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Well, here we speak mostly about movies. But let's not forget, that some tv series can be awesome as well. here you can reccomend your most liked series.

Everything you wanted to know about The Beverley Hillbillies. The Beverly Hillbillies movie (with a new cast) bombed at the box office. Interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkrOeOFzsT0

THIEF OF BAGHDAD  -  Sabu and Douglas Fairbanks Junior. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpZubZ0K1zI LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1936) Randolph Scott. His best role in a film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpZubZ0K1zI THE PIRATES OF CAPRI  - Louis Hayward - similar to The Scarlet Pimpernel with Leslie Howard.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO-8FVMmvfE AND THEN THERE WERE NONE  - Louis Hayward -  based on the Agatha Christie novel TEN LITTLE INDIANS  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSGqDyTuaSE STALAG 17  - William Holden -  Otto Preminger - Peter Graves  -  American P.O.Ws in a WWII German prison camp.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKc2GJk2OLQ RED RIVER (1948) - directed by Howard Hawks - starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan and John Ireland          https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2c0473   THE GREAT RACE - Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Jack Lemon, Keenan Wynn  -  One of the best Comedy motion pictures of all time.   https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x732guv  

Smoke Signals begins with two young men catching a commercial bus from the Coeur d' Alene Indian Reservation in Idaho to Phoenix Arizona. They are walking along a road on the reservation when a car with two Indian girls is approaching them going in reverse. The girls know the protagonists,Thomas and Victor, so they stop and pick up the two and drive them to the main road where they can catch their bus. The girls are laughing as they drive backwards up the road. The girl driving the Chevy backwards has turned sideways in the front seat looking out the rear window with one hand on the steering wheel steering the car. White people watching this movie probably think this is just a bizzare twist in a comedic movie. On the other hand, every Native American living on The Res watching knows this Indian car can only be driven backwards because it is locked up in reverse gear. The car can't be driven in a forward direction. The car in some way is a symbol of reservation life. That is what it means to be poor. As a friend of mine from The Pine Ridge Reservation once remarked, "It's hard to be an Indian." That is what this movie is about but the story is told in a humerous way. It is for some aficionados a cult classic. For myself the Coeur d' Alene Indian Thomas is an unforgetable character. Adam Beach (Windtalkers) probably got his professional start in this film. He is quite a bit younger as the main character Victor.

Came across these short subjects on Turner Classic Movies a few years back and i find them absolutely fantastic. Take a look for yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk8_PWp1csc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghvf2iU2Odo Top is only a preview, next is the full 18 minute episode.  

The Roman Conquest of Greece 2 hour video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5q1rerf-qw

LEAH CHASE: The Queen of Creole Cuisine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKUumdYNecY

A way to watch this film other than Youtube. Here is the chance to watch the original Moulin Rouge with Jose Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Colette Marchand. The film has been remastered and this is free and not a Youtube presentation. Colette Marchand was absolutely believable as a heartless Paris prostitute. What a fine performance ! It was not Jose Ferrer's only best actor award, and Zsa Zsa Gabor was cast to perfection as the flighty Parisian courtesan. Many of the dancers were from the Paris ballet school. Excelllent English subtitles in block lettering. I personally consider this the finest film ever made. No accounting for taste, but Citizen Kane, The African Queen and Casablanca don't do it for me. This film has much greater humanity and ethos. https://vikv.net/watch/moulin-rouge-1952/

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Play the Card Games Spades. Bid on the Tricks You and Your Partner Will Take. Spades Are Trump. https://cardgames.io/spades/

The Marlon Brando film SAYONARA ranks close to his others like Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata or On The Waterfront. Written by the novelist James Michener some of whose other books were made into movies, namely South Pacific and Hawaii. Sayonara won four Academy Awards, but due to the subject matter the reruns were not often televised. The plot or story of Sayonara is set in Japan near the end of the post World War II American armed forces occupation of the country and the beginning of The Korean War in 1950. Japan made its economic comeback supplying American fighting men with tanks, trucks, guns, ammunition and equipment in the war against the Chinese and North Korean armies. Japan and Okinawa became bases close to the front where the cost of shipping war materials was much cheaper than from California and Washington state. Japan's military had occupied Korea from the turn of the century until the end of World War II. Marlon Brando plays a pilot flying F-100 Sabre Jets against Russian built MIGs, and the actor comedian Red Buttons plays an air force sergeant, his flight line jet mechanic. Both of them fall in love with Japanese women, and both are forced by different circumstances to give them up. Love does not triumph against the clash of cultures, and James Michener makes a statement about race prejudice in the US military. The film pulls at the heart strings while Brando's awful Southern accent irritates.

