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STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR (1940) – Episode 142 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era

“The only person who ever was kind to me was a woman. She’s dead now.” Wait. What? Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Jeff Mohr, and guest host Dirk Rogers – as they witness the brilliance of Peter Lorre highlighted by the dark stylings of cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca in Stranger on the Third Floor (1940).

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 142 – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

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An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a café owner’s throat and is soon accused of a similar crime himself.

Director: Boris Ingster

Writers: Frank Partos (story & screenplay by); Nathanael West (uncredited)

Music by: Roy Webb

Cinematography by: Nicholas Musuraca

Art Direction by: Van Nest Polglase

Wardrobe: Renié

Special Effects by: Vernon L. Walker (special effects)

Selected Cast:

Peter Lorre as The Stranger

John McGuire as Mike Ward

Margaret Tallichet as Jane

Charles Waldron as District Attorney

Elisha Cook Jr. as Joe Briggs

Charles Halton as Albert Meng

Ethel Griffies as Mrs. Kane, Michael’s landlady

Cliff Clark as Martin

Oscar O’Shea as The Judge

Alec Craig as Briggs’ Defense Attorney

Otto Hoffman as Police Surgeon

Emory Parnell as Grilling Detective in Dream Sequence (uncredited)

Herb Vigran as Reporter Who Wins Cardgame (uncredited)

Bobby Barber as Giuseppe (uncredited)

Stranger on the Third Floor inhabits the creepier side of, shall we say horror-adjacent, film noir. In fact, some experts argue that it is the first example of that dark genre, later to be labeled film noir. It’s a nightmare-influenced murder mystery featuring Peter Lorre chewing on all the scenery he can. Boris Ingster directs Stranger on the Third Floor with all the style that feels as if it could have been an early Val Lewton production. Yup, it’s Hollywood expressionism, RKO-style. This film is worth the watch, even if only for two 7-minute scenes: the nightmare sequence and the interaction between The Stranger (Lorre) and Jane (Margaret Tallichet).

If you have the urge to view this early example of noir filmmaking (or is it “proto-noir?”), and decide for yourself if it is truly horror-adjacent, Stranger on the Third Floor is, at the time of this writing, available to stream from archive.org or PPV from iTunes. There is also a Warner Brothers DVD available if physical media is your preference.

For more Peter Lorre goodness, check out these episodes of Decades of Horror: The Classic Era:

M (1931) – Episode 113

MAD LOVE (1935) – Episode 81

TALES OF TERROR (1962) – Episode 92

THE COMEDY OF TERRORS (1963) – Episode 75

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by Daphne, will be Diabolique (1940, Les Diaboliques), the French classic directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, based on a novel by Boileau-Narcejac.

Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: leave them a message or leave a comment on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel, the site, or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at [email protected]

To each of you from each of them, “Thank you so much for listening!”

Check out this episode!

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felixfathom · 2 years

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letterboxd-loggd · 3 years

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Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) Boris Ingster

November 28th 2020

#stranger on the third floor #1940 #boris ingster #john mcguire #margaret tallichet #peter lorre #elisha cook jr.#charles halton #cliff clark #ethel griffies

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cheri-translates · 3 years

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Works by miaoooooo / 喵哦哦哦哦哦

🎐 limited ssr + gavin in season two

🎐 fairytales

🎐 singles’ day in the special task force

🎐 doodles of gavin (suggestive)

🎐 snowball fight

🎐 glasses

🎐 stars

🎐 memes

🎐 national treasure

🎐 well-wishes

🎐 pocky

🎐 serious expressions

🎐 when he lies

🎐 peter

🎐 a possibility

🎐 april fool’s

🎐 peace lily

🎐 snippets of daily life

🎐 soliloquy

🎐 daily quests

🎐 astronaut

🎐 the foodie couple

🎐 the “pretending you can’t see gavin” challenge

🎐 the paw pads of wolves

🎐 i'm drunk. i'm pretending.

