#Bales2023FilmChallenge September 7: deli meat for #NationalSalamiDay

#ArnoldLaven's The Monster That Challenged the World (1957) is one of the earliest, if not thé earliest, example of this peculiar movie and television trope: the coroner's lunchbreak. Having some cold cuts over some cold cuts never gets old. Or appetising.

#TimHolt #AudreyDalton #HansConried #monsters #SciFi #horror #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film

70 years ago:
Johann Mouse (US)
At the home of Viennese composer Johann Strauss lived Johann Mouse. Whenever the composer played his waltzes, the mouse would dance to the music, unable to control himself. One day, when Strauss was away, the house cat played his master's music. When word got out about a piano-playing cat and a danc...
1953-03-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/68986
#JohannMouse #WilliamHanna #HansConried #MGM #Animation #ClassicFilm

A real oddity, a 1955 TV version of the classic movie Miracle on 34th Street. It is bizarre viewing with the look-alike cast using an edited version of the same script as the movie with a couple of very odd alternate scenes. Thomas Mitchell, Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life, comes across as a very unhinged Kris Kringle who probably should have been locked up. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ojqQMHOyQ

#ChristmasMovie #MacdonaldCarey #TeresaWright #ThomasMitchell #SandyDescher #HansConried