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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:18:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/a35881d17fa8a3e64963a4acaf224853?s=96&d=http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://moviemorlocks.com http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/06/02/summer-time-and-the-movie-is-silly/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/06/02/summer-time-and-the-movie-is-silly/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:04:59 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=23186 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/06/02/summer-time-and-the-movie-is-silly/feed/ 11 moirafinnie Rome Adventure Poster Suzanne Pleshette's independence day from Briarcroft College Suzanne Pleshette and Troy Donahue around the time of Rome Adventure (1962) Pleshette's wakeful Prudence struggles a bit with her attraction to Donahue Al Hirt shows off his girl friend and her little friend to Suzanne Pleshette & Troy Donahue. I love Donahue's shocked expression. Constance Ford as the bookshop owner Suzanne Pleshette Suzanne Pleshette instructing Hitch g ROME ADVENTURE (1962) http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/04/28/ride-vaquero-1953-we-both-know-how-this-will-end/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/04/28/ride-vaquero-1953-we-both-know-how-this-will-end/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:39:21 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=21784 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/04/28/ride-vaquero-1953-we-both-know-how-this-will-end/feed/ 7 moirafinnie Robert Taylor and Anthony Quinn face off in Ride, Vaquero! (1953) A youthful Robert Taylor vaquero2 Ride, Vaquero! (1953) with Anthony Quinn & Robert Taylor Ava Gardner confronts Anthony Quinn while Robert Taylor looks on in Ride, Vaquero! (1953) Howard Keel, Ava Gardner, Robert Taylor and Anthony Quinn in Ride, Vaquero! (1953) Ride, Vaquero! (1953) Robert Taylor in an introspective moment in Ride, Vaquero! (1953) http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/04/07/my-month-with-the-hapsburgs-or-is-it-habsburgs/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/04/07/my-month-with-the-hapsburgs-or-is-it-habsburgs/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:52:37 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=18678 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/04/07/my-month-with-the-hapsburgs-or-is-it-habsburgs/feed/ 6 moirafinnie Empress Elisabeth of Austria Real and Pretend Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux in Mayerling (1936) Danielle Darrieux and Charles Boyer in Mayerling, reaching the end of their road Anatole Litvak Danielle Darrieux in Mayerling (1936) A teenage Romy Schneider depicted on a European collector's card Karlheinz Bohm and Romy Schneider "meet cute", falling in love with the earth, the music, and each other early on in Sissi (1955) Josef Meinrad as the pompous Capt. Bockl Karlheinz Bohm aka Carl or Karl Bohm with Romy Schneider in Sissi (1955) Vilma Degischer as Archduchess Sophie in Sissi (1955) Sissi Collection Elisabeth of Austria with her famous hair down Elisabeth of Austria with her husband, Karl Josef Romy Schneider as a mature Sissi in Visconti's Ludwig (1972) Romy Schneider with actor Helmut Berger on the set of Ludwig (1972), directed by Luchino Visconti http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/03/the-macomber-affair-1947-ernie-and-the-movies/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/03/the-macomber-affair-1947-ernie-and-the-movies/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:28:57 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=19806 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/03/the-macomber-affair-1947-ernie-and-the-movies/feed/ 3 moirafinnie the macomber affair (1947) Hemingway with Gary Cooper (top left), Ingrid Bergman (top right), Spencer Tracy (bottom left), and Ava Gardner (bottom right, with Mary Hemingway strategically placed between her and Hemingway). Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, and Robert Preston in The Macomber Affair (1947) Gregory Peck as Wilson, the self-contained hunter of The Macomber Affair Robert Preston as Francis Macomber Joan Bennett as Mrs. Macomber Robert Preston, Joan Bennett and Gregory Peck in The Macomber Affair (1947) Alexander Korda (sipping tea) and Zoltan Korda in 1948 Ernest Hemingway, kicking a can down an Idaho highway in 1959, far away from Hollywood. (photo by John Bryson) http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/11/18/the-silent-robin-a-tonic-for-the-soul/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/11/18/the-silent-robin-a-tonic-for-the-soul/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:10:17 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=16150 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/11/18/the-silent-robin-a-tonic-for-the-soul/feed/ 3 moirafinnie Douglas Fairbanks as Robin Hood (image courtesy of George Eastman House) Fairbanks boots from "Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood" (image courtesy of the New York Times) A shot of the castle walls enhanced by glass painting, but giving some sense of the massiveness of the sets in this version of Robin Hood A huge interior in Robin Hood The opening joust beginning the film, led by King Richard, played by a likable Wallace Beery One of the N. C. Wyeth