MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Nothing to worry about. Just rely on savior faire. Fortunately, I have enough for two.”
George Sanders in The Golden Head
#TheGoldenHead #GeorgeSanders #RichardThorpe #cinerama
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75 years ago:
On an Island with You (US)
A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her at a Forces show, the young lad somehow believes she should be his girl. Her boyfriend is just one of those disagreeing.
1948-05-03
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/43446
#OnanIslandwithYou #RichardThorpe #EstherWilliams #PeterLawford #RicardoMontalban #MGM #ClassicMovies

83 years ago:
20 Mule Team (US)
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the roa...
1940-05-03
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/184971
#20MuleTeam #RichardThorpe #WallaceBeery #AnneBaxter #DouglasFowley #MGM #Western #ClassicMovies

72 years ago:
The Great Caruso (US)
Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons. Caruso is unacceptable to both women's fathers: to one, because he sings; to Dorothy's, because he is a peasant. To New...
1951-04-16
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/98328
#TheGreatCaruso #RichardThorpe #AnnBlyth #CarlBentonReid #EduardFranz #MGM #Movies

73 years ago:
Black Hand (US)
In turn-of-the-century New York, an Italian seeks vengeance on the mobsters who killed his father.
1950-03-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/41552
#BlackHand #RichardThorpe #GeneKelly #JCarrolNaish #MarcLawrence #MGM #Movies

91 years ago:
Murder at Dawn (US)
Mad scientist works on a death ray in his mountain hideaway.
1932-02-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/156385
#MurderatDawn #RichardThorpe #MischaAuer #Horror #PreCode #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

72 years ago:
Vengeance Valley (US)
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his hal...
1951-02-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/43384
#VengeanceValley #RichardThorpe #BurtLancaster #JoanneDru #JohnIreland #MGM #Western #ClassicFilm #Movies