When I hear the opening strains of Beethoven's 6th (Pastoral) Symphony, still to day and after over 50 years of first watching it unfold on the silver screen, I sometimes think back to how Edward G. Robinson decided to end his life in the film 'Soylent Green'... https://youtu.be/SW4-jcTnjLo And now ...

As a side note, the winner, Dominique Green, was cast in the upcoming Battle For The Planet of the Apes . Wow! Now THAT'S impressive that you know this, Rich! So, in addition to being a guru of silents, you're ALSO very knowledgeable about beauty contestants TOO, eh?! ;) Gotta admit #2 DOES have a ...

I've always felt one of the more interesting and unusual means a character willingly ends his life is shown at the end of the film 'The Light That Failed' (1939). Ronald Colman, a former British soldier who becomes a painter and who gradually goes blind and thus does not want to live any longer, ret...

Dargo, would not be surprised to read that you'd attended the following CONQUEST contest to promote the 1972 installment: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/81/2d/ac/812dacf5cd52ec286788732f0edfb82c.jpg Heck, wouldn't be surprised if you'd subbed for Gary Owens during some of that day!! Oh yeah! I was there...

Clint Eastwood (as William Munny in 'Unforgiven')

Next: brash young cowboy

'The Macomber Affair'

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Warren Beatty

Next: hotel desk clerk

'North by Northwest'


Next: a snowbound cabin

And now for the equestrians among us here. Yeah, like you, Tiki...

1931's The Maltese Falcon (...but primarily so in order to compare it to the better remembered 1941 version)

Next: featured what you consider one of the most hamish performances ever put on film

Danny Kaye

Next: a guy you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley (as they say)

Don't want to derail this much further, but to answer your question, it appears it was held at Salinas airport, per this article... https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-californian-salinas-race-track/132773645/ Thanks for this, Tex. (...you've now answered this question I've wondered about for ye...

Walter Brennan

Next: because she was just too damn sexy and sultry, always lost out gettin' the guy at the end the picture to the more wholesome female lead

T C M's screening of " THE FIRST AUTO " last night reminded me of the Riverside International Raceway as Charles Emmett Mack is said to have been killed in an automobile accident enroute to a Riverside racetrack during filming of the 1927 movie. I wondered if there was going to be expound...

One of the other fun things about THE MIND READER (1933) was that many of the women's costumes featured one of the more curious fashion trends of the time, which was to have TWO ENTIRE MINKS WITH HEADS and GLASS-EYES AND CLAWS ATTACHED, sort of lashed together and wrapped about the body- giving off...