🎐 arresting himself

🎐 a collection of bandit gavin

🎐 i like this man i can’t quite understand

🎐 the qilin deity knows nothing about physiology

🎐 happy 520

🎐 happy loving gavin day

🎐 doll

🎐 happy dragon boat festival

🎐 before the nw project

one l two l three

🎐 switched bodies

🎐 scam calls

🎐 old days date “what if” scenario

🎐 hot

🎐 water park

🎐 griffy

🎐 poke

🎐 stickman style

🎐 sanrio collaboration

🎐 sticker packs

one l two l three l four l five

🎐 son of a wealthy family

🎐 clothes? just take them off

🎐 pets

🎐 popsicle

🎐 sparky

🎐 more than a love letter

🎐 happy mid-autumn with a bunny (highly suggestive)

🎐 after you left

🎐 a sincere secret

🎐 harry potter

🎐 “caring for a boba gavin” handbook

🎐 new mystery

🎐 archangel

🎐 teasing him

🎐 the uses of a halo

🎐 commonality among the au gavins

🎐 when faced with ghosts

🎐 flying competition

🎐 common ghosts during halloween

🎐 small nightlight

🎐 don’t ask!

🎐 train ticket

🎐 captain eli

🎐 look for mom

🎐 rings

🎐 the crown prince

🎐 beginning of winter

🎐 autumn outfit

🎐 my little sparrow

🎐 wolf nibbles

🎐 happy?

🎐 legolas?

🎐 wedding frame

🎐 pinky ring

🎐 wolves

🎐 gavin and cinnamoroll

🎐 gaze

🎐 cute kiss

🎐 little chicken?

🎐 when the bandit is caught

🎐 mother’s day

🎐 formal attire

🎐 gavin and wolves

🎐 the evolved version in my head

🎐 sigh, just give me your clothes

🎐 butler gavin

🎐 wishing him happiness

🎐 a happy child

🎐 “us” is enough

🎐 a common cycle

🎐a bedtime story about the qilin

🎐 valentine’s day

🎐 kites

🎐 happy white day

🎐 touch

🎐 chibi gavins

🎐 at 9am tomorrow

🎐 new merch = new ways to bully gavin

🎐 spy x family (stf version)

🎐 spring

🎐 the bath towel

🎐 mouthing words

🎐 chibi showering gavin

🎐 high volume of gavin

🎐 check marks

🎐 before anyone else

🎐 father’s day

🎐 happy children’s day

🎐 sinner

🎐 it’s almost time

🎐 fifth birthday

🎐 happy birthday

🎐 beginning of autumn

🎐 painful

🎐 gavin’s drawing

🎐 the significance of birthdays

🎐 piggy back

🎐 fishballs

🎐 rainy days

🎐 lucid dream

🎐 very cute

🎐 acting couple

🎐 empresses in the palace

🎐 little handsome

🎐 their thoughts

🎐 lessons with officer gavin

🎐 brain

🍒 return to the desserts menu 🍒

#just a sub-masterlist coming through so I don't hit the link limit!!

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( dylan o’brien , 25 , cismale , he/him ) * hey , i’m looking for the office of griffin olson . they’re the employee who’s known around the office as the party animal , if that helps ? not to be a gossip , but i’ve heard that they’re extroverted but reckless , is that true ? i’ve also heard that they’re the one who did a line on a fax machine . anyways , here’s the coffee they ordered . ( admin sabrina , 21 , she/her , est )

hiii i’m admin sabrina and aaAAAHHHHH thank u for joining my group :’) umm a little abt me is that i’m a leo and black and i play a lot of instruments and i love ari and harry and 5sos and the driver era and marvel and bnha and i’m going to law school in nyc in the fall so AHHHHHH again but fr i love making friends so hmu on 𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚#3541 even just to chat faljsfkjsfkljj

anyways this is my boy griffin and basically............ homeboy needs to pick up a mortage or smth FJSLJFSLJFJJ

tws: alcohol and drug mentions .

* statistics .

