guy lol

We’re not done yet though, we have a lot of ground to cover in 4 minutes 🙂

Ray Teal!!

YAY!!!

A fresh start, who could ask for anything more?

Love it, see you next time!

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Our Joel McCrea theme continues with Foreign Correspondent (1940). Directed by the master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock, “On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.” Laraine Day is our female lead & we have these other people. White and black, let’s get to it!

Lot of familiar faces….

The tension!!

But they’re already gone….

And no one believes him….

No he isn’t….

YESSSS!!!

Suspense indeed, who was that….

Right, misunderstanding….

I wouldn’t bother….

What rhymes with liar?

So sure of yourself….

Foreshadowing indeed….

Wet set indeed!

It’s an interesting mixture of wet set in the foreground and ocean in the background. I don’t recall ever seeing anything like that. Very well done!

🙂

What a great film & our hero is there to cover it all!

“They’re listening in America Johnny.” Love it, love it, love it!

Stars in My Crown (1950)

Stars in My Crown (1950) is up next! We have Joel McCrea and these other people. It’s a western of course lol beyond that I don’t remember much about it, other than that I enjoyed it lol so let’s check it out!

MGM, white and black, we also have Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, haha, Alan Hale, Amanda Blake, HAHAHA Charles Kemper, Connie Gilchrist, Ed Begley, and you get the idea.

McCrea’s the parson & it’s set at some unknown point after the Civil War….

Arthur Hunnicutt! He plays Chloroform Williams lol

It’s definitely different lol

Aha, our female lead.

The film is one long flashback. Stockwell himself is a young boy within the film while the grown character/years later narrates the film….

James Arness!

Enter Connie Gilchrist.

Love the shift 🙂

Who would? 🙂

Haha, Charles Kemper! We should watch that thing where he carries the giant log around – Fury at Furnace Creek (1948) lol

The film is so titled because of the parson’s favorite song.

So that’s Miss Kitty! (Amanda Blake)

YAY!!

It really is all about faith 🙂

Haha, they’re blank!

Will of the universe indeed & they were all there anyway!

Haha, Hale & his family come to church! Unfortunately he was not long for this world (neither was Kemper)….

Awesome seeing that again!!

Virginia City (1940)

Our white and black theme continues with Virginia City (1940)! Directed by Michael Curtiz, we have Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Hale, Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams, Moroni Olsen and these other people including Russell Simpson. “Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City in Nevada. Once there he finds that the former commander of his prison Vance Irby is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the Confederacy.” With that, let’s get to it!

Warner Brothers, white and black.

Ward Bond!

Pinky ring!!

Right, so Flynn, Hale and Williams are Union soldiers who escape from Scott’s Confederate prison.

He’s a miscreant lol

Speaking of which, let’s see how they did with the weapons. Having seen many of these 2 shot Derringers in movies, which was introduced in 1866 lol as in, after the film is set lol & those look like .41 rimfire rounds so that’s cool.

Haha, Trevor Bardette! Paul Fix too!

Look at the stream! Love the scenery 🙂

Haha, I KNEW it! Yakima Canutt – stunt double: Errol Flynn/Guinn Williams and Perc Westmore on makeup.

Flynn, Hale and Williams are a riot. I wish they’d made more films together….

You won’t see the end of the film….

Runner indeed….

No you don’t….

Hey, Miriam Hopkins did her own singing. Very cool!

Enter Paul Fix.

Love truly transcends all….

Yeah, that’d be a great place for a Josey Wales style turn of the head and spit show of contempt….

Not any more it’s not lol

They did pretty well with the weapons/there’s no pistol cartridges lol even if some of the pistols didn’t exist….

lol

That goes without saying!

What an excellent film & a fantastic ending!

