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The Child of Glass ( 1978 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 29, 2021
"Murder, Mystery...and Ghosts!" So reads the VHS cover of The Child of Glass and the film did indeed feature murder, mystery, and ghosts. The story, based on the novel "The Ghost Belonged to Me" by Richard Peck, tells the tale of a young boy - Alexander Armsworth ( Steve Shaw ) - who befriends Inez, read more
The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 22, 2021
We're feeling terribly sneaky this Friday and decided to post an especially tricky image for this month's installment of The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game. Put your thinking caps on and see if you can solve this enigma! Not familiar with the rules of the game? Simply click her read more
Portrait of a Lady ( 1968 ) - BBC
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 15, 2021
In 1968, BBC produced an excellent television adaptation of Henry James' critically acclaimed 1880 novel "The Portrait of a Lady". It aired as a two-part mini-series in January of that year. Suzanne Neve starred as Isabel Archer, the beautiful and spirited American woman who travels to England read more
Tanya Roberts Interview on the set of "A View to a Kill"
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 8, 2021
The beautiful Tanya Roberts passed away last Monday at the age of 65. Since she was best known for her work on the James Bond film A View to a Kill ( 1985 ), we thought we'd share a brief interview that was conducted on the set during the making of the final action sequence. Ms. Roberts was onl read more
From the Archives: Red Canyon ( 1949 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 4, 2021
Edgar Buchanan and Howard Duff enjoy a relaxing talk on the trail in this scene from Red Canyon ( 1949 ), an entertaining semi-western from Universal Pictures. From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share photos from the Silverbanks Pictures collection. Some of these may read more
Flood Tide ( 1958 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Dec 30, 2020
Behind the mask of innocence.....murder! Universal Pictures made a number of good melodramas in the late 1950s that have fallen into obscurity today, one of which was Flood Tide ( 1958 ) starring George Nader. It's similar to The Bad Seed ( 1956 ) with its main antagonist being a child, but ins read more
The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Dec 26, 2020
Look at all that beautiful white fluffy snow! We've been posting a number of tricky photos lately, so to cap the year off we have an easier puzzle for our Impossibly Difficult followers. Be the first to identify the film this screenshot was taken from and you've got yourself a prize! As always read more
The 12 Delights of Christmas Tag
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Dec 23, 2020
Heidi of Along the Bradywine created a jolly Christmas tag to celebrate the season and we are pleased as punch to have been tagged by Paddy Lee, known by her readers as Caftan Woman. For those of you not familiar with tagging parties, they are simply a set of questions that you answer and then pass read more
All I Desire ( 1953 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Dec 20, 2020
Naomi Murdoch is returning to the smalltown of Riverdale to see her daughter perform in a high school play and the town is in a gossiping uproar. Nearly ten years earlier, Naomi left Riverdale, her husband Henry ( Richard Carlson ) and her three children to pursue a career on the stage as an actress read more
British Pathé: Peter Cushing and His Toy Soldiers ( 1956 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Dec 17, 2020
This 1956 British Pathé newsreel reveals that the inimitable English actor Peter Cushing was a toy soldier enthusiast. As if he wasn't marvelous enough already! As you will see in this 2-minute clip, Cushing had a little corner of his study in his Kensington house set aside for his hobby. He pa read more
From the Archives: The Fan ( 1949 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Dec 11, 2020
Mrs. Windermere ( Jeanne Crain ) meets the conniving Mrs. Erlynne ( Madeleine Carroll ) for the first time at a dinner party, while her husband Lord Windermere ( Richard Greene ) looks on in this scene from The Fan ( 1949 ). This lush 20th-Century-Fox production was an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde read more
Joe Flynn - A Frustrated Fellow
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Dec 5, 2020
Aurora, author of the blog Once Upon a Screen, is hosting the 9th annual What a Character! Blogathon this weekend along with Kellee of Outspoken and Freckled and Paula of Paula's Cinema Club. This event celebrates the many many great character actors that have appeared in films since movie-making be read more
Juliet Prowse on The Muppet Show ( 1977 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 29, 2020
The talented dancer and actress Juliet Prowse was one of the many fine performers that appeared on The Muppet Show during its heyday in the 1970s. This show appealed to children because of its puppets, but the line-up of great guest stars attracted the adult-audience, which the show was created for. read more
The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 25, 2020
These two men look like they are giving a darn good look at something interesting, but what could that something or someone be? We hope this scene piques your interest because only the keen-eyed amongst you will be able to identify this Impossibly Difficult screenshot! As always, if you are not read more
The People That Time Forgot ( 1977 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 21, 2020
The 7th Continent - a lost world shut off by a wall of ice, roamed by beasts unknown to Science, ruled by men lost to History, doomed to vanish in a chaos of leaping flames! This was the tagline to The People that Time Forgot, the sequel to The Land that Time Forgot ( 1975 ). Quite a fetching t read more
The Hideaways aka From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler ( 1973 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 14, 2020
Claudia Kincaid wants to run away from home. She is a romantic dreamer at heart and feels like her parents do not appreciate her. So, when she finds a train ticket with an unpunched ride, she decides to take off on an adventure of a lifetime. Together with her younger brother Jamie ( who is financin read more
British Pathé: Bicycle of the Future aka Moulton Bicycle ( 1963 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 10, 2020
Leave it to the Brits to re-invent and improve upon something that seems perfectly suitable already. That's exactly what Dr. Alex Moulton did with the bicycle. Moulton was dissatisfied with the large wheels and diamond frame of traditional bicycles and decided to create his own. His new creatio read more
From the Archives: High Barbaree ( 1947 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 4, 2020
Who said you can't kiss with a mask on? Van Johnson and June Allyson prove that it can be easily done in this photo from a scene from High Barbaree ( 1947 ). From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share photos from the Silverbanks Pictures collection. Some of these m read more
Horror Hotel aka City of the Dead ( 1960 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Oct 31, 2020
"Is it Whitewood you seek?" A tall distinguished-looking man asks this of Nan Barlow ( Venetia Stevenson ) when she comes to a crossroads one dark, foggy evening searching for an old village. It is indeed Whitewood that Nan seeks. After hearing her college professor Alan Driscoll ( Christopher read more
TV/Movie Set: Bedknobs and Broomsticks ( 1971 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Oct 30, 2020
It has been a long, long time since we have featured a TV/Movie set article, so to bring the series back to life, my sister and I selected a house design that we have loved for years - the Bedknobs and Broomsticks manor. It's so fitting for this time of year, too. This beautiful English Tudor b read more