Talk About Cinema

The trailer for the remastered edition of A Hard Day’s Night : The Beatles. They’re icons in the music industry and still continue to remain popular with fans today. The group made four theatrical films and one TV film, and today I’ll be talking about their first and my personal favorite of their movies: A Hard Day’s Night . A Hard Day’s Night follows a day in the life of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr as they prepare for a TV appearance. And that’s basically it. While several things do happen along the way, the main plotline itself is pretty simple, basically allowing us to see how the Beatles interacted with others and what antics they pulled offstage. Of course, this is all fictional, though there is some truth towards the film’s portrayal of the group. In particular, their wit in this film seems very much like the wit they often had in interviews. The writer, Alun Owen, spent a few days interacting with the Beatles to get an idea of their p

I’m not too familiar with the work of Harry Langdon, which is strange because I’m a huge fan of silent comedy and have seen lots of Chaplin, Lloyd, and Keaton’s work. With Langdon, my viewing experience has been limited to the 1939 movie Zenobia and briefly seeing the end of one of his shorts a long time ago. Considering that Langdon is often considered to be the fourth of the major silent comedians, I decided it was time I finally checked out one of his movies and see what the big deal was with him. The movie I chose was Tramp, Tramp, Tramp , which is considered one of his most popular movies. Harry Logan (Langdon) lives with his father at his shop, but when it’s in danger of being shut down, Harry has three months to collect the money that they need to pay to the owner (Tom Murray). At the encouragement of Betty Burton (Joan Crawford), who he’s smitten with, he decides to enter a walking race to California that promises the winner $25,000. Langdon’s character seems to be that

Continuing where we left off with the previous entry, we’re going to look at Looney Tunes records from the years 1950 into 1952, all released by Capitol. For those of you wondering, I’ve found out about many of these records from Walt Mitchell’s impressive discography in the book Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices . Keep in mind, though, that: 1) I do not have access to all of the records in the discography and therefore cannot review every entry in there, and 2) as Mitchell mentions in the book, there is still a possibility that there are records out there that have yet to be discovered. With that in mind, though, here are the records I’m able to review right now, from the years 1950-1952. Bugs Bunny Meets Hiawatha (1950) This is a reworking of the Academy Award-nominated cartoon, Hiawatha’s Rabbit Hunt . Personally, I’m not really a fan of the original and this one doesn’t really do much for me either. June Foray seems like a more fitting choice for Hiawatha than Blanc was,