VIDEO TB2K Movies- Ghostbusters 1984- Driving Miss Daisy 1989- American Graffiti 1973- Annie 1982- Ben-Hur 1959- Rear Window 1954 & Housecarl's classics

1911user

1911user

Veteran Member
There are 6 movies this week plus Housecarl's classic choices (starting post #14).
I recommend watching or saving these soon.

I have simplified the format of this thread and removed the movie posters.

This thread on MAIN has the info about the movies and is the place for discussion about them.
However, all of the movie and download links for my movie choices are located in a separate,
members-only, thread in the MEDIA CENTER at this link:


---->>> Link to the thread containing the actual movie links (click this) <<<----


This should help protect the source of the movies and keep them available longer.

Click the "movies" tag at top to see a list of previous movie threads.

Movie trailers (from youtube) can be found in post #2 of this thread.​

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The first movie is Ghostbusters. This 1984 action comedy stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson.

- Three former parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.

After delving into the supernatural one time too many, the scientists and ambitious paranormal researchers, Dr Peter Venkman, Dr Raymond Stantz, and Dr Egon Spengler, find themselves out of work. Intent on proving everyone wrong, the team comes up with "Ghostbusters", a paranormal search-and-destroy service, targeting the Big Apple's rogue spirits, until they come face-to-face with the ancient shape-shifting demon, Gozer the Destructor. Now, the possessed former client, Dana Barrett, and her love-smitten neighbour, Louis Tully, are up to something, eager to usher in a new era of evil. For the first time in their career, the Ghostbusters are on to something big; however, do they have what it takes to thwart the interdimensional entity's malevolent plans?

Ghostbusters (1984) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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The second movie is Driving Miss Daisy. This 1989 drama stars Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, and Dan Aykroyd.

Daisy Werthan, an elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta, is determined to maintain her independence. However, when she crashes her car, her son, Boolie, arranges for her to have a chauffeur. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start, but they gradually form a close friendship over the years.

Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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The third movie is American Graffiti. This 1973 drama stars Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Cindy Williams, and Paul Le Mat.

- A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

Features the coming of age of four teenagers on their last summer night before college. Rediscover drag racing, Insipiration Point and drive-ins all over again in this nostalgic looks at the 60's. The incredible soundtrack brings you the most memorable rock 'n' roll hits of the era.

American Graffiti (1973) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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The fourth movie is Annie. This 1982 musical stars Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, and Tim Curry.

- A spunky young orphan is taken in by a rich eccentric, much to the chagrin of the cantankerous woman who runs the orphanage.

In the depths of the 1930s, Annie is a fiery young orphan girl who must live in a miserable orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Agatha Hannigan. Her seemingly hopeless situation changes dramatically when she is selected to spend a short time at the residence of the wealthy munitions industrialist, Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks. Quickly, she charms the hearts of the household staff and even the seemingly cold-hearted Warbucks cannot help but learn to love this wonderful girl. He decides to help Annie find her long-lost parents by offering a reward if they would come to him and prove their identity. However, Miss Agatha Hannigan, her evil brother, Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan, and a female accomplice, plan to impersonate those people to get the reward for themselves, which puts Annie in great danger.

Annie (1982) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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The fifth movie is Ben-Hur. This 1959 epic adventure is 3.5 hours long. It stars Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, and Haya Harareet. This film has a famous chariot race that was an epic task to film.

- After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

In A.D. 26-Jerusalem, the wealthy merchant and son of a Jewish family, Judah Ben-Hur, enjoys a comfortable life. However, the unexpected reunion after many years with his childhood best friend and now a Roman tribune, Messala, will lead to an eventual separation, banishing Judah to a life of slavery and imprisonment at a galley ship. Only an unforeseen and gracious act of pardon will set free the once noble prince, who is now bent on revenge, as the incendiary teachings of the Nazarene Jesus rapidly gain ground. Will Judah finally find peace in this revolutionary and enlightened new doctrine of kindness?

Ben-Hur (1959) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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The sixth movie is Rear Window. This 1954 mystery stars Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, and Thelma Ritter.

