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They Dood It Twice Do catchphrases catch on anymore? I’m far enough off the popular culture beam to have any idea. Sometimes I’ll use antiquated expressions to mostly bemused response. The cleverest of them still work. Others are best left moldering. I Faw Down and Go Boom (explored ...
Drama
Book Choice --- Laurel and Hardy: From The Forties Forward Here’s the conundrum. Back when I discovered Laurel and Hardy , there was plenty to watch but little to read. Now there is abundance to read and virtually nothing to watch. Fans middle-aged and past have kept this fire ...
Comedy
Tom Hardy
Our Greatest Tarzan Adventure Warner Archive is just out with the Gordon Scott Tarzan shows. With no intent other than to confirm widescreen format, I put on Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure , and wound up watching the whole thing yet again. It could stand restoration (what 50’s title shot ...
Action
Boris Karloff Blog-A-Thon --- We Had a Karloff That Swings! The big cameo in teen-targeted Bikini Beach turned seventy-seven in 1964 when that pic was released, yet few in its audience needed introduction to Boris Karloff. He was youth’s oldest friend and longest standing cool ...
Other
Don't Let Noir Change You! I have to limit my intake of Film Noir. Maybe it’s weakness of character that makes me particularly susceptible to its dangerous allure. I’m becoming more of a mind that Noir can change a person. When Farewell, My Lovely came out in 1975, I went at least ...
Animation
Captain Video Flies Home That fine nostalgia site Matinee At The Bijou was in touch this week concerning Greenbriar’s July 2006 post on Captain Video . They’d recently come across some You Tube ’d episodes of the original 1949-55 DuMont series and planned to incorporate these ...
Other
Somewhere Between Hack and Auteur Dependable Journeyman . That’s damning with something short of faint praise, being a label applied to directors whose work we’ve enjoyed even if we don’t recognize names credited. I’ve tried championing a few. Norman Taurog and George Marshall ...
Other
Filming Over There --- Part Two --- Tokyo Joe My (very) old copy of Bogey: The Films Of Humphrey Bogart has holes in the dust jacket and star ratings pasted on the inside cover for titles I’d seen. Greenbriar estate liquidators will be fortunate to realize fifty cents from it, but ...
Drama
Tokyo!
The Tall Target 's Ticket To Ride I’m being really obscure here, but couldn’t resist posting these just found ads for key city first-runs of The Tall Target . Having shown Warner Archive’s DVD for some friends last week, I was pleased by their good impression of Anthony Mann’s ...
Other
Filming Over There --- Part One --- Berlin Express Someone had to go first into occupied Germany with movie cameras. Events there were hot news and the US public couldn’t get enough of it. Many had family members still in service with American forces overseeing restoration of European ...