The Hangman (1959)

Wow, what to watch next? Let’s go with The Hangman (1959)! Directed by Michael Curtiz, we have Robert Taylor, Tina Louise, Fess Parker and these other people including Jack Lord, Gene Evans, Mickey Shaughnessy, and Lorne Greene. “U.S. Marshal Bovard comes to a small border town to identify and arrest a fugitive but the whole town seems determined to prevent the marshal from doing his job.” Taylor again starts out as a not very happy guy who warms up and chills out lol

White and black, widescreen, let’s get to it!

Haha, Wally Westmore on makeup! That family has seemingly worked on thousands of things we have seen!

Right, Louise is down on her luck and left with little in the way of options….

Enter Shaughnessy, but he has no idea what the fellow he’s looking for looks like, which is where Louise comes in.

He does however explain why he’s jaded/bitter….

Jack Lord! “Book ‘em Dano!”

Ah, Jose Gonzales-Gonzales, brother of Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez.

But who did it/who is he looking for?

And there she is!

But she has….

It just dawned on me, that, it’s The Taming of the Shrew in reverse lol a common theme in Taylor films….

It poses the greatest of questions though, about a lawman who hunts men because it’s his job, without knowing what they did. Best of all though it shows how we can all become oh so much more!!!

How little does he know lol

I remember being so surprised the first time I saw that lol

HAHA!! WANT!!!

Key Largo Revisited

I keep having the thought to watch Key Largo (1948) so let’s do just that! It’s Bogart and Bacall’s 4th and final picture together and one of my favorite movies so let’s get to it!

We also have Claire Trevor in her Best Supporting Actress role. The scene where she sings is simply fantastic, no rehearsal, no nothing & we also have numerous familiar names and faces including Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore and Jay Silverheels.

Ooh, Perc Westmore on makeup, very cool!

White and black, the chemistry and energy between Bogart and Bacall of course is fantastic as is everything about the film especially the tension and the writing! “A man visits his old friend’s hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.”

I had forgotten about that, about Nora and Mister Temple discussing visiting where George is buried at Cassino (Italy).

“Where’d you learn about boats?” lol the in joke of course being that Bogart was a huge boat guy and thus made numerous boat pictures.

“He sells sea shells by the sea shore.” Lol

This is interesting: “John Huston’s scapegoat on the production was Harry Lewis. The inexperienced actor wasn’t very good, and Huston browbeat him mercilessly to get a performance out of him.” Lewis got the last laugh if you ask me: “Harry Lewis went on to open the popular Hamburger Hamlet chain, which he sold in 1987 for $29 million.” “When Harry, an aspiring actor at the time, met future wife Marilyn Lewis, he confessed to her that he had two goals: to play Hamlet and to start a restaurant called Hamburger Hamlet as a hangout for the stars. They spent their first date looking for a location. A few days later she found the perfect spot for the original Hamlet on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood.” That’s awesome!

see, he’s not a coward.

For most of the last day I’ve had the thought to watch this again and now I get it. The universe brings you things to keep you on that high flying disk Abraham-Hicks talks about and this is without question one of the best films ever made!

🙂 oh she’ll remember!!

Epic, epic, epic!!!

You step up and say, “This is me,” meaning, “I got this.”

HAHAHA! Acting!

Because, he’s going to ______. There’s only 5 of them lol

Bye bye!

Yes he will, in about 2 minutes lol

The tension!!!!

Not to mention the reward he’ll get….

YAY!!!! The look on her face!!!

A true classic and yes, let the light shine through!! Absolutely incredible seeing that again & let’s ride that high flying disk ever higher!!!

Random and Unrelated Awesome Things!

Now this is awesome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk_qLtk0m2c

Darci Lynne returns!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83nqxm32lsY “Heidi was married to a seal.” Lol

Wow, she’s 12. That’s incredible!!

“Oscar, I will date you.” LOL “Oscar, get a prenup.” Lol that’s awesome. I hope she wins 🙂 (I wrote this several weeks ago)

And so is this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP5CBjJYKHg (the first few minutes) as Richard Dawson returns to Family Feud! This is even more awesome! “He met his second wife, Gretchen Johnson (born 22 September 1955), when she was a contestant on Family Feud in May 1981; they married in 1991.” (From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawson) loved that show!

