I totally remember Chiller Theater. Just like Bruce, my early years, growing up
in Columbus, Ohio, we hard Tarzan Theater, Shirley Temple, Charlie Chan, Abbott
and Costello, and the 3 Stooges every Saturday morning. I use to watch the
cartoon line up, then Sky King and Roy and Dale (Happy Trails to You!!) and
then some old movie series. Then onto L.A. and, not only the Million Dollar
movie, but another one every Saturday and Sunday afternoon with Bob somebody
(his last name escapes me) in my later teen years and so on. It's funny how we
all were growing up in different parts of the country watching the same things
and here we are, all these years later, still into those same movies. Great,
huh!!
Sue
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:26:07 -0800From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [MOPO] Fun
MOPO ThreadTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did see the Alice Faye musicals in the
1960sAlexander's Ragtime Band was one of them.between Million Dollar Movie &
Chiller Theatre.. I was in weekly film heavenAt 01:20 PM 11/10/2008, Bruce
Hershenson wrote:
As a pre-teen in New York in the late 1950s/early 1960s, they showed ALL the
Shirley Temple movies on Saturday mornings, as well as most of the Bowery Boys,
and the Charlie Chans. So I knew all those series inside and out, but oddly,
they never seemed to show hardly any Twentieth Century Fox musicals, and to
this day I don't know that I have ever seen even one movie with Alice Faye or
Betty Grable (major gaps in my film education, I am sure). I watched the Bowery
Boys every week. and somehow never got tired of them. I was amazed years later
to learn that the little Sweet Shop owner, Louie, was actually Loe Gorcey's
father! Here was Leo slapping and abusing his own father in every movie. I
guess there wasn't something Freudian going on there! BruceOn Mon, Nov 10, 2008
at 12:02 PM, Susan Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
I pretty much grew up here in Los Angeles. There use to be a program on called
"The Million Dollar Movie" and the same movie played every night at 8:00 p.m.,
twice on Saturday and twice on Sunday. Every week brought a new movie. I had
always been a movie fan but this really got me into viewing every nuance. I saw
movies that I probably would have never seen otherwise, and often watched them
all nine times they were on in a week. Great movies like Damn Yankees, The
Searchers, alot of old westerns and so many more. One in particular was Boy on
a Dolphin that I thought was so great when I was a kid but when watching it
years later, while it had some nostalgic moments for me, the film was not as
great as I remembered it. Ah...those were the good ol' days.
Sue
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> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 19:19:19 -0800
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [MOPO] Fun MOPO Thread
> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
>
> I got to thinking that when I was a kid, there were a few movies that
> were on television ALL THE TIME. What was odd about this is that
> these just weren't the kind of movies one would expect to see
> constantly for years (during the 60s and 70s) in a market like
> Phoenix, AZ.
>
> One that seems really strange now is SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER with Monty
> CLift, Liz Taylor, and Katharine Hepburn. I must have seen that film
> ten or twenty times on local TV in Phoenix. Another odd one was
> Joseph Losey's THE SERVANT with James Fox, Dirk Bogarde, and Sara
> Miles. Always on TV.
>
> The weirdest film was one called THE PICASSO SUMMER with Albert Finney
> and Yvette Mimieux. For some reason, that particular film played
> almost monthly for a few years. It was an absolutely unwatchable
> comedy/drama about a married couple driving around Europe trying to
> run into Picasso.
>
> Anyone else on MOPO have such odd memories?
>
> Channing Thomson in San Francisco
>
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