FULL NAME: griffin lee olson NICKNAMES: griff , griffy , g FACECLAIM: dylan o’brien but exclusively this era STAR SIGN: gemini HEIGHT: 6′1″ HOMETOWN: brooklyn , ny ORIENTATION: heterosexual OFFICE OCCUPATION: lobbyist POSITIVE TRAITS: amicable , energetic , optimistic NEGATIVE TRAITS: irresponsible , insouciant , impulsive ALCHOL/DRUG USAGE: heavy for both , & has an unhealthy reliance on the latter when he’s extra stressed . only those close to him or happen to have seen him getting a $20 nosebleed ( aka doing a LINE and being a COKIE MONSTER ) will know about the drug thing , but the alcohol part is easier to find out since too often he wears sunglasses to work to cover his bloodshot eyes flajfafj THEME SONG: don’t threaten me with a good time by panic! at the disco CHARACTER INSPO: peter quill ( marvel ) , thor odinson ( marvel but specifically in ragnarok and endgame ) , deadpool ( marvel ) , sokka ( atla ) , klaus ( the umbrella academy ) , beast boy ( teen titans ) , nyles ( palm springs ) cody ko ( tmg ) , nick miller ( new girl ) , aldous snow ( forgetting sarah marshall ) & any party animal character you can think of AESTHETICS: neon signs lighting up the night , setting five alarms and sleeping through them all , cold liquor on an empty stomach , a cluttered desk and a messy nightstand , winking at strangers , and popping bubble gum . SECRET: hehehehehehehehehehe

* brief backstory .

griffin’s dad is a used-car salesman and his mom is an attorney who sells avon on the side , so g grew up knowing how to talk . it already helped that he’d been sociable from the start , oftentimes being scolded by his mom for talking the ear off of the person sitting next to them on the subway . but his parents had to be persuasive for a living and that transferred onto griffin . the popular kid to some and the class clown to others , griffin spent his middle and high school years buttering people up with his words and friendship , with his long brown eyelashes and boyish grin . it got him the last bag of chips from the snack cart , an extra five points on his calculus quiz , and free handles of liquor from the seniors . being so well-liked meant griffin was invited to a lot of parties , and that’s where the addiction began . he’s addicted to alcohol , to any drug that gets his veins feeling like electricity , to meeting strangers in loud basements and that pounding feeling in the back of his temple . this carried onto college , so griffin never really got the chance to grow up . he’d never been smacked with the reality that life isn’t all tequila shots and drake songs , and it didn’t help that the profession his parents introduced him to only required an ironed suit from him at the most . he went from one crowded room to another , this one just with more briefcases , surrounded by strangers once more and doing a line with his colleagues . now , working at masters in the heart of the world’s most vibrating city , who knows how long before griffin takes his lifestyle too far ?

* what he does in the office .

he’s a lobbyist for masters ! he’s been there for four years now . basically he works for masters as a messenger to the government . masters is huge and influential and powerful and sometimes they wanna introduce or ban or amend legislations all in the name of making them more powerful and monopolistic , and that’s where griffin comes in . his job is to basically schmooze for the benefit of the company . it sounds like a super important job and it is , and griffin does it well . he’s still immature though 💔 catch him recovering from a hangover and sleeping on his desk most days of the week .

* his personality, summarized .

super sociable and energetic when he’s not hungover , mostly nice but can get snappy if he has a reason to be . tends to ramble . the biggest party animal ever , almost to an insane amount . is down for any opportunity to get lit , no matter the time of day or who he’s with . don’t trust him for anything , he’ll forget about it but at least not on purpose . he’s loyal to the people he likes though so that’s nice !

* wanted connections .

long-term relationship on the verge of ending ( open to f / nb ) : i have a lot of ideas for this and i’d love someone to do this with soooooo hmu if ur tryna plot this mess out 👀 best friend ( open to m / f / nb ) : self-explanatory but everyone loves a fun best friends duo fwb ( open to f / nb ) : I MEANNNNNNNN B) THIS?????? drugs tw tho ( open to f / nb ) : mayb they’re crazy when 2gether 🤪 ex-friend ( open to m / f / nb ) : imagine the DRAMA ex ( open to f / nb ) : everyone loves a messy ex plot . it’s me , i’m everyone . exes to besties ( open to f / nb ) : can u imaGINE enemy ( open to m / f / nb ) : there’s definitely someone in this world who hates griffin . or on the flip side , this might be someone he hates ! maybe it’s even mutual personal assistant/intern ( open to m / f / nb ) : SOMEONE PLEASE HELP THIS MAN NOT GET FIRED . also this connection has sooooooo much potential to it too ! sibling ( open to m / f / nb ) : can be sibling-sibling , half-siblings , step-siblings , any of it ! dealer ( open to m / f / nb ) : yanno.

* i’m literally down for anything so just hmu :) i wanna plot w u all !

