I recently ran across a movie title that took up a little of my time and put me to some work. Ssssssss is a standard minor horror flick with one extranordinary feature. It gives star billing to character actor Strother Martin, I think for the only time ever. I posted a notice of this find on the Str...

CharlieT;

Thanks for correcting my blooper.

In the second movie of the "Die Hard" franchise, Die Hard II, Die Harder , the airport security officer (Dennis Franz) at the New York airport, talks to someone on the telephone. He is standing at a long bank of pay phones with foot-high letters announcing that this is a service of Pacific...

To: jbd1; A memoir/comment, then a question. I googled the title I mentioned earler -- Rusty Saves A Life (1949), and found it at a couple of sites. The site at TVGUIDE.com mentioned that it will be aired on TCM at 10:AM on Saturday, June 23. I remember seeing that one and at least one more Rusty mo...

I enjoyed what I got to see of Laramie (1959-63). Considering that time frame I must have seen it mostly in reruns. Partners John Smith and Robert Fuller ran the ranch that Smith had inherited from his father, along with his teenage brother (Bobby Crawford, Jr). It was a hard go, and they got extra ...

My folks bought their final house in 1964 for $8,500. I have since inheirited that same house, and it is now rated for property tax purposes at $74,500.....But back to what started this thread: Didn't Robert Redford pay 45 cents for the Blue Plate Special in The Sting ? That's my impression, but is ...

Peyton Place, a movie that came out in 1957, depicts life during WWII. In a scene about the hiring of a new school principal (Lee Philips),
he is offered $3000 a year. He retorts that "Guranteed poverty is not
security," demands $4000 a year and gets it.

In the final scene of Operation Petticoat , Cary Grant's wife and children meet him on the docks as he leaves the submarine where he and Tony Curtis have been talking (and flashing back to the body of the story). As Grant approaches, a cheery lad, supposedly his son says, "Hello, Mr. Grant!&quo...

Hec Ramsey is another of those shows that I saw only once or twice. It was on during that period when a lot of shows were experimenting with 90-minute episodes, and also with title rotation. Ramsey rotated with Columbo , McCloud , and McMillian and Wife . The others survived for years; Hec Ramsey w...

I don't remember seeing Tales Of Wells Fargo mentioned in the preceeding pages. It ran from 1957-1962. My dad liked it. Dale Robertson starred as a trouble shooter for the huge banking and security firm which had won its reputation by safely (mostly) transporting gold out of the gold fields for the ...

I spent some time scrolling through this topic and jotting down notes; it's been fun. My object was to see what I could add that hasn't been mentioned priviously. First of all, where I'm coming from: 1. Childhood through beginning junior high in western central Georgia. No TV in the home. I first le...

Forewarned by TCM, I saw Larceny, Inc. last night, and taped it to see at least once more. Robinson's droll performance spot-on as usual. Recognized, before it was mentioned by Osborne, the similarity to Woody Allen's ripoff Small Time Crooks . For me the revelation was Broderick Crawford's dumb-lum...

To: jdb1, Negative re the Blocker reference; I've never seen that name mentioned in that context. Roger Ebert gives us another tidbit on this subject in Vol I of his THE GREAT MOVIES series. Once Pickens was on board, Ebert reports, Kubrick did not tell him that the movie was to be a comedy. Pickens...

Yo, jbd1; Does the title Rusty Saves A Life ring a bell? For some reason my whole grammer school was marched four blocks to the theater to see that one. I figure I was in either second or third grade. I remember the boys and the dog being in some sort of clubhouse -- maybe the same one you've seen. ...

THE ONE THAT'S MISSING I have yet to get an opportunity to see House Of Strangers (1949). Robinson stars as a successful powerhouse running his family-owned bank, and dealing with his four sons. Now I have seen the very good 1954 remake entitled Broken Lance , which puts the same story into a weste...