Posts Tagged ‘Hitchcock’
All Singing! All Dancing!– All Free!…
From Chaplin and Keaton to Astaire and Olivier; from Kurosawa and Godard to von Sternberg and Tarkovsky; from Scorsese and Hitchcock to Ford and Huston– 300 Free Movies Online.
(Readers should be sure to look through the list to the very bottom, where they will find a list of links to more streaming riches…)
As we politely refuse butter, we might recall that it was on this date in 1958 that Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married; they celebrated their 50th anniversary just months before Newman succumbed to lung cancer at the age of 83.
You must remember this…
From Paul Rogers on Drawger: “Six drawings per movie, in sequence, no movie stars– Name that Movie.”
Consider, for example:
Though your correspondent doubts that it’s necessary, a hint: (very) early Hitchcock…
See them all here.
As we celebrate celluloid splendor, we might buckle our swash, as it was for this date in 1825 that 23-year-old Alexandre Dumas arranged his first duel. His rival slept in and missed the appointed time, so it was slipped to the 6th
While he sustained no serious physical injury, his pride may have taken a dent when his pants fell down during the fight. Perhaps compensatorily, he filled his novels of romantic adventure– The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo— with duels, battles, and daring escapades… during which waistbands held firm.
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