- A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Fremont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.

Rear Window (1954) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link
 
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jward

jward

passin' thru
Rear window is a fav, Ben Hur belongs in every library, American Graffiti & Driving Ms Daisy are iconic classics in the making.
Musicals were an acquired taste I picked up, n thus look fwd to Annie as well. As always, assuming I've properly appeased
the gods-o-the-internet-connections.
thanks
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Housecarl

On TB every waking moment
The Exile (1947)
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amYfHjiHhkE&ab_channel=FrontRow


Charles II (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell (1599 - 1658). Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie (Rita Corday) and spends his days happily in the quiet countryside. Unfortunately, Cromwell's associate Col. Ingram (Henry Daniell) and his men track Charles down, and the would-be monarch must resort to swashbuckling his way to freedom.

Release date: October 17, 1947.
Starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Corday, Maria Montez, Nigel Bruce, Robert Coote, Henry Daniell.
Directed by Max Ophuls.

Copyright: Film in Public Domain.

*One of Quentin Tarantino's favorite films.
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1911user

1911user

Veteran Member
Ragnarok said:
Never seen Ben Hur although I have seen the chariot race.
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The chariot race required 15,000 extras on a set constructed on 18 acres of backlot at Cinecitta Studios outside Rome. Tour buses visited the set every hour. Eighteen chariots were built, with half being used for practice. The race took five weeks to film.

The 1.6 GB size of this file is not large considering the movie is almost 4 hours long.

The trivia for the film Ben-Hur is interesting, this was a huge film in many ways:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052618/trivia/
 
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Dozdoats

On TB every waking moment
IMO if any movie deserves to be called iconic, American Graffiti is it. One of the minor players was good friend of DW's- Jim Bohan.

You remember Officer Holstein, right? Jim looked SO young then. Of course, they ALL did....

Here's his IMDB entry-

Jim Bohan - Biography - IMDb33

Jim Bohan
Biography
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Overview (3)
BornJanuary 17, 1946 in Lavaca County, Texas, USA
DiedJanuary 29, 1998 in De Witt, Texas, USA (heart attack)
Birth NameJames Frederick Bohan
Mini Bio (1)

Jim Bohan was born on January 17, 1946 in Lavaca County, Texas, USA as James Frederick Bohan. He was an actor, known for American Graffiti (1973), Phantom of the Paradise (1974) and The Hatfields and the McCoys (1975). He was married to Audrey Bohan. He died on January 29, 1998 in De Witt, Texas.

Jim was an early adapter of things digital, and I came to meet him online at the first "gun board" Iever took part in.

Here's his obit from L. Neil Smith. God speed you, Blue.
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Jim Bohan: A Personal Remembrance, By L. Neil Smith (ncc-1776.org)

Jim Bohan: A Personal Remembrance
By L. Neil Smith
lneil@lneilsmith.org

Exclusive to The Libertarian Enterprise

The Old Blue Howler is dead.

James Frederick Bohan of Yoakum, Texas, passed away Thursday, Jan. 29, at his computer keyboard of a heart attack. He was 52 years old.

Many people knew Jim Bohan (pronounced as if it were written "Bowen") by the "handle" that appeared in one form or another in his various e-mail addresses: "Lobo Azul", or "Blue Wolf". He was a singularly valuable individual, a valiant freedom fighter, and a great man who will be sorely missed, both as a public figure and a personal friend.

For my family, for me and my wife Cathy and my daughter Rylla, this is a bitterly painful loss. Jim was one of those colorful, larger-than-life personalities of whom there are all too few in the pitiable weenieocracy that America has become. As Robert Heinlein advised us all, Jim took "big bites" of life and knew without having been told that anything worth doing is worth overdoing. He was a true son of the Texas prairie who reflexively displayed that "you paid for the drinks, I'll pay for the Cadillacs" attitude that Heinlein described.

Although we often disagreed on strategy and tactics -- my recent suggestion that libertarian candidates "pick off the stragglers" among Republican office holders who were elected by a 5% margin or less made him pretty mad at me -- one principle we never disagreed about was the central political importance of the individual right to own and carry weapons.