#masters.intro #like this post if u wanna plot n i'll slide into ur discord/tumblr ims 😎#also yes...... i picked this gif solely bc it matched the blog aesthetic #drugs tw #alcohol tw

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prttydolls · 2 years

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NOW I SEE DIXIE CHOSE HIM HE HIT DIFF 😏👍🏼💯

Cuz he got a bigger Peter ain't that right griffy? 😏😏

#HAKDBAKABWJ #Also #The fact u send each lyrics per ask

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chaoswillfallrpg · 3 years

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Below you will find the matched pairs for the task! We hope you all enjoy them! The number represents the prompt and you get to decide who will be Muse A and Muse B. Don’t forget to message a mod when you’ve finished your thread so that we may award you the points you worked hard for! Let the chaos begin!

1. Bellatrix Black || @wickedbellax & Severus Snape || @half-a-prince 2. Lilly Evans || @oh-evans & Lucille Jone || @thxleoprincess 3. Charity Burbage || @charityxburbagex & Saorise MacMillan || @inkstainedmac 4. Emmeline Vance || @auroremmeline & Sirius Black || @padfoot-chaos 5. Lucius Malfoy || @lxciuss & Amelia Bones || @ameliabcnes 6. Fenrir Greyback || @alycanthrope & Dank Longbottom || @frank-orion 7. Narcissa Black || @blondsblack & James Potter || @jamspctter 8. Edward Tonks || @badgepuff & Regulus Black || @regulus7 9. Rita Skeeter || @ritcskeetxr & Rodolphus Lestrange || @rodolphus-lestranges 10. Dorcas Meadowes || @suchadorcas & Mary MacDonald || @macmary 11. Silas Crump || @crsilas & Camille Rowle || @camille-rowle 12. Patricia Rakepick || @patrakepick & Henry Griffis || @henrygriffis 12. Rabastan Lestrange || @youngestxlestrange & Augustus Lestrange (nee Abbott) || @augustusmabbott 14. Alice Longbottom || @alicexyen & Peter Pettigrew || @peterpxttigrew 15. Harrison Bagnold || @harrisonbagnold & Andressa Parkinson || @andressa-parkinson

Below are suggested pairings we think would work well together! Please do not feel the need to complete these as they’re additional but we’d love to see them on the dash!

4. Camille Rowle & Patricia Rakepick 8. Lilly Evans & Marlene McKinnon 12. Camille Rowle & Andressa Parkinson

#cwftask #cwftask - yule market #task one - yule market

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partywithponies · 4 years

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Should you fight them? Flambeau edition

Book Flambeau:

No!!!!! Absolutely not!!! You will die!! The man is at least 6′4 and built like a tank, with a notable violent streak, a very short temper, and a habit of flinging people full bodily down flights of stairs, not to mention the man is a trained soldier, has fought and won multiple duels, and literally always carries both a sword and pistols everywhere with him for some reason. You will die, it’ll be your own silly fault, and Father Brown won’t even conduct your funeral if you were mean to Flambeau first.

Paul Lukas!Flambeau, from Father Brown, Detective (1934):

I mean you could, but why would you want to? Lukas!Flambeau never hurt a soul, you big meanie! He just wants to drink milk and pet puppies! Providing you’re not tiny or a weakling, then physically, yes, you could fight Lukas!Flambeau. But emotionally? Imagine the toll.

Bill Griffis!Flambeau, from The Adventures of Father Brown (1945):

Why not? He hasn’t really done anything to deserve it but he’s the All-American Flambeau, he can take it, and any injuries you give him will soon be nursed back to health by Father Brown and Nora the rectory housekeeper, given how he spends more time at the rectory than his own house.

Peter Finch!Flambeau, from Father Brown (1954):

Sure, by all means, go ahead, but I warn you. He’ll probably enjoy it, the kinky sadboy bastard man.

Dennis Burgess!Flambeau, from Father Brown (1974):

Burgess!Flambeau is a riddle wrapped in an enigma and a law unto himself, so this could really go either way. Feel free to take your chances if you feel lucky, but don’t come crying to me if he kicks your sorry arse.

Olivier Pierre!Flambeau, from Father Brown Stories (1984):

An interesting case, he's described as having the height, physical strength, and daunting build of book!Flambeau, but he has none of the temper or violent streak. Fight him if you must, but there’s a chance you’ll throw a punch and only succeed in injuring your own hand.