illustrations that has influenced generations of Robin Hood interpretations on film, beginning with Fairbanks contribution The slide covered with a drape that allowed Fairbanks to elude his captors on the massive interior set. A shy Earl of Huntingdon (Douglas Fairbanks) is awarded his laurel for winning the joust Robin endures a romantic moment with Maid Marian tracing his image on the wall prior to his departure for the Crusades A young Alan Hale, Sr. as Little John Wallace Beery as a slightly buffoonish King Richard The raucous Robin emerges in the second half of the film http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/09/23/seeing-in-the-dark-night-has-a-thousand-eyes-1948/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/09/23/seeing-in-the-dark-night-has-a-thousand-eyes-1948/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:11:08 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=14495 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/09/23/seeing-in-the-dark-night-has-a-thousand-eyes-1948/feed/ 10 moirafinnie Edward G. Robinson, John Lund and Gail Russell in The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) Gail Russell saved by John Lund Cornell Woolrich Edward G. Robinson contemplating the duality of his nature in Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) Jerome Cowan, Robinson and Virginia Bruce in Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948 Robinson's John Triton moving through his lonely world avoiding human contact out of fear that his gift might re-emerge in Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) Robinson confronting the doctors, Onslow Stevens & Douglas Spence with his gift in Roman Bohnen's office in Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) Gail Russell and Edward G. Robinson in Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/08/26/bad-movies-i-love-kings-of-the-sun-1963/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/08/26/bad-movies-i-love-kings-of-the-sun-1963/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:47:09 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=13615 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/08/26/bad-movies-i-love-kings-of-the-sun-1963/feed/ 8 moirafinnie Yul Brynner and George Chakiris trying to work out the survival of the fittest kingsofthesunposter Yul Brynner and Shirley Anne Field in Kings of the Sun (1963) Director J. Lee Thompson around the time of Kings of the Sun (1963) George Chakiris and his hair. Shirley Anne Field on the left in her dark wig Brynner's Near Miss in Kings of the Sun Chakiris with Basehart, who is wearing one of the smaller wigs he dons in this movie Brad Dexter between Charkiris and Brynner. Please note the lug nut on Dexter's head kingsofthesun01 Yul in all his glory with Shirley Anne Field with her back to the camera http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/08/19/the-duke-vs-the-dust-bowl/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/08/19/the-duke-vs-the-dust-bowl/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:49:27 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=13405 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/08/19/the-duke-vs-the-dust-bowl/feed/ 6 moirafinnie A 1930s Dust Storm three faces west Coburn and Wayne thawing out Sigrid Gurie Grizzled but familiar: A clean shaven Russell Simpson on the left; with a dazed looking Francis Ford on the right A young John Wayne (as he appeared in Shepherd of the Hills, made shortly after Three Faces West) Sigrid Gurie with three of her co-stars. The two humans are John Wayne and Charles Coburn A lobby card for Three Faces West that focuses solely on the action sequences History Rushing Toward You: The Duke leading his not so merry band to the "new" Promised Land in "Three Faces West" (1940) Trevor Bardette, a man born with a permanent bad attitude and a 24 hour five o'clock shadow Bernard Vorhaus' autobiography, "Saved From Oblivion" (Scarecrow Press, 2000) http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/06/08/hell-harbor-a-forgotten-film-from-an-overlooked-director/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/06/08/hell-harbor-a-forgotten-film-from-an-overlooked-director/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:00:07 +0000 suzidoll http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=10961 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/06/08/hell-harbor-a-forgotten-film-from-an-overlooked-director/feed/ 11 suzidoll hellharbor3 hellharbor1 hellharbor6 hellharbor4 hellharbor5 http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/05/20/insomniac-theatre-open-all-night/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/05/20/insomniac-theatre-open-all-night/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 05:02:19 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=10311 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/05/20/insomniac-theatre-open-all-night/feed/ 10 moirafinnie Awake all night? Try watching a movie Saddle the Wind (1958) Julie London looks on as Robert Taylor tries to restrain his violent brother, John Cassavetes in "Saddle the Wind" (1958) A youthful John-Cassavetes An older Robert Taylor as a cowboy in The Law and Jake Wade Donald Crisp, in one of his older roles Character actor Charles McGraw Julie London with Robert Taylor in "Saddle the Wind" (1958) Royal Dano, whose appearance in westerns made him a familiar and possibly overlooked actor saddle the wind2