Where did you see this and what was the name of the movie? Thank you.
Bushpilot wrote:
Everybody smokes, also!
And now it's a reason to give a movie a more restrictive rating.
jerryc41 wrote:
When I leave the house, mine is in my right hand.
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.
Manglesphoto wrote:
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.
That's right, if have to go get it it's TFLate.
jerryc41 wrote:
I watched a Charlie Chan movie from 1939 last night. The first few minutes showed news broadcasts from the time, worried about the prospect of war. It showed the armies, navies, air forces, and speeches. That must have been an awful time, wondering if the world was going to war again, just twenty years after the previous war. By the end of the movie, they were relieved to see that negotiations had begun. False hope.
Another thing I noticed in movies from this time is the situation with France. Although they don't mention France or Germany, it's obvious that they're talking about the German occupation of France. Instead, they use, "my country" and "the enemy." I've seen that in three movies.
These old movies are good for seeing customs, cars, and planes. Naturally, everyone wears a hat, indoors and out, and everyone seems to have a gun in his pocket, and he doesn't hesitate to shoot it. Almost laughable.
I watched a Charlie Chan movie from 1939 last nigh... (
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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
Manglesphoto wrote:
I remember sitting up Mom and watching Charlie Chan movies on late night TV in the early 1950's
Warner Oland played Charlie Chan
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..."?
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
jerryc41 wrote:
Right! And just one shot kills instantly.
Not Clint Walker. He always got shot in the shoulder. That shoulder must have been shredded corned beef by the end of the series.
SteveR wrote:
Not Clint Walker. He always got shot in the shoulder. That shoulder must have been shredded corned beef by the end of the series.
And he actually got a ski pole stuck in his heart - and survived. I liked his show.
jerryc41 wrote:
And he actually got a ski pole stuck in his heart - and survived. I liked his show.
There were good shows back in the fifties, and Cheyenne was one of them.
SteveR wrote:
There were good shows back in the fifties, and Cheyenne was one of them.
Yes, that was a good one. ABC had a stranglehold on good western TV shows.
Rich2236 wrote:
Sidney Toler was Charlie Chan.
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.
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