1972 was a great year for films, in no small part because of the revival of the mafia movie. But let's be clear--this had nothing to do with The Valachi Papers, starring Charles Bronson. This is a bad movie, part of the Dino de Laurentiis...
LGM film club
5 Card Stud, from 1968, stars Dean Martin as a professional gambler in the 1880s West. He's part of a card game. A guy cheats. The other gamblers, outside of.
I haven't done a logging film in a long time, which considering my long-term interest in the profession and its history seems unlikely. So let's watch this 1926 film Logging.
It's hard to put the Progressive Era more succinctly than the 1912 film The Land Beyond the Sunset, about a boy who has a terrible home life and who gets a ticket to one of those Progressive picnics that took kids out of the city...
No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by United Artists/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5873241a) Robert Mitchum Thunder Road - 1958 Director: Arthur Ripley United Artists USA Scene Still.
This is one of the truly most reprehensible pieces of government propaganda I have ever seen produced by the United States. This is Milton Eisenhower narrating a 1942 film (I.
An unfortunately canceled flight got in the way of me putting this up yesterday. But why not do it today? Here's a 1932 video of kids in Buffalo on Halloween. Ok, most of it isn't exciting, but you do get to see some costumes. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fwqwv1LbSx8
I showed the 1903 Edison film Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island for my students the other day and realized I had never put it up here. Just watching the 2.
Went back to the Budd Boetticher/Randolph Scott trough last night to check out 1959's Ride Lonesome. May watch another of their collaborations tonight. What better way to spend an evening?.
I don't even need to explain why to watch this. Just turn it up and get your funk on. https://www.youtube.com/embed/DaFwdw5P2M8
Budd Boetticher was not really a great director in the sense of being a visionary. But he was a very solid studio director who could churn out solid film after.
This is a fun little tourist documentary on Greenwich Village's hip bohemian scene in 1960. The folk music scene was just popping at this time, but the Village was well.