Kipling's Gunga Din was mentioned earlier. But that poet wrote a number of narative poems that would would make ripping good adventure movies. Without looking up my Kipling volume, I can name: --The Hanging Of Danny Dever --The Ballad of East And West --The Ballad of Boa Da Thone --The Palace --The ...

Do The Iliad and The Odessy qualify as poems in this context? My Lit teacher made us call them that, and usually added the word "epic" as a modifier. Parts of the first were filmed as Troy in 2004. The latter was filmed under the title Ulysses in 1954, and I think was redone as a miniserie...

melwalton, you sound like a New Yorker. In the movie 'The Apartment (1960)', Jack Lemmon says his rent is $85 a month for his apartment in the lower 60's, half a block from Central Park. It looked like an average apartment, probably 2 beds, 1 bath and kitchenette, in an older building. What would t...

Couple of weeks back; insomnia re-introduced me to They Shoot Horses Don't They? (Filmed in 1969; set during the 1930s depression.) At a quet point in the marathon dance contest, with characters on the screen giving dialogue that advanced the plot, an off-screen voice in the bleachers was chanting, ...

Nightfall (1957), ran Saturday morning on TCM. Aldo Ray paid
$39 and change for two round-trip bus tickets From Los Angeles to
Moose, Wyoming. The time setting was the "present day" of 1957.

It happened again, and I saw the same face. I was watching Under The Volcano for the first time since the vhs vidio came out. Its a 1984 John Huston film starring Albert Finney as an alcoholic former diplomat sliding into a "leaving Las Vegas" mode, and very near the end of drinking himsel...

One night during New Year's week; simply because I did not turn off the set or change channels, I experienced a sighting that dovetailed neatly with things that have been on my mind recently. One of the replay channels was running Return Of the Seven (1966). I'm a staunch fan of the origional Magnif...

Over the recent holiday; a marathon of old Twilight Zone episodes. The old 1960 episode where the a Department Store Santa ,played by Art Carney, discovers a magic bag of toys on Christmas Eve. The Carney character is a lush. In the opening scene he settles up with the bartender before leaving the b...

The Unforgiven is scheduled to be aired on Monday, Dec 31 at 3 PM and 10:30 PM On the Hallmark Channel. Probably not your idea of a New Year's Eve (is it anybody's?), but anyone wanting to see it (or see it again) can copy it and look it over. Me, through no merit of my own, I now have a copy. A fr...

Some nostalgic viewing of an old Lonesome Dove rerun brought this one to my attention last week: A fairly static scene, perhaps indoors, perhaps around a campfire, etc. A plot-advancing conversation may be underway. Then a horse whinnies in the middle distance. It heralds the approach of new charact...

The recent Louis Malle tribute on TCM included Elevator To The Gallows AKA Lift To The Scaffold AKA Ascenseur Pour l'echfeud (1958), an old favorite of mine. I first saw it in the early 1960s, in a Post Theater full of rooting, hooting GIs -- dubbed. The TV airings I've seen since then have been sub...

To; melwalton; Welcome to Oasis, and your comments are very on point. Review from the beginning of this thread and you will notice that it started as a reference to prices and saleries quoted in movies, but that almost all commenters added their own observations and experiences in "real time, r...

I stayed with this story from the first. Got tired of some of the jumps back and forth, but put up with them. Expected to be disappointed, and also expected the story to hang fire until the next season for some of the important results. (Suit verdict? Homicice verdict? etc.) However, both of these i...

And how many times have we heard a variation on this line?

"Buck Bivins is just the one we know about. Somebody a lot smarter than
him is behind this!"

I've seen this event a number of times, but can't name any titles: In the desert, trying to get out of it, and short of water. Someone takes the last drink from a canteen, or tries to take a drink and finds it empty. They throw it away, with no thought to the possibility that they may find water lat...