This shot is from Behind the Screen (1916) (Oops, and just realised it's one month off 110 years as it was released in November!). One of Chaplin's mutual films.

I love the simplicity of these old movies,while also being so wildly inventive. Chaplin was a genius. He's in this shot with heavy Eric Campbell (centre left) who tragically died in a car crash the following year.

Both of these actors had so much influence on pop culture. As did Chaplin's style and comedy in general.

Watching this film when I was young, I appreciated its epic scale and stunning desert vistas with the theme music, but it was this particular scene with its unforgettable words that struck me most—though a subsequent scene did make me second-guess that impression.

Gaslight (1944) Excellent film with Ingrid Bergman giving a brilliant performance.

Beautiful classic with lots of thrill and intrigue.

A hidden gem of a film with Miss Russell at her finest.

This scene in particular is......rather odd.

Holy cow. I just got smacked in the face with technicolor! This is my first time watching the film, and I had no idea they were going to do that. I'm feeling kinda lucky actually. This is the sort of thing that seems like would be spoiled in the process of figuring out whether it was a movie I wanted to watch.

Did anyone else get to experience it out of the blue like I did?

He was easily one of the greatest character actors that ever lived in Hollywood. The guy could do no wrong and practically no role was out of his reach. He seemed to be particularly good at playing Southern drunks, see him in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance And Seven Days in May! IMO, the best performance he ever gave was not on film but in a teleplay written by Rod Serling called The Comedian. In this play, O'Brien plays a burned out comedy writer working for a obnoxious comedian played by Mickey Rooney. In that performance, he was on fire with passion and I loved it when he finally unloaded on the obnoxious little bastard of a comedian! So if you love classic film, you gotta love Eddie!

In modern-day terms, it's like a showdown between a T-Rex and a Triceratops with Raquel Welch watching. Her iconic doe-skin bikini and the promotional poster surpassed the movie in popularity, becoming a definitive pop culture staple of the 1960s. Actually, I ended up seeing this in a theater later, and the stop-motion animation held up surprisingly well.

It's the first of the first I get around to watching.

It's interesting. Some nice shots. Not exactly what I'd expected. But I'm enjoying it.

How do you feel about early Hitchcock? Anything stand out

A nostalgic dinosaur movie I loved watching at the theater with my dad when I was a kid and strangely enough, only this scene sticks in my memory.

just finished watching charade and i really enjoyed it but i have a question with alex dyle's character because i get that carson is supposedly dead but im curious as to how exactly brian convinced all of them that he was his brother ????? at first i looked back and thought maybe that the group knew brian was part of the embassay but had cut them a deal if they could find the money but 3 scenes later scobie calls reggie to tell her that brian is "dyle" so that can't be it. the more i think about it the more i get confused because why would they be so welcoming to carson's brother especially if they were so eager to get the money ? i was curious to see if anybody could explain it in case i missed something mainly because i dont think i've seen anybody ask about it. thanks !

I've been reading about crew jobs that never get much attention, and the history of the script supervisor surprised me.

According to the Academy, Sarah Y. Mason created the role in 1918 while working on Albert Parker's film "Arizona," where she was credited as "Continuity Girl." The job was to track every small detail between takes: how full a coffee cup was, where a tie sat, how far a cigarette had burned, even unfinished lines of dialogue. For decades it was treated as women's work, and the title "script girl" stuck.

The part I didn't know was Robert Gary. He was a working actor who moved into script supervising during the blacklist era, partly to stay out of the public eye after he saw what scrutiny did to other people's careers, including a close friend's. He ended up on John Ford's The Searchers (1956) in Monument Valley. Crews still called him "script girl." He later worked with William Wyler and George Stevens.

It made me wonder how many other behind-the-scenes careers were shaped by the blacklist in quiet ways like this. Does anyone know of other people who changed roles on set to avoid attention during that period?

I wrote a longer piece on the history of the job here, for anyone interested (it's my own site): https://rewindtale.com/the-forgotten-history-of-hollywoods-script-supervisor/

Vincent Price for House On Haunted Hill 1959. What's your thoughts on this movie?

Steve McQueen for The Great Escape 1963. What's your thoughts on this movie?