John Light!Flambeau, from Father Brown (2013):

You not only could but you should. Go ahead, fight him. Just do it.

#father brown #hercule flambeau #I have really no good explanation as to why this post exists #i can only apologise

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Quantum Leap - Season Five Review

It had been awhile since I watched season five, and some of it was better than I remembered. Unfortunately, some of it was worse.

Celebrity leaps

The Kennedy assassination? What were they thinking? ("Lee Harvey Oswald," 5.1 and 5.2.)

Quantum Leap always played with celebrity encounters as cute little supplemental by-the-ways and isn't-this-fun, like Buddy Holly and Michael Jackson, and honestly, I totally understand their desire to try something new, to do a high concept two-part episode. But "Lee Harvey Oswald" was terrible, uncharacteristically grim and unforgivably dull. Quantum Leap is a science fiction adventure show with a great deal of humor and charm. It is not a documentary.

Not to mention that Quantum Leap's raison d'etre is to fix "what once went wrong." How on earth could they possibly fix the Kennedy assassination without changing a massive event in American history? Having Sam save Jackie Kennedy, who died in the original history, was an interesting twist, but it was also a cop-out. Especially when you consider what Jackie did with her life after Jack Kennedy's untimely death. (No judgment there, honestly. I'm just saying.)

It also felt wrong to see Sam so affected and influenced by the person he leaped into that he couldn't change anything, and it's telling that this was the only way they could make the script work. We all know that if Sam had been himself, he would have found some way to stop the assassination. I understand from the internet that Donald Bellisario believed that Oswald acted alone and that it was the point he was trying to get across. And I will respond by saying that a show like Quantum Leap was not the place to do it.

"Goodbye, Norma Jean" (5.18) didn't work either, despite a good performance by Susan Griffiths as Marilyn and some enjoyable faux cameos by actors playing Clark Gable, John Huston and Peter Lawford. The big question for me again was, why? What did Sam put right that once went wrong? Supposedly, Marilyn needed to live a little bit longer and do one last film, and if The Misfits had been one of the greats, I would get it, but honestly, it's not a great film. If they had to do Marilyn, wouldn't it have been great if Sam had kept her from committing suicide earlier in her life?

The other two celebrity leaps this season were outright fun, though, and those did work.

I loved Scott Bakula doing an actual impression of "Dr. Ruth" (5.14) in an episode that featured the real Dr. Ruth Westheimer. While the double entendres were uncomfortably thick on the ground, it was pretty much the perfect celebrity leap to illustrate the differences between the reserved and prudish Sam, who had a terrible time doing a radio show about sex, and Al, who didn't hesitate to avail himself of free sex therapy in the Waiting Room with Dr. Ruth herself. We also got a timely reminder that Al has been married five times, and that he still loves his first wife, Beth.

I also enjoyed "Memphis Melody" (5.21) where Sam leaped into a young Elvis Presley. It was so much better than Lee Harvey Oswald and Marilyn Monroe because it wasn't depressing, and Scott Bakula got to sing as Elvis. Very nice. Especially his version of "Amazing Grace." (Which is not what they're singing in the photo below.)

Movie tributes

One of Quantum Leap's constant go-tos was movie tributes and/or ripoffs. In "Leaping of the Shrew" (5.3), Quantum Leap did The Blue Lagoon, and they even got Brooke Shields to guest star. You'd think that wouldn't work, but it was actually pretty darned cute. They also did Coming Home in "Nowhere to Run" (5.4), and it even guest starred an adorable pre-Friends Jennifer Aniston. But honestly, the way they got around Sam walking around while he was supposed to missing his legs was pretty darned weird.

Points for trying

I liked the idea behind "Trilogy" (5.8, 5.9 and 5.10), an interesting twist in the formula where Sam leaped into three different people while trying to save the same person, Abagail Fuller. It was almost like they finally addressed the "what happened to the person Sam saved later on" question. But the story acquired a mildly incestuous feel when Sam went from being Abagail's father figure in part one to her fiance in part two. And the idea of Sam fathering a child while not in his own body was interesting, but also weird. Although I did like the idea of Sam's brilliant daughter Sammy Jo helping out at the Quantum Leap project. Were they thinking about casting her as a permanent character? That could have been fun.

