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  1. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Not only Angel's Flight, but the Bradbury Building was a frequent setting. So linked with noir and detective movies that it was Jake Axminster's office building in the 1976 City of Angels tv show, along with Banyon, and for one season of 77 Sunset Strip.
  2. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Some silent films recently- "Sherlock's Home" (not Doyle's character), (1924), Sherlock being "Hurricane" Sherlock, the light-heavy weight champion of the world. The star is Alberta Vaughn, who played The Telephone Girl in series of short films. Full of himself, Hurricane tries to persuade...
  3. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Alexander Nevsky (1938) directed by Sergei Eisenstein, with music by Sergei Prokofiev. The latent film student in me cannot stop watching this film and losing myself in the compositions, the massive battle scenes, the semi-operatic acting and story, the stirring music, and on and on.
  4. Julian Shellhammer

    Hats and Drinks - A Match Made in Heaven

    At our previous house we had two lime trees, and picking your own limes off your own lime tree is a great feeling.
  5. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Tomorrow is Another Day (1954), a Felix Feist-helmed noir with Ruth Roman and Steve Cochran, billed in that order. In a twist, Cochran, who usually plays heavy-lidded hoods, portrays a recently released convict who spent 18 years in prison for homicide, the twist being that he went into prison...
  7. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    As alway, FF, a deeper dive with excellent results. Sadly, me posting followed by you posting is like Rick Astley announcing his retirement and immediately Elvis announcing his return.
  8. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Raw Deal (1948) with Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, and Marsha Hunt, directed by Anthony Mann. Well-done noir, with Mann and cinematographer John Alton delivering some gripping scenes and compositions. Raymond Burr is the semi-elegant gang leader for whom O'Keefe took the rap and went to...
  9. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Paths of Glory - again. Masterful film-making, powerful fact-based story, and uniformly strong performances. Via TCM.
  10. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Larceny (1948) with John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea, and Shelley Winters, directed by George Sherman. Conmen Payne and Duryea target the war widow Caulfield, preying on her by promising to raise money for a memorial to her late war hero husband. They plan to skip with the cash, but...
  11. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    A heist film in every sense of the phrase. Saw this years ago and was impressed with the step by step prep, the heist itself, and the denouement. Your last paragraph sums up quite well the conflicted audience response to rooting for criminals.
  13. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Last week it was Old Yeller and Pollyanna with the grandkids. Then, with the Missus, Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) with Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, dir. Otto Preminger. Detective Sergeant Andrews has anger issues when it come to criminals: he's on thin ice with the brass for beating up...
  14. Julian Shellhammer

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Flashing back to my youth, MST3K: Radar Men From the Moon, a chapter by chapter Msting. Just started The Crawling Eye... The Missus started The Waltons; good clean fun.
  15. Julian Shellhammer

    What Are You Reading

    Just finished The Awakening of Miss Prim by Natalie Sanmartin Fenollera. Character's full name is Prudencia Prim, who answers a newspaper ad for a librarian for the resident of the small village of San Irene de Arnois (presumably in France?). The employer who placed the ad is looking for someone...
  16. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    With the grandkids it has been Narnia films, some Star Wars, a Duck Tales. The Missus and I were able to catch a French television documentary on Sea Power, starting with the European focus on naval power in the 19th century, and the advent of modern naval power during the Great War.
  17. Julian Shellhammer

    Literature that transports you to the Golden Era

    Lizzie, you have expressed my thoughts exactly. Rather than read contemporary literature set in the Golden Era, read Golden Era literature. And, yes, we must be very aware of character types and social conventions that were a part of that era: not endorse them, but realize what we are reading is...
  19. Julian Shellhammer

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    " though I can't help but feel that sometimes the low-budget nature of so much of 1970s British TV did it huge favours in forcing the quality of the writing and performance to carry the whole rather than depending on effects and such." Excellent observation.
  20. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Super-Sleuth (1937) with Jack Oakie, Ann Sothern, and Eduardo Ciannelli, dir. by Benjamin Stoloff. Oakie plays an actor who appears as a detective in the movies, and Sothern is the publicity chief for the studio. Someone begins threatening Oakie via poison pen letters. High-speed hijinks and...
  21. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Wowsers, perhaps I've spent too much time in front of the monitor- Week before last, it was the CGI re-boot of Jungle Book, followed by the live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast, both watched with the grandkids. Then, this week, we were cooped up in a hotel room while the house was...
  22. Julian Shellhammer

    What Are You Reading

    John C. Calhoun, subtitled American Portrait, by Margaret L. Coit. Published in 1950. My copy may be from that year; I cannot find a more modern ISBN. Well-written, with copious notes, an insight to both a political leader and the transformation of the early US from a loosely-connected political...
  23. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Ocean's 11 (1960) directed by Lewis Milestone, who also gave us All Quiet on the Western Front, Of Mice and Men, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, and tons more. Starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson, and a boatload of familiar faces. Ex-Army...

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