In a completely different direction
http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/6-unionist-strongholds-in-the-south-during-the-civil-war

I had no idea that was how West Virginia was created. Fascinating stuff!!!

See you next time!

Money, Women and Guns (1958)

Check this out, a Jock Mahoney western we’ve never seen before!! Wooohooo! Money, Women and Guns (1958) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8s_RxcJM2c is up next! Kim Hunter is our female lead & we also have Gene Evans, Lon Chaney Jr., William Campbell and these other people.

“After a gold prospector is killed by masked robbers, a detective is hired to find the surviving killer as well as the prospector’s legal inheritors.”

Widescreen, Universal and look at the scenery!!

Yeah, don’t ever mine anything in a movie, it’s like going into a bank or getting on a stage lol

Ooh, they filmed this at Lone Pine, epic!

Well this is different, Mahoney plays ‘Silver’ Ward Hogan, the ultra-famous detective who uses silver bullets. They’ve sold the mine for $300,000 giving us an incredible recipe for tension lol

Yeah, best of all he of course does all of his own stunts!

No, because you can’t find them without him.

Haha, he was in The Private War of Major Benson (1955)!

Very Lone Ranger-esque, giving silver bullets away.

Lol the town is called, “Little Pine.” In Lone Pine….

Yay!!

This looks familiar lol

Oh, clue, clue! Didn’t see that coming lol

Haha. That was a fun little picture!

The Proud Rebel (1958)

The Proud Rebel (1958) is up next! “A Confederate veteran living in the Yankee North struggles with his son’s shock induced muteness and the hate of the Northerners.” Alan Ladd, Olivia de Havilland, Dean Jagger, David Ladd, Harry Dean Stanton and these other people including John Carradine. Directed by Michael Curtiz, it’s another long time no see so let’s check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4TuyJmFRD4

Henry Hull!

Hey, Tom Pittman! We just saw him in Apache Territory (1958)!

The sheep dog’s the real star lol that’s a riot watching him with the sheep.

Love the scenery!

It’s not really a western though, it’s an epic human interest story though they sprinkle in plenty of tension and action.

Oh there is & the best part is, I have no idea how we get there lol

Oh yeah! Hats off indeed!! This my friends is when our little film shifts 🙂

Mary Wickes! We’ve seen her in all kinds of things lol

Not yet, give it some time….

Yeah, that’s tough….

No, no, pistol cartridges don’t exist yet, ooh, unless you have a time machine!!

Uh-oh, someone didn’t follow instructions….

YAY!!

Time to change your ways indeed….
YAY!!

What a beautiful movie 🙂 awesome seeing that again 🙂

Swamp Water (1941)

Swamp Water (1941) is up next! Dana Andrews is our main character & 18 year old Anne Baxter is our leading lady. We also have Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, John Carradine, Ward Bond, Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams, Russell Simpson and these other people!

Okay, so, basically Andrews finds Brennan on the lamb in the swamp.

It’s another long time no see so let’s get to it!

White and black of course and it is definitely different lol

Just as I’m wondering how many films I’ve seen Simpson in, here come Bond & Williams lol & just as I get that typed, our female lead appears lol oh & Carradine’s also in the scene making the answer oh wait, there’s Andrews too, making the answer seemingly a thousand lol

Andrews really was on location….

The snake probably died….

As I’ve mentioned before, Anne Baxter is without question one of the best actresses ever.

Oh yes she will lol

Wow, Walter Brennan has 243 acting credits. Can you imagine? Let alone Irving Bacon at 543!! How would you keep track of all of that? You’d need an assistant lol though I imagine the studio took care of all of that. This is fascinating http://www.imdb.com/list/ls052175137/ though it’s incomplete.

Almost everyone in the film has several hundred acting credits….

Yay!!

Yeah, leave town lol

You should’ve brought rope….

🙂

Great stuff! See you next time!