I also liked "Killin' Time" (5.5), where Sam leaped into a serial killer and had to explain the truth about the Quantum Leap project to his hostages. The best part about it was that there was actually action at the project in alternate universe 1999 as the killer escaped and Al took off after him, while Gooshie had to replace Al in the imaging chamber. I'll admit that the face paint, neon decoration and strange computer stuff didn't work, mostly because we all know now that 1999 didn't look like that. Maybe I should have taken that to mean that all of Quantum Leap happened in an alternate universe?

I wasn't as crazy about "The Leap Between the States" (5.20), the first and only time that Sam leaped out of his own lifetime, inhabiting his great-grandfather and romancing his great-grandmother back in 1862. It might have been a little better if they'd managed to resist white savior syndrome.

"Promised Land" (5.11) was a nice idea in theory, popping Sam back to his own home town with people he grew up with. Maybe a little hokey, but at least he got to see his late father one last time. But couldn't we have spent time with Sam's family again instead of getting stuck in a bank for the entire episode?

No points for trying

And then we had the evil leaper. (5.7 "Deliver Us From Evil," 5.16 "Return of the Evil Leaper," 5.17 "Revenge of the Evil Leaper")

Okay. I can see where the writers would have hit on the idea of an evil counterpart to Sam, but I thought it made absolutely no sense and was in fact never explained. Was Satan carrying on a Quantum Leap project of his own to put wrong what once went right? Although it was nice to see the characters from season two's "Jimmy" again and the carrying on in the women's prison was sort of fun, it just didn't work for me. Plus Alia's existence made Sam non-unique, which is something you don't want to do with your lead. The evil leaper concept didn't deserve to take up three full episodes of their final season.

The series finale

I hadn't seen "Mirror Image" (5.22), the final episode of Quantum Leap, since it aired, and was really looking forward to it because I remembered how choked up I was by that last scene with Beth and that final card about what ultimately happened to Sam. Unfortunately, I am sad to report that I found the rest of "Mirror Image" to be sub-par.

Sam arrived in a barroom at the moment he was born, and for the first time, when he looked into a mirror, he saw himself. That was actually a powerful scene, and it was touching that his hair had started to become gray. There were many scenes in the barroom in the coal mining town of Cokesburg that included actors from previous episodes playing other characters. I'm sure they were going for some sort of huge metaphorical what's-is with the mine collapse, but I just didn't get it.

I also thought it was sad that, even though the resolution of the series was all about Al Calavicci, we saw too little of him in the finale. Instead, we got Bruce McGill as the enigmatic Al the bartender, who kept giving Sam clues about what's going on. Was this new Al supposed to represent the God who had sent Sam on this strange journey? I suppose so.

We also learned that it was always Sam's unconscious choice to keep leaping, that his leaps would become more difficult, and at this point, Sam could choose to go home. The fact that Sam chose instead to leap back to the end of "M.I.A." and change Al's life forever was by far the best part of this mishmosh of an episode. Sam's ultimate choice was a selfless expression of love for his closest friend. It was also a radical, series-changing choice, breaking all of the rules we've come to accept as governing Sam's leaps. It was emotionally satisfying, though. So like Sam to give such a huge gift to someone else instead of taking advantage of his one last opportunity to go home. Tragic.

That last title card, "Dr. Sam Becket never returned home," really got to me way back when it first aired in May of 1993. This time, when I saw it, the one big thing that struck me was that in their rush to close down their series, they spelled their lead character's name wrong. (It's "Beckett," with two T's.) Maybe they made that mistake because "Mirror Image" wasn't supposed to be the series finale and they were forced to tack on an ending.

While that last scene with Beth, and its implications, were a worthy end to the series, and I loved the idea of Al happily married to the love of his life, the thought of a sad and exhausted Sam choosing to continue leaping forever was emotionally wrenching. In a way, it also negated everything that happened in the entire series. The Al Calavicci that helped Sam on every step of his journey is no longer the same Al Calavicci. I guess I need to remind myself that I must never try to apply logic to time travel stories.

Bits and pieces:

-- The credits for season five featured a new arrangement of the original theme song. It was terrible. Awful. Blech.

-- Notable actors: Neil Patrick Harris, age twenty, in "Return of the Evil Leaper," Stephen Root in "Goodbye Norma Jean," Hinton Battle from the Buffy musical in "Revenge of the Evil Leaper," and Meg Foster of the amazing eyes in "Trilogy."

