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The Battle-Ax And The Exploding Cigar [513] Miss Hollroy, City Federal. Your lost check still hasn't arrived. It's impossible for us to lose checks, so unless we receive full payment by noon today we'll foreclose.
Cool car as well. Pontiac Firebird. Cool, but not over the top like Magnum's Ferrari. A classy show and they never did a bad one.
This from IMDb -
Jim Rockford's license plate number, 853-OKG, was created by his agent, Meta Rosenberg (who was a producer and sometime director of the series), at the start of the show and stands for August, 1953, when Garner got his first acting job, and OKG which stands for Oklahoma, his home state, and his own last name, Garner, thereby making "August 1953 Oklahoma Garner" the full meaning of the Firebird license plate.
Tonight it's Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) starring Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon and Teri Garr. This $18 mil sifi classic has earned well over $300mil for Columbia and won Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond an Oscar and Frank E. Warner a special achievement award for sound effects editing.
There are a number of Spielberg in joke cuts in this film, including his dog appearing again as it did in Jaws, R2D2 is in there as is the shark. The Jaws theme can be heard when the mother ship is communicating with the base at the end of the movie, right before the release of the human prisoners. The list goes n.
Interestingly, the synthesizer technician/performer was the actual engineer sent by ARP Instruments to install the synthesizer equipment (ARP 2500) on the set. Steven Spielberg watched his expert playing of the equipment and immediately cast him for the role. The name of the ARP engineer is Philip Dodds and he is actually mentioned in the credits. The John Williams score was created before the film was edited. Steven Spielberg edited the film to match the music, a reverse of what is usually done in film scoring. Both Spielberg and Williams felt that it ultimately gave the film a lyrical feel.
.... I don't think we could have asked for a more beautiful evening, do you? Okay, watch the skies please...:eyebrows:
Tonight I am going to watch the 1948 Film Noir "The Naked City" which has just been released on Bluray today. William Daniels deservedly won an Oscar for cinematography, as did Paul Weatherwax for film editing. Directed by Julius Dassin and starring Barry Fitzgerald as Detective Lt. Dan Muldoon and Frank Conroy as Captain Donahue.
Most of the street scenes were shot on location in New York without the public's knowledge. Photographer William H. Daniels and his uncredited assistant Roy Tripp filmed people on the streets using a hidden camera from the back of an old moving van. Occasionally, a fake newsstand with a hidden camera inside was also set up on the sidewalk to secretly film the actors. Director Jules Dassin hired a juggler to distract the crowds, and also hired a man to occasionally climb up on a light post and give a patriotic speech, while waving an American flag to get the crowd's attention.
Producer Mark Hellinger, who narrates the movie, died of a heart attack before the film was released into theatres. Following Hellinger's death, executives at Universal Studios were ready to scrap the movie. They had no idea how to market it, and feared it would be a box office failure. But Hellinger's family reminded the studio that Hellinger's contract for the film included a "guarantee of release" clause from Universal. Having no choice, Universal released the film in theatres, and were surprised when it became a hit, and received two Oscars.
Based on real events, the film was the inspiration for a half-hour television series, also called Naked City, which used the film's famous concluding line. The series ran for a single season in 1958 to 1959, earning an Emmy Award nomination as Best Drama. It was resurrected in the fall of 1959 as an hour-long drama, which ran from 1959 to 1963.
The basic plot of the film was the basis of a case players can solve in the video game, L.A. Noire, released on May 17, 2011 by Rockstar Games. In the game, the story is moved to 1940's Los Angeles.
good film, and well restored. now watching the extras.
Witchfinder General on BBC2, Vincent Price at his best
Just watched: Dad's Army, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Knowing me Knowing You with Alan Partridge, Yes Minister (2 episodes), Nazi Megastructures (giant tanks this time) and Classic Albums: Black Sabbath Paranoid.
Not a bad evenings viewing and all pre-taped so no adverts :)
Horrible movie, if even a smidge of truth in it what a truly vile individual.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy S
Don't recall seeing it although probably have.
"Witchfinder General on BBC2, Vincent Price at his best
Horrible movie, if even a smidge of truth in it what a truly vile individual."
.....Been watching some "Porridge" with Ronnie Barker....still as good today as it ever was.