WAIT UNTIL DARK was my first dramatic play, previously I had seen a couple of musicals. Although there's two years between us, my sister and I attended the same high school, Grover Cleveland. One day in October 1966, I came home to tell her that my English teacher singled me out since he knew I was ...

My first viewing of You Only Live Once was on the big screen at the Film Forum, paired with another Sylvia Sydney movie, You and Me (also about an ex-con but this time it's Sylvia) with George Raft. I enjoyed both films quite a lot, the Lang one being the better. I am in the minority in that I am n...

The director of The Lineup , Don Siegel, would return to San Francisco for Dirty Harry . Apparently on the second film, he ran into a beat cop who wasn't too impressed by the Hollywood crowd. They had words while Siegel was shooting The Lineup , and when they ran into each other again over a decade ...

Did anybody watch Riffraff yesterday - or at any other time? Had RKO made this one with Robert Mitchum or Dick Powell in the lead, it would probably be more highly regarded. But an obviously aging Pat O'Brien doesn't exactly do the film any harm, and Anne Jeffreys is there to help him out in the cli...

And clore, congrats for the win bet on Orb. I'm hoping he'll win the Preakness. Too bad he drew the #1 post. Well, I don't deserve the credit for that, it all goes to the horse. I had posted two hours before the race that I was tossed between Orb and Itsmyluckyday. My criteria for the wager was tha...

I only found that photo while looking for another one from a driver's license of about 10 years earlier vintage. With much longer hair and a beard, I ended up looking like Charles Manson in that pic.

Bill Cannon ( Dan Duryea ) is a Loser in L.A. He loses jobs due to his drinking and now he is losing his beloved wife and little girl. His wife and daughter take off cross-country one morning to stay with her people. Bill is crushed. The next morning, as a guy from the phone company is disconnectin...

Thanks alot for the info on Sporting Blood on the TCM schedule and that great list of horse racing movies--I've only seen some! Say, clore, who's that handsome dude in your avatar? Oh thank you, you're my new best friend. That's me some 30 years ago. Believe it or not, it was my driver's license ph...

You're welcome - it's one that I've never managed to see, so I'm looking forward to it. And then the next day is The Preakness, but I doubt that I'll be wagering on it. I want Orb to win, but the odds will be too low. I had him in the Derby and we'll never see those odds on him again. Four years ago...

There's a 1940 film titled SPORTING BLOOD on TCM tomorrow afternoon. No relation to the earlier film of the same title, it stars Robert Young and Maureen O'Sullivan.

I was happy to be able to finally see Scott's COAST GUARD the other night. Not that it was any great shakes, but there were some convincing effects and the cinematography was quite good for a programmer. Oddly enough, the cinematographer was Lucian Ballard who also shot BUCHANAN RIDES ALONE and RIDE...

According to calvinnme's post on the TCM Message Boards, August 19 will be Randolph Scott day: Monday AUgust 19 - RANDOLPH SCOTT 6:00AM Badman's Territory (1946) 7:45AM Trail Street (1947) 9:15AM Return of the Badmen (1948) 11:00AM Riding Shotgun (1954) 12:30PM Bounty Hunter (1954) 2:00PM Tall Man R...

In some cases, it's a matter of reissue prints or early TV prints being issued in black-and-white. Sometimes both - I can recall a friend and I anxiously awaiting a 1967 airing of the 1943 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA on TV and while the credits had the reference to Technicolor, the print was black-and-whit...

Maybe a color print will show up. For years TCM was airing only the monochrome print of THE CARIBOO TRAIL, another Scott western. Then, a few years ago they premiered a color print.

Scott and Jory are on again this Saturday (5/11) in CANADIAN PACIFIC.

I saw Kurt Russell and his father the other night in a rerun of THE FUGITIVE on Me-TV.