The Silver Screen Oasis

Films that make me cry? I don't mind admitting that the first motion picture I ever saw, Mary Poppins , has always made me cry, every time, during the scene where Jane Darwell is feeding the birds on the steps of St. Paul's and Julie Andrews is singing the 'tuppence a bag' song. I'm starting to cry ...

There's a site where you can create maps to show where you've been, but I can't get the image to show here. Anyway, the red shows where I've been in the States . And here's where I've been world-wide . It's a big world. Still so much to see... Thanks for the link to the World66 web site! I've creat...

A couple of my 'guilty pleasure' movies are Wild in the Streets and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (which I wish would be released on DVD).

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Just as a general fyi, this film is in the public domain and is available free at the Internet Archive. It can be viewed online and/or downloaded in MPEG4 format to your hard drive.

Hello Miss G -- It was a great occupation, while it lasted. My handle is really an hommage to my 30s when I got to do a lot of travel, often without needing to work. [My favorite tours were in South America.] But for several years now I have been a working stiff, eeking out my living as a computer s...

I agree that Fourteen Hours is an excellent picture, as is Paul Douglas' performance. Richard Basehart was about ten years old for his character, but did well in his role, I think, as did Martin Gabel in his. I have this film on DVD, which has a wonderful commentary track -- it helped me to understa...

I love this film; was introduced to it while staying at Ashford Castle in 1995. In those days, they used to show this picture on closed-circuit television in all the guest rooms, looping over and over. Any time you turned on your TV, there is was. I don't know how many times I saw this picture durin...