Harry Mark Petrakis was an American novelist and writer of short stories. He was best known for depicting the life of Greek-American immigrants in the Greektown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Anthony Quinn played the lead in this movie. He was cast again as a Greek character in the Harry Mark Petrakis novel A Dream of Kings. Quinn was chosen for the part after having played Zorba the Greek. The background for the film was Chicago. A DREAM OF KINGS 11 minute trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpb92z91aBM

The Battle of Shiloh 15 minute history. April 6-7 1862. The cost of the victory was high. More than 13,000 the Union army's approximately 62,000 troops were killed, wounded, captured or missing in two days of fighting. Of 45,000 Confederates engaged, there were more than 10,000 casualties. The Battle of Shiloh or Battle of Pittsburgh's Landing was an earlier American Civil War battle in which one of my great great grandfathers died serving in an Iowa regiment of the Union Army. Shiloh was an early victory for General Ulysses Grant. Experienced veteran Confederate commander General Albert Sidney Johnston was killed on the battlefield rallying his troops, which was a significant loss to the Confederacy. Union General Lew Wallace, after the civil war, wrote the novel BEN HUR, which on film became a vehicle for Charlton Heston's movie stardom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpE7BOFqfrc

THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE 1 hr 15 minute film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCvoTKXcy4o Author Stephen Crane's novel based on the war stories told to him as a teenager by veterans of the America Civil War. The story was so real that one man swore he fought alongside Crane at The Battle of The Wilderness. Stephan Crane was himself too young to have fought in that conflict. 1951 film version Preview with Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin and Arthur Hunnicut. Audie Murphy was awarded with The Congressional Medal of Honor in World War II and Bill Mauldin was the American GI's favorite cartoonist. "That cow accidentally got in the line of fire. Wake up the cooks." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLdXhaW8bLs

