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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 6, 2017 15:49:46 GMT -5
Of course the indecisive ineffective commander was relieved of duty and disgraced, much as Husband Kimmel bore the blame for Pearl Harbor. I may be distantly related to Husband Kimmel. My great-grandfather Edward Levi Allen married a woman named Delilah Kimmel (spellings of her first name vary; one census lists her as "Lileh"), and my father was told that Husband was her cousin.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 7, 2017 17:18:04 GMT -5
I DVRed Meet Boston Blackie (1941) because Rochelle Hudson is in it, and she's one of my favorite obscure 1930s actresses. I've heard of Boston Blackie before (and also Boston Quackie) but I don't think I've ever seen a Boston Blackie movie before last night. If I had known Chester Morris was the lead, I might have made more of an effort to see one long ago. I tend to like him in those early 1930s movies I love so much. And it was a fun little 58-minute romp, with Rochelle Hudson as the girl he accidently kidnaps while escaping from murderers, but she joins up with him and helps him prove his innocence. Numerous scenes are set at a carnival, which is always good for a few points.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2017 17:20:57 GMT -5
I pulled out the Dirty Harry movies, one of my favourite scenes from The Enforcer.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 7, 2017 18:44:45 GMT -5
I DVRed Meet Boston Blackie (1941) because Rochelle Hudson is in it, and she's one of my favorite obscure 1930s actresses. I've heard of Boston Blackie before (and also Boston Quackie) but I don't think I've ever seen a Boston Blackie movie before last night. If I had known Chester Morris was the lead, I might have made more of an effort to see one long ago. I tend to like him in those early 1930s movies I love so much. And it was a fun little 58-minute romp, with Rochelle Hudson as the girl he accidently kidnaps while escaping from murderers, but she joins up with him and helps him prove his innocence. Numerous scenes are set at a carnival, which is always good for a few points. I liked these programmers. Neatly plotted, workmanlike, skillful acting; no muss, no fuss, no pretense. Morros is very good as the roguish but urbane Blackie.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 7, 2017 18:53:26 GMT -5
I've yet to see a Boston Blackie, a huge wormhole in my movie viewing experience.
I did finally watch an Andy Hardy film a few days back, with Judy Garland in it. And I still have a Torchy Blaine movie collection in the closet ready to be pulled out.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2017 9:02:59 GMT -5
I did finally watch an Andy Hardy film a few days back, with Judy Garland in it. Well then, congrats on seeing every Andy Hardy film. I really wish there was a second TCM. Other than the Hitchcock marathon it's been awhile since I've noticed them showing anything I wanted to watch. Expaninding Underground to a channel would be great.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 8, 2017 13:20:58 GMT -5
I've yet to see a Boston Blackie, a huge wormhole in my movie viewing experience. I did finally watch an Andy Hardy film a few days back, with Judy Garland in it. And I still have a Torchy Blaine movie collection in the closet ready to be pulled out. I saw a Torchy Blaine movie a few weeks ago and it was a pretty crazy hour-long experience. I've seen a few Andy Hardy movies. My experience is that they are all over the place and you can't really judge the tone or the quality from just one movie. In one of the films, he moves to the big city, has a lot of bad luck and one of the depressed boys at the boarding house commits suicide! I love the one with Esther Williams and Ann Rutherford! I've seen it twice. Several scenes are hilarious.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 8, 2017 13:29:19 GMT -5
Last night I watched Blue Jasmine (2013). Cate Blanchett is great! And it's definitely one of the better movies from Woody Allen in the later part of his career. Not quite as good as Match Point, but right up there with Vicki Christy Barcelona and ]b]Midnight in Paris[/b]. I've seen a lot of Woody's movies. I've seen everything he made up to about 1988 and I try to keep up with him, but he makes a movie a year and I sometimes realize I've missed several in a row. (Last time I checked, there were about 8 Woody movies I haven't seen.) Most of his movies are worthwhile, but sometimes he knock it out of the park again. And Blue Jasmine kind of blew me away. Highly recommended. It's a bit of a downer though. Cate Blanchett's character is a really horrible person. She kind of deserves all the awful things that happen.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 8, 2017 15:31:49 GMT -5
