“What does he do?”
“Oh, he’s just in business, you know, the way men are.”
This post is part of the For the Love of Film Blogathon, a new age telethon to raise funds for The National Film Preservation Foundation to help bring The White Shadow (a/k/a White Shadows), an early silent film that a certain master of suspense did just about everything for except direct — assistant director, screenwriter, film editor, production designer, art director, and set decorator, to the streaming masses and help defray the costs of adding a new musical soundtrack.
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Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Skirball Productions :: Universal Pictures / P: Jack H. Skirball / D: Alfred Hitchcock / W: Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, Alma Reville, Gordon McDonell (story) / C: Joseph A. Valentine / E: Milton Carruth / M: Dimitri Tiomkin / S: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers, Patricia Collinge, Hume Cronyn, Wallace Ford
In the Year 2022, You Are What You Eat. (September, 1973)
Posted in 1970-1979, Movie Ads with tags Brock Peters, Burn Reynolds, Charlton Heston, Chuck Connors, Dystopia, Edward G. Robinson, Joseph Cotten, Leigh Taylor-Young, MGM, Paula Kelly, Richard Fleischer, Russell Thacher, Sci-Fi, Social Commentary, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, Walter Seltzer on June 23, 2016 by WB KelsoMan, it’s depressing to think about but, for every year that has passed since I first saw this as a Movie of the Week back in the 1970’s, Soylent Green (1973) seems less and less like speculative science fiction and more like a self-fulfilling prophecy. The North Pole is a lake, GMO’s are propagating, and the decimation of the pollinating bee is the first link in a possible catastrophic collapse of the food chain. We’ve already achieved Idiocracy status, people. Next stop, Cheese and Crackers — only their ain’t gonna be any cheese. Still worth a look whether you know the ultimate twist or not due to the fantastic supporting efforts of Edward G. Robinson; from his crotchety cussing to his magnificent, Kevorkian send-off. Watch and be prepared to be really, really depressed after.
Soylent Green (1973) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / P: Walter Seltzer. Russell Thacher / D: Richard Fleischer / W: Stanley R. Greenberg, Harry Harrison (novel) / C: Richard H. Kline / E: Samuel E. Beetley / M: Fred Myrow / S: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly
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