Re: Sue Sue's TCM Film Festival Tidbit Travel Blog
Posted: April 21st, 2013, 3:38 pm
A film noir Ox- Bow Incident, Try and Get Me (1950), has a plot lifted from a real incident in San Jose, California, in 1933. Prospects were not as sunny, nor was the typical American singing Ginger Rogers' signature number from Goldiggers of 1933. Average citizens just did not harmonize to "We're In The Money" during the Depression.
The L. Hart & Son Company, a thriving retail business in downtown San Jose, was owned and run by Alexander Hart, and his oldest son, Brooke, 22, was kidnapped for ransom money in broad daylight near his father's store. His body later surfaced in San Francisco Bay, and the ensuing melee culminating in the capture of the two men responsible, and the subsequent anarchy created by a restless mob makes a powerful inspiration for a film recently restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Try and Get Me, starring Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson and Lloyd Bridges will be discussed by Lloyd Bridge's son, actor Beau Bridges, and Film Noir Foundation mover and shaker, Eddie Muller on Saturday, April 27, at 9:00 p.m. in the Chinese Multiplex 4.
![Image](http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o88/glenparsons/sg12/sg12027.jpg)
Graduating from Petaluma High School, Bridges discovered an interest in acting while at UCLA, and eventually transitioned from stage and movie work to become a television star with his portrayl of Mike Nelson on *Sea Hunt,* the most successful syndicated program in 1958.
![Image](http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii298/eddie-haskell/1.jpg)
Lloyd Bridges is also featured in another blockbuster on the TCMFF 2013 schedule, Airplane! (1980), also scheduled for April 27, in the TCL Chinese, and it screens at 9:30 p.m. In it, Bridges plays Steve McCroskey, a wacky airline official in desperate need of multiple 12-step programs.
![Image](http://i875.photobucket.com/albums/ab317/jlgmx/LloydVernetBridges-1.jpg)
Prolific film, television, and stage actor Lloyd Bridges earned more than 200 professional
acting credits before his passing in 1998.
And according to the popular LA Times article by Rebeca Keegan, "For a festival that includes nearly century-old films, TCM's event has a surprisingly young audience, with an estimated two-thirds of attendees younger than 49." Such a demographic will definitely find something to cheer during a screening of Bridge's comedic moments in Airplane! as well as enjoying his Jerry Slocum character in Try and Get It.
To read the entirety of Keegan's *LA Times* article, follow this handy link:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/mo ... 0149.story
The L. Hart & Son Company, a thriving retail business in downtown San Jose, was owned and run by Alexander Hart, and his oldest son, Brooke, 22, was kidnapped for ransom money in broad daylight near his father's store. His body later surfaced in San Francisco Bay, and the ensuing melee culminating in the capture of the two men responsible, and the subsequent anarchy created by a restless mob makes a powerful inspiration for a film recently restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Try and Get Me, starring Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson and Lloyd Bridges will be discussed by Lloyd Bridge's son, actor Beau Bridges, and Film Noir Foundation mover and shaker, Eddie Muller on Saturday, April 27, at 9:00 p.m. in the Chinese Multiplex 4.
![Image](http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o88/glenparsons/sg12/sg12027.jpg)
Graduating from Petaluma High School, Bridges discovered an interest in acting while at UCLA, and eventually transitioned from stage and movie work to become a television star with his portrayl of Mike Nelson on *Sea Hunt,* the most successful syndicated program in 1958.
![Image](http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii298/eddie-haskell/1.jpg)
Lloyd Bridges is also featured in another blockbuster on the TCMFF 2013 schedule, Airplane! (1980), also scheduled for April 27, in the TCL Chinese, and it screens at 9:30 p.m. In it, Bridges plays Steve McCroskey, a wacky airline official in desperate need of multiple 12-step programs.
![Image](http://i875.photobucket.com/albums/ab317/jlgmx/LloydVernetBridges-1.jpg)
Prolific film, television, and stage actor Lloyd Bridges earned more than 200 professional
acting credits before his passing in 1998.
And according to the popular LA Times article by Rebeca Keegan, "For a festival that includes nearly century-old films, TCM's event has a surprisingly young audience, with an estimated two-thirds of attendees younger than 49." Such a demographic will definitely find something to cheer during a screening of Bridge's comedic moments in Airplane! as well as enjoying his Jerry Slocum character in Try and Get It.
To read the entirety of Keegan's *LA Times* article, follow this handy link:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/mo ... 0149.story