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Film Albums: Theme from King of Kings and Other Film Spectaculars

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 19, 2025

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday and what better way to get into the Easter spirit then to listen to some soul-stirring religious music. This album - Theme from King of Kings and Other Film Spectaculars - could not be classified as religious music strictly speaking, but it features lovely songs from some o read more

From the Archives: The Happy Road (1957)

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 18, 2025

 These two wide-eyed youngsters are runaways from a Swiss boarding school, both of whom are trying to get to Paris to reunite with their father and mother in the delightful comedy "The Happy Road". Bobby Clark, the little brown-haired boy, plays the son of Gene Kelly while Brigitte Fossey plays read more

Mardi Gras (1958)

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 12, 2025

Mardi Gras occurred a few weeks ago and if you are like most people, you probably didn't realize that there were a handful of classic films set during the Mardi Gras in New Orleans (as well as a bucketload of television episodes). Mardi Gras, released in 1958, is a Cinderella story aimed a read more

The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 10, 2025

"Get your tickets! Get your tickets!"....Tickets for what? That's what you have to try to remember before you have an inkling of what film this screenshot is from. ;-)As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie game or the prize, click here! read more

Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue (1953)

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 31, 2025

The setting is Scotland in the 18th century. A German has inherited the throne of England and Scotland and will rule as king. The appointment of King George I upsets many of the Scottish people and the highlanders especially who gather their clans together and rise up against the English troops occu read more

Streaming Picks for the Month of April

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 29, 2025

This spring there is a slew of wonderful films available through Tubi, the Roku Channel, and Pluto. We've sifted through them and are sharing with you the best of the bunch. Like usual, these films are only available for a few months at a time so watch them while you can because you never know which read more

Kirby Grant and Chinook in the Royal Mounted Police Movies

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 23, 2025

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Kirby Grant starred in a series of Mountie films with "Chinook," a white German shepherd. Each film featured a mixture of adventure and mystery plots set in the wild Northwest territory of Canada. Grant played Corporal Roy Webb, a very personable officer of the Roy read more

Film Albums: The Victors and Other Themes by the Frank Chacksfield Orchestra

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 15, 2025

Frank Chacksfield has long been one of my favorite conductors. His name on an album pretty much guarantees that you are in for a good listening experience. Mr. Chacksfield was a British conductor/composer/organist who was very popular in the 1960s and he had numerous albums, most of which featured t read more

The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 13, 2025

We have a real easy screenshot to share for this month's Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game.... that is, if you have seen the film. If not, then it will be difficult for you! As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie game or the prize, read more

From the Archives: Rome Adventure (1962)

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 8, 2025

In this original publicity photo for Rome Adventure (1962), Rossano Brazzi and Suzanne Pleshette are engrossed in "Lovers Must Learn," the novel that Rome Adventure was based on. From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share photos from the Silverbanks Pictures collection. read more

Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Feb 28, 2025

"Gidget Goes to Rome....and it was never like home!"After riding the waves in Malibu and basking in the Hawaiian sun, our favorite Southern California beach girl, Gidget, traded in her surfboard for a passport and embarked on her most exciting journey yet—a trip to Rome!  In Gidget Goes t read more

Mary, Mary (1963)

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Feb 23, 2025

Mary, Mary is one of those titles that I have heard about for years but never watched for the simple reason that I could not find a decent version to view. It never played on television, never had a VHS release, and never was put on DVD.... that is, until Warner Archives issued it several years ago. read more

The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Feb 19, 2025

Shooting at air balloons.... it won't ever become a popular hobby, but oddly enough you will see men doing it in several films. Can you guess which film this gentleman with the yellow balloon appeared in?As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie ga read more

British Pathé: St. Valentine's Cards (1961)

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Feb 14, 2025

Exchanging Valentine's cards is one of the sweetest things about Valentine's Day and this tradition dates back to 15th century. The first known Valentine's card was sent in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orléans, to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. The holiday itself was celebrated read more

Check it Out! An Irene Dunne Fan Site

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Feb 9, 2025

Since Valentine's Day is coming up, I was re-watching An Affair to Remember (1957) for the umpteenth time and that got me to thinking about the original film - Love Affair - and what a great job Deborah Kerr did of stepping into Irene Dunne's shoes when she took on the role of Terry McKay in th read more

The End of the Affair (1955)

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Feb 6, 2025

 Van Johnson and Deborah Kerr are taking a quick break during the making of the romantic melodrama The End of the Affair (1955). This was several years before Kerr had her most famous affair with Cary Grant in An Affair to Remember (1957).From the Archives is our latest series of posts whe read more

Robert's Robots (1973-1974)

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 31, 2025

Robert Summerby is not your ordinary brilliant eccentric inventor. He has developed a group of humanoid robots in the laboratory of the country house he shares with his aunt and uses two of them - the clunky "KT" and the much more advanced Eric - to help him build and develop other robots as well as read more

Film Albums: Drive-In Movie Time - Bobby Vinton Sings Great Motion Picture Themes

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 25, 2025

It's time to hit the drive-in and sit back and listen to that famous Polish-American pop star Bobby Vinton as he sings "Great Motion Picture Themes". This Epic album not only boasts a great cover design but does indeed cover a lot of themes from great motion pictures. Many of these songs appeared on read more

From the Archives: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 18, 2025

Walter Pidgeon and his group of submarine sailors head down into deep waters in the 1961 action-adventure film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, produced by 20th Century Fox. In this scene, Robert Sterling and John Litel share Walter Pidgeon's concern that the Earth will burn up and sync their watche read more

Gidget Grows Up (1969)

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 11, 2025

Gidget Grows Up has been playing a number of times on the Cinevault channel on Roku over the past few months and I always happen to catch little bits of it but never had time to sit and watch it all the way through... until today, that is. Like many women, I grew up with the Gidget film series read more
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