Just click on the links and enjoy a trip to a movie theater of yesterday.
Day before yesterday, even. Settle in and enjoy.
Today's Cartoons
The hero is entrusted with but one unyielding duty: To protect and preserve the lives of children. There are but three things he must battle while endlessly fighting to perform his calling... One, he's only a crossing guard. Two, the traffic is heavy. Three, he's an armadillo. (2001)
The Miracle of the Can (1956)
Today's Short Feature
The Miracle of the Can (1956)How the invention of the metal can and advent of commercial canning radically changed food production and the economy, from bottom to top.
Today's Double Feature
M (1931)
When police in a German city are unable to catch a serial child-murderer, criminals join in the manhunt.
Fritz Lang's powerful statement about how all society abhors crimes against children.
Superb performance by Peter Lorre. A must-see film.
And Then There Were None (1945)
Classic Agatha Christie tale of 10 people invited to an isolated place only to find that an unseen person is killing them, one by one.
Is it one of them?
*All SBYNews PD Theater films are, as far as the poster can determine, under Public Domain.
1 comment:
The original title for M was The Murderer among Us, but it was changed in case the Nazi party inferred a reference to them. In fact, the story was based on a real-life murderer, but since M featured a dark parody of law and order (when the criminals hold their own 'trial' of Becker) and examined the power of mob-rule, it may have caused discomfort amongst the followers of National Socialism. One could argue, with the benefit of hindsight that the portrayal of 'unspeakable evil with an ordinary face' in M could be seen as an allegory of the Nazis during World War 2, but it is unlikely that Lang intended such a comparison. In fact, Hitler and other high-level members of the Nazi party were fans of Lang's work. They wanted Lang to make propaganda films, but Lang escaped to America, fearing the consequences of having Jewish relations. Lorre, who was Jewish, also left for America during the Thirties.
Five Stars out of 5
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