That was quite sweet. Love does conquer all (after all).
FYI: Nelly's Folly was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1962
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#LooneyTunes

Same. My tear ducts open every single time. Even for the various parodies produced over the years.

It's actually a fine picture, but I'm not in the mood for it. Bleak doesn't even begin to describe it. Yet policy makes gave serious consideration to the "neutron bomb" some years ago (max. the radiation/min. the blast effects). So, I can see many of the scenes ringing true.
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#OnTheBeach

At the start of #TheLastWar, the *war* hasn’t begun yet with the rising tensions told through the story of a family. The father (seeing his hopes for the future of his family being threaten) and the lovers split by the conflict. It ends, however, in a similar fashion as the 1959 film. 😭
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And while TCM will *never* show it, there was a 1961 Toho version of #OnTheBeach called #TheLastWar. Featuring some of the same actors that you’ll see in their Godzilla films it too is actually quite good. And in a twist, the human scenes are better than the effects.
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There is simply no way that I’m in the mood for #OnTheBeach (even the plot summary on wiki is depressing). Yet it isn't a bad film and was even remade in 2000 and starred Armand Assante and Rachel Ward in the roles made famous by Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner.
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Although Godzilla wasn't directly inspired by #Them (that would have been the 1953 re-release of King Kong) it did lead to the 1956 version called "Godzilla: King of The Monsters"
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Dub Taylor!
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#Them

That means - if the insect world has political leaders - they are *perfect* 😂
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#Them

(Baby) SPOCK!
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#Them

YEAH!
Pat is taking any of that macho BS. She has a job to do - how let her do it!
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#Them

"Boy, if I can still raise an arm when we get out of this place, I'm gonna show you just how saturated *I* can get."
The script for #Them (as I've posted in the past) is quite good.
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It appears the ants have their priorities in order. 😁
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#Them

The Black Scorpion (1957) stole them.
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#Them (1954)

Indeed, it did.
Between #TheThingFrromAnotheraWorld and #Them he had quite the streak going. This film did - however - bring Arness to the attention of a couple of major players.
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This potential "date" is about to come to a screaming conclusion.
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#Them

A mandatory appreciation post for "Pat" (Joan Weldon)
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#Them

CIS: Giant Bug Division. 😂
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#Them

Same.
#OnTheBeach is a bit too depressing for me at the moment. I'll hang around at the start only to note the similarities that it has to a Toho film released a few years later called "The Last War"
Now giant ants are FUN!
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#Them

I was going to try to watch #OnTheBeach but I read the summary and it is too depressing.
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Just caught the tail end of #INeverSangForMyFather and was completely pulled in. Like you, I'd never seen it before, but the performances are intense. I need to track it down for a future watch.
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So many great performances - in roles both large and small. We were blessed to have seen Robert Duvall work.
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Same here. It's been a fantastic 12+ hours of great noir/crime films - shared with you all.
Enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend.
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"Made it, Ma! Top of the World!"
If I had a dime for every homage to that line in the decades since, I'd be rich.
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#WhiteHeat

Thanks "Coppah" makes more sense than "cop-per".

Question: How on God's green Earth did #WhiteHeat make it past the Breen Office? 🤓
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A cop-per!
Oops.
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#WhiteHeat

Verna is back in the fold - big time. A guess she goes with the flow.
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#WhiteHeat

Well, the "fake body" in the bed trick works for James Bond, so why not.
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#WhiteHeat

A good one! 😂
That would make "legs" (Tisha Sterling) "probably the toughest of the lot". And we all know that Verna (Virginia Mayo) can backstab with the best of them.
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#WhiteHeat