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Rome Express ( 1932 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Oct 12, 2019
"Romance and Adventure Roaring Through the Night!"
A valuable Van Dyck painting has been stolen from an art museum in Paris and the thief ( Conrad Veidt ) is onboard the Rome Express heading to Italy. This sinister criminal is in search of a Mr. Poole ( Donald Calthrop, Blackmail ) who snatched the read more
The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Oct 10, 2019
A man, a gate, and a fountain.....put your thinking caps on for this one because we think this is a really challenging round of The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game. Stay tuned later this month, for on Halloween we are going to have a special edition of The Impossibly Difficult Name that Mo read more
The Spoils of Poynton ( 1970 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Oct 3, 2019
Adele Gereth ( Pauline Jameson ) has amassed antique treasures that she and her late husband collected from around the world. She stores all of these in her Jacobian estate "Poynton". She hopes to pass Poynton and its furnishings to her son Owen ( Ian Ogilvy ) and the woman he chooses as a bride, bu read more
Character Jugs ( 1955 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Sep 29, 2019
If you love arts and crafts, then today's British Pathe newsreel is truly fascinating.....we are given a quick tour of the Royal Doulton factory to watch how Toby character jugs are being made. The earliest of these Toby jugs date back to the mid-1700s and the process of how they are made has change read more
Catacombs ( 1965 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Sep 23, 2019
"Their plan was murder.....their reward was terror!"
Ellen Garth ( Georgiana Cookson ) is a wealthy and astute British businesswoman whose money and power have been used to buy herself a husband to help care for her. Raymond ( Gary Merrill ) is charming and devoted to helping her but has no love for read more
The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Sep 21, 2019
Keep a sharp lookout, mate! Do you think something may fall from the sky or are you examining the clouds?
This screenshot comes from a movie that you may have seen. If you can name the film it is from, you've won this round of the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game....but you'll never read more
From the Archives: The House of Seven Hawks ( 1959 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Sep 18, 2019
"Just what does this paper mean?" Robert Taylor seems to be asking. It is obviously written in Dutch and he thinks the Frenchwoman Nicole Mauray would know Dutch....and he is correct, in "The House of Seven Hawks" ( 1959 ) she does! This film was one of Robert Taylor's lesser-known pictures, but it read more
The Prince and the Pauper ( 1962 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Sep 14, 2019
Mark Twain had a knack for writing stories that appealed to the common people, especially to children. Most everyone has at one time imagined what it would be like to switch places with someone else. The grass is always greener on the other side. And, in this case, the grass just happens to be in th read more
The Private Life of Henry VIII ( 1933 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Sep 8, 2019
The name of Charles Laughton has become synonymous with that of King Henry VIII, a role that he portrayed both onscreen and on stage. Laughton was 34-years old when he played the part of this beer-gulping, head-chopping monarch, and his delightfully raucous portrayal remains a highlight in a career read more
At the Earth's Core ( 1976 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Aug 30, 2019
Kevin Connor is best known for directing a series of rather cheesy popcorn sci-fi/adventure film adaptations of Edgar Rice Burrough novels, a series which began with The Land That Time Forgot ( 1975 ). Most of the films had great casts, adequate special effects and plenty of Jules Verne-ion at read more
Professor Piccard "10 Miles Above the Earth" ( 1931 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Aug 25, 2019
Today's newsreel from British Pathé is quite fascinating - Professor Augustes Piccard has just landed in Switzerland ( May 27, 1931 ) after becoming the first human being to enter the stratosphere. He reached an altitude of 51,775 ft ( nearly 10 miles ) in his unusual spherical gondol read more
From the Archives: Dorothy Provine and Jody McCrea
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Aug 23, 2019
Dorothy Provine and Jody McCrea ( son of Joel McCrea and Frances Dee ) are seen out on the town in this 1960s candid photo. Dorothy Provine dated a number of men in the late 1950s-early 1960s including Frank Sinatra, Alan Ladd Jr., Richard Chamberlain, Glenn Ford, and Roger Moore, but this "date" wi read more
Assignment in Britanny ( 1943 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Aug 14, 2019
"Every second throbs with suspense and danger!"
For once, those exclamatory theatrical heralds were right: Assignment in Brittany is packed to the brim with non-stop adventure. There is so much fast-paced excitement that if you do not have your ears peeled, you may lose some of the plot line. read more
The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Aug 12, 2019
Get a load of these two salty seamen with their mustaches and pipes. What could they be staring at? A giant sea monster? A ghost ship? Or perhaps a lifeboat drifting towards their boat? Don't let us throw you off course. If you've seen the film this screenshot is from, then you'll know what they are read more
Nor the Moon by Night ( 1958 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Aug 4, 2019
"The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night." - Psalm 121:6
After years of caring for her mother, gentle nurse Alice Lang ( Belinda Lee ) decides to fly out to Kenya to marry gamekeeper Andrew Miller ( Patrick McGoohan ). Alice has never met Andrew but they have been correspon read more
20 Great Little Known British Films of the 1940s-1960s
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Aug 3, 2019
The great film studios of England ( Rank Pictures, London Films, Gainsborough Pictures, Ealing Studios, Janus Films ) made so many wonderful pictures that have fallen into obscurity over the years - not so much in England, but certainly here in the States. So to help remedy that situation and expose read more
Gun Glory ( 1957 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jul 27, 2019
Philip Yordan's western novel "Man of the West" was brought to the screen in beautiful Cinemascope as Gun Glory ( 1957 ) with the great Stewart Granger taking on the lead role of Tom Early.
It is 1880s Wyoming, and Early has just returned to the town he calls home after spending years away read more
Tribute to a Bad Man ( 1956 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jul 25, 2019
"I was a boy when I entered Mr. Rodock's valley but when I left I wasn't a boy anymore. I had picked up a few pointers about how men died quickly and how they kept from dying quickly; how to be cruel and how not to be cruel; and what love isn't, and what it is."
Steve Miller ( Don Dubbins ), a Penn read more
Favorite Western Films - A Photo Collection
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jul 22, 2019
Legends of Western Cinema Week is taking place right now and since we love westerns, it was very difficult to decide which film/actor to write about for the event. We'll be taking part by contributing western reviews of two favorites: Tribute to a Bad Man ( 1956 ) and Gun Glory ( 1956 ).....but, sin read more
Special! The Moon ( 1969 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jul 18, 2019
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Neil Armstrong took those famous first steps upon the lunar surface for all of mankind on July 21, 1969. It was an unprecedented achievement that took years of research and experiments. It also took ten prior Apollo missions to make read more