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Good eye... something tells me we had children's rates when I was a youngster (1970s) but certainly never free!I have The Young Stranger from 1957 on mute on TCM on in the background and saw this:
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I don't remember ever seeing "Parents Free With Children" at a movie theater before - was that common back then? (Lizzie?)
Good eye... something tells me we had children's rates when I was a youngster (1970s) but certainly never free!
I have The Young Stranger from 1957 on mute on TCM on in the background and saw this:
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I don't remember ever seeing "Parents Free With Children" at a movie theater before - was that common back then? (Lizzie?)
Watched Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) today...
but I could have done without the humans interacting with other humans. lol
⇧ Thank you. Great color.
As opposed to a "togetherness" moment, in the '70s, my mom clearly saw the movies as a place to dump me on a Saturday where ~$3 ($2 bought a ticket with another $1ish covering soda and candy) got the kid out of the house for several hours. That $2 ticket was both a combination matinee special and a kid-under-12 special.
Yep. When I was five years old, my seven-year-old cousin and I would get dropped off at the movies -- didn't matter what was playing -- and get picked up two hours later. In between, we were on our own. Saw a lot of strange sixties movies that way -- Planet of the Apes, The Monkees in "Head," Peter Ustinov and Maggie Smith in "Hot Millions," etc etc etc.
Some people seem to have been born old, and it's jarring to realize they weren't. My favorite example is Charles Lane, who played mean old men on television for a very long time (well into his nineties), and when he turns up as a pushy reporter or detective or hotel clerk in a thirties Warner Bros. programmer, it take a minute for it to register for me that it's the same guy.
"Millions" is a pretty good example of the sixties caper movie, and it made a big impression on me as a little kid -- for some time after, my cousin and I would reenact scenes from it using Barbies. I forget who we used to play the Bob Newhart character.
Some people seem to have been born old, and it's jarring to realize they weren't. My favorite example is Charles Lane, who played mean old men on television for a very long time (well into his nineties), and when he turns up as a pushy reporter or detective or hotel clerk in a thirties Warner Bros. programmer, it take a minute for it to register for me that it's the same guy.
Yes, even in the mid 1950's my Mom used the local movie house as a babysitter. They had .25 Saturday afternoon movies, usually cowboy movies. I was dumped off so my mother could go shopping and have a few hours of respite. My recollection, as an introvert, the movie house was filled with kids, no adults, and it approached bedlam, popcorn thrown about, screaming and general pandemonium while all I wanted to do was watch the damn movie and get my two bits worth.⇧ Thank you. Great color.
As opposed to a "togetherness" moment, in the '70s, my mom clearly saw the movies as a place to dump me on a Saturday where ~$3 ($2 bought a ticket with another $1ish covering soda and candy) got the kid out of the house for several hours. That $2 ticket was both a combination matinee special and a kid-under-12 special.
Yes, even in the mid 1950's my Mom used the local movie house as a babysitter. They had .25 Saturday afternoon movies, usually cowboy movies. I was dumped off so my mother could go shopping and have a few hours of respite. My recollection, as an introvert, the movie house was filled with kids, no adults, and it approached bedlam, popcorn thrown about, screaming and general pandemonium while all I wanted to do was watch the damn movie and get my two bits worth.
All About Eve which only gets better with every viewing.
I own a copy of To Have And Have Not and always enjoy watching it. I'm the one in ten million person who has never really seen the similarities with Casa Blanca, even though I know they were supposedly similar; frankly, I think the movie stands on its own.To Have and Have Not from 1944 with Bogie, Bacall, Walter Brennan and Hoagy Carmichael (apparently, Ian Fleming's visual ideal for Bond!)
This is a very good movie that was even better when it was first made as Casablanca. I'm only the ten-millionth person to note that, but it's such an obvious rip-off that it hurts ,not helps, the movie as one is forced to see and judge the comparisons.
So, here goes: Carmichael is really good as the piano player as is Brennan as the alchy, but combined they are no Sam / Frenchy is no Captain Renault / other than being really fat, Captain Renard is no Signor Ferrari / Bogie as Harry is not as complex as Rick nor is his transition to freedom fighter as powerful / the closing scenes of friends going off to fight for the allies aren't even worthy of comparison / the To Have and Have Not sets are obviously fake versus Casablanca's better done fakes / Letters of Transit trump Harbor Passes / but I'll concede that Bacall wrestles Bergman to a draw.
There's more, but you get it. A good movie diminished by its shining progenitor.