A good week for justice and private property

A good week for justice and private property:

And a rough couple of days for the communists.

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1859: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born

Do you enjoy reading Sherlock Holmes?  I do.  They are great stories.  

We remember that Mr Doyle was born on this day in 1859.

Elementary Dr. Watson!

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Memorial Day and other thoughts with Frank Burke, author

Guest:  Frank Burke, author, businessman & contributor to American Thinker.....we will look at the meaning of Memorial Day in US history..........and other stories....

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1965: “Ticket to ride” was # 1 this week

The Beatles added another # 1 song to their story.  

“Ticket to ride” hit # 1 this week in the US, the UK and lots of other countries.   It was a great vocal performance by John & Paul.    George played a super guitar.  Ringo was unique with his drums.

The B-side “Yes it is” did not get a lot of radio airplay but was included in the “Beatles VI” LP released in the US.

The song was in the soundtrack of the movie “Help”.

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1952: Is "High noon" the best western ever?

Where does "High noon" rank?   My vote is for one of the best westerns ever, somewhere between John Wayne's "The shootist" and "Gunfight at the OK corral".  

The cast is extraordinary:  Gary Cooper, Lloyd Bridges and Grace Kelly.      The film is from 1952 so I don't know if this was Grace Kelly's first major movie.

Excellent movie and the ending scene is fantastic.   

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1957: "Run of the arrow" a great movie

"Run of the arrow" is not your typical western.   It's the story of a bitter Confederate veteran who joins a Sioux tribe to keep his war against the Union going.  

This is from the TCM summary:    

A revisionist Western that makes complex statements about the nature of race, identity, and loyalty, Run of the Arrow (1957) is a key film in the oeuvre of renegade director Samuel Fuller. Though Fuller was often criticized for lacking a social conscience - his taste for lurid pulp fiction usually excluded it - this picture paints as open-minded an image of the American Indian as you're likely to find in 1950s cinema. 

The main character, played by Rod Steiger, actually sides with the Indians for the better part of the film, a stance that runs decidedly counter to what John Wayne and his ilk had been doing for the previous 20 years.

Steiger plays Pvt. O'Meara, a Confederate soldier who fires what turns out to be the final shot of the Civil War. A Union lieutenant named Driscoll (Ralph Meeker) is on the receiving end of the bullet, but he recovers from his wound. 

Unwilling to accept the "death" of his beloved South once the peace treaty is signed at Appomattox, O'Meara heads West. There, after establishing his worthiness through an endurance test known as "the run of the arrow," he joins a Sioux Indian tribe. Eventually, he falls in love with a beautiful maiden named Yellow Moccasin, played by Sarita Montiel, whose voice was dubbed by RKO contract player Angie Dickinson!

It's a neat story and worth watching.  By the way, Sarita Montiel from Spain was a very popular actress and singer in the Spanish speaking world.  

You can click here to watch the movie.

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The Democrats and their leftist problem plus more

 

Every Cuban has a story

Every Cuban has a story:

I am really proud of our family and how they fought back against communism, especially on the day that this criminal was indicted.

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There is a leftist moon on the rise

There is a leftist moon on the rise:

There is a leftist moon on the rise, and it’s not good for Democrats.

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We remember Raymond Burr (1917-1993)

We remember Raymond Burr, known to most of us as Perry Mason.  He was born on this day in 1917 and died in 1993.    

Back in 1956,  Burr was in Cuba working on “Affair in Havana“.     Burr played “Mal Mallabee”, a rich businessman confined to a wheelchair as the result of a boating accident.  Mallabee hired an investigator to look into his wife Lorna (Sara Shane) who is allegedly having an affair with Nick Douglas, an American living and working in Cuba played by John Cassavetes.   

Catch “Affair in Havana” the next time it’s shown on the retro channels.   I won’t tell you more about the plot. 

The movie will take you back to a time when Americans worked and invested in Cuba without fear of confiscation, totally functional pre-Castro Cuba.

After that movie, Burr applied for the role of “Perry Mason” .   He won the audition and started that show later in 1957 and it became one of the most popular TV series ever. 

I recall my late father saying that he saw the show in pre-Castro Cuba.  I remember watching the show in Mexico overdubbed in Spanish.

Burr had another popular series called “Ironside”.   It was good but I think most of us remember him for those Perry Mason shows.

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