I've yet to see a Boston Blackie, a huge wormhole in my movie viewing experience. I did finally watch an Andy Hardy film a few days back, with Judy Garland in it. And I still have a Torchy Blaine movie collection in the closet ready to be pulled out. I saw a Torchy Blaine movie a few weeks ago and it was a pretty crazy hour-long experience. I've seen a few Andy Hardy movies. My experience is that they are all over the place and you can't really judge the tone or the quality from just one movie. In one of the films, he moves to the big city, has a lot of bad luck and one of the depressed boys at the boarding house commits suicide! I love the one with Esther Williams and Ann Rutherford! I've seen it twice. Several scenes are hilarious. You are right about Andy Hardy films. I've seen 2 so far. The Judy Garland one had the Andy Hardy family visiting NY City and was pretty much what I expected, a light upbeat comedy. The other one (forgot the name) started that way until Andy's mother comes down with a disease and is on her death bed for half the film. Andy's father, the all-knowing judge, goes into a deep depression. And to top off the tragedies, Andy drives to the next town to bring back his sister so she can watch their mother die when a tremendous storm washes out the bridge and they can't get back to the dying mama. Certainly not a plucky Andy Hardy movie
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 8, 2017 15:39:00 GMT -5
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Post by WestPhillyPunisher on Jan 8, 2017 16:22:35 GMT -5
Watched 1957's The Giant Claw. Greatest Goony Bird Monster Ever. Big as a battleship with an anti-matter force field that makes it invulnerable. Oh, my lord! I remember watching that a long time ago. Hardly the cream of Hollywood's 1950's monster movie craze. Speaking of which, I prefer the classic "big bug" flicks such as THEM!, The Deadly Mantis, Tarantula and The Black Scorpion, all of which I have on DVD in my movie collection.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 8, 2017 17:02:37 GMT -5
Watched 1957's The Giant Claw. Greatest Goony Bird Monster Ever. Big as a battleship with an anti-matter force field that makes it invulnerable. Oh, my lord! I remember watching that a long time ago. Hardly the cream of Hollywood's 1950's monster movie craze. Speaking of which, I prefer the classic "big bug" flicks such as THEM!, The Deadly Mantis, Tarantula and The Black Scorpion, all of which I have on DVD in my movie collection. I love all of these! The first three films I've been watching since I was a kid - especially THEM and Tarantula which I've seen 10 or more times each. I saw The Black Scorpion a few months ago and found it very entertaining. Mara Corday! And also that bit where the kid hides in the platform that gets lowered into the Cave of the Giant Scorpions and gets chased around. I would have laughed SO HARD if he had been eaten. I've never seen The Giant Claw. It's starting to seem like a major omission.
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Post by WestPhillyPunisher on Jan 8, 2017 17:19:23 GMT -5
Oh, my lord! I remember watching that a long time ago. Hardly the cream of Hollywood's 1950's monster movie craze. Speaking of which, I prefer the classic "big bug" flicks such as THEM!, The Deadly Mantis, Tarantula and The Black Scorpion, all of which I have on DVD in my movie collection. I love all of these! The first three films I've been watching since I was a kid - especially THEM and Tarantula which I've seen 10 or more times each. I saw The Black Scorpion a few months ago and found it very entertaining. Mara Corday! And also that bit where the kid hides in the platform that gets lowered into the Cave of the Giant Scorpions and gets chased around. I would have laughed SO HARD if he had been eaten. I've never seen The Giant Claw. It's starting to seem like a major omission. Check it out if you can. For monster movie fans, it's worth your time. Oh, yeah, forgot about Earth Versus The Spider and The Beginning of the End. Now, who's seen this flick from the early 70's: Night of the Lepus?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2017 17:34:37 GMT -5
The Giant Claw is got to be one of craziest goofiest giant bird movie and like Ish Kabbible said it's just as big as a Battleship. That's correct and I've indeed watched it a couple of times and it's one for the books as far as giant creatures concerned.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 8, 2017 17:58:13 GMT -5
Oh, my lord! I remember watching that a long time ago. Hardly the cream of Hollywood's 1950's monster movie craze. Speaking of which, I prefer the classic "big bug" flicks such as THEM!, The Deadly Mantis, Tarantula and The Black Scorpion, all of which I have on DVD in my movie collection. I love all of these! The first three films I've been watching since I was a kid - especially THEM and Tarantula which I've seen 10 or more times each. I saw The Black Scorpion a few months ago and found it very entertaining. Mara Corday! And also that bit where the kid hides in the platform that gets lowered into the Cave of the Giant Scorpions and gets chased around. I would have laughed SO HARD if he had been eaten. I've never seen The Giant Claw. It's starting to seem like a major omission. Better believe it's a major omission of your's since The Giant Claw co-stars Mara Corday. Big Bug movies are cool too. However, my childhood viewing was captivated by Giant Dinosaurs running rampant in the cities. Two favorites which I've seen dozens of times each way back when was Gorgo, the unstoppable Dino ( and then his mother shows up). The other was The Giant Behemoth with his radioactive breathe.
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