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Saturday, November 14, 2009
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Casey Jones
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Casey Jones was a 1957 television series that ran during the '58-'59 television season, based around the pioneering western railroads. Based on a real life story, its connection with the real-life locomotive engineer Casey Jones of the Midwest and Central Railroad was rather limited, although the series did use the real name of his train, the "Cannonball Express", and his fireman, Wally. Alan Hale Jr. played the legendary railroad engineer, alongside his wife Alice (Mary Lawrence) and his son Casey Jr (Bobby Clark). Dub Taylor portrayed Casey's fireman Wallie Sims, while Eddy Waller portrayed conductor Red Rock. Only shot for one season, in part due to Hale's commitment to filming episodes of The Texan, it ran for 32 half-hour black and white episodes. The series' theme song was a version of the "Ballad of Casey Jones".
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Casey Jones was a 1957 television series that ran during the '58-'59 television season, based around the pioneering western railroads. Based on a real life story, its connection with the real-life locomotive engineer Casey Jones of the Midwest and Central Railroad was rather limited, although the series did use the real name of his train, the "Cannonball Express", and his fireman, Wally. Alan Hale Jr. played the legendary railroad engineer, alongside his wife Alice (Mary Lawrence) and his son Casey Jr (Bobby Clark). Dub Taylor portrayed Casey's fireman Wallie Sims, while Eddy Waller portrayed conductor Red Rock. Only shot for one season, in part due to Hale's commitment to filming episodes of The Texan, it ran for 32 half-hour black and white episodes. The series' theme song was a version of the "Ballad of Casey Jones".
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Gone with the Wind
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Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American drama romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name and directed by Victor Fleming (Fleming replaced George Cukor). The epic film, set in the American South in and around the time of the Civil War, stars Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, and Olivia de Havilland, and tells a story of the Civil War and its aftermath from a white Southern viewpoint.
It received ten Academy Awards, a record that stood for twenty years. In the American Film Institute's inaugural Top 100 American Films of All Time list of 1998, it was ranked number four, although in the 2007 10th Anniversary edition of that list, it was dropped two places, to number six. In June 2008, AFI revealed its 10 top 10 — the best ten films in ten American film genres—after polling over 1,500 persons from the creative community. Gone with the Wind was acknowledged as the fourth best film in the Epic genre. It has sold more tickets in the U.S. than any other film in history, and is considered a prototype of a Hollywood blockbuster. Today, it is considered one of the greatest and most popular films of all time and one of the most enduring symbols of the golden age of Hollywood. When adjusted for inflation, Gone with the Wind is the highest-ticket selling film of all time in North America. If not the greatest film of all time, Gone With the Wind is one the the few movies of Hollywood's History that defines the pinnacle of film achievement and success.
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Download Gone With The Wind part 1
Download Gone With The Wind part 2
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Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American drama romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name and directed by Victor Fleming (Fleming replaced George Cukor). The epic film, set in the American South in and around the time of the Civil War, stars Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, and Olivia de Havilland, and tells a story of the Civil War and its aftermath from a white Southern viewpoint.
It received ten Academy Awards, a record that stood for twenty years. In the American Film Institute's inaugural Top 100 American Films of All Time list of 1998, it was ranked number four, although in the 2007 10th Anniversary edition of that list, it was dropped two places, to number six. In June 2008, AFI revealed its 10 top 10 — the best ten films in ten American film genres—after polling over 1,500 persons from the creative community. Gone with the Wind was acknowledged as the fourth best film in the Epic genre. It has sold more tickets in the U.S. than any other film in history, and is considered a prototype of a Hollywood blockbuster. Today, it is considered one of the greatest and most popular films of all time and one of the most enduring symbols of the golden age of Hollywood. When adjusted for inflation, Gone with the Wind is the highest-ticket selling film of all time in North America. If not the greatest film of all time, Gone With the Wind is one the the few movies of Hollywood's History that defines the pinnacle of film achievement and success.
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Download Gone With The Wind part 1
Download Gone With The Wind part 2
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