Welcome to BlogHub: the Best in Veteran and Emerging Classic Movie Blogs
You can rate and share your favorite classic movie posts here.
13141516171819202122

A Patch of Blue (1965)

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Aug 15, 2018

A Patch of Blue Directed by Guy Green Written by Guy Green from a novel by Elizabeth Kata 1965/USA Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer First viewing/Amazon Instant   First-rate performances raise a touching, if predictable, story a notch. Selina D’Arcy (Elizabeth Hartman) is an 18-year-old blind girl who read more

Pierrot le fou (1965)

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Aug 14, 2018

Pierrot le fou Directed by Jean-Luc Godard Written by Jean-Luc Godard 1965/France/Italy Films Georges de Bouregard/Rome Paris Productions/SNC/Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografia First viewing/Netflix rental One of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die The good:  Raoul Coutard’s glorious color read more

Thunderball (1965)

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Aug 13, 2018

Thunderball Directed by Terence Young Written by Richard Malbaum, John Hopkins, and Jack Whittingham from an original story by Ian Fleming et al 1965/UK Repeat viewing/Netflix rental James Bond: Wait ’til you get to my teeth. The gadgetry is taken to new levels in the fifth of the Bond series. read more

Sands of the Kalahari (1965)

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Aug 12, 2018

Sands of the Kalahari Directed by Cy Endfield Written by Cy Endfield from a novel by William Mulvihill 1965/USA/UK Joseph M. Schenk Enterprises/Pendennis Productions First viewing/Netflix rental Plenty of action and violence in this story of passengers stranded in the desert after a plane crash. A s read more

Inside Daisy Clover (1965)

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Aug 10, 2018

Inside Daisy Clover Directed by Robert Mulligan Written by Gavin Lambert from his novel 1965/USA Park Place Productions/Warner Bros. First viewing/Netflix rental The concept of this movie sounds a lot better than the mess that was made of it. It is the 1930’s.  Teenage tomboy Daisy Clover (Nat read more

Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Aug 10, 2018

Bunny Lake Is Missing Directed by Otto Preminger Written by John and Penelope Mortimer from a novel by Marryam Modell 1965/UK Wheel Productions First viewing/Netflix rental Although it was very nice to look at, I could not suspend my disbelief long enough to enjoy this thriller. Americans Ann Lake read more

Those Calloways (1965)

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Aug 9, 2018

Those Calloways Directed by Norman Tokar Written by Louis Pelletier from a book by Paul Annixter 1965/USA Walt Disney Productions First viewing/Netflix rental Dell Fraser: [skeptically] yeah, well… Ed Parker: Then, you throw the goose away. And you drink the gravy! Just what you would expect f read more

1965

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Aug 8, 2018

Sandra Dee was the last star remaining under contract to a studio – Universal. The fourth James Bond film Thunderball had the highest domestic box-office earning of the Bond films to date – $600 million when adjusted for inflation.  Goldfinger (1964) was a distant second with $531.7 mil read more

Day 21 – Red Wing, Minnesota

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Aug 6, 2018

Yesterday was occupied with a brief look around Red Wing and packing.  Today we disembark, take a tour of St Paul and overnight there before heading back to the blast furnace that is Indio in August. read more

Day 22 – Saint Paul, Minnesota

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Aug 6, 2018

View of the Mississippi from our hotel room Toured the beautiful Twin Cities and then overnighted in Saint Paul.  I could live here if it weren’t for the winters.  In the morning we fly home.  This concludes my Mississippi Diary.  On to 1965!   read more

Day 20 – La Crosse, Wisconsin

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Aug 5, 2018

 Yesterday we stopped in La Crosse, Wisconsin.  We spent most of our time in the classic car museum. Today is the final stop of our journey – Red Wing, Minnesota. Same model as Kennedy assasination car.     read more

Day 19 – River Cruising + Three with Lionel Atwill

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Aug 4, 2018

Sorry no river pictures today.  Yesterday, I did manage to see three new old movies with Lionel Atwill in supporting roles.  The leads were some of my favorite actors so it worked out well. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a film from the Dr. Kildare series before.  In this one, Lionel Barrymore read more

Day 18 – Bettendorf, Iowa

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Aug 3, 2018

New bridge construction in the Quad Cities It turned into a glorious summer day later yesterday.  We spent most of our time in the Figge Art Museum.  The highlight was a Maurice Sendak exhibition but the museum’s collection is also very nice. Due to a “mechanical delay” we are having another read more

Day 17 – River Cruising + It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Aug 2, 2018

Spent a relaxing day and managed to snag a new-to-me movie, Richard Whorf’s musical It Happened in Brooklyn.  Frank Sinatra thinks he will find all the confidence he lacks when he comes home from War to his beloved Brooklyn.  He does eventually but it takes the help of equally disheartened Jimmy read more

Day 16 – Hannibal, Missouri + Faithless (1932)

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Aug 1, 2018

Becky Thatcher, Tom Sawyer and friend. We spent a fun couple of hours in Hannibal where every other business has been named after Mark Twain.  After reading Life on the Mississippi I love him even more than before. I’ve been watching plenty of movies on TCM but seldom without interruption and read more

Day 15 – Alton, Illinois

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Jul 31, 2018

Yesterday it was Alton, Illinois whose claim to fame seems to be as the hometown of Robert Wadlow, world’s tallest man.  I preferred the Audubon Center.  As a robin, cardinal, and ruby-throated hummingbird.  No big deal to some but we don’t get any of these species where I live.  I’d give read more

Day 14 – Chester, Illinois

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Jul 30, 2018

Yesterday we visited Chester, Illinois the home of the creator of Popeye, Elzie Sanger.  Chester’s other movie connections are as the locations for In the Heat of the Night and The Fugitive. Had only a couple of hours much of which was taken up by downloading ebook and audiobook in blessed cafe wit read more

Day 13 – Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Jul 29, 2018

We are greeted by a Dixieland band! We had a good day yesterday in Cape Girardeau.  Toured one of the few English Gothic churches in the US; the “Red House”, home and trading post of the city’s founder; and a museum with loads of Indian artifacts among other things. St. Vincent’s Old Catholic read more

Day 12 – Paducah, Kentucky

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Jul 28, 2018

Don’t have much to show from the pretty little arts center of Paducah.  The National Quilt Museum was a big hit with me but no photos were allowed inside.  The quilts – all modern – were fantastic art pieces, really stunning. Next we got a tour of the town’s little Civil War museum read more

Day 11 – Hickman, Kentucky

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Jul 27, 2018

Entrance to Discovery Park of America Our stop in tiny Hickman was really the gateway to little Union City, Tennessee pop. 10,000 and the truly amazing Discovery Park of America.  In the middle of nowhere a Union City boy who made good spent 100 million on this museum/park.  It’s like a mini Smithso read more
13141516171819202122



error