We didn't know Jim well in some ways -- I had to get his age and middle name from his aunt, who called me with the terrible news -- but he and I liked each other from the outset of our acquaintance several years ago and respected one another as professionals. He took an immediate shine to my womenfolk when he met them at a Second Amendment leadership conference in Denver and never failed to ask about them afterward.

No more will we swap insults, jokes, and other messages over what, to a large degree, was home to both of us, the internet. No more will I have what almost amounted to real-time conversations with him, notes back and forth for hours at a time as each of us tended to his other e-mail. No more will we have the long telephone conversations that both of us used to enjoy and that became more frequent last year when I was offline for so long owing to the flood. Whenever I went too long without sending e-mail, he always called to see if we were all right.

As I say, the loss was bitter and personal. But there's another aspect to it. Jim was a pivotal participant in DeFoley8, the effort that set an historical precedent by successfully deposing then House Speaker Tom Foley as punishment for that politician's turnabout on victim disarmament. He went on to be a cofounder of NOBAN -- a mailing list on the internet grimly dedicated to repeal of the Clinton and Brady gun laws -- which he was proud to say amounted to the largest, most powerful, and diverse political coalition ever put together.

Jim was one of those background movers-and-shakers no historian ever makes an adequate accounting of, important and well respected in the highest councils of the Republican Party and the National Rifle Association, both of which he served energetically in many ways, especially as a grass-roots conduit to those organizations, both of which have lost touch with their constituencies and reality itself. I knew if I wanted NRA leadership, or even key Republicans, to be aware of something I said, I could tell Jim and sooner or later they'd hear it.

An established master of the gruff, curmudgeonly, marshmallow- centered style of charm, he genuinely had little patience for fools. He didn't have much use for libertarians, either, having been put off by some of our liberaloid type in southern California, and I was never able to convince him that I am more typical of the breed than they are.

Jim regarded himself as a practical man. He was remarkable in that he maintained amiable relations with leaders of the GOP and the NRA (all of whose foibles and limitations he had no illusion about -- any more than he had illusions about mine), and at the same time remained in touch with rugged individualists like me, a libertarian disgusted with both groups, yet never gave up a micron of his own hard-edged principles. His low voice and soft Texas accent made an interesting and effective counterpoint to his imposing physical appearance.

In addition to his other accomplishments, Jim was a cattle man, running a spread that has been in his family for generations, and an oil man, as well. He wrote novels that have been compared with the works of Elmore Leonard and Quentin Tarrantino, but which are so forthright and true to reality that he was still trying to sell them, with the help of a New York agent, at the time of his death. He also wrote screenplays, the option money for one of which, he said, kept his ranch afloat during the long Texas drought of a few years back. He even had an acting credit, having appeared briefly in American Grafitti.
He meant to write an investigative book dealing with corruption in high places that should have been exposed long ago, but I never learned how far he got. The undertaking would have been very, very dangerous.

Jim was one of a kind, a man who can never be replaced. The Republican Party and National Rifle Association have a long, long way to go before they're worthy of the love and loyalty he lavished on them.

And I will miss him terribly.
 
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Dozdoats

On TB every waking moment
And while we are looking back - revitalizing the border blaster ... XERF.
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XERFWolfmanJack - YouTube
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In 1983 the 250,000 watt RCA transmitter was restored at XERF-1570, one of the infamous "border blaster" stations in Mexico. Wolfman Jack made a guest appearance on the station to celebrate the return to full power operation. The story was originally shot for "PM Magazine" by WFAA-TV Dallas. The narrator is Leeza Gibbons. The original video was shot on 3/4" tape and transferred to 1" tape in post production. You're viewing a transfer from the original 1" tape, which like most 30 year old tape has suffered age related damage. Enjoy the trip down memory lane with one of Rock and Roll's most dynamic personalities broadcasting from one mother of a powerhouse radio station. The audio is not quite right, that will be fixed in the next week or so.
 
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