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The Winnetou Films - Classic European Westerns
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jun 5, 2022
The Foreign Western Blogathon is taking place this weekend over at Moon in Gemini so we are joining in on the celebration of non-Hollywood westerns with this peek at one of Germany's most popular Western film series - the Winnetou Saga. The Winnetou films were based on Karl May's popular wester read more
The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 27, 2022
A truck. That's it. How cruel can we be! Of course, there are two men in the picture but good luck trying to figure out who they are. The truck has mud splattered on it, too....if that helps. As always, if you are not familiar with the rules of The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie game or the pr read more
Announcing The MGM Blogathon!
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 22, 2022
Get Ready to Roar! To celebrate one of the greatest film studios of Hollywood, the grand-daddy of them all, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Silver Scenes will be hosting The MGM Blogathon that will take place right smack In the Good Ol' Summertime - June 26-28th, 2022. It will be a three-day read more
Dell Movie Classics: The Lost World ( 1960 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 21, 2022
In the 1950s, Dell Comics launched a fantastic movie tie-in series that featured comic books of current hit films. The majority of the titles they chose for this series were aimed at children, so Walt Disney titles often graced the cover of their comics, but also a good number of action and adventur read more
Film Albums: The Great Race : Music from the Film ( 1965 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 20, 2022
Blake Edward's classic zany comedy The Great Race featured a great cast of actors ( Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk, etc ), great location filming, great set design, AND a great soundtrack....by none other than Henry Mancini. This talented composer was at his peak in the 1960s and read more
From the Archives: Paula Prentiss in "Man's Favorite Sport?"
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 13, 2022
This beautiful headshot of Paula Prentiss was taken to publicize the Universal film "Man's Favorite Sport?", which was released in 1964. Paula played alongside Rock Hudson in this fun comedy set at a campground in California. From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share p read more
Classic Horse Racing Comedies
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 7, 2022
It's that time of year...the grass is growing green, the magnolias are in bloom - and the horses are racing! Look at 'em go! A Mother's Day Weekend tradition, the 148th Kentucky Derby once again takes place this evening so why not get in the spirit of this classic American tradition by watching read more
Way Down Cellar ( 1968 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 30, 2022
Three boys discover a secret tunnel under the vacant lot where they practice football and find that it leads to the old Burden house, where a gang of crooks is printing counterfeit money. Butch Patrick stars in Way Down Cellar, a made-for-tv movie that first aired on Walt Disney's The Wonderful read more
The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 28, 2022
Is this screenshot impossibly difficult or is this super-simple to identify? It depends on if the film this scene is from is one of your favorites - in our house it certainly is!As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie game or the prize, click her read more
Check it Out! - Rare TV Show Releases from VEI
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 23, 2022
Visual Entertainment Inc. has been releasing a number of rare television shows of the 1970s on DVD and they are currently running a great sale on these discs. You can pick up the complete series of The Protectors or The Persuaders for only $2.50, the complete collection of Angie for $5, or grab Henr read more
Film Albums: Inspired Themes from the Inspired Movies - The Fantastic Strings of Felix Slatkin
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 17, 2022
Inspired Themes from the Inspired Movies is our featured film album of the month. This is a really beautiful album to listen to and, as the title suggests, it showcases music from "inspired" films. "Religious films" could have been used in the title instead, but perhaps sales would not have be read more
Titanic ( 1953 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 15, 2022
On April 15th, 1912, in the early morning hours, the luxury liner RMS Titanic sank in the waters of the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. Over 1,500 passengers perished in one of the worst ocean disasters in history. Today marks the 110th anniversary of this tragic event, and so we'll be rev read more
Hawaiian Eye to Air on Decades TV
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 8, 2022
Each weekend, the Decades TV channel picks one television show and airs it back-to-back in a weekend marathon. Usually, the shows they pick can be seen on other channels so watching a marathon of a popular series isn't all that special, but occasionally they unearth some not-so-frequently seen serie read more
From the Archives: Maverick ( 1957 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 7, 2022
James Garner is pictured here with Diane Brewster in a scene from "According to Hoyle", an early episode in Garner's popular western television series Maverick. Some of you may remember Diane Brewster as Miss Canfield, Beaver's first teacher, in Leave it to Beaver. From the Archives read more
Film Albums - A New Series
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 2, 2022
Since it is the beginning of April - and we just began the spring season - it seems an appropriate time to begin a new series here on Silver Scenes. This is a fun one called Film Albums where we will introduce a different film or television-related album dating from the 1950s-1980s. Judging from the read more
MeTV Schedules - Old and New
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 26, 2022
MeTV has just announced a new line-up for their Super Sci-Fi Saturday Night block which includes the addition of Sventoonie, a new show based on their popular weekday morning cartoon host Toony, at 10pm EST and Batman at 10:30pm. Star Trek is now pushed to 11pm EST and Buck Rogers in the 25th Centur read more
The Avengers - You Have Just Been Murdered ( 1967 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 19, 2022
Terence Canote, the blogger behind A Shroud of Thoughts, is hosting the 8th Annual Favourite TV Show Episode Blogathon and this year I could not resist sharing an episode from one of the best British shows of the 1960s - The Avengers. The Avengers were comprised of the crime-fighting duo of Joh read more
Dublin's Fair City - My Three Sons ( 1964 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 17, 2022
There were a great number of episodes from classic television shows of the 1950s and 1960s that featured characters visiting Paris and Rome, but there were very few that had characters going to Ireland. Since today be St. Patrick's Day, we'll be sharing with ye one of the best of these rare episodes read more
The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 16, 2022
Once again we have a downright tricky screenshot to share with all of you. Most of you can probably guess who these boys are, but you are asked to name the film they appear in - not their occupation! Good luck! As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to the Impossibly Difficult Name that M read more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1978 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 11, 2022
In the winter of 1978, Scottish Television, a branch of ITV, released The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, a seven-part miniseries based on Muriel Spark's 1961 novella of the same name. The story centers on the life of Miss Jean Brodie ( Geraldine McEwan ), a Scottish schoolteacher, focusing primarily on read more