W9OD Loc: Wisconsin

Where did you see this and what was the name of the movie? Thank you.

Bushpilot Loc: Minnesota

Everybody smokes, also!

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

And now it's a reason to give a movie a more restrictive rating.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Years ago while on a wrecker call in a bad area I had to a guy the price of the tow, he told his buddy go in the house and get my pistol, I politely told him if it wasn't in his hand he was too late!!
I got paid and promptly left the area.

One Rude Dawg Loc: Athol, ID

That's right, if have to go get it it's TFLate.

Charles 46277 Loc: Fulton County, KY

Even B-films like that are fascinating to me. One of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films was "The Lady Vanishes," which involves spies and ruthless evil European powers--without naming them--on a train bound west in Europe (bringing coded military plans back to England). It was 1938, and it is obvious who the unnamed tyranical villains were. The film was remade lately (Netflix, I think) in color, but the old B&W was more colorful.

Hitchcock's film, "The Thirty-Nine Steps" was around that time as well (equally memorable), with the same unnamed brutal foreign agents at work, smuggling secrets eastward out of Britain to unnamed enemy powers. The homeland British traitors looked very much like the aristocratic pro-nazi organization at the time, Moseley's British Union of Fascists (America had them too--"America-Firsters"). When war came, they mostly shut up, or other people shut them up, except for Lord Haw-Haw, who joined Germany's broadcast to Britain, "Germany Calling" throughout the war.

By the way, Warner Bros. was the first to call a spade a spade with Germany. MGM made a lot of money in Italy and Germany, and they were slow to criticize them (though all the moguls were Jewish). Obviously the films would not be shown in those countries if they were critical.

When the Blitz came, though, MGM jumped in with both feed with the Oscar-winning film, "Mrs. Miniver," which Churchill called the best weapon (so far) against Germany that America had produced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXXHxxSZZ8A

Rich2236 Loc: E. Hampstead, New Hampshire

You are right, I forgot.

Charles 46277 Loc: Fulton County, KY

In the 1950's, Bette Davis said that Warner sold rights to all their old movies to a TV distributor for $40,000!!! That included "Casablanca" and "The Maltese Falcon." That is why we got to see all the great ones on afternnon matinees via local stations. At the time, nobody thought old movies were any use after a second run in neighborhood theaters. There was no way to play them at home.

Can you imagine if you had an Ansel Adams print and somebody declined to see it, saying, "No, I've seen that one..."?

elee950021 Loc: New York, NY

Hi all!

According to Wikipedia, the actors who played Honolulu-based Charlie Chan (in order of appearance) were George Kuwa (1885-1931), Sojin Kamiyama (1884-1954), E. L. Park (1876-1948), Warner Oland (1879-1938), Manuel Arbo (1898-1973), Sidney Toler (1874-1947), Roland Winters (1904-1989), Ross Martin (1920-1981), and Peter Ustinov (1921-2004).

I've seen episodes with Warner Oland and Sidney Toler as mentioned by other Hoggers.

Be well! Happy Holidays. Ed

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Not Clint Walker. He always got shot in the shoulder. That shoulder must have been shredded corned beef by the end of the series.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

And he actually got a ski pole stuck in his heart - and survived. I liked his show.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

There were good shows back in the fifties, and Cheyenne was one of them.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Yes, that was a good one. ABC had a stranglehold on good western TV shows.

sjb3

Starting in 1931, Warner Oland made 16 films as Chan. Mr. Toler took on the role after Oland's death in 1938 and made 22 Chan movies until his death in 1947, whereupon 6 more films were made with Roland Winters in the title role. A long string of good movies.