Our film this week takes us to the world of high finance, wherein you can give your life blood and try to be a decent person and yet be ground to powder.
We lost Rod Serling too soon. Thanks for this recommendation.
Thanks, too, belatedly, for the reading of your translation of the Song of the Rood yesterday. Its vision is thrilling, it is theologically RICH, and your translation is thick with Anglo Saxon rhymes. I will not tire of returning to it and ought to give it more thought.
Three cheers for poets of keen insight into the ways of God with man! The Anglo Saxons have two, surely. All good wishes and prayers for you and your family, who are like the scribes of the Kingdom, bringing out ancient treasures as well as your own for our time.
I believe you are right about the date of the film. I believe that the link to the first Huck Finn chapters may have been defective. Thanks for letting us know.
Rod Serling grew up in Binghamton, NY, known as the "Carousel Capital of the World." Across the greater Binghamton Area are six town parks, each with an antique carousel provided by founder of the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company, George F. Johnson. I'm sure Rod Serling must have ridden one or more of these circular time machines during his boyhood and had his imagination spun into tales of "The Twilight Zone."
I'll bet you are right. The carousel figures in a BIG way in one of the greatest and most poignant of all TZ episodes, "Walking Distance," with Gig Young and Frank Overton...
Other episodes are set in that general area: "Mirror Image," with Vera Miles and Martin Milner, quiet and terrifying, waiting in a station for the bus to Cortland... Also "What You Need," where the down-and-out ballplayer gets a bus ticket to Scranton ...
I did NOT know this about Binghamton, NY. If I had known, I'd have made my parents take a detour to see those carousels every summer when we drove from NW New Jersey to visit my aunt and uncle on their dairy farm in Boonville, NY. We had an Endicott-Johnson shoe store in my hometown. :)
Another fabulous recommendation. I think we could do a remake with Mike Pence as Bill Briggs and JD Vance as Fred Staples.
We lost Rod Serling too soon. Thanks for this recommendation.
Thanks, too, belatedly, for the reading of your translation of the Song of the Rood yesterday. Its vision is thrilling, it is theologically RICH, and your translation is thick with Anglo Saxon rhymes. I will not tire of returning to it and ought to give it more thought.
Three cheers for poets of keen insight into the ways of God with man! The Anglo Saxons have two, surely. All good wishes and prayers for you and your family, who are like the scribes of the Kingdom, bringing out ancient treasures as well as your own for our time.
Sounds fantastic.
There's something garbled above where "Huckleberry Finn (Aloud)" appears below the title of this post.
Also, it appears that this movie may actually be from 1956.
I believe you are right about the date of the film. I believe that the link to the first Huck Finn chapters may have been defective. Thanks for letting us know.
What a great final confrontation. I love these movie recommendations. Keep 'em coming.
We were blown away by the ending. Couldn't find one misstep in the whole film.
I will watch this movie. Loved The Twilight Zone. It was on Friday nights at 10. As I recall. Perhaps memory doesn’t fail me on this one.
TZ was on past my bed time, I recall. But I also recall listening to the "scary" theme song from my bedroom, haha. Gave me nightmares!
Rod Serling grew up in Binghamton, NY, known as the "Carousel Capital of the World." Across the greater Binghamton Area are six town parks, each with an antique carousel provided by founder of the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company, George F. Johnson. I'm sure Rod Serling must have ridden one or more of these circular time machines during his boyhood and had his imagination spun into tales of "The Twilight Zone."
I'll bet you are right. The carousel figures in a BIG way in one of the greatest and most poignant of all TZ episodes, "Walking Distance," with Gig Young and Frank Overton...
Other episodes are set in that general area: "Mirror Image," with Vera Miles and Martin Milner, quiet and terrifying, waiting in a station for the bus to Cortland... Also "What You Need," where the down-and-out ballplayer gets a bus ticket to Scranton ...
I did NOT know this about Binghamton, NY. If I had known, I'd have made my parents take a detour to see those carousels every summer when we drove from NW New Jersey to visit my aunt and uncle on their dairy farm in Boonville, NY. We had an Endicott-Johnson shoe store in my hometown. :)