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The Incredible Shrinking Man – part 5
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on Aug 2, 2012
With the straight pin for defense, and the other pin bent to serve as a crude grappling hook, Scott sets out to conquer his new world. But before he can do that he needs some rope for his grappling hook. He finds some thread Louise had discarded, and after a brief period of experimentation he decide read more
The Incredible Shrinking Man – part 4
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on Aug 1, 2012
What’s New Pussycat ? Scott most certainly does not want anything to with this particular house guest read more
The Incredible Shrinking Man – part 3
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on Jul 28, 2012
We’ve never done this before. Do you really want to do this ? Looking somewhat unsure just what “the cure” will do, if anything, Dr. Silver wants to be sure this is absolutely what Scott wants. Nothing in medical science ever has a guarantee on it. Scott asks how long read more
The Incredible Shrinking Man – part 2
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on Jul 27, 2012
Dr. Bramson sends Scott to see Dr. Silver. He’s is supposed to be some kind of authority. On what we don’t know, and aren’t told. Dr. Silver repeats many of the tests Scott has already been subjected to, and subjects him to a seemingly endless onslaught of new tests. The viewer is read more
The Incredible Shrinking Man – part 1
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on Jul 24, 2012
Of all the films made during the fifties, this film had a warning and a prophesy that is still relevant to this day. It warned that humankind show know as much as humanly possible before unleashing a new substance on the general populace. It also warned against mixing two unknown substances. Again i read more
The War of the Worlds – part 7
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on Jul 22, 2012
The War of the Worlds was filmed on 3-strip Technicolor film. Fantastic attention was paid to every facet of the film with respect to color. However the process was not without its drawbacks. Two strips of 35 mm black and white film negative, one sensitive to blue light and the other to red read more
The War of the Worlds – part 6
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on Jul 20, 2012
In his relentless search for Sylvia and his friends Clayton wanders through the cities endless maze of streets. During his journey Clayton sees, and we see a number of scenes that somehow look familiar. Invaders from Mars and other worlds seem to take great offense at the existence of water to read more
The War of the Worlds – part 5
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on Jul 17, 2012
Clayton shows off his manliness by beating a completely defenceless machine to a pulp. When Clayton put the remains of the probe in a cloth Sylvia discovers its oozing a moist liquid – Martian blood. She tries to comprehend all that has gone on, tries to rationalize it, and fails miserably. Bu read more
The Old Movie House is 1 year old !
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on Jul 13, 2012
July 14 2011…has it been a year ? It seems like just yesterday when this blog was started. Time flies when you’re having a ball. One of the things I learned in the past year is there are a lot of good movies out there. Some films were made on shoe string budgets, and developed a very dev read more
The War of the Worlds – part 4
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on Jul 11, 2012
With the demise of Pastor Collins the Marines attack the Martians. Tanks, rockets, and artillery are all used, but none of them can penetrate their shields, something Clayton Forrester refers to as to as a “protective blister”. Colonel Heffner had just ordered everybody in the bunker to read more
The War of the Worlds – part 3
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on Jul 5, 2012
No, this fellow did not eat a WW2 surplus donut The marines come to aid of Linda Rosa with everything they have. Rifles, pistols, artillery guns, flamethrowers. If it can used as a weapon they have it. The one thing they don read more
The War of the Worlds – part 2
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on Jun 30, 2012
Every town or city, regardless of its size, needs something to bring it together. In this particular case the town of Linda Rosa has a thing, which they think is a meteor. Even though some of the town folk think it behaved rather oddly to be a meteor, the most common explanation for what it is is th read more
The War of the Worlds – part 1
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on Jun 28, 2012
I first encountered the story in Classic Comics. I was about ten. Shortly after reading the Classic Comics version I went to see the film. The theater didn’t have ushers, and it didn’t have booster seats for those of us who were vertically challenged. It didn’t have a candy stand w read more
No Highway In The Sky – part 7
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on Jun 11, 2012
First….an apology Anybody you has followed this blog for any amount of time will know that I like to illustrate my writing with pictures. Lots of them. After all, film is a visual medium,and that’s what blog is about – film. However I discovered that good crisp, quality still read more
No Highway In The Sky – part 6
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on Jun 10, 2012
Theodore Honey is in trouble. He has caused great inconvenience and discomfort to a plane full of passengers, he has frightened a flight crew needlessly, he’s caused a fruitless inspection of an airplane, he has wrecked the airplane in question causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in dam read more
No Highway In The Sky – part 5
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on Jun 3, 2012
As Sir John attempts to hold on to his sanity Sir David Moon, the president of the airline which owned the Reindeer Honey wrecked, phones Sir John to register his extreme displeasure with Honey, and RAE. News papers describing the event in lurid detail are passed out among the executives gathering i read more
No Highway In The Sky – part 4
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on May 24, 2012
Honey and Monica have a long talk with the subject being mostly Monica. She wonders who will come to her funeral. She imagines a rival will put on the greatest performance of her life, then proceed to take the role intended for Monica. Honey maintains she shouldn’t die as she has brought so mu read more
No Highway In The Sky – part 3
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on May 21, 2012
Upon entering the plane Honey wanders down the aisle in search of his seat. Stewardess Marjorie Corder, played by Glynnis Johns, notices him as soon as he boards the plane, and makes a mental note to pay a little more attention to this passenger. For he looked a little lost, and a little bewildered. read more
No Highway In The Sky – part 2
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on May 14, 2012
This man is in charge of records at the Royal Aircraft Establishment. He is in charge of keeping all literary and photographic records of all planes and tests built at RAE. When Mr Scott was chatting with his old friend Bill Penworthy Bill mentioned some things that made him feel uncomfortable and i read more
No Highway in the Sky – part 1
The Old Movie House Posted by Tom on May 5, 2012
Theodore Honey, played by James Stewart, is a man, a father, a role model for his daughter, a “boffin”, a widower, a person of deep conviction, is withdrawn, highly disorganized, cares about people, is befuddled, a Rhodes Scholar, easily agitated, a first time flyer, determined, an read more