-- Bruce McGill, who played Al in the series finale "Mirror Image," was also in "Genesis," the pilot episode. That was a nice touch, since I assume it was deliberate.

-- I hadn't known this until I looked it up, but Susan Griffiths ("Goodbye, Norma Jean") has made a career out of playing Marilyn Monroe. And Michael St. Gerard, "Memphis Melody," played Elvis several other times as well.

-- Just a general observation: when I was finished my rewatch, I figured out what years Sam leaped into the most, and which months of the year. There were very few winter leaps, which makes sense since they filmed in Los Angeles. It also makes sense that the writers would mostly choose the 1950s and 1960s because they could do more interesting period stuff. The year Sam leaped into the most was 1957 (seven times).

And in the end:

Despite this mostly negative closing review, I enjoyed rewatching Quantum Leap more than I thought I would. It was a creative series that aired at a time when there was very little quality science fiction on television, and the two lead characters and the actors who played them were exceptional. There's also no question that Quantum Leap is showing its age a bit sooner than it probably should.

There are a lot of series revivals going on right now. What would a reboot of Quantum Leap be like? I bet that in today's "it's all about the arc" environment, they could go in some truly interesting directions.

What do you guys think?

Billie Doux loves good television and spends way too much time writing about it.

#Quantum Leap #Sam Beckett #Al Calavicci #Scott Bakula #Dean Stockwell #Quantum Leap Reviews #Doux Reviews #TV Reviews #something from the archive

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popentertainment-moviereviews · 6 years

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HAL (2018)

Featuring Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Jon Voight, Rosanna Arquette, Beau Bridges, Robert Towne, Dustin Hoffman, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Norman Jewison, Haskell Wexler, Louis Gossett Jr., Judd Apatow, Alexander Payne, David O. Russell, Allison Anders, Pablo Ferro, Chuck Mulvehill, Lee Grant, Nick Dawson, Judd Apatow, Buddy Joe Hooker, Robert C. Jones, Diana Schroeder, Griff Griffis, Caleb Deschanel, Tony Bill, Leigh Macmanus, Bruce Gilbert, Lisa Cholodenko, Ron Kovic, Jeff Wexler, Adam McKay, Rick Padilla, Al Schwartz, the voice of Ben Foster and archival footage of Hal Ashby.

Directed by Amy Scott.

Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories. 90 minutes. Not Rated.

During the 1970s, movie director Hal Ashby had one of the hottest streaks of very good to classic movies in film history. Just look at this body of work in the decade: The Landlord (1970). Harold and Maude (1971). The Last Detail (1973). Shampoo (1975). Bound for Glory (1976). Coming Home (1978). Being There (1979).

Those movies racked up 24 Academy Award nominations and seven wins in the space of ten years. That’s not even counting the two noms and one win Ashby had as an editor in the 1960s for The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming and In the Heat of the Night.

Yet, when discussing the great filmmakers of all time, Ashby’s name rarely comes up.

Perhaps it has to do with the way his career came crashing down in the 1980s, releasing one critically savaged dud after another. (The only hit films he was involved with in the 80s were the Rolling Stones concert film Let’s Spend the Night Together, and he was fired as director of Tootsie early on in production and replaced by Sydney Pollack.) Perhaps it has to do with Ashby’s wild lifestyle and all-too-young death at 59 in 1988.

Whatever the reason, the man is overdue for a revival. With Hal, documentarian Amy Scott tries to reintroduce Ashby – his work, his life and his mass of fascinating contradictions – to a new generation. (It wasn’t totally forgotten – Ashby’s story did play a big part in Peter Biskind’s great 1998 book Easy Riders Raging Bulls and the 2003 documentary of the same name.)

So, what is it about Hal Ashby that makes him one of the outstanding filmmakers in what many people consider the finest decade in the history of cinema?

Hal tries valiantly to explain that, but the fact of the matter is the subject of the film was a rather inscrutable, private man. We learn some of the basics – his hippyish look and demeanor, his love affair with drugs and difficulty in relating with other people, his artistic temperament, his perfectionism and his absolute refusal to play studio games.