"Both North and South they know my fame, Grey Ghost is what they call me, John Mosby is my name." By Tom Morrow One of Robert E. Lee’s most dependable commanders during the Civil War was John Singleton Mosby. Unless you’re a serious student of history, the name may not be well-known to you – that is unless you’re were a 1950s TV fan. The TV show’s music gave a good indication of who he was. Young people across America were singing the opening theme music: “Gray Ghost is What They Call Me, John Mosby is my name.” The show’s 39 episodes ran from 1957 to 1958, starring Tod Andrews. The real Mosby was, indeed, at times a “ghost” to Union forces. He was born Dec. 6, 1833. Mosby was a Confederate army cavalry battalion commander. His command, the 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, known as “Mosby’s Rangers” or “Mosby’s Raiders,” was a partisan ranger unit noted for its lightning-quick raids and its ability to elude Union Army pursuers and disappear, blending in with local farmers and townsmen. In the beginning, Mosby spoke out against secession but joined the Confederate army as a private at the outbreak of the war. He participated in the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) in July 1861. In January 1863, J.E.B. Stuart authorized Mosby to form and take command of the 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry. This was later expanded into Mosby’s Command, a regimental-sized unit of partisan rangers operating in Northern Virginia. The 43rd Battalion operated officially as a unit of the Army of Northern Virginia, subject to the commands of Robert E. Lee and Stuart, but its men lived outside of the norms of regular army cavalrymen. Mosby’s men had no camp duties and lived scattered among the civilian population. Mosby required proof from any volunteer that he had not deserted from the regular service, and only about 10 percent of his men had served previously in the Confederate Army. In March 1863, Mosby conducted a daring raid far inside Union lines near the Fairfax County courthouse. He and his men captured three Union officers, including Brig. Gen. Edwin H. Stoughton. Mosby wrote in his memoirs that he found Stoughton in bed and roused him with a “spank on his bare backside.” Upon being so rudely awakened the general indignantly asked what this meant. Mosby quickly asked if he had ever heard of “Mosby.” The general replied, “Yes, have you caught him?” “I am Mosby,” he said. “Stuart’s cavalry has possession of the Court House; be quick and dress.” Mosby and his 29 men had captured a Union general, two captains, 30 enlisted men, and 58 horses without firing a shot. Mosby was formally promoted to the rank of captain two days later, on March 15, 1863, and major on March 26, 1863. The partisan rangers proved controversial among Confederate army regulars, who thought the rangers encouraged desertion as well as morale problems in the countryside as potential soldiers would favor sleeping in their own (or friendly) beds and capturing booty to the hardships and privations of traditional military campaigns. Mosby was thus enrolled in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States and soon promoted to lieutenant colonel on January 1864, and to colonel later that year. Mosby thus carefully screened potential recruits, and required each to bring his own horse. On Nov. 11, 1864, Mosby wrote to Gen. Philip Sheridan, the commander of Union forces in the Shenandoah Valley, requesting that both sides resume treating prisoners with humanity. He pointed out that he and his men had captured and returned far more of Sheridan’s men than they had lost. The Union side complied. With both camps treating captives as “prisoners of war” for the duration, there were no more executions. Ironically, after the war, Mosby became a Republican and worked as an attorney and supported his former enemy’s commander, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. He also served as the American consul to Hong Kong and in the U.S. Department of Justice. Many years after the war, Mosby befriended the Patton family in California and spent time at their ranch with their young son, George, recreating Civil War. Years later during World War II, General George S. Patton would use tactics he learned from his childhood idle. Throughout his life, Mosby remained loyal to those he believed fair-minded, such as J.E.B. Stuart and President Grant, but refused to cater to Southern sympathies. He died of complications after throat surgery in a Washington, D.C. hospital on May 30, 1916, noting the day he was dying was Memorial Day. He is buried at the Warrenton Cemetery in Warrenton, Virginia. “War Loses Its Romance” is an inscription of a quotation by Mosby at Veterans Memorial at the Lackawanna County Courthouse in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The area of northern central Virginia in which Mosby operated with impunity was known during the war and ever since as Mosby’s Confederacy. The legend of “Gray Ghost” lives on.

The film's setting is the Hollywood Canteen, a free entertainment club open to servicemen. The Hollywood Canteen was created as a G. I. morale-booster by movie stars Bette Davis and John Garfield during World War II. Many of those cameoing in the film had previously volunteered to work there or provide entertainment for the war effort. They include: The Andrews Sisters, Jack Benny, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Cantor, Kitty Carlisle, Jack Carson, Joan Crawford, Faye Emerson, Sydney Greenstreet, Alan Hale Sr., Paul Henreid, Joan Leslie, Peter Lorre, Ida Lupino, Dorothy Malone, Dennis Morgan, Janis Paige, Eleanor Parker, Roy Rogers (with Trigger), S.Z. Sakall, Zachary Scott, Alexis Smith, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman, and Jimmy Dorsey. Wikipedia

HEY! Post your Favorite Film Songs here! You have got to quote the Movie the song was IN! Here are two for my friends Billy & Hoko: 1st Hoko- Theme from "The Good The Bad and The Ugly" a perennial favorite. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3gp7B8WC4Q&feature=related And... Billy- the Ghost Busters movie number 1 pop song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCHFVTQKqdQ

Angela Gheorghiu: Interviewed About Giacomo Puccini Operas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7AJYcPvJg0

Francis Xavier Bushman (January 10, 1883 – August 23, 1966) was an American film actor and director. His career as a matinee idol started in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife. He gained a large female following and was one of the biggest stars of the 1910s and early 1920s. He appeared in nearly 200 feature film roles—more than 175 films before 1920, and 17 in his screen debut year of 1911 alone. He also worked for the Vitagraph studio before signing with Metro in 1915. Wikipedia