Friends, fans and collaborators rhapsodize about his artistic integrity and his all-abiding interest the inner lives of quirky outsiders. We hear about his battles with the film studios – who were often perplexed by his ideas but were willing to give a bit more leeway in that artistically fertile era. However, even in the free-wheeling 70s, the studios tried to impose their will on the films, and Ashby always pushed back, occasionally even refusing the studios access to his works in progress.

And yet you come out of Hal knowing a lot about his work, but not as much about the man. Which perhaps is all for the best. Hal Ashby always wanted his art to speak for him. If Hal can make people re-explore his classic films – all of which are discussed here in detail by people involved with the production – then Hal has done its job.

Jay S. Jacobs

#Hal #2018 #Movie Reviews #Hal Ashby #Jay S. Jacobs

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 4 / 10

Título Original: Office Uprising

Año: 2018

Duración: 92 min

País: Estados Unidos

Director: Lin Oeding

Guion: Peter Gamble Robinson, Ian Shorr

Música: Cody Chick, Sheldon Chick

Fotografía: Robert Brinkmann

Reparto: Brenton Thwaites, Jane Levy, Karan Soni, Zachary Levi, Gregg Henry, Kurt Fuller, Ian Harding, Sam Daly, Alan Ritchson, Corey Winston, Kenneth Choi, Barry Shabaka Henley, Rhoda Griffis, Alisa Allapach, Tyron Woodley, Mickey Gooch Jr.

Productora: Mind the GAP Productions, Lydiard Films

Género: Action, Comedy, Horror

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6251024/

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Arlington Vigil Held On Vietnam; Dr. King Leads 2,500 in a Silent Prayer for Dead

Edward Fiske, The New York Times, 7 February 1968

WASHINGTON — The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led 2,500 members of an antiwar religious group today in silent prayers for the military dead In Vietnam on the lawns of Arlington National Cemetery.

Standing under a clear sky at the foot of the white stone steps leading to the Tomb of the Unknowns, Dr. King opened the service with the words, “In this period of absolute silence, let us pray."

The worshipers were members of Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, a two-year-old group that wound up a two-day “mobilization” against the war in Vietnam this afternoon at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church.

As they stood with their heads bowed in prayer, the silence of the nearby Virginia cemetery was broken only by the clicking of heels and sharp commands of the changing of the Army honor guard at the tomb above them.

After six minutes, Rabbi Abraham Heschel, a philosopher at Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, spoke the words, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani,” or “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?”

This cry, the opening words of Psalm 22, is known to Christians as one of the seven last words uttered by Jesus on the cross.

The Most Rev. James P. Shannon, auxiliary Roman Catholic bishop of St. Paul-Minneapolis, then pronounced the final prayer, “Let us go in peace. Amen.”

At the conclusion, the crowd of worshipers, each holding a small American flag, began a silent, half-mile procession out of the cemetery to more than 40 buses that had brought them to the gates.

One of the participants, the Rev. Richard Griffis, 33 years old, identified himself as the pastor of Vice President Humphrey’s church, the First Congregational Church of Minneapolis.

Mr. Griffis said that he had discussed the war frequently with Mr. Humphrey. Mr. Griffis said he had been “disturbed by the course of the war for the last four or five years.”

The vigil of silent prayers replaced a full-scale memorial service that the organization had hoped to hold in the cemetery’s white marble amphitheater.

The Military District of Washington, the Army command that is in charge of the graveyard, refused permission to hold the service on the ground that it constituted “special pleading.”

The decision was upheld this morning by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which reaffirmed a lower court ruling that the proposed service was an “integral part" of the two-day peace-mobilization.

Robert E. Jordan 3d, acting general counsel df the Army, said late this afternoon that the participants, about two-thirds of whom were clergymen, “conducted themselves in a very dignified manner” and that the Army was satisfied with the outcome of the dispute.

In an address later at the church, Dr. King, standing in the pulpit that from 1937 to 1949 was the platform of Peter Marshall, the noted preacher, told demonstrators that the war in Vietnam was "playing havoc” with the nation's affairs.

"Somewhere along the way we have allowed the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live,” the Negro leader declared.

Dr. King, an outspoken critic of the war, later attended the annual mid-winter board meeting of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which he heads.

#martin luther king #mlk #antiwar #protests #clergy and laymen concerned about vietnam #1968 #1